[llvm-dev] libunwind is not configured with -funwind-tables when building it for ARM Linux?

[Peter Smith via llvm-dev]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 12:32, Sergej Jaskiewicz via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> There’s this bug: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38468.
>
> I’ve managed to track it down to a configuration issue. The thing is that in order for libunwind to be usable on ARM Linux, it should be built with the -funwind-tables flag. This flag is conditionally set here: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/master/libunwind/CMakeLists.txt#L294, if the compiler “supports” it.
>

Are you sure that libunwind being built without -funwind-tables is the
cause of the bug? I would only expect that to be a problem if an
exception were being propagated through a libunwind function, and that
shouldn't happen unless something has gone badly wrong. I tried the
example with the armv7l release of clang 8.0 which I happened to have
installed on an Armv8l machine and the program worked. I was able to
reproduce the problem with the PR with the default Ubuntu16.04 clang
(3.8) and libc++-dev package.

I also note that when looking at the link line for the example in the
PR, clang was linking libgcc_s and not libunwind so I think the
problem may be somewhere else. There have been quite a lot of fixes
since clang 3.8 and its libc++ so it may be worth trying a more recent
clang.

Can I ask that you try and narrow down what the problem is, what your
environment is, and comment on the PR if it helps reproduce? It is
definitely worth looking at the output of clang -v to see which
unwinder it is using, by default it will be libgcc_s on Linux.

Peter

> However, the CMake check fails with the following error:
>
> ```
> ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr0
>
> >>> referenced by src.cxx
>
> >>>               CMakeFiles/cmTC_e9739.dir/src.cxx.o:(.ARM.exidx.text.main+0x0)
>
> clang++: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
>
> ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
>
> Source file was:
> int main() { return 0; }
> ```
>
> No wonder! __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr0 is defined in libunwind itself, which we haven’t built yet.
>
> If I instead set the -funwind-tables flag unconditionally using `add_compile_flags(-funwind-tables)` instead of `add_cxx_compile_flags_if_supported(-funwind-tables)`, everything is fine and the aforementioned bug is gone.
>
> I’ve found a PR which seemed to address this: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31858 (cc’ing @phosek, @compnerd and @beanz as participants of this PR). It mentions that the __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr0 symbol is provided by the compiler runtime. However, as I’ve already said, it lives in libunwind, so the problem doesn’t seem to be solved.
>
> I’m very tempted to just set the -funwind-tables flag unconditionally, but I’m afraid it’ll break something. What would be the right solution for building libunwind with this flag for ARM Linux?
>
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