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Track guessed as P from the FAILING STEP — line 1 of 2, ./compiler/pascal26 test/test_c_gtk_call.pas /tmp/test_c_gtk_call26, which names test/test_c_gtk_call.pas. Not from the job's name or its src: those describe what the job is ABOUT, and this job's recipe spans 1 source file(s). The ranker reads frontmatter, so this line — not the body — decides who works it; correct it if the guess is wrong.

origin/master has advanced 1 commit(s) since this sha. Re-verify at current HEAD before acting — the callback is tagged to the sha that was tested, which may no longer be the state of the tree.

regression: test-core#src:test/test_c_gtk_call.pas at 1236bf31f930 in step 1/2, ./compiler/pascal26 test/test_c_gtk_call.pas /tmp/test_c_gtk_call26 (auto-filed by twatch)

Repro

tools/testmgr.py --tier native --job 'test-core#src:test/test_c_gtk_call.pas' at 1236bf31f93084fe322e626880cc6132a33cf64a

Range

The named sha 1236bf31f930 CANNOT be the cause — it touches no buildable file (docs / tickets / tstate only). It is the sha that was TESTED, i.e. the upper bound of an untested range; the cause is somewhere below it.

bad 1236bf31f930, last good ba98601dd917, 3 commit(s) in range — the watcher narrows this by idle bisect; check tstate/TSTATE.md for the current range.

Log tail

pascal26:311: error: call to undeclared function: __builtin_constant_p
(tail)
pascal26:311: error: call to undeclared function: __builtin_constant_p
  near:  __builtin_constant_p   str  >>>   str

Stub ticket: signal only. Track T agent (face 2) enriches or a dev track takes it from the repro line.

RESOLVED (frankZ, plexus, 2026-09-02) — one cause, five jobs

All five test_c_gtk* reds are one line, identical in every ticket:

pascal26:311: error: call to undeclared function: __builtin_constant_p
  near:  __builtin_constant_p   str  >>>   str

That is /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstrfuncs.h:311:

if (__builtin_constant_p (!str) && !str)

…and :314, :160, :184, and gstring.h:74 are the same builtin in the same two shapes (&&-guard and ternary).

Why it appeared, and why it is not a revert

00ab464bf feat(C,B): the C frontend announces GNU C 2.7 is an ancestor of the tested sha, and its own header lists __builtin_constant_p among the builtins that do not work — the 2.7 version was picked precisely to keep 3.x/4.x-gated builtins off. The rung was on the wrong side of the line: __builtin_constant_p is a 2.x builtin, so glibc and glib reach it on a bare __GNUC__ >= 2 gate.

That commit fixed a SILENT wrong layout (__attribute__ expanding to nothing, so PACKED/ALIGNED did nothing) and its stated cost was loud compile failures naming the construct. This is that cost arriving, and that commit's own answer applies unchanged: support the construct, do not claim a smaller version. Not reverted, not down-versioned.

The fix, and what it is not

__builtin_constant_p(x) reduces to the integer literal 0, beside __builtin_expect in cparser.inc's builtin arm. It is a REDUCTION, not an implementation, and the comment says so: every use picks between an arm valid only for a constant and a generic arm valid for anything, so 0 takes the generic arm — the arm a compiler without the builtin takes anyway. There is no shape where 0 yields a wrong VALUE, only a slower one. The argument is discarded, which is also gcc's rule: it is unevaluated, so __builtin_constant_p(strlen(str)) must not call strlen.

The one shape 0 is wrong for (frankD): BUILD_BUG_ON(!__builtin_constant_p(x)), which asserts x IS constant. 0 turns that into a negative array dimension — a hard error, not a wrong value, so it stays on the loud side. Named in the source comment so nobody rediscovers it. __builtin_choose_expr is still absent.

Verification

Binary 7ef59bc560b4b9fc, converged after 1 round(s), at commit cd36a4595 plus this change.

test/test_c_gtk.pas         testmgr: GREEN
test/test_c_gtk_call.pas    testmgr: GREEN
test/test_c_gtk_types.pas   testmgr: GREEN
test/test_c_gtk_window.pas  testmgr: GREEN
test/test_c_gtk3_stock.pas  testmgr: GREEN

Run through testmgr --job, which owns the recipe — three of the five run under xvfb-run and one greps readelf -d for libgtk-3.so.0, none of which a hand-rolled comparison would have done. Row count asserted at 5.

Positive control: all five reproduced at binary 23e9a1d6a3775ac2 before the change, rc=1, same error line. A green run here cannot be a run that did nothing.

Sequenced with frankD

frankD owns 00ab464bf and had uncommitted cparser.inc/defs.inc/ir.inc work in a different region; told, not asked, and landed after theirs. Their note, kept because it bounds this claim: the builtin declaration is one failure and the dead arm it guards surviving is a second — their const-branch fold is what makes if (__builtin_constant_p(x) && ...) actually disappear once the builtin reduces to 0. Only the first was mine. All five of these are green without the second, so it does not bite here.