On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 4:03 PM Jonathan Wakely <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tue, 19 May 2026 at 11:57, Jonathan Wakely <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 19 May 2026 at 10:29, Avi Kivity <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 11:03 AM Avi Kivity <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 2:22 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Dear contributor,
> > >>>
> > >>> Our automatic CI has detected problems related to your patch(es).
> Please find some details below.
> > >>>
> > >>> In  aarch64 native, after:
> > >>>   | commit gcc-17-570-g79e29562907b
> > >>>   | Author: Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
> > >>>   | Date:   Thu Feb 26 19:59:41 2026 +0200
> > >>>   |
> > >>>   |     libstdc++: optimize std::uninitialized_move{,_n}() to memcpy
> when possible [PR121789]
> > >>>   |
> > >>>   |     std::uninitialized_move{,_n} delegates to the corresponding
> > >>>   |     std::uninitialized_copy() variant after wrapping with a move
> > >>>   |     iterator, but the std::uninitialized_copy() doesn't unwrap
> the
> > >>>   | ... 17 lines of the commit log omitted.
> > >>>
> > >>> Produces 1 regression:
> > >>>   |
> > >>>   | regressions.sum:
> > >>>   | Running g++:g++.dg/torture/dg-torture.exp ...
> > >>>   | FAIL: g++.dg/torture/pr118521.C -O1  (test for excess errors)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I'll take a look.
> > >
> > >
> > > In file included from /mnt/gcc.bin/include/c++/17.0.0/vector:67,
> > >                  from ./gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/torture/pr118521.C:5:
> > > In function ‘_ForwardIterator
> std::uninitialized_fill_n(_ForwardIterator, _Size, const _Tp&) [with
> _ForwardIterator = char*; _Size = long unsigned int; _Tp = char]’,
> > >     inlined from ‘constexpr _ForwardIterator
> std::__uninitialized_fill_n_a(_ForwardIterator, _Size, const _Tp&,
> allocator<_Tp>&) [with _ForwardIterator = char*; _Size = long unsigned int;
> _Tp = char; _Tp2 = char]’ at
> /mnt/gcc.bin/include/c++/17.0.0/bits/stl_uninitialized.h:778:39,
> > >     inlined from ‘constexpr void std::vector<_Tp,
> _Alloc>::_M_fill_append(size_type, const value_type&) [with _Tp = char;
> _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]’ at
> /mnt/gcc.bin/include/c++/17.0.0/bits/vector.tcc:776:36,
> > >     inlined from ‘constexpr void std::vector<_Tp,
> _Alloc>::_M_fill_insert(iterator, size_type, const value_type&) [with _Tp =
> char; _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]’ at
> /mnt/gcc.bin/include/c++/17.0.0/bits/vector.tcc:668:20,
> > >     inlined from ‘constexpr std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::iterator
> std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::insert(const_iterator, size_type, const
> value_type&) [with _Tp = char; _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]’ at
> /mnt/gcc.bin/include/c++/17.0.0/bits/stl_vector.h:1565:16,
> > >     inlined from ‘void foo()’ at
> ./gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/torture/pr118521.C:12:11:
> > > /mnt/gcc.bin/include/c++/17.0.0/bits/stl_uninitialized.h:577:39:
> warning: ‘void* __builtin_memset(void*, int, long unsigned int)’ writing 2
> bytes into a region of size 0 overflows the destination
> [-Wstringop-overflow=]
> > >   577 |                       __builtin_memset(__dest, (unsigned
> char)__x, __n);
> > >       |
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > >
> > > I think it's a victim of an existing (and very annoying) misdetection
> of memory overwrites (https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125187).
> It's not directly related to my patch (which optimizes moving a range, not
> filling it), but my patch changes the detection logic causing gcc to think
> the region is of size 0 (where it should be 4).
> >
> > Yes, these middle-end warnings are a plague, but I don't see why your
> > patch (which I pushed yesterday) changes the
> > __uninitialized_fill_n_a() path which uses memset. Your patch only
> > affects the uninitialized_copy() path which uses memcpy.
>
> The __uninitialized_fill_n_a function on line 776 is only used when
> there's enough room for it:
>
>        if (size_type(this->_M_impl._M_end_of_storage
>              - this->_M_impl._M_finish) >= __n)
>      {
>        _GLIBCXX_ASAN_ANNOTATE_GROW(__n);
>        this->_M_impl._M_finish =
>          std::__uninitialized_fill_n_a(this->_M_impl._M_finish, __n, __x,
>                        _M_get_Tp_allocator());
>
> But the poxy warning decides maybe there's some way to reach it where
> (end_of_storage - finish) == 0.
>
> As Avi said, it's likely that the else branch for the condition above
> got simplified by the patch, which allowed GCC to make better (and
> then eventually, much worse) analysis for the call above.
>
>
>
How to proceed?

I suggest to file a bug and mark the failure as XFAIL.



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> > >
> > > I enhanced the test code to be a full program and verified it works
> with asan.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure how to proceed. I don't want to patch pr118521.C to
> disable -Wstringop-overflow, since that's what it's testing.
> > >
> > > Copying Richard, the original author of the test
> (a2755339c6c9832467c573d956e91565943ecdc1).
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Used configuration :
> > >>>  *CI config* tcwg_gcc_check aarch64-linux-gnu
> > >>>  *configure and test flags:* none, autodetected on
> aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu--disable-multilib --enable-fix-cortex-a53-835769
> --enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419 --with-arch=armv8-a
> > >>>
> > >>> We track this bug report under
> https://linaro.atlassian.net/browse/GNU-1906. Please let us know if you
> have a fix.
> > >>>
> > >>> If you have any questions regarding this report, please ask on
> [email protected] mailing list.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> -----------------8<--------------------------8<--------------------------8<--------------------------
> > >>>
> > >>> The information below contains the details of the failures, and the
> ways to reproduce a debug environment:
> > >>>
> > >>> You can find the failure logs in *.log.1.xz files in
> > >>>  *
> http://54.172.246.49:9090/jobs/tcwg_gcc_check--master-aarch64-build/builds/10197/archive/artifacts/00-sumfiles/
> > >>> The full lists of regressions and improvements as well as configure
> and make commands are in
> > >>>  *
> http://54.172.246.49:9090/jobs/tcwg_gcc_check--master-aarch64-build/builds/10197/archive/artifacts/notify/
> > >>> The list of [ignored] baseline and flaky failures are in
> > >>>  *
> http://54.172.246.49:9090/jobs/tcwg_gcc_check--master-aarch64-build/builds/10197/archive/artifacts/sumfiles/xfails.xfail
> > >>>
> > >>> Current build   :
> http://54.172.246.49:9090/jobs/tcwg_gcc_check--master-aarch64-build/builds/10197/archive/artifacts/
> > >>> Reference build :
> http://54.172.246.49:9090/jobs/tcwg_gcc_check--master-aarch64-build/builds/10196/archive/artifacts/
> > >>>
> > >>> Instruction to reproduce the build :
> https://gitlab.com/LinaroLtd/tcwg/ci/interesting-commits/-/raw/master/gcc/sha1/79e29562907b454cdb867195b34cf63156d2d0cc/tcwg_gcc_check/master-aarch64/reproduction_instructions.txt
> > >>>
> > >>> Full commit : See in git+ssh://[email protected]/git/gcc.git
>

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