On 21 Apr, Don Lewis wrote: > On 21 Apr, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 18:35:15 -0700 (PDT) Don Lewis >> <truck...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> My only remaining question is why the selftest fails before the recent >>> padding fix. I would expect the tests to pass with the incorrectly >>> placed padding as long as everything was compiled with the same >>> structure definition. >> >> Are you building with devel/libunwind installed? It installs its own >> unwind.h which does not have the alignment changes so it does not induce >> padding in __cxa_exception. So you're not actually compiling with the >> same structure definition. > > Bingo! libunwind is getting pulled in by the gstreamer dependency. Not > sure how to fix this because some of the other dependencies are not > getting built with libunwind.
... and in view of the above, why does adding the padding to the system unwind.h header fix the self test since that will introduce a mismatch?
