Cothread builds but fails at runtime on MacOS Arm64 platforms

Cothread claims to have support for arm64 architecture, denoted by the switch-arm64.c file. However, as noted in the last commit made, it does not actually work at runtime. During testing of p4p on the new GitHub OsX runners, which are all now arm64, we see a Bus Error:

/Users/runner/work/_temp/28281c48-3576-478b-b140-78e8b699ad51.sh: line 9:  3925 Bus error: 10           python -m nose2 -v p4p

In an ideal world we should fix the ARM64 code to allow use on modern MacOS systems. An alternative is to explicitly fail a compilation on a MacOS ARM platform (but leave it working for e.g. Rasberry Pi, which is the platform this code was originally written for).

Testing either of these fixes should be straightforward by using GitHub's macos-latest runner.

cothread does not build on my MacOS Arm64.

pip3.11 install cothread -> "Requirement already satisfied: cothread in /opt/homebrew/lib/python3.11/site-packages (2.19.1)"

However, following this, the import fails (runtime failure). If instead:

pip3.11 install --force cothread -> the following:

      clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
      error: command '/usr/bin/clang' failed with exit code 1
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for cothread
Failed to build cothread
ERROR: ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (cothread)

It seems to complain as following on some (ld) illegal text-relocation in 'action_entry'+0x14 (../cothread_9b3efff422134250bc70b91cfdda0b17/build/temp.macosx-14.0-arm64-cpython-311/context/switch.o) to 'action_entry'

+1 does not build on macOS / arm64

      Illegal text-relocations:
        text-relocation in 'action_entry'+0x14 (/private/var/folders/h9/35fh42mx3j77_2wsj653qw9r0000gn/T/pip-install-1gmsm1jy/cothread_6d5b85dca67f4251b33315afafec68d7/build/temp.macosx-15.0-arm64-cpython-313/context/switch.o) to 'action_entry'
      ld: Found illegal text-relocations
      clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
      error: command '/usr/bin/clang' failed with exit code 1
      [end of output]

performing pip3 install cothread on Python 3.13.7

Potentially resolved in #76

Change ARM code to use position independent code

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benjaminbolling commented on Jan 7, 2025

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