[PATCH] D33030: [libcxxabi] Align unwindHeader on a double-word boundary

[Akira Hatanaka via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

ahatanak added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D33030#751187, @mehdi_amini wrote:

> Something still isn't clear to me: the issue IIUC is not with the `unwindHeader` itself, but with the misaligned thrown object that is allocated right after the __cxa_exception itself. Isn't it?
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> Then are you aligning the `unwindHeader` field and by side-effect the size of the __cxa_exception structure becomes aligned and then the thrown object will be as well?


Yes, that's correct.

If field unwindHeader is annotated with the aligned attribute, both the field and struct __cxa_exception are aligned. As a result, the exception object that follows __cxa_exception is aligned too.

If we annotate struct __cxa_exception with the attribute instead of annotating the field, the test case segfaults. It seems that this approach doesn't work because several places in cxa_exception.cpp assume the exception object immediately follows field unwindHeader (there are should be no paddings at the end of __cxa_exception).


https://reviews.llvm.org/D33030