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GCC Bugs
The latest version of this document is always available at
[1]http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html.
_________________________________________________________________
Table of Contents
* [2]Reporting Bugs
+ [3]What we need
+ [4]What we DON'T want
+ [5]Where to post it
+ [6]Detailed bug reporting instructions
+ [7]Detailed bug reporting instructions for GNAT
* [8]Managing Bugs (GNATS and the test-suite)
* [9]Frequently Reported Bugs in GCC
+ [10]General
+ [11]Fortran
+ [12]C
+ [13]C++
o [14]Common problems updating from G++ 2.95 to G++ 3.0
o [15]Non-bugs
o [16]Missing features
o [17]Parse errors for "simple" code
o [18]Optimization at -O3 takes a very long time
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Reporting Bugs
Our preferred way of receiving bugs is via the [19]GCC GNATS bug
reporting system.
Before you report a bug, please check the [20]list of well-known bugs
and, if possible in any way, try a current development snapshot. If
you want to report a bug with versions of GCC before 3.1 we strongly
recommend upgrading to the current release first.
Before reporting that GCC compiles your code incorrectly, please
compile it with gcc -Wall and see whether this shows anything wrong
with your code that could be the cause instead of a bug in GCC.
Summarized bug reporting instructions
After this summary, you'll find detailed bug reporting instructions,
that explain how to obtain some of the information requested in this
summary.
What we need
Please include in your bug report all of the following items, the
first three of which can be obtained from the output of gcc -v:
* the exact version of GCC;
* the system type;
* the options given when GCC was configured/built;
* the complete command line that triggers the bug;
* the compiler output (error messages, warnings, etc.); and
* the preprocessed file (*.i*) that triggers the bug, generated by
adding -save-temps to the complete compilation command, or, in the
case of a bug report for the GNAT front end, a complete set of
source files (see below).
What we do not want
* A source file that #includes header files that are left out of the
bug report (see above)
* That source file and a collection of header files.
* An attached archive (tar, zip, shar, whatever) containing all (or
some :-) of the above.
* A code snippet that won't cause the compiler to produce the exact
output mentioned in the bug report (e.g., a snippet with just a
few lines around the one that apparently triggers the bug, with
some pieces replaced with ellipses or comments for extra
obfuscation :-)
* The location (URL) of the package that failed to build (we won't
download it, anyway, since you've already given us what we need to
duplicate the bug, haven't you? :-)
* An error that occurs only some of the times a certain file is
compiled, such that retrying a sufficient number of times results
in a successful compilation; this is a symptom of a hardware
problem, not of a compiler bug (sorry)
* E-mail messages that complement previous, incomplete bug reports.
Post a new, self-contained, full bug report instead, if possible
as a follow-up to the original bug report
* Assembly files (*.s) produced by the compiler, or any binary
files, such as object files, executables or core files
* Duplicate bug reports, or reports of bugs already fixed in the
development tree, especially those that have already been reported
as fixed last week :-)
* Bugs in the assembler, the linker or the C library. These are
separate projects, with separate mailing lists and different bug
reporting procedures
* Bugs in releases or snapshots of GCC not issued by the GNU
Project. Report them to whoever provided you with the release
* Questions about the correctness or the expected behavior of
certain constructs that are not GCC extensions. Ask them in forums
dedicated to the discussion of the programming language
Where to post it
Please submit your bug report directly to the [21]GCC GNATS bug
database. Only if this is not possible, mail all information to
[22]bug-gcc@gnu.org or [23]gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org.
The GCC lists have message size limits (200 kbytes) and bug reports
over those limits will currently be bounced. If your bug is larger
than that, please post it using the [24]GCC GNATS bug database.
Detailed bug reporting instructions
Please refer to the [25]next section when reporting bugs in GNAT, the
Ada compiler.
In general, all the information we need can be obtained by collecting
the command line below, as well as its output and the preprocessed
file it generates.
gcc -v -save-temps all-your-options source-file
Typically the preprocessed file (extension .i for C or .ii for C++)
will be large, so please compress the resulting file with one of the
popular compression programs such as bzip2, gzip, zip or compress (in
decreasing order of preference). Use maximum compression (-9) if
available. Please include the compressed preprocessor output in your
bug report, even if the source code is freely available elsewhere; it
makes the job of our volunteer testers much easier.
The only excuses to not send us the preprocessed sources are (i) if
you've found a bug in the preprocessor, or (ii) if you've reduced the
testcase to a small file that doesn't include any other file. If you
can't post the preprocessed sources because they're proprietary code,
then try to create a small file that triggers the same problem.
Since we're supposed to be able to re-create the assembly output
(extension .s), you usually should not include it in the bug report,
although you may want to post parts of it to point out assembly code
you consider to be wrong.
Whether to use MIME attachments or uuencode is up to you. In any case,
make sure the compiler command line, version and error output are in
plain text, so that we don't have to decode the bug report in order to
tell who should take care of it. A meaningful subject indicating
language and platform also helps.
Please avoid posting an archive (.tar, .shar or .zip); we generally
need just a single file to reproduce the bug (the .i/.ii preprocessed
file), and, by storing it in an archive, you're just making our
volunteers' jobs harder. Only when your bug report requires multiple
source files to be reproduced should you use an archive. In any case,
make sure the compiler version, error message, etc, are included in
the body of your bug report as plain text, even if needlessly
duplicated as part of an archive.
If you fail to supply enough information for a bug report to be
reproduced, someone will probably ask you to post additional
information (or just ignore your bug report, if they're in a bad day,
so try to get it right on the first posting :-). In this case, please
post the additional information to the bug reporting mailing list, not
just to the person who requested it, unless explicitly told so. If
possible, please include in this follow-up all the information you had
supplied in the incomplete bug report (including the preprocessor
output), so that the new bug report is self-contained.
Detailed bug reporting instructions for GNAT
See the [26]previous section for bug reporting instructions for GCC
language implementations other than Ada.
Bug reports have to contain at least the following information in
order to be useful:
* the exact version of GCC, as shown by "gcc -v";
* the system type;
* the options when GCC was configured/built;
* the exact command line passed to the gcc program triggering the
bug (not just the flags passed to gnatmake, but gnatmake prints
the parameters it passed to gcc)
* a collection of source files for reproducing the bug, preferably a
minimal set (see below);
* a description of the expected behavior;
* a description of actual behavior.
If your code depends on additional source files (usually package
specifications), submit the source code for these compilation units in
a single file that is acceptable input to gnatchop, i.e. contains no
non-Ada text. If the compilation terminated normally, you can usually
obtain a list of dependencies using the "gnatls -d main_unit" command,
where main_unit is the file name of the main compilation unit (which
is also passed to gcc).
If you report a bug which causes the compiler to print a bug box,
include that bug box in your report, and do not forget to send all the
source files listed after the bug box along with your report.
If you use gnatprep, be sure to send in preprocessed sources (unless
you have to report a bug in gnatprep).
When you have checked that your report meets these criteria, please
submit it accoding to our [27]generic instructions. (If you use a
mailing list for reporting, please include an "[Ada]" tag in the
subject.)
Managing Bugs (GNATS and the test-suite)
This section contains information mostly intended for GCC
contributors.
If you find a bug, but you are not fixing it (yet):
1. Create a (minimal) test-case.
2. Add the test-case to our test-suite, marking it as XFAIL unless
the bug is a regression.
3. Add a bug report referencing the test-case to GNATS.
If you fix a bug for which there is already a GNATS entry:
1. Remove the XFAIL on the test-case.
2. Close the bug report in GNATS.
If you find a bug, and you are fixing it right then:
1. Create a (minimal) test-case.
2. Add the test-case to our test-suite, marking it as PASS.
3. Check in your fixes.
_________________________________________________________________
Frequently Reported Bugs in GCC
Fortran
Fortran bugs are documented in the G77 manual rather than explicitly
listed here. Please see [28]Known Causes of Trouble with GNU Fortran
in the G77 manual.
_________________________________________________________________
C
The following are not bugs in the C compiler, but are reported often
enough to warrant a mention here.
Cannot initialize a static variable with stdin.
This has nothing to do with GCC, but people ask us about it a
lot. Code like this:
#include <stdio.h>
FILE *yyin = stdin;
will not compile with GNU libc (GNU/Linux libc6), because stdin
is not a constant. This was done deliberately, to make it
easier to maintain binary compatibility when the type FILE
needs to be changed. It is surprising for people used to
traditional Unix C libraries, but it is permitted by the C
standard.
This construct commonly occurs in code generated by old
versions of lex or yacc. We suggest you try regenerating the
parser with a current version of flex or bison, respectively.
In your own code, the appropriate fix is to move the
initialization to the beginning of main.
There is a common misconception that the GCC developers are
responsible for GNU libc. These are in fact two entirely
separate projects; please check the [29]GNU libc web pages for
details.
Cannot use preprocessor directive in macro arguments.
Let me guess... you wrote code that looks something like this:
memcpy(dest, src,
#ifdef PLATFORM1
12
#else
24
#endif
);
and you got a whole pile of error messages:
test.c:11: warning: preprocessing directive not recognized within
macro arg
test.c:11: warning: preprocessing directive not recognized within
macro arg
test.c:11: warning: preprocessing directive not recognized within
macro arg
test.c: In function `foo':
test.c:6: undefined or invalid # directive
test.c:8: undefined or invalid # directive
test.c:9: parse error before `24'
test.c:10: undefined or invalid # directive
test.c:11: parse error before `#'
Update: As of GCC 3.2 this kind of construct is always accepted
and CPP will probably do what you expect, but see the manual
for detailed semantics.
However, versions of GCC prior to 3.2 did not allow you to put
#ifdef (or any other directive) inside the arguments of a
macro. Your C library's <string.h> happens to define memcpy as
a macro - this is perfectly legitimate. The code therefore
would not compile.
This kind of code is not portable. It is "undefined behavior"
according to the C standard; that means different compilers
will do different things with it. It is always possible to
rewrite code which uses conditionals inside macros so that it
doesn't. You could write the above example
#ifdef PLATFORM1
memcpy(dest, src, 12);
#else
memcpy(dest, src, 24);
#endif
This is a bit more typing, but I personally think it's better
style in addition to being more portable.
In recent versions of glibc, printf is among the functions
which are implemented as macros.
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C++
This is the list of bugs (and non-bugs) in g++ (aka GNU C++) that are
reported very often, but not yet fixed. While it is certainly better
to fix bugs instead of documenting them, this document might save
people the effort of writing a bug report when the bug is already
well-known. [30]How to report bugs tells you how to report a bug.
There are many reasons why reported bugs don't get fixed. It might be
difficult to fix, or fixing it might break compatibility. Often,
reports get a low priority when there is a simple work-around. In
particular, bugs caused by invalid C++ code have a simple work-around,
fix the code. Now that there is an agreed ISO/ANSI standard for C++,
the compiler has a definitive document to adhere to. Earlier versions
might have accepted source code that is no longer C++. This means that
code which might have `worked' in a previous version, is now rejected.
You should update your code to be C++.
You should try to use the latest stable release of the GNU C++
compiler.
Common problems updating from G++ 2.95 to G++ 3.0
G++ 3.0 conforms much closer to the ISO C++ standard (available at
[31]http://www.ncits.org/cplusplus.htm).
We have also implemented some of the core and library defect reports
(available at
[32]http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html &
[33]http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-defects.html
respectively).
* The ABI has changed. This means that both class layout and name
mangling is different. You must recompile all c++ libraries (if
you don't you will get link errors).
* The standard library is much more conformant, and uses the std::
namespace.
* std:: is now a real namespace, not an alias for ::.
* The standard header files for the c library don't end with .h, but
begin with c (i.e. <cstdlib> rather than <stdlib.h>). The .h names
are still available, but are deprecated.
* <strstream> is deprecated, use <sstream> instead.
* streambuf::seekoff & streambuf::seekpos are private, instead use
streambuf::pubseekoff & streambuf::pubseekpos respectively.
* If std::operator << (std::ostream &, long long) doesn't exist, you
need to recompile libstdc++ with --enable-long-long.
This means you may get lots of errors about things like strcmp not
being found. You've most likely forgotton to tell the compiler to look
in the std:: namespace. There are several ways to do this,
* Say, std::strcmp at the call. This is the most explicit way of
saying what you mean.
* Say, using std::strcmp; somewhere before the call. You will need
to do this for each function or type you wish to use from the
standard library.
* Say, using namespace std; somewhere before the call. This is the
quick-but-dirty fix. This brings the whole of the std:: namespace
into scope. Never do this in a header file, as you will be forcing
users of your header file to do the same.
ABI bugs
3.0 had a new ABI, which affected class layout, function mangling and
calling conventions. We had intended it to be complete, unfortunately
some issues came to light, too late to fix in the 3.0 series. The ABI
should not change in dot releases, so we addressed most issues in GCC
3.1.
Covariant return types
We do not implement non-trivial covariant returns. We also
generate incorrect virtual function tables for trivial
covariance. Although trivial covariance will work, it is
incompatible with the ABI. GNATS PR 3706 tracks this problem.
Non-bugs
Here are some features that have been reported as bugs, but are not.
Nested classes can access private types of the containing class.
G++ now implements type access control on member types. Defect
report 45 clarifies that nested classes are members of the
class they are nested in, and so are granted access to private
members of that class.
Classes in exception specifiers must be complete types.
[15.4]/1 tells you that you cannot have an incomplete type, or
pointer to incomplete (other than cv void *) in an exception
specification.
G++ emits two copies of constructors and destructors.
In general there are three types of constructors (and
destructors).
1. The complete object constructor/destructor.
2. The base object constructor/destructor.
3. The allocating destructor/deallocating destructor.
The first two are different, when virtual base classes are
involved. In some cases we can do better, and this is logged in
GNATS.
Exceptions don't work in multithreaded applications.
You need to rebuild g++ and libstdc++ with --enable-threads.
Remember, c++ exceptions are not like hardware interrupts. You
cannot throw an exception in one thread and catch it in
another. You cannot throw an exception from a signal handler,
and catch it in the main thread.
Global destructors are not run in the correct order.
Global destructors should be run in the reverse order of their
constructors completing. In most cases this is the same as the
reverse order of constructors starting, but sometimes it is
different, and that is important. You need to compile and link
your programs with --use-cxa-atexit. We have not turned this
switch on by default, as it requires a cxa aware runtime
library (libc, glibc, or equivalent).
Problems with floating point computations.
In a number of cases, GCC appears to perform floating point
computations incorrectly. For example, the program
#include <iostream>
int main() {
double min = 0.0;
double max = 0.5;
double width = 0.01;
std::cout << (int)(((max - min) / width) - 1) << std::endl;
}
might print 50 on some systems and optimization levels, and 51
on others.
The is the result of rounding: The computer cannot represent
all real numbers exactly, so it has to use approximations. When
computing with approximation, the computer needs to round to
the nearest representable number.
This is not a bug in the compiler, but an inherent limitation
of the float and double types. Please study [34]this paper for
more information.
Templates, scoping, and digraphs.
If you have a class in global namespace, say named X, and want
to give it as a template argument to some other class, say
std::vector, then this here fails with a parser error:
std::vector<::X>.
The reason is that the standard mandates that the sequence <:
is treated as if it were the token [, and the parser then
reports a parse error before the character : (by which it means
the second colon). There are several such combinations of
characters, and they are called digraphs.
The simplest way to avoid this is to write std::vector< ::X>,
i.e. place a space between the opening angle bracket and the
scope operator.
Missing features
We know some things are missing from G++.
The export keyword is not implemented.
Most C++ compilers (G++ included) do not yet implement export,
which is necessary for separate compilation of template
declarations and definitions. Without export, a template
definition must be in scope to be used. The obvious workaround
is simply to place all definitions in the header itself.
Alternatively, the compilation unit containing template
definitions may be included from the header.
Two stage lookup in templates is not implemented.
[14.6] specifies how names are looked up inside a template. G++
does not do this correctly, but for most templates this will
not be noticeable.
Parse errors for "simple" code
Up to and including GCC 3.0, the compiler will give "parse error" for
seemingly simple code, such as
struct A{
A();
A(int);
void func();
};
struct B{
B(A);
B(A,A);
void func();
};
void foo(){
B b(A(),A(1)); //Variable b, initialized with two temporaries
B(A(2)).func(); //B temporary, initialized with A temporary
}
The problem is that GCC starts to parse the declaration of b as a
function b returning B, taking a function returning A as an argument.
When it sees the 1, it is too late. The work-around in these cases is
to add additional parentheses around the expressions that are mistaken
as declarations:
(B(A(2))).func();
Sometimes, even that is not enough; to show the compiler that this
should be really an expression, a comma operator with a dummy argument
can be used:
B b((0,A()),A(1));
Another example is the parse error for the return statement in
struct A{};
struct B{
A a;
A f1(bool);
};
A B::f1(bool b)
{
if (b)
return (A());
return a;
}
The problem is that the compiler interprets A() as a function (taking
no arguments, returning A), and (A()) as a cast - with a missing
expression, hence the parse error. The work-around is to omit the
parentheses:
if (b)
return A();
This problem occurs in a number of variants; in throw statements,
people also frequently put the object in parentheses. The exact error
also somewhat varies with the compiler version. The work-arounds
proposed do not change the semantics of the program at all; they make
them perhaps less readable.
Optimization at -O3 takes a very long time
At -O3, all functions are candidates for inlining. The heuristic used
has some deficiencies which show up when allowed such freedom. This is
g++ specific, as it has an earlier inliner than gcc.
References
1. http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html
2. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#report
3. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#need
4. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#dontwant
5. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#where
6. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#detailed
7. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#gnat
8. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#manage
9. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#known
10. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#general
11. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#fortran
12. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#c
13. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#cplusplus
14. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#updating
15. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#nonbugs
16. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#missing
17. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#parsing
18. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#-O3
19. http://gcc.gnu.org/gnats.html
20. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#known
21. http://gcc.gnu.org/gnats.html
22. mailto:bug-gcc@gnu.org
23. mailto:gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
24. http://gcc.gnu.org/gnats.html
25. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#gnat
26. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#detailed
27. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#where
28. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77/Trouble.html
29. http://www.gnu.org/software/glibc/
30. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#report
31. http://www.ncits.org/cplusplus.htm
32. http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html
33. http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-defects.html
34. http://www.validlab.com/goldberg/paper.ps
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