[MarkRose]

Fixes the strict-aliasing sites that remain now that #333, #334 and #335 have landed, and makes the existing gcc Linux CI jobs fail if a new one is added.

Source changes (one commit)

Nine radix drivers passed an int to their scalar-mode carry threads through a double * field, the (uint64 *)&x casts of uint128/uint192/uint256 values in factor.c and factor_test.h now use the .w view from #334, and two address-only vec_dbl * casts in twopmodq80.c/twopmodq100.c are gone. None of them changes what is computed.

CI change (one commit)

-Werror=strict-aliasing -Wstrict-aliasing=2 is added to CPPFLAGS for the gcc cells of the Linux, Linux-32-bit and Linux-Singlethread jobs. makemake.sh appends CPPFLAGS to the compile command since #356 and keeps its default flags, so nothing else changes, there are no new jobs, and it costs no extra CI time. Together those jobs build every translation unit in every SIMD mode and Mfactor word size on x86-64, 32-bit x86, Arm and 32-bit Arm.

Two things about the flags, since the obvious spellings do not work:

• The level has to be 2. -Wall turns on level 3, which reports none of the violations this tree has had, not even the ones that were on main.
• The order matters. -Werror=strict-aliasing after -Wstrict-aliasing=2 resets the level to 3 and the build passes with no warnings at all, and -Werror=strict-aliasing=2 leaves the warning a warning. -Werror=strict-aliasing -Wstrict-aliasing=2 is the one that fails the build. I checked this with gcc 13.3 and 16.2.

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With exactly the CI environment (CC=gcc, CPPFLAGS='-Werror=strict-aliasing -Wstrict-aliasing=2', bash makemake.sh ...):

• main fails: the nosimd and AVX2 builds stop at radix1008_ditN_cy_dif1.c and radix992_ditN_cy_dif1.c respectively.
• This branch builds, gcc 16.2: nosimd, SSE2, AVX, AVX2 and AVX-512, the 1- to 4-word and n-word Mfactor builds of nosimd, AVX2 and AVX-512, and the single-threaded nosimd, AVX2, AVX-512 and Mfactor builds.
• This branch builds, 32-bit x86 (gcc 14.2 in an i386 container): default, nosimd and Mfactor.
• The source commit is the one I tested earlier for run-time behavior: self-test results at the radix drivers and the Mfactor start-up self-tests are the same as main's.

I dropped the -fno-strict-aliasing commit and the separate Strict-aliasing job and script, as suggested.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved reliability of scalar calculations across supported transform sizes and multiword arithmetic operations.
  • Corrected pointer handling in floating-point calculation paths without changing their processing behavior.
• Chores
  • Linux builds with GCC now enable stricter aliasing checks to catch potential issues earlier.

[tdulcet]

This is defence in depth, not a substitute for fixing those accesses in place. The argument against adopting it - that it hides violations rather than surfacing them - is a fair one, and I do not think it should be adopted instead of fixing them.

I would prefer that we fix all of these errors, instead of just masking them. This would prevent the warnings from even showing up in the CI. Most of these bugs were fixed in #34, but there have since been some regressions (see #244), as well as new instances found as a results of improvements to our CI test coverage. These should all be fixed as well. In the meantime, maybe enable something like -Werror, so that any new instances would fail the CI.

[MarkRose]

Agreed, and I've now done that in this PR rather than relying on the flag:

• Fixed the remaining sites. This is now based on Fix 13 of the 14 "will break strict-aliasing" sites in the carry loops #333, Give uint128/160/192/256 a real array view, fixing 78 aliasing violations #334 and Give the FFT temp arrays a real double view, fixing the last 23 aliasing sites #335, and fixes what -Wstrict-aliasing=2 still reports once they're in, across every x86 SIMD mode and Mfactor word size: nine radix drivers that passed an int through a double *, the (uint64 *)&x casts in factor.c/factor_test.h (now using Give uint128/160/192/256 a real array view, fixing 78 aliasing violations #334's .w view), and two address-only casts in twopmodq80.c/twopmodq100.c. The radix and Mfactor results are identical to main's; details are in the description.
• Added a CI check. A new Strict-aliasing job builds everything at -Wstrict-aliasing=2 and fails on any warning. It's clean under gcc 13 and 16, and against main it fails as it should.

One thing to know about -Werror here: it has to be level 2. -Wall's default level reports none of these, not even the 14 "will break" ones on main.

I've kept -fno-strict-aliasing too, because the warning doesn't see everything: the twopmodq96_q4 miscompile that #312 fixes is a real strict-aliasing bug, and gcc doesn't warn about it at any level. If you'd rather not carry the flag now that the check is in, I'm happy to drop that commit.

[tdulcet]

fixes what -Wstrict-aliasing=2 still reports once they're in, across every x86 SIMD mode and Mfactor word size

Did you try building the ARM, single threaded or 32-bit x86 builds with -Wstrict-aliasing=2, as there are likely more of these errors remaining and we should fix them all, if possible.

[MarkRose]

I hadn't, so I've done it now. All of them are clean:

build	compiler	translation units	result
x86-64, every SIMD mode, multithreaded and single-threaded	gcc 16	1880	clean
32-bit x86, nosimd and SSE2, multithreaded and single-threaded	gcc 16 -m32	752	clean
Arm, nosimd and ASIMD, multithreaded and single-threaded	gcc 12 (Raspberry Pi)	752	clean

All counts include every Mfactor word size. To check that the new builds can actually catch something, I ran the 32-bit and Arm nosimd checks on main from just before #333 and #334 were merged. Each reports 136 distinct warnings, and with this PR there are none.

I've extended the check to cover all three permanently. The script now compiles every unit both with and without -DUSE_THREADS. It takes --m32 for a 32-bit x86 build and uses nosimd and ASIMD when run on Arm. The CI job is now a matrix of x86-64, 32-bit x86 (with gcc-multilib) and Arm (ubuntu-24.04-arm).

I've also rebased this onto main now that #333 and #334 are merged. It's still based on #335.

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The pull request replaces several cast-based pointer arguments with explicit word-array or double-pointer usage, changes scalar worker threads to receive wts_idx_incr in thread data, and sets compiler-conditional strict-aliasing flags in three Linux CI jobs.

Changes: Strict-aliasing changes

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Word-array and floating-point pointer updates src/factor.c, src/factor_test.h, src/twopmodq100.c, src/twopmodq80.c	Arithmetic calls and tests now pass explicit word arrays instead of cast structure addresses. Floating-point assembly arguments use double * values instead of cast vec_dbl * values.
Scalar worker data transfer src/radix*_ditN_cy_dif1.c	Nine radix implementations add a wts_idx_incr field to thread data. Scalar worker setup and reads use that field instead of passing the increment through half_arr.
Strict-aliasing flags in CI .github/workflows/ci.yml	Three Linux jobs set strict-aliasing warning flags for GCC and an empty CPPFLAGS value for other compilers. The Linux-32-bit job passes CPPFLAGS into its Docker container.

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Change: Refactor

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Some test-specific builds can still pass despite strict-aliasing warnings. Preserve the warning flags in those builds.

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[tdulcet]

Thanks for your work on this.

Instead of adding more CI jobs and a complex script, could we just update the existing jobs to add the -Werror=strict-aliasing=2 flag, maybe using #356. That should have the same effect as your script, it would be free as far as CI runtime and it would significantly increase the build combinations tested. If we wanted to catch other compiler warning regressions as well, we could add something like -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Werror -Wno-error=cpp (although we would need to fix #357 first).

I've kept -fno-strict-aliasing too, because the warning doesn't see everything: the twopmodq96_q4 miscompile that #312 fixes is a real strict-aliasing bug, and gcc doesn't warn about it at any level. If you'd rather not carry the flag now that the check is in, I'm happy to drop that commit.

Yes, lets drop this commit for now. I would prefer that we fix any remaining errors, instead of just masking them.

[MarkRose]

Thanks, that's simpler and better. I've reworked the PR along those lines (force-pushed, now two commits on top of current main):

• The -fno-strict-aliasing commit is dropped.
• The Strict-aliasing job and its script are gone. Instead the gcc cells of Linux, Linux-32-bit and Linux-Singlethread get CPPFLAGS: -Werror=strict-aliasing -Wstrict-aliasing=2, which makemake.sh appends to the compile command since makemake.sh: honour CFLAGS from the environment #356 (the defaults, including LTO, are kept). That covers every SIMD mode and Mfactor word size on x86-64, 32-bit x86, Arm and 32-bit Arm at no extra CI time.
• The source commit with the remaining fixes is unchanged.

One thing about the flag: the spelling in your comment does not make the warning an error. gcc 13.3 and 16.2 both leave -Werror=strict-aliasing=2 as a plain warning (exit code 0), and -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Werror=strict-aliasing resets the level to 3 and reports nothing at all. -Werror=strict-aliasing -Wstrict-aliasing=2, in that order, is the one that fails the build, so that is what the jobs use, with a comment saying why.

I checked it with the CI environment: main fails (the nosimd and AVX2 builds stop at radix1008_ditN_cy_dif1.c and radix992_ditN_cy_dif1.c), and this branch builds in every x86 SIMD mode, every Mfactor word size, single-threaded, and 32-bit x86. I haven't re-run the Arm cells locally, so CI will be the first check there. I did not add the broader -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Werror -Wno-error=cpp since that needs #357 first, as you said.

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Preserve the warning flags in the Test builds.

Both Test steps replace the job-level CPPFLAGS with an array. A level-2 strict-aliasing warning in test_fft_radix.c or the INCLUDE_GMP=0 build can therefore pass CI without an error. Preserve the job-level flags in both arrays. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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[tdulcet]

Thanks, this looks good to me.