It's important for build performance to use := rather than = notation so
that $(wildcard foo/*) isn't a lazily evaluated lambda. In the case of
Python where we need a lot of tuning and excludes, it should help to
spell things out a bit more to just not use wildcard for now.
- 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.
You can now build Cosmopolitan with Clang:
make -j8 MODE=llvm
o/llvm/examples/hello.com
The assembler and linker code is now friendly to LLVM too.
So it's not needed to configure Clang to use binutils under
the hood. If you love LLVM then you can now use pure LLVM.
