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- This change fixes a bug that allowed unbuffered printf() output (to streams like stderr) to be truncated. This regression was introduced some time between now and the last release. - POSIX specifies all functions as thread safe by default. This change works towards cleaning up our use of the @threadsafe / @threadunsafe documentation annotations to reflect that. The goal is (1) to use @threadunsafe to document functions which POSIX say needn't be thread safe, and (2) use @threadsafe to document functions that we chose to implement as thread safe even though POSIX didn't mandate it. - Tidy up the clock_gettime() implementation. We're now trying out a cleaner approach to system call support that aims to maintain the Linux errno convention as long as possible. This also fixes bugs that existed previously, where the vDSO errno wasn't being translated properly. The gettimeofday() system call is now a wrapper for clock_gettime(), which reduces bloat in apps that use both. - The recently-introduced improvements to the execute bit on Windows has had bugs fixed. access(X_OK) on a directory on Windows now succeeds. fstat() will now perform the MZ/#! ReadFile() operation correctly. - Windows.h is no longer included in libc/isystem/, because it confused PCRE's build system into thinking Cosmopolitan is a WIN32 platform. Cosmo's Windows.h polyfill was never even really that good, since it only defines a subset of the subset of WIN32 APIs that Cosmo defines. - The setlongerjmp() / longerjmp() APIs are removed. While they're nice APIs that are superior to the standardized setjmp / longjmp functions, they weren't superior enough to not be dead code in the monorepo. If you use these APIs, please file an issue and they'll be restored. - The .com appending magic has now been removed from APE Loader. |
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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