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Bug 860399 - media-plugins/mda-lv2-1.2.6 fails to compile (lto): mdaJX10.cpp:471:14: error: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules [-Werror=strict-aliasing]
Summary: media-plugins/mda-lv2-1.2.6 fails to compile (lto): mdaJX10.cpp:471:14: error...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Professional Audio Applications Maintainers
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Blocks: lto
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Reported: 2022-07-24 07:40 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2023-05-12 03:24 UTC (History)
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build.log (build.log,79.86 KB, text/plain)
2022-07-24 07:40 UTC, Agostino Sarubbo
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2022-07-24 07:40:22 UTC
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: media-plugins/mda-lv2-1.2.6 fails to compile (lto).
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: lto_tinderbox)

NOTE:
This machine uses lto with CFLAGS=-flto -Werror=odr -Werror=lto-type-mismatch -Werror=strict-aliasing
Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2022-07-24 07:40:24 UTC
Created attachment 793667 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info
Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2022-07-26 09:02:39 UTC
Here is a bit of explanation:

-Werror=lto-type-mismatch:
User to find possible runtime issues in packages. It likely means the package is unsafe to build & use with LTO.
For projects using the same identifier but with different types across different files, they must be fixed to be consistent across the codebase.

-Werror=odr:
Used to find possible runtime issues in packages. These bugs are a problem anyway but may be even worse when combined with LTO. C++ code must comply with the One Definition Rule (ODR) - see https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/definition#One_Definition_Rule.

-Werror=strict-aliasing:
Used to find possible runtime issues in packages. These bugs are a problem anyway but may be even worse when combined with LTO.

Workarounds:
- If upstream is friendly and still active, file a bug upstream. For emulators, codecs, games, or multimedia packages, it may be worth just applying a workaround instead, as upstreams sometimes aren't receptive to these bugs (VALID FOR ALL).
- Use the new 'filter-lto' from flag-o-matic.eclass as it's likely to be unsafe with LTO (VALID FOR lto-type-mismatch - odr).
- Fix it yourself if interested, of course (VALID FOR ALL).
- Append-flags -fno-strict-aliasing (VALID FOR strict-aliasing).
- Use memcpy() but a union is sometimes suitable too (VALID FOR strict-aliasing).
- -fstrict-aliasing is implied by -O2, so this must be addressed in some form (VALID FOR strict-aliasing).

See also: https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=165639574126280&w=2
Comment 3 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2023-05-12 03:24:12 UTC
Fixed by https://gitlab.com/drobilla/mda-lv2/-/commit/ac0590c5a8f84f9edcd6817e44976ad75fccb252 which I included in:

commit 0701fdc8e9076e71de7bc4e64f760413028f130b
Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Date:   Fri May 12 03:19:40 2023 +0100

    media-plugins/mda-lv2: wire up tests; fix LICENSE; fix strict aliasing

    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>