https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103681
Bug ID: 103681
Summary: Unusual behavior for tail padding with different c++
standards
Product: gcc
Version: 8.3.1
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: other
Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
Reporter: n.deshmukh at samsung dot com
Target Milestone: ---
When I tried to link two modules which were compiled with different c++
standards, I observed that the offset of some fields of struct were different
when the same struct was accessed from both the modules. The issue is due to
the use of tail padding to allocate member variables in some standards (c++03,
c++11) and not with others (c++14, c++17). I created a small program to
reproduce the behaviour.
-----------------------------padding_error.cpp----------------------------
#include <iostream>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <cstddef>
struct A {
int a;
uint64_t b;
int c = -1;
};
struct B : public A {
int d;
};
int main() {
std::cout << "sizeof(A): " << sizeof(A);
std::cout << ", sizeof(B): " << sizeof(B) << std::endl;
std::cout << "offset of d in B: " << (int)offsetof(B, d) << std::endl;
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The output of this program depends on the -std flag.
~$ /opt/rh/devtoolset-8/root/bin/g++ -std=c++03 padding_error.cpp -o c03
~$ ./c03
sizeof(A): 24, sizeof(B): 24
offset of d in B: 20
~$ /opt/rh/devtoolset-8/root/bin/g++ -std=c++11 padding_error.cpp -o c11
~$ ./c11
sizeof(A): 24, sizeof(B): 24
offset of d in B: 20
~$ /opt/rh/devtoolset-8/root/bin/g++ -std=c++14 padding_error.cpp -o c14
~$ ./c14
sizeof(A): 24, sizeof(B): 32
offset of d in B: 24
~$ /opt/rh/devtoolset-8/root/bin/g++ -std=c++17 padding_error.cpp -o c17
~$ ./c17
sizeof(A): 24, sizeof(B): 32
offset of d in B: 24
I tried with different versions of gcc but the output is the same.
Because of the difference in the offset of the fields, I cannot link files
which were compiled with different -std flags.
The issue can be reproduced with all the gcc compilers which support c++14.
