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Bug 667032 - sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0-r3 on sparc - error: two or more data types in declaration specifiers / extern size_t __confstr_chk (int __name, char *__buf, size_t __len
Summary: sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0-r3 on sparc - error: two or more data types in declaratio...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers
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Reported: 2018-09-25 12:11 UTC by Ben Kohler
Modified: 2019-08-22 06:39 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
gcc-build-logs.tar.bz2 (gcc-build-logs.tar.bz2,223.89 KB, application/octet-stream)
2018-09-25 12:11 UTC, Ben Kohler
Details
trigger-bug-667032.tar.bz2 (trigger-bug-667032.tar.bz2,30.52 KB, application/x-bzip)
2018-11-15 07:49 UTC, Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED)
Details
trigger-bug-667032-v2.tar.gz (trigger-bug-667032-v2.tar.gz,1.34 KB, application/gzip)
2018-11-15 23:35 UTC, Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED)
Details

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Description Ben Kohler gentoo-dev 2018-09-25 12:11:09 UTC
Created attachment 547864 [details]
gcc-build-logs.tar.bz2

I believe this version of gcc has built successfully in the past but now on stable sparc I get the following build error:

/usr/include/bits/unistd.h:229:8: error: two or more data types in declaration specifiers
 extern size_t __confstr_chk (int __name, char *__buf, size_t __len,
        ^~~~~~
Comment 1 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev 2018-09-25 12:12:42 UTC
# emerge --info
Portage 2.3.49 (python 3.6.5-final-0, default/linux/sparc/17.0, gcc-6.4.0, glibc-2.26-r7, 3.14.14-gentoo sparc64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.14.14-gentoo-sparc64-sun4v-with-gentoo-2.4.1
KiB Mem:    16591128 total,   8199712 free
KiB Swap:          0 total,         0 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:45:01 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: d8432714945daf387328ee6a1666b9ea9bb4b7f4
sh bash 4.4_p12
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.30 p2) 2.30.0
app-shells/bash:          4.4_p12::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.24.3-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.15::gentoo, 3.5.4-r1::gentoo, 3.6.5::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.29.2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.4.1-r2::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.34.11::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.13::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.69-r4::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.15.1-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.28.1::gentoo, 2.30-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            6.4.0-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r3::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.2.1-r4::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.13::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.26-r7::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000
    sync-rsync-extra-opts: 
    sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes
    sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24
    sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=niagara -pipe"
CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=niagara -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n -j2"
ENV_UNSET="DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
FCFLAGS=""
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS=""
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j32"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="acl berkdb big-endian bzip2 cli crypt cxx dri fortran gdbm iconv ipv6 libtirpc modules ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pcre readline sparc ssl tcpd unicode xattr zlib" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon plan sheets stage words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6 php7-0" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres9_5 postgres10" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby23" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint mga r128 radeon dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 2 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-09-25 21:51:34 UTC
Given it complains at glibc's headers could it be it started after glibc bump?

Can you also attach preprocessed file it fails to compile?

You should change failing
    $ .../xgcc -o ..._gcov_ior_profile....o ... -c libgcov-profiler.c
to
    $ .../xgcc -o gcov_ior_profile.C ... -E libgcov-profiler.c

and attach gcov_ior_profile.C. I'll try to check what is different on a cross-compiled system to spot the problem. Perhaps some macro fails to expand nicely in glibc.
Comment 3 Matt Turner gentoo-dev 2018-11-08 05:00:16 UTC
Not glibc dependent as far as I can tell. It failed for me with both glibc-2.25 and 2.27.
Comment 4 Matt Turner gentoo-dev 2018-11-08 07:37:52 UTC
Also tried gcc-7.3.0-r6. Fails as well.
Comment 5 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-11-08 20:25:57 UTC
Got bender access. Trying to reproduce.
Comment 6 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-11-12 20:57:04 UTC
(In reply to Sergei Trofimovich from comment #5)
> Got bender access. Trying to reproduce.

Reproduced on 7.3.0-r3 and on 7.3.0-r6. 8.2.0-r4 seems to work.

Trying to make sense of an error but it's very odd: its not reproducible on rerun even with MAKEOPTS=-j1. Looking further.
Comment 7 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-11-14 23:25:27 UTC
(In reply to Sergei Trofimovich from comment #6)
> Trying to make sense of an error but it's very odd: its not reproducible on
> rerun even with MAKEOPTS=-j1. Looking further.

Managed to reproduce failure consistently within a few minutes using the following setup:
1. run gcc compilation in a loop
2. in parallel to [1.] run CPu-intensive load on all CPUs (i ran silly memmove() torture)

When [2.] runs [1.] starts throwing errors. When [2.] stops errors go away.
Trimming test down to package as a single shell script.

Should be usable to bisect/probe kernel as a primary suspect.
Comment 8 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-11-15 07:49:36 UTC
Created attachment 555190 [details]
trigger-bug-667032.tar.bz2

trigger-bug-667032.tar.bz2: stable reproducer.

Runs gcc under the load and needs gcc-7 or later so far. I'll "port" it to older gcc as well. Takes 10 seconds to trigger failure:

# time ./run-torture.bash 
Build memmove-torture
Spin memmove-torture up
Provoking trigger
gcc-torture.c: In function 'atoi':
gcc-torture.c:2406:44: error: both 'short' and 'void' in declaration specifiers
   return (int) strtol (__nptr, (char **) ((void *)0), 10);
                                            ^~~~
gcc-torture.c:2406: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
Spin memmove-torture down
BAD: pass=12 fail=1

real    0m10,846s
user    4m3,380s
sys     1m30,657s
Comment 9 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-11-15 23:35:30 UTC
Created attachment 555292 [details]
trigger-bug-667032-v2.tar.gz

trigger-bug-667032-v2.tar.gz is a more portable test.
Requires more time to trigger failure:

# ./run-torture.bash
Build memmove-torture
Spin memmove-torture up
Provoking trigger
gcc-torture.c:8:26: error: 'long long long' is too long for GCC
    __extension__ typedef long long int __quad_t;
                          ^~~~
...
Spin memmove-torture down
BAD: pass=245 fail=1

I was not able to make it crash on gcc-6.4.0. Fails only on gcc-7.3.0. Perhaps due to big enough difference in the binary.
Comment 10 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-12-20 19:56:11 UTC
(In reply to Sergei Trofimovich from comment #9)
> Created attachment 555292 [details]
> trigger-bug-667032-v2.tar.gz
> 
> trigger-bug-667032-v2.tar.gz is a more portable test.
> Requires more time to trigger failure:
> 
> # ./run-torture.bash
> Build memmove-torture
> Spin memmove-torture up
> Provoking trigger
> gcc-torture.c:8:26: error: 'long long long' is too long for GCC
>     __extension__ typedef long long int __quad_t;
>                           ^~~~
> ...
> Spin memmove-torture down
> BAD: pass=245 fail=1
> 
> I was not able to make it crash on gcc-6.4.0. Fails only on gcc-7.3.0.
> Perhaps due to big enough difference in the binary.

Another data point: gcc-8.2.0 also does not crash.
Comment 11 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-12-20 22:04:28 UTC
Another datapoint from Ben from chat on #gentoo-sparc:

  21:28:30 <@slyfox> i wonder if others experience any problems with 7.3.0 or it's specifically tied to bender
  21:42:27 < iamben> it's not just bender.  first place i ever saw it was on my personal t2000.  it's also reproducible on totoro, which was a fresh gentoo install just a couple of months ago. but they are all t2000's

Which rules out possibility individual hardware (CPU or RAM) failure and points at gcc (or related) software bug. Given that system otherwise survives torture tests for days gcc is disproportionately more affected to failures.

Chasing gcc bug side.
Comment 12 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2018-12-30 10:21:25 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c5e1c67bc57c31b8b4ade5c76fef54b44001c0b8

commit c5e1c67bc57c31b8b4ade5c76fef54b44001c0b8
Author:     Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2018-12-30 10:21:07 +0000
Commit:     Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2018-12-30 10:21:07 +0000

    sys-devel/gcc: stabilize 8.2.0-r6 eary on sparc, bug #667032
    
    Currently gcc-7.3.0 and gcc-7.4.0 experience mysterious crashes
    on Niagara ships (see #667032 for details). The current workaround
    is not to use gcc-7.x on them.
    
    Let's stable 8.x early while debugging happens.
    
    Reported-by: Ben Kohler
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/667032
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.53, Repoman-2.3.12
    Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>

 sys-devel/gcc/gcc-8.2.0-r6.ebuild | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Comment 13 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-08-22 06:39:57 UTC
The bug is very non-deterministic and I was not able to reproduce it on gcc-8. Bender is no more, let's declare it as obsolete and debug from start if it happens again.