WebAssembly / WebAssembly/binaryen

wasm-ctor-eval doesn't seem to play well with >2gb memories.

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Description

Looks like it runs out of memory maybe?

./test/runner core_2gb.test_eval_ctors_no_main --skip-slow --cores=4  
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em++: error: '/root/emsdk/upstream/bin/wasm-ctor-eval --ctors=_initialize --kept-exports=_initialize test_ctors_no_main.wasm -o test_ctors_no_main.wasm -g --mvp-features --enable-mutable-globals --enable-sign-ext' failed (received SIGKILL (-9))

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Start by reproducing the failure with ./test/runner core_2gb.test_eval_ctors_no_main --skip-slow --cores=4, then inspect the wasm-ctor-eval invocation shown in the error. Done means determining why memories over 2GB lead to SIGKILL and adding coverage that verifies the case no longer fails.

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Tech stack
wasm
Domain
compilers
Issue type
Bug
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