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# $NetBSD: HACKS,v 1.208 2020/08/10 06:46:27 rin Exp $
#
# This file is intended to document workarounds for currently unsolved
# (mostly) compiler bugs.
#
# Format:
#   hack		title
#   cdate		creation date
#   mdate		mod date
#   who			responsible developer
#   port		...
#  	  affected ports, space separated, if not "all"
#   file		affected file : revision : line from : line to
#  	  affected files and revision and line numbers describing hack
#  	  multiple lines if necessary.
#   pr			NNNN ...
#  	  problem reports this hack works around, if known. Space
#  	  separated.
#   regress		src/regress/directory/where/test/found
#  	  regression test directories, if available.
#   descr
#  	  insert short informal description (multi-line). (Longer ones
#  	  should be in the PR database. More formal descriptions might
#  	  be in the regress tree. See above).
#   kcah
#  	  closing bracket.
#
# this is a comment.

hack	llvm needs no-unused-command-line-argument
mdate	10 May 2020
who	maxv
file	share/mk/bsd.lib.mk 1.380 -> 1.381
descr
	To avoid LLVM warnings when compiling the kernel with special
	CFLAGS such as KASAN on amd64 or ARMV83_PAC on aarch64, pass
	-Wno-unused-command-line-argument.
kcah

hack	static linking with libpthread
mdate	7 May 2019
who	maya
file	lib/libpthread/Makefile 1.92 -> 1.94
descr
	To avoid some libc thread stub functions being picked up
	in static builds, link pthread as one section.
kcah

hack	gcc-5.3 optimizes memset+malloc -> calloc inside calloc
mdate	4 May 2016
who	christos
file	external/gpl2/lib/libmalloc/lib/Makefile 1.3 -> 1.5
descr
	resulting in infinite recursion; we prevent this with
	-fno-builtin-malloc
kcah

hack	turn off tree-vrp for parts of ufs_lookup.c
mdate	28 April 2016
who	mrg christos
file	src/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_lookup.c : 1.144
pr	51094
descr
	with -ftree-vrp enabled in ufs_lookup.c sometimes bad dir
	panicks are see.
hcah

hack	netstat ieee1394 address printing.
mdate	14 Nov 2000
who	matt
file	lib/libc/net/getnameinfo.c	: 1.32 : 497 : 503
descr
	Because the current implementation of IP over IEEE1394, the
	fw device address contains more than just the IEEE1394 EUI-64.
	So when printing out IEEE1394 addresses, ignore the extra stuff.
kcah

hack	xterm vs. libterm
mdate	01 Aug 2000
who	jdc
file	xsrc/xc/programs/xterm/main.c	: 1.2 : 3609 : 3614
pr	10383
descr
	In order to extend the termcap string over 1023 bytes, a ZZ entry was
	introduced to point to a memory location containing the full entry.
	Without this hack, xterm will export a termcap containing the ZZ
	entry, which will then be ignored by libterm.  As xterm modifies the
	exported termcap, this would cause those modifications to be ignored.
kcah

hack	wi-at-big-endian-bus
cdate	15 Mar 2002
who	martin
file	dev/ic/wireg.h : 1.20
descr	Add an option to access the underlying bus in big endian byte order
	to work around deficiencies in bus_space_{read,write}_* macros.
	Those don't allow the implementation of a proper pcmcia bus space
	tag.
kcah

hack	specific knowledge of colours in curses code
cdate	Sun Apr  6 11:05:24 BST 2003
who	jdc
file	lib/libcurses/color.c : r1.24
descr
	Swap red/blue and yellow/cyan colours for COLOR_OTHER.
	Fix is to enhance libtermcap to understand terminfo-style % sequences.
	See also:
	    http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-userlevel/2003/04/06/0000.html
kcah

hack	Compensation for differing types of LINUX_USRSTACK and USRSTACK
cdate	21 Aug 2003
who	he
file	sys/miscfs/procfs/procfs_linux.c : 1.14
descr
	Not all ports have LINUX_USRSTACK and/or USRSTACK defined as
	literals/constants, but refer to variables of a type which is
	not "unsigned long", causing compilation of procfs_linux.c to
	fail with "makes integer from pointer without a cast".  This
	is observed on e.g. the sun3 port.  Ideally the "types" for
	symbols should be consistent across all ports.
kcah

hack	gcc4 wrong uninitialized variable
mdate	10 May 2006
who	mrg
file	bin/ksh/eval.c			: 1.6
file	bin/sh/histedit.c		: 1.39
file	bin/sh/parser.c			: 1.60
file	crypto/dist/heimdal/kdc/524.c	: 1.10
file	crypto/dist/ssh/sftp.c		: 1.20
file	crypto/dist/ssh/ssh-keysign.c	: 1.11
file	dist/ipf/lib/hostname.c		: 1.2
file	dist/ipf/tools/ipmon.c		: 1.8
file	dist/ntp/ntpd/ntp_request.c	: 1.4
file	dist/ntp/ntpd/refclock_shm.c	: 1.4
file	dist/ntp/sntp/timing.c		: 1.3
file	dist/pppd/pppstats/pppstats.c	: 1.3
file	dist/tcpdump/print-zephyr.c	: 1.5
file	distrib/utils/sysinst/aout2elf.c : 1.12
file	gnu/libexec/uucp/uucico/uucico.c : 1.6
file	lib/libc/citrus/citrus_csmapper.c : 1.6
file	lib/libc/citrus/citrus_pivot_factory.c : 1.5
file	lib/libc/inet/inet_cidr_ntop.c	: 1.3
file	lib/libc/inet/inet_ntop.c	: 1.3
file	lib/libc/stdio/vfwprintf.c	: 1.8
file	libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/m68k/mdreloc.c : 1.20
file	libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/powerpc/ppc_reloc.c : 1.40
file	libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/sh3/mdreloc.c : 1.22
file	libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/sparc/mdreloc.c : 1.39
file	libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/sparc64/mdreloc.c : 1.39
file	libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/vax/mdreloc.c	: 1.21
file	libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/x86_64/mdreloc.c	: 1.27
file	sbin/fsck_ext2fs/dir.c		: 1.19
file	sbin/routed/rtquery/rtquery.c	: 1.18
file	sys/arch/amd64/amd64/pmap.c	: 1.26
file	sys/arch/i386/pci/piixpcib.c	: 1.4
file	sys/arch/m68k/m68k/pmap_motorola.c	: 1.4
file	sys/crypto/cast128/cast128.c	: 1.9
file	sys/ddb/db_command.c		: 1.86
file	sys/dev/cardbus/cardbus_map.c	: 1.21
file	sys/dev/fss.c			: 1.25
file	sys/dev/ic/igsfb.c		: 1.39
file	sys/dev/ic/mb86950.c		: 1.5
file	sys/dev/ic/midway.c		: 1.71
file	sys/dev/kttcp.c			: 1.18
file	sys/dev/rasops/rasops_bitops.h	: 1.9
file	sys/dev/pci/cmpci.c		: 1.31
file	sys/dev/pci/machfb.c		: 1.45
file	sys/dev/usb/ohci.c		: 1.174
file	sys/dev/usb/uhci.c		: 1.196
file	sys/dev/rasops/rasops_bitops.h	: 1.9
file	sys/dist/ipf/netinet/ip_nat.c	: 1.10
file	sys/dist/ipf/netinet/ip_rpcb_pxy.c : 1.8
file	sys/dist/pf/net/pf.c		: 1.22
file	sys/fs/udf/udf_vnops.c		: 1.4
file	sys/kern/kern_sig.c		: 1.219
file	sys/kern/tty.c			: 1.181
file	sys/net/bpf.c			: 1.116
file	sys/net/zlib.c			: 1.26
file	sys/netccitt/if_x25subr.c	: 1.37
file	sys/netinet/in.c		: 1.107
file	sys/nfs/nfs_serv.c		: 1.108
file	sys/nfs/nfs_socket.c		: 1.129
file	sys/nfs/nfs_syscalls.c		: 1.91
file	sys/ufs/lfs/lfs_vfsops.c	: 1.207 [also (char *)]
file	usr.bin/ftp/ftp.c		: 1.140
file	usr.bin/find/function.c		: 1.54
file	usr.bin/mail/tty.c		: 1.20
file	usr.bin/msgc/msg_sys.def	: 1.33-1.34
file	usr.bin/nl/nl.c			: 1.7
file	usr.bin/systat/keyboard.c	: 1.23
file	usr.bin/usbhidctl/usbhid.c	: 1.29
file	usr.bin/vi/cl/cl_read.c		: 1.5
file	usr.bin/vi/ex/ex_cscope.c	: 1.12
file	usr.bin/vi/ex/ex_tag.c		: 1.19
file	usr.bin/vi/vi/v_txt.c		: 1.15
file	usr.sbin/altq/altqstat/qdisc_rio.c : 1.4
file	usr.sbin/cron/do_command.c	: 1.19
file	usr.sbin/timed/timed/slave.c	: 1.15
descr
	GCC 4.1 gets many uninitialised variable warnings wrong.  We should
	really audit all the old hacks like this when older compilers are
	removed from the tree, as many are probably no longer required.
	The problem is that it does not recognize initialization via function
	call pointer. I.e.
		int p;
		foo(&p);
	does not mark p as initialized.
kcah

hack	gcc4 pointer sign and strict aliasing problems
mdate	10 May 2006
who	mrg
file	bin/ed/Makefile			: 1.33
file	distrib/utils/sysinst/Makefile.inc : 1.44
file	distrib/utils/x_dhclient/Makefile : 1.15
file	games/bcd/Makefile		: 1.5
file	games/dab/Makefile		: 1.5
file	games/larn/Makefile		: 1.17
file	games/pom/Makefile		: 1.5
file	lib/libasn1/Makefile		: 1.26
file	lib/libcrypt/Makefile		: 1.17
file	lib/libgssapi/Makefile		: 1.16
file	lib/libhdb/Makefile		: 1.20
file	lib/libkadm5clnt/Makefile	: 1.21
file	lib/libkadm5srv/Makefile	: 1.25
file	lib/libkrb5/Makefile		: 1.35
file	lib/libssh/Makefile		: 1.6
file	lib/libtelnet/Makefile		: 1.26
file	libexec/getty/Makefile		: 1.14
file	libexec/kadmind/Makefile	: 1.19
file	libexec/kpasswdd/Makefile	: 1.14
file	sbin/atactl/Makefile		: 1.3
file	sbin/cgdconfig/Makefile		: 1.7
file	sbin/clri/Makefile		: 1.13
file	sbin/dkctl/Makefile		: 1.4
file	sbin/dump/Makefile		: 1.33
file	sbin/fdisk/Makefile		: 1.35
file	sbin/fsck_ext2fs/Makefile	: 1.11
file	sbin/fsck_ffs/Makefile		: 1.29
file	sbin/fsdb/Makefile		: 1.18
file	sbin/newfs/Makefile		: 1.30
file	sbin/newfs_sysvbfs/Makefile	: 1.2
file	sbin/restore/Makefile		: 1.23
file	sbin/veriexecctl/Makefile	: 1.11
file	sys/lib/libsa/Makefile		: 1.59
file	sys/arch/evbarm/adi_brh/brh_machdep.c : 1.24
file	usr.bin/awk/Makefile		: 1.9
file	usr.bin/crontab/Makefile	: 1.24
file	usr.bin/ctags/Makefile		: 1.8
file	usr.bin/gzip/Makefile		: 1.10
file	usr.bin/ssh/sftp/Makefile	: 1.10
file	usr.bin/ssh/ssh/Makefile	: 1.25
file	usr.bin/vi/build/Makefile	: 1.26
file	usr.bin/telnet/Makefile		: 1.40
file	usr.bin/tn3270/tn3270/Makefile	: 1.36
file	usr.bin/tr/Makefile		: 1.4
file	usr.sbin/amd/amd/Makefile	: 1.27
file	usr.sbin/amd/amq/Makefile	: 1.14
file	usr.sbin/amd/libamu/Makefile	: 1.20
file	usr.sbin/amd/pawd/Makefile	: 1.5
file	usr.sbin/bind/Makefile.inc	: 1.22
file	usr.sbin/bind/libdns/Makefile	: 1.3
file	usr.sbin/bind/named/Makefile	: 1.17
file	usr.sbin/bootp/bootptest/Makefile : 1.2
file	usr.sbin/chrtbl/Makefile	: 1.6
file	usr.sbin/cron/Makefile		: 1.12
file	usr.sbin/dhcp/Makefile.inc	: 1.20
file	usr.sbin/hprop/Makefile		: 1.13
file	usr.sbin/installboot/Makefile	: 1.35
file	usr.sbin/ipf/ipftest/Makefile	: 1.32
file	usr.sbin/isdn/isdnd/Makefile	: 1.6
file	usr.sbin/isdn/isdnmonitor/Makefile : 1.3
file	usr.sbin/isdn/isdntel/Makefile	: 1.2
file	usr.sbin/isdn/isdntrace/Makefile : 126
file	usr.sbin/mopd/common/Makefile	: 1.10
file	usr.sbin/mopd/mopd/Makefile	: 1.9
file	usr.sbin/mopd/mopprobe/Makefile	: 1.7
file	usr.sbin/makefs/Makefile	: 1.17
file	usr.sbin/mscdlabel/Makefile	: 1.5
file	usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/Makefile : 1.7
file	usr.sbin/pkg_install/create/Makefile : 1.5
file	usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/Makefile : 1.28
file	usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd/Makefile	: 1.10/1.11
file	usr.sbin/ntp/ntptime/Makefile	: 1.4/1.5
file	usr.sbin/pppd/Makefile.inc	: 1.3
file	usr.sbin/pppd/pppd/Makefile	: 1.38
file	usr.sbin/rarpd/Makefile		: 1.10
file	usr.sbin/rbootd/Makefile	: 1.10
file	usr.sbin/rpc.pcnfsd/Makefile	: 1.17
file	usr.sbin/tcpdump/Makefile	: 1.42
descr
	GCC 4.1 warns on pointer sign comparision/assignments and lots of
	code does not conform.  For now we use -Wno-pointer-sign and
	-fno-strict-aliasing.
kcah

hack	disable ctf for gcc-4.8 build
mdate	April 3 2014
who	christos
file	external/gpl3/gcc/usr.bin/Makefile.frontend	: 1.4
file	external/gpl3/gcc/usr.bin/Makefile.backend	: 1.5
descr
	nbctfconvert -g -L VERSION -g fold-const.o
	ERROR: fold-const.c: failed to get mapping for tid 79154 \
		((null)) <13532>
kcak

hack	emacs aborting on exit (libgcc issue)
mdate	7 November 2011
who	christos
file	external/gpl3/gcc/dist/gcc/unwind-dw2-fde.c : 1.2
descr
	GCC 4.5.3 now calls __unregister_frame_info_bases() on unloading/exit
	to do just that. If the symbol requested is not found, then it aborts.
	emacs 23.3 triggers this assertion. For now disable aborting, and
	silently ignore.
kcah

hack	cross-building hack on Darwin
mdate	20 July 2008
who	agc
file	src/distrib/common/Makefile.mdset	: 1.33
descr
	Darwin has problems with getopt() when used in mdsetimage -v,
	due to the difference between BSD and libiberty() getopt
	implementations, more fully described in
	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2008/06/27/msg003242.html
	and the subsequent thread.  For just now, we just have an ugly
	workaround not to call mdsetimage with the -v argument on Darwin
kcah

hack	avoid rebuilding asn1 libraries
mdate	03 August 2008
who	veego
file	src/crypto/dist/heimdal/lib/asn1/gen.c	: 1.10
file	src/lib/libasn1/Makefile	: 1.32
file	src/lib/libhdb/Makefile	: 1.23
file	src/lib/libgssapi/Makefile	: 1.20
file	src/lib/libhx509/Makefile	: 1.3
pr	9702 39185
descr
	asn1_compile does not check if generated header files do not have to
	be rebuild.
	Generate .hx files and copy it in the Makefiles if they changed.
kcah

hack	Disable fortification for /usr/bin/makeinfo
cdata	24 Mar 2014
who	tron
file	src/external/gpl2/texinfo/bin/makeinfo/Makefile	: 1.1
pr	N/A
descr
	If "makeinfo" is compiled with "-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" using GCC 4.8.3
	it fails to process certain texinfo files, e.g. "cl.texi"
	included in the Emacs 24.3 distribution.
kcah

hack	Disable Stack Smash Protection for /usr/X11R7/bin/xauth
cdata	05 Apr 2014
who	tron
file	src/external/mit/xorg/bin/xauth/Makefile	: 1.4
pr	N/A
descr
	If "xauth" is compile with "USE_SSP" set to "yes" it fails
	mysteriously with an error message like this:

	/usr/X11R7/bin/xauth:  file /foo/bar/.Xauthority does not exist
	/usr/X11R7/bin/xauth:  unable to link authority file /foo/bar/.Xauthority, use /foo/bar/.Xauthority

	The compiler seems to get confused about the two filename variables
	used in the link(2) system call.
kcah

hack	g++ 5.x barfs on volatile in constexpr initializers
cdata	27 Aug 2015
who	pooka
file	src/lib/libpthread/pthread_types.h	: 1.17
pr	lib/49989
descr
	Trying to use e.g. pthread_mutex_t m = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER
	in C++ results in:
		error: temporary of non-literal type '__pthread_mutex_st'
		in a constant expression
		constexpr mutex() _NOEXCEPT : __m_(PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER) {}
		[...]
		include/pthread_types.h:101:8: note: '__pthread_mutex_st' is
		not literal because:
		struct __pthread_mutex_st {
		^
		include/pthread_types.h:103:17: note:   non-static data
		member '__pthread_mutex_st::ptm_errorcheck' has volatile type
		pthread_spin_t ptm_errorcheck;
kcah

hack	libm cabs{,f,l} and g++
cdata	11 Jan 2016
who	christos
pr	lib/50646
file	src/external/gpl3/gcc.old/dist/libstdc++-v3/include/std/complex : 1.2
file	src/external/gpl3/gcc/dist/libstdc++-v3/include/std/complex : 1.2
descr
	Our cabs and cabsf have a different argument format on some architectures
	and for that we have created in libm/compat_cabs{,f}.c. The standard
	versions in libc are __c99_cabs{,f,l} and there are __RENAME()'s in
	<complex.h>. G++ uses __builtin_cabs{,f,l} to implement those and they
	translate by default to cabs{,f,l} which gets defined to cabs{,f} (the
	wrong function) and an undefined cabsl. I've changed <complex> to use
	the __c99_cabs{,f,l} directly. Using the __builtin_cabs{,f,l} in gcc is
	still broken.
kcah

port	vax

	hack	gcc4/vax ICE
	cdate	Sat Dec 22 08:17:57 2007 UTC
	who	tsutsui
	file	sys/arch/vax/conf/Makefile.vax : 1.79
	descr
		GCC4 on vax gets ICE on compiling sys/ddb/db_command.c.
		-fno-tree-ter prevents it so add it to COPTS.
	kcah

	hack	gcc4/vax compiler crash
	cdate	Fri Jun 30 22:39:12 PDT 2006
	who	mrg
	file	bin/csh/Makefile	: 1.27
	file	lib/i18n_module/UTF7/Makefile	: 1.2
	descr
		GCC4 on vax crashes.  -O0 stops it happening so far...
	kcah

	hack	declare boolean_t in two IPF user-mode programs
	cdate	Tue Mar  7 19:19:20 CET 2006
	who	he
	file	dist/ipf/ipsend/iptests.c : 1.8
		dist/ipf/ipsend/sock.c : 1.7
	descr
		The IPF user-mode programs ipsend and iptest first
		include <sys/types.h> without _KERNEL defined, and
		later include <sys/file.h> with _KERNEL defined.
		This causes a build failure when building for vax,
		since <sys/device.h> ends up being included without
		bollean_t being defined by <sys/types.h>.
		Build failure and further details documented in
		PR#32907.
	kcah

	hack	pcc 0.9.9 large string literals
	cdat	8 July 2008
	who	gmcgarry
	file	sys/conf/param.c : 1.58
	descr
		Workaround for pcc 0.9.9 not handling large string literals
		which causes kernels with 'options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE' to
		fail compilation.
		There is a proposal on the pcc mailing list to stuff config
		file in ELF section.
	kcah

	hack	xorg warnings
	cdat	30 July 2008, 3 June, 2013
	who	mrg
	file	external/mit/xorg/lib/libSM/Makefile : 1.2
		external/mit/xorg/lib/libX11/Makefile.libx11 : 1.10
		external/mit/xorg/lib/libXext/Makefile : 1.2
		external/mit/xorg/lib/libXfont/Makefile : 1.2
	descr
		Disable several warnings or use -Wno-error across Xorg sources
		while we get them working
	kcah

	hack	32 bit time leftovers
	cdat	11 January 2009
	who	christos
	file	lib/libc/time/localtime.c : 1.41
		lib/libc/time/zic.c : 1.23
	descr
		The timezone compiled files still contain 32 bit time_t
		quantities. I did not want to version the files because
		the ``parser'' is too ugly for words. What needs to be
		done, is to rewrite the parser from scratch also to avoid
		potential core-dumps from parsing invalid files.
	kcah

	hack	32 bit time leftovers
	cdat	11 January 2009
	who	christos
	file	various
	descr
		Many filesystem on-disk formats have 32 bit times.
	kcah

	hack	gcc 4.5 fsdb miscompile
	date	Sat Nov  9 11:03:02 EST 2013
	who	christos
	file	src/sbin/fsdb/Makefile : 1.36 (and earlier)
	descr
		src/sbin/fsdb/fsdb.c: In function 'findblk':
		src/sbin/fsdb/fsdb.c:610:1: error: unrecognizable insn:
		(insn 941 940 942 134 src/sbin/fsdb/fsdb.c:589 (set (reg:SI 604)
		    (subreg:SI (mem/s/j:DI (plus:SI (mult:SI (reg:SI 602)
                        (const_int 8 [0x8]))
                    (reg/f:SI 601)) [0 curinode.99_378->dp2.di_ib S8 A32]) 4)) \
			-1 (nil))
		src/sbin/fsdb/fsdb.c:610:1: internal compiler error: in \
		extract_insn, at recog.c:2103
	kcah

	hack	gcc 4.8 gcc miscompiles
	date	Sat Nov  9 16:35:18 EST 2013
	who	christos
	file	distrib/utils/x_ping/Makefile : 1.8
	file	distrib/vax/miniroot/Makefile.inc : ?
	file	distrib/vax/ramdisk/Makefile : ?
	file	external/gpl3/gdb/lib/libdecnumber/Makefile : 1.3
	file	sbin/fsdb/Makefile : 1.36
	file	sbin/newfs_ext2fs/Makefile : 1.6
	file	sbin/ping/Makefile : 1.17
	file	usr.sbin/mtrace/Makefile : 1.11
	descr
		external/gpl3/gcc/dist/gcc/expmed.c:2781:1:
		internal compiler error: in change_address_1, at emit-rtl.c:2019
		external/gpl3/gcc/dist/gcc/recog.c:770:1:
		internal compiler error: in change_address_1, at emit-rtl.c:2019
		external/gpl3/gcc/dist/libdecnumber/decNumber.c:7214:3:
		internal compiler error: in change_address_1, at emit-rtl.c:2019
		sbin/ping/ping.c:679:1:
		internal compiler error: in change_address_1, at emit-rtl.c:2019
		sbin/newfs_ext2fs/mke2fs.c:681:1:
		internal compiler error: in reload_combine_note_use,
		at postreload.c:1561
		external/gpl3/gdb/dist/libdecnumber/decNumber.c:7214:3:
		internal compiler error: in change_address_1, at emit-rtl.c:2019
		usr.sbin/mtrace/mtrace.c:1655:1:
		internal compiler error: in change_address_1, at emit-rtl.c:2019
	kcah

	hack	gcc 5.4 cc1 miscompile
	date	Tue Feb 14 07:19:57 JST 2017
	who	rin
	pr	port-vax/51967
	file	external/gpl3/gcc/usr.bin/backend/Makefile : 1.35
	descr
		cc1 aborts due to SIGILL when compiling the sample code attached
		to the PR. As a workaround, compile dse.c with -O0.
	kcah

	hack	libssh miscompile
	cdate	Tue Feb 14 17:58:06 JST 2017
	mdate	Tue Feb 14 18:57:39 JST 2017
	who	rin
	file	crypto/external/bsd/openssh/lib/Makefile : 1.20
	descr
		poly1305.c and umac.c are miscompiled, which results in login
		failure to/from external hosts via ssh.
	kcah

	hack	mandoc miscompile
	date	Tue Feb 14 18:03:05 JST 2017
	who	rin
	file	external/bsd/mdocml/lib/libmandoc/Makefile : 1.8
	descr
		mandoc(1) receives SIGILL in in_line_argn() from mdoc_macro.c.
	kcah

	hack	libX11 miscompile
	date	Thu Feb 16 10:00:22 JST 2017
	who	rin
	file	src/external/mit/xorg/lib/libX11/Makefile.libx11 : 1.18
	descr
		lcWrap.c is miscompiled, which results in input failure via XIM.
		Besides, some clients, e.g., pkgsrc/x11/kterm, receive SIGSEGV.
	kcah

port	arm

	hack	gcc-unsigned-compare
	cdate	09 Mar 2002
	mdate	18 Mar 2002
	who	bjh21
	file	dist/bind/lib/nameser/ns_parse.c : 1.3
	file	dist/dhcp/minires/ns_parse.c : 1.3
	file	dist/dhcp/omapip/result.c : 1.2
	file	dist/dhcp/server/failover.c : 1.3
	file	gnu/dist/toolchain/bfd/bfd.c : 1.2
	file	gnu/dist/toolchain/bfd/format.c : 1.2
	file	gnu/dist/toolchain/gdb/target.c : 1.2
	file	sys/kern/vfs_subr.c : 1.172
	descr	When checking that a potentially-unsigned enum is >= 0, assign
		it to an int first.  This is necessary to avoid "comparison is
		always true" warnings with -fshort-enums.  Casting to an int
		really should be enough, but turns out not to be.
	kcah

	hack	gcc-4.5 arm CNAME hostname lookup failure on
		certain DNS environment (probably -ftree-ter problem)
	cdate	Sat Dec 24 04:59:00 UTC 2011
	mdate	
	who	tsutsui
	file	lib/libc/net/Makefile.inc 1.79
	descr	Hostname lookup against CNAMEs by some commands fails
		on certain DNS environments if lib/libc/net/gethnamaddr.c
		(ping(8) etc) and lib/libc/net/getaddrinfo.c (ftp(1) etc)
		are compiled with -O2, even though nslookup(1) against
		the same CNAME returns proper hostname.
		They works properly if compiled with -O2 -fno-tree-ter.
		Also -O2 fails but -O2 -fno-tree-ter works on the following
		test case in gcc bugzilla:
		http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48863#c4
	kcah

port	sh3

	hack	gcc4-sh3-bz2
	cdate	Sun May 21 03:34:57 UTC 2006
	mdate	Fri May 16 13:13:00 UTC 2008
	who	mrg, tsutsui
	file	lib/libbz2/Makefile	: 1.10
	descr
		The in-tree GCC 4.1-based compiler generated too-far
		pc-relative addresses.  Hack is to build with
		-fno-loop-optimize.
	kcah

port	m68000

	hack	gcc4-m68000
	cdate	Fri Feb  8 10:29:37 PST 2008
	mdate	Sun May  4 15:37:19 UTC 2008
	who	mrg, tsutsui
	file	rescue/Makefile	: 1.21
	file	sbin/dump_lfs/Makefile	: 1.9
	file	sbin/fsck_ffs/Makefile	: 1.35
	file	sbin/fsdb/Makefile	: 1.22
	file	share/mk/sys.mk	: 1.96
	file	usr.sbin/ndbootd/Makefile	: 1.5
	descr
		Several internal compiler errors with gcc -O1
		around 64bit integer arithmetic.
		This hack uses -O1 and adds some -fno-tree-foo options
		to avoid the problem.
		This might be related with GCC Bugzilla Bug 32424.
	kcah

port	m68k,sh3,vax

	hack	gcc-4.8.1
	cdate	Wed Nov  6 20:41:35 EST 2013
	who	christos
	file	src/external/gpl3/gcc/libstdc++-v3/Makefile : 1.6
	descr
		compile hashtable_c++0x.cc with -O2 instead of -Os to
		produce missing instantiation of std::lower_bound expansion
		for unsigned long.
	kcah

port	sparc

	hack	avoid NULL pointer derefs in savefpstate IPIs and GCC 4.5.3
	cdate	Sun Aug 14 19:26:48 PDT 2011
	who	mrg
	file	sys/arch/sparc64/sparc/cpu.c : 1.234
	file	sys/arch/sparc64/sparc/cpuvar.h : 1.90
	file	sys/arch/sparc64/sparc/genassym.cf : 1.67
	file	sys/arch/sparc64/sparc/locore.s : 1.265
	descr
		Something is wrong with GCC 4.5.3 and the savefpstate IPI.
		Post newlock2 there was a bug where a lock was reduced from
		IPL_SCHED to IPL_VM (?) and occasionally savefpstate IPI
		would crash due to NULL IPI.  This was fixed by re-using the
		right IPL value.  However, GCC 4.5.3 build kernels have the
		same problems.  For now, the hack is re-instated.
	kcah


port	mips

	hack	mips-shared-linker-load-address
	cdate	Fri Oct  7 08:33:10 UTC 2005
	who	simonb
	file	src/sys/kern/exec_elf32.c : 1.107
	descr
		With COMPAT_16 or previous enabled (which enables
		ELF_INTERP_NON_RELOCATABLE) a recent ld.elf_so will
		load and run at address 0.  The check to fix this in
		rev 1.107 only checks the first psection of the ELF
		executable, which may not be loadable.  A more correct
		fix is to check the first loadable psection instead of
		just the first psection.
	kcah

	hack	mips-duplicate-ras-end-label
	cdate	Sat Sep  2 23:29:42 2006
	who	martin
	file	src/regress/sys/kern/ras/ras3/Makefile : 1.3
	descr
		Add -fno-reorder-blocks to CFLAGS to avoid duplicate
		labels by duplicated __asm output from RAS_END()
		macro.
	kcah

	hack	mips-mcount-assembler-warning
	cdate	Tue Jul 29 14:16:52 UTC 2008
	who	lukem
	file	src/lib/libc/gmon/Makefile.inc : 1.8
	descr
		Workaround for PR port-mips/39192.
		common/lib/libc/gmon/mcount.c generates a (fatal)
		assembler warning on MIPS:
			Warning: No .cprestore pseudo-op used in PIC code
		Add COPTS.count.c+=-Wa,--no-warn to avoid -Wa,--fatal-warnings
	kcah

port	i386

	hack	use volatile intermediate variable to enforce rounding
	cdate	Tue Aug  1 22:15:55 MEST 2006
	who	drochner
	file	src/lib/libm/src/lrintf.c : 1.4
	file	src/lib/libm/src/s_rintf.c : 1.8
	descr
		gcc-4 does subsequent operations on "float" values within
		the i387 FPU without rounding the intermediate results
	kcah

port	x86
	hack	turn off optimization for biosdisk_ll.c because otherwise
		we are pass the wrong arguments to biosdisk_read(). 
		$ cd /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/floppies/bootflopp-com
		$ qemu-system-i386 -nographic -fda boot-com1.fs -boot a
	cdate	Mon Apr 7 21:09:55 2014 UTC
	who	christos
	file	src/sys/arch/i386/stand/lib/Makefile : 1.38
	descr
		Turning on DISK_DEBUG shows the problem. We should find
		out which option is causing this.
	hcah

port	powerpc

	hack	avoid using __builtin_return_address(0) because it fails in
		Xorg's module loader
	cdate	Sat Sep 27 03:52:05 UTC 2008
	who	macallan
	file	src/libexec/ld.elf_so/rtld.c : 1.121
	descr
		workaround for PR port-macppc/37812
	kcah

	hack	define TARGET_SECURE_PLT and HAVE_AS_TLS because when
		building the native compiler via build.sh those don't defined
		properly.
	cdate	Sat Mar 12 08:00:00 UTC 2011
	who	matt
	file	src/gnu/dist/gcc4/gcc/config/rs6000/netbsd.h : 1.7
	descr
		see above
	kcah

port	powerpc64

	hack	include _errno.c in libposix so that __errno resolves. It
		should resolve from libc's errno, but somehow it does not.
		Linker bug?
	cdate	Thu Oct 27 13:19:47 EDT 2011
	who	christos
	file	src/lib/libposix/Makefile: 1.15
	file	src/lib/librt/Makefile: 1.14
	descr
		workaround for:
		    libposix_pic.a(cerror.pico)(.text+0x14): unresolvable \
		    R_PPC64_REL24 relocation against symbol `.__errno'
	kcah

	hack	rename data() function in mdocml to avoid redefined error.
		Compiler/Assembler bug?
	cdate	Sat Oct 29 11:16:01 EDT 2011
	who	christos
	file	src/external/bsd/mdocml/tbl_data.c: 1.2
	descr
		workaround for:
		    {standard input}: Assembler messages:
		    {standard input}:105: Error: symbol `.data' is already \
		    defined
	kcah

port	emips

	hack	Add nop between ctc1 and mtc0 to avoid assembler internal
		error
	cdate	Sat Oct 29 16:57:34 EDT 2011
	who	christos
	file	src/sys/arch/mips/mips/mips_fpu.c: 1.7
	descr
		workaround for:
		    {standard input}: Assembler messages:
		    {standard input}:730: Internal error!
		    Assertion failure in append_insn at /usr/src/external/gpl3/\
		    binutils/dist/gas/config/tc-mips.c line 2910.
	kcah

port	ia64

	hack	libgcc unwind dummy function
	cdate	Fri Apr 17 14:31:03 CEST 2015
	who	martin
	file	src/external/gpl3/gcc/dist/libgcc/config/ia64/unwind-ia64.c: 1.4
	descr
		Add an empty _Unwind_FindTableEntry() implementation.
		In the end we will use our libc stuff, and this should
		go away again.
	kcah

port	x68k

	hack	compiler error with gcc 4.5.x
	cdate	Fri May 24 13:23:01 EDT 2013
	who	christos
	file	src/external/gpl3/gcc/usr.bin/bakend/Makefile: 1.17
		xsrc/external/mit/xorg/lib/libGLU/Makefile: 1.11
	descr
		workaround for:
		internal compiler error: in cselib_record_set, at cselib.c:1999
	kcah

hack	fallback to /usr/bin/clang-cpp in rpcgen
cdate	Wed Jun  5 15:49:27 CEST 2013
who	joerg
file	src/usr.bin/rpcgen/rpc_main.c : 1.35
descr
	It is undecided which compiler owns /usr/bin/cpp and whether it should
	exist in a MKGCC=no world. To allow rpcgen to work out-of-the-box,
	if either gcc or clang is installed, use /usr/bin/clang-cpp as fallback.
	This applies only if RPCGEN_CPP is not set and /usr/bin/cpp is not executable.
kcah

port	hppa

	hack	compiler error with gcc 4.5.x
	cdate	Tue Jul 23 07:42:28 BST 2013
	who	skrll
	file	src/sys/lib/libkern/Makefile.libkern: 1.26
	descr
		workaround for unanalysed codegen bug affecting md5c.c.
	kcah

	hack	gdb vs _rtld_debug_state problem
	cdate	Thu Mar  5 09:49:53 UTC 2015
	who	skrll
	file	src/libexec/ld.elf_so/rtld.c: 1.175
	descr
		workaround for problem where gdb misses the breakpoint on
		_rtld_debug_state when the function is only the
		bv,n %r0(%rp) instruction - the nullify seems to
		confuse something
	kcah

port	mips64*
hack	compiler crashes on mips64* with optimization enabled
cdate	Tue May 13 18:46:48 UTC 2014
who	macallan
file	src/external/lgpl3/gmp/lib/libgmp/arch/mips64eb/Makefile.inc: 1.6
	src/external/lgpl3/gmp/lib/libgmp/arch/mips64eb/config.h: 1.5
	src/external/lgpl3/gmp/lib/libgmp/arch/mips64el/Makefile.inc: 1.6
	src/external/lgpl3/gmp/lib/libgmp/arch/mips64el/config.h: 1.5
descr	workaround for n32 gcc doing unaligned 64bit accesses when optimizing
pr	48696
kcah

port	vax
hack	compile boot with -O1
cdate	Sat May 24 09:40:58 CEST 2014
who	martin
file	src/sys/arch/vax/boot/boot/Makefile: 1.41
descr	/boot does not work when compiled with -O2 and gcc 4.8
kcah

port	vax
hack	compile nir.c in gallium with -O1
cdate	Mon Oct 28 14:39:35 EDT 2019
who	christos
file	/cvsroot/src/external/mit/xorg/lib/gallium/Makefile 1.36
descr	gallium does not compile.
kcah

port	sh3
hack	compile parse.c in battlestar with -Wno-restrict
cdate	Mon Oct 28 14:39:35 EDT 2019
who	christos
file	/cvsroot/src/games/battlestar/Makefile 1.11
descr	fails to compile, confused by char words[][];
	strcpy(words[n - 1], words[n + 1]);
kcah

port	sh3
hack	compile ddns.c in dhcpcd with no-stringop-overflow
cdate	Tue Oct 29 20:25:59 EDT 2019
who	christos
file	/cvsroot/src/external/mpl/dhcp/bin/server/Makefile 1.2
descr	fails to compile, confused by builtin_object_size in strcat(p, ".in..")
kcah

port	arm
hack	avoid using labels in a 12-bit constant.
cdate	Mon Mar 30 05:26:47 2015 UTC
who	matt
file	crypto/external/bsd/openssl/lib/libcrypto/arch/arm/aes-armv4.S: 1.2
descr	workaround for clang misassembling an instruction
kcah

port	sparc64
hack	during profiling with -m32 (and ASLR) labels are not generated
	consistently
cdate	Sat Feb 11 04:56:37 2017 UTC
who	christos
file	/cvsroot/src/crypto/external/bsd/heimdal/lib/libasn1/Makefile: 1.4
desc 	asn1_krb5_asn1.po does not produce the same results during successive
	compilation runs; it is bimodal. Turning optimization to -O0 fixes
	the issue
kcah

port	ia64
hack	ski emulator crashes
cdate	Sat Apr 8 18:10:43 2017 UTC
who	scole
file	/cvsroot/src/sys/external/bsd/acpica/dist/tables/tbxfload.c: 1.6
desc
	ski emulator crashes during acpi detection.  Added a check for
	uninitialized index.  Submitted a request for change with upstream
	mailing list, but never got a response
kcah

port	vax
hack	compile rtld.c with -O0
cdate	Wed Apr  3 17:38:38 EDT 2019
who	christos
file	src/libexec/ld.elf_so/Makefile: 1.141
descr	Disable optimization for rtld.c on the vax with gcc-7. Crashes on the
	second pass loop with elm == 0xffffffff
kcah

port	alpha
hack	GCC 7.4/8.3: userland binaries crash randomly (port-alpha/54307)
cdate	Fri Nov  1 20:43:35 UTC 2019
who	rin
file	src/external/bsd/jemalloc/lib/Makefile.inc: 1.11
descr	rtree.c and tcache.c need to be compiled with -O0, alternatively,
	you can compile whole jemalloc with -DJEMALLOC_DEBUG.
kcah

port	powerpc
hack	compile tc.c, logerr.c, ubsan.c with -O0 for clang
cdate	Wed Jan 29 17:40:19 EST 2020
who	christos
file	src/external/bsd/atf/lib/libatf-c/Makefile: 1.22
file	src/external/bsd/dhcpcd/sbin/dhcpcd/Makefile: 1.49
file	src/tests/lib/libc/misc/Makefile: 1.5

descr	Disable optimization on tc.c, logerr.c, ubsan.c crashes:
	lib/libLLVMCodeGen/../../llvm/../../external/apache2/llvm/lib/..\
	/dist/llvm/include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineFrameInfo.h", line 495, \
	function "__int64_t llvm::MachineFrameInfo::getObjectOffset(int) const"
kcah

port	earmv7hf*
hack	compile gdb/dwarf2expr.c with -O0 for GCC8 (toolchain/54820 and 54877)
cdate	Wed Apr 29 11:04:58 UTC 2020
who	rin
file	src/external/gpl3/gdb/lib/libgdb/Makefile: 1.22
descr	GCC 8.4 miscompiles dwarf2expr.c with -O2 or -O1, which results in
	crashes with 'gdb_exception_RETURN_MASK_ERROR'. Note that this occurs
	only for earmv7hf{,eb} as far as I can see. Neither earmv6hf{,eb} nor
	earmv7{,eb} (softfloat) are affected.
kcah

port	m68k
hack	compile aes_ccm_tag() with -O0 for GCC8
cdate	Mon Aug 10 06:27:29 UTC 2020
who	rin
file	src/sys/crypto/aes/aes_ccm.c: 1.5
descr	GCC 8.4 miscompiles aes_ccm_tag() for m68k with optimization level
	-O[12], which results in failure in aes_ccm_selftest().
	This is observed for amiga (A1200, 68060), mac68k (Quadra 840AV,
	68040), and luna68k (nono, 68030 emulator). However, it is not for
	sun3 (TME, 68020 emulator) and sun2 (TME, 68010 emulator).
	At the moment, it is unclear whether this is due to differences b/w
	68010-20 vs 68030-60, or something wrong with TME.
kcah

port	sun2
hack	compile kernel with -fno-omit-frame-pointer for GCC8
cdate	Mon Aug 10 06:28:42 UTC 2020
who	rin
file	src/sys/arch/sun2/conf/Makefile.sun2: 1.25
descr	Work around for reproducible kernel freezes just after ``Starting
	postfix.'', where I cannot even enter DDB nor obtain crash dump.
	I still haven't figured out why. Possibly something wrong with -Os
	optimization level for GCC/m68k, cf.,
	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sun3/2020/07/19/msg000166.html
kcah