[Python-Dev] Heads up: Apple llvm gcc 4.2 miscompiles PEP 393 (original) (raw)

martin at v.loewis.de martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Sep 28 13:24:22 CEST 2011

The gcc that Apple ships with the Lion SDK (not sure what Xcode
version that is) miscompiles Python now. I've reported this to Apple as bug 10143715;
not sure whether there is a public link to this bug report.

In essence, the code

typedef struct { long length; long hash; int state; int *wstr; } PyASCIIObject;

typedef struct { PyASCIIObject _base; long utf8_length;

 char *utf8;
 long wstr_length;

} PyCompactUnicodeObject;

void _PyUnicode_compact_data(void unicode) { return ((((PyASCIIObject)unicode)->state & 0x20) ? ((void)((PyASCIIObject*)(unicode) + 1)) : ((void*)((PyCompactUnicodeObject*)(unicode) + 1))); }

miscompiles (with -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer) to

__PyUnicode_compact_data: Leh_func_begin1: leaq 32(%rdi), %rax ret

The compiler version is

gcc version 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)

This unconditionally assumes that sizeof(PyASCIIObject) needs to be added to unicode, independent of whether the state bit is set or not.

I'm not aware of a work-around in the code. My work-around is to use gcc-4.0, which is still available on my system from an earlier Xcode installation (in /Developer-3.2.6)

Regards, Martin

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