short C code that uses AVX and fails under Cygwin
Warren Young
wyml@etr-usa.com
Thu Jan 14 23:03:00 GMT 2016
On Jan 14, 2016, at 1:20 PM, Ilya Razenshteyn <ilyaraz@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> the below C code fails under Cygwin.
It segfaults here. Is that what you mean by “fails”?
> the environment is: Windows 8.1, Cygwin 2.3.1, GCC 4.9.3, CPU 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00GHz’
It fails on my recently-updated Windows 10 64-bit VM running a recently-updated 64-bit Cygwin on an Intel(R) Core i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz.
> int main(void) {
> void *buf = malloc(1);
The problem isn’t the malloc, the problem is the pointer pushing ‘res’ 4 or 8 bytes down the stack. The same thing happens with an int.
This feels like an alignment problem, so I started throwing other stuff ahead of res to see if I could make the symptom go away. This is the smallest object I’ve been able to make that does that:
uint8_t x[20] = { 0 };
I haven’t tried every value between 1 and 19, but all of the obvious ones (8, 10, 12, 16) fail. I don’t know what makes 20 magic.
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