[LLVMdev] Invalid or unaligned stack

[Reid Kleckner]

See r227426 from Clang. setjmp on Win64 is really weird. There is a hidden
second parameter that you may need to fill in with @llvm.frameaddress.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile at majumdar.org.uk>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am encountering a problem that I do not know how to debug. I would
> greatly appreciate any guidance on this issue.
>
> On Windows when I run Lua test cases from JITed code I am getting
> following error:
>
> Unhandled exception at 0x00007FFCEEEAC500 (ntdll.dll) in lua.exe:
> 0xC0000028: An invalid or unaligned stack was encountered during an
> unwind operation.
>
> This is happening when the Lua code is attempting to call longjmp().
>
> The Lua test case that triggers this is a recursive call as shown below.
>
> function err_on_n (n)
>   if n==0 then error(); exit(1);
>   else err_on_n (n-1); exit(1);
>   end
> end
>
> do
>   function dummy (n)
>     if n > 0 then
>       assert(not pcall(err_on_n, n))
>       dummy(n-1)
>     end
>   end
> end
>
> dummy(10)
>
>
> I have a struct that is created on the stack in the JIT compiler, and
> this error is triggered when I add a field to the struct - if I remove
> the field the error stops. The struct is not very large in size - it
> is only 392 bytes with the new field.
>
> If I allocate this struct on the heap the error goes away.
>
> Note that just adding the field triggers the error even if I have no
> other code changes.
>
> The error occurs in Release build but not in Debug build.
> I am using Visual C++ 2013 - 64-bit, and LLVM 3.6.0 on Windows.
> I see no other unexpected behaviour - all the other tests pass.
>
> All tests pass on Ubuntu, using LLVM 3.5.1 and gcc 4.8.2.
>
> Of course I am currently assuming that somewhere my program is
> corrupting memory - but as I have no other signs of a memory
> corruption - the issue may be something else.
>
> Any tips on what the problem might be would be gratefully received.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Dibyendu
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