Comment 4 for bug 2052929

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In , Doko-v (doko-v) wrote :

reported at
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2024-March/647635.html

On x86, this compiles into movdqa which segfaults on unaligned access.

This kind of failure has been seen when running against glibc 2.39,
which incidentally changed the printf implementation to move away from
alloca() for this data to instead append it at the end of an existing
"scratch buffer", with arbitrary alignment, whereas alloca() was
probably more likely to be naturally aligned.

Tested by adding the patch to the Ubuntu gcc-14 package in
https://launchpad.net/~schopin/+archive/ubuntu/libquadmath

Signed-off-by: Simon Chopin <email address hidden>
---
 libquadmath/printf/printf_fp.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libquadmath/printf/printf_fp.c b/libquadmath/printf/printf_fp.c
index 8effcee88fa..d86aa650d38 100644
--- a/libquadmath/printf/printf_fp.c
+++ b/libquadmath/printf/printf_fp.c
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ __quadmath_printf_fp (struct __quadmath_printf_file *fp,

   /* Fetch the argument value. */
     {
- fpnum = **(const __float128 **) args[0];
+ memcpy(&fpnum, *(void* const *) args[0], sizeof(fpnum));

       /* Check for special values: not a number or infinity. */
       if (isnanq (fpnum))