cosmopolitan/libc
Justine Tunney 80b211e314 Add raw memory visualization tool to redbean
This change introduces a `-W /dev/pts/1` flag to redbean. What it does
is use the mincore() system call to create a dual-screen terminal
display that lets you troubleshoot the virtual address space. This is
useful since page faults are an important thing to consider when using a
forking web server. Now we have a colorful visualization of which pages
are going to fault and which ones are resident in memory.

The memory monitor, if enabled, spawns as a thread that just outputs
ANSI codes to the second terminal in a loop. In order to make this
happen using the new clone() polyfill, stdio is now thread safe.

This change also introduces some new demo pages to redbean. It also
polishes the demos we already have, to look a bit nicer and more
presentable for the upcoming release, with better explanations too.
2022-05-14 04:33:58 -07:00
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alg Import C++ Standard Template Library 2022-03-22 06:41:54 -07:00
bits Make improvements 2022-05-12 06:45:36 -07:00
calls Add raw memory visualization tool to redbean 2022-05-14 04:33:58 -07:00
crt Fix bugs with recent change 2022-04-16 10:40:23 -07:00
dns Make improvements 2022-04-28 09:57:07 -07:00
elf Make improvements 2022-04-26 16:46:15 -07:00
fmt Make improvements 2022-05-12 06:45:36 -07:00
integral Make improvements 2022-04-28 09:57:07 -07:00
intrin Add raw memory visualization tool to redbean 2022-05-14 04:33:58 -07:00
isystem Fix some more reported issues 2022-04-28 20:36:33 -07:00
linux [WIP] Threading (#282) 2021-10-13 11:26:05 -07:00
log Add raw memory visualization tool to redbean 2022-05-14 04:33:58 -07:00
mem Fix pledge to process lists with zero index syscalls (#402) 2022-05-06 20:55:28 -07:00
nexgen32e Add syscalls to Blinkenlights and fix bugs 2022-05-13 13:31:21 -07:00
nt Get threads working on all platforms 2022-05-13 03:59:09 -07:00
rand Fix bugs and make improvements 2022-04-20 10:05:34 -07:00
runtime Add raw memory visualization tool to redbean 2022-05-14 04:33:58 -07:00
sock Add syscalls to Blinkenlights and fix bugs 2022-05-13 13:31:21 -07:00
stdio Add raw memory visualization tool to redbean 2022-05-14 04:33:58 -07:00
str Add syscalls to Blinkenlights and fix bugs 2022-05-13 13:31:21 -07:00
stubs Get Redbean fork() working on the New Technology 2022-03-20 08:01:14 -07:00
sysv Add raw memory visualization tool to redbean 2022-05-14 04:33:58 -07:00
testlib Add syscalls to Blinkenlights and fix bugs 2022-05-13 13:31:21 -07:00
thread Get threads working on all platforms 2022-05-13 03:59:09 -07:00
time Add raw memory visualization tool to redbean 2022-05-14 04:33:58 -07:00
tinymath Fix some more reported issues 2022-04-28 20:36:33 -07:00
unicode Fix more things 2022-03-24 00:12:29 -07:00
x Fix bugs and make improvements 2022-04-20 10:05:34 -07:00
zipos Add raw memory visualization tool to redbean 2022-05-14 04:33:58 -07:00
assert.h Import C++ Standard Template Library 2022-03-22 06:41:54 -07:00
complex.h Fix some more reported issues 2022-04-28 20:36:33 -07:00
dce.h Restart CI for New Technology and UBSAN hunting 2022-03-21 04:32:57 -07:00
disclaimer.inc Improve Libc by making Python work even better 2021-08-18 22:16:23 -07:00
dos.h Mold the redbean binary to minimize page faults 2021-05-03 12:14:13 -07:00
errno.h Improve ZIP filesystem and change its prefix 2021-08-22 01:11:53 -07:00
inttypes.h Import C++ Standard Template Library 2022-03-22 06:41:54 -07:00
libc.mk Import C++ Standard Template Library 2022-03-22 06:41:54 -07:00
limits.h Import C++ Standard Template Library 2022-03-22 06:41:54 -07:00
literal.h Import C++ Standard Template Library 2022-03-22 06:41:54 -07:00
mach.h Perform some minor fixups 2021-03-16 22:19:51 -07:00
macho.internal.h Get Cosmopolitan into releasable state 2020-11-25 08:19:00 -08:00
macros-cpp.internal.inc Fix bugs with recent change 2022-04-16 10:40:23 -07:00
macros.internal.h Make fixes, improvements, and chibicc python bindings 2021-10-08 08:41:57 -07:00
macros.internal.inc Clean old .source directive out of asm code 2022-03-18 12:43:21 -07:00
math.h Import C++ Standard Template Library 2022-03-22 06:41:54 -07:00
notice.inc Improve Libc by making Python work even better 2021-08-18 22:16:23 -07:00
notice.internal.h Add epoll and do more release readiness changes 2020-11-28 12:01:51 -08:00
paths.h Initial import 2020-06-15 07:18:57 -07:00
README.md Add x86_64-linux-gnu emulator 2020-08-25 04:43:42 -07:00
type2str.h Improve synchronization 2022-04-15 15:31:55 -07:00
zip.h Make improvements 2022-04-24 10:06:05 -07:00

SYNOPSIS

Cosmopolitan Standard Library.

OVERVIEW

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.