[Issue 18274] New: va_arg (TypeInfo) broken for static arrays

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Sun Jan 21 15:27:53 UTC 2018


https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18274

          Issue ID: 18274
           Summary: va_arg (TypeInfo) broken for static arrays
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: x86_64
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: druntime
          Assignee: nobody at puremagic.com
          Reporter: johannespfau at gmail.com

This code is currently broken:

https://run.dlang.io/is/68hf1w
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void foo(...)
{
    uint[4] data;
    va_arg(_argptr, _arguments[0], &data);
    //data = va_arg!(uint[4])(_argptr);
    writeln(data);
}

void main()
{
    uint[4] value = [1, 2, 3, 4];
    foo(value);
}
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[4, 0, 3567405808, 32767]

The commented, static variant works. The problem is that DMD passes static
arrays as {.ptr, .length} slice with TypeInfo_Tuple for D variadic functions.
va_arg would have to detect this and instead of just copying the data it has to
dereference the pointer. I'm not sure if this is easily possible though: DMD
passes TypeInfo_Tuple instead of TypeInfo_StaticArray. Can TypeInfo_Tuple only
occur for static arrays? If so, fixing this is easy. If not, we have to pass
proper TypeInfo for static array parameters.

I don't know why we even do this, at least on AArch64 we can have much better
performance by just passing static arrays by value in the same way a struct
would be passed. Passing as ptr+length requires another special case in the
va_arg function for static arrays.

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