Rewrite Cosmopolitan Ar

The build/bootstrap/ar.com program is now tinier. This change reduces
its size from 140kb to 53kb. Nothing was traded away. Cosmopolitan Ar
performance is now 2x better than llvm-ar largely thanks to using the
copy_file_range() system call. This change homebrews a new allocation
API that addresses the shortcomings of the C standard library design.
Using these new balloc() and reballoc() functions I managed to reduce
memory consumption so much that Cosmpolitan Ar should now use roughly
100x fewer bytes of peak resident memory compared to llvm-ar. Correct
behavior with better compatibility has been assured. Binary output is
now pretty much bit-identical to llvm-ar, as of this change. This can
and should be the living proof we need to show that a better world is
possible for software.
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Justine Tunney 2023-07-02 10:19:16 -07:00
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/**
* Returns pointer to elf string table.
*
* @param elf points to the start of the executable image
* @param elf points to the start of the executable image data
* @param mapsize is the number of bytes past `elf` we can access
* @param section_name is usually `".strtab"`, `".dynstr"`, or null
* @return pointer to double-nul terminated string list or null on error
* @return pointer to string table within `elf` image, which should
* normally be a sequence of NUL-terminated strings whose first
* string is the empty string; otherwise NULL is returned, when
* either: (1) `section_name` is not found, (2) it did not have
* the `SHT_STRTAB` section type, (3) the section size was zero
* noting that the ELF spec does consider that legal, or lastly
* (4) an overflow or boundary violation occurred
*/
char *GetElfStringTable(const Elf64_Ehdr *elf, //
size_t mapsize, //