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This change upgrades to GCC 12.3 and GNU binutils 2.42. The GNU linker appears to have changed things so that only a single de-duplicated str table is present in the binary, and it gets placed wherever the linker wants, regardless of what the linker script says. To cope with that we need to stop using .ident to embed licenses. As such, this change does significant work to revamp how third party licenses are defined in the codebase, using `.section .notice,"aR",@progbits`. This new GCC 12.3 toolchain has support for GNU indirect functions. It lets us support __target_clones__ for the first time. This is used for optimizing the performance of libc string functions such as strlen and friends so far on x86, by ensuring AVX systems favor a second codepath that uses VEX encoding. It shaves some latency off certain operations. It's a useful feature to have for scientific computing for the reasons explained by the test/libcxx/openmp_test.cc example which compiles for fifteen different microarchitectures. Thanks to the upgrades, it's now also possible to use newer instruction sets, such as AVX512FP16, VNNI. Cosmo now uses the %gs register on x86 by default for TLS. Doing it is helpful for any program that links `cosmo_dlopen()`. Such programs had to recompile their binaries at startup to change the TLS instructions. That's not great, since it means every page in the executable needs to be faulted. The work of rewriting TLS-related x86 opcodes, is moved to fixupobj.com instead. This is great news for MacOS x86 users, since we previously needed to morph the binary every time for that platform but now that's no longer necessary. The only platforms where we need fixup of TLS x86 opcodes at runtime are now Windows, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. On Windows we morph TLS to point deeper into the TIB, based on a TlsAlloc assignment, and on OpenBSD/NetBSD we morph %gs back into %fs since the kernels do not allow us to specify a value for the %gs register. OpenBSD users are now required to use APE Loader to run Cosmo binaries and assimilation is no longer possible. OpenBSD kernel needs to change to allow programs to specify a value for the %gs register, or it needs to stop marking executable pages loaded by the kernel as mimmutable(). This release fixes __constructor__, .ctor, .init_array, and lastly the .preinit_array so they behave the exact same way as glibc. We no longer use hex constants to define math.h symbols like M_PI. |
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| calls | ||
| crt | ||
| dlopen | ||
| elf | ||
| fmt | ||
| integral | ||
| intrin | ||
| irq | ||
| isystem | ||
| log | ||
| mem | ||
| nexgen32e | ||
| nt | ||
| proc | ||
| runtime | ||
| sock | ||
| stdio | ||
| str | ||
| sysv | ||
| testlib | ||
| thread | ||
| time | ||
| tinymath | ||
| vga | ||
| x | ||
| ar.h | ||
| assert.h | ||
| atomic.h | ||
| BUILD.mk | ||
| complex.h | ||
| cosmo.h | ||
| cxxabi.h | ||
| dce.h | ||
| dos.internal.h | ||
| empty.s | ||
| errno.h | ||
| imag.internal.h | ||
| inttypes.h | ||
| iso646.internal.h | ||
| limits.h | ||
| literal.h | ||
| mach.internal.h | ||
| macho.internal.h | ||
| macros.internal.h | ||
| math.h | ||
| paths.h | ||
| README.md | ||
| serialize.h | ||
| stdalign.internal.h | ||
| stdbool.h | ||
| stdckdint.h | ||
| stdlib.h | ||
| temp.h | ||
| testlib-test.txt | ||
| type2str.h | ||
| zip.internal.h | ||
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.