Running 483.xalancbmk in SPEC 2006 with error

[Ye-Jinhong]

Description

I am trying to running spec 2006 int part with spike, but came across an error when running 483.xalancbmk.

Fatal Error.Occurred at unknown file, line 0, column{null}.An exception occurred! Type:XMLPlatformException, Message:Could not determine base pathname of the file
SAXParseException: An exception occurred! Type:XMMLPlatformException, Message:Could not determinebase pathname of the file (, line 0, column 0)

It seems that program can't find the specific file given by command.

Reproduce

• OS: ubuntu 22.04
• riscv-tool-chain: 20f61531
• spike: 7812eabb
• pk: abadfdc5

Steps

1. build riscv-tool-chain and spike
2. bind sys_futex(98) with no-op and build pk
3. build SPEC2006 with riscv-tool-chain(riscv64-unknow-linux-gnu-, -static, -O3, -fno-strict-aliasing)
4. running with

cd /path/to/SPEC/483.xalancbmk/run/run_base_ref_label.0000
/path/to/spike /path/to/pk Xalan_base.label -v t5.xml xalanc.xsl

Others

I used to figure out that is the GCC14.2 cause wrong? And try GCC13 to compile SPEC2006, it doesn't work. However, for GCC13 compiling SPEC, Gem5 can runing xalancbmk without any error.

So for me, a new starter in spike, have no idea to fix this.

[eriktai]

One thing I can hint is about a command called realpath(char* filename, char* absPath), which returns NULL, although the result, absolute path, is correct. However, this should be investigated further to reproduce the result and discern the root cause. SPEC source code is a intellectual property so I suggest trying to find the root cause and put smaller code sections that didn't related to SPEC on here.

Regarding debugging, you can try to use the gdb to debug. The steps are described in README, ignoring the nostartfile part. It's very simple. Besides, putting inf-loop before and after the main code is a more recommended method to halt the spike.