Ok, ticket is here:

https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/17808

Let me know if I can help with anything else :)

On Tuesday, 6 September 2022 at 20:30:55 UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:

> Yes, please file a ticket.
>
> I think the solution is going to be to set `force_object_files = True` on 
> `libmalloc` in `tools/system_libs.spy`.. which means it (like compiler-rt 
> et al) will be compiled as normal object files and not take part in LTO.
>
> I am curious why this doesn't happen for dlmalloc too though..
>
> cheers,
> sam
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 10:19 AM Floh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Ok, I could cobble together a surprisingly simple reproducer here:
>>
>> https://github.com/floooh/emsc-calloc-emmalloc-repro
>>
>> -flto is indeed needed. So the 4 ingredients are:
>>
>> 1. malloc+memset being 'optimized' to a call to calloc via -O1 or better
>> 2. ...where malloc is called through a function pointer
>> 3. ...and emmalloc is used instead of the vanilla allocator
>> 4. ...and -flto must be enabled
>>
>> ...if any of this is missing, it works :D
>>
>> Should I write an Emscripten ticket too?
>> On Tuesday, 6 September 2022 at 18:43:52 UTC+2 Floh wrote:
>>
>>> 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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