diff --git a/src/cxa_exception.cpp b/src/cxa_exception.cpp
index 593fdbe..35956f1 100644
--- a/src/cxa_exception.cpp
+++ b/src/cxa_exception.cpp
@@ -341,10 +341,8 @@
 According to ARM EHABI 8.4.1, __cxa_end_cleanup() should not clobber any
 register, thus we have to write this function in assembly so that we can save
 {r1, r2, r3}.  We don't have to save r0 because it is the return value and the
-first argument to _Unwind_Resume().  In addition, we are saving lr in order to
-align the stack to 16 bytes and lr will be used to identify the caller and its
-frame information. _Unwind_Resume never return and we need to keep the original
-lr so just branch to it.
+first argument to _Unwind_Resume().  In addition, we are saving r4 in order to
+align the stack to 16 bytes, even though it is a callee-save register.
 */
 __attribute__((used)) static _Unwind_Exception *
 __cxa_end_cleanup_impl()
@@ -374,15 +372,18 @@
     return &exception_header->unwindHeader;
 }
 
-asm("	.pushsection	.text.__cxa_end_cleanup,\"ax\",%progbits\n"
+asm (
+    "	.pushsection	.text.__cxa_end_cleanup,\"ax\",%progbits\n"
     "	.globl	__cxa_end_cleanup\n"
     "	.type	__cxa_end_cleanup,%function\n"
     "__cxa_end_cleanup:\n"
-    "	push	{r1, r2, r3, lr}\n"
+    "	push	{r1, r2, r3, r4}\n"
     "	bl	__cxa_end_cleanup_impl\n"
-    "	pop	{r1, r2, r3, lr}\n"
-    "	b	_Unwind_Resume\n"
-    "	.popsection");
+    "	pop	{r1, r2, r3, r4}\n"
+    "	bl	_Unwind_Resume\n"
+    "	bl	abort\n"
+    "	.popsection"
+);
 #endif // defined(_LIBCXXABI_ARM_EHABI)
 
 /*