[swift-dev] Differences between Xcode official toolchains and tagged releases from repository

Xavier Jurado xavier.jurado at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 02:26:00 CDT 2016


Thanks for the hint! When I built the toolchain I modified the
"mixin_lightweight_assertions" preset locally to use "no-assertions" and
"swift-assertions", thinking it was the appropriate combination based on a
FIXME comment. I will try building it again with only "no-assertions" and
report back.

2016-10-05 18:28 GMT+02:00 Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com>:

> Aha, so the second bug is because home-built toolchains have assertions on
> by default and Xcode GM toolchains generally have them off. (Not a promise,
> but true of the last few Xcodes.) Of course, if you hit an assertion
> failure, there’s no telling what the no-asserts build is actually doing.
>
> I’m not so sure the first bug falls into the same category yet, but it
> might as well.
>
> Jordan
>
>
> > On Oct 4, 2016, at 14:05, Jordan Rose via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Xavi. Hopefully these aren't blocking you in Xcode 8 either (in
> either Swift 2.3 or Swift 3).
> >
> >> On Oct 4, 2016, at 8:03, Xavier Jurado via swift-dev <
> swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello Jordan,
> >>
> >> We have filled two bugs against bugs.swift.org to document two crashes
> >> that are only reproducible with our toolchain built from the
> >> swift-2.2.1-RELEASE tag, but that appear fixed in the official
> >> toolchain bundled with Xcode 7.3.1 (7D1014).
> >>
> >> Crashers:
> >>
> >> https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-2844
> >> https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-2845
> >>
> >> Since using the official toolchain somehow fixes the issues we realize
> >> they are far from critical, but we have reported them in hope of
> >> finding the discrepancies between the official toolchain and the the
> >> tagged releases.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Xavi
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