rust newer than 1.82.0 unable to build firefox on NetBSD "i386" port (really i586 or i686 in 32-bit mode)

[he32]

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It appears that rust versions newer than 1.82.0 fail to build recent firefox versions on NetBSD's "i386" port (which covers i486, i586 and i686, but since we provide rust only for i586 or above, that's the sub-parts which are affected). All these are "ILP32" ports, and provide a maximum per-process data segment size somewhere around 3GB.

The testing scoreboard I've created looks like this:

firefox version	rust version	result
138.0.4	1.82.0	OK
138.0.4	1.83.0	failed: Cannot allocate memory (os error 12)
138.0.4	1.85.0	failed: Cannot allocate memory (os error 12)
138.0.4	1.86.0	failed: error: could not compile style (lib)
135.0.1	1.87.0	failed: Cannot allocate memory (os error 12)
136.0.2	1.87.0	failed: memory allocation of 71061296 bytes failed
137.0.2	1.87.0	failed: rustc-LLVM ERROR: out of memory
138.0.4	1.88.0	failed: rustc-LLVM ERROR: out of memory

A typical build error looks like this:

   Compiling mls-platform-api v0.1.0 (https://github.com/beurdouche/mls-platform-api?rev=19c3f18b747d13354370ba84440bb0b963932634#19c3f18b)
   Compiling neqo-http3 v0.11.0 (https://github.com/mozilla/neqo?tag=v0.11.0#c6d5502f)
   Compiling socket2 v0.4.999 (/usr/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/firefox-135.0.1/build/rust/socket2)
   Compiling storage v0.1.0 (/usr/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/firefox-135.0.1/storage/rust)
   Compiling dogear v0.5.0
error: failed to build archive at `/usr/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/build/i586-unknown-netbsd/release/deps/libstyle-5354116ed6cc56c6.rlib`: failed to map object file: Cannot allocate memory (os error 12)

error: could not compile `style` (lib) due to 1 previous error
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...

and it goes downhill from there.

Version it worked on

It most recently worked on: version 1.82.0.

Version with regression

rustc --version --verbose:

$ rustc --version --verbose
rustc 1.88.0 (6b00bc388 2025-06-23) (built from a source tarball)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: 6b00bc3880198600130e1cf62b8f8a93494488cc
commit-date: 2025-06-23
host: i586-unknown-netbsd
release: 1.88.0
LLVM version: 19.1.7
$ 

This is with an externally built LLVM. The same problem occurs with the internal LLVM.

[Noratrieb]

Compiling Firefox on a 32 bit machine seems adventurous.

[workingjubilee]

you give 1.88 as the regression and 1.82 as working but was 1.83 the version that regressed, or?

[workingjubilee]

Oh, the matrix is given, sorry, my eyes glazed over.