e7611a8476
- Get threads working on NetBSD - Get threads working on OpenBSD - Fix Emacs config for Emacs v28 - Improve --strace logging of sigset_t - Improve --strace logging of struct stat - Improve memory safety of DescribeThing functions - Refactor auto stack allocation into LIBC_RUNTIME - Introduce shell.com example which works on Windows - Refactor __strace_thing into DescribeThing functions - Document the CHECK macros and improve them in NDEBUG mode - Rewrite MAP_STACK so it uses FreeBSD behavior across platforms - Deprecate and discourage the use of MAP_GROWSDOWN (it's weird) |
||
|---|---|---|
| .. | ||
| calls | ||
| consts | ||
| errfuns | ||
| machcalls | ||
| consts.sh | ||
| describeos.greg.c | ||
| errfuns.h | ||
| errfuns.sh | ||
| g_syscount.S | ||
| gen.sh | ||
| machcalls.sh | ||
| macros.internal.h | ||
| README.md | ||
| restorert.S | ||
| strace.greg.c | ||
| syscall.S | ||
| syscalls.sh | ||
| systemfive.S | ||
| sysv.mk | ||
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