bug#61489: [PATCH v2] Increase BLOCK_ALIGN from 1024 to 32768

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

On Sat, 2023-03-04 at 21:53 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
> > Cc: 61489@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2023 21:58:06 +0300
> > 
> > On Sat, 2023-03-04 at 18:33 +0300, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2023-03-04 at 17:00 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > > Cc: 61489-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> > > > > Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2023 13:26:58 +0200
> > > > > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > > > > 
> > > > > > * src/alloc.c (BLOCK_ALIGN): increase from 1024 to 32768
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks, installed on the master branch, and closing the bug.
> > > > 
> > > > Note: this change breaks the unexec build, see bug#61960.
> > > 
> > > Oh, I see, thanks! I'll try to build Emacs with sanitizer, it's usually
> > > pretty
> > > good at that kind of bugs. Will see if there's anything obvious
> > 
> > FTR: it might take longer than I expected, because for unknown reason Emacs
> > built with sanitizer isn't built with sanitizer. Yeah, lol. I passed the `-
> > fsanitize=address,undefined` to CFLAGS, and `./configure …` output even
> > confirmed it registered them. However, after everything was built, it does
> > not make use of sanitizer.
> > 
> > I also realised I forgot to pass `-lasan` to LDFLAGS, so the build should've
> > failed at link-stage. Apparently there are some bugs in the build system
> > related to passing cflags through to the actual compiler.
> 
> Are you saying that the advice in etc/DEBUG how to set this up and how
> to run the resulting Emacs is inaccurate or incorrect or outdated?

Thanks for mentioning that part of documentation, I didn't know about it and 
didn't read it.

I am simply saying there is a bug with passing through cflags.