bug#45515: 28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] emacsGcc crash on Apple Silicon M1

[mp <michal@panoch.net>]

On 29.12.2020 10:01, Andrea Corallo wrote:

> michal panoch <michal@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@mpm:~ :$ gdb /Users/mp/.nix-profile/bin/emacs
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Reading symbols from /Users/mp/.nix-profile/bin/emacs...
(No debugging symbols found in /Users/mp/.nix-profile/bin/emacs)
(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,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
Quit this debugging session? (y or n) n

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../../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,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
Create a core file of GDB? (y or n) n
Command aborted.
Error calling thread_get_state for GP registers for thread 0x2a03
warning: Mach error at "../../gdb/i386-darwin-nat.c:83" in function 
"virtual void i386_darwin_nat_target::fetch_registers(struct regcache *, 
int)": (ipc/send) invalid destination port (0x10000003)


any idea how to proceed?

-mp-