[llvm-dev] Status of stack walking in LLVM on Win64?

[Michael Lewis via llvm-dev]

On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Hayden Livingston <halivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> For JITs it would appear that there is a patch needed for some kind of
> relocations.
>
> https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=24233
>
> Is the patch really needed? What does it do? I'm not an expert here so
> asking.
>


I'm not really interested in the JIT case as I said originally, so I can't
answer that question.



>
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 2:48 AM, David Majnemer via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > I can confirm that LLVM emits correct data when used in an AoT
> configuration
> > for x64, exception handling would be totally broken without it.
> >
>


Two points of clarification:

 - Are you talking about Win64 or just x64 in general (i.e. *nix/MacOS)?
Again given the presence of bugs going back to 2015 (including one linked
in this thread) and other scant data from the list, I really can't tell
what the expected state of this functionality is on Win64.

 - Are you referring to data generated by LLVM that is embedded in COFF
object files and then placed in the binary image by the linker? This data
is at a minimum relocated by link.exe on Windows as near as I can tell. I
do not want a dependency on link.exe. I can handle doing my own relocations
prior to emitting the final image, but I want to know if there's a turnkey
implementation of this already or if I have to roll my own here.

Thanks,



 - Mike
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