Based on the fail, I took a look at how gccgo handles stacks. It relies on the split stack feature in gold, which doesn't appear to be implemented for ppc64.
Running one of the go recursion testcases (attached) shows what happens when we run out of stack and don't have the split stack feature to save us: #gccgo -g -O2 -o peano peano.go # ./peano Segmentation fault And we get the setup_rt_frame error in dmesg: peano[4538]: bad frame in setup_rt_frame: 000000c20ff7f000 nip 0000000010001018 lr 0000000010001024 As expected, we are just continually recurse without checking out stack pointer for overflow: 0x0000000010001008 <+8>: cmpdi r3,0 0x000000001000100c <+12>: beq 0x10001040 <main.count+64> 0x0000000010001010 <+16>: mflr r0 0x0000000010001014 <+20>: std r0,16(r1) 0x0000000010001018 <+24>: stdu r1,-32(r1) 0x000000001000101c <+28>: ld r3,0(r3) 0x0000000010001020 <+32>: bl 0x10001008 <main.count+8> ** Attachment added: "peano.go" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1304754/+attachment/4079310/+files/peano.go -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304754 Title: gccgo compiled binaries are killed by SEGV on 64k ppc64el kernels To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1304754/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
