Segfault when using references in thread

[realFlowControl]

Running code that uses a reference to an element in an array in a thread segfaults with the following backtrace:

    frame #0: 0x000000018f386a60 libsystem_kernel.dylib`__pthread_kill + 8
    frame #1: 0x000000018f3bec20 libsystem_pthread.dylib`pthread_kill + 288
    frame #2: 0x000000018f2cba30 libsystem_c.dylib`abort + 180
    frame #3: 0x000000010036c32c php`zend_mm_panic + 52
    frame #4: 0x000000010036e930 php`_efree_32 + 120
    frame #5: 0x00000001003ea2f0 php`ZEND_ASSIGN_REF_SPEC_CV_VAR_HANDLER + 288
    frame #6: 0x00000001003cdc38 php`execute_ex + 172
    frame #7: 0x000000010104d03c parallel.so`php_parallel_scheduler_run(runtime=<unavailable>, frame=0x0000000102413020) at scheduler.c:331:13 [opt]
    frame #8: 0x000000010104c62c parallel.so`php_parallel_thread(arg=0x000000010125f3c0) at scheduler.c:501:9 [opt]
    frame #9: 0x000000018f3bef94 libsystem_pthread.dylib`_pthread_start + 136

You can reproduce using https://github.com/realFlowControl/1brc/blob/main/calculateAverage.php, the opline points to line 71 (where the array is accessed). If I comment the entire if-block, it segfaults in another line.

It started with 32cd9c3 and the change that leads to this is this line:

parallel/src/copy.c

Line 191 in d8a0113

GC_SET_REFCOUNT(ht, 1);

Setting this back to 2 will fix the segfault, but lead to ASAN tests failing ;-)

I sadly have no idea what is going on :-(

Edit (2024-10-02): if OPcache is enabled, this works like a charm, without any issues. As soon as I disable OPcache, it crashes

[hschimpf]

Hi @realFlowControl!

Does this happen on any PHP version?

[realFlowControl]

So far this issue is in the develop branch and the changes that lead to that are not yet released (that's why i'm withholding new minor releases). So it should not be related to hschimpf/parallel-sdk#26

[realFlowControl]

Interestingly another way to workaround in case no OPcache is around is to declare the $stations array static in

https://github.com/realFlowControl/1brc/blob/57cc8737e9f2593c907ce6e845e682fadc1ccf31/calculateAverage.php#L59