On 20/12/2019 01:43, John McCall wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2019, at 16:27, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> 
>     On 19/12/2019 14:41, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> 
>         On 18/12/2019 14:24, John McCall wrote:
> 
>             On 18 Dec 2019, at 6:48, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> 
>                 On 18/12/2019 04:16, John McCall wrote:
> 
>                     There’s been an ongoing failure on the 
> clang-cmake-armv8-selfhost builder for the last day or so; see e.g.:
>                       
> http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/clang-cmake-armv7-selfhost/builds/2827/
> 
>                     This list is recorded as the contact information for that 
> builder.
> 
>                     It is apparently crashing in a tblgen backend that I just 
> added:
> 
>                     ```
>                     Stack dump:
>                     0.    Program arguments: 
> /home/buildslave/buildslave/clang-cmake-armv7-selfhost/stage1/bin/clang-tblgen
>  -gen-clang-type-writer -I 
> /home/buildslave/buildslave/clang-cmake-armv7-selfhost/llvm/clang/include -I 
> /home/buildslave/buildslave/clang-cmake-armv7-selfhost/llvm/clang/include/clang/AST
>  -I /home/buildslave/buildslave/clang-cmake-armv7-selfhost/llvm/llvm/include 
> /home/buildslave/buildslave/clang-cmake-armv7-selfhost/llvm/clang/include/clang/AST/TypeProperties.td
>  --write-if-changed -o 
> /home/buildslave/buildslave/clang-cmake-armv7-selfhost/stage1/tools/clang/include/clang/AST/AbstractTypeWriter.inc
>                     Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>                     ```
> 
>                     I would like to fix this, but I have no ability to 
> reproduce it, and the crash information in the log is quite minimal.  Is 
> there a way I can get a shell on a system that can reproduce this, or at the 
> very least get a line number for where exactly it is crashing?
> 
>                     John.
> 
>                 Hi John,
> 
>                 I am the one responsible for babysitting the bots this week 
> and I will
>                 take a look at this issue. I will let you know what I found.
> 
>             Thanks.
> 
>             John.
> 
>         Hi John,
> 
>         I couldn't reproduce the issue on the bot with 
> 2f932b57296a573454d29893eedbeaa6901c2a68,
>         both stage1 and stage2 build fine and check showed no regression. I 
> restarted the bot
>         and I will let you know how the results of the next iterations comes 
> out.
> 
>     Hi again John,
> 
>     I was looking at a different bot, so the results were for the one running 
> on armv7
>     instead the one that is failing which runs on armv8.
> 
>     The problem seems to be in fact a compiler issue on the container we use 
> to run
>     buildbot. It is an ubuntu 16.04, but we don't use the default compiler 
> (gcc 5.4.0),
>     but instead an updated one (gcc 7.4.0) provided by ubuntu test ppa [1].
> 
>     If I build clang-tblgen with gcc 7.4.0 on Release mode it generates a 
> segmentation
>     fault. It does not occur with RelWithDebugInfo neither if I used gcc 
> 5.4.0 on
>     Release mode.
> 
>     Trying to analyse the core generated does not really give us much 
> information, it
>     shows a recursive call on visitASTNodeHierarchyImpl:
> 
>     #0 __GI_memcmp (s1=<optimized out>, s2=<optimized out>, len=<optimized 
> out>) at memcmp.c:352
>     #1 0x0001dab8 in 
> clang::tblgen::visitASTNodeHierarchyImpl(llvm::RecordKeeper&, 
> llvm::StringRef, llvm::function_ref<void (clang::tblgen::ASTNode, 
> clang::tblgen::ASTNode)>) ()
>     [...]
> 
>     gdb can't show the bottom of the stack.
> 
> This memcmp must be from |StringRef::operator<|. If that were getting 
> consistently miscompiled, I think we’d be having serious problems throughout 
> the compiler. But there could be something specific to this function that’s 
> either provoking a miscompile or just violating language rules; I don’t see 
> what that would be, though.
> 
> John.

My guess this is specific issue that in fact might be fixed on gcc-7 (I need
to check which version the ppa repository actually use).  I test with gcc 5.4
and now I am testing with gcc 8. Most likely we will update the stage1 compiler
on this bot.
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