On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 01:40:02PM -0400, Daniel Dickman wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Aug 1, 2018, at 1:11 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado 
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > CVSROOT:    /cvs
> > Module name:    ports
> > Changes by:    [email protected]    2018/08/01 11:11:43
> > 
> > Modified files:
> >    lang/cython    : Makefile 
> > Added files:
> >    lang/cython/patches: patch-Cython_Utility_ModuleSetupCode_c 
> > 
> > Log message:
> > Upstream changed recently the optimization level to Os for GCC. It
> > broke the build of the packages which depend of cython on macppc and
> > probably on other GCC4 arches.
> > 
> > Spotted by landry@ with numpy. Culprit found by daniel@.
> 
> Note this won’t fix numpy yet since the numpy package on pypi uses a local 
> version of Cython independent of our ports tree. (other Python ports might 
> also do something like that). So a separate patch is needed for numpy to 
> repair that package (I will take care of shortly).
> 
> In terms of other followups I think there’s an unusually wide list of things 
> that are affected and could be fixed.
> 
> 1) Might be worth scanning the tree for use of files that are pre-generated 
> by cython version 0.28.x...

You should have another mail about this.

> 
> 2) In regard to Cython it might be worth asking upstream to revert the 
> problematic diff?
> 
> To quote from the latest gcc manual:
> 
> “This attribute should be used for debugging purposes only. It is not 
> suitable in production code.”
> 
> (see: 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-8.2.0/gcc/Common-Function-Attributes.html#Common-Function-Attributes)
> 
> So use of this attribute doesn’t seem like a great idea to me...
> 
> In fact the Cython folks seem to know this as can be seen in this github 
> issue (so I’m not sure for the rationale to keep using this attribute 
> anyway). see:
> https://github.com/cython/cython/issues/2494

The rationale https://github.com/cython/cython/issues/2102

We will not be affected by the bug in the release 0.29. We don't need
to send the patch to upstream.

> 
> 3) I need to check our local changes for base and ports gcc. It seems like we 
> might want to explore turning the “optimize” attribute off for ports gcc (and 
> fixing base gcc so it doesn’t generate code that blows up at runtime on 
> macppc).

-- 
Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info

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