[llvm-dev] [libunwind][Mips] Problem using gas to assemble UnwindRegistersSave.S

[Richard Pennington via llvm-dev]

Hi Vasileios,

On 10/01/2015 04:07 AM, Vasileios Kalintiris wrote:
> I've tried something similar but I used LLD, LLDB and the builtins library
> from compiler-rt. Static builds were running fine but there are still
> some small issues with shared linking which I'm trying to resolve.
>
> I just want to clarify that libunwind isn't really supported on MIPS at the
> moment. Here's the message from the commit (r248673) that enabled the building
> of libunwind for MIPS:
>
>     Currently, libunwind doesn't support MIPS. However, with this patch
>     we do allow the library to build, and we warn the user about the lack of
>     support for MIPS. Also, the dummy unw_getcontext() implementation for MIPS just
>     traps on function entry in order to avoid any confusion with silent/weird
>     failures at runtime.
>
>     This allows us to test an LLVM-based toolchain without the dependency on a
>     GCC toolchain. Of course, C++ exception handling and other things that depend
>     on stack unwinding will not work until we add a proper implementation of the
>     stub functions.
>
I also built compiler-rt. I do understand libunwind isn't ready for the 
MIPS, but it is good enough for clan/LLVM, etc.
My build of everything using the integrated assembler built tools worked 
perfectly.

-Rich