[erlang-bugs] Segmentation fault when running HIPE-compilled code

[Sergey S]

Hello.

While I was playing with +native option, I run into a bug in HIPE
which leads to segmentation fault.

To reproduce the bug just compile the code below using HIPE and run
crash:start/0. Your will see the following:

Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.6.5 [source] [smp:2]
[async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]

Eshell V5.6.5  (abort with ^G)
1> crash:start().
# This message will be printed only once when compiled with +native
Segmentation fault

Here is the code (don't look for intention of this example, it has not
got that):

%---------------------------------------------------
-module(crash).
-export([start/0]).

start() ->
    spawn(fun() -> init() end).

init() ->
    repeat(10, fun() -> void end),
    receive after infinity -> ok end.

repeat(0, _) ->
    ok;
repeat(N, Fun) ->
    io:format("# This message will be printed only once when compiled
with +native~n"),
    Fun(),
    repeat(N - 1, Fun). % <------ It never will be called if you use HIPE
%---------------------------------------------------

The same code compiled without +native flag works well to me. I'm
using Erlang R12B5.

When I saw that segfault, I tried to replace "receive" statement with
"timer:sleep(999999)" call, and it helped!

--
Sergey