[M3devel] report on Windows XP builds/tests

[Tony Hosking]

Possibly something very broken in mutexes?

On 1 Sep 2009, at 20:09, Randy Coleburn wrote:

> Hi, I am back from vacation.
>
> I've updated my sandbox on WindowsXP to be current with the CVS head.
>
> I tried first to run Jay's "upgrade.py", but got the following error:
>
> C:\cm3\Sandbox\cm3\scripts\python>upgrade.py
> using c:\cm3\bin\cm3.exe
> PATH=c:\cm3\bin;%PATH%
> set CM3_TARGET=NT386
> set CM3_INSTALL=c:\cm3
> set M3CONFIG=C:\cm3\Sandbox\cm3\m3-sys\cminstall\src\config-no- 
> install\NT386
> set CM3_ROOT=C:/cm3/Sandbox/cm3
> ERROR: errno.h not found in %INCLUDE%(C:\msdev\80\VC\include;C: 
> \Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include;C:\Program Files 
> \Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Include)
> C:\cm3\Sandbox\cm3\scripts\python>
>
> Next I tried my upgrade script and was successful.  Then I used my  
> "do-cm3.cmd" script to rebuild all packages and was successful,  
> except for "m3-sys\m3cc" and "caltech-parser\parserlib\parserlib 
> \test".
>
> In catching up on my email, I noticed Olaf had asked about mentor  
> and juno on Windows, so I tried running these.  Juno starts up and  
> puts up a window, but quickly crashes.  mentor crashes before any  
> window comes up and I also get a firewall request from Windows  
> asking whether to block the program--I suspect it is trying to  
> access the network, hence the firewall request.  Here are the  
> runtime error reports:
>
> C:\cm3\bin>mentor
>
> ***
> *** runtime error:
> ***    Attempt to reference an illegal memory location.
> ***    pc = 0x849590 = LockMutex + 0x9c in ..\src\thread 
> \WIN32\ThreadWin32.m3
> ***
>
> Stack trace:
>    FP         PC      Procedure
> ---------  ---------  -------------------------------
> 0x2abf97c   0x846fdd  SystemError + 0x66 in ..\src\runtime 
> \NT386\RTSignal.m3
> 0x2abf9b8   0x849590  LockMutex + 0x9c in ..\src\thread 
> \WIN32\ThreadWin32.m3
> 0x2abf9e8  0x1405c72  Be + 0x3e in ..\src\split\TextVBT.m3
> 0x2abfb24  0x1235764  pText + 0x6f4 in ..\src\FormsVBT.m3
> 0x2abfb84  0x12234b1  Item + 0x48b in ..\src\FormsVBT.m3
> 0x2abfbb0  0x124107a  OneChild + 0xf8 in ..\src\FormsVBT.m3
> 0x2abfc90  0x1227c9a  pMButton + 0x11c in ..\src\FormsVBT.m3
> 0x2abfcf0  0x12234b1  Item + 0x48b in ..\src\FormsVBT.m3
> 0x2abfd1c  0x124107a  OneChild + 0xf8 in ..\src\FormsVBT.m3
> 0x2abfe24  0x1227520  pShape + 0x19c in ..\src\FormsVBT.m3
> .........  .........  ... more frames ...
>
>
> C:\cm3\bin>juno
>
> ***
> *** runtime error:
> ***    <*ASSERT*> failed.
> ***    file "..\src\runtime\common\RTCollector.m3", line 2284
> ***
>
> Stack trace:
>    FP         PC      Procedure
> ---------  ---------  -------------------------------
> 0x210f9d8   0x5d4e43  CheckStoreTraced + 0xde in ..\src\runtime 
> \common\RTCollector.m3
> 0x210fa38  0x10041c74  Unnest + 0x124 in ..\src\JunoCompileNF.m3
> 0x210fac8  0x10040a49  B1 + 0x3d0 in ..\src\JunoCompileNF.m3
> 0x210faf4  0x1003f9b6  Normalize + 0x46 in ..\src\JunoCompileNF.m3
> 0x210fb20  0x10016b9f  Cmd.C2pp + 0x20 in ..\src\JunoCompile.m3
> 0x210fb70  0x10016ac3  Cmd.C2p + 0x618 in ..\src\JunoCompile.m3
> 0x210fbcc  0x1001594b  Cmd.C2 + 0x9c8 in ..\src\JunoCompile.m3
> 0x210fc24  0x100156b8  Cmd.C2 + 0x735 in ..\src\JunoCompile.m3
> 0x210fc7c  0x100151a0  Cmd.C2 + 0x21d in ..\src\JunoCompile.m3
> 0x210fcc8  0x10016b43  Cmd.C2p + 0x698 in ..\src\JunoCompile.m3
> .........  .........  ... more frames ...
>
> C:\cm3\bin>
>
> Juno crashes on an ASSERT in the collector, while mentor seems to be  
> trying to lock a mutex that isn't properly initialized.  I have not  
> looked at the source code to try and debug.  Let me know if you want  
> me to pursue further.
>
> I've rebuilt some of my own programs and run some very basic tests.   
> So far, no problems detected.
>
> I will try to run some tests on Vista platform tomorrow.
>
> Maybe it would be prudent for me to compile and run some of the  
> tests ya'll have been implementing.  I think the scripts for these  
> aren't native Windows, but if you can point me to some of these,  
> I'll try to translate for use on Windows.
>
> Let me know how I can best assist with the release effort.
>
> Regards,
> Randy Coleburn

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