https://bugs.gentoo.org/890302 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1866474 https://sourceforge.net/p/dosemu/patches/129/ commit b3320c3a67c0bb050b40e76831ec95a4d156890a Author: Matthew Ogilvie Date: Thu Jun 15 21:55:30 2023 -0600 mem_base: avoid undefined behavior writing to const global with casts Fix crash under gcc 10 or later. --- a/src/arch/linux/mapping/mapping.c +++ b/src/arch/linux/mapping/mapping.c @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ static int kmem_mappings = 0; static struct mem_map_struct kmem_map[MAX_KMEM_MAPPINGS]; static int init_done = 0; -unsigned char * const mem_base; -char * const lowmem_base; +unsigned char * mem_base; +char * lowmem_base; static struct mappingdrivers *mappingdrv[] = { #ifdef HAVE_SHM_OPEN @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ void *alias_mapping(int cap, unsigned targ, size_t mapsize, int protect, void *s addr = mappingdriver.alias(cap, target, mapsize, protect, source); update_aliasmap(target, mapsize, (cap & MAPPING_VGAEMU) ? target : source); if (cap & MAPPING_INIT_LOWRAM) { - *(unsigned char **)&mem_base = addr; + mem_base = addr; } return addr; } @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ void *alloc_mapping(int cap, size_t mapsize, off_t target) if (cap & MAPPING_INIT_LOWRAM) { Q__printf("MAPPING: LOWRAM_INIT, cap=%s, base=%p\n", cap, addr); - *(char **)(&lowmem_base) = addr; + lowmem_base = addr; } return addr; } --- a/src/include/memory.h +++ b/src/include/memory.h @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ void *lowmemp(const void *ptr); restrictions it can be non-zero. Non-zero values block vm86 but at least give NULL pointer protection. */ -extern unsigned char * const mem_base; +extern unsigned char * mem_base; /* lowmem_base points to a shared memory image of the area 0--1MB+64K. It does not have any holes or mapping for video RAM etc. @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ extern unsigned char * const mem_base; It is set "const" to help GCC optimize accesses. In reality it is set only once, at startup */ -extern char * const lowmem_base; +extern char * lowmem_base; #define UNIX_READ_BYTE(addr) (*(Bit8u *) (addr)) #define UNIX_WRITE_BYTE(addr, val) (*(Bit8u *) (addr) = (val) )