Hi,
I ran into a crash using Objective-C with llvm/clang on ARM-Linux. The crash happens while unwinding the stack from pthread_exit as soon as the first call frame is reached that belongs to a function that uses the personality routine from libobjc2.
This function is in a shared library (libgnustepbase), and here's the start of its entry in the execption table:
GCC_except_table20:
.Lexception20:
.byte 255 @ @LPStart Encoding = omit
.byte 0 @ @TType Encoding = absptr
.ascii "\314\001" @ @TType base offset
So it definitely uses DW_EH_PE_absptr as TType encoding.
The personality routine in the Objective-C runtime library reads the type table record and interpretes the data in it as an absolute pointer that is used without any further adjustment - but obviously the value isn't a valid pointer, so this leads to a crash.
Now I wonder: does that mean that the runtime treats DW_EH_PE_absptr wrong or does that mean that the EHT entry or the data in the types table is wrong? I could not find any documentation about treating DW_EH_PE_absptr in any other way than interpreting the data as an absolute pointer, and other PRs that I have checked seemed to apply the same treatment. But then what sense does it make to use absptr encoding in a shared library?
On X86 the generated EHT has DW_EH_PE_pcrel as TType encoding, BTW.
Any help would be most welcome.
Regards,
Mathias