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upon object loading that has been superseded by the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.
Whatever was in the frame pointer register prior to clone() will no longer be
valid in the child process, so zero it to protect FP-based unwinders. This is
just an extension of what was already done for i386 and x86_64. Only applied
to architectures where the _start() code also zeroes the frame pointer.
This was a bit trickier than it should be due to symbol conflicts with
zig's compiler-rt implementation. We attempt to use weak linkage in
our compiler-rt, but this does not seem to be working in all cases. I
manually disabled export of the problematic compiler-rt math functions
in order to cross compile musl's libc.so for all targets as input to
`tools/gen_stubs.zig`.
Other than that, this update went fairly smoothly. Quite a few
additional symbols were added to the blacklist in `tools/gen_stubs.zig`
due to recent reorganization of zig's compiler-rt.
This is the result of the work on tools/gen_stubs.zig. It now uses the
preprocessor to emit different symbols and sizes depending on the
architecture. The data is collected directly from multiple libc.so files
on disk built with upstream musl.
Closes#8178
Addresses #8896 for musl
There is still room for further improvement to this, which is to
put `.ds` directives after symbols that are not followed by aliases, to
avoid the potential problem of a linker believing that all symbols are
aliases of each other.
tools/gen_stubs.zig now cuts out the middle man and operates directly on
the libc.so ELF file. it outputs accurate .size directives for objects.
std.elf gains an STV enum.
From: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
armv8 removed the coprocessor instructions other than cp14, so
on an armv8 system the related hwcaps should never be set.
new llvm complains about the use of coprocessor instructions in
armv8-a mode (even though they are never executed at runtime),
so ifdef them out when musl is built for armv8.
<dalias> i think the patch looks ok
Upstream commits:
* 8eb49e0485fc547eead9e47200bbee6d81f391c1
* 2dcbeabd917e404a0dde0195388da401b849b9a4
* f0eb2e77b2132a88e2f00d8e06ffa7638c40b4bc
These will be in the next version of musl, so no harm carrying them
here.
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
