crti.o/crtn.o is a legacy strategy for calling constructor functions
upon object loading that has been superseded by the
init_array/fini_array mechanism.
Zig code depends on neither, since the language intentionally has no way
to initialize data at runtime, but alas the Zig linker still must
support this feature since popular languages depend on it.
Anyway, the way it works is that crti.o has the machine code prelude of
two functions called _init and _fini, each in their own section with the
respective name. crtn.o has the machine code instructions comprising the
exitlude for each function. In between, objects use the .init and .fini
link section to populate the function body.
This function is then expected to be called upon object initialization
and deinitialization.
This mechanism is depended on by libc, for example musl and glibc, but
only for older ISAs. By the time the libcs gained support for newer
ISAs, they had moved on to the init_array/fini_array mechanism instead.
For the Zig linker, we are trying to move the linker towards
order-independent objects which is incompatible with the legacy
crti/crtn mechanism.
Therefore, this commit drops support entirely for crti/crtn mechanism,
which is necessary since the other commits in this branch make it
nondeterministic in which order the libc objects and the other link
inputs are sent to the linker.
The linker is still expected to produce a deterministic output, however,
by ignoring object input order for the purposes of symbol resolution.
also use the common naming convention for glibc versions ("2.33" rather
than "2-33").
I also verified that these files are exactly identical to the previous
files from before zig updated to glibc 2.34.
__libc_start_main() from glibc.2.33.so or older needs to have a __libc_csu_init function callback parameter.
glibc-2.34 on the other hand has a different __libc_start_main() that does not use it,
and the start.S file from glibc-2.34 no longer construct the init function and pass null when calling __libc_start_main.
So, When targetting an older glibc, use the start.s files as they were in glibc-2.33 and construct the __libc_csu_init function.
fixes#10386#10512
This commit introduces tools/update_glibc.zig to update the start files
for next time.
Some notable changes in recent glibc:
* abi-note.S has been changed to abi-note.c but we resist the change to
keep it easier to compile the start files.
* elf-init.c has been deleted upstream. Further testing should be done
to verify that binaries against glibc omitting elf-init.c still run
properly on oldel glibc linux systems.
Closes#4926
also start prefering NtDll API. so far:
* NtQueryInformationFile
* NtClose
adds a performance workaround for windows unicode conversion. but that
should probably be removed before merging
