[webkit-dev] Crash on xLarge memory allocation using bmalloc on 32bit systems

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:32 AM, Mario Sanchez Prada <mario at webkit.org>
wrote:

> On 02/07/15 12:11, Mario Sanchez Prada wrote:
> > [...]
> > If you check my last comments in there, you will see that I found out
> that
> > passing -fno-tree-sra to gcc while compiling would reliably prevent the
> > crash from happening, both in my use case and when using the URL above.
> >
> > Does anyone here have any idea why this could be the case? Any hint?
> >
> > While passing -fno-tree-sra could be an interesting temporary workaround
> > (specially if constrained in scope to bmalloc only) for downstream, it
> does
> > feel like papering over the real issue, which could still be there in WK.
>
> FWIW, I've tried reducing the scope of this flag to bmalloc but the crash
> was still there. However, passing it instead for WebCore only did "fix" the
> situation, so perhaps the problem is not strictly related to bmalloc, but
> to
> something else in the graphics subsystem?
>
> I could also be a bug on GCC, though.
>

Perhaps you can compare two diassembled bmalloc code with or without
-fno-tree-sra since bmallc is a fairly small project?

- R. Niwa
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