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perl: Disable builtin memcpy & string inlines with gcc/x86-64-v3

Message ID 20250817055331.3475136-1-raj.khem@gmail.com
State New
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Series perl: Disable builtin memcpy & string inlines with gcc/x86-64-v3 | expand

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Khem Raj Aug. 17, 2025, 5:53 a.m. UTC
PERL built with GCC 15 and -march=x86-64-v3 fails several
op/pack.t cases due to aggressive lowering of __builtin_memcpy
and inlined/fortified string ops. In pp_pack, some in-place copies
can overlap, treating memcpy as non-overlapping yields corrupted
bytes (zeros or wrong prefixes).

The issue does not reproduce with -march=core2.

When using x86-64-v3 memcpy gets emitted very aggressively
(vectorized / reordered) and assumes no overlap.

The flags force calls through libc (overlap-safe behavior),
restoring deterministic pack/unpack and fixing the test failures.

Inline functions could be faster in execution but correctness is
more important

Fixes [YOCTO #15950]

Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
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 meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.40.2.bb | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.40.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.40.2.bb
index 1df1467d424..a78d2ed0be9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.40.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.40.2.bb
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@  CFLAGS += "-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
 # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/152241
 CFLAGS:append:toolchain-clang = " -fno-strict-aliasing"
 
+# Needed with -march=x86-64-v3
+CFLAGS:append:toolchain-gcc:class-target:x86-64 = " -fno-builtin-memcpy -D__NO_STRING_INLINES -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE"
+
 do_configure:prepend() {
     rm -rf ${B}
     cp -rfp ${S} ${B}