Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: grep-3.4-almost.19-ff30

[Paul Eggert]

On 9/19/20 10:09 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
>    sa_alignment_long =  ( ( size_t ) ( & ( ( ( struct { char __slot1 ; long 
> __slot2 ; } * ) ( ( void * ) 0 ) ) -> __slot2 ) ) ),

This differs from the cc-test.i that I sent you: yours has "((void *) 0)" where 
mine had just "0". This difference is enough to break Oracle Studio cc on your 
platform.

It looks like the OpenIndiana folks changed /usr/include/stddef.h in a way that 
breaks Oracle Studio cc while continuing to work with gcc and with clang. E.g., 
they changed this:

 #define offsetof(s, m)  (size_t)(&(((s *)0)->m))

to this:

 #define offsetof(s, m)  ((size_t)(&(((s *)((void *) 0))->m)))

If they care about compatibility with Oracle Studio, I suggest they change the 
"(void *) 0" back to plain "0", as plain "0" works just fine with standard C. 
(The outer parens should be fine.)

Since offsetof is a C89 feature that has been standardized for 30 years, I'm not 
sure it's worth hassling with Gnulib to work around the fact that OpenIndiana 
breaks Oracle Studio cc here. You can compile grep with gcc on that platform, 
and it should work fine. GCC is better anyway.

For what it's worth, I just now checked Oracle Studio 12.4 on Oracle Solaris 
11.2 x86, and it worked fine too. I used the VirtualBox image at:

https://www.oracle.com/tools/developerstudio/downloads/sol-hol-v124-downloads.html

(login as user "hol9805", password "hol9805"). On this image, cc is 
/opt/studio/bin/cc, cc -V says "cc: Sun C 5.13 SunOS_i386 2014/10/20", and uname 
-a says "cc: Sun C 5.13 SunOS_i386 2014/10/20".

> the 12.6 compiler release, now three years
> old, was the last from Oracle (at least, the last freely downloadable
> one).

Yes, in my previous message I used the free download tarball of Oracle Studio 
12.6, for Solaris 10 sparc. It was unpatched.

> The physical Sun Blade 1500 machine

That's an UltraSPARC IIIi from around 2004. My sparc tests are run on a Sun Fire 
280R, with an UltraSPARC III from around 2001, which we still have in production 
for all the usual reasons (limited new-hardware budget in academia, plus 
backward-compatibility constraints).