On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, 16:24 Florian Weimer, <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 03/28/2018 08:48 PM, Tomasz Torcz 👁️ wrote:
>
> >> Note that while GCC produces broken code, this is actually an ABI bug,
> and
> >> we cannot change struct layout rules for long long retroactively. Maybe
> we
> >> could for _Atomic long long, but that would need a lengthy
> investigation,
> >> and I strongly believe that everyone is better off if the time is spent
> on
> >> improving 64-bit architectures.
> >
> >    Does it mean that the bug was here for the last 23 years? And now this
> > became a problem?
>
> I'm not sure how you came up with the duration.  The bug is most
> certainly much younger than that, probably introduced along with the new
> atomic intrinsics in a late GCC 4.8.x release.  Arguably, it is a real
> bug only for _Atomic long long members.
>

Probably referring to the age of the 389-ds code base which dates all the
way back to Netscape Directory Server

Thanks,
> Florian
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