Package Details: xnp2 0.86-3

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/xnp2.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: xnp2
Description: X Neko Project II, a PC-9801 emulator
Upstream URL: http://www.nonakap.org/np2
Licenses: BSD
Submitter: linkmauve
Maintainer: sl1pkn07
Last Packager: sl1pkn07
Votes: 11
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2012-08-18 09:11 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2023-12-11 14:23 (UTC)

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Score_Under commented on 2014-11-04 16:35 (UTC)

It's not a gcc bug. These structures aren't packed so they're subject to the usual alignment rules. If you exclude the very last member of the structs, sizeof(XF86VidModeModeLine without last member) = 8*sizeof(short) + 2*sizeof(int) = 24 sizeof(XF86VidModeModeInfo without last member) = 8*sizeof(short) + 3*sizeof(int) = 28 On 64 bit machines the last member is 8 bytes long and needs 8 byte alignment. 24 is a multiple of 8 so it needs no padding, but 28 is not so it gets 4 bytes of padding inserted - meaning that in one of these structs there is an invisible 4 bytes that prevents them from being similar to each other. The type punning used here is exactly the kind that leads to undefined behaviour. Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_structure_alignment#Data_structure_padding

linkmauve commented on 2014-11-04 16:14 (UTC)

It’s apparently the -fstack-protector-strong default parameter for gcc, set by makepkg, that is creating this crash. I don’t see any obvious issue with the current code, aside from potential alignment issue in gcc. To me this looks much more like a gcc bug than a bug in this code.

Score_Under commented on 2014-11-04 15:40 (UTC)

Explanation: The developer has assumed that XF86VidModeModeInfo can be turned into an XF86VidModeModeLine through pointer arithmetic, not realizing that the alignment differences prevent this on x86_64

Score_Under commented on 2014-11-04 15:34 (UTC)

Doesn't work on 64 bit. Patch: http://p.pomf.se/4878

sl1pkn07 commented on 2014-07-13 23:06 (UTC)

new version http://www.nonakap.org/np2/xnp2-20140607.tar.bz2

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