Re: buildfarm animal shoveler failing with "Illegal instruction" - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mark Wong
Subject Re: buildfarm animal shoveler failing with "Illegal instruction"
Date
Msg-id 20201002174558.GA5758@2ndQuadrant.com
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In response to Re: buildfarm animal shoveler failing with "Illegal instruction"  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: buildfarm animal shoveler failing with "Illegal instruction"
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On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 09:12:53PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Mark Wong <mark@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > I'm getting Tom set up with access too, in case he has time before me to
> > get a stack trace to see what's happening...
> 
> tl;dr: it's hard to conclude that this is anything but a compiler bug.
> 
> I was able to reproduce this on shoveler's host, but only when using
> the compiler shoveler uses (clang-3.9), not the 6.3 gcc that's also
> on there and is of similar vintage.  Observations:
> 
> * You don't need any complicated test case; "pg_dump template1"
> is enough.
> 
> * Reverting 1ed6b8956's addition of a "postfix operators are not supported
> anymore" warning to dumpOpr() makes it go away.  This despite the fact
> that that code is never reached when dumping template1.  (We do enter
> dumpOpr, but the oprinfo->dobj.dump test always fails.)
> 
> * Reducing the optimization level to -O1 or -O0 makes it go away.
> 
> * Inserting a debugging fprintf in dumpOpr makes it go away.
> 
> Since clang 3.9 is several years old, maybe we could move shoveler
> up to a newer version?  Or dial it down to -O1 optimization?

There is ayu, same system with clang 4.0, so covered on that front.

I went ahead and stopped the jobs to run with clang 3.9.  This is also
the same system that was running clang 3.8 too.  I tried looking for EOL
dates, but had trouble finding anything...  But I can change the
optimization flag if we want it back.

Regards,
Mark
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Mark Wong
2ndQuadrant - PostgreSQL Solutions for the Enterprise
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