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hkratz opened this issue Jan 12, 2022 · 3 comments · Fixed by #93402
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LLVM assertion failures hang with a modal dialog on Windows #92829

hkratz opened this issue Jan 12, 2022 · 3 comments · Fixed by #93402
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hkratz commented Jan 12, 2022

The Windows CI build with LLVM assertions enabled recently hung without an error message. It turned out to be an LLVM assertion failure resulting in a dialog which needed to be acknowledged, see #92535 (comment).

According to the assert documentation such a dialog is always displayed, but that is not the whole truth. Apparently _CrtSetReportHook() can be used to customize assertion failure handling. We should definitely make assertions failures exit with error after printing failure information to stderr instead of displaying a dialog and hanging.

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Could this be part of why we're getting so many hangs in the CI?

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hkratz commented Jan 14, 2022 •
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@Patrick-Poitras That was responsible for four stuck dist-x86_64-msvc-alt builds recently. I don't think it was responsible for many timed out builds before that.

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ehuss commented Jan 28, 2022

Posted #93402 with a possible solution.

matthiaskrgr added a commit to matthiaskrgr/rust that referenced this issue Feb 3, 2022
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Rollup merge of rust-lang#93402 - ehuss:llvm-dialog, r=michaelwoerister
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Windows: Disable LLVM crash dialog boxes.

This disables the crash dialog box on Windows. When LLVM hits an assertion, it will open a dialog box with Abort/Retry/Ignore. This is annoying on CI because CI will just hang until it times out (which can take hours).

Instead of opening a dialog box, it will print a message like this:

```
Assertion failed: isa<X>(Val) && "cast<Ty>() argument of incompatible type!", file D:\Proj\rust\rust\src\llvm-project\llvm\include\llvm/Support/Casting.h, line 255
```

Closes rust-lang#92829
matthiaskrgr added a commit to matthiaskrgr/rust that referenced this issue Feb 3, 2022
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Rollup merge of rust-lang#93402 - ehuss:llvm-dialog, r=michaelwoerister
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Windows: Disable LLVM crash dialog boxes.

This disables the crash dialog box on Windows. When LLVM hits an assertion, it will open a dialog box with Abort/Retry/Ignore. This is annoying on CI because CI will just hang until it times out (which can take hours).

Instead of opening a dialog box, it will print a message like this:

```
Assertion failed: isa<X>(Val) && "cast<Ty>() argument of incompatible type!", file D:\Proj\rust\rust\src\llvm-project\llvm\include\llvm/Support/Casting.h, line 255
```

Closes rust-lang#92829
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