Date: Wed, 18 Jan 95 17:50:38 IST From: "Ugen J.S.Antsilevich" <ugen@netvision.net.il> To: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: bug in GCC or in lseek/read??? Message-ID: <Chameleon.950118175745.ugen@ugen.NetManage.co.il>
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Here it comes.
I am not sure but it seems like GCC bug in handling quad (long long)
types....
Here is the programm.What it tries to do is - to read some buffer from arbitrary
file,then lseek back and re-read same place again.Actually i ran into the
problemm when really working on very same code.
Now look into text and try compiling it,you will see very interesting behaviour.
If you'll take a look at assembly code you'll see that -sizeof(<anything>)
replaced in quad_t as 0 and then -size(-5 in this example).
on the other hand -<number> is turned into -1 -<number> (-1 -5 here).
The cast to (int) makes same result and works.The cast to off_t type which
is right does not works.
Now: lseek returns same value in all cases-both in those where read fails
and works.
So probably two things here: bug or at least inconsistency in GCC which
makes worng conversions + some strange bug in lseek/read calls
which i personally can't still figure out..
or may be i am too dumb?????
-------------------------CUT HERE(and look in code)-----------------------
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
main()
{
int f;
char buf[5],buf1[5];
f=open("/bin/ls",O_RDONLY); /* any file actually we don't care */
printf("seek %u\n",lseek(f,100,SEEK_SET)); /* move into the middle
somewhere.Actually bug
shows without this string */
if (read(f,buf,5)<=0) {
printf("First read failed\n");
exit(1);
}
printf("%d\n",-sizeof(buf)); /* just to show you size of this buffer */
#error ------------ Here choose *ONE* from following 4 strings-------
printf("seek %u\n",lseek(f,-sizeof(buf),SEEK_CUR)); /* No cast - does not works */
printf("seek %u\n",lseek(f,(off_t)-sizeof(buf),SEEK_CUR)); /*right cast-does not works
*/
printf("seek %u\n",lseek(f,(int)-sizeof(buf),SEEK_CUR)); /*wrong cast-works OK*/
printf("seek %u\n",lseek(f,-5,SEEK_CUR)); /* number only-works OK*/
if (read(f,buf1,5)<=0) {
printf("Second read failed\n"); /* This one will fail BUT!!!
'errno' is set to 0!!! */
exit(1);
}
if (!strncmp(buf,buf1,5)) /* just to show thet if everything OK, we read same string
*/
printf("match\n");
}
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