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gh-149202: Fix frame pointer unwinding on ppc64le and armv7/clang #149409

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gh-149202: Fix frame pointer unwinding on s390x and ARM
pablogsal May 4, 2026
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Advertise frame pointer support via _Py_WITH_FRAME_POINTERS
encukou May 5, 2026
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Use -mbackchain only on s390x
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Account for ppc64le
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Also use -mno-thumb for 32-bit ARM
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5 changes: 2 additions & 3 deletions Doc/using/configure.rst
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Expand Up @@ -789,14 +789,13 @@ also be used to improve performance.

- ``-fno-omit-frame-pointer`` and/or ``-mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer``
are added when the compiler supports them.
- ``-marm`` is added on 32-bit ARM when supported,
- ``-marm`` and/or ``-mno-thumb`` is added on 32-bit ARM when supported,
- on s390x platforms, when supported, ``-mbackchain`` is added *instead*.
of the above frame pointer flags.

Frame pointers enable profilers, debuggers, and system tracing tools
(``perf``, ``eBPF``, ``dtrace``, ``gdb``) to walk the C call stack
without DWARF metadata.
The flags propagate to third-party C
without DWARF metadata. The flags propagate to third-party C
extensions through :mod:`sysconfig`. On compilers that do not
understand them, the build silently skips them.

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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions Modules/_testinternalcapi.c
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Expand Up @@ -92,6 +92,12 @@ static const uintptr_t min_frame_pointer_addr = 0x1000;
# define FRAME_POINTER_NEXT_OFFSET 0
# define FRAME_POINTER_RETURN_OFFSET \
(S390X_FRAME_RETURN_ADDRESS_OFFSET / (Py_ssize_t)sizeof(uintptr_t))
#elif defined(__powerpc64__) || defined(__ppc64__)
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@vstinner as the powerpc expert: Are these the right macros to detect ppc64le?

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#if defined(__powerpc64__) || defined(__ppc64__) looks to good to me according to existing CPython code. __powerpc64__ macro is defined on Linux. The __ppc64__ macro is maybe needed on macOS or Windows, I'm not sure, but it's good to check for the two macros :-)

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Well, the Linux stack layout might not apply to Mac... but then again, the last ppc Mac came out 20 years ago.

// ppc64le puts the return address at fp[2]; it saves the Condition Register
// in fp[1]. See:
// https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi-1.9.html#STACK
# define FRAME_POINTER_NEXT_OFFSET 0
# define FRAME_POINTER_RETURN_OFFSET 2
#else
# define FRAME_POINTER_NEXT_OFFSET 0
# define FRAME_POINTER_RETURN_OFFSET 1
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Expand Up @@ -2549,9 +2549,13 @@ AS_VAR_IF([ac_cv_gcc_compat], [yes], [
frame_pointer_cflags="$frame_pointer_cflags -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer"
], [], [-Werror])
AS_CASE([$host_cpu], [arm|armv*], [
dnl GCC uses "-marm"; clang uses "-mno-thumb"
AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-marm], [
frame_pointer_cflags="$frame_pointer_cflags -marm"
], [], [-Werror])
AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-mno-thumb], [
frame_pointer_cflags="$frame_pointer_cflags -mno-thumb"
], [], [-Werror])
])
AS_CASE([$host_cpu], [s390*], [
AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-mbackchain], [
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