On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 2:20 PM Hongtao Liu <crazy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 4:54 PM Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Adding Hongtao and Honza into the loop as the ones who acked the original
> > patch.
> >
> > The no_callee_saved_registers by default for noreturn functions change can
> > break in-process backtrace(3) or backtraces from debugger or other process
> > (quite often, any time the noreturn function decides to use the bp register
> > and any of the parent frames uses a frame pointer; the unwinder just crashes
> > in the libgcc unwinder case, gdb prints stack corrupted message), so I'd
> > like to save bp register in that case:
> >
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2024-February/646591.html
> I think this patch makes sense and LGTM, we save and restore frame
> pointer for noreturn.
> >
> > and additionally the no_callee_saved_registers by default for noreturn
> > functions change can make debugging harder, again not localized to the
> > noreturn function, but any of its callers.  So, if say glibc abort function
> > implementation needs a lot of normally callee-saved registers, no matter how
> > users recompile their apps, they will see garbage or optimized out
> > vars/parameters in their code unless they rebuild their glibc with -O0.
> > So, I think we should guard that by a non-default option:
>From what has been discussed so far, I am inclined to this proposal.
If there are no additional objections(or concerns) in a few days, ok
for the trunk.
> >
>
>
> --
> BR,
> Hongtao



-- 
BR,
Hongtao

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