Re: recent master core dumps building on FreeBSD i386

[Joseph Mingrone]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> On 10/18/18 9:02 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Can you please repeat this experiment, and then, when it crashes, do
>> this:

>>    (gdb) source ./.gdbinit
>>    (gdb) frame 2
>>    (gdb) p/x a
>>    (gdb) xtype

>> and show us the results?

> Also, please try these GDB commands when debugging ./temacs:

> b syms_of_threads
> r -Q
> p &main_thread
> disas syms_of_threads
> p &Vmain_thread

> I'm attaching the output of these commands on Fedora 28 x86-64 compiled with 
> 'gcc -m32 -march=native -g3 -O2' (AMD Phenom II X4 910e). Evidently your 
> compiler (clang?) is not inlining make_lisp_ptr, but
> it's still useful to know what it's up to. I see that GCC optimizes away not 
> only the call to make_lisp_ptr, but also the runtime check 'TAGGEDP (a, type) 
> && XUNTAG (a, type, char) == ptr', I guess because
> GCC knows that main_thread is properly aligned so TAGGEDP must succeed here. 
> clang isn't smart enough to do this sort of optimization (at least on Fedora) 
> so if you're using clang that might partly explain
> the problem.

address@hidden:/wrkdirs/usr/ports/editors/emacs-devel/work-full/emacs-e511b9d/src
 # /usr/local/bin/gdb ./temacs
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Reading symbols from ./temacs...done.
SIGINT is used by the debugger.
Are you sure you want to change it? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from 
terminal]
Environment variable "DISPLAY" not defined.
TERM = screen-256color
Breakpoint 1 at 0x81599de: file emacs.c, line 370.
Temporary breakpoint 2 at 0x8177f95: file sysdep.c, line 1080.
(gdb) b syms_of_threads
Breakpoint 3 at 0x8249851: file thread.c, line 1098.
(gdb) r -Q
Starting program: 
/wrkdirs/usr/ports/editors/emacs-devel/work-full/emacs-e511b9d/src/temacs -Q

Breakpoint 3, syms_of_threads () at thread.c:1098
1098          defsubr (&Smake_thread);
(gdb) p &main_thread
$1 = (struct thread_state *) 0x8554d0c <main_thread>
(gdb) disas syms_of_threads
Dump of assembler code for function syms_of_threads:
   0x08249840 <+0>:     push   %ebp
   0x08249841 <+1>:     mov    %esp,%ebp
   0x08249843 <+3>:     push   %esi
   0x08249844 <+4>:     push   $0x8506838
   0x08249849 <+9>:     call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x0824984e <+14>:    add    $0x4,%esp
=> 0x08249851 <+17>:    push   $0x8506898
   0x08249856 <+22>:    call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x0824985b <+27>:    add    $0x4,%esp
   0x0824985e <+30>:    push   $0x8506858
   0x08249863 <+35>:    call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x08249868 <+40>:    add    $0x4,%esp
   0x0824986b <+43>:    push   $0x85068b8
   0x08249870 <+48>:    call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x08249875 <+53>:    add    $0x4,%esp
   0x08249878 <+56>:    push   $0x85068d8
   0x0824987d <+61>:    call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x08249882 <+66>:    add    $0x4,%esp
   0x08249885 <+69>:    push   $0x85068f8
   0x0824988a <+74>:    call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x0824988f <+79>:    add    $0x4,%esp
   0x08249892 <+82>:    push   $0x8506918
   0x08249897 <+87>:    call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x0824989c <+92>:    add    $0x4,%esp
   0x0824989f <+95>:    push   $0x8506938
   0x082498a4 <+100>:   call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x082498a9 <+105>:   add    $0x4,%esp
   0x082498ac <+108>:   push   $0x8506878
   0x082498b1 <+113>:   call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x082498b6 <+118>:   add    $0x4,%esp
   0x082498b9 <+121>:   push   $0x8506958
   0x082498be <+126>:   call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x082498c3 <+131>:   add    $0x4,%esp
   0x082498c6 <+134>:   push   $0x8506978
   0x082498cb <+139>:   call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x082498d0 <+144>:   add    $0x4,%esp
   0x082498d3 <+147>:   push   $0x8506998
   0x082498d8 <+152>:   call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x082498dd <+157>:   add    $0x4,%esp
--Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging--
   0x082498e0 <+160>:   push   $0x85069b8
   0x082498e5 <+165>:   call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x082498ea <+170>:   add    $0x4,%esp
   0x082498ed <+173>:   push   $0x85069d8
   0x082498f2 <+178>:   call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x082498f7 <+183>:   add    $0x4,%esp
   0x082498fa <+186>:   push   $0x85069f8
   0x082498ff <+191>:   call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x08249904 <+196>:   add    $0x4,%esp
   0x08249907 <+199>:   push   $0x8506a18
   0x0824990c <+204>:   call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x08249911 <+209>:   add    $0x4,%esp
   0x08249914 <+212>:   push   $0x8506a38
   0x08249919 <+217>:   call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x0824991e <+222>:   add    $0x4,%esp
   0x08249921 <+225>:   push   $0x8506a58
   0x08249926 <+230>:   call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x0824992b <+235>:   add    $0x4,%esp
   0x0824992e <+238>:   push   $0x8506a78
   0x08249933 <+243>:   call   0x8202e90 <defsubr>
   0x08249938 <+248>:   add    $0x4,%esp
   0x0824993b <+251>:   push   $0x8554dc0
   0x08249940 <+256>:   call   0x81bad60 <staticpro>
   0x08249945 <+261>:   add    $0x4,%esp
   0x08249948 <+264>:   movl   $0x0,0x8554dc0
   0x08249952 <+274>:   push   $0xe
   0x08249954 <+276>:   push   $0x82ab272
   0x08249959 <+281>:   call   0x8202460 <intern_c_string_1>
   0x0824995e <+286>:   add    $0x8,%esp
   0x08249961 <+289>:   mov    %eax,%esi
   0x08249963 <+291>:   push   $0xd
   0x08249965 <+293>:   push   $0x82ab281
   0x0824996a <+298>:   call   0x8202460 <intern_c_string_1>
   0x0824996f <+303>:   add    $0x8,%esp
   0x08249972 <+306>:   push   $0x0
   0x08249974 <+308>:   push   %eax
   0x08249975 <+309>:   push   %esi
   0x08249976 <+310>:   call   0x81c0930 <Fdefalias>
   0x0824997b <+315>:   add    $0xc,%esp
   0x0824997e <+318>:   push   $0x7
--Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging--
   0x08249980 <+320>:   push   $0x82ab691
   0x08249985 <+325>:   call   0x8202460 <intern_c_string_1>
   0x0824998a <+330>:   add    $0x8,%esp
   0x0824998d <+333>:   push   $0x0
   0x0824998f <+335>:   push   %eax
   0x08249990 <+336>:   call   0x81e4ad0 <Fprovide>
   0x08249995 <+341>:   add    $0x8,%esp
   0x08249998 <+344>:   push   $0x8557a54
   0x0824999d <+349>:   push   $0x82ab28f
   0x082499a2 <+354>:   push   $0x8554dc8
   0x082499a7 <+359>:   call   0x82030f0 <defvar_lisp>
   0x082499ac <+364>:   add    $0xc,%esp
   0x082499af <+367>:   cmpb   $0x0,0x8557ef0
   0x082499b6 <+374>:   je     0x82499c4 <syms_of_threads+388>
   0x082499b8 <+376>:   movl   $0x8554d11,0x8557a54
   0x082499c2 <+386>:   jmp    0x82499e9 <syms_of_threads+425>
   0x082499c4 <+388>:   mov    $0x8554d14,%eax
   0x082499c9 <+393>:   test   $0x7,%al
   0x082499cb <+395>:   jne    0x82499ec <syms_of_threads+428>
   0x082499cd <+397>:   movl   $0x8554d11,0x8557a54
   0x082499d7 <+407>:   mov    $0x7f000000,%eax
   0x082499dc <+412>:   and    0x8554d0c,%eax
   0x082499e2 <+418>:   cmp    $0x54000000,%eax
   0x082499e7 <+423>:   jne    0x8249a00 <syms_of_threads+448>
   0x082499e9 <+425>:   pop    %esi
   0x082499ea <+426>:   pop    %ebp
   0x082499eb <+427>:   ret
   0x082499ec <+428>:   push   $0x492
   0x082499f1 <+433>:   push   $0x828071a
   0x082499f6 <+438>:   push   $0x8280b68
   0x082499fb <+443>:   call   0x81b6b50 <die>
   0x08249a00 <+448>:   push   $0x46d
   0x08249a05 <+453>:   push   $0x82ab73e
   0x08249a0a <+458>:   push   $0x82ab29b
   0x08249a0f <+463>:   call   0x81b6b50 <die>
End of assembler dump.
(gdb) p &Vmain_thread
No symbol "Vmain_thread" in current context.
(gdb) quit
A debugging session is active.

        Inferior 1 [process 86154] will be killed.

Quit anyway? (y or n) y

address@hidden:/wrkdirs/usr/ports/editors/emacs-devel/work-full/emacs-e511b9d/src
 # CC --version
FreeBSD clang version 6.0.0 (tags/RELEASE_600/final 326565) (based on LLVM 
6.0.0)
Target: i386-unknown-freebsd11.2
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin

> Also, please investigate what the macro GCALIGNED_STRUCT expands to. You can 
> use 'gcc -E' to do that.

I'll get back to you with this soon.

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