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Date:      Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:19:41 +0200
From:      Olavi Kumpulainen <olavi.m.kumpulainen@gmail.com>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: C++ exceptions in freebsd-arm doesn't seem to work
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On 19 Aug 2014, at 20:21 , Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-08-19 at 19:40 +0200, Olavi Kumpulainen wrote:
>> On 25 Jul 2014, at 23:44 , Andreas Tobler <andreast-list@fgznet.ch> =
wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 22.07.14 23:11, Ian Lepore wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 2014-07-19 at 16:35 -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 14:12 +0200, Olavi Kumpulainen wrote:
>>>>>> [c++ exceptions don't work and related discussion]
>>>>>=20
>>>>> I checked in a partial fix for c++ exception handling in r268893.  =
It
>>>>> fixes the specific problem you detailed above, which was =
essentially
>>>>> that the __gnu_Unwind_Find_exidx() function was not available in =
any
>>>>> shared library, making the unwinder fall back to using the =
__exidx_start
>>>>> and end symbols, which are only valid in a statically-linked app.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> With the new function in place, exceptions are closer to working =
with
>>>>> gcc 4.2.1, but still don't work with clang.  With gcc, some things =
work
>>>>> and some things don't.  For example if you throw an exception and =
in the
>>>>> same function have a catch with the right specific type it =
segfaults,
>>>>> but a catch(...) will catch it without problems.  But you can =
catch an
>>>>> exception by type if the catch is in a function higher up the call =
chain
>>>>> from the place it was thrown.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> We're continuing to debug this at $work, and welcome any input if =
anyone
>>>>> else makes progress with it.  Right now we still don't know =
whether the
>>>>> segfaults are because of bad unwinder library code or bad unwind =
data
>>>>> emitted by gcc.  (I sure hope it's the library, because that's =
easier to
>>>>> fix.)
>>>>>=20
>>>>> On the clang front, it has been said that c++ exceptions work in =
clang
>>>>> 3.5, so we tried the clang-devel port, and it didn't just work.  =
But it
>>>>> turns out that port hasn't been updated for quite a while, so we =
may not
>>>>> have tested the code that's supposed to work right.  While trying =
that I
>>>>> discovered that clang 3.5 isn't scheduled for release for about =
another
>>>>> year, so that really isn't a viable solution for anyone with =
near-term
>>>>> needs, unless the required changes can be cherry-picked and =
brought into
>>>>> our version of 3.4.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> -- Ian
>>>>=20
>>>> Another update to this... today I committed r268993 and r268994, =
and now
>>>> I believe arm eabi c++ exceptions are fully working with gcc.  I =
haven't
>>>> run an extensive test suite, but all the test cases we've been =
using at
>>>> $work to debug this now work correctly.
>>>=20
>>> Thank you! Confirmed. My test cases which are working with gcc-4.10 =
are now also working with the system gcc, 4.2.1.
>>> I totally forgot about this change. I have it in my local gcc tree =
since a while but I forgot about.....
>>>=20
>>> Andreas
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>=20
>> Please excuse my late reply. I=A2ve been away from keyboard for a =
while.
>>=20
>> I back-ported r268893,  r268993 and r268994 to stable/10 for =
beaglebone. C++ exceptions works for static builds, but not for binaries =
linked to shared libs.
>>=20
>> Since this seems to work ok in HEAD, I=A2m obviously missing =
something. Do any of you guys have any ideas?
>>=20
>> Cheers
>>=20
>=20
> I'm not sure what you mean by "backported to stable/10", I merged all
> the necessary changes to stable-10 as r269792 on Aug 10.  Are you
> working with a checkout from earlier than that?  If so, just updating
> should fix it for you.
>=20
> -- Ian
>=20
>=20


Updating to stable-10 as of today didn=A2t help. I=A2m running a clean =
checkout except for a couple of drivers in the kernel.
This makes me think I have a bad src.conf - How shall I configure the =
build for this to work?

/Olavi






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