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

[Mario Sanchez Prada]

On 03/07/15 10:47, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:32 AM, Mario Sanchez Prada <mario at webkit.org
> [...]
>     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?

Not sure that would be useful, since enabling or disabling that -ftree-sra
while building bmalloc does not make any difference wrt to this problem, but
perhaps I'm overlooking something.

The crash goes away when passing -fno-tree-sra for WebCore, unfortunately.

Thanks,
Mario