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Commit a3b5684f authored by Andy Polyakov's avatar Andy Polyakov
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perlasm/x86_64-xlate.pl: recognize DWARF CFI directives.



CFI directives annotate instructions that are significant for stack
unwinding procedure. In addition to directives recognized by GNU
assembler this module implements three synthetic ones:

- .cfi_push annotates push instructions in prologue and translates to
  .cfi_adjust_cfa_offset (if needed) and .cfi_offset;
- .cfi_pop annotates pop instructions in epilogue and translates to
  .cfi_adjust_cfs_offset (if needed) and .cfi_restore;
- .cfi_cfa_expression encodes DW_CFA_def_cfa_expression and passes it
  to .cfi_escape as byte vector;

CFA expression syntax is made up mix of DWARF operator suffixes [subset
of] and references to registers with optional bias. Following example
describes offloaded original stack pointer at specific offset from
current stack pointer:

	.cfi_cfa_expression	%rsp+40,deref,+8

Final +8 has everything to do with the fact that CFA, Canonical Frame
Address, is reference to top of caller's stack, and on x86_64 call to
subroutine pushes 8-byte return address.

Triggered by request from Adam Langley.

Reviewed-by: default avatarRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
parent 9d301cfe
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