hdbg arm64 implementation proposal.

[devnexen]

x29 is the frame pointer register on arm64, we store them respectively using temporary vars.
note arm32 needs its own version.

[peadar]

My version and (lack of) documentation for i386 and x86_64 were not a great example to follow here, but the idea of this function is to return both the instruction pointer (not stack pointer), and the frame pointer.

For aarch64, the frame pointer is indeed x29, and you can use the link register, x30, to get the caller's IP. They should really come from the same "frame", though - that's why I had the naked attribute on the x86 versions.

I'm not an ARM expert by any stretch, but it's possible that for leaf functions, the you can just use x29 directly, assuming it doesn't get manipulated in the prologue for "getframe" here. (i.e. I'm not sure if the lack of a naked attribute affects anything here - ISTR it isn't supported on aarch64.

Also, given you have given the output variables names, you might as well just assign the passed parameters from the output names in C, rather than doing it in asm.

I really need to add a test for this - I can do it tomorrow, but if you haven't worked it out, something like:

#include <stdlib.h>
int g(int i) { int *p = malloc(1024); *p = i; return i; }
int f(int i) { return g(i * 2);}
int main() { return f(42);}

Compiling with -fno-omit-frame-pointer and running

env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=libhdbg.so ./a.out
hdmp core

you should see the backtrace for the memory leak in the output.

[devnexen]

For aarch64, the frame pointer is indeed x29, and you can use the link register, x30, to get the caller's IP.

My bad I misread.

They should really come from the same "frame", though - that's why I had the naked attribute on the x86 versions.

I guess, if we are to use inline assembly, we can strip down to just to something like this:

static void __attribute__((naked,noinline)) getframe(void ***bp, void ***ip) { asm( "mov x29, x0;" "mov x30, x1;" "ret;" ); }

otherwise no point using variables as I did indeed.

I won t be able to come back to it until wednesday..