We got a change request for the RISC-V psABI to define the atomic
structure size and alignment. And looking at this, it turned out that
gcc and clang are implementing this differently. Consider this
testcase
rohan:2274$ cat tmp.c
#include <stdio.h>
struct s { int a; int b; int c;};
int
main(void)
{
printf("size=%ld align=%ld\n", sizeof (struct s), _Alignof(struct s));
printf("size=%ld align=%ld\n", sizeof (_Atomic (struct s)),
_Alignof(_Atomic (struct s)));
return 0;
}
rohan:2275$ gcc tmp.c
rohan:2276$ ./a.out
size=12 align=4
size=12 align=4
rohan:2277$ clang tmp.c
rohan:2278$ ./a.out
size=12 align=4
size=16 align=16
rohan:2279$
This is with an x86 compiler. I get the same result with a RISC-V
compiler. This is an ABI incompatibility between gcc and clang. gcc
has code in build_qualified_type in tree.c that sets alignment for
power-of-2 structs to the same size integer alignment, but we don't
change alignment for non-power-of-2 structs. Clang is padding the
size of non-power-of-2 structs to the next power-of-2 and giving them
that alignment.
Unfortunately, I don't know who to contact on the clang side, but we
need to have a discussion here, and we probably need to fix one of the
compilers to match the other one, as we should not have ABI
incompatibilities like this between gcc and clang.
The original RISC-V bug report is at
https://github.com/riscv/riscv-elf-psabi-doc/pull/112
There is a pointer to a gist with a larger testcase with RISC-V results.
Jim
