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Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 13:19:01 +0200
From: ardi <ardillasdelmonte@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Views on bare metal port
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 7:25 PM, Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net> wrote:
>
> note that in particular for math code llvm is problematic.
>
> i'm not aware of any issues in musl libm currently, but
> rounding mode changes can break in unexpected ways because
> there is no support for -frounding-math (last time i checked
> the few cases where it matters clang did not miscompile those,
> but this is not actively tested)
>
> an illustration of the kind of things that can go wrong:
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/e7b0a63c190c7ecb475b09f41387a75952540f49
> we don't have equivalent hacks in musl.
Being a clang user, this comment has worried me, because, according to
this bug report, there's a risk of generating wrong code:
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8100
However, a participant in the bug comments, argues that this doesn't
really violate standards compliance, just that a C99 feature is not
implemented yet, and that a warning will be triggered:
>> (quoting Richard Smith at bug report above):
>>
>> You are mistaken. Setting the rounding mode
>> without using #pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON
>> invokes undefined behavior. See C11 7.6.1/2. (This
>> pragma does not exist in C++, so <cfenv> is
>> unusable, but that's not our fault...)
>>
>> Clang doesn't support that pragma, making this
>> an unimplemented feature from C99, for which we
>> will produce a warning or error. That's the subject of
>> this enhancement request.
Now, and to the point that really interests me (generating safe code
from a clang+musl environment):
- What kind of math operations can be affected by this bug?
- Is there any workaround at this moment?
- Or is gcc the only compiler that can generate valid math code with
musl at this moment and we should better wait until clang gets bug
8100 fixed?
Thanks!
ardi
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