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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Yubin Ruan <ablacktshirt@gmail.com>
Cc: perfbook@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Invalid compilation without -fno-strict-aliasing
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 05:27:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171103122719.GH3624@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJYFCiOuj6O18jBM=tWX6wxhXi4sskV-2WYYPvGLgU6LS3aH4w@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 09:54:15AM +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote:
> Does anyone have any idea why this thread
> 
>     https://lkml.org/lkml/2003/2/25/270

Hmmm...  This is quite the blast from the past.  Compilers have changed
a bit in the last 14 years.  Nevertheles...

> is related to strict-aliasing? To me, a compiler barrier like this will fix it:
> 
>     if((stream + event_len) < ends) {
>         iwe->len = event_len;
>         barrier();
>         memcpy(stream, (char *) iwe, event_len);
>         stream += event_len;
>     }

As with many bugs, there are a number of ways to fix this one.  I suggest taking
a look at the documentation for -no-strict-alias.  This stackoverflow URL might
not be a bad place to start:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23848188/strict-aliasing-rule-and-char-pointers

								Thanx, Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-03 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-03  1:54 Invalid compilation without -fno-strict-aliasing Yubin Ruan
2017-11-03 12:27 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2017-11-03 13:33   ` Yubin Ruan
2017-11-03 14:03     ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-11-03 14:12       ` Yubin Ruan
2017-11-03 14:38         ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-11-03 23:26           ` Yubin Ruan
2017-11-03 23:55             ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-11-04  0:24               ` Yubin Ruan

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