<AWT Dev> RFR: JDK-8215296 do not disable c99 on Solaris

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Fri Dec 14 11:49:17 UTC 2018


13 dec. 2018 kl. 19:07 skrev Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com 
<mailto:erik.joelsson at oracle.com>>:

>
> On 2018-12-13 02:11, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>>
>>> -D_XPG6
>>>
>>> ??
>> To be honest, I'm not completely sure about this. Without this 
>> define, the build failed with the following error message:
>> Compiler or options invalid for pre-UNIX 03 X/Open applications and 
>> pre-2001 POSIX applications
>>
>> This was triggered by the following section in 
>> /usr/include/sys/feature_tests.h:
>> /*
>>  * It is invalid to compile an XPG3, XPG4, XPG4v2, or XPG5 application
>>  * using c99.  The same is true for POSIX.1-1990, POSIX.2-1992, POSIX.1b,
>>  * and POSIX.1c applications. Likewise, it is invalid to compile an XPG6
>>  * or a POSIX.1-2001 application with anything other than a c99 or later
>>  * compiler.  Therefore, we force an error in both cases.
>>  */
>> #if defined(_STDC_C99) && (defined(__XOPEN_OR_POSIX) && !defined(_XPG6))
>> #error "Compiler or options invalid for pre-UNIX 03 X/Open applications \
>>         and pre-2001 POSIX applications"
>> #elif !defined(_STDC_C99) && \
>>         (defined(__XOPEN_OR_POSIX) && defined(_XPG6))
>> #error "Compiler or options invalid; UNIX 03 and POSIX.1-2001 
>> applications \
>>         require the use of c99"
>> #endif
>>
>> The solution, as also hinted to by searching for other resolutions to 
>> this error online, was to provide the _XPG6 system define. But 
>> exactly how we end up in feature_tests.h with __XOPEN_OR_POSIX set, 
>> without _XPG6 set, and only when compiling this library and not 
>> others, I don't know. I also don't understand what the XPG standard 
>> refers to, nor what versions 2-5 means or what version 6 has that 
>> differs from them.
>>
>> By setting this flag, I am telling solaris include headers that we 
>> want to compile using the XPG standard version 6, instead of an older 
>> one. It solves the problem. I am happy enough with this. Are you?
>>
> It looks like this comes from libpng. It has this in 
> src/java.desktop//share/native/libsplashscreen/libpng/pngpriv.h:
>
> /* Feature Test Macros.  The following are defined here to ensure that 
> correctly
>  * implemented libraries reveal the APIs libpng needs to build and 
> hide those
>  * that are not needed and potentially damaging to the compilation.
>  *
>  * Feature Test Macros must be defined before any system header is 
> included (see
>  * POSIX 1003.1 2.8.2 "POSIX Symbols."
>  *
>  * These macros only have an effect if the operating system supports 
> either
>  * POSIX 1003.1 or C99, or both.  On other operating systems (particularly
>  * Windows/Visual Studio) there is no effect; the OS specific tests 
> below are
>  * still required (as of 2011-05-02.)
>  */
> #ifndef _POSIX_SOURCE
> # define _POSIX_SOURCE 1 /* Just the POSIX 1003.1 and C89 APIs */
> #endif
>
> This in turn triggers _XOPEN_OR_POSIX to be defined in 
> /usr/include/sys/feature_tests.h and so triggers the error.
>
> What I'm not clear about is if libpng is trying to declare that it 
> should not be compiled with any newer standards, and so by doing that, 
> we risk introducing problems. Reading in the system header, it seems 
> the _XPG6 macro is internal and should not be used by the application. 
> It's derived from _XOPEN_SOURCE=600 or _POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L which 
> is what applications should use.

Interesting. We should probably define one, or both of these. Perhaps 
globally for all native files and compilers. It might have been the case 
that the solstudio compiler set _POSIX_C_SOURCE for us before, prior to 
setting -std=c99. The following stack overflow article claims that this 
is at least the behavior of gcc/clang:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21867897/c89-and-posix-at-the-same-time

So we might have had an implicit _POSIX_C_SOURCE that we now miss. That 
would explain why this starts to fail. I'll see if I can confirm this 
the next time I log into a Solaris computer.

Otoh, the same article claims, and it sounds reasonable, that we should 
set these variables ourself, to be well behaved and to minimize 
surprises. And I think this applies to all unix platforms, regardless of 
compiler being used. I'll see if I can kick off a test job with this to 
see how/if it influences other platforms. But it sounds like something 
we should do; the level of posix conformance should be controlled by us, 
not left to chance. We also need to verify, of course, that all 
platforms we want to support is capable of 
supporting  _POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L. I doubt there's a problem though. 
Possibly on AIX...

/Magnus

>
> So the the question is, is it ok to override the requirements of 
> libpng or should it receive special treatment? If we are fine with 
> overriding, then we should use one of the public APIs instead.
>
> /Erik
>
>> /Magnus
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>> On 13/12/2018 7:02 am, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2018-12-12 20:08, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2018-12-12 19:12, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>>>>>> From the bug report:
>>>>>> "Currently  we disable C99 in the Solaris build by setting 
>>>>>> -xc99=%none%.
>>>>>> This differs from a lot of other build environments like 
>>>>>> gcc/Linux or VS2013/2017 on Windows where C99 features work.
>>>>>> We should remove this difference on Solaris and remove or replace 
>>>>>> the setting.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kim Barrett mentioned :
>>>>>> "I merely mentioned the C++14 work as evidence that removing 
>>>>>> -xc99=%none% didn’t appear harmful."
>>>>>> However it will take more time until  the C++14  change is in."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am currently running a test build on our CI build system to 
>>>>>> confirm that this does not break the Solaris build (but I'd be 
>>>>>> highly surprised if it did). I will not push this until the 
>>>>>> builds are cleared.
>>>>> Of course it was not that simple... :-( Two AWT libraries (at 
>>>>> least) failed to build. I'm currently investigating if there's a 
>>>>> simple fix to that.
>>>> New attempt, that fixes the two AWT libraries:
>>>> WebRev: 
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8215296-build-solstudio-with-c99/webrev.01 
>>>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eihse/JDK-8215296-build-solstudio-with-c99/webrev.01> 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Now this passes the CI build test.
>>>>
>>>> /Magnus
>>>>>
>>>>> /Magnus
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /Magnus
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8215296
>>>>>> Patch inline:
>>>>>> diff --git a/make/autoconf/flags-cflags.m4 
>>>>>> b/make/autoconf/flags-cflags.m4
>>>>>> --- a/make/autoconf/flags-cflags.m4
>>>>>> +++ b/make/autoconf/flags-cflags.m4
>>>>>> @@ -559,7 +559,7 @@
>>>>>> TOOLCHAIN_CFLAGS="-errshort=tags"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TOOLCHAIN_CFLAGS_JDK="-mt $TOOLCHAIN_FLAGS"
>>>>>> - TOOLCHAIN_CFLAGS_JDK_CONLY="-xc99=%none -xCC -Xa -W0,-noglobal 
>>>>>> $TOOLCHAIN_CFLAGS" # C only
>>>>>> + TOOLCHAIN_CFLAGS_JDK_CONLY="-std=c99 -xCC -W0,-noglobal 
>>>>>> $TOOLCHAIN_CFLAGS" # C only
>>>>>> TOOLCHAIN_CFLAGS_JDK_CXXONLY="-features=no%except -norunpath 
>>>>>> -xnolib" # CXX only
>>>>>> TOOLCHAIN_CFLAGS_JVM="-template=no%extdef -features=no%split_init \
>>>>>>          -library=stlport4 -mt -features=no%except $TOOLCHAIN_FLAGS"
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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