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Date:      Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:59:37 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, attilio@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Aliasing issue with TAILQ on ppc64 ?
Message-ID:  <201209181359.37965.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <22549.1347987801@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <22549.1347987801@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 1:03:21 pm Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20120918164826.GI37286@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>, Konstantin Belou
> sov writes:
> 
> >[...] compiler must not reorder accesses which
> >provably causes change in the behaviour.
> 
> As I said, I'm not entirely sure why this goes wrong, and I didn't
> feel like learning PPC64 assembler constraints just now to find out.
> 
> My understanding is that the cast from entry->head effectively
> obscures from the compiler what goes on in this case, making that
> optimization fair game.

Did you have -fno-strict-aliasing enabled in CFLAGS for your PPC64 build
(assuming you had built with -O2 or higher)?

-- 
John Baldwin



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