Actually Portable Executable now supports Android. Cosmo's old mmap code
required a 47 bit address space. The new implementation is very agnostic
and supports both smaller address spaces (e.g. embedded) and even modern
56-bit PML5T paging for x86 which finally came true on Zen4 Threadripper
Cosmopolitan no longer requires UNIX systems to observe the Windows 64kb
granularity; i.e. sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) will now report the host native
page size. This fixes a longstanding POSIX conformance issue, concerning
file mappings that overlap the end of file. Other aspects of conformance
have been improved too, such as the subtleties of address assignment and
and the various subtleties surrounding MAP_FIXED and MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE
On Windows, mappings larger than 100 megabytes won't be broken down into
thousands of independent 64kb mappings. Support for MAP_STACK is removed
by this change; please use NewCosmoStack() instead.
Stack overflow avoidance is now being implemented using the POSIX thread
APIs. Please use GetStackBottom() and GetStackAddr(), instead of the old
error-prone GetStackAddr() and HaveStackMemory() APIs which are removed.
- 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
- Add FreeBSD-specific mmap() flags
- Reduce size of the APE loader from 8kb to 4kb
- Work towards fixing the Makefile build on WSL
- Automate testing of APE no-modify-self behaviors
- Make the ape.S shell script code cleaner and tinier
- Improve the APE sanity check to test behavior better
- Fixed issue with ShowCrashReports() sigaltstack() on BSDs
- Delete symbols for S_MODE magnums which wasted compile time
If you checked out yesterday's APE commit, please run:
rm -f /usr/bin/ape o/tmp/ape /tmp/ape "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/ape"
Because this change fixes certain aspects of the new ABI. We don't have
automated migrations for APE loader versions yet. Thanks! You can also
download prebuilt binaries here:
- https://justine.lol/ape.elf (Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD)
- https://justine.lol/ape.macho (Apple)
Install the appropriate one as `/usr/bin/ape`.
- Get threads working on NetBSD
- Get threads working on OpenBSD
- Fix Emacs config for Emacs v28
- Improve --strace logging of sigset_t
- Improve --strace logging of struct stat
- Improve memory safety of DescribeThing functions
- Refactor auto stack allocation into LIBC_RUNTIME
- Introduce shell.com example which works on Windows
- Refactor __strace_thing into DescribeThing functions
- Document the CHECK macros and improve them in NDEBUG mode
- Rewrite MAP_STACK so it uses FreeBSD behavior across platforms
- Deprecate and discourage the use of MAP_GROWSDOWN (it's weird)
- Fix build flakes
- Polyfill SIGWINCH on Windows
- Fix an execve issue on Windows
- Make strerror show more information
- Improve cmd.exe setup/teardown on Windows
- Support bracketed paste mode in Blinkenlights
- Show keyboard shortcuts in Blinkenlights status bar
- Fixed copy_file_range() and copyfile() w/ zip filesystem
- Size optimize GetDosArgv() to keep life.com 12kb in size
- Improve Blinkenlights ability to load weird ELF executables
- Fix program_executable_name and add GetInterpreterExecutableName
- Make Python in tiny mode fail better if docstrings are requested
- Update Python test exclusions in tiny* modes such as tinylinux
- Add bulletproof unbreakable kprintf() troubleshooting function
- Remove "oldskool" keyword from ape.S for virus scanners
- Fix issue that caused backtraces to not print sometimes
- Improve Blinkenlights serial uart character i/o
- Make clock_gettime() not clobber errno on xnu
- Improve sha256 cpuid check for old computers
- Integrate some bestline linenoise fixes
- Show runit process names better in htop
- Remove SIGPIPE from ShowCrashReports()
- Make realpath() not clobber errno
- Avoid attaching GDB on non-Linux
- Improve img.com example