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    The first part of an lldb native stack unwinder. · fbcb7f2c
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    The Unwind and RegisterContext subclasses still need
    to be finished; none of this code is used by lldb at
    this point (unless you call into it by hand).
    
    The ObjectFile class now has an UnwindTable object.
    
    The UnwindTable object has a series of FuncUnwinders
    objects (Function Unwinders) -- one for each function
    in that ObjectFile we've backtraced through during this
    debug session.
    
    The FuncUnwinders object has a few different UnwindPlans.
    UnwindPlans are a generic way of describing how to find
    the canonical address of a given function's stack frame
    (the CFA idea from DWARF/eh_frame) and how to restore the
    caller frame's register values, if they have been saved
    by this function.
    
    UnwindPlans are created from different sources.  One source is the
    eh_frame exception handling information generated by the compiler
    for unwinding an exception throw.  Another source is an assembly
    language inspection class (UnwindAssemblyProfiler, uses the Plugin
    architecture) which looks at the instructions in the funciton
    prologue and describes the stack movements/register saves that are
    done.
    
    Two additional types of UnwindPlans that are worth noting are
    the "fast" stack UnwindPlan which is useful for making a first
    pass over a thread's stack, determining how many stack frames there
    are and retrieving the pc and CFA values for each frame (enough
    to create StackFrameIDs).  Only a minimal set of registers is
    recovered during a fast stack walk.  
    
    The final UnwindPlan is an architectural default unwind plan.
    These are provided by the ArchDefaultUnwindPlan class (which uses
    the plugin architecture).  When no symbol/function address range can
    be found for a given pc value -- when we have no eh_frame information
    and when we don't have a start address so we can't examine the assembly
    language instrucitons -- we have to make a best guess about how to 
    unwind.  That's when we use the architectural default UnwindPlan.
    On x86_64, this would be to assume that rbp is used as a stack pointer
    and we can use that to find the caller's frame pointer and pc value.
    It's a last-ditch best guess about how to unwind out of a frame.
    
    There are heuristics about when to use one UnwindPlan versues the other --
    this will all happen in the still-begin-written UnwindLLDB subclass of
    Unwind which runs the UnwindPlans.
    
    llvm-svn: 113581
    fbcb7f2c
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