Part of the mystery can be solved because clang replaces malloc+memset 
pairs with a single calloc call (only when optimization is enabled):

https://www.godbolt.org/z/8r3Ydjs6a

...which explains why the problem shows up in release mode, but not debug 
mode.

There still must be something else going on though, because I'm using the 
malloc+memset combo all the time together with emmalloc (and I guess the 
missing piece is that the malloc call is going through the function 
pointer).

I'll tinker around a bit more with compiler options (but since this is a 
library, I cannot dictate what compiler options the code is built with).

Cheers!

On Monday, 5 September 2022 at 19:31:17 UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:

> The other thing this could be related to is LTO.  IIUC LTO itself can 
> generate calls to buildin functions (such as malloc and calloc) that are 
> not present in the original program.   Does disabling LTO fix the problem?
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 10:28 AM Sam Clegg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Can you trying building with `-Wl,--trace-symbol=calloc` rather than 
>> `LLD_REPORT_UNDEFINED=1` (I guess there are still some issues with that 
>> setting).
>>
>> Does the link time error tell you why calloc is being pulled in?  (The JS 
>> compiler linker errors should do this but they often just say "top level 
>> C/C++").
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 6:03 AM Floh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I just stumbled over a very weird problem in a new sample for my sokol 
>>> headers which includes a non-trivial 3rd party C library - the spine-c 
>>> runtime (
>>> https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spine-runtimes/tree/4.1/spine-c/spine-c
>>> )
>>>
>>> When building in release mode (but not in debug mode) the linker 
>>> complains about an unresolved 'calloc' call. Adding detailed output 
>>> via LLD_REPORT_UNDEFINED=1 I get tons of:
>>>
>>> wasm-ld: error: 
>>> /Users/floh/projects/fips-sdks/emsdk/upstream/emscripten/cache/sysroot/lib/wasm32-emscripten/lto/libemmalloc.a(emmalloc.o):
>>>  
>>> undefined symbol: calloc
>>>
>>> ... how does that even make sense when emmalloc is supposed to provide 
>>> an implementation of calloc... anyway...
>>>
>>> The error goes away when compiling in debug mode (some differences that 
>>> come to mind to the release mode is that debug mode doesn't use -flto, and 
>>> also doesn't run the closure compiler).
>>>
>>> The problem also goes away when not building with emmalloc.
>>>
>>> Now the weird thing is that the entire code this sample is built from 
>>> doesn't appear to call calloc anywhere... and that other samples which 
>>> actually use calloc build just fines.
>>>
>>> Has anybody seen a similar problem yet, before I jump myself into the 
>>> rabbit hole? :)
>>>
>>> The problematic command line is:
>>>
>>> em++ -s DISABLE_EXCEPTION_CATCHING=1  -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti 
>>> -fstrict-aliasing -Wall -Wno-multichar -Wextra -Wno-unknown-pragmas 
>>> -Wno-ignored-qualifiers -Wno-long-long -Wno-overloaded-virtual 
>>> -Wno-deprecated-writable-strings -Wno-unused-volatile-lvalue 
>>> -Wno-inconsistent-missing-override -Wno-warn-absolute-paths 
>>> -Wno-expansion-to-defined  -flto -O3 -DNDEBUG -s 
>>> DISABLE_EXCEPTION_CATCHING=1  --memory-init-file 0 -s 
>>> INITIAL_MEMORY=33554432 -s ERROR_ON_UNDEFINED_SYMBOLS=1 -s 
>>> NO_EXIT_RUNTIME=1 -s LLD_REPORT_UNDEFINED=1 -s ALLOW_MEMORY_GROWTH=1 -s 
>>> USE_WEBGL2=1 -s "MALLOC='emmalloc'" -s NO_FILESYSTEM=1 -s WASM=1 
>>>  --shell-file /Users/floh/projects/sokol-samples/webpage/shell.html -O3 
>>>  -flto  --closure 1 -s ASSERTIONS=0 
>>> sapp/CMakeFiles/spine-sapp.dir/spine-sapp.c.obj 
>>> sapp/CMakeFiles/spine-sapp.dir/spine-assets.c.obj -o 
>>> /Users/floh/projects/fips-deploy/sokol-samples/sapp-webgl2-wasm-vscode-release/spine-sapp.html
>>>  
>>>  libs/sokol/libsokol.a  libs/spine-c/libspine-c.a  libs/stb/libstb.a 
>>>  libs/util/libfileutil.a  fips-cimgui_cimgui/libcimgui.a
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