[Haskell-cafe] ghci and TH cannot: unknown symbol `stat64`

[Michael Snoyman]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Bardur Arantsson <spam at scientician.net>wrote:

> On 07/11/2012 05:12 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback. However, looking at sqlite3.c, I see the
> > necessary #include statements:
> >
> > #include <sys/types.h>
> > #include <sys/stat.h>
> > #include <unistd.h>
> >
> > I'm confident that none of my code is making calls to stat/stat64 via
> > the FFI. In case it makes a difference, this problem also disappears
> > if I compile the library against the system copy of sqlite3 instead of
> > using the C source.
>
> You may need some extra defines, see the comments in "man stat64".
>
> Regards,
>
>
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I've come up with a minimal example that demonstrates this problem. The
crux of the matter is the following C code:

    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <sys/stat.h>
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <stdio.h>

    typedef int stat_func(const char*, struct stat*);

    stat_func *foo = &stat;

    void stat_test(void)
    {
    struct stat buf;

    printf("About to stat-test.c\n");
    foo("stat-test.c", &buf);
    printf("Done\n");
    }

As you can see, all of the include statements are present as necessary. The
code compiles just fine with -Wall -Werror. And when you compile the
Haskell code as well, everything works just fine. But if you follow these
steps, you can reproduce the error I saw:

* Unpack the attached tarball
* `cabal install` in that folder
* `runghc main.hs` from the `exe` folder

On my system at least, I get:

    main.hs:
/home/ubuntu/.cabal/lib/stat-test-0.1.0.0/ghc-7.4.1/HSstat-test-0.1.0.0.o:
unknown symbol `stat'
    main.hs: main.hs: unable to load package `stat-test-0.1.0.0'

One thing I noticed is that I needed to use a function pointer to trigger
the bug. When I called `stat` directly the in stat_test function, gcc
automatically inlined the call, so that the disassessmbled code just showed
a `moveq` (i.e., it's making the system call directly). But using a
function pointer, we're avoiding the inlining. I believe this is why this
issue only came up with the sqlite3 upgrade: previous versions did not use
a function pointer, but rather hard-coded in how to make a stat call.

Does this expose any other possibilities?

Michael
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