So I'm swinging back towards this being some kind of platform bug rather than a gccgo thing. The hung process has three threads each using 100% of a cpu in system time. strace shows that they are all in futex, this sort of thing:
(t-doko)ubuntu@arm64:~$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/build/buildd/gcc-4.8-4.8.2/lib64 strace -e futex -f ./whut6-arm64-4.9 futex(0x7f906ea21c, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 Process 2707 attached fetching for 0 th time... [pid 2706] futex(0x7f912c50a0, FUTEX_WAIT, 0, NULLProcess 2708 attached Process 2709 attached <unfinished ...> [pid 2708] futex(0x8d26fd8, FUTEX_WAIT, 0, {60, 0}sending 0 <unfinished ...> [pid 2709] futex(0x7f912c50a0, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1 [pid 2706] <... futex resumed> ) = 0 [pid 2709] futex(0x8f48088, FUTEX_WAIT, 0, NULLgot 0 fetching for 1 th time... <unfinished ...> [pid 2706] futex(0x8f48088, FUTEX_WAKE, 1 <unfinished ...> It seems to me that the last futex call by 2706 should have woken the previous one by 2709 but I don' treally know how this works... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1256246 Title: gccgo/arm64: using channels before main starts is unreliable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.8/+bug/1256246/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs