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- Get clone() working on FreeBSD - Increase some Python build quotas - Add more atomic builtins to chibicc - Fix ASAN poisoning of alloca() memory - Make MODE= mandatory link path tinier - Improve the examples folder a little bit - Start working on some more resource limits - Make the linenoise auto-complete UI as good as GNU readline - Update compile.com, avoiding AVX codegen on non-AVX systems - Make sure empty path to syscalls like opendir raises ENOENT - Correctly polyfill ENOENT vs. ENOTDIR on the New Technology - Port bestline's paredit features to //third_party/linenoise - Remove workarounds for RHEL 5.0 bugs that were fixed in 5.1 |
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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