Re: [RFC PATCH] tools/memory-model: Remove (dep ; rfi) from ppo

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Feb 26 2019 - 06:25:42 EST


On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 12:21:33PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Also; we need to find a GCC person to find/give us a knob to kill this
> entire class of nonsense. This is just horrible broken shit:
>
>
> ~/tmp# gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -o ptr ptr.c ; ./ptr
> p=0x5635dd3d5034 q=0x5635dd3d5034
> x=1 y=2 *p=11 *q=2
> ~/tmp# cat ptr.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
> int y = 2, x = 1;
> int main (int argc, char **argv) {
> int *p = &x + argc;

damn; wrong version; that should've been: s/argc/1/
same result though.

> int *q = &y;
> printf("p=%p q=%p\n", p, q);
> if (!memcmp(&p, &q, sizeof(p))) {
> *p = 11;
> printf("x=%d y=%d *p=%d *q=%d\n", x, y, *p, *q);
> }
> }