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

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
>> Cc: arash@gnu.org,  cyril.arnould@outlook.com,  63365@debbugs.gnu.org,
>>   svraka.andras@gmail.com
>> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2023 14:11:15 -0400
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> Maybe someone should compare the two binaries (with and without
>> >> -foptimize-sibling-calls) to understand which compilation unit (and
>> >> which function) differs in details.
>> >
>> > How does one compare binaries in a useful way?  The Emacs binary is
>> > AFAIR around 20MB even when stripped of all symbols.
>> 
>> That's a good question, for elf there are specific tools for that, even
>> just readelf can output function sizes and that's a good starting point.
>> 
>> For Windows I've idea (I'm assuming Windows is not elf based).
>
> No, Windows doesn't use ELF.
>
> Maybe we should start by narrowing the problem?  E.g., which Lisp
> files cause the crashes, and which *.eln files, if any, are involved?
>
> The C files more or less directly involved in byte-compilation are, I
> think, eval.c, data.c, alloc.c, lread.c, bytecode.c.  If we think one
> of these could be involved, it would be nice to find the one(s) that
> cause the problem, for example, by selectively compiling only those
> with -fno-optimize-sibling-calls, then removing them one by one from
> the set of files compiled like that.

That would be a good starting point already, I'd suggest to add comp.c
to the investigated set as well.

Thanks

  Andrea