[GHC] #8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ----------------------------+--------------------------------------- Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: highest | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Keywords: | Operating System: Windows Architecture: x86 | Type of failure: Compile-time crash Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | ----------------------------+--------------------------------------- Windows shows a window that says "GHC has stopped working" when compiling a simple hello world. Steps to reproduce 1) Download GHC 7.8 RC2 (http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc2/ghc-7.8.0.20140228-i386 -unknown-mingw32.tar.bz2) 2) Extract the contents of the tar to folder $GHC$ 3) Add $GHC$\bin and $GHC$\mingw\bin folder to the PATH, add env var "LANG=C". 4) Create file test.hs with contents: main = putStrLn "Hello, World!" 5) run "ghc test.hs". Interestingly, the error is not deterministic, ie, after running the command several times the program gets compiled. When that happens, and ff the file test.o is not deleted, further attempts to compile run succesfully. GHCi appears to work normally (when doing simple tests). More details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22291739/cant-install-packages-with- cabal-using-ghc-7-8rc2-and-windows-7 -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: highest | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Comment (by dreixel): I can reproduce this, and it actually always fails for me. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:1 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: highest | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Comment (by simonpj): This looks serious. And it looks like it's the same as the problem I've been encountering when building on Window: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-March/004189.html. Notice the crash happens for me after a couple of `CPSZ` messages have come out, same as reported above on !StackOverflow. But hello-world failing is much easier to track down than GHC itself failing. Could anyone git-bisect their way to the commit that did this? Simon -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:2 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: highest | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Changes (by thoughtpolice): * milestone: => 7.8.1 -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:3 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: highest | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Comment (by simonpj): Austin says: if ghc-stage2 is seg-faulting, try re-linking it with the debug runtime system, thus {{{ cd ./ghc make re2 GhcDebugged=YES }}} and now try the seg-faulting ghc-stage2 again. Also https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Debugging/CompiledCode -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:4 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: highest | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Comment (by darchon): When i run `ghc` from within `gdb` I consistently get it to successfully compile and link the program. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:5 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: highest | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Comment (by simonpj): See also #8834 -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:6 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: highest | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Comment (by simonpj): See also #8890 -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:7 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: infoneeded Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.2 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Changes (by thoughtpolice): * priority: highest => high * status: new => infoneeded * milestone: 7.8.1 => 7.8.2 Comment: After testing and investigation, we believe this is related to #8834 - but also, we can't easily reproduce this. So I'm lowering the priority and marking this to 7.8.2. I will thoroughly test with the Windows distribution (coming soon). BTW: what version of Windows are you using? -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:8 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: infoneeded Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.2 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Comment (by facundoq): I'm using Windows 7 32 bits; I don't have the time/experience to build ghc with patches, but can test binary distributions to see if the problem disappeared. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:9 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: infoneeded Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.2 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Comment (by thoughtpolice): Note the discussion continuing on from https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8834#comment:79 -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:10 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: infoneeded Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Changes (by thoughtpolice): * milestone: 7.8.2 => 7.8.1 -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:11 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: infoneeded Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Changes (by simonmar): * cc: simonmar (added) -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:12 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: infoneeded Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Comment (by thoughtpolice): @Simon, I've tried sprinkling some `NOINLINE` to see if it has any effect on pressure the codegen might be under - indeed, if I sprinkle a few `NOINLINE` here and there like on `genCCall` (a massive piece of code in its own right), then `System.Time` does compile, but DPH fails to compile later on: {{{ libraries/dph/dph-lifted-vseg/ghc.mk:5: recipe for target 'libraries/dph /dph-lifted-vseg/dist- install/build/Data/Array/Parallel/PArray/PData/Base.p_o' failed make[1]: *** [libraries/dph/dph-lifted-vseg/dist- install/build/Data/Array/Parallel/PArray/PData/Base.p_o] Segmentation fault }}} I'm checking if this is the same thing as before right now. I will note that in the example I posted in the other comment, `a292_rFAj` at the STG level - which roughly corresponds to `stmtToInstrs` - is ''absolutely massive'' - by itself, it's on the order of 24,000 lines of intermediate code long. `X86.CodeGen` really only exports `cmmTopCodeGen`, so it probably goes to town on the module, inlining like crazy, since `stmtToInstrs` is at the heart of it. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:13 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: infoneeded Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Comment (by awson): I don't quite understand [https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8834#comment:77 how could I reproduce it]. Even running GHC under MSYS2 I can't get it segfaulting. If sitting on 64-bit windows shall I use 32-bit MSYS2 to reproduce it? Also [https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8834#comment:82 growing stack by more than 1 page] is a *definite* bug in Windows. And there are many discussions on this here and there. As a temporary workaround could we simply increase reserved *and* committed stack size in an executable's header making GHC invoke linker with right options when producing executables - something like `-optl- Xlinker -optl--stack=0x800000,0x800000`? This would make things more or less like they are under Linux/OSX. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:14 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: infoneeded Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Comment (by simonmar): Does committing more stack space have any adverse effects? Startup time and/or making our processes unnecessarily large? -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:15 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: infoneeded Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+------------------------------ Comment (by awson): Replying to [comment:15 simonmar]:
Does committing more stack space have any adverse effects? Startup time and/or making our processes unnecessarily large?
These effects look absolutely negligible to me. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:16 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7
32bits
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Reporter: facundoq | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: infoneeded
Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1
Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2
Resolution: | Keywords:
Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86
Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown
Test Case: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Related Tickets:
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Comment (by Austin Seipp
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: closed Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: fixed | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Changes (by thoughtpolice): * status: infoneeded => closed * resolution: => fixed Comment: This should now be fixed. GHC passes `-Xlinker --stack=0x800000,0x800000` to gcc now, which reserves and commits 8MB up front (2mb is enough to fix this, but 8 is quite generous). -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:18 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: merge Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: fixed | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Changes (by thoughtpolice): * status: closed => merge -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:19 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: closed Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: fixed | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: ---------------------------------------+----------------------------- Changes (by thoughtpolice): * status: merge => closed Comment: Merged. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:20 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7 32bits ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------- Reporter: facundoq | Owner: Type: bug | Status: closed Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Resolution: fixed | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86 Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: #12186 | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------- Changes (by tim-m89): * cc: tim-m89 (added) * related: => #12186 -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8870#comment:21 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
#8870: GHC 7.8.0 RC2 fails when compiling a hello world program on Windows 7
32bits
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Reporter: facundoq | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: closed
Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1
Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2
Resolution: fixed | Keywords:
Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86
Type of failure: Compile-time crash | Test Case:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Related Tickets: #12186 | Differential Rev(s):
Wiki Page: |
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