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On Windows, mmap() now chooses addresses transactionally. It reduces the risk of badness when interacting with the WIN32 memory manager. We don't throw darts anymore. There is also no more retry limit, since we recover from mystery maps more gracefully. The subroutine for combining adjacent maps has been rewritten for clarity. The print maps subroutine is better This change goes to great lengths to perfect the stack overflow code. On Windows you can now longjmp() out of a crash signal handler. Guard pages previously weren't being restored properly by the signal handler. That's fixed, so on Windows you can now handle a stack overflow multiple times. Great thought has been put into selecting the perfect SIGSTKSZ constants so you can save sigaltstack() memory. You can now use kprintf() with 512 bytes of stack available. The guard pages beneath the main stack are now recorded in the memory manager. This change fixes getcontext() so it works right with the %rax register. |
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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