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On 2011-05-26T02:13:27+00:00 Michael Hope wrote:

ARM devices encode the instruction set mode in the LSB of the function
address.  Functions are word aligned on ARM.  If you try to test the LSB
of a function pointer then GCC assumes that the two least significant
bits are zero and optimises away the test.

This problem is seen in Mono and was originally reported at:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.5/+bug/721531

A reduced test case is:

void main() {
        void *p = main;
        if ((int)p & 1) printf ("HIT!\n");
}

When compiled with -march=armv7-a -mthumb -O0 then the word 'HIT!' will
show.  When compiled with -O2, the branch is not taken.

The problem does not occur in 4.4.5.  It does occur in 4.5.2, 4.6.0, and
trunk r174044.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc/+bug/721531/comments/18


** Changed in: gcc
       Status: Unknown => New

** Changed in: gcc
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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  [armel] gcc computes wrong address for main() at build time

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