GCC5 optimization level causes runtime error in WINE

Jonathan Wakely jwakely.gcc@gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 10:02:00 GMT 2015


On 9 March 2015 at 00:00, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 03/08/2015 07:30 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>>
>> Do you have any more details available somewhere I can see them? Maybe
>> in Fedora's bugzilla or on the devel@ list?
>
>
> The issue is only affecting 64-bit wine. A bug is opened but doesn't contain
> much additional information.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192725

Thanks.

>> Although -fno-strict-aliasing is unlikely to make any difference
>> because strict aliasing is only enabled at -O2 and above.
>>
>> You can also try -fsanitize=undefined to detect undefined behaviour at
>> runtime.
>
>
> As seen in my other e-mail, strict aliasing is disabled by wine. I attempted
> to build with the sanitize option, but gcc loops indefinitely when compiling
> "tools/makedep.c". I let it sit for several hours before breaking out. Wine
> normally takes about 5 minutes to compile on my machine. I can add the
> sanitize option to gcc 4.9 and it compiles makedep.c in a second.

Ouch. Please file a GCC bug and attach the preprocessed source for
makedep.c so we can reproduce and investigate that looping.



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