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- You can now run `make -j8 toolchain` on Windows - You can now run `make -j` on MacOS ARM64 and BSD OSes - You can now use our Emacs dev environment on MacOS/Windows - Fix bug where the x16 register was being corrupted by --ftrace - The programs under build/bootstrap/ are updated as fat binaries - The Makefile now explains how to download cosmocc-0.0.12 toolchain - The build scripts under bin/ now support "cosmo" branded toolchains - stat() now goes faster on Windows (shaves 100ms off `make` latency) - Code cleanup and added review on the Windows signal checking code - posix_spawnattr_setrlimit() now works around MacOS ARM64 bugs - Landlock Make now favors posix_spawn() on non-Linux/OpenBSD - posix_spawn() now has better --strace logging on Windows - fstatat() can now avoid EACCES in more cases on Windows - fchmod() can now change the readonly bit on Windows |
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| hostos.S | ||
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| README.md | ||
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| syscalls.sh | ||
| syscon.S | ||
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| syslib.S | ||
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| systemfive.S | ||
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SYNOPSIS
System Five Import Libraries
OVERVIEW
Bell System Five is the umbrella term we use to describe Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X which all have nearly-identical application binary interfaces that stood the test of time, having definitions nearly the same as those of AT&T back in the 1980's.
Cosmopolitan aims to help you build apps that can endure over the course of decades, just like these systems have: without needing to lift a finger for maintenance churn, broken builds, broken hearts.
The challenge to System V binary compatibility basically boils down to numbers. All these systems agree on what services are provided, but tend to grant them wildly different numbers.
We address this by putting all the numbers in a couple big shell scripts, ask the GNU Assembler to encode them into binaries using an efficient LEB128 encoding, unpacked by _init(), and ref'd via extern const. It gives us good debuggability, and any costs are gained back by fewer branches in wrapper functions.z