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Message-ID: <51FA1651.1070801@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 10:03:29 +0200 From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@...too.org> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: Solving the recursive memcpy/memset/etc. issue On 01/08/13 08:20, Rich Felker wrote: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 08:05:01AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: >>> The only fully viable option I see is replacing the code for >>> these functions with code that uses volatile objects so as to >>> make optimization utterly impossible. This will of course make >>> them incredibly slow, but at least we would have safe, working C >>> code, and we could add asm for each supported arch. >> >> Not exactly great. > > Well, we really need to add the arch asm anyway, as ugly as it is. > Right now most archs have memcpy running 2-5x slower than it should. > I could _try_ writing C to handle the unaligned (hard) cases well, > basically mimicing what the proposed asm for arm does, but I don't > think it will be competitive, just "not as slow". And we'd still > have to worry about it getting miscompiled... I trust you on that. >>> An alternative might be to test the compiler in configure to >>> determine if, with the selected CFLAGS, it generates recursive >>> code for these functions, and if so, defining a macro that causes >>> musl to revert to the volatile code. >> >> Sounds much better. > > Well, it would be an ugly heuristic like running cc -S -o - on > src/string/memcpy.c, with -Dmemcpy=noname or something, and grepping > the output for memcpy... Indeed. >>> Other ideas? For now, if -fno-tree-loop-distribute-patterns fixes >>> it (still waiting on confirmation for this) I'm going to commit >>> that to configure, but it doesn't seem like a viable long-term >>> solution. >> >> I'd rather check and error out reporting the compiler is broken. >> Then have an explicit configure option to try to workaround it. > > If it were just a temporary regression, I would agree, but I think > the GCC position is that this is not a bug... Given that even glibc breaks on that... > I figured someone would say that, and almost put a preemptive note > in my post. clang/LLVM was the first to have this sort of bug of > ignoring -ffreestanding, only much worse, making invalid assumptions > about the result value of malloc inside the malloc implementation... Understandable, clang is a "young" project. It is like expecting cparser to be able to compile Libav. > Competition is unfortunately the source of our woes, not the > solution. GCC and clang/LLVM are facing competition to be the best at > compiling application code, and since compiling the implementation > itself is an unusual, unexciting usage case, nobody's really watching > out for how they break that one in the race to have the fastest > application code... Implementors and distributors might have to say a thing or two about that. If they manage to break singlehandedly musl, uclibc, glibc and bionic and refuse to acknowledge the bug then I guess some people might question their direction. lu
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