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Compilation of "spacetime_snapshot.c" breaks if configured with `-force-safe-string' #7658

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vicuna opened this issue Oct 16, 2017 · 3 comments
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vicuna commented Oct 16, 2017

Original bug ID: 7658
Reporter: cspiel
Assigned to: @mshinwell
Status: resolved (set by @mshinwell on 2017-10-20T09:44:28Z)
Resolution: duplicate
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Platform: amd64
OS: GNU/Linux
OS Version: 4.9.0
Target version: 4.06.0 +dev/beta1/beta2/rc1
Category: runtime system and C interface

Bug description

If the current git sources (0b09fb5) are
configured with `-force-safe-string' the compilation of module
"spacetime_snapshot.c" breaks with the following error message:

In file included from ../byterun/caml/alloc.h:24:0,
from spacetime_snapshot.c:23:
spacetime_snapshot.c: In function ‘copy_string_outside_heap’:
../byterun/caml/mlvalues.h:256:23: error: passing argument 1 of ‘memmove’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
#define String_val(x) ((const char *) Bp_val(x))
^
spacetime_snapshot.c:359:11: note: in expansion of macro ‘String_val’
memmove(String_val(result), s, len);
^~~~~~~~~~
In file included from spacetime_snapshot.c:19:0:
/usr/include/string.h:46:14: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of type ‘const char *’
extern void *memmove (void *__dest, const void *__src, size_t __n)
^~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

Steps to reproduce

./configure -flambda -force-safe-string -no-naked-pointers -spacetime -with-frame-pointers
make world.opt

Additional information

The origin of this problem sits in file "mlvalues.h". There macro
String_val' is conditionally defined with respect to CAML_SAFE_STRING'.

However, the solution will have to be non-trivial as the error points
to the change in semantics, i.e. value vs. address.

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vicuna commented Oct 16, 2017

Comment author: @gasche

Thanks for the report! Hopefully we can fix it before the 4.06 release.

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vicuna commented Oct 20, 2017

Comment author: @mshinwell

Please see #1439

@vicuna vicuna closed this as completed Oct 20, 2017
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vicuna commented Oct 20, 2017

Comment author: cspiel

With the patch the compilation succeeds.
Spacetime profiling works. THX!

@vicuna vicuna added this to the 4.06.0 milestone Mar 14, 2019
@vicuna vicuna added the bug label Mar 20, 2019
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