Bug 178343 - h2ph problem with gcc internal defines
Summary: h2ph problem with gcc internal defines
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: perl
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Robin Norwood
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 185406
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-01-19 17:07 UTC by Jason Vas Dias
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 5.8.6-24
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2006-10-04 18:40:19 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Program to produce perl header for C built-in definitions (662 bytes, text/plain)
2006-01-19 17:57 UTC, Jason Vas Dias
no flags Details
Program to include cpp internal built-in macros in system _h2ph_pre.ph (2.21 KB, text/plain)
2006-02-02 23:15 UTC, Jason Vas Dias
no flags Details

Description Jason Vas Dias 2006-01-19 17:07:37 UTC
Description of problem:

>  Subject: h2ph problem
>  From:    George Michaelson <ggm>
>    To:    jvdias
>    Date:  2006-01-17 19:54
>     
>  We just got bitten by 32bit vs 64bit logic in the .ph files generated
>  from socket.h/stddef.h/limits.h -bits/socket.ph to be exact.
>
>  Undefined subroutine &main::__LONG_MAX__ called at (eval 436) line 1.
>  Compilation failed in require at
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/sy s/socket.ph line 11.
>  Compilation failed in require at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-threa d-multi/netinet/in.ph line
> 9.
>
>
>  By removing some if/then/else logic, to make it just eval() the 32-bit
>  case, the problem went away.
>
>  this was after applying an up2date on EL4 for perl 5.8.5:
>
>  [ggm@curry log]$ uname -a
>  Linux curry.apnic.net 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Oct 18 18:39:27 EDT
> 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [ggm@curry log]$ rpmquery -a | grep perl
>  newt-perl-1.08-7
>  mod_perl-1.99_16-4
>  perl-Net-DNS-0.48-1
>  perl-Time-HiRes-1.55-3
>  perl-5.8.5-24.RHEL4
>  perl-Filter-1.30-6
>  perl-URI-1.30-4
>  perl-Digest-SHA1-2.07-5
>  perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-13
>  [ggm@curry log]$
>
>  the RPM errata lists
>
>  > * Tue Nov 01 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias> - 3:5.8.5-17.RHEL4
>  >   - fix bug 170088: broken h2ph fixed with h2ph from 5.8.7
>  >   - fix bug 171111 / upstream bug 37535: IOCPARM_LEN should be _IOC_SIZE
>  >   - fix bug 172236: make h2ph pick up gcc built-in include directory
>
>  Is it possible you haven't tested enough of the outcomes here? Without
>  this, the perl just doesn't work.
>
>  -George
>
>  --- socket.ph.dist      2006-01-17 16:44:41.000000000 +1000
>  +++ socket.ph   2006-01-17 16:44:49.000000000 +1000
>  @@ -90,11 +90,7 @@
>       eval 'sub SOL_IRDA () {266;}' unless defined(&SOL_IRDA);
>       eval 'sub SOMAXCONN () {128;}' unless defined(&SOMAXCONN);
>       require 'bits/sockaddr.ph';
>  -    if((defined(&ULONG_MAX) ? &ULONG_MAX : 0) > 0xffffffff) {
>  -       eval 'sub __ss_aligntype () { &__uint64_t;}' unless
> defined(&__ss_aligntype); -    } else {
>          eval 'sub __ss_aligntype () { &__uint32_t;}' unless
> defined(&__ss_aligntype); -    }
>       eval 'sub _SS_SIZE () {128;}' unless defined(&_SS_SIZE);
>       eval 'sub _SS_PADSIZE () {( &_SS_SIZE - (2* $sizeof{
> &__ss_aligntype}));}' unless defined(&_SS_PADSIZE); eval("sub MSG_OOB () {
> 0x01; }") unless defined(&MSG_OOB);

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ALL - including RHEL-4 perl-5.8.5-*
not a problem with RHEL-3 perl-5.8.0, because gcc-3.2.3's limits.h #defines
things like __LONG_MAX__

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
$ perl -e 'require "sys/socket.ph";'
  
Actual results:
Undefined subroutine &main::__LONG_MAX__ called at (eval 256) line 1.
Compilation failed in require at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/sys/socket.ph line 11.
Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.


Expected results:
no errors

Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2006-01-19 17:20:46 UTC
Now that h2ph correctly picks up the gcc C standard includes, such as limits.h,
from the gcc internal include directory (ie. /usr/lib/gcc/*.../include),
which it was not doing before, due to bug 172236, some perl .ph files cannot be
included because they refer to the newer gcc versions 'internal definitions' such
as __INT_MAX__ / __LONG_MAX__ , which are no longer #define'd in any header file,
but are 'built-in' to the newer gcc compilers, in the same way as __FILE__ or
__LINE__ :

  $ echo 'int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
          { long l=__LONG_MAX__; printf( "%ld\n",l); };' >tlm.c
( NOTE: no files are #include-ed )
  $ gcc -o tlm tlm.c$ gcc -o tlm tlm.c
  tlm.c: In function âmainâ:
  tlm.c:1: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function  âprintfâ
  $ ./tlm
  2147483647

gcc's C standard headers define constants such as LONG_MAX / INT_MAX in terms
of these internal definitions:

$ egrep 'define\ (INT|LONG)_MAX' limits.h
#define INT_MAX __INT_MAX__
#define LONG_MAX __LONG_MAX__

During the generation of the perl platform h2ph includes, we should create a 
file included by limits.ph that includes definitions for all the gcc 
'internal definitions' such as __LONG_MAX__ that might be referenced .

Comment 2 Jason Vas Dias 2006-01-19 17:57:50 UTC
Created attachment 123451 [details]
Program to produce perl header for C built-in definitions

Something like the output of this program needs to be prepended to limits.ph
during the build of the perl h2ph platform headers .

Comment 3 Ralf Corsepius 2006-01-19 18:15:21 UTC
I must be missing something, but why do you try to extract GCC proprietary,
internals?

#include <limits.h> and printing the corresponding POSIX defines would be portable.

C.f. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/limits.h.html

Comment 4 Jason Vas Dias 2006-01-19 20:54:42 UTC
RE: Comment #3:
   /usr/include/limits.h just #includes' gcc's limits.h, unless  '__GNUC__ < 2',
   and gcc's limits.h would in any case be found first in by a 
   '#include <limits.h>' .

The whole issue of h2ph and perl's platform includes needs a major revamp, which
it will get once perl-5.8.8 comes out (soon, I hope).



Comment 5 Jason Vas Dias 2006-01-31 18:07:18 UTC
OK, it wasn't fixed in 5.8.8. I've now raised upstream perl bug 
#38385 : http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38385
on this issue, which includes a patch to fix it.

This will be fixed in the next perl releases for RHEL-4, FC-4, and FC-5 
(RHEL-3 is unaffected).




Comment 6 Jason Vas Dias 2006-02-02 23:15:14 UTC
Created attachment 124075 [details]
Program to include cpp internal built-in macros in system _h2ph_pre.ph

Comment 7 Jason Vas Dias 2006-02-02 23:21:54 UTC
This problem is fixed with perl-5.8.8-1 in FC-5, with the patch sent upstream,
which checks for the existence of cpp internal built-ins in Configure, and 
writes them to $Config{cppsymbols} so they are correctly written to _h2ph_pre.pl.

This patch will be applied to subsequent perl releases for FC-4 and RHEL-4 ,
but this problem probably does not warrant a complete perl respin just to fix it.

Meanwhile, simply run the 'patch_h2ph_pre.pl' script attached above, as root,
and the system _h2ph_pre.ph (which gets included by every perl header file) will
be patched to define cpp built-ins it does not already define .

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2006-03-13 22:12:37 UTC
From User-Agent: XML-RPC

perl-5.8.6-24 has been pushed for FC4, which should resolve this issue.  If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2006-03-27 17:07:13 UTC
perl-5.8.6-24 has been pushed for FC4, which should resolve this issue.  If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Robin Norwood 2006-10-01 23:33:31 UTC
assigning to rnorwood


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