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Better unwind table support + unwind protection in _start() and clone() #22035

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The goal here is to support both levels of unwind tables (sync and async) in
zig cc and zig build. Previously, the LLVM backend always used async tables
while zig cc was partially influenced by whatever was Clang's default.
The function is not marked .cantunwind for Arm/Thumb because of an LLVM
assembler bug: llvm/llvm-project#115891
Whatever was in the frame pointer register prior to clone() will no longer be
valid in the child process, so zero it to protect FP-based unwinders. Similarly,
mark the link register as undefined to protect DWARF-based unwinders.

This is only zeroing the frame pointer(s) on Arm/Thumb because of an LLVM
assembler bug: llvm/llvm-project#115891
Whatever was in the frame pointer register prior to clone() will no longer be
valid in the child process, so zero it to protect FP-based unwinders. This is
just an extension of what was already done for i386 and x86_64. Only applied
to architectures where the _start() code also zeroes the frame pointer.
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alexrp commented Nov 20, 2024

@jacobly0 can you take a look at the unwind protection I added and see if it makes sense to you?

Also cc @andrewrk @mlugg since this is adding a new @import("builtin").unwind_tables field.

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