Re: [perl #130133] [PATCH] Configure leaves garbage in$Config{longdblinfbytes}

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:23:10PM +0000, Pip Cet wrote:
> Instead of memsetting after the fact, we could clear an area of memory
> before storing the (long) doubles there, that would catch any future
> formats with undefined bytes, too.

That isn't reliable.

While we might hope that the compiler generates code that stores
directly from the FPU into our pristine buffer, depending on the
compiler and optimization level it may end up making extra copies,
including random rubbish from other buffers.

See:

https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123971

for a case where this bit us.

Tony

• Re: [perl #130133] [PATCH] Configure leaves garbage in$Config{longdblinfbytes} by Niko Tyni
• Re: [perl #130133] [PATCH] Configure leaves garbage in$Config{longdblinfbytes} by Niko Tyni
• [perl #130133] [PATCH] Configure leaves garbage in$Config{longdblinfbytes} by Jarkko Hietaniemi via RT
• [perl #130133] [PATCH] Configure leaves garbage in$Config{longdblinfbytes} by James E Keenan via RT
• [perl #130133] [PATCH] Configure leaves garbage in$Config{longdblinfbytes} by James E Keenan via RT
• [perl #130133] [PATCH] Configure leaves garbage in$Config{longdblinfbytes} by Niko Tyni
• Re: [perl #130133] [PATCH] Configure leaves garbage in$Config{longdblinfbytes} by Pip Cet
• Re: [perl #130133] [PATCH] Configure leaves garbage in$Config{longdblinfbytes} by Niko Tyni
• Re: [perl #130133] [PATCH] Configure leaves garbage in$Config{longdblinfbytes} by Pip Cet
• [perl #130133] [PATCH] Configure leaves garbage in$Config{longdblinfbytes} by Tony Cook via RT
• Re: [perl #130133] [PATCH] Configure leaves garbage in$Config{longdblinfbytes} by Tony Cook