From 0c4ac521d92578311e6c5635502cb7d76732192a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hamish Mackenzie <Hamish.K.Mackenzie@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:10:36 +1200
Subject: [PATCH] SysTools.Ar: trim Apple-ranlib wasm member padding

Apple's ranlib (cctools; the default `ranlib` on darwin, which cabal runs
after `ar` on macOS build hosts) pads each archive member's data to an
8-byte boundary with '\n' bytes and counts that padding into the header's
size field. Mach-O readers tolerate the trailing bytes, but the JS backend
extracts C-bits wasm objects from package archives and hands them to
emscripten, where wasm-ld fails with "section too large" on the padding.

Recover a wasm member's true length by walking its section table (a 1-byte
id plus a ULEB128 length each) and drop the trailing '\n' padding when the
payload is a WebAssembly module. Non-wasm members are returned unchanged.
---
 compiler/GHC/SysTools/Ar.hs | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/compiler/GHC/SysTools/Ar.hs b/compiler/GHC/SysTools/Ar.hs
index b2671e1267e2..b71d9b6828ab 100644
--- a/compiler/GHC/SysTools/Ar.hs
+++ b/compiler/GHC/SysTools/Ar.hs
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ module GHC.SysTools.Ar
 
 import GHC.Prelude
 
+import Data.Bits ((.&.))
 import Data.List (mapAccumL, isPrefixOf)
 import Data.Monoid ((<>))
 import Data.Binary.Get
@@ -112,8 +113,56 @@ getBSDArchEntries = do
         when (odd st_size) $
           void (getByteString 1)
 
+        -- Archives rewritten by Apple's ranlib (cctools; the default
+        -- `ranlib` on darwin, which cabal runs after `ar` on macOS build
+        -- hosts) pad each member's data to an 8-byte boundary with '\n'
+        -- bytes and include that padding in the header's size field,
+        -- relying on the member's object format being self-describing.
+        -- Mach-O readers tolerate the trailing bytes, but WebAssembly
+        -- consumers do not: the JS backend extracts C-bits wasm objects
+        -- from package archives and hands them to emscripten, where
+        -- wasm-ld fails with "section too large" on the padding.  Recover
+        -- a wasm member's true length from its section table and drop the
+        -- padding.
+        let file' = trimWasmPadding file
+
         rest    <- getBSDArchEntries
-        return $ (ArchiveEntry name time own grp mode (st_size - (off2 - off1)) file) : rest
+        return $ (ArchiveEntry name time own grp mode (B.length file') file') : rest
+
+-- | If the payload is a WebAssembly module followed by trailing '\n'
+-- padding (Apple ranlib's 8-byte member alignment, counted into the
+-- header's size field), return just the module bytes; otherwise return
+-- the payload unchanged.  The true length is recovered by walking the
+-- module's sections (a 1-byte id plus a ULEB128 length each).
+trimWasmPadding :: B.ByteString -> B.ByteString
+trimWasmPadding bs
+  | B.take 4 bs == "\0asm"
+  , end < len
+  , B.all (== 0x0a) (B.drop end bs)
+  = B.take end bs
+  | otherwise = bs
+  where
+    len = B.length bs
+    -- 4 bytes magic + 4 bytes version, then sections.
+    end = walk 8
+    -- Walk sections from @off@, returning the offset where the
+    -- well-formed prefix of sections ends.
+    walk off = case sectionEnd off of
+      Just off' | off' <= len -> walk off'
+      _                       -> off
+    sectionEnd off
+      | off >= len = Nothing
+      | otherwise  = do
+          (sz, off') <- uleb (off + 1) (0 :: Int) 0
+          return (off' + sz)
+    uleb off sh acc
+      | off >= len || sh > 63 = Nothing
+      | otherwise =
+          let b    = B.index bs off
+              acc' = acc + fromIntegral (b .&. 0x7f) * (2 ^ sh)
+          in if b .&. 0x80 /= 0
+               then uleb (off + 1) (sh + 7) acc'
+               else Just (acc', off + 1)
 
 -- | GNU Archives feature a special '//' entry that contains the
 -- extended names. Those are referred to as /<num>, where num is the