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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/source/Plugins/ABI/MacOSX-i386/ABIMacOSX_i386.h b/source/Plugins/ABI/MacOSX-i386/ABIMacOSX_i386.h
index a2eee280fa38..43784a5c9111 100644
--- a/source/Plugins/ABI/MacOSX-i386/ABIMacOSX_i386.h
+++ b/source/Plugins/ABI/MacOSX-i386/ABIMacOSX_i386.h
@@ -71,24 +71,25 @@ public:
return true;
}
+ // The Darwin i386 ABI requires that stack frames be 16 byte aligned.
+ // When there is a trap handler on the stack, e.g. _sigtramp in userland
+ // code, we've seen that the stack pointer is often not aligned properly
+ // before the handler is invoked. This means that lldb will stop the unwind
+ // early -- before the function which caused the trap.
+ //
+ // To work around this, we relax that alignment to be just word-size (4-bytes).
+ // Whitelisting the trap handlers for user space would be easy (_sigtramp) but
+ // in other environments there can be a large number of different functions
+ // involved in async traps.
+ //
+ // If we were to enforce 16-byte alignment, we also need to relax to 4-byte
+ // alignment for non-darwin i386 targets.
virtual bool
CallFrameAddressIsValid (lldb::addr_t cfa)
{
- // Darwin call frame addresses must be 16-byte aligned, but other OS's
- // only need 4-byte alignment. Otherwise the ABI matches, so we have
- // this one minor override here.
- if (target_is_darwin)
- {
- // Make sure the stack call frame addresses are are 16 byte aligned
- if (cfa & (16ull - 1ull))
- return false; // Not 16 byte aligned
- }
- else
- {
- // Make sure the stack call frame addresses are are 4 byte aligned
- if (cfa & (4ull - 1ull))
- return false; // Not 4 byte aligned
- }
+ // Make sure the stack call frame addresses are are 4 byte aligned
+ if (cfa & (4ull - 1ull))
+ return false; // Not 4 byte aligned
if (cfa == 0)
return false; // Zero is not a valid stack address
return true;
@@ -139,11 +140,7 @@ protected:
RegisterIsCalleeSaved (const lldb_private::RegisterInfo *reg_info);
private:
- ABIMacOSX_i386(bool is_darwin) : lldb_private::ABI(),
- target_is_darwin(is_darwin)
- { } // Call CreateInstance instead.
-
- bool target_is_darwin;
+ ABIMacOSX_i386() : lldb_private::ABI() { } // Call CreateInstance instead.
};