[WIP] Avoid using dladdr with libunwindstack #658
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Goal
Avoids using
dladdr
by using functions available in libunwindstack directly. This avoids the need for extra symbolication code that doesn't necessarily account for edge cases introduced by Android.The SO load address is different by a few thousand bytes when calculated by libunwindstack. I believe this is because libunwindstack accounts for how Android reads elf files whereas dladdr does not.
Testing
I tested 3 representative crashes on an ARM emulator & compared stacktraces (see attached).
The symbolication for libart.so appears to be more complete for libunwindstack (it correctly gets
mterp_op_invoke_static
, whereas dladdr doesn't). However, all the embrace frames seem to incorrectly point atnullPointerDereference
. I'd assume the different SO load address means our backend symbolication chooses this function.