Re: [BUGS] Test suite fails on alpha architecture
Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> It looks to me like Debian's compiler must be allowing the division
>> instruction to be speculatively executed before the if-test branch
>> is taken.
> Can you create a stand-alone testcase for this?
I don't have access to a machine on which the failure occurs, but
perhaps Martin can try it. I'd think it'd be pretty easy, say
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
void
ereport(const char *msg)
{
fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", msg);
exit(0);
}
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int arg1 = atoi(argv[1]);
int arg2 = atoi(argv[2]);
int result;
if (arg2 == 0)
ereport("division by zero");
result = arg1 / arg2;
printf("%d\n", result);
return 0;
}
cc -g -O2 -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -mieee -D_GNU_SOURCE bug.c
./a.out 1 0
I would not be surprised at all if it's compile-switch dependent; these
look to be the switches Martin tested with.
regards, tom lane
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