https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113795
Bug ID: 113795 Summary: armv8.1m-m.main+pacbti -mbranch-protection=standard -O2 compile error Product: gcc Version: 13.2.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: keithp at keithp dot com Target Milestone: --- Created attachment 57348 --> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=57348&action=edit Reasonably short test case. A tail-call indirect branch is miscompiled in the attached example. Without -mbranch-protection=standard: ``` .L2: ldr r4, .L25+4 movs r0, #0 ldr r4, [r4, #24] mov ip, r4 str r4, [sp, #4] add sp, sp, #28 @ sp needed pop {r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r9, r10, fp, lr} bx ip ``` With -mbranch-protection=standard: ``` .L2: movs r0, #0 ldr r4, .L25+4 ldr r4, [r4, #24] str r4, [sp, #4] add sp, sp, #24 @ sp needed pop {r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r9, r10, fp, ip, lr} aut ip, lr, sp bx ip ``` Note that in the latter example, the `ip` register doesn't get copied from `r4`, presumably because `ip` gets clobbered by the PAC operation. That leaves the indirect branch at the end jumping to a random address.