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Re: [google gcc-4_7, integration] Build more of libstdc++ with frame pointers
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> wrote:
>
> Last I checked, libgcc dwarf handling code called malloc, and thus wasn't
> suitable when you want to instrument malloc *itself* to collect stack
> traces, nor for SIGPROF profiling.
>
> Is libgcc dwarf code async-signal safe now?
> If not, will it ever be?
I think that the libgcc unwinder only calls malloc if somebody calls
__register_frame_info. And in ordinary circumstances nobody ever
calls that. I don't think there is an malloc issue there. Unless
I've forgotten something.
I thought a more serious issue is that the libgcc unwinder has no way
of dealing with a corrupt stack--it will simply crash.
Ian