[MAPREDUCE-6241] Native compilation fails for Checksum.cc due to an incompatibility of assembler register constraint for PowerPC

• Type: Bug
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.6.0, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Component/s: build
• Labels: BB2015-05-TBR features

Environment

Debian/Jessie, kernel 3.18.5, ppc64 GNU/Linux
gcc (Debian 4.9.1-19)
protobuf 2.6.1
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.5.3) (7u71-2.5.3-2)
OpenJDK Zero VM (build 24.65-b04, interpreted mode)
source was cloned (and updated) from Apache-Hadoop's git repository

• Target Version/s: 3.5.0
• Tags: native ppc
• Assignee: Binglin Chang
• Reporter: Stephan Drescher
• Created: 03/Feb/15 09:50
• Updated: 04/Jan/24 09:37

Description

Issue when using assembler code for performance optimization on the powerpc platform (compiled for 32bit)

mvn compile -Pnative -DskipTests

[exec] /usr/bin/c++ -Dnativetask_EXPORTS -m32 -DSIMPLE_MEMCPY -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -fPIC -I/home/hadoop/Developer/hadoop/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/target/native/javah -I/home/hadoop/Developer/hadoop/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/main/native/src -I/home/hadoop/Developer/hadoop/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/main/native/src/util -I/home/hadoop/Developer/hadoop/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/main/native/src/lib -I/home/hadoop/Developer/hadoop/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/main/native/test -I/home/hadoop/Developer/hadoop/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src -I/home/hadoop/Developer/hadoop/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/target/native -I/home/hadoop/Java/java7/include -I/home/hadoop/Java/java7/include/linux -isystem /home/hadoop/Developer/hadoop/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/main/native/gtest/include -o CMakeFiles/nativetask.dir/main/native/src/util/Checksum.cc.o -c /home/hadoop/Developer/hadoop/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/main/native/src/util/Checksum.cc
[exec] CMakeFiles/nativetask.dir/build.make:744: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/nativetask.dir/main/native/src/util/Checksum.cc.o' failed
[exec] make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/hadoop/Developer/hadoop/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/target/native'
[exec] CMakeFiles/Makefile2:95: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/nativetask.dir/all' failed
[exec] make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/hadoop/Developer/hadoop/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/target/native'
[exec] Makefile:76: recipe for target 'all' failed
[exec] /home/hadoop/Developer/hadoop/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/main/native/src/util/Checksum.cc: In function ‘void NativeTask::init_cpu_support_flag()’:

/home/hadoop/Developer/hadoop/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-nativetask/src/main/native/src/util/Checksum.cc:611:14: error: impossible register constraint in ‘asm’
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"popl %%ebx" : "=a" (eax), [ebx] "=r"(ebx), "=c"(ecx), "=d"(edx) : "a" (eax_in) : "cc");
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