We can get a "-Wcast-align", if the target type that we cast to ("ct") has a
larger alignment than GTypeInstance.
That can happen on i686 architecture, if the GObject type has larger
alignment than the parent struct (or GObject). Since on i686, embeding
a "long long" or a "long double" in a struct still does not increase
the alignment beyond 4 bytes, this usually only happens when using the
__attribute__() to increase the alignment (or to have a field that has
the alignment increased).
It can happen on x86_64 when having a "long double" field.
The compiler warning is hard to avoid but not very useful, because it purely
operates on the pointer types at compile time. G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_CAST()
instead asserts (in non-optimized mode) that the pointer really points
to the expected GTypeInstance (and if that's the case, then the alignment
should be suitable already).
This is like in commit ed553e8e30 ('gtype: Eliminate -Wcast-align warnings
with G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_CAST'). But also fix the optimized code path.
With the unpatched G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_CAST() macro, the unit test would
now show the problem (with gcc-9.3.1-2.fc30.i686 or
gcc-12.2.1-4.fc37.x86_64):
$ export G_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS=1
$ export CFLAGS='-Wcast-align=strict'
$ meson build
$ ninja -C build
...
In file included from ../gobject/gobject.h:26,
from ../gobject/gbinding.h:31,
from ../glib/glib-object.h:24,
from ../gobject/tests/objects-refcount1.c:2:
../gobject/tests/objects-refcount1.c: In function ‘my_test_dispose’:
../gobject/gtype.h:2523:42: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type [-Wcast-align]
2523 | # define _G_TYPE_CIC(ip, gt, ct) ((ct*) ip)
| ^
../gobject/gtype.h:517:66: note: in expansion of macro ‘_G_TYPE_CIC’
517 | #define G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_CAST(instance, g_type, c_type) (_G_TYPE_CIC ((instance), (g_type), c_type))
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
../gobject/tests/objects-refcount1.c:9:37: note: in expansion of macro ‘G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_CAST’
9 | #define MY_TEST(test) (G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_CAST ((test), G_TYPE_TEST, GTest))
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../gobject/tests/objects-refcount1.c:96:10: note: in expansion of macro ‘MY_TEST’
96 | test = MY_TEST (object);
| ^~~~~~~
None of these messages are particularly helpful, but they increase the
overall test log output size, which has to be stored by the CI for every
test run.
With these messages removed, the size of a full test log is reduced from
6.5MB to 1.8MB for me.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Modified by Philip Withnall to omit the subdirectory and drop the
`refcount` suite as both seem like unnecessary over-categorisation.
Related to issue #1434
