bug#63365: 30.0.50; GCC 13.1 breaks building Emacs with native-compilation

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Cyril Arnould <cyril.arnould@outlook.com>
>> CC: "eliz@gnu.org" <eliz@gnu.org>, "63365@debbugs.gnu.org"
>>      <63365@debbugs.gnu.org>, "  akrl@sdf.org" <akrl@sdf.org>,
>>      András Svraka <svraka.andras@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 09:04:16 +0000
>> 
>> I've been playing around with compiler options. From my findings, the
>> 
>> -foptimize-sibling-calls flag breaks the build:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> ./autogen.sh
>> 
>> CFLAGS='-g3 -O1 -gdwarf-2 -foptimize-sibling-calls' \
>> 
>> ./configure --with-native-compilation
>> 
>> make
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> OTOH, using -O1 with every flag listed under -O2 *but*
>> 
>> -foptimize-sibling-calls results in the build succeeding. The following
>> 
>> works as well for me:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> ./autogen.sh
>> 
>> CFLAGS='-g3 -O2 -gdwarf-2 -fno-optimize-sibling-calls' \
>> 
>> ./configure --with-native-compilation
>> 
>> make
>
> Andrea, any reason that this GCC switch should break
> native-compilation?

At this point I start to suspect that this is not strictly related to
native compilation.

The configure flags are used only for our regular C code and not for
Elisp native compilation.  So it might be that some kind of
misscompilaiton of our C code is happening only with
--with-native-compilation, but looks to me it's not our compiler or
libgccjit the issue here.

> Does the same problem happen on GNU/Linux?

I tried now on GCC 13.1.1

git clean -xfd && ./autogen.sh
CFLAGS='-g3 -O1 -gdwarf-2 -foptimize-sibling-calls'
./configure --with-native-compilation && make -j16

and have complete bootstrap succesfully on emacs-29 (65f355ea0a3), my
dev machine is still x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.

One idea might be asking GCC to log what optimize-sibling-calls is doing
and see if any of our C function supporting native compilation is
touched by this pass (I believe is called in GCC tree-tailcall).

CFLAGS='-g3 -O1 -gdwarf-2 -foptimize-sibling-calls -fdump-tree-tailr' && make 
bootstrap

should let GCC dump what this pass is for each C compilation unit, I'd
start looking at the output for comp.c (I've comp.c.045t.tailr1 and 
comp.c.125t.tailr2).  

Hope it helps!

  Andrea