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1# $NetBSD: HACKS,v 1.174 2016/06/15 14:11:15 riastradh Exp $
2#
3# This file is intended to document workarounds for currently unsolved
4# (mostly) compiler bugs.
5#
6# Format:
7#   hack		title
8#   cdate		creation date
9#   mdate		mod date
10#   who			responsible developer
11#   port		...
12#  	  affected ports, space separated, if not "all"
13#   file		affected file : revision : line from : line to
14#  	  affected files and revision and line numbers describing hack
15#  	  multiple lines if necessary.
16#   pr			NNNN ...
17#  	  problem reports this hack works around, if known. Space
18#  	  separated.
19#   regress		src/regress/directory/where/test/found
20#  	  regression test directories, if available.
21#   descr
22#  	  insert short informal description (multi-line). (Longer ones
23#  	  should be in the PR database. More formal descriptions might
24#  	  be in the regress tree. See above).
25#   kcah
26#  	  closing bracket.
27#
28# this is a comment.
29
30hack	gcc-5.3 optimizes memset+malloc -> calloc inside calloc
31mdate	4 May 2016
32who	christos
33file	external/gpl2/lib/libmalloc/lib/Makefile 1.3 -> 1.5
34descr
35	resulting in infinite recursion; we prevent this with
36	-fno-builtin-malloc
37kcah
38
39hack	turn off tree-vrp for parts of ufs_lookup.c
40mdate	28 April 2016
41who	mrg christos
42file	src/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_lookup.c : 1.144
43pr	51094
44descr
45	with -ftree-vrp enabled in ufs_lookup.c sometimes bad dir
46	panicks are see.
47hcah
48
49hack	netstat ieee1394 address printing.
50mdate	14 Nov 2000
51who	matt
52file	lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.c	: 1.32 : 497 : 503
53descr
54	Because the current implementation of IP over IEEE1394, the
55	fw device address contains more than just the IEEE1394 EUI-64.
56	So when printing out IEEE1394 addresses, ignore the extra stuff.
57kcah
58
59hack	xterm vs. libterm
60mdate	01 Aug 2000
61who	jdc
62file	xsrc/xc/programs/xterm/main.c	: 1.2 : 3609 : 3614
63pr	10383
64descr
65	In order to extend the termcap string over 1023 bytes, a ZZ entry was
66	introduced to point to a memory location containing the full entry.
67	Without this hack, xterm will export a termcap containing the ZZ
68	entry, which will then be ignored by libterm.  As xterm modifies the
69	exported termcap, this would cause those modifications to be ignored.
70kcah
71
72hack	wi-at-big-endian-bus
73cdate	15 Mar 2002
74who	martin
75file	dev/ic/wireg.h
76descr	Add an option to access the underlying bus in big endian byte order
77	to work around deficiencies in bus_space_{read,write}_* macros.
78	Those don't allow the implementation of a proper pcmcia bus space
79	tag.
80kcah
81
82hack	specific knowledge of colours in curses code
83cdate	Sun Apr  6 11:05:24 BST 2003
84who	jdc
85file	lib/libcurses/color.c : r1.24
86descr
87	Swap red/blue and yellow/cyan colours for COLOR_OTHER.
88	Fix is to enhance libtermcap to understand terminfo-style % sequences.
89	See also:
90	    http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-userlevel/2003/04/06/0000.html
91kcah
92
93hack	Compensation for differing types of LINUX_USRSTACK and USRSTACK
94cdate	21 Aug 2003
95who	he
96file	sys/miscfs/procfs/procfs_linux.c : 1.14
97descr
98	Not all ports have LINUX_USRSTACK and/or USRSTACK defined as
99	literals/constants, but refer to variables of a type which is
100	not "unsigned long", causing compilation of procfs_linux.c to
101	fail with "makes integer from pointer without a cast".  This
102	is observed on e.g. the sun3 port.  Ideally the "types" for
103	symbols should be consistent across all ports.
104kcah
105
106hack	gcc4 wrong uninitialized variable
107mdate	10 May 2006
108who	mrg
109file	bin/ksh/eval.c			: 1.6
110file	bin/sh/histedit.c		: 1.39
111file	bin/sh/parser.c			: 1.60
112file	crypto/dist/heimdal/kdc/524.c	: 1.10
113file	crypto/dist/ssh/sftp.c		: 1.20
114file	crypto/dist/ssh/ssh-keysign.c	: 1.11
115file	dist/ipf/lib/hostname.c		: 1.2
116file	dist/ipf/tools/ipmon.c		: 1.8
117file	dist/ntp/ntpd/ntp_request.c	: 1.4
118file	dist/ntp/ntpd/refclock_shm.c	: 1.4
119file	dist/ntp/sntp/timing.c		: 1.3
120file	dist/pppd/pppstats/pppstats.c	: 1.3
121file	dist/smbfs/lib/smb/rap.c	: 1.6
122file	dist/tcpdump/print-zephyr.c	: 1.5
123file	distrib/utils/sysinst/aout2elf.c : 1.12
124file	gnu/libexec/uucp/uucico/uucico.c : 1.6
125file	lib/libc/citrus/citrus_csmapper.c : 1.6
126file	lib/libc/citrus/citrus_pivot_factory.c : 1.5
127file	lib/libc/inet/inet_cidr_ntop.c	: 1.3
128file	lib/libc/inet/inet_ntop.c	: 1.3
129file	lib/libc/stdio/vfwprintf.c	: 1.8
130file	libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/m68k/mdreloc.c : 1.20
131file	libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/powerpc/ppc_reloc.c : 1.40
132file	libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/sh3/mdreloc.c : 1.22
133file	libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/sparc/mdreloc.c : 1.39
134file	libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/sparc64/mdreloc.c : 1.39
135file	libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/vax/mdreloc.c	: 1.21
136file	libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/x86_64/mdreloc.c	: 1.27
137file	sbin/fsck_ext2fs/dir.c		: 1.19
138file	sbin/routed/rtquery/rtquery.c	: 1.18
139file	sys/arch/amd64/amd64/pmap.c	: 1.26
140file	sys/arch/i386/pci/piixpcib.c	: 1.4
141file	sys/arch/m68k/m68k/pmap_motorola.c	: 1.4
142file	sys/crypto/cast128/cast128.c	: 1.9
143file	sys/ddb/db_command.c		: 1.86
144file	sys/dev/cardbus/cardbus_map.c	: 1.21
145file	sys/dev/fss.c			: 1.25
146file	sys/dev/ic/igsfb.c		: 1.39
147file	sys/dev/ic/mb86950.c		: 1.5
148file	sys/dev/ic/midway.c		: 1.71
149file	sys/dev/kttcp.c			: 1.18
150file	sys/dev/rasops/rasops_bitops.h	: 1.9
151file	sys/dev/pci/cmpci.c		: 1.31
152file	sys/dev/pci/machfb.c		: 1.45
153file	sys/dev/usb/ohci.c		: 1.174
154file	sys/dev/usb/uhci.c		: 1.196
155file	sys/dev/rasops/rasops_bitops.h	: 1.9
156file	sys/dist/ipf/netinet/ip_nat.c	: 1.10
157file	sys/dist/ipf/netinet/ip_rpcb_pxy.c : 1.8
158file	sys/dist/pf/net/pf.c		: 1.22
159file	sys/fs/udf/udf_vnops.c		: 1.4
160file	sys/kern/kern_sig.c		: 1.219
161file	sys/kern/tty.c			: 1.181
162file	sys/net/bpf.c			: 1.116
163file	sys/net/zlib.c			: 1.26
164file	sys/netccitt/if_x25subr.c	: 1.37
165file	sys/netinet/in.c		: 1.107
166file	sys/netsmb/smb_smb.c		: 1.27
167file	sys/netsmb/smb_trantcp.c	: 1.22
168file	sys/nfs/nfs_serv.c		: 1.108
169file	sys/nfs/nfs_socket.c		: 1.129
170file	sys/nfs/nfs_syscalls.c		: 1.91
171file	sys/ufs/lfs/lfs_vfsops.c	: 1.207 [also (char *)]
172file	usr.bin/ftp/ftp.c		: 1.140
173file	usr.bin/find/function.c		: 1.54
174file	usr.bin/mail/tty.c		: 1.20
175file	usr.bin/msgc/msg_sys.def	: 1.33-1.34
176file	usr.bin/nl/nl.c			: 1.7
177file	usr.bin/systat/keyboard.c	: 1.23
178file	usr.bin/usbhidctl/usbhid.c	: 1.29
179file	usr.bin/vi/cl/cl_read.c		: 1.5
180file	usr.bin/vi/ex/ex_cscope.c	: 1.12
181file	usr.bin/vi/ex/ex_tag.c		: 1.19
182file	usr.bin/vi/vi/v_txt.c		: 1.15
183file	usr.sbin/altq/altqstat/qdisc_rio.c : 1.4
184file	usr.sbin/cron/do_command.c	: 1.19
185file	usr.sbin/timed/timed/slave.c	: 1.15
186descr
187	GCC 4.1 gets many uninitialised variable warnings wrong.  We should
188	really audit all the old hacks like this when older compilers are
189	removed from the tree, as many are probably no longer required.
190	The problem is that it does not recognize initialization via function
191	call pointer. I.e.
192		int p;
193		foo(&p);
194	does not mark p as initialized.
195kcah
196
197hack	gcc4 pointer sign and strict aliasing problems
198mdate	10 May 2006
199who	mrg
200file	bin/ed/Makefile			: 1.33
201file	distrib/utils/sysinst/Makefile.inc : 1.44
202file	distrib/utils/x_dhclient/Makefile : 1.15
203file	games/bcd/Makefile		: 1.5
204file	games/dab/Makefile		: 1.5
205file	games/larn/Makefile		: 1.17
206file	games/pom/Makefile		: 1.5
207file	lib/libasn1/Makefile		: 1.26
208file	lib/libcrypt/Makefile		: 1.17
209file	lib/libgssapi/Makefile		: 1.16
210file	lib/libhdb/Makefile		: 1.20
211file	lib/libkadm5clnt/Makefile	: 1.21
212file	lib/libkadm5srv/Makefile	: 1.25
213file	lib/libkrb5/Makefile		: 1.35
214file	lib/libssh/Makefile		: 1.6
215file	lib/libtelnet/Makefile		: 1.26
216file	libexec/getty/Makefile		: 1.14
217file	libexec/kadmind/Makefile	: 1.19
218file	libexec/kpasswdd/Makefile	: 1.14
219file	sbin/atactl/Makefile		: 1.3
220file	sbin/cgdconfig/Makefile		: 1.7
221file	sbin/clri/Makefile		: 1.13
222file	sbin/dkctl/Makefile		: 1.4
223file	sbin/dump/Makefile		: 1.33
224file	sbin/fdisk/Makefile		: 1.35
225file	sbin/fsck_ext2fs/Makefile	: 1.11
226file	sbin/fsck_ffs/Makefile		: 1.29
227file	sbin/fsdb/Makefile		: 1.18
228file	sbin/mount_smbfs/Makefile	: 1.4
229file	sbin/newfs/Makefile		: 1.30
230file	sbin/newfs_sysvbfs/Makefile	: 1.2
231file	sbin/restore/Makefile		: 1.23
232file	sbin/veriexecctl/Makefile	: 1.11
233file	sys/lib/libsa/Makefile		: 1.59
234file	sys/arch/evbarm/adi_brh/brh_machdep.c : 1.24
235file	usr.bin/awk/Makefile		: 1.9
236file	usr.bin/crontab/Makefile	: 1.24
237file	usr.bin/ctags/Makefile		: 1.8
238file	usr.bin/gzip/Makefile		: 1.10
239file	usr.bin/ssh/sftp/Makefile	: 1.10
240file	usr.bin/ssh/ssh/Makefile	: 1.25
241file	usr.bin/vi/build/Makefile	: 1.26
242file	usr.bin/telnet/Makefile		: 1.40
243file	usr.bin/tn3270/tn3270/Makefile	: 1.36
244file	usr.bin/tr/Makefile		: 1.4
245file	usr.sbin/amd/amd/Makefile	: 1.27
246file	usr.sbin/amd/amq/Makefile	: 1.14
247file	usr.sbin/amd/libamu/Makefile	: 1.20
248file	usr.sbin/amd/pawd/Makefile	: 1.5
249file	usr.sbin/bind/Makefile.inc	: 1.22
250file	usr.sbin/bind/libdns/Makefile	: 1.3
251file	usr.sbin/bind/named/Makefile	: 1.17
252file	usr.sbin/bootp/bootptest/Makefile : 1.2
253file	usr.sbin/chrtbl/Makefile	: 1.6
254file	usr.sbin/cron/Makefile		: 1.12
255file	usr.sbin/dhcp/Makefile.inc	: 1.20
256file	usr.sbin/hprop/Makefile		: 1.13
257file	usr.sbin/installboot/Makefile	: 1.35
258file	usr.sbin/ipf/ipftest/Makefile	: 1.32
259file	usr.sbin/isdn/isdnd/Makefile	: 1.6
260file	usr.sbin/isdn/isdnmonitor/Makefile : 1.3
261file	usr.sbin/isdn/isdntel/Makefile	: 1.2
262file	usr.sbin/isdn/isdntrace/Makefile : 126
263file	usr.sbin/mopd/common/Makefile	: 1.10
264file	usr.sbin/mopd/mopd/Makefile	: 1.9
265file	usr.sbin/mopd/mopprobe/Makefile	: 1.7
266file	usr.sbin/makefs/Makefile	: 1.17
267file	usr.sbin/mscdlabel/Makefile	: 1.5
268file	usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/Makefile : 1.7
269file	usr.sbin/pkg_install/create/Makefile : 1.5
270file	usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/Makefile : 1.28
271file	usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd/Makefile	: 1.10/1.11
272file	usr.sbin/ntp/ntptime/Makefile	: 1.4/1.5
273file	usr.sbin/pppd/Makefile.inc	: 1.3
274file	usr.sbin/pppd/pppd/Makefile	: 1.38
275file	usr.sbin/rarpd/Makefile		: 1.10
276file	usr.sbin/rbootd/Makefile	: 1.10
277file	usr.sbin/rpc.pcnfsd/Makefile	: 1.17
278file	usr.sbin/tcpdump/Makefile	: 1.42
279descr
280	GCC 4.1 warns on pointer sign comparision/assignments and lots of
281	code does not conform.  For now we use -Wno-pointer-sign and
282	-fno-strict-aliasing.
283kcah
284
285hack	disable ctf for gcc-4.8 build
286mdate	April 3 2014
287who	christos
288file	external/gpl3/gcc/usr.bin/Makefile.frontend	: 1.4
289file	external/gpl3/gcc/usr.bin/Makefile.backend	: 1.5
290descr
291	nbctfconvert -g -L VERSION -g fold-const.o
292	ERROR: fold-const.c: failed to get mapping for tid 79154 \
293		((null)) <13532>
294kcak
295
296hack	emacs aborting on exit (libgcc issue)
297mdate	7 November 2011
298who	christos
299file	external/gpl3/gcc/dist/gcc/unwind-dw2-fde.c : 1.2
300descr
301	GCC 4.5.3 now calls __unregister_frame_info_bases() on unloading/exit
302	to do just that. If the symbol requested is not found, then it aborts.
303	emacs 23.3 triggers this assertion. For now disable aborting, and
304	silently ignore.
305kcah
306
307hack	cross-building hack on Darwin
308mdate	20 July 2008
309who	agc
310file	src/distrib/common/Makefile.mdset	: 1.33
311descr
312	Darwin has problems with getopt() when used in mdsetimage -v,
313	due to the difference between BSD and libiberty() getopt
314	implementations, more fully described in
315	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2008/06/27/msg003242.html
316	and the subsequent thread.  For just now, we just have an ugly
317	workaround not to call mdsetimage with the -v argument on Darwin
318kcah
319
320hack	avoid rebuilding asn1 libraries
321mdate	03 August 2008
322who	veego
323file	src/crypto/dist/heimdal/lib/asn1/gen.c	: 1.10
324file	src/lib/libasn1/Makefile	: 1.32
325file	src/lib/libhdb/Makefile	: 1.23
326file	src/lib/libgssapi/Makefile	: 1.20
327file	src/lib/libhx509/Makefile	: 1.3
328pr	9702 39185
329descr
330	asn1_compile does not check if generated header files do not have to
331	be rebuild.
332	Generate .hx files and copy it in the Makefiles if they changed.
333kcah
334
335hack	avoid gcc4 -O1 bug in loop optimize
336cdate	29 November 2008
337who	tsutsui
338file	src/sbin/ifconfig/Makefile	: 1.39
339pr	40036 40066
340descr
341	gcc -O1 seems to generate wrong code in loop optimize so that
342	ifconfig lo0 inet6 doesn't return error even if a kernel
343	doesn't have IPv6 support. (see the above PRs for details)
344	For workaround, specify -fno-loop-optimize on m68000,
345	which uses -O1 by default.
346kcah
347
348hack	MKPIE ldscript for /usr.sbin/crash
349cdate	22 April 2010
350who	christos
351file	src/usr.sbin/crash/Makefile	: 1.5
352file	src/usr.sbin/crash/ldscript.crash	: 1.1
353pr	N/A
354descr
355	fixed in binutils-2.20.1. Linking with MKPIE=yes causes overlapping
356	sections
357kcah
358
359hack	Disable fortification for /usr/bin/makeinfo
360cdata	24 Mar 2014
361who	tron
362file	src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/makeinfo/Makefile	: 1.8
363pr	N/A
364descr
365	If "makeinfo" is compiled with "-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" using GCC 4.8.3
366	it fails to process certain texinfo files, e.g. "cl.texi"
367	included in the Emacs 24.3 distribution.
368kcah
369
370hack	Disable Stack Smash Protection for /usr/X11R7/bin/xauth
371cdata	05 Apr 2014
372who	tron
373file	src/external/mit/xorg/bin/xauth/Makefile	: 1.4
374pr	N/A
375descr
376	If "xauth" is compile with "USE_SSP" set to "yes" it fails
377	mysteriously with an error message like this:
378
379	/usr/X11R7/bin/xauth:  file /foo/bar/.Xauthority does not exist
380	/usr/X11R7/bin/xauth:  unable to link authority file /foo/bar/.Xauthority, use /foo/bar/.Xauthority
381
382	The compiler seems to get confused about the two filename variables
383	used in the link(2) system call.
384kcah
385
386hack	g++ 5.x barfs on volatile in constexpr initializers
387cdata	27 Aug 2015
388who	pooka
389file	src/lib/libpthread/pthread_types.h	: 1.17
390pr	lib/49989
391descr
392	Trying to use e.g. pthread_mutex_t m = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER
393	in C++ results in:
394		error: temporary of non-literal type '__pthread_mutex_st'
395		in a constant expression
396		constexpr mutex() _NOEXCEPT : __m_(PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER) {}
397		[...]
398		include/pthread_types.h:101:8: note: '__pthread_mutex_st' is
399		not literal because:
400		struct __pthread_mutex_st {
401		^
402		include/pthread_types.h:103:17: note:   non-static data
403		member '__pthread_mutex_st::ptm_errorcheck' has volatile type
404		pthread_spin_t ptm_errorcheck;
405kcah
406
407hack	libm cabs{,f,l} and g++
408cdata	11 Jan 2016
409who	christos
410pr	lib/50646
411file	src/external/gpl3/gcc.old/dist/libstdc++-v3/include/std/complex : 1.2
412file	src/external/gpl3/gcc/dist/libstdc++-v3/include/std/complex : 1.2
413descr
414	Our cabs and cabsf have a different argument format on some architectures
415	and for that we have created in libm/compat_cabs{,f}.c. The standard
416	versions in libc are __c99_cabs{,f,l} and there are __RENAME()'s in
417	<complex.h>. G++ uses __builtin_cabs{,f,l} to implement those and they
418	translate by default to cabs{,f,l} which gets defined to cabs{,f} (the
419	wrong function) and an undefined cabsl. I've changed <complex> to use
420	the __c99_cabs{,f,l} directly. Using the __builtin_cabs{,f,l} in gcc is
421	still broken.
422kcah
423
424port	vax
425
426	hack	gcc4/vax ICE
427	cdate
428	who	tsutsui
429	file	sys/arch/vax/conf/Makefile.vax
430	descr
431		GCC4 on vax gets ICE on compiling sys/ddb/db_command.c.
432		-fno-tree-ter prevents it so add it to COPTS.
433	kcah
434
435	hack	gcc4/vax compiler crash
436	cdate	Fri Jun 30 22:39:12 PDT 2006
437	who	mrg
438	file	bin/csh/Makefile	: 1.27
439	file	lib/i18n_module/UTF7/Makefile	: 1.2
440	descr
441		GCC4 on vax crashes.  -O0 stops it happening so far...
442	kcah
443
444	hack	vax Toolchain bug
445	cdate	28 Mar 2003
446	who	he
447	file	sys/arch/vax/vax/intvec.S : 1.5
448	descr
449		Workaround for PR toolchain/20924.  The assembler apparently
450		tries to range-check byte offsets when it doesn't have
451		sufficient information to make that decision.
452		Workaround uses `brw' instead of `brb' instruction.
453	kcah
454
455	hack	declare boolean_t in two IPF user-mode programs
456	cdate	Tue Mar  7 19:19:20 CET 2006
457	who	he
458	file	dist/ipf/ipsend/iptests.c : 1.8
459		dist/ipf/ipsend/sock.c : 1.7
460	descr
461		The IPF user-mode programs ipsend and iptest first
462		include <sys/types.h> without _KERNEL defined, and
463		later include <sys/file.h> with _KERNEL defined.
464		This causes a build failure when building for vax,
465		since <sys/device.h> ends up being included without
466		bollean_t being defined by <sys/types.h>.
467		Build failure and further details documented in
468		PR#32907.
469	kcah
470
471	hack	pcc 0.9.9 large string literals
472	cdat	8 July 2008
473	who	gmcgarry
474	file	sys/conf/param.c : 1.58
475	descr
476		Workaround for pcc 0.9.9 not handling large string literals
477		which causes kernels with 'options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE' to
478		fail compilation.
479		There is a proposal on the pcc mailing list to stuff config
480		file in ELF section.
481	kcah
482
483	hack	xorg warnings
484	cdat	30 July 2008, 3 June, 2013
485	who	mrg
486	file	external/mit/xorg/lib/libSM/Makefile : 1.2
487		external/mit/xorg/lib/libX11/Makefile.libx11 : 1.10
488		external/mit/xorg/lib/libXext/Makefile : 1.2
489		external/mit/xorg/lib/libXfont/Makefile : 1.2
490	descr
491		Disable several warnings or use -Wno-error across Xorg sources
492		while we get them working
493	kcah
494
495	hack	32 bit time leftovers
496	cdat	11 January 2009
497	who	christos
498	file	lib/libc/time/localtime.c : 1.41
499		lib/libc/time/zic.c : 1.23
500	descr
501		The timezone compiled files still contain 32 bit time_t
502		quantities. I did not want to version the files because
503		the ``parser'' is too ugly for words. What needs to be
504		done, is to rewrite the parser from scratch also to avoid
505		potential core-dumps from parsing invalid files.
506	kcah
507
508	hack	32 bit time leftovers
509	cdat	11 January 2009
510	who	christos
511	file	various
512	descr
513		Many filesystem on-disk formats have 32 bit times.
514	kcah
515
516	hack	gcc 4.5 fsdb miscompile
517	date	Sat Nov  9 11:03:02 EST 2013
518	who	christos
519	file	src/sbin/fsdb/Makefile : 1.36 (and earlier)
520	descr
521		src/sbin/fsdb/fsdb.c: In function 'findblk':
522		src/sbin/fsdb/fsdb.c:610:1: error: unrecognizable insn:
523		(insn 941 940 942 134 src/sbin/fsdb/fsdb.c:589 (set (reg:SI 604)
524		    (subreg:SI (mem/s/j:DI (plus:SI (mult:SI (reg:SI 602)
525                        (const_int 8 [0x8]))
526                    (reg/f:SI 601)) [0 curinode.99_378->dp2.di_ib S8 A32]) 4)) \
527			-1 (nil))
528		src/sbin/fsdb/fsdb.c:610:1: internal compiler error: in \
529		extract_insn, at recog.c:2103
530	kcah
531
532	hack	gcc 4.8 gcc miscompiles
533	date	Sat Nov  9 16:35:18 EST 2013
534	who	christos
535	file	distrib/utils/x_ping/Makefile
536	file	distrib/vax/miniroot/Makefile.inc
537	file	distrib/vax/ramdisk/Makefile
538	file	external/gpl3/gdb/lib/libdecnumber/Makefile
539	file	sbin/fsdb/Makefile
540	file	sbin/newfs_ext2fs/Makefile
541	file	sbin/ping/Makefile
542	file	usr.sbin/lmcconfig/Makefile
543	file	usr.sbin/mtrace/Makefile
544	descr
545		external/gpl3/gcc/dist/gcc/expmed.c:2781:1:
546		internal compiler error: in change_address_1, at emit-rtl.c:2019
547		external/gpl3/gcc/dist/gcc/recog.c:770:1:
548		internal compiler error: in change_address_1, at emit-rtl.c:2019
549		external/gpl3/gcc/dist/libdecnumber/decNumber.c:7214:3:
550		internal compiler error: in change_address_1, at emit-rtl.c:2019
551		sbin/ping/ping.c:679:1:
552		internal compiler error: in change_address_1, at emit-rtl.c:2019
553		sbin/newfs_ext2fs/mke2fs.c:681:1:
554		internal compiler error: in reload_combine_note_use,
555		at postreload.c:1561
556		external/gpl3/gdb/dist/libdecnumber/decNumber.c:7214:3:
557		internal compiler error: in change_address_1, at emit-rtl.c:2019
558		usr.sbin/lmcconfig/lmcconfig.c:939:3:
559		internal compiler error: in reload_combine_note_use,
560		at postreload.c:1561
561		usr.sbin/mtrace/mtrace.c:1655:1:
562		internal compiler error: in change_address_1, at emit-rtl.c:2019
563	kcah
564
565port	arm
566
567	hack	gcc-unsigned-compare
568	cdate	09 Mar 2002
569	mdate	18 Mar 2002
570	who	bjh21
571	file	dist/bind/lib/nameser/ns_parse.c : 1.3
572	file	dist/dhcp/minires/ns_parse.c : 1.3
573	file	dist/dhcp/omapip/result.c : 1.2
574	file	dist/dhcp/server/failover.c : 1.3
575	file	gnu/dist/toolchain/bfd/bfd.c : 1.2
576	file	gnu/dist/toolchain/bfd/format.c : 1.2
577	file	gnu/dist/toolchain/gdb/target.c : 1.2
578	file	sys/kern/vfs_subr.c : 1.172
579	descr	When checking that a potentially-unsigned enum is >= 0, assign
580		it to an int first.  This is necessary to avoid "comparison is
581		always true" warnings with -fshort-enums.  Casting to an int
582		really should be enough, but turns out not to be.
583	kcah
584
585	hack	gcc-4.5 arm CNAME hostname lookup failure on
586		certain DNS environment (probably -ftree-ter problem)
587	cdate	Sat Dec 24 04:59:00 UTC 2011
588	mdate
589	who	tsutsui
590	file	lib/libc/net/Makefile.inc 1.79
591	descr	Hostname lookup against CNAMEs by some commands fails
592		on certain DNS environments if lib/libc/net/gethnamaddr.c
593		(ping(8) etc) and lib/libc/net/getaddrinfo.c (ftp(1) etc)
594		are compiled with -O2, even though nslookup(1) against
595		the same CNAME returns proper hostname.
596		They works properly if compiled with -O2 -fno-tree-ter.
597		Also -O2 fails but -O2 -fno-tree-ter works on the following
598		test case in gcc bugzilla:
599		http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48863#c4
600	kcah
601
602	hack	gcc-4.5 arm without -fno-tree-vrp generate broken code
603	cdate	Wed Nov 14 13:02:02 JST 2012
604	who	msaitoh
605	file	lib/libc/softfloat/Makefile.inc
606	pr	46953
607	regress	src/tests/lib/libm/t_cbrt
608	regress	src/tests/lib/libm/t_ceil
609	regress	src/tests/lib/libm/t_exp
610	regress	src/tests/lib/libm/t_log
611	regress	src/tests/lib/libm/t_scalbn
612	regress	src/tests/lib/libm/t_sinh
613	regress	src/tests/lib/libm/t_sqrt
614	descr	Gcc has a bug in tree optimization. For adddf3,
615		-INF + -INF returns 0 without -fno-tree-vrp.
616		Debugging with -fdump-tree-all shows that
617		softfloat.c.021t.cleanup_cfg is ok but softfloat.c.023t.ssa
618		is broken.
619	kcah
620
621port	sh3
622
623	hack	gcc4-sh3-bz2
624	cdate	Sun May 21 03:34:57 UTC 2006
625	mdate	Fri May 16 13:13:00 UTC 2008
626	who	mrg, tsutsui
627	file	lib/libbz2/Makefile	: 1.10
628	descr
629		The in-tree GCC 4.1-based compiler generated too-far
630		pc-relative addresses.  Hack is to build with
631		-fno-loop-optimize.
632	kcah
633
634port	sh3eb
635	hack	gcc4.8.1
636	cdate	Thu Nov  7 16:31:23 EST 2013
637	who	christos
638	file	src/sys/rump/net/lib/libnetbt/Makefile	: 1.2
639	desrc
640		for profiling
641		compile l2cap_signal.c with -O0 to avoid:
642		./netbt/l2cap_signal.c:36:
643		/p/netbsd/cvsroot/src/sys/rump/net/lib/libnetbt/../../../../\
644		netbt/l2cap_signal.c: In function 'l2cap_recv_signal':
645		./sh3/byte_swap.h:20:2: error: 'asm' operand requires \
646		impossible reload
647		  __asm volatile ("swap.b %1,%0" : "=r"(rval) : "r"(x));
648	kcah
649
650port	sh3el
651	hack	gcc4.8.1
652	cdate	Fri Nov  8 19:27:01 EST 2013
653	who	christos
654	file	src/external/bsd/libevent/lib/libevent/Makefile	: 1.2
655	desrc
656		for profiling
657		compile evdns.c with -O0 to avoid:
658		./sh3/byte_swap.h:20:2: error: 'asm' operand requires \
659		impossible reload
660		  __asm volatile ("swap.b %1,%0" : "=r"(rval) : "r"(x));
661	kcah
662
663	hack	gcc4.8.1
664	cdate	Fri Nov  8 19:34:48 EST 2013
665	who	christos
666	file	src/usr.sbin/racoon/Makefile	: 1.27
667	desrc
668		for profiling
669		compile ipsec_doi.c with -O0 to avoid:
670		./sh3/byte_swap.h:20:2: error: 'asm' operand requires \
671		impossible reload
672		  __asm volatile ("swap.b %1,%0" : "=r"(rval) : "r"(x));
673	kcah
674
675port	m68000
676
677	hack	gcc4-m68000
678	cdate	Fri Feb  8 10:29:37 PST 2008
679	mdate	Sun May  4 15:37:19 UTC 2008
680	who	mrg, tsutsui
681	file	rescue/Makefile	: 1.21
682	file	sbin/dump_lfs/Makefile	: 1.9
683	file	sbin/fsck_ffs/Makefile	: 1.35
684	file	sbin/fsdb/Makefile	: 1.22
685	file	share/mk/sys.mk	: 1.96
686	file	usr.sbin/ndbootd/Makefile	: 1.5
687	descr
688		Several internal compiler errors with gcc -O1
689		around 64bit integer arithmetic.
690		This hack uses -O1 and adds some -fno-tree-foo options
691		to avoid the problem.
692		This might be related with GCC Bugzilla Bug 32424.
693	kcah
694
695port	m68k,sh3,vax
696
697	hack	gcc-4.8.1
698	cdate	Wed Nov  6 20:41:35 EST 2013
699	who	christos
700	file	src/external/gpl3/gcc/libstdc++-v3/Makefile : 1.6
701	descr
702		compile hashtable_c++0x.cc with -O2 instead of -Os to
703		produce missing instantiation of std::lower_bound expansion
704		for unsigned long.
705	kcah
706
707port	sparc
708
709	hack	avoid NULL pointer derefs in savefpstate IPIs and GCC 4.5.3
710	cdate	Sun Aug 14 19:26:48 PDT 2011
711	who	mrg
712	file	sys/arch/sparc64/sparc/cpu.c : 1.234
713	file	sys/arch/sparc64/sparc/cpuvar.h : 1.90
714	file	sys/arch/sparc64/sparc/genassym.cf : 1.67
715	file	sys/arch/sparc64/sparc/locore.s : 1.265
716	descr
717		Something is wrong with GCC 4.5.3 and the savefpstate IPI.
718		Post newlock2 there was a bug where a lock was reduced from
719		IPL_SCHED to IPL_VM (?) and occasionally savefpstate IPI
720		would crash due to NULL IPI.  This was fixed by re-using the
721		right IPL value.  However, GCC 4.5.3 build kernels have the
722		same problems.  For now, the hack is re-instated.
723	kcah
724
725
726port	mips
727
728	hack	mips-shared-linker-load-address
729	cdate	Fri Oct  7 08:33:10 UTC 2005
730	who	simonb
731	file	src/sys/kern/exec_elf32.c : 1.107
732	descr
733		With COMPAT_16 or previous enabled (which enables
734		ELF_INTERP_NON_RELOCATABLE) a recent ld.elf_so will
735		load and run at address 0.  The check to fix this in
736		rev 1.107 only checks the first psection of the ELF
737		executable, which may not be loadable.  A more correct
738		fix is to check the first loadable psection instead of
739		just the first psection.
740	kcah
741
742	hack	mips-duplicate-ras-end-label
743	cdate	Sat Sep  2 23:29:42 2006
744	who	martin
745	file	src/regress/sys/kern/ras/ras3/Makefile : 1.3
746	descr
747		Add -fno-reorder-blocks to CFLAGS to avoid duplicate
748		labels by duplicated __asm output from RAS_END()
749		macro.
750	kcah
751
752	hack	mips-mcount-assembler-warning
753	cdate	Tue Jul 29 14:16:52 UTC 2008
754	who	lukem
755	file	src/lib/libc/gmon/Makefile.inc : 1.8
756	descr
757		Workaround for PR port-mips/39192.
758		common/lib/libc/gmon/mcount.c generates a (fatal)
759		assembler warning on MIPS:
760			Warning: No .cprestore pseudo-op used in PIC code
761		Add COPTS.count.c+=-Wa,--no-warn to avoid -Wa,--fatal-warnings
762	kcah
763
764port	i386
765
766	hack	use volatile intermediate variable to enforce rounding
767	cdate	Tue Aug  1 22:15:55 MEST 2006
768	who	drochner
769	file	src/lib/libm/src/lrintf.c : 1.4
770	file	src/lib/libm/src/s_rintf.c : 1.8
771	descr
772		gcc-4 does subsequent operations on "float" values within
773		the i387 FPU without rounding the intermediate results
774	kcah
775
776port	x86
777	hack	turn off optimization for biosdisk_ll.c because otherwise
778		we are pass the wrong arguments to biosdisk_read().
779		$ cd /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/floppies/bootflopp-com
780		$ qemu-system-i386 -nographic -fda boot-com1.fs -boot a
781	who	christos
782	file	src/sys/arch/i386/stand/lib/Makefile : 1.38
783	descr
784		Turning on DISK_DEBUG shows the problem. We should find
785		out which option is causing this.
786	hcah
787
788port	powerpc
789
790	hack	avoid using __builtin_return_address(0) because it fails in
791		Xorg's module loader
792	cdate	Sat Sep 27 03:52:05 UTC 2008
793	who	macallan
794	file	src/libexec/ld.elf_so/rtld.c : 1.121
795	descr
796		workaround for PR port-macppc/37812
797	kcah
798
799	hack	define TARGET_SECURE_PLT and HAVE_AS_TLS because when
800		building the native compiler via build.sh those don't defined
801		properly.
802	cdate	Sat Mar 12 08:00:00 UTC 2011
803	who	matt
804	file	src/gnu/dist/gcc4/gcc/config/rs6000/netbsd.h
805	descr
806		see above
807	kcah
808
809port	powerpc64
810
811	hack	include _errno.c in libposix so that __errno resolves. It
812		should resolve from libc's errno, but somehow it does not.
813		Linker bug?
814	cdate	Thu Oct 27 13:19:47 EDT 2011
815	who	christos
816	file	src/lib/libposix/Makefile: 1.15
817	file	src/lib/librt/Makefile: 1.14
818	descr
819		workaround for:
820		    libposix_pic.a(cerror.pico)(.text+0x14): unresolvable \
821		    R_PPC64_REL24 relocation against symbol `.__errno'
822	kcah
823
824	hack	rename data() function in mdocml to avoid redefined error.
825		Compiler/Assembler bug?
826	cdate	Sat Oct 29 11:16:01 EDT 2011
827	who	christos
828	file	src/external/bsd/mdocml/tbl_data.c: 1.2
829	descr
830		workaround for:
831		    {standard input}: Assembler messages:
832		    {standard input}:105: Error: symbol `.data' is already \
833		    defined
834	kcah
835
836port	emips
837
838	hack	Add nop between ctc1 and mtc0 to avoid assembler internal
839		error
840	cdate	Sat Oct 29 16:57:34 EDT 2011
841	who	christos
842	file	src/sys/arch/mips/mips/mips_fpu.c: 1.7
843	descr
844		workaround for:
845		    {standard input}: Assembler messages:
846		    {standard input}:730: Internal error!
847		    Assertion failure in append_insn at /usr/src/external/gpl3/\
848		    binutils/dist/gas/config/tc-mips.c line 2910.
849	kcah
850
851port	ia64
852
853	hack	libc hesiod.c file does not compile with -O2 (internal
854		compiler error in gcc 4.5.3)
855	cdate	Thu Dec 27 08:05:43 CET 2012
856	who	martin
857	file	src/lib/libc/net/Makefile.inc: 1.82
858	descr
859		workaround for:
860		{standard input}: Assembler messages:
861		{standard input}:1507: Warning: Use of 'mov' may violate WAW dependency 'GR%, % in 1 - 127' (impliedf), specific resource number is 15
862		{standard input}:1506: Warning: This is the location of the conflicting usage
863		{standard input}: Error: 2 warnings, treating warnings as errors
864	kcah
865
866	hack	libelf libelf_extended.c compiler error in gcc 4.5.3
867	cdate	Thu Dec 27 09:05:51 CET 2012
868	who	martin
869	file	src/external/bsd/libelf/lib/Makefile: 1.3
870	descr
871		workaround for:
872		{standard input}: Assembler messages:
873		{standard input}:87: Warning: Use of 'adds' may violate RAW dependency 'GR%, % in 1 - 127' (impliedf), specific resource number is 33
874		{standard input}:87: Warning: Only the first path encountering the conflict is reported
875		{standard input}:85: Warning: This is the location of the conflicting usage
876	kcah
877
878	hack	compiler error with gcc 4.5.x
879	cdate	Thu Dec 27 15:15:25 CET 2012
880	who	martin
881	file	src/crypto/external/bsd/netpgp/lib/verify/Makefile: 1.5
882	descr
883		workaround for:
884		{standard input}: Assembler messages:
885		{standard input}:22979: Warning: Use of 'mov' may violate WAW dependency 'GR%, % in 1 - 127' (impliedf), specific resource number is 8
886		{standard input}:22978: Warning: This is the location of the conflicting usage
887	kcah
888
889	hack	libgcc unwind dummy function
890	cdate	Fri Apr 17 14:31:03 CEST 2015
891	who	martin
892	file	src/external/gpl3/gcc/dist/libgcc/config/ia64/unwind-ia64.c: 1.4
893	descr
894		Add an empty _Unwind_FindTableEntry() implementation.
895		In the end we will use our libc stuff, and this should
896		go away again.
897	kcah
898
899port	x68k
900
901	hack	compiler error with gcc 4.5.x
902	cdate	Fri May 24 13:23:01 EDT 2013
903	who	christos
904	file	src/external/gpl3/gcc/usr.bin/bakend/Makefile: 1.17
905		xsrc/external/mit/xorg/lib/libGLU/Makefile: 1.11
906	descr
907		workaround for:
908		internal compiler error: in cselib_record_set, at cselib.c:1999
909	kcah
910
911hack	fallback to /usr/bin/clang-cpp in rpcgen
912cdate	Wed Jun  5 15:49:27 CEST 2013
913who	joerg
914file	src/usr.bin/rpcgen/rpc_main.c
915descr
916	It is undecided which compiler owns /usr/bin/cpp and whether it should
917	exist in a MKGCC=no world. To allow rpcgen to work out-of-the-box,
918	if either gcc or clang is installed, use /usr/bin/clang-cpp as fallback.
919	This applies only if RPCGEN_CPP is not set and /usr/bin/cpp is not executable.
920kcah
921
922port	hppa
923
924	hack	compiler error with gcc 4.5.x
925	cdate	Tue Jul 23 07:42:28 BST 2013
926	who	skrll
927	file	src/sys/lib/libkern/Makefile.libkern: 1.26
928	descr
929		workaround for unanalysed codegen bug affecting md5c.c.
930	kcah
931
932	hack	gdb vs _rtld_debug_state problem
933	cdate	Thu Mar  5 09:49:53 UTC 2015
934	who	skrll
935	file	src/libexec/ld.elf_so/rtld.c: 1.175
936	descr
937		workaround for problem where gdb misses the breakpoint on
938		_rtld_debug_state when the function is only the
939		bv,n %r0(%rp) instruction - the nullify seems to
940		confuse something
941	kcah
942
943port	mips64*
944hack	compiler crashes on mips64* with optimization enabled
945cdate	Tue May 13 18:46:48 UTC 2014
946who	macallan
947file	src/external/lgpl3/gmp/lib/libgmp/arch/mips64eb/Makefile.inc: 1.6
948	src/external/lgpl3/gmp/lib/libgmp/arch/mips64eb/config.h: 1.5
949	src/external/lgpl3/gmp/lib/libgmp/arch/mips64el/Makefile.inc: 1.6
950	src/external/lgpl3/gmp/lib/libgmp/arch/mips64el/config.h: 1.5
951descr	workaround for n32 gcc doing unaligned 64bit accesses when optimizing
952pr	48696
953kcah
954
955port	vax
956hack	compile boot with -O1
957cdate	Sat May 24 09:40:58 CEST 2014
958who	martin
959file	src/sys/arch/vax/boot/boot/Makefile: 1.41
960descr	/boot does not work when compiled with -O2 and gcc 4.8
961kcah
962
963port	arm
964hack	avoid using labels in a 12-bit constant.
965who	matt
966file	crypto/external/bsd/openssl/lib/libcrypto/arch/arm/aes-armv4.S: 1.2
967descr	workaround for clang misassembling an instruction
968kcah
969