On Oct 8, 2013, at 2:00 PM, Jean-Daniel Dupas <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Le 8 oct. 2013 à 20:22, David Fang <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
>> Nick,
>> 
>>> On Oct 7, 2013, at 7:38 PM, David Fang wrote:
>>>> Hi Nick,
>>>>    Thanks for the libunwind commit!
>>>>    Would it be possible to also include "mach-o/dyld_priv.h" as well? It 
>>>> is referenced by src/Unwind/AddressSpace.hpp.  I have a copy of that 
>>>> header from a 2009 distribution of cctools.
>>>>    (I'm still building on powerpc-darwin8.)
>> 
>>> Having that header is not going to help.  The header declarations a 
>>> function in libSystem.dylib which the unwinder calls to get the address of 
>>> the __eh_frame for a given pc.  That function is not in the darwin8 
>>> libSystem.  We'll need to write an equivalent using dladdr() and 
>>> getsectiondata() for older MacOSX versions.
>> 
>>      What is the name of that function (where it is available)?  Would 
>> something like this be available somewhere in LLVM?
>> 
> 
> It is _dyld_find_unwind_sections() used to find __eh_frame and 
> _dyld_register_func_for_remove_image() used to track unloaded libraries and 
> prune the cache accordingly.
> 
> But even if you manage to fix the dyld dependency, it will just get you to an 
> other missing private header error (pthread_machdep.h from libc) which 
> provides direct access to thread local variables (maybe that one can be 
> replaced by a __thread var though).
The use of pthread_machdep.h is for SJLJ based exceptions (arm) and not ppc.  
I’ve just committed a change that conditionalizes that include so it is not 
needed for powerpc.

-Nick


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