Hi! While looking into vec.h, I've noticed we still have a workaround for GCC 4.1-4.3 bugs. As we now use C++11 and thus need to be built by GCC 4.8 or later, I think this is now never used.
Bootstrapped/regtested on x86_64-linux and i686-linux, ok for trunk? 2023-09-27 Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> * system.h (BROKEN_VALUE_INITIALIZATION): Don't define. * vec.h (vec_default_construct): Remove BROKEN_VALUE_INITIALIZATION workaround. * function.cc (assign_parm_find_data_types): Likewise. --- gcc/system.h.jj 2023-04-22 20:14:03.502203388 +0200 +++ gcc/system.h 2023-09-26 16:41:44.384204843 +0200 @@ -905,12 +905,6 @@ extern void fancy_abort (const char *, i /* Some compilers do not allow the use of unsigned char in bitfields. */ #define BOOL_BITFIELD unsigned int -/* GCC older than 4.4 have broken C++ value initialization handling, see - PR11309, PR30111, PR33916, PR82939 and PR84405 for more details. */ -#if GCC_VERSION > 0 && GCC_VERSION < 4004 && !defined(__clang__) -# define BROKEN_VALUE_INITIALIZATION -#endif - /* As the last action in this file, we poison the identifiers that shouldn't be used. Note, luckily gcc-3.0's token-based integrated preprocessor won't trip on poisoned identifiers that arrive from --- gcc/vec.h.jj 2023-07-11 13:40:40.392430080 +0200 +++ gcc/vec.h 2023-09-26 16:44:30.637902359 +0200 @@ -512,21 +512,6 @@ template <typename T> inline void vec_default_construct (T *dst, unsigned n) { -#ifdef BROKEN_VALUE_INITIALIZATION - /* Versions of GCC before 4.4 sometimes leave certain objects - uninitialized when value initialized, though if the type has - user defined default ctor, that ctor is invoked. As a workaround - perform clearing first and then the value initialization, which - fixes the case when value initialization doesn't initialize due to - the bugs and should initialize to all zeros, but still allows - vectors for types with user defined default ctor that initializes - some or all elements to non-zero. If T has no user defined - default ctor and some non-static data members have user defined - default ctors that initialize to non-zero the workaround will - still not work properly; in that case we just need to provide - user defined default ctor. */ - memset (dst, '\0', sizeof (T) * n); -#endif for ( ; n; ++dst, --n) ::new (static_cast<void*>(dst)) T (); } --- gcc/function.cc.jj 2023-07-11 13:40:38.992448821 +0200 +++ gcc/function.cc 2023-09-26 16:44:54.865567722 +0200 @@ -2429,15 +2429,7 @@ assign_parm_find_data_types (struct assi { int unsignedp; -#ifndef BROKEN_VALUE_INITIALIZATION *data = assign_parm_data_one (); -#else - /* Old versions of GCC used to miscompile the above by only initializing - the members with explicit constructors and copying garbage - to the other members. */ - assign_parm_data_one zero_data = {}; - *data = zero_data; -#endif /* NAMED_ARG is a misnomer. We really mean 'non-variadic'. */ if (!cfun->stdarg) Jakub