From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: agrambot@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Errors building from master with a clean repository
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 17:31:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84279731-9572-de3c-4806-a7c52fb79fee@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a7gi8ovg.fsf@gnu.org>
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On 4/22/19 12:45 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> You have consistently removed the references to -gdwarf-N compiler
> option, presumably on the assumption that GCC nowadays automatically
> uses the highest supported version?
No, I was merely assuming that -gdwarf-4 is good enough to debug Emacs;
-gdwarf-5 is still marked as "experimental" in GCC 8's doc, and I
haven't used -gdwarf-5. If there's a significant advantage to using
-gdwarf-5 then discussion of it should be added to etc/DEBUG. In the
meantime I tried to improve the wording about this, in the attached patch.
> I think this section could greatly benefit from a short explanation
> what "undefined behavior" means, or a couple of examples of it.
It's hard to be brief as -fsanitize=undefined is a bit tricky, but I
took a shot at it by installing the attached.
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From afaab7395ddae3f6db79f2e9c46f8dfc83444b5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 17:26:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Improve UBSan discussion in etc/DEBUG
* etc/DEBUG: Improve -gdwarf-N documentation.
Go into more detail about UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.
---
etc/DEBUG | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/etc/DEBUG b/etc/DEBUG
index 717553871a..836e820e4a 100644
--- a/etc/DEBUG
+++ b/etc/DEBUG
@@ -181,10 +181,10 @@ Good luck!
** When you are trying to analyze failed assertions or backtraces, it
is essential to compile Emacs with flags suitable for debugging.
-With GCC 4.8 or later, you can invoke 'make' with CFLAGS="-O0 -g3".
-With older GCC, you can use CFLAGS="-O0 -g3 -gdwarf-4", replacing "4"
-by the highest version of DWARF that your compiler supports;
-with non-GCC compilers, "-O0 -g3" may be the best you can do.
+Although CFLAGS="-O0 -g3" often suffices with modern compilers,
+you may benefit further by using CFLAGS="-O0 -g3 -gdwarf-4", replacing
+"4" by the highest version of DWARF that your compiler supports;
+this is especially important for GCC versions older than 4.8.
With GCC and higher optimization levels such as -O2, the
-fno-omit-frame-pointer and -fno-crossjumping options are often
essential. The latter prevents GCC from using the same abort call for
@@ -917,13 +917,26 @@ setting the new-console option before running Emacs under GDB:
** Running Emacs with undefined-behavior sanitization
-Building Emacs with undefined-behavior sanitization can help debug
-integer overflow and other undefined behavior in C code. To use
-UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer with GCC and similar compilers, append
-'-fsanitize=undefined' to CFLAGS, either when running 'configure' or
-running 'make'. For example:
+Building Emacs with undefined-behavior sanitization can help find
+several kinds of low-level problems in C code, including:
- ./configure CFLAGS='-O0 -g3 -fsanitize=undefined'
+ * Out-of-bounds access of many (but not all) arrays.
+ * Signed integer overflow, e.g., (INT_MAX + 1).
+ * Integer shifts by a negative or wider-than-word value.
+ * Misaligned pointers and pointer overflow.
+ * Loading a bool or enum value that is out of range for its type.
+ * Passing NULL to or returning NULL from a function requiring nonnull.
+ * Passing a size larger than the corresponding array to memcmp etc.
+ * Passing invalid values to some builtin functions, e.g., __builtin_clz (0).
+ * Reaching __builtin_unreachable calls (in Emacs, 'eassume' failure).
+
+To use UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer with GCC and similar compilers,
+append '-fsanitize=undefined' to CFLAGS, either when running
+'configure' or running 'make'. When supported, you can also specify
+'bound-strict' and 'float-cast-overflow'. For example:
+
+ ./configure \
+ CFLAGS='-O0 -g3 -fsanitize=undefined,bounds-strict,float-cast-overflow'
You may need to append '-static-libubsan' to CFLAGS if your version of
GCC is installed in an unusual location.
@@ -940,9 +953,10 @@ program.
** Running Emacs with address sanitization
Building Emacs with address sanitization can help debug memory-use
-problems. To use AddressSanitizer with GCC and similar compilers,
-append '-fsanitize=address' to CFLAGS, either when running 'configure'
-or running 'make'. Configure, build and run Emacs with
+problems, such as freeing the same object twice. To use
+AddressSanitizer with GCC and similar compilers, append
+'-fsanitize=address' to CFLAGS, either when running 'configure' or
+running 'make'. Configure, build and run Emacs with
ASAN_OPTIONS='detect_leaks=0' in the environment to suppress
diagnostics of minor memory leaks in Emacs. For example:
--
2.20.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-23 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-18 19:21 Errors building from master with a clean repository Alex Gramiak
2019-04-20 1:05 ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-20 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-22 6:22 ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-22 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-23 0:31 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2019-04-23 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-20 16:10 ` Alex Gramiak
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