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Andrew Kelley
f5485a52bc reject crti.o/crtn.o, embrace the future
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upon object loading that has been superseded by the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.
2025-01-20 20:59:52 -08:00
Alex Rønne Petersen
ec0e6440b1
musl: Update sources from musl 1.2.5.
Adds mipsn32 and x32 sources.

Also remove some useless .in files.
2024-11-02 10:42:53 +01:00
Alex Rønne Petersen
92ae5818d2 musl: Align _init/_fini symbols correctly on arm.
See upstream patch: https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2024/10/10/4
2024-10-11 03:20:39 +02:00
Alex Rønne Petersen
c1cc63e5ff libc: Work around LLVM's misassembly of j <reg> on mips r6.
See: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/21315
2024-09-23 17:26:30 -07:00
Andrew Kelley
d994379173
update bundled musl source to 1.1.23 2019-07-16 19:54:14 -04:00
Andrew Kelley
49d1a4c562 move lib dirs to lib subdir
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
2019-07-15 17:54:50 -04:00