[clang] [llvm] [llvm][clang] Allocate a new stack instead of spawning a new thread to get more stack space (PR #133173)

[Michael Spencer via llvm-commits]

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+//===--- RunOnNewStack.cpp - Crash Recovery -------------------------------===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#include "llvm/Support/ProgramStack.h"
+#include "llvm/Config/config.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/Compiler.h"
+
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H
+# include <sys/resource.h>
+#endif
+
+#ifdef _MSC_VER
+# include <intrin.h>  // for _AddressOfReturnAddress
+#endif
+
+// Currently only Apple AArch64 is known to support split stacks in the debugger
+// and other tooling.
+#if defined(__APPLE__) && defined(__aarch64__) &&                              \
+    LLVM_HAS_CPP_ATTRIBUTE(gnu::naked) && __has_extension(gnu_asm)
+# define LLVM_HAS_SPLIT_STACKS
+# define LLVM_HAS_SPLIT_STACKS_AARCH64
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#endif
+
+#ifndef LLVM_HAS_SPLIT_STACKS
+# include "llvm/Support/thread.h"
+#endif
+
+using namespace llvm;
+
+uintptr_t llvm::getStackPointer() {
+#if __GNUC__ || __has_builtin(__builtin_frame_address)
+  return (uintptr_t)__builtin_frame_address(0);
+#elif defined(_MSC_VER)
+  return (uintptr_t)_AddressOfReturnAddress();
+#else
+  char CharOnStack = 0;
+  // The volatile store here is intended to escape the local variable, to
+  // prevent the compiler from optimizing CharOnStack into anything other
+  // than a char on the stack.
+  //
+  // Tested on: MSVC 2015 - 2019, GCC 4.9 - 9, Clang 3.2 - 9, ICC 13 - 19.
+  char *volatile Ptr = &CharOnStack;
+  return (uintptr_t)Ptr;
+#endif
+}
+
+unsigned llvm::getDefaultStackSize() {
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H
+  rlimit RL;
+  getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &RL);
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Bigcheese wrote:

I was trying to match the same behavior as we have when spawning a new thread. I think it would also be fine to just always use 8MiB, or consistently use `getDefaultStackSize()`. I don't particularly have a preference here.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/133173