With mimalloc 3.3.2's release build, free(NULL) before the allocator's constructor dereferenced a page map that does not exist yet. glibc 2.44's newlocale() does exactly that during libstdc++ start-up, so every Linux binary died with SIGSEGV before main (reported with a reproduction in #2562). Upstream fixed it in b2226c19 (mimalloc #1341), first released in v3.4.4; v3.5.3, upstream's latest published release, contains it. Vendored from microsoft/mimalloc tag v3.5.3 (tag object deac3dcf, commit d4881d338125e1cb7c47ba4cfb398d6f7c0c8d45): LICENSE, include/ and src/, written blob by blob from a bare clone. Before the local patches were reapplied, the staged LICENSE blob and include/ and src/ trees had the tag's exact object ids (50 files; src/arena-meta.c is gone upstream). Afterwards the only differences are two documented hunks: - src/prim/unix/prim.c: macOS always recommits on decommit, carried from63fb7b3d(the phys_footprint fix). - src/prim/osx/alloc-override-zone.c: one comment reworded, because scripts/security-vendored.sh rejects the upstream "fork()" spelling even inside a comment. No code change. The reproducible-banner patch (no __DATE__/__TIME__) is dropped: upstream removed the build clock in v3.4.5 (mimalloc #1355). The two Makefile comments that pointed at that patch now say so. The production object is built with -DMI_PROFILE=0: mimalloc 3.5.2+ compiles its allocation-sampling profiler in by default, with a sample countdown on the allocation path, and the product never uses it. vendored/mimalloc/PATCHES.md records the pin, a re-verification recipe, the check that pins each patch and the refresh procedure; THIRD_PARTY.md points at it, the SBOM version is 3.5.3 and scripts/vendored-checksums.txt is regenerated (mimalloc lines only; security-vendored.sh passes). Measured on Apple M5 Pro (macOS 26.6), full indexes, 2 interleaved reps, mainfceb25d8(3.3.2) -> this change: TypeScript peak phys_footprint 1.07/1.01 -> 1.04/1.04 GB, peak RSS 1.87/1.84 -> 1.85/1.86 GB, wall 30.6/29.1 -> 29.3/30.0 s; django footprint 0.41/0.41 -> 0.38/0.39 GB, RSS 0.59/0.59 -> 0.58/0.60 GB, wall 6.5/6.2 -> 6.5/6.5 s. The graphs are identical: full node and edge hashes, node and edge census, no dangling edges (django 68022 nodes / 322464 edges, TypeScript 306239 / 835984). The same tree without the recommit patch peaks at 2.09/2.04 GB footprint on TypeScript, so63fb7b3dstill does its job. Linux arm64 (glibc 2.39, gcc 13.3): both trees build without warnings; django peak RSS 0.67/0.68 GB on main, 0.69/0.68 GB with this change. Co-authored-by: Felix Rath <felixm.rath@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
scripts/ — the canonical leg entries
The doctrine (enforced, not advisory): a venue may provision a machine;
only a canonical leg script may exercise the product. Local CI, PR CI, the
dry run and the release all call the SAME files below — venues differ only in
host specs, architecture and inputs, never in what a leg does. Platform
differences (arm64 sanitizer flags, native Windows behavior, the Linux portable
binary) live INSIDE these scripts, once, never per-venue.
tests/test_venue_parity_contract.sh (run as Step 0j of every test leg) turns
any violation — inline harness logic in a workflow, a bypassed wrapper, a
missing --help — into a red build.
Every entry answers --help (authoritative, agent-oriented: modes, env, exit
codes) and rejects unknown flags with exit 2 + Please consult --help.
The legs
| leg | entry | what a run gives you |
|---|---|---|
| test | test.sh |
DEFAULT = the venue leg: static contracts (Step 0a–0r) + CLEAN ASan+UBSan build + all suites via the parallel harness + prod-binary guards. --suites a,b = iteration mode (incremental rebuild, subset, seconds). --tsan = the ThreadSanitizer leg. --contracts-only = the static contract steps alone (PR CI's contracts job for docs-only and non-product changes). CLANGARM64 gets CI's trap-UBSan flags automatically. |
| package wrappers | ci/test-package-wrappers.sh |
Go, npm, and PyPI runtime-set publication/lock suites on the current host. CI runs the same entry on Linux and Windows so both platform lock implementations gate. |
| build | build.sh |
CLEAN production runtime set (native executable + authenticated integration asset; --with-ui adds one content-addressed UI pack). ccache via env.sh makes repeats fast; CCACHE_COMPILERCHECK=content guarantees a hit is byte-identical to a cold compile — never stale. --version, STATIC=1, BUILD_DIR=. |
| lint | lint.sh |
clang-tidy + cppcheck + clang-format (+ no-skips policy). --ci = the CI gate set (no clang-tidy). Drives the same make targets as make lint/lint-ci. |
| smoke (unix) | smoke-local.sh |
Stages a full release fixture, serves it on a kernel-assigned port, runs smoke-test.sh (ALL phases incl. download/install/update E2E) inside a disposable HOME/XDG/TMP sandbox. ui variant makes a missing verified UI pack a FAILURE. CBM_SMOKE_ARTIFACT_DIR = smoke an extracted release artifact verbatim (release mode). |
| smoke (windows) | ../test-infrastructure/vm/vm-smoke.sh |
Same verified runtime-set contract on the real Windows VM, plus the user-PATH registry guard (prepare/verify/cleanup). |
| smoke-invariants | smoke-invariants.sh |
Production-path resilience battery (MCP handshake, all tools invocable, malformed-input handling, supervised crash/hang recovery) — no fixture server or install E2E. smoke.yml runs an explicitly seam-enabled build on the WIDEST source matrix; release artifacts remain seam-free and use the release-shaped smoke legs above. |
| soak | soak-legs.sh |
The release-gating soak SEQUENCE: quick then query-leak (the #581 detector — never reindexes, so RSS growth = query-path leak), each guarded by a completion-summary check. --legs quick for the ASan single-leg variant. Duration is per leg. |
Internal harnesses — never called directly by a venue (the contract forbids
it): smoke-test.sh (phases; wrappers provide fixture server + sandbox),
soak-test.sh (one soak run; soak-legs.sh provides the sequence + guards),
run-tests-parallel.sh (reached through test.sh), which sources
suite-failure-report.sh for its end-of-run failure summary (failure sites,
sanitizer report, running test, last lines) and for test-logs/failed/, the
logs of every suite that did not end green.
Conventions
- Exit codes: 0 = pass · 2 = usage error · 90 = guard (a run died without its completion summary — never counts as green) · anything else = the leg's real failure.
- Iteration is a flag, not a side-tool: the fast paths (
--suites,--legs) are modes of the SAME entry the gates run, so a dev loop can never drift from the venue behaviour. - Env sandboxing: the smoke wrappers neutralize every agent-config destination override; a smoke can never scribble on your real config.
Recommended workflows
- Iterating on a change:
scripts/test.sh --suites <suite>(seconds, incremental, same ASan+UBSan flags as the gate). List suites:build/c/test-runner --list-suites. Debugging a Windows-on-ARM trap: re-run withSANITIZE=for a plain build, or use the emulatedwin.sh ubsan-*pair for full diagnostics. - Before any push (the 3-OS ladder):
scripts/test.sh(macOS, full) →./test-infrastructure/run.sh full(Linux + TSan + smoke) →test-infrastructure/vm/win.sh test-par+guards+smoke-install(+soakwhen the change touches memory/daemon paths). - Concurrency-touching change: add
scripts/test.sh --tsanearly — the same leg CI gates on. - Release-shaped verification:
CBM_SMOKE_ARTIFACT_DIR=<extracted artifact> scripts/smoke-local.sh <binary> [ui]smokes exactly what would ship. - A leg is red in CI but green locally: first suspect environment shape,
not code — the preflights (
win.shautomatic;scripts/ci/preflight-docker.sh) andtest-infrastructure/README.md's residuals list cover the knowable differences.
See scripts/ci/README.md for the CI plumbing and
test-infrastructure/README.md for the venue map.