Microsoft caused some very gentle breakages for Cosmopolitan. They
removed the version information from the PEB which caused uname to
report WINDOWS 0.0.0. We should have called GetVersionExW but that
doesn't really exist anymore either. Windows policy is now to give
whatever version we used in ape/ape.S. Windows8 has been EOL since
2023-01-10 so lets avoid our modern executables being relegated to
legacy infrastructure. Requiring Windows 10+ going forward lets us
remove runtime compatibility bloat from the codebase. Further note
Cosmopolitan maintains a Windows Vista branch on GitHub, so anyone
preferring the older versions, can still have a future with Cosmo.
Another neat thing this fixes is UTF-8 support in the console. The
changes Microsoft made broke the if statement that enabled UTF8 in
terminals. This explains why bug reports had broken arrows. In the
future this should be less of an issue, since the PEB code is gone
which means we more strictly conform to only Microsoft's WIN32 API
Cosmo's _Cz_crc32() function now goes 73 GiB/s on Threadripper. This
will significantly improve the performance of the PKZIP file format.
This algorithm is also used by apelink, to create deterministic ids.
The normal getopt() function is bloated because it links printf(). This
change exports the original authentic bsd getopt function, that cosmo's
always used internally so cosmocc users don't need to include internals
This change adds a TLS freelist for small dynamic memory allocations.
Cosmopolitan's TIB is now 512 bytes in size. Single-threaded malloc()
performance isn't impacted by this, until pthread_create() is called.
Single-threaded programs may also want to consider using:
#include "libc/mem/tinymalloc.inc"
Which will shave 30k off the executable size and sometimes go faster.
This was originally added when we were using the mcount hooking
technique, to prevent the nop from floating above the frame pointer
creation. Now we use a better codegen technique for hooking so it's no
longer needed to sacrifice performance by using this flag.
When we removed the com suffix from ape binaries, we broke the build for
ape's python for any case-insensitive file system, i.e. Windows and XNU,
because there is a third_party/python/Python that gets mirrored in the o
directory with the python object files and clashes with the binary name.
This patch hacks around this by renaming the binary to "python3" so that
it no longer clashes with that directory.
At least on macOS, `strlen(getenv("TMPDIR"))` is 50. We now allow a /tmp
that takes up to 120 or so bytes to spell. Instead of overflowing, we do
a bounds check and the function fails successfully on even longer /tmps.
Fixes#1108 (os.tmpname crashes redbean)
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.
This change solves the XNU crash loop mystery. Apple's documentation
claims to support this feature, but they only define the constant in
their header files. The kernel acknowledges thi SA_RESETHAND bit, by
clearing it from the sa_flags state, returns zero, and does nothing.
7d31fc3 made it safe to register ape with the binfmt P flag. Older files
will still get their paths passed via argv[0] and everything should just
work. This also restores the F flag that was rolled back alongside the P
flag; this seems like a good idea to me now. It makes it so /usr/bin/ape
is kind of part of the kernel; simply replacing the file will not change
the loader used. The binfmt will have to be reregistered as well.
ape/apeinstall.sh will already nag you if there's an existing binfmt for
ape. It might be nice to make it actually replace the registration.
This reverts commit df648fb174.
