The following compiler warning is emitted for the BACKTRACE_X86STACK
part of lib/isc/backtrace.c:
backtrace.c: In function ‘getrbp’:
backtrace.c:142:1: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void [-Wreturn-type]
While getrbp() stores the value of the RBP register in the RAX register
and thus does attempt to return a value, this is not enough for an
optimizing compiler to always produce the expected result. With -O2,
the following machine code may be generated in isc_backtrace_gettrace():
0x00007ffff7b0ff7a <+10>: mov %rbp,%rax
0x00007ffff7b0ff7d <+13>: mov $0x17,%eax
0x00007ffff7b0ff82 <+18>: retq
The above is equivalent to:
sp = (void **)getrbp();
return (ISC_R_NOTFOUND);
and results in the backtrace never getting printed.
Fix by using an intermediate variable. With this change in place, the
machine code generated with -O2 becomes something like:
0x00007ffff7af5638 <+24>: mov $0x17,%eax
0x00007ffff7af563d <+29>: mov %rbp,%rdx
0x00007ffff7af5640 <+32>: test %rdx,%rdx
0x00007ffff7af5643 <+35>: je 0x7ffff7af56bd <isc_backtrace_gettrace+157>
...
0x00007ffff7af56bd <+157>: retq
(Note that this method of grabbing a stack trace is finicky anyway
because in order for RBP to be relied upon, -fno-omit-stack-frame must
be present among CFLAGS.)
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