link failure when package is built with -O3 (14.10)

Referred to Alan Modra for initial investigation.

If LTO was used here I'd say this was https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51744 but that doesn't appear to be the case from the log.

It's not a linker error, and x86_64 mainline gcc 4.10.0 20140727 fails similarly.

nm bytearraymodel_p.o | grep __warn
                 U __warn_memset_zero_len

Linking this object file against libc_nonshared.a (which is where this symbol is defined) generates the linker warning which is turned into an error by -Wl,--fatal-warnings.

So a gcc bug.

Upstream bugzilla with reduced testcase at https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62033

So the upstream bug was closed as a dup of another bug, 61294. The fix for that bugzilla was to implement a new -Wmemset-transposed-args, and remove the memset warning from system headers (/usr/include/bits/string3.h). However, the glibc side of that fix has not yet been committed.

The alternatives then are
1) rip out the memset macro from string3.h and backport the 61294 fix to ubuntu gcc, if it isn't there already
2) don't compile okteta with -Wl,--fatal-warnings and ignore the false positive
3) don't compile okteta with -O3
4) modify core/bytearraymodel_p.cpp ByteArrayModelPrivate::fill, adding "if (fillLength != 0)" before the memset call.

If it were up to me, I'd go with (4).

uploaded okteta with the code fix

This bug was fixed in the package gcc-4.9 - 4.9.1-7ubuntu1

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gcc-4.9 (4.9.1-7ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=medium

  * Update to SVN 20140817 (r214074) from the gcc-4_9-branch.
  * Fix PR middle-end/61294, -Wmemset-transposed-args, taken from the trunk.
    LP: #1352836.
  * Update the Linaro support to 4.9-2014.08.
  * Fix PR tree-optimization/59586, graphite segfault, taken from the trunk.
    LP: #1227789.

gcc-4.9 (4.9.1-7) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.11).
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Sun, 17 Aug 2014 21:30:42 +0200

Hello Matthias, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gccgo-4.9 into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gccgo-4.9/4.9.3-0ubuntu4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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