Build raise with -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
Siddhesh Poyarekar
siddhesh@sourceware.org
Fri Jan 24 06:35:00 GMT 2020
On 24/01/20 6:03 am, Joseph Myers wrote:
> In testing glibc for Arm and MIPS, I see:
>
> FAIL: misc/tst-sigcontext-get_pc
>
> If this test - backtracing through a call to raise - is valid, then
> raise needs to be built with -fasynchronous-unwind-tables (as the test
> itself is) to have the required unwind information for that
> backtracing to work. Adding that option, which this patch does,
> causes the test for pass for Arm. For MIPS, the test still does not
> pass (the backtrace has an address that is 2 bytes after the "address
> in signal handler", for unknown reasons), although the patch allows a
> longer backtrace to be produced.
>
The fix seems fine, but I wonder how the test passes on other
architectures. Also the commit that introduced this test seems to
indicate that the test was passing earlier:
commit a43565ac447b1608ae2626f5012673560bb623ab
Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Date: Mon Dec 17 16:44:14 2018 -0200
Refactor sigcontextinfo.h
Siddhesh
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