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fix(gnovm): change initialization order so realm objects are persisted before referenced by other realms #1861
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This reverts commit e34a322.
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Marking as draft until the failing tests are fixed. I took a brief look and I see two categories of failing tests -- I may be completely wrong about these and will need to spend more time looking at them.
I think this change exposes a known issue with trying to assign a value to a nil realm pointer variable that is of a declared type -- #1326 |
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// saves the mempackage to the store. |
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the name is inconsistent with its behavior though...
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gut tells me not to add saving logic into runFiles logic, but instead runFiles could return new init functions as []Name, and the caller can save before or after as needed.
I'mstill trying to wrap my head around why it's needed. thinking..
back on this. |
…to fix/shared-realm-pointers
@mvertes @petar-dambovaliev please look into this |
Closing; #2255 also fixed this issue. |
Closes #974.
The first part of this PR addresses the issue linked above. The issue details a scenario in which pointer ownership was able to be stolen by passing the pointer value to another realm that saved the value to it's own realm during initialization. The solution for this is to persist the mem package before running any
init
functions. This should be fine because realm finalization happens the same number of times.The realm initialization behavior before (still the behavior for packages):
init
functionNew behavior for realms:
init
functionThe second part of this PR attempts to clarify what the expected behavior should be when sharing pointers to values amongst realms. It achieves this by updating the effective gno docs to detail the expected behavior and to generally discourage users from doing things like this unless there is a good reason to do so and they have a strong understanding of how this is expected to work. There are also clarifying txtar tests that have been added to test the expected behavior.TODO: remove the above docs changes. It was decided not to allow realms to store references to objects in other realms -- #2332
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