GCC miscompilation with boost::asio::io_service::work

[Jakob Petsovits]

The following program should keep running forever until it's being killed:

#include <boost/asio.hpp>

int main()
{
    boost::asio::io_service io_service;
    boost::asio::io_service::work work(io_service);

    boost::system::error_code ec;
    io_service.run(ec);

    std::cout << ec.value() << " - " << ec.message() << std::endl;

    return 0;
}

However, on gcc 4.8.2-19ubuntu1 which ships with Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty (amd64 version), it returns right away with output "0 - Success".
Switching to clang++ makes the snippet behave as intended.
Boost.Asio is a header-only library, so compilers matter.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gcc-4.8 4.8.2-19ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-30.55-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Mon Jul 7 13:03:08 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-26 (10 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gcc-4.8
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

please recheck with the compiler in the ubuntu-toolchain-r/ppa:

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

fixed in 14.10

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Jakob, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gcc-4.8 into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.8/4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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[Matthias Klose (doko)]

checked with 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gcc-4.8 - 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04

---------------
gcc-4.8 (4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium

  * SRU LP: #1311866.
  * Fix PR tree-optimization/63341 (wrong code, rs6000).
  * Allow to turn off -Wformat using Wno-format. LP: #1401836.
  * Fix PR target/60693 (x86, ice on valid code). LP: #1378737.
  * Fix PR tree-optimization/61964 (wrong code). LP: #1347147.
  * Fix GCC miscompilation with boost::asio::io_service::work. LP: #1338693.
  * Fix PR target/61208 (POWER, wrong code). LP: #1322287.
  * Fix ABI incompatibility between POWER and Z HTM builtins and intrinsics.
    LP: #1320292.
  * Fix PR c++/61046 (ice on invalid code). LP: #1313102.
  * Fix wrong-code issue in the little endian vector API (ppc64el).
    LP: #1311128.
  * Fix PR tree-optimization/59358 (wrong code). LP: #1395019.
  * Fix ice on ARM32. LP: #1268893.
  * Don't apply the backport for PR61841 for trusty, causing link failures.
  * Fix wrong code for vector doubleword extract (POWER). LP: #1437467.

gcc-4.8 (4.8.4-2ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Build from the upstream source.

gcc-4.8 (4.8.4-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update to SVN 20150426 (r222448) from the gcc-4_8-branch.
    - Fix PR libstdc++/60966, PR c/61553, PR middle-end/63704,
      PR target/61413 (ARM), PR target/64358 (RS6000), PR target/64479 (SH),
      PR target/64409 (x86), PR rtl-optimization/64037, PR c++/64487,
      PR c++/64251, PR c++/64297, PR fortran/63733, PR fortran/64244,
      PR c/64766, PR target/64882, PR rtl-optimization/61058,
      PR middle-end/43631, PR tree-optimization/64563, PR target/64513,
      PR middle-end/57748, PR middle-end/57748, PR target/64795,
      PR fortran/64528, PR fortran/56867, PR fortran/57023, PR c/57653,
      PR tree-optimization/63844 (OpenMP), PR middle-end/64199 (ice on valid),
      PR tree-optimization/64493 (ice on valid), PR tree-optimization/64495
      (wrong code), PR tree-optimization/56273 (diagnostics),
      PR tree-optimization/59124 (diagnostic), PR tree-optimization/64277
      (diagnostic), PR lto/65015, PR target/65163 (SH), PR target/64113 (ALPHA,
      link failure), PR rtl-optimization/64557, PR rtl-optimization/63475
      (ALPHA, wrong code), PR rtl-optimization/63483 (ALPHA, wrong code),
      PR target/64452 (AVR), PR target/64387 (x86, ice on valid),
      PR target/64979 (wrong code), PR target/64580 (rs6000),
      PR fortran/63744 (rejects valid), PR lto/65193 (ice on valid),
      PR tree-optimization/61634 (ice on valid), PR target/65196 (AVR),
      PR tree-optimization/63593 (ice on valid),
      PR tree-optimization/65063 (wrong code), PR target/65286 (rs6000),
      PR 65138/target (rs6000), PR target/53988 (SH), PR target/59593 (ARM),
      PR target/64453 (ARM), PR middle-end/65409 (ice on valid),
      PR tree-optimization/65388, PR fortran/65024 (ice),
      PR fortran/60898 (ice on valid), PR fortran/61138, PR libgfortran/60956,
      PR libstdc++/65279, PR libstdc++/65543, PR target/65849, PR target/65456,
      PR target/65787, PR c++/65727, PR c++/65721, PR fortran/56674,
      PR fortran/58813, PR fortran/590...

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gcc-4.8 has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.