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28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] emacsGcc crash on Apple Silicon M1

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From: mp <michal <at> panoch.net>
To: 45515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45515: 28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] emacsGcc crash on Apple Silicon M1
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 01:42:58 +0100

On 29.12.2020 16:33, Andrea Corallo wrote:
> mp <michal <at> panoch.net> writes:
>
>> On 29.12.2020 10:01, Andrea Corallo wrote:
>>
>>> michal panoch <michal <at> panoch.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> i'm on the new Apple Silicon M1 architecture and using nix emacs-overlay - https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay/
>>>>
>>>> like this: ~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays/emacs.nix
>>>>
>>>> import (builtins.fetchTarball {
>>>>     url = https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay/archive/master.tar.gz;
>>>> })
>>>>
>>>> install whith:
>>>>
>>>> $ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.emacsGcc
>>>>
>>>> it compiles no problem. it runs and bytecompiles everything no problem, but after a while it crashes with:
>>>>
>>>> Assertion failed: (mach_vm_map(mach_task_self(), &address, size, 0,
>>>> VM_FLAGS_ANYWHERE |
>>>> VM_MAKE_TAG(VM_MEMORY_COREGRAPHICS_BACKINGSTORES), port, 0, false,
>>>> prot, prot, VM_INHERIT_SHARE) == KERN_SUCCESS), function
>>>> backing_map, file
>>>> /AppleInternal/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/SkyLight/SkyLight-569.6/SkyLight/Services/Windows/CGSBackingStore.c,
>>>> line 192. Fatal error 6: Aborted [1] 2319 abort emacs --fg-daemon
>>>>
>>>> any idea how to investigate?
>>>>
>>>> uname -a:
>>>> Darwin mpm.local 20.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 20.2.0: Wed Dec  2 20:40:21 PST 2020; root:xnu-7195.60.75~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8101 arm64
>>> Hi Michal,
>>>
>>> this assertion is out of our code so doesn't ring any bell to me.
>>> Running under a debugger to have a back-trace of the crash might give
>>> more information.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>     Andrea
>> trying to run with gbd, but it doesn't seem to be working:
>>
>> mp <at> mpm:~ :$ gdb /Users/mp/.nix-profile/bin/emacs
>> GNU gdb (GDB) 10.1
>> Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
>> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>> Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details.
>> This GDB was configured as "x86_64-apple-darwin".
>> Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
>> For bug reporting instructions, please see:
>> <https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
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>>
>> For help, type "help".
>> Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...
>> Reading symbols from /Users/mp/.nix-profile/bin/emacs...
>> (No debugging symbols found in /Users/mp/.nix-profile/bin/emacs)
> This build is stripped (no debug symbols).  I'd build manually from
> source to have 100% control leaving a side a layer (not a Nix expert of
> user).
>
>> (gdb) r --fg-daemon
>> Starting program:
>> /nix/store/2y79kkpvkbjdd2jzdxx2w3p3mxdqpagf-user-environment/bin/emacs
>> --fg-daemon
>> [New Thread 0x2a03 of process 54326]
>> [New Thread 0x2b03 of process 54326]
>> ../../gdb/target.c:2149: internal-error: void
>> target_mourn_inferior(ptid_t): Assertion `ptid == inferior_ptid'
>> failed.
>> A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
> Looks like an internal problem of gdb?  Perhaps gdb doesn't like to run
> under rosetta?  Is this an X86 gdb build correct?  You might be more
> lucky with lldb.
>
> That said I think to have native-comp running native on M1 GCC will have
> to be ported and AFAIK this has still not be done (at list in GCC
> trunk).
>
> Hope it helps
>
>    Andrea

looks like it has been fixed.. after installing new nix package 
emacs-gcc-20201229.0 it hasn't crashed yet..

-mp-

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