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From: Nathan Sidwell <nathan@acm.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>, GCC <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
	GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>,
	gnu-gabi@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Invalid program counters and unwinding
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9d53ddc-750a-ec8d-e1e3-7616a83fac5a@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1d58d83-cf2a-c91d-385b-07afbed26593@redhat.com>

On 06/26/2018 07:39 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 06/26/2018 01:35 PM, Nathan Sidwell wrote:

>> IIRC, in gcc-land you have to give both noreturn and nothrow 
>> attributes to make it non-unwindable.
> 
> Are you sure?  I was under the impression that GCC did not do this 
> because it interferes too much with debugging.

I'm not sure at all.   I remember needing to use nothrow somewhere that 
throw() didn't cut it, and could well have got the details wrong, and 
the compiler has moved on anyway.

> Furthermore, glibc marks abort as nothrow and noreturn, which is a bit 
> dubious, considering that it is perfectly fine to throw exception from 
> synchronously delivered signals.

Hm, that seems contradictory ...

nathan

-- 
Nathan Sidwell

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-26 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-01  0:00 Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00 ` Jeff Law
2018-01-01  0:00   ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00     ` Jeff Law
2018-01-01  0:00       ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00       ` Michael Matz
2018-01-01  0:00         ` Jakub Jelinek
2018-01-01  0:00           ` Michael Matz
2018-01-01  0:00             ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00 ` Nathan Sidwell
2018-01-01  0:00   ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00     ` Jakub Jelinek
2018-01-01  0:00       ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00     ` Nathan Sidwell
2018-01-01  0:00       ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00         ` Nathan Sidwell
2018-01-01  0:00           ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00             ` Nathan Sidwell [this message]
2018-01-01  0:00             ` Jakub Jelinek

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