bug#46256: [feature/native-comp] AOT eln files ignored if run from build tree

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 46256@debbugs.gnu.org,
>         andrewjmoreton@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:49:47 +0000
> 
> I've a reproducer that is most luckily due to the same issue you are
> observing:
> 
> emacs -batch -l comp -f batch-native-compile 
> .../emacs/lisp/progmodes/cc-engine.el
> 
> GC kicks-in and we end-up marking #<subr c-string-list-p>, we try then
> to mark its compilation unit but we segfault (backtrace below).

AFAICT, the crash I see here, while compiling subr-x.el, is not inside
GC: gc_in_progress is zero when Emacs crashes.

To make debugging easier, I started Emacs like this:

  emacs -batch -l comp -f batch-byte-native-compile-for-bootstrap 
../lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el

(AFAIU, using batch-byte-native-compile-for-bootstrap is currently the
only way of invoking the native compilation in the same Emacs process,
not in an async subprocess, is that right?)

It crashes inside comp--compile-ctxt-to-file, and when it does, the C
stack seems to be smashed:

  Thread 1 received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
  0x06acac3e in ?? ()
  (gdb) bt
  #0  0x06acac3e in ?? ()
  #1  0x00010101 in ?? ()
  Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)

  Lisp Backtrace:
  "comp--compile-ctxt-to-file" (0x82ca78)
  "comp-compile-ctxt-to-file" (0x82cc88)
  "comp-final1" (0x82cfb0)
  "comp-final" (0x82d238)
  "comp--native-compile" (0x82d468)
  "batch-native-compile" (0x82d6a0)
  "batch-byte-native-compile-for-bootstrap" (0x82d908)
  "command-line-1" (0x82e360)
  "command-line" (0x82ef08)
  "normal-top-level" (0x82f630)

I then put a breakpoint in comp--compile-ctxt-to-file and stepped
through it.  This behaves erratically: if I just step with "next", it
seems to crash inside the call to gcc_jit_context_set_int_option,
here:

  gcc_jit_context_set_int_option (comp.ctxt,
                                  GCC_JIT_INT_OPTION_OPTIMIZATION_LEVEL,
                                  comp.speed < 0 ? 0
                                  : (comp.speed > 3 ? 3 : comp.speed));

But if I "stepi" inside gcc_jit_int_option_optimization_level, it
somehow seems to return, proceeds to this line:

  gcc_jit_context_compile_to_file (comp.ctxt,
                                   GCC_JIT_OUTPUT_KIND_DYNAMIC_LIBRARY,
                                   SSDATA (tmp_file));

Then something goes wrong inside it: the backtrace shows bogus
addresses (note the "0xbaadf00d" thingies):

  0x0766f180 in ?? ()
  (gdb) bt
  #0  0x0766f180 in ?? ()
  #1  0x672f756e in ?? ()
  #2  0x652f7469 in ?? ()
  #3  0x7363616d in ?? ()
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Maybe if I "stepi" inside that last libgccjit function, I will be able
to advance more.  But something is definitely fishy here, and I'm not
sure what that is.  Ideas for further debugging are welcome.