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  2. MDEV-28162

clang compiler emits atomic library calls on x86/32bit

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      Clang expects 8-byte alignment for some 64-bit atomic operations
      in some 32-bit targets. Native instruction lock cmpxchg8b (for x86)
      should only require 4-byte alignment.

      As a result laterst maridb fails to build with clang on 32bit/x86 architecture because it
      can not find the missing symbol

      undefined reference to `__atomic_fetch_or_8'

      here is a shortened testcase that can reproduce the problem with clang

      #include <stdint.h>
      # ifdef __GNUC__
      typedef __attribute__((__aligned__(8))) uint64_t ATOMIC_U64;
      # else
      typedef uint64_t ATOMIC_U64;
      # endif
       
      int main() {return 0;}
       
      #ifdef BUGGY
      uint64_t foo(uint64_t *val, uint64_t op)
      #else
      uint64_t foo(ATOMIC_U64 *val, uint64_t op)
      #endif
      {
          return __atomic_or_fetch(val, op, __ATOMIC_ACQ_REL);
      }
       
      
      

      compiles ok with `gcc -m32` or `clang -m32` fine but interesting thing happens with

      `gcc -DBUGGY -m32` or `clang -DBUGGY -m32`

      and you see the difference. Clang says

      /tmp/a.c:17:12: warning: misaligned atomic operation may incur significant performance penalty; the expected alignment (8 bytes) exceeds the actual alignment (4 bytes) [-Watomic-alignment]
          return __atomic_or_fetch(val, op, __ATOMIC_ACQ_REL);
                 ^
      1 warning generated.
      /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/a-4a5d79.o: in function `foo':
      a.c:(.text+0x6b): undefined reference to `__atomic_fetch_or_8'
      clang-13: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
       
      
      

      but gcc sails along.

      so I guess we need to make sure that any data being accessed atomically is aligned to 64bit as well to
      help the compiler a bit here.

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            nikitamalyavin Nikita Malyavin
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