TL;DR: "r" considered harmful.
If LLVM chose registers badly, the inline asm which cleans up a thread
on Linux could, on all architectures other than x86_64, clobber either
`munmap` argument with the other argument *or* with the syscall number.
This would cause munmap to return EINVAL, and we would literally *never*
free the thread memory, which isn't ideal.
As it turns out, this was happening on MIPS, and was the cause of the
failures we've recently been seeing for that target: QEMU genuinely was
running out of memory (or at least, the virtualized address space was
getting too fragmented to map many contiguous pages). I've therefore
re-enabled a test which was disabled due to that flakiness.
This bug was accidentally fixed for x86_64 back in 2022 (see 59e33b447),
which probably helped it to go unnoticed for as long as it did!
Resolves: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/30216
0cbaaa5eb9Matthew Lugg committed on 1/4/2026, 12:35:27 AM· committed by mluggparenta0a982f