[erlang-bugs] beam_validator does not validate against GC during tuple construction (Was: something else)

[Erik Søe Sørensen]

Sorry about the wrong subject originally -- I guess my laziness shows :-(
This obviously not concerns circularity, but GC triggered at 
inoppportune times.

Erik Søe Sørensen wrote:
> The following function passes beam_validator verification, but calls a 
> gc_bif while a tuple is not completely constructed.
> (I take it that that could wreak havoc in the interpreter and is thus 
> illegal and technically a validator bug; I'm not completely certain of 
> this though. Apologies if this is not a bug after all.)
>
>     {module, beamtoying5}.  %% version = 0
>     {exports, [{gc_in_cons,1},{gc_in_cons2,1}]}.
>     {attributes, []}.
>     {labels, 4}.
>
>     {function, gc_in_cons, 1, 2}.
>       {label,1}.
>         {func_info,{atom,beamtoying5},{atom,gc_in_cons},1}.
>       {label,2}.
>         {test_heap,3,1}.
>         {put_tuple,2,{x,1}}.
>         {put,{atom,dummy}}.
>         {gc_bif,'bnot',{f,0},1,[{x,0}],{x,0}}.
>         {put,{x,0}}.
>         {move,{x,1},{x,0}}.
>         return.
>
> Another thing: If the "put dummy" instruction is moved down beside the 
> "put x0" instruction, then we get a function which also passes 
> beam_validator validation, yet results in the following error message 
> when the module is loaded:
>
>     =ERROR REPORT==== 27-Jun-2011::11:14:10 ===
>     Loading of /home/erik/kode/q/beamtoying5.beam failed: badfile
>     {error,badfile}
>
>     =ERROR REPORT==== 27-Jun-2011::11:14:10 ===
>     beam/beam_load.c(1771): Error loading function
>     beamtoying5:gc_in_cons2/1: op put_tuple u x:
>       no specific operation found
>
> because the instruction rewriter expects a "put" directly after a 
> "put_tuple".
>
>
> Regards,
> Erik Søe Sørensen
>
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