Thanks to @autumnjolitz (in #876) the Cosmopolitan codebase is now
acquainted with Apple's outstanding ulock system calls which offer
something much closer to futexes than Grand Central Dispatch which
wasn't quite as good, since its wait function can't be interrupted
by signals (therefore necessitating a busy loop) and it also needs
semaphore objects to be created and freed. Even though ulock is an
internal Apple API, strictly speaking, the benefits of futexes are
so great that it's worth the risk for now especially since we have
the GCD implementation still as a quick escape hatch if it changes
Here's why this change is important for x86 XNU users. Cosmo has a
suboptimal polyfill when the operating system doesn't offer an API
that let's us implement futexes properly. Sadly we had to use that
on X86 XNU until now. The polyfill works using clock_nanosleep, to
poll the futex in a busy loop with exponential backoff. On XNU x86
clock_nanosleep suffers from us not being able to use a fast clock
gettime implementation, which had a compounding effect that's made
the polyfill function even more poorly. On X86 XNU we also need to
polyfill sched_yield() using select(), which made things even more
troublesome. Now that we have futexes we don't have any busy loops
anymore for both condition variables and thread joining so optimal
performance is attained. To demonstrate, consider these benchmarks
Before:
$ ./lockscale_test.com -b
consumed 38.8377 seconds real time and
0.087131 seconds cpu time
After:
$ ./lockscale_test.com -b
consumed 0.007955 seconds real time and
0.011515 seconds cpu time
Fixes#876
This reverts commit b01282e23e. Some tests
are broken. It's not clear how it'll impact metal yet. Let's revisit the
memory optimization benefits of this change again sometime soon.
There was a glitch in the refactoring of __map_phdrs( ) in
commit ec480f5aa0, which caused it to try to map the PT_NOTE
program segment into virtual memory, which in turn caused the
memory page at BANE to be wrongly remapped to the start of
the program image (0x100000) rather than physical address 0.
This affected subsequent page allocation operations because
the `struct mman` was located at BANE + 0x0500.
Co-authored-by: tkchia <tkchia-cosmo@gmx.com>
This reduces the virtual memory usage of Emacs for me by 30%. We now
have a simpler implementation that uses read(), rather mmap()ing the
whole executable.
- This change fixes a bug that allowed unbuffered printf() output (to
streams like stderr) to be truncated. This regression was introduced
some time between now and the last release.
- POSIX specifies all functions as thread safe by default. This change
works towards cleaning up our use of the @threadsafe / @threadunsafe
documentation annotations to reflect that. The goal is (1) to use
@threadunsafe to document functions which POSIX say needn't be thread
safe, and (2) use @threadsafe to document functions that we chose to
implement as thread safe even though POSIX didn't mandate it.
- Tidy up the clock_gettime() implementation. We're now trying out a
cleaner approach to system call support that aims to maintain the
Linux errno convention as long as possible. This also fixes bugs that
existed previously, where the vDSO errno wasn't being translated
properly. The gettimeofday() system call is now a wrapper for
clock_gettime(), which reduces bloat in apps that use both.
- The recently-introduced improvements to the execute bit on Windows has
had bugs fixed. access(X_OK) on a directory on Windows now succeeds.
fstat() will now perform the MZ/#! ReadFile() operation correctly.
- Windows.h is no longer included in libc/isystem/, because it confused
PCRE's build system into thinking Cosmopolitan is a WIN32 platform.
Cosmo's Windows.h polyfill was never even really that good, since it
only defines a subset of the subset of WIN32 APIs that Cosmo defines.
- The setlongerjmp() / longerjmp() APIs are removed. While they're nice
APIs that are superior to the standardized setjmp / longjmp functions,
they weren't superior enough to not be dead code in the monorepo. If
you use these APIs, please file an issue and they'll be restored.
- The .com appending magic has now been removed from APE Loader.
- ARM Neon headers are now exported in libc/isystem/
- stat() and access() now do a better job reporting which files are
executable which ones aren't. They do this by reading the first two
bytes in a file to see if it's `MZ` or `#!`.
Unlike CMD.EXE, CreateProcess() doesn't care if an executable name ends
with .COM or .EXE. We now have the unbourne shell and bash working well
on Windows, so we don't need DOS anymore. Making this change will grant
us better performance, particularly for builds, because commandv() will
need to make fewer system calls. Path mangling magic still happens with
WinMain() and ntspawn() in order to do things like turn \ into / so the
interop works well at the borders. But all the code in libraries, which
did that, has been removed. It's not possible for libraries to abstract
the differences between paths.
- Improved async signal safety of read() particularly for longjmp()
- Started adding cancel cleanup handlers for locks / etc on Windows
- Make /dev/tty work better particularly for uses like `foo | less`
- Eagerly read console input into a linked list, so poll can signal
- Fix some libc definitional bugs, which configure scripts detected
This change removes our use of ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_INPUT (which
isn't very good) in favor of having read() translate Windows Console
input events to ANSI/XTERM sequences by hand. This makes it possible to
capture important keystrokes (e.g. ctrl-space) that weren't possible
before. Most importantly this change also removes the stdin/sigwinch
worker threads, which never really worked that well. Interactive TTY
sessions will now work reliably when a Cosmo process spawns or forks
another Cosmo process, e.g. unbourne.com launching emacs.com.
- Every unit test now passes on Apple Silicon. The final piece of this
puzzle was porting our POSIX threads cancelation support, since that
works differently on ARM64 XNU vs. AMD64. Our semaphore support on
Apple Silicon is also superior now compared to AMD64, thanks to the
grand central dispatch library which lets *NSYNC locks go faster.
- The Cosmopolitan runtime is now more stable, particularly on Windows.
To do this, thread local storage is mandatory at all runtime levels,
and the innermost packages of the C library is no longer being built
using ASAN. TLS is being bootstrapped with a 128-byte TIB during the
process startup phase, and then later on the runtime re-allocates it
either statically or dynamically to support code using _Thread_local.
fork() and execve() now do a better job cooperating with threads. We
can now check how much stack memory is left in the process or thread
when functions like kprintf() / execve() etc. call alloca(), so that
ENOMEM can be raised, reduce a buffer size, or just print a warning.
- POSIX signal emulation is now implemented the same way kernels do it
with pthread_kill() and raise(). Any thread can interrupt any other
thread, regardless of what it's doing. If it's blocked on read/write
then the killer thread will cancel its i/o operation so that EINTR can
be returned in the mark thread immediately. If it's doing a tight CPU
bound operation, then that's also interrupted by the signal delivery.
Signal delivery works now by suspending a thread and pushing context
data structures onto its stack, and redirecting its execution to a
trampoline function, which calls SetThreadContext(GetCurrentThread())
when it's done.
- We're now doing a better job managing locks and handles. On NetBSD we
now close semaphore file descriptors in forked children. Semaphores on
Windows can now be canceled immediately, which means mutexes/condition
variables will now go faster. Apple Silicon semaphores can be canceled
too. We're now using Apple's pthread_yield() funciton. Apple _nocancel
syscalls are now used on XNU when appropriate to ensure pthread_cancel
requests aren't lost. The MbedTLS library has been updated to support
POSIX thread cancelations. See tool/build/runitd.c for an example of
how it can be used for production multi-threaded tls servers. Handles
on Windows now leak less often across processes. All i/o operations on
Windows are now overlapped, which means file pointers can no longer be
inherited across dup() and fork() for the time being.
- We now spawn a thread on Windows to deliver SIGCHLD and wakeup wait4()
which means, for example, that posix_spawn() now goes 3x faster. POSIX
spawn is also now more correct. Like Musl, it's now able to report the
failure code of execve() via a pipe although our approach favors using
shared memory to do that on systems that have a true vfork() function.
- We now spawn a thread to deliver SIGALRM to threads when setitimer()
is used. This enables the most precise wakeups the OS makes possible.
- The Cosmopolitan runtime now uses less memory. On NetBSD for example,
it turned out the kernel would actually commit the PT_GNU_STACK size
which caused RSS to be 6mb for every process. Now it's down to ~4kb.
On Apple Silicon, we reduce the mandatory upstream thread size to the
smallest possible size to reduce the memory overhead of Cosmo threads.
The examples directory has a program called greenbean which can spawn
a web server on Linux with 10,000 worker threads and have the memory
usage of the process be ~77mb. The 1024 byte overhead of POSIX-style
thread-local storage is now optional; it won't be allocated until the
pthread_setspecific/getspecific functions are called. On Windows, the
threads that get spawned which are internal to the libc implementation
use reserve rather than commit memory, which shaves a few hundred kb.
- sigaltstack() is now supported on Windows, however it's currently not
able to be used to handle stack overflows, since crash signals are
still generated by WIN32. However the crash handler will still switch
to the alt stack, which is helpful in environments with tiny threads.
- Test binaries are now smaller. Many of the mandatory dependencies of
the test runner have been removed. This ensures many programs can do a
better job only linking the the thing they're testing. This caused the
test binaries for LIBC_FMT for example, to decrease from 200kb to 50kb
- long double is no longer used in the implementation details of libc,
except in the APIs that define it. The old code that used long double
for time (instead of struct timespec) has now been thoroughly removed.
- ShowCrashReports() is now much tinier in MODE=tiny. Instead of doing
backtraces itself, it'll just print a command you can run on the shell
using our new `cosmoaddr2line` program to view the backtrace.
- Crash report signal handling now works in a much better way. Instead
of terminating the process, it now relies on SA_RESETHAND so that the
default SIG_IGN behavior can terminate the process if necessary.
- Our pledge() functionality has now been fully ported to AARCH64 Linux.
This changes *NSYNC to allocate waiters on the stack so our locks don't
need to depend on dynamic memory. This make our runtiem simpler, and it
also fixes bugs with thread cancellation support.
This change fixes bugs in the APE loader. The execve() unit tests are
now enabled for MODE=aarch64. See the README for how you need to have
binfmt_misc configured with Qemu to run them. Apple Silicon bugs have
been fixed too, e.g. tkill() now works.
The new asynchronous signal delivery technique is now also being used
for tkill(), raise(), etc. Many subtle issues have been addresesd. We
now signal handling on Windows that's remarkably similar to the POSIX
behaviors. However that's just across threads. We're lacking a way to
have the signal semantics work well, across multiple WIN32 processes.
The stdio reader thread now appears to be working recursively along
cosmopolitan subprocesses. For example, it's now possible to launch
vim.com from the unbourne.com bestline repl, thanks to hacks plus a
bug fix to select() timeouts.
- Remove misguided __assert_disabled variable
- Change EPROCLIM to be EAGAIN on BSD distros
- Improve quality of greenbean with cancellations
- Fix thread race condition crash with file descriptors
- Polyfill readlink("foo/") dir check on Windows
- Support asynchronous signal delivery on Windows
- Restore Windows Console from execve() daisy chain
- Work around bug in AARCH64 Optimized Routines memcmp()
- Disable unbourne.com shell completion on Windows for now
- Don't always set virtual terminal input state on console
- Remove Musl Libc's unusual preservation of realpath("//")
- Make realpath() strongly link malloc() to pass configure test
- Delete cosh.com shell, now that unbourne.com works on Windows!
- Invent openatemp() API
- Invent O_UNLINK open flag
- Introduce getenv_secure() API
- Remove `git pull` from cosmocc
- Fix utimes() when path is NULL
- Fix mktemp() to never return NULL
- Fix utimensat() UTIME_OMIT on XNU
- Improve utimensat() code for RHEL5
- Turn `argv[0]` C:/ to /C/ on Windows
- Introduce tmpnam() and tmpnam_r() APIs
- Fix more const issues with internal APIs
- Permit utimes() on WIN32 in O_RDONLY mode
- Fix fdopendir() to check fd is a directory
- Fix recent crash regression in landlock make
- Fix futimens(AT_FDCWD, NULL) to return EBADF
- Use workaround so `make -j` doesn't fork bomb
- Rename dontdiscard to __wur (just like glibc)
- Fix st_size for WIN32 symlinks containing UTF-8
- Introduce stdio ext APIs needed by GNU coreutils
- Fix lstat() on WIN32 for symlinks to directories
- Move some constants from normalize.inc to limits.h
- Fix segv with memchr() and memcmp() overlapping page
- Implement POSIX fflush() behavior for reader streams
- Implement AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW for utimensat() on WIN32
- Don't change read-only status of existing files on WIN32
- Correctly handle `0x[^[:xdigit:]]` case in strtol() functions
This change fixes Cosmopolitan so it has fewer opinions about compiler
warnings. The whole repository had to be cleaned up to be buildable in
-Werror -Wall mode. This lets us benefit from things like strict const
checking. Some actual bugs might have been caught too.
- Fix stdio fmemopen() buffer behaviors
- Fix scanf() to return EOF when appropriate
- Prefer fseek/ftell names over fseeko/ftello
- Ensure locale field is always set in the TIB
- Fix recent regression in vfprintf() return count
- Make %n directive in scanf() have standard behavior
- Introduce ualarm() function
- Make rename() report EISEMPTY on Windows
- Always raise EINVAL upon open(O_RDONLY|O_TRUNC)
- Add macro so ./configure will detect SOCK_CLOEXEC
- Fix O_TRUNC without O_CREAT not working on Windows
- Let fcntl(F_SETFL) change O_APPEND status on Windows
- Make sure pwrite() / pread() report ESPIPE on sockets
- Raise ESPIPE on Windows when pwrite() is used on pipe
- Properly compute O_APPEND CreateFile() flags on Windows
- Don't require O_DIRECTORY to open directories on Windows
- Fix more instances of Windows reporting EISDIR and ENOTDIR
- Normalize EFTYPE and EMLINK to ELOOP on NetBSD and FreeBSD
- Make unlink() / rmdir() work on read-only files on Windows
- Validate UTF-8 on Windows paths to fix bug with overlong NUL
- Always print signal name to stderr when crashing due to SIG_DFL
- Fix Windows bug where denormalized paths >260 chars didn't work
- Block signals on BSDs when thread exits before trashing its own stack
- Get SIGWINCH working again on the New Technology
- Correctly handle O_NOFOLLOW in open() on Windows
- Implement synthetic umask() functionality on Windows
- Do a better job managing file execute access on Windows
- Fill in `st_uid` and `st_gid` with username hash on Windows
- Munge UNICODE control pictures into control codes on Windows
- Do a better job ensuring Windows console settings are restored
- Introduce KPRINTF_LOG environment variable to log kprintf to a file
This change brings the /zip/... read-only filesystem into performance
parity with the native Linux filesystem which doesn't use compression
therefore, imagine how much faster this could be with bloom filtering
rather than simple binary search, and if we used zstd instead of zlib
This change reduces the memory requirements of your APE Loader by 10x,
in terms of virtual memory size, thanks to the help of alloca(). We're
also now creating argument blocks with the same layout across systems.
- Fix mkdeps.com out of memory error
- Remove static memory from __get_cpu_count()
- Add support for passing hyphen to cat in cocmd
- Change more ZipOS errors from ENOTSUP to EROFS
- Specify mem_unit in sysinfo() output on BSD OSes
readdir() will now always yield an inode that's consistent with stat()
on ZipOS and Windows in general. More APIs have been updated to return
the appropriate error code when inappropriately trying to do ops, like
sockets, with a zip file descriptor. The path normalization algorithms
are now fully fleshed out. Some socket APIs have been fixed so they'll
raise EBADF vs. ENOTSOCK appropriately. Lastly seekdir() will now work
properly on NetBSD and FreeBSD (not sure why anyone would even use it)
This change improves the dirstream library in a lot of respects,
especially for /zip/... files. Also turn off MAP_STACK on Aarch64
because Qemu seems to implement it differently than Linux and it's
probably responsible for a lot of mysterious crashes.
You can now play Super Mario Bros in CMD.EXE using Cosmopolitan! This is
thanks to a new worker thread that's spawned on Windows whenever any one
of poll(), select(), or ioctl(FIONREAD) is linked.
make all test CC=fatcosmocc AR='fatcosmoar rcu'
This change introduces a program named mktemper.com which provides more
reliable and secure temporary file name generation for scripts. It also
makes our ar.com program more permissive in what commands it'll accept.
The cosmocc command is improved by this change too.
This way complex runtime features (e.g. ftrace, symbol tables) can
always yoink zipos support. This is important now that apelink.com
automates embedding symbol tables for multiple cpus.
This new script is an alternative to the `cosmocc` command. It's still a
work in progress. It abstracts all the gory details of building separate
copies of your executable and then running the apelink.com program.
If you build a static ELF executable in `ld -q` mode (which leaves rela
sections inside the binary) then you can run it through the elf2pe.com
program afterwards, which will turn it into a PE executable. We have a
new trick for defining WIN32 DLL imports in C without any assembly code.
This also achieves the optimally tiny and perfect PE binary structure.
We need this because it isn't possible to have a GNU ld linker script
generate a PE file where the virtual pointer and the file pointer can
drift apart. This post-linker can do that. One cool benefit is we can
now use a smaller 512-byte alignment in the file, and an even bigger
64kb alignment for the segment virtual addresses, and the executable
ends up being smaller.
Another program introduced by this change is pecheck.com which can do
extensive linting of PE static executables to help explain why Windows
won't load it.
- Blocking read operations on the Windows Console can now EINTR
- Blocking read operations on Windows pipes now EINTR more reliably
- setitimer() will no longer be inherited across fork() on Windows
- It's now possible to use ECHO when the console is in raw mode
- The ECHOCTL flag now works correctly on the Windows Console
- The ICRNL flag now works correctly on the Windows Console
- pread() and pwrite() will now raise ESPIPE on Windows
- Opening /dev/tty on Windows is improved (untested)
- Overlapped I/O is now implemented in a better way
This change has the insight that dwExitCode isn't an exit code but
rather should be used to pass the wait status. This lets us report
killing as a termination status, similar to UNIX. This change also
fixes the fact that exit(259) on Windows will break the parent due
way WIN32 is designed. We now work around that.
It turns out that NetBSD and OpenBSD, will let you have exit codes
beyond 255. This change will let you use them when it's possible.
This change makes posix_spawn_test no longer flaky on Windows, by (1)
fixing a race condition in wait(), and (2) removing a misguided vfork
implementation which was letting Windows bypass pthread_atfork().
- Remove PAGESIZE constant
- Fix realloc() documentation
- Fix ttyname_r() error reporting
- Make forking more reliable on Windows
- Make execvp() a few microseconds faster
- Make system() a few microseconds faster
- Tighten up the socket-related magic numbers
- Loosen restrictions on mmap() offset alignment
- Improve GetProgramExecutableName() with getenv("_")
- Use mkstemp() as basis for mktemp(), tmpfile(), tmpfd()
- Fix flakes in pthread_cancel_test, unix_test, fork_test
- Fix recently introduced futex stack overflow regression
- Let sockets be passed as stdio to subprocesses on Windows
- Improve security of bind() on Windows w/ SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE
This change addresses everything from stack smashing to %SYSTEMROOT%
breaking socket(). Issues relating to compile.com not reporting text
printed to stderr has been resolved for Windows builds.
This change ports APE Loader to Linux AARCH64, so that Raspberry Pi
users can run programs like redbean, without the executable needing
to modify itself. Progress has also slipped into this change on the
issue of making progress better conforming to user expectations and
industry standards regarding which symbols we're allowed to declare
This change also incorporates more bug fixes and improvements to a wide
variety of small things. For example this fixes#860 so Windows console
doesn't get corrupted after exit. An system stack memory map issue with
aarch64 has been fixed. We no longer use O_NONBLOCK on AF_UNIX sockets.
Crash reports on Arm64 will now demangle C++ symbols, even when c++filt
isn't available. Most importantly the Apple M1 version of APE Loader is
brought up to date by this change. A prebuilt unsigned binary for it is
being included in build/bootstrap/. One more thing: retrieving the term
dimensions under --strace was causing the stack to become corrupted and
now that's been solved too. PSS: We're now including an ELF PT_NOTE for
APE in the binaries we build, that has the APE Loader version.
This version has better error messages and safety checks. It supports
loading static position-independent executables. It correctly handles
more kinds of weird ELF program header layouts. A force flag has been
added to avoid system execve(). Finally the longstanding misalignment
with our ELF PT_NOTE section has been addressed.
- The functions that return a sockaddr now do so the same way the Linux
Kernel does across platforms, e.g. getpeername(), accept4()
- Socket system calls on Windows will now only check for interrupts when
a blocking operation needs to be performed.
- Write tests for recvfrom() system call
lz4toasm should now more easily accept LZ4 files output by
compressor programs that do not support the extracted-size
field, such as Stephan Brumme's smallz4.
This patch also proposes to add a new lz4len() function to
the libc: it parses an LZ4 compressed block to compute the
unpacked content size, without really unpacking the block.
Co-authored-by: tkchia <tkchia-cosmo@gmx.com>
- tcgetpgrp(STDIN_FILENO) should be equal to getpgrp() on Windows also,
found while reading wget source code which uses this check to decide
whether to print to stderr or to a file
- IN6_ADDR_ARE_EQUAL is a comparison macro used when IPV6 is allowed,
found while reading CPython3.11 source code
- the changes in signal.h and addition of ucontext.h are because
CPython3.11 source code expect sigaltstack to be available
- the sqlite3.mk change is because CPython3.11 requires sqlite3 to be
built with -DOMIT_SHARED_CACHE
- unistd.h has getopt.h now, because some libraries like it there
This change introduces new tests for `O_NONBLOCK` and `SOCK_NONBLOCK` to
confirm that non-blocking i/o is now working on all supported platforms,
including Windows. For example, you can now say on Windows, MacOS, etc.:
socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM | SOCK_NONBLOCK, IPPROTO_TCP);
To create a non-blocking IPv4 TCP socket. Or you can enable non-blocking
i/o on an existing socket / pipe / etc. file descriptor by calling fcntl
fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, fcntl(fd, F_GETFL) | O_NONBLOCK);
This functionality is polyfilled on older Linux kernels too, e.g. RHEL5.
Now that fcntl() support is much better the FIOCLEX / FIONCLEX polyfills
for ioctl() have been removed since they're ugly non-POSIX diameond APIs
This change fixes a weakness in kprintf() that was causing Windows trace
tools to frequently crash.
- This commit mints a new release of APE Loader v1.2 which supports
loading ELF programs with a non-contiguous virtual address layout
even though we've never been able to take advantage of it, due to
how `objcopy -SO binary` fills any holes left by PT_LOAD. This'll
change soon, since we'll have a new way of creating APE binaries.
- The undiamonding trick with our ioctl() implementation is removed
since POSIX has been killing ioctl() for years and they've done a
much better job. One problem it resolves, is that ioctl(FIONREAD)
wasn't working earlier and that caused issues when building Emacs
- Fix unused local variable errors
- Remove yoinks from sigaction() header
- Add nox87 and aarch64 to github actions
- Fix cosmocc -fportcosmo in linking mode
- It's now possible to build `make m=llvm o/llvm/libc`
- compile.com now polyfills -march=native which gcc/clang removed
- Guarantee zero Windows code is linked into non-Windows binaries
- MODE=tinylinux binaries are now back to being as tiny as ~4kb
- Improve the runtime's stack allocation / alignment hack
- GitHub Actions now tests Linux modes for assurance
- Fix handling of precision in hex float formatting
- Enhance the cocmd interpreter for system() and popen()
- Manually ran the Lua unit tests, which are now passing
- Let stdio i/o operations happen when file is in error state
- We're now saving and restoring xmm in ftrace out of paranoia
It turned out that Landlock Make hasn't been applying sandboxing for a
while, due to a mistyped if statement for `$(USE_SYSTEM_TOOLCHAIN)` it
should have had the opposite meaning. Regressions in the build configs
have been fixed. The rmrf() function works better now. The rm.com tool
works according to POSIX with the exception of supporting prompts.
This change figures out some of the build configuration issues we've
been having with libcxx. The c++ span header is added. Per a Discord
discussion we're now turning off `-g` for the default build mode, so
consider using `make MODE=dbg` or `make MODE=zero` for GDB debugging
which works much better than `MODE=` ever has. Note that the default
build mode has always had very good function call / system call logs
plus you can still use ShowCrashReports() for backtrace. Making this
change ensures cosmocc will better conform to FOSS norms. Lastly the
LoadZipArgs() API has been added to cosmopolitan.a and <cosmo.h>.
This change fixes stderr to be unbuffered. Added hardware AES on ARM64
to help safeguard against timing attacks. The curl.com command will be
somewhat more pleasant to use.
The *NSYNC linked list API is good enough that it deserves to be part of
the C libray, so this change writes an improved version of it which uses
that offsetof() trick from the Linux Kernel. We vendor all of the *NSYNC
tests in third_party which helped confirm the needed refactoring is safe
This change also deletes more old code that didn't pan out. My goal here
is to work towards a vision where the Cosmopolitan core libraries become
less experimental and more focused on curation. This better reflects the
current level of quality we've managed to achieve.
After going through the MODE=dbg and MODE=zero build modes, a bunch of
little issues were identified, which have been addressed. Fixing those
issues created even more troubles for the project, because it improved
our ability to detect latent problems which are getting fixed so fast.
The build/bootstrap/ar.com program is now tinier. This change reduces
its size from 140kb to 53kb. Nothing was traded away. Cosmopolitan Ar
performance is now 2x better than llvm-ar largely thanks to using the
copy_file_range() system call. This change homebrews a new allocation
API that addresses the shortcomings of the C standard library design.
Using these new balloc() and reballoc() functions I managed to reduce
memory consumption so much that Cosmpolitan Ar should now use roughly
100x fewer bytes of peak resident memory compared to llvm-ar. Correct
behavior with better compatibility has been assured. Binary output is
now pretty much bit-identical to llvm-ar, as of this change. This can
and should be the living proof we need to show that a better world is
possible for software.
This change introduces support for Linux-style uc_context manipulation
that's fast and works well on all supported OSes and architectures. It
also integrates with the Cosmpolitan runtime which can show backtraces
comprised of multiple stacks and fibers. See the test and example code
for further details. This will be used by Mold once it's been vendored
This change (1) upgrades to OpenBSD's newer kernel ABIs, and (2)
modifies APE to have a read-only data segment. Doing this required
creating APE Loader v1.1, which is backwards and forwards compatible
with the previous version.
If you've run the following commands in the past to install your APE
Loader systemwide, then you need to run them again. Ad-hoc installations
shouldn't be impacted. It's also recommended that APE binaries be remade
after upgrading, since they embed old versions of the APE Loader.
ape/apeuninstall.sh
ape/apeinstall.sh
This change does more than just fix OpenBSD. The new loader is smarter
and more reliable. We're now able create much tinier ELF and Mach-O data
structures than we could before. Both APE Loader and execvpe() will now
normalize ambiguous argv[0] resolution the same way as the UNIX shell.
Badness with TLS linkage has been solved.
Fixes#826
