[cfe-dev] Clang 'locks up' when compiling optimized

[David Barto via cfe-dev]

Looks like the bug is that the crash handler is attempting to allocate memory, and the reason it was crashing was that it ran out of memory.

Sounds like a real clang issue to deal with as the compiler should not assume infinite resources.

	David

> On Jun 28, 2017, at 8:18 AM, Brian Cain <brian.cain at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:10 AM, David Barto <barto at cambridgesemantics.com <mailto:barto at cambridgesemantics.com>> wrote:
> This is part of an in-memory system (no swap space configured) so RSS would match the AS size for this use case. From what I read about RSS and AS for MacOS and Linux.
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> Why did it lock up, why not throw the exception and exit?
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> Dunno, it seems like the OS is driving now and it's not immediately clear to me why that system call wouldn't yield either success or failure.  But clang is asking for a resource (more memory), and I've seen those stall before.  My experience with linux (may or may not be applicable) leads me to believe that the system is perhaps resource-constrained and your task is pending while it tries to free up those resources.
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> RLIMIT_AS and RLIMIT_RSS are distinct on linux, I guess I am a little surprised to see that they're not on MacOS.
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> In any case, the most likely culprit is your setrlimit.  If I were you I would take clang out of the loop entirely and write a test program that does allocations just like the ones clang does (various sized mallocs, you could try profiling to get a ballpark histogram).  I would be surprised if you don't see the same behavior.
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> -Brian

David Barto
barto at cambridgesemantics.com

Sometimes, my best code does nothing. Most of the rest of it has bugs.



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