[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] python: fix gcc 8 alignement error.

[Nicolas Cornu]

From: Vivien Henriet <v.henriet at overkiz.com>

https://bugs.python.org/issue33374

Change-Id: I2c573447bbe79098317409a8168393f9eb58644c
---
This patch is not here to be merged, but to have review on it.
The problem that this patch try to fix is that if your google-repo got 150 projects, and you want to build each with
a specific recipe, sources vill be copied each time.

 .../fix-generate-posix-vars-crash.patch       | 62 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../python/python-native_2.7.12.bb            |  1 +
 2 files changed, 63 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-native/fix-generate-posix-vars-crash.patch

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-native/fix-generate-posix-vars-crash.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-native/fix-generate-posix-vars-crash.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..277d822744
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-native/fix-generate-posix-vars-crash.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+From 0b91f8a668201fc58fa732b8acc496caedfdbae0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de>
+Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 12:18:33 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] Indicate that _PyGC_Head is only 8-byte aligned. (closes
+ bpo-33374)
+
+By spec, the "long double" in _PyGC_Head requires the union to always be 16-byte
+aligned. However, obmalloc only yields 8-byte alignment. Compilers including GCC
+8 are starting to use alignment information to do store-merging. So, the "long
+double" needs to be changed to a simple "double" as was long ago done in Python
+3 by e348c8d154cf6342c79d627ebfe89dfe9de23817. For 2.7, we need to add some
+dummy padding to make sure _PyGC_Head stays the same size.
+---
+ Include/objimpl.h                                       | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
+ .../2018-04-29-12-07-00.bpo-33374.-xegL6.rst            |  3 +++
+ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+ create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-04-29-12-07-00.bpo-33374.-xegL6.rst
+
+diff --git a/Include/objimpl.h b/Include/objimpl.h
+index 5f2868332955..cbf6bc3f8763 100644
+--- a/Include/objimpl.h
++++ b/Include/objimpl.h
+@@ -248,6 +248,20 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(PyVarObject *) _PyObject_GC_Resize(PyVarObject *, Py_ssize_t);
+ /* for source compatibility with 2.2 */
+ #define _PyObject_GC_Del PyObject_GC_Del
+ 
++/*
++ * Former over-aligned definition of PyGC_Head, used to compute the size of the
++ * padding for the new version below.
++ */
++union _gc_head;
++union _gc_head_old {
++    struct {
++        union _gc_head_old *gc_next;
++        union _gc_head_old *gc_prev;
++        Py_ssize_t gc_refs;
++    } gc;
++    long double dummy;
++};
++
+ /* GC information is stored BEFORE the object structure. */
+ typedef union _gc_head {
+     struct {
+@@ -255,7 +269,8 @@ typedef union _gc_head {
+         union _gc_head *gc_prev;
+         Py_ssize_t gc_refs;
+     } gc;
+-    long double dummy;  /* force worst-case alignment */
++    double dummy; /* Force at least 8-byte alignment. */
++    char dummy_padding[sizeof(union _gc_head_old)];
+ } PyGC_Head;
+ 
+ extern PyGC_Head *_PyGC_generation0;
+diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-04-29-12-07-00.bpo-33374.-xegL6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-04-29-12-07-00.bpo-33374.-xegL6.rst
+new file mode 100644
+index 000000000000..9ec1a605c8f2
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-04-29-12-07-00.bpo-33374.-xegL6.rst	
+@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
++Tweak the definition of PyGC_Head, so compilers do not believe it is always
++16-byte aligned on x86. This prevents crashes with more aggressive
++optimizations present in GCC 8.
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-native_2.7.12.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-native_2.7.12.bb
index de83cbd76a..adb23637ae 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-native_2.7.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-native_2.7.12.bb
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ SRC_URI += "\
             file://builddir.patch \
             file://parallel-makeinst-create-bindir.patch \
             file://revert_use_of_sysconfigdata.patch \
+            file://fix-generate-posix-vars-crash.patch \
            "
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/Python-${PV}"
-- 
2.17.1