cosmopolitan/libc
Justine Tunney 5ae2554c10
Have cosmo_dlopen() request -z execstack on Linux
The AMD HIP SDK for Linux ships prebuilt DSOs with an RWX PT_GNU_STACK
since old versions of GCC made it nearly impossible to build artifacts
where that wasn't the case, however modern glibc systems will flat out
refuse to link RWX DSOs from an execuatble that uses PT_GNU_STACK = RW
2024-01-07 11:37:18 -08:00
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calls Add /dev/fd support to Windows 2024-01-06 18:20:21 -08:00
crt aarch64 loader passes os (#1042) 2023-12-31 06:42:36 -08:00
dlopen Have cosmo_dlopen() request -z execstack on Linux 2024-01-07 11:37:18 -08:00
elf more modeline errata (#1019) 2023-12-16 23:07:10 -05:00
fmt more modeline errata (#1019) 2023-12-16 23:07:10 -05:00
integral Release Cosmopolitan 3.2.2 2024-01-05 21:00:22 -08:00
intrin Make cosmo_dlopen() safer and faster 2024-01-05 20:42:19 -08:00
irq more modeline errata (#1019) 2023-12-16 23:07:10 -05:00
isystem Use DNS implementation from Musl Libc 2023-12-28 23:04:35 -08:00
log Upgrade mono repo to cosmocc 3.2 2024-01-05 08:02:04 -08:00
mem more modeline errata (#1019) 2023-12-16 23:07:10 -05:00
nexgen32e Fix --ftrace with cosmo_dlopen() 2024-01-05 15:13:07 -08:00
nt Fix madvise() on Windows 2023-12-27 22:41:46 -08:00
proc Add missing build dependency 2024-01-03 17:04:21 -08:00
runtime Make cosmo_dlopen() safer and faster 2024-01-05 20:42:19 -08:00
sock Introduce FreeBSD ARM64 support 2023-12-29 20:14:02 -08:00
stdio Fix bugs with DNS library on Windows 2024-01-03 17:39:57 -08:00
str more modeline errata (#1019) 2023-12-16 23:07:10 -05:00
sysv Enable argv[0] tests in more places (#1061) 2024-01-06 11:42:03 -08:00
testlib more modeline errata (#1019) 2023-12-16 23:07:10 -05:00
thread Make cosmo_dlopen() safer and faster 2024-01-05 20:42:19 -08:00
time more modeline errata (#1019) 2023-12-16 23:07:10 -05:00
tinymath Revert retabbing of net/http and tinymath (#1020) 2023-12-16 23:59:11 -05:00
vga more modeline errata (#1019) 2023-12-16 23:07:10 -05:00
x Use DNS implementation from Musl Libc 2023-12-28 23:04:35 -08:00
ar.h Reduce header complexity 2023-11-28 14:39:42 -08:00
assert.h Improve debug binary location detection 2023-11-17 00:07:39 -08:00
atomic.h Optimize memory layout 2022-09-12 04:26:52 -07:00
BUILD.mk Add missing build dependency 2024-01-03 17:04:21 -08:00
complex.h Reduce header complexity 2023-11-28 14:39:42 -08:00
cosmo.h Reduce header complexity 2023-11-28 14:39:42 -08:00
cxxabi.h Add more fixes for new cosmocc toolchain 2023-11-11 23:28:19 -08:00
dce.h Release Cosmopolitan v3.2 2024-01-04 09:39:48 -08:00
disclaimer.inc
dos.internal.h Introduce #include <cosmo.h> to toolchain users 2023-06-09 18:03:05 -07:00
empty.s Do some basic build tuning 2023-05-10 04:20:46 -07:00
errno.h Reduce header complexity 2023-11-28 14:39:42 -08:00
imag.internal.h Remove evil constants from cosmopolitan.h 2022-12-17 00:42:45 -08:00
inttypes.h Fix issues for latest GCC toolchain 2023-10-11 14:54:42 -07:00
iso646.internal.h Add more missing C / C++ headers 2022-09-04 04:53:52 -07:00
limits.h Make improvements 2023-10-08 08:59:53 -07:00
literal.h Get GNU MPFR and MPC tests to pass 2023-08-21 15:05:10 -07:00
mach.internal.h Reduce header complexity 2023-11-28 14:39:42 -08:00
macho.internal.h Fiddle around with Mach-O 2023-05-20 04:13:49 -07:00
macros.internal.h Make improvements 2023-10-03 06:17:16 -07:00
math.h Reduce header complexity 2023-11-28 14:39:42 -08:00
notice.inc
notice.internal.h
paths.h Embed cocmd.com interpreter for system() / open() 2022-10-02 15:29:57 -07:00
README.md
serialize.h Reduce header complexity 2023-11-28 14:39:42 -08:00
stdalign.internal.h Add more missing C / C++ headers 2022-09-04 04:53:52 -07:00
stdbool.h Make fatcosmocc good enough to build ncurses 6.4 2023-08-12 22:30:05 -07:00
stdckdint.h Reduce header complexity 2023-11-28 14:39:42 -08:00
stdlib.h Reduce header complexity 2023-11-28 14:39:42 -08:00
temp.h Reduce header complexity 2023-11-28 14:39:42 -08:00
testlib-test.txt Fix some zipos directory related bugs 2023-09-19 02:30:42 -07:00
type2str.h Improve new C23 checked arithmetic feature 2023-06-16 15:32:18 -07:00
zip.internal.h Reduce header complexity 2023-11-28 14:39:42 -08:00

Cosmopolitan Standard Library

This directory defines static archives defining functions, like printf(), mmap(), win32, etc. Please note that the Cosmopolitan build configuration doesn't link any C/C++ library dependencies by default, so you still have the flexibility to choose the one provided by your system. If you'd prefer Cosmopolitan, just add $(LIBC) and $(CRT) to your linker arguments.

Your library is compromised of many bite-sized static archives. We use the checkdeps tool to guarantee that the contents of the archives are organized in a logical way that's easy to use with or without our makefile infrastructure, since there's no cyclic dependencies.

The Cosmopolitan Library exports only the most stable canonical system calls for all supported operating systems, regardless of which platform is used for compilation. We polyfill many of the APIs, e.g. read(), write() so they work consistently everywhere while other apis, e.g. CreateWindowEx(), might only work on one platform, in which case they become no-op functions on others.

Cosmopolitan polyfill wrappers will usually use the dollar sign naming convention, so they may be bypassed when necessary. This same convention is used when multiple implementations of string library and other performance-critical function are provided to allow Cosmopolitan to go fast on both old and newer computers.

We take an approach to configuration that relies heavily on the compiler's dead code elimination pass (libc/dce.h). Most of the code is written so that, for example, folks not wanting support for OpenBSD can flip a bit in SUPPORT_VECTOR and that code will be omitted from the build. The same is true for builds that are tuned using -march=native which effectively asks the library to not include runtime support hooks for x86 processors older than what you use.

Please note that, unlike Cygwin or MinGW, Cosmopolitan does not achieve broad support by bolting on a POSIX emulation layer. We do nothing more than (in most cases) stateless API translations that get you 90% of the way there in a fast lightweight manner. We therefore can't address some of the subtle differences, such as the nuances of absolute paths on Windows. Our approach could be compared to something more along the lines of, "the Russians just used a pencil to write in space", versus spending millions researching a pen like NASA.