Support malloc() on bare metal

Your Actually Portable Executables now contains a simple virtual memory
that works similarly to the Linux Kernel in the sense that it maps your
physical memory to negative addresses. This is needed to support mmap()
and malloc(). This functionality has zero code size impact. For example
the MODE=tiny LIFE.COM executable is still only 12KB in size.

The APE bootloader code has also been simplified to improve readibility
and further elevate the elegance by which we're able to support so many
platforms thereby enhancing verifiability so that we may engender trust
in this bootloading process.
This commit is contained in:
Justine Tunney 2021-02-23 20:23:19 -08:00
parent ac3b1dfb21
commit edd9297eba
89 changed files with 900 additions and 1417 deletions

View file

@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
In some cases it's necessary to use addend macros that change virtual
addresses into the other two types: physical and real. */
#define IMAGE_BASE_REAL 0x2000
#ifndef IMAGE_BASE_VIRTUAL
#define IMAGE_BASE_VIRTUAL 0x400000
#endif
@ -19,26 +21,6 @@
#define IMAGE_BASE_PHYSICAL 0x100000
#endif
#ifndef REAL_SCRATCH_AREA
/**
* Location of anything goes memory for real mode.
*
* The MBR won't load program content beyond this address, so we have
* room for buffers, page tables, etc. before we reach the stack frame.
*/
#define REAL_SCRATCH_AREA 0x40000
#endif
#ifndef REAL_STACK_FRAME
/**
* Location of real mode 64kb stack frame.
*
* This address was chosen because memory beyond 0x80000 can't be
* accessed safely without consulting e820.
*/
#define REAL_STACK_FRAME 0x70000
#endif
/**
* Returns Relative Virtual Address.
*/