3 quick questions about stack alignment for powerpc (32-bit) signal handlers

[Roman Divacky]

Fwiw, LLVM expect 16B aligned stack on PowerPC.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 05:55:20AM -0800, Mark Millard wrote:
> 3 quick FreeBSD for powerpc (32-bit) questions:
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> A) For PowerPC (32-bit) what is the stack alignment requirement by the ABI(s) that FreeBSD targets?
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> B) Are signal handlers supposed to be given that alignment?
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> I ask because signal handlers are at times begin given just 4-byte alignment but clang 3.8.0 powerpc's code generation can depend on the alignment being more than 4.
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> clang 3.8.0 can calculate addresses by, for example, masking in a 0x4 relative to what would need to be an aligned address with alignment 8 or more instead of adding 0x4 to a more arbitrary address.
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> So far I've only seen less than 8 byte stack alignment via signal handler activity.
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> C) Which should be blamed for problems here: clang's code generation, FreeBSD's stack alignment handling for signals, or both?
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> ===
> Mark Millard
> markmi at dsl-only.net
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