- Now using 10x better GCD semaphores
- We now generate Linux-like thread ids
- We now use fast system clock / sleep libraries
- The APE M1 loader now generates Linux-like stacks
- Use nullness checks when calling weakly linked functions.
- Avoid typedef for reasons described in Linux Kernel style guide.
- Avoid enum in in Windows headers. Earlier in Cosmo's history all one
hundred files in libc/nt/enum/ used to be enums and it resulted in
gigabytes of DWARF data almost as large as everything else in the
codebase combined.
- Bitfields aren't our friends. They have frequent ABI breakages,
inconsistent arithmetic across compilers, and different endianness
between cpus. Compiler authors also haven't invested much roi into
making bit fields go fast so they produce poor assembly.
- Use memccpy() instead of strncpy() or snprintf() for length-bounded
copying of C strings. strncpy() is a misunderstood function and
snprintf() is awesome but memccpy() deserves more love.