We're now able to rewind the instruction pointer in x86 backtraces. This
helps ensure addr2line cannot print information about unrelated adjacent
code. I've restored -fno-schedule-insns2 in most cases because it really
does cause unpredictable breakage for backtraces.
This was a good idea back when we were only using it to build various
open source projects. However it no longer makes sense that many more
people are depending on cosmocc, to develop new software. Our tooling
shouldn't be making these kinds of decisions for the user.
MaGuess on Discord pointed out the fact that cosmocc contradicts itself
on the signedness of `char`. It's up to each platform to choose one, so
the cosmo platform shall choose signed. The rationale is it makes the C
language syntax more internally similar. `char` should be `signed char`
for the same reason `int` means `signed int`. It's recommended that you
still assume `char` could go either way since that's portable thinking.
But if you want to assume we'll always have signed char, that's ok too.
You can now run commands like `x86_64-unknown-cosmo-c++ -S` when using
your cosmocc toolchain. Please note the S flag isn't supported for the
cosmocc command itself.
The WIN32 CreateProcess() function does not require an .exe or .com
suffix in order to spawn an executable. Now that we have Cosmo bash
we're no longer so dependent on the cmd.exe prompt.
- Write some more unit tests
- memcpy() on ARM is now faster
- Address the Musl complex math FIXME comments
- Some libm funcs like pow() now support setting errno
- Import the latest and greatest math functions from ARM
- Use more accurate atan2f() and log1pf() implementations
- atoi() and atol() will no longer saturate or clobber errno
This change causes cosmocc to use -fno-inline-functions-called-once by
default, unless -Os or -finline-functions-called-once is defined. This
is important since I believe it generally makes code go faster, and it
most importantly makes --ftrace output much more understandable, since
the trace will be more likely to reflect the actual shape of the code.
We've always used this flag in the mono repo when ftracing is enabled,
but it slipped my mind to incorporate this into the cosmocc toolchain.
This change upgrades to GCC 12.3 and GNU binutils 2.42. The GNU linker
appears to have changed things so that only a single de-duplicated str
table is present in the binary, and it gets placed wherever the linker
wants, regardless of what the linker script says. To cope with that we
need to stop using .ident to embed licenses. As such, this change does
significant work to revamp how third party licenses are defined in the
codebase, using `.section .notice,"aR",@progbits`.
This new GCC 12.3 toolchain has support for GNU indirect functions. It
lets us support __target_clones__ for the first time. This is used for
optimizing the performance of libc string functions such as strlen and
friends so far on x86, by ensuring AVX systems favor a second codepath
that uses VEX encoding. It shaves some latency off certain operations.
It's a useful feature to have for scientific computing for the reasons
explained by the test/libcxx/openmp_test.cc example which compiles for
fifteen different microarchitectures. Thanks to the upgrades, it's now
also possible to use newer instruction sets, such as AVX512FP16, VNNI.
Cosmo now uses the %gs register on x86 by default for TLS. Doing it is
helpful for any program that links `cosmo_dlopen()`. Such programs had
to recompile their binaries at startup to change the TLS instructions.
That's not great, since it means every page in the executable needs to
be faulted. The work of rewriting TLS-related x86 opcodes, is moved to
fixupobj.com instead. This is great news for MacOS x86 users, since we
previously needed to morph the binary every time for that platform but
now that's no longer necessary. The only platforms where we need fixup
of TLS x86 opcodes at runtime are now Windows, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. On
Windows we morph TLS to point deeper into the TIB, based on a TlsAlloc
assignment, and on OpenBSD/NetBSD we morph %gs back into %fs since the
kernels do not allow us to specify a value for the %gs register.
OpenBSD users are now required to use APE Loader to run Cosmo binaries
and assimilation is no longer possible. OpenBSD kernel needs to change
to allow programs to specify a value for the %gs register, or it needs
to stop marking executable pages loaded by the kernel as mimmutable().
This release fixes __constructor__, .ctor, .init_array, and lastly the
.preinit_array so they behave the exact same way as glibc.
We no longer use hex constants to define math.h symbols like M_PI.
a2753de contains some regressions, causing `fixupobj` to be
inappropriately suppressed when `-MD` or `-MMD` is passed.
This commit reverts most changes by a2753de, and:
- Treats all invocations of the compiler with `-M` and `-MM` as with the
`cpp` intent, since these flags imply `-E`.
- Handle the dependency output path specified by `-MF`.
+ This is trivial for `cosmocross` since the script does not throw
objects to and from temporary directories.
+ For `cosmocc`, the file names are calculated based on the `-MF`
value provided by the user. If this flag is not specified, the script
generates the file name based on the output file using GCC rules.
Then, before calling the real compilers, an additional `-MF` flag is
passed to override the dependency outputs with mangled file names.
Some compiler flags (such as -E or -MM) instruct GCC to only run the
preprocessor and produce certain text files.
In this case, we do not want to run `fixupobj` and make the tool fail
because the input is not an ELF64 binary.
With `libunwind` and `libcxxabi` included in `libcosmo`, we can now
allow users to build C++ applications with exceptions and RTTI enabled.
The default is still disabling these two to avoid bloating the binary.
Closes#1065
The toolchain will now be downloaded going forward from multiple pinned
URLs which have shasums. Either wget or curl must be installed.
This change unblocks #1053
It's now possible to pass flags like -Xaarch64-march=armv8.2-a+dotprod
so that cosmocc will use newer ARM ISAs. For AMD64 there's another one
worth mentioning, which looks like this: -Xx86_64-mssse3
The `cosmocc` compiler is now being distributed as a self-contained
toolchain that's path-agnostic and it no longer requires you clone the
Cosmop repo to use it. The bin/ folder has been deleted from the mono
repo. The `fatcosmocc` command has been renamed to `cosmocc`. MacOS
support now works very well.
