- Affects the following functions:
+ `std.fs.Dir.readLinkW`
+ `std.os.windows.ReadLink`
+ `std.os.windows.ntToWin32Namespace`
+ `std.posix.readlinkW`
+ `std.posix.readlinkatW`
Each of these functions (except `ntToWin32Namespace`) took WTF-16 as input and would output WTF-8, which makes optimal buffer re-use difficult at callsites and could force unnecessary WTF-16 <-> WTF-8 conversion during an intermediate step.
The functions have been updated to output WTF-16, and also allow for the path and the output to re-use the same buffer (i.e. in-place modification), which can reduce the stack usage at callsites. For example, all of `std.fs.Dir.readLink`/`readLinkZ`/`std.posix.readlink`/`readlinkZ`/`readlinkat`/`readlinkatZ` have had their stack usage reduced by one PathSpace struct (64 KiB) when targeting Windows.
The new `ntToWin32Namespace` takes an output buffer and returns a slice from that instead of returning a PathSpace, which is necessary to make the above possible.
The reasoning in the comment deleted by this commit no longer applies, since that same benefit can be obtained by using OpenFile with `.filter = .any`.
Also removes a stray debug.print
Microsoft documentation says "The if_nametoindex function is implemented
for portability of applications with Unix environments, but the
ConvertInterface functions are preferred."
This was also the only dependency on iphlpapi.
glibc and linux kernel use size_t for some field lengths while POSIX and
musl use int. This bug would have caused breakage the first time someone
tried to call sendmsg on a 64-bit big endian system when linking musl
libc.
my opinion:
* msghdr.iovlen: kernel and glibc have it right. This field should
definitely be size_t. With int, the padding bytes are wasted for no
reason.
* msghdr.controllen: POSIX and musl have it right. 4 bytes is plenty for
the length, and it saves 4 bytes next to flags.
* cmsghdr.len: POSIX and musl have it right. 4 bytes is plenty for the
length, and it saves 4 bytes since the other fields are also 32-bits
each.
The one about INT_MAX is self-evident from the type system.
The one about kernel having bad types doesn't seem accurate as I checked
the source code and it uses size_t for all the appropriate types,
matching the libc struct definition for msghdr and msghdr_const.
MIPS I has load hazards so we need to insert nops in a few places. This is not a
problem for MIPS II and later.
While doing this, I also touched up all the inline asm to use ABI register
aliases and a consistent formatting convention. Also fixed a few places that
didn't properly check if the syscall return value should be negated.
