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29.3.50; treesitter and RTLD_GLOBAL

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From: Michael Lausch <mick.lausch <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.3.50; treesitter and RTLD_GLOBAL
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:38:52 +0200

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When loading a treesitter grammar in GNU/Linux, the dlopen() call is used
with the RTLD_GLOBAL flag set. If you load more than one
treesitter grammer, and both grammars define the same functions, most
probably in the scanner.c file, symbol resolution may use the wrong symbol.
For example the org and the yaml grammar both define a deserialize()
function in their scanner.c file. This may result a call from the org
grammar to the yaml defined deserialize() function. This fails, because the
yaml function does different things than the org grammer expects (it's a
free of a dangling pointer and therefore emacs crashes).

A solution can be:
1) use a special call to dlopen without the RTLD_OPEN flag, sim,ilar to
what the eln loader does.
2) fix all the grammars and make all functions 'static' so that the
functions are not visible outside the compilation unit.
3) something i didn't think about

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