Re: Concerns about SFrame viability for userspace stack walking
From: Florian Weimer
Date: Thu Nov 06 2025 - 02:51:31 EST
* Indu Bhagat:
> PLT stubs may use stack (push to stack). As per the document "A null
> frame (MODE = 8) is the simplest possible frame, with no allocated
> stack of either kind (hence no saved registers)". So null frame can
> be used for PLT only if the functions invoking the PLT stub were using
> an RBP-based frame. Isnt it ?
I think I said this before, but I don't think new toolchain features
need to support lazy binding. Without lazy bindings, the PLT stubs do
not change the stack pointer or frame pointer and just make a tail call.
Do you see a need for continued support of lazy binding?
Thanks,
Florian