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Fix bug with IL lowering on CFront ABI where padding was not correctly accounted for [GH #479] - #480
Corrected derived-class member offsets when a base class has reusable tail padding, keeping reported and generated layouts consistent across supported configurations, including Microsoft mode with stricter base-class alignment.
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Added regression coverage comparing reported and actual member offsets for aligned base classes across C++11 and C++20 configurations.
IL lowering now handles base-class tail padding and subobject-type selection on non-IA-64 builds. A regression test compares front-end and lowered offsets for a derived-class member with an aligned base.
Base fields are created on all ABIs. Subobject-type selection and retention account for tail padding outside the IA-64-only path.
Validate the lowered member offset tests/tests/regressions/gh-479.sft.cpp, tests/tests/regressions/.gh-479.rto/*, src/pending_changes/gh-479-lowered-base-class-size-without-ia64-abi.txt
The regression test compares front-end and lowered offsets for an aligned base class. Expected outputs record compiler warnings and test results. The change note describes the layout mismatch.
Issue 72 — The change adjusts base-class subobject lowering, but the supplied summaries do not state that it addresses overlapping fields for zero-size bases.
Objects with an explicitly aligned base can receive the wrong alignment in generated C, and current CI does not exercise the changed ABI branch. Address the alignment failure before merging.
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Review comments at @src/lower_il.c:
- Around line 1188-1191: Update the base-member promotion path in
dump_field_list to preserve the marked base’s packing context when generating
promoted member declarations, so their offsets remain consistent with the base’s
original packing rather than the derived class’s default packing. Leave
unrelated promotion behavior unchanged.
- Around line 1188-1191: Update the promoted base-field address generation in
the lowering logic guarded by is_immediate_class_type(field_type) to compute the
address from the stored base offset, not from the base’s first initializable
member. Preserve the correct subobject address for layouts where an optimized
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commit 4f437542654f9b49f3fa9936ed63c0f3135714a2
Author: William M. Miller <wmm@edg.com>
Date: Tue Sep 21 20:09:35 2010 +0000
Support reuse of tail padding. [EDGcpfe/11008]
diff --git a/src/Changes b/src/Changes
index d4be8433ea..601c20aad3 100644
--- a/src/Changes
+++ b/src/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@
Version 4.3
+9/21/10 [EDGcpfe/11008]
+C-generating back end: support for tail-padding reuse
+
+The IA64 ABI requires in some cases that derived class members be allocated
+in the tail padding of base class subobjects, but the C-generating back end
+was unable to support tail-padding reuse and thus did not comply with this
+requirement. This limitation has now been lifted, and the default setting
+for TARG_REUSE_TAIL_PADDING has been changed to TRUE for C-generating back
+end configurations with IA64_ABI set to TRUE. In this configuration, the
+members of base classes with reusable tail padding are "promoted" into the
+derived class in the generated C code and member access expressions
+designating such promoted members are adjusted accordingly. The previous
+class layout in the generated code can be retained by explicitly setting
+TARG_REUSE_TAIL_PADDING to FALSE.
It seems from this commit it was intentional to tail-padding reuse only for IA64-ABI.
Then this commit adjusted the front end layout calculation:
commit 6ef99fab9d0e0d1ffe96c55a30111a6abd6ea704
Author: Christof Meerwald <cmeerw@edg.com>
Date: Mon Oct 28 13:48:47 2024 +0100
Microsoft compatibility: Size of base class with explicitly-specified alignment [EDGcpfe/27181]
diff --git a/src/Changes b/src/Changes
index a53bcab9c8..e3afd6908b 100644
--- a/src/Changes
+++ b/src/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,24 @@
Version 6.7
+10/28/24 [EDGcpfe/27181]
+Microsoft compatibility: Size of base class with explicitly-specified alignment
+
+Consider:
+
+ struct B {
+ alignas(16) int i;
+ };
+ struct D : B {
+ int j;
+ };
+
+When calculating the size of a base class, MSVC ignores explicitly-specified
+alignment requirements that are more strict than platform-specific defaults.
+On ARM64 platforms, that default is 8 bytes, and thus the sizes of both B and D
+are 16 bytes in the example above. The front end now emulates this bug in
+Microsoft mode.
It seems like this may have manifested for IA64 ABI as a result of an (accidental?) combination of these two.
2-2: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Heavy lift
Run the regression with the non-IA-64 ABI.
CI builds use IA64_ABI=1, so they compile out the changed layout check. Add a C-generating CI configuration with IA64_ABI=0. Run the Microsoft-mode case with a target and packing alignment that produce a smaller base subobject, and assert that the derived member uses that space.
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Review comment at @tests/tests/regressions/gh-479.sft.cpp at line 2:
Update the gh-479 regression configuration to include a C-generating CI run with
IA64_ABI=0, since the existing CI ABI setting skips the layout check. Configure
its Microsoft-mode case with a target and packing alignment that make the base
subobject smaller, and assert that the derived member occupies the available
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Review comments at @tests/tests/regressions/gh-479.sft.cpp:
- Line 2: Update the gh-479 regression configuration to include a C-generating
CI run with IA64_ABI=0, since the existing CI ABI setting skips the layout
check. Configure its Microsoft-mode case with a target and packing alignment
that make the base subobject smaller, and assert that the derived member
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Review comments at @src/lower_il.c:
- Around line 1188-1196: When base-class members are promoted, preserve the base
type’s required alignment on the enclosing generated C type if promotion would
otherwise remove it. Update the tail-padding promotion logic around
class_subobject_with_tail_padding to handle the non-IA-64 Microsoft pack(1)
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Preserve derived alignment when promoting a base
In non-IA-64 Microsoft mode with pack(1), struct alignas(16) B { char c; }; struct D : B { char d; }; promotes B’s members into D. The generated C type for D has alignment 1 instead of 16, so its objects can be underaligned and incompatible with the front-end layout.
Emit the required alignment on the enclosing C type when promotion removes the base type’s alignment.
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Review comment at @src/lower_il.c around lines 1188 - 1196:
When base-class members are promoted, preserve the base type’s required
alignment on the enclosing generated C type if promotion would otherwise remove
it. Update the tail-padding promotion logic around
class_subobject_with_tail_padding to handle the non-IA-64 Microsoft pack(1)
case, keeping the generated layout compatible with the front-end alignment.
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