Commit 314ce5465d

Andrew Kelley <andrew@ziglang.org>
2022-07-04 07:18:05
std: better definition for std.os.linux.epoll_event
The previous definition depends on a non-lang-spec-compliant memory layout for packed structs, which happens to trigger #11989 in stage2. This commit changes the struct to be an extern struct with an align(4) field. However, stage1 cannot handle this, so conditional compilation logic is used to select different struct definitions depending on stage1 vs stage2. This works around #11989 but does not solve the underlying problem - putting an extern union inside a packed struct will still trigger the assert. After this, both stage1 and stage2 std lib tests run assertion-clean with a debug LLVM 13.
master
1 parent 5735ce3
Changed files (1)
lib
std
os
linux.zig
lib/std/os/linux.zig
@@ -3222,16 +3222,21 @@ pub const epoll_data = extern union {
     @"u64": u64,
 };
 
-// On x86_64 the structure is packed so that it matches the definition of its
-// 32bit counterpart
-pub const epoll_event = switch (native_arch) {
-    .x86_64 => packed struct {
-        events: u32,
-        data: epoll_data,
+pub const epoll_event = switch (builtin.zig_backend) {
+    // stage1 crashes with the align(4) field so we have this workaround
+    .stage1 => switch (native_arch) {
+        .x86_64 => packed struct {
+            events: u32,
+            data: epoll_data,
+        },
+        else => extern struct {
+            events: u32,
+            data: epoll_data,
+        },
     },
     else => extern struct {
         events: u32,
-        data: epoll_data,
+        data: epoll_data align(4),
     },
 };