[PATCH] D12512: [libcxxabi] Manually align pointers in __cxa_allocate_exception - Fixes PR24604
Jonathan Roelofs via cfe-commits
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Tue Sep 1 07:59:22 PDT 2015
jroelofs added a comment.
In http://reviews.llvm.org/D12512#236988, @majnemer wrote:
> In http://reviews.llvm.org/D12512#236987, @EricWF wrote:
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> > In http://reviews.llvm.org/D12512#236984, @majnemer wrote:
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> > > Wouldn't this change be problematic if you threw to code which was statically linked with a prior version of libcxxabi?
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> >
> > How do you mean? As in you have two different versions of libc++abi linked into one executable? If so your already in bad shape.
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> Say you have two binaries, foo.exe and bar.so. Foo.exe statically links against an older libc++abi and bar.so links against a newer libc++abi. In this instance, our program has two copies of libc++abi statically linked with no ill effects and such a scenario was supported before this patch (at least AFAICT).
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> However, we might have problems after this patch if foo.exe is linked against a newer static library than bar.so
I don't think that is/was supported. The abi library holds some global state, which wouldn't be shared between the two instances of it.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D12512
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