Re: [PATCH v1] LoongArch: Add -fno-isolate-erroneous-paths-dereference in Makefile

From: Xi Ruoyao

Date: Tue Sep 23 2025 - 08:47:37 EST


On Tue, 2025-09-23 at 14:17 +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> Currently, when compiling with GCC, there is no "break 0x7" instruction
> for zero division due to using the option -mno-check-zero-division, but
> the compiler still generates "break 0x0" instruction for zero division.
>
> Here is a simple example:
>
>   $ cat test.c
>   int div(int a)
>   {
>   return a / 0;
>   }
>   $ gcc -O2 -S test.c -o test.s
>
> GCC generates "break 0" On LoongArch and "ud2" on x86, objtool decodes
> "ud2" as INSN_BUG for x86, so decode "break 0" as INSN_BUG can fix the
> objtool warnings for LoongArch, but this is not the intention.
>
> When decoding "break 0" as INSN_TRAP in the previous commit, the aim is
> to handle "break 0" as a trap. The generated "break 0" for zero division
> by GCC is not proper, it should generate a break instruction with proper
> bug type, so add the GCC option -fno-isolate-erroneous-paths-dereference
> to avoid generating the unexpected "break 0" instruction for now.

I just proposed GCC to use the same "documented undefined instruction"
as Clang:
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2025-September/695981.html.

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Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xxxxxxxxxxx>