Regression: withTaskGroup crashes immediately for iOSAppOnMac

[KaiOelfke]

Description

With Xcode 16.0 beta 5 and Swift 6.0 (6.0.0.7.6) the code sample below crashes, when running as iOS app on mac (iOS apps can run on macOS devices with Apple Silicon). E.g. this applies to destinations where https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/processinfo/3608556-isiosapponmac ProcessInfo.processInfo.isiOSAppOnMac is true.

Reproduction

Create a new iOS SwiftUI project with the default template and extend the template ContentView with a task modifier and a task group or just use withTaskGroup anywhere else.

import SwiftUI

struct ContentView: View {
    var body: some View {
        VStack {
            Image(systemName: "globe")
                .imageScale(.large)
                .foregroundStyle(.tint)
            Text("Hello, world!")
        }
        .padding()
        .task {
            await withTaskGroup(of: Void.self) { _ in } // Thread 1: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=1, address=0x4)
        }
    }
}

Stack dump

Thread 1: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=1, address=0x4)

    0x102e3d1cc <+204>: str    x10, [x22]
    0x102e3d1d0 <+208>: adrp   x10, 0
    0x102e3d1d4 <+212>: add    x10, x10, #0x260          ; (1) await resume partial function for back deployment thunk for Swift.withTaskGroup<ChildTaskResult, GroupResult where ChildTaskResult: Swift.Sendable>(of: ChildTaskResult.Type, returning: GroupResult.Type, isolation: isolated Swift.Optional<Swift.Actor>, body: (inout Swift.TaskGroup<ChildTaskResult>) async -> GroupResult) async -> GroupResult at <compiler-generated>
    0x102e3d1d8 <+216>: str    x10, [x22, #0x8]
    0x102e3d1dc <+220>: str    x9, [x29, #0x10]
    0x102e3d1e0 <+224>: ldp    x29, x30, [sp, #0x70]
    0x102e3d1e4 <+228>: and    x29, x29, #0xefffffffffffffff
    0x102e3d1e8 <+232>: add    sp, sp, #0x80
    0x102e3d1ec <+236>: br     x8
    0x102e3d1f0 <+240>: adrp   x8, 7
    0x102e3d1f4 <+244>: ldr    x8, [x8, #0x288]
->  0x102e3d1f8 <+248>: ldr    w8, [x8, #0x4]
    0x102e3d1fc <+252>: mov    x0, x8
    0x102e3d200 <+256>: bl     0x102e40670               ; symbol stub for: swift_task_alloc
    0x102e3d204 <+260>: ldur   x10, [x29, #-0x20]
    0x102e3d208 <+264>: ldur   x9, [x29, #-0x18]
    0x102e3d20c <+268>: ldur   x8, [x29, #-0x28]
    0x102e3d210 <+272>: ldr    x1, [sp, #0x38]
    0x102e3d214 <+276>: ldr    x2, [sp, #0x30]
    0x102e3d218 <+280>: ldr    x3, [sp, #0x28]
    0x102e3d21c <+284>: ldr    x4, [sp, #0x20]

Expected behavior

withTaskGroup should not crash and behave as in previous Xcode / Swift versions.

Environment

Xcode 16.0 beta 5 (16A5221g)
Swift 6.0 (6.0.0.7.6)
iOSAppOnMac

Additional information

No response

[tcwalther]

I have the same problem on a physical iOS 18.0 beta 4 device where the code is crashing on a withTaskGroup call. However, my project still runs on Swift 5, so I believe this is an error in the libraries, not the Swift language.

It runs fine on an iOS 17.5 simulator (I have another regression on the iOS 18 simulator and thus cannot test my project there yet). It worked fine on previous Xcode 16 betas before Xcode 16.0 beta 5.

[WillBishop]

I'm getting crashes using withTaskGroup on-device (but not in Simulator) running Xcode 16 Beta 5, on an iPad

[Benny-Nottonson]

Can confirm, happening on-device and on iPhone 15, both on iOS 18 Dev Beta, also seems to affect withThrowingTaskGroup

[KaiOelfke]

Update for Xcode 16 beta 6 for the sample above:

• Debug configuration always crashing
• Release configuration:
  • first build and run after clean crashes
  • incremental build and run after the step above run successfully
• Archiving app, exporting ipa and running as iOS app on mac runs sucessfully

[msdrigg]

I am seeing this on iPhone iOS 18 and Xcode 16 beta 6 with withTaskGroup and withDiscardingTaskGroup configurations. All my task groups are crashing, without fail in my application (which is open source here https://github.com/msdrigg/roam).

This is not iOSAppOnMac, it's running a SwiftUI application on a native iOS device (not simulator).

Additionally I don't see this error when I run the same application directly on macOS (it's cross-platform through swiftui)

[hborla]

I have the same problem on a physical iOS 18.0 beta 4

It worked fine on previous Xcode 16 betas before Xcode 16.0 beta 5.

There is an ABI mismatch between iOS/macOS Beta 4 and Xcode 16 Beta 5 for the withTaskGroup APIs. The issue should be resolved if you match the betas, i.e. build with Xcode 16 Beta 5+ and run on iOS 18 Beta 5+. This ABI mismatch does not apply when back deploying to a previous macOS or iOS release.

[KaiOelfke]

This ABI mismatch does not apply when back deploying to a previous macOS or iOS release.

Isn't compiling with Xcode 16 beta 6 to run an iOS app on macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 (23G93) back deploying to a previous iOS(AppOnMac) release?

Because this crashes as mentioned in my last comment. So we currently can't use Xcode 16 beta for the development of iOSAppOnMac apps on macOS Sonoma.

[KaiOelfke]

After distributing apps built with Xcode 16 RC on the App Store I'm seeing now a lot of crashes for withTaskGroup or withCheckedContinuation. It appears to be devices, which are still on iOS 18 betas instead of the RC. I assume there's an ABI mismatch as well.

[witekbobrowski]

After distributing apps built with Xcode 16 RC on the App Store I'm seeing now a lot of crashes for withTaskGroup or withCheckedContinuation. It appears to be devices, which are still on iOS 18 betas instead of the RC. I assume there's an ABI mismatch as well.

We are seeing the exact same issue as well in our project. We have managed to fix some crashes from withCheckedContinuation calls by rewriting/simplifying the concurrency stack in these places but we are out of ideas for workarounds to the withTaskGroup crash.

FB15175069

[dfed]

Anyone know if macOS 14.7 has the required fix? Tempted to "fix" this by bumping our min deployment target...

[ivanpondal]

Hello, I'm having the same issue. Any workarounds?

[lorrainNicolas]

Hello we are having also the same issue with iios18 and withTaskGroup any fix ?