[LLVMdev] [BUG] Incorrect ASCII escape characters on Mac

[Ramkumar Ramachandra]

Hi,

The bug originated when one of our tests failed with an
answer-mismatch on Mac, after upgrading to XCode 6.2. The internal IR
after all our transforms, and just before it hits the final LLVM
lowering is identical on Mac and Linux:

  var   t6 : int8_T{col}[10] = {34, -48, 18, -12, 33, 0, 21, -7, -20, -31};

The LLVM lowering itself doesn't try to do anything smart. When we
dumpModule, we see the difference:

   @2 = internal global [24 x i8]
c"\10\02\03\0D\05\0B\0A\08\09\07\06\0C\04\0E\0F\01\01\02\03\04\06\02\00\05"
   @3 = internal global [10 x i8] c"\22\00\12\00!\00\15\00\00\00"
   @4 = internal global [10 x i8] c"\00\19\00+\00\00#\03\00\11"
  - at 5 = internal global [10 x i8] c"\22\D0\12\F4!\00\15\F9\EC\E1"
  - at 6 = internal global [10 x i8] c"\D0\19\FB+\FD\F8#\03\E2\11"
  + at 5 = internal global [10 x i8] c"\22Ð\12ô!\00\15ùìá"
  + at 6 = internal global [10 x i8] c"Ð\19û+ýø#\03â\11"

The diff is between Linux and Mac, where lines added are from Mac.
Both the @5 character sequences represent:

  34 208 18 244 33 0 21 249 236 225

in decimal, which is our original array (from
https://r12a.github.io/apps/conversion/).

Let's try to feed this into llc then:

  llc: maci.ll:1:32: error: constant expression type mismatch
  @0 = internal global [10 x i8] c"\22Ð\12ô!\00\15ùìá"

The Linux string is fine ofcourse.

So, my conclusion is that some unicode normalization code is broken.
Although, if they represent the same code points, why should the
program fail?

Thanks.

Ram