maintainers.
After we established our branding method of writing upto 8 characters of
the OS name into the ELF header in the padding; the Binutils maintainers
and/or SCO (as USL) decided that instead the ELF header should grow two new
fields -- EI_OSABI and EI_ABIVERSION. Each of these are an 8-bit unsigned
integer. SCO has assigned official values for the EI_OSABI field. In
addition to this, the Binutils maintainers and NetBSD decided that a better
ELF branding method was to include ABI information in a ".note" ELF
section.
With this set of changes, we will now create ELF binaries branded using
both "official" methods. Due to the complexity of adding a section to a
binary, binaries branded with ``brandelf'' will only brand using the
EI_OSABI method. Also due to the complexity of pulling a section out of an
ELF file vs. poking around in the ELF header, our image activator only
looks at the EI_OSABI header field.
Note that a new kernel can still properly load old binaries except for
Linux static binaries branded in our old method.
*
* For a short period of time, ``ld'' will also brand ELF binaries
* using our old method. This is so people can still use kernel.old
* with a new world. This support will be removed before 5.0-RELEASE,
* and may not last anywhere upto the actual release. My expiration
* time for this is about 6mo.
*
pointers. The calls are in different sections from the functions
being called, and they can potentially be far away. On a very large
program, the 21-bit displacement field of the BSR instruction
overflowed at link time.
levels (-O3 and above) won't remove essential code. Many thanks
to Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> for pointing out
that it was the optimizer's removal of this code that caused make
world with -O3 to break. With this change, make buildworld now
completes.
shared library when invoking global constructors and destructors.
For constructors, the object files used to be processed from first
to last; now they're done from last to first. (Destructors are done
in the opposite order, as required by the C++ standard.) This makes
us consistent with standard gcc and egcs compilers. It also
eliminates ordering differences between dynamic and static
executables.
Bump the value of __FreeBSD_version to 400002 to reflect this
change.
C function so the compiler won't try to emit line numbers for it
with "-g", breaking the build. This has the nice side-effect of
making crtbegin.o and crtbeginS.o a little bit smaller.
Remove "-Wno-unused" from the Makefile. Replace it with "__unused"
on particular function and variable declarations.
than ".so". The old extension conflicted with well-established
naming conventions for dynamically loadable modules.
The "clean" targets continue to remove ".so" files too, to deal with
old systems.
the executable file, so it will work for both a.out and ELF format
files. I have split the object format specific code into separate
source files. It's cleaner than it was before, but it's still
pretty crufty.
Don't cheat on your make world for this update. A lot of things
have to be rebuilt for it to work, including the compiler and all
of the profiled libraries.
Move a.out libraries to /usr/lib/aout to make space for ELF libs.
Make rtld usr /usr/lib/aout as default library path.
Make ldconfig reject /usr/lib as an a.out library path.
Fix various Makefiles for LIBDIR!=/usr/lib breakage.
This will after a make world & reboot give a system that no
longer uses /usr/lib/*, infact one could remove all the old
libraries there, they are not used anymore.
We are getting close to an ELF make world, but I'll let this
all settle for a week or two...
Add a bootstrap mode so that non-rtld versions of these objects can
be built when bootstrapping the system with NetBSD tools, headers
and libraries. Once the FreeBSD tools are built, the FreeBSD headers
are installed and *then* these objects can be recompiled with the
rtld references. Phew.
asm code didn't link the way it was supposed to and the calling convention
for the entry "function" turned out to be very different. On alpha
it's a true function, but on i386 it's a fudge. Blech.
So jdp suggested keeping separate sets of source and avoiding lots
of #ifdefs. These files are based on his i386-elf code, with crt1.c
borrowing code from NetBSD's crt0. The copyright reflects that.
Complicating matters, the code turned out to be difficult to bootstrap
build using NetBSD tools. To compile against the FreeBSD rtld header
requires FreeBSD specific headers, but these can't be installed until
the tools are built, and they can't be built without the FreeBSD crt
objects. Anal retentive. So I introduced a HAVE_RTLD #define that isn't
set during the build process until all the tools are built and the
headers installed.
now that has been committed.
The makefile is derived from the i386-elf version, modified to pick
up most of the source (except crt1.c) from i386-elf. With minor changes
to i386-elf/crt1.c, this directory can be combined with i386-elf to
be a single csu/elf directory for all seasons.
the rtld code pending implementation on the alpha.
The csu/i386-elf should be renamed as csu/elf and this directory
trashed. Consider this a temporary implementation.
into libc. This reduces the size of every dynamically linked
executable by 248 bytes, and it reduces the size of static executables
by a lesser amount. It also eliminates some global namespace
pollution.
With this change in place, the source for dlfcn.h should probably
be moved to "/usr/src/include". I'll save that for another day.
Compatibility note: Programs which use dlopen, if compiled on
systems with this change, will not run on systems with a libc from
prior to this change. Very few programs use dlopen, so I think
that is OK.
common. Add one do-nothing element to each set. This ensures that
the linker realizes that they are linker sets rather than simple
commons, and makes it possible to link c++rt0.o into every shared
library regardless of whether it is a C++ library or not. Without
this change, the constructors and destructors in the main program
could be executed multiple times.
This change is going to make it possible to get rid of the
CPLUSPLUSLIB makefile variable once and for all. It is a piece of
the solution to PR gnu/3505 (gcc -shared). Finally, it fixes a
heretofore unreported bug: If CPLUSPLUSLIB was set in a makefile
for a C++ shared library that had no static constructors or
destructors in it, then the main program's constructors and
destructors would be executed multiple times.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
Add descriptions of RTLD_LAZY and RTLD_NOW.
Correct the synopsis to agree with the actual function prototypes.
Add clarifications of a few things.
Clean up the wording in a few places.
was apparently overlooked at the time the member was added. Its absence
causes some error messages from the dynamic linker to begin with
"(null):" instead of with the pathname of the dynamic linker as they
should.
I am also adding a work-around to the dynamic linker, to cope with
legacy binaries that were built with older versions of crt0.
just return errors. This removes the need for awful hacks like that in
our build of libtcl which would get link errors when linked static.
John Polstra once mentioned that this was on his "todo" list.
Note that one can use:
cc -Wl,-Bstatic -o foo foo.o
and get an executable that has it's libraries statically linked, but has
a fully functional runtime linker so the executable can call dlopen() and
have it work. (I've tested this)
and forwards compatable with version 3. This is needed to enable storing
a run-time library path in the dynamic linking headers. The crt startup
tries version 4 first, and falls back to version 3, so an executable that
is linked on -current will work with the ld.so on 2.1.x and less.
Reviewed by: nate, jdp
Obtained from: NetBSD
to 2. This makes them agree with the declarations in libgcc, and
clears the way once again for linking c++rt0.o into all libraries,
and eliminating CPLUSPLUSLIB from <bsd.lib.mk>. (I have not made
that change yet, because there is still a bootstrapping problem
for "make world".)
Also, removed a check which ensured that the constructor count in
the first word of __CTOR_LIST__ was greater than zero before
traversing the list. I had added that check earlier, but it is no
longer necessary, now that there is guaranteed to be at least 2
words in __CTOR_LIST__.
the loop that invokes the static constructors. That makes it safe
to link c++rt0.o into any shared library, even one that does not
have any static constructors. Formerly, doing that would cause a
bus error. If the library has no static constructors, __CTOR_LIST__
comes out as a simple 4-byte COMMON region, and it does not have
the usual NULL word that terminates the list of constructors. This
caused the old code to "call" a garbage address via the non-existent
entry __CTOR_LIST__[1].
The analogous code that invokes the static destructors was already safe.
This change is fully backward-compatible.
Reviewed by: dfr@render.com (Doug Rabson)
symbols.
An easy example to see this is to develop an X program which links
against Xt, but doesn't add -lX11 to the link line. It will link fine,
but cause run-time errors by ld.so because of missing symbols used by Xt
defined in X11. This patch makes the errors more readable.
Submitted by: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
specified in the top level Makefiles.
Previously I missed dozens of Makefiles that skip the install after
using `cmp -s' to decide that the install isn't necessary.
1) Do dependencies.
2) Install all appropriate links to manual pages.
3) Install header file in `beforeinstall' like all the rest.
4) Install header file only if changed.
5) Install object files only if changed.
on dlclose. Also correctly call constructors and destructors for libraries
linked with /usr/lib/c++rt0.o.
Change interpretation of dlopen manpage to call _init() rather than init()
for dlopened objects.
Change c++rt0.o to avoid using atexit to call destructors, allowing dlclose to
call destructors when an object is unloaded.
Change interface between crt0 and ld.so to allow crt0 to call a function on
exit to call destructors for shared libraries explicitly.
These changes are backwards compatible. Old binaries will work with the new
ld.so and new binaries will work with the old ld.so. A version number has
been introduced in the crt0-ld.so interface to allow for future changes.
Reviewed by: GAWollman, Craig Struble <cstruble@singularity.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
(void) setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
It will be easiest way now to make national chars available
for all ctype-oriented programs at once by simple:
setenv LANG Your_National_Charset
Default case (without "LANG" environment
variable) will be fully ANSI compatible (got "C" locale).
If "LANG" variable present, extention becomes active.
Effect of this extention is great: in one time all ctype
oriented programs can accept/print national characters
without any touching source/binary code, it is big win, IMHO.
This method is fully compatible with ISO8859-* and russian koi8-r
too (in general -- with all 8-bit character sets). I think
it is very useful.
I got this idea from Xenix locale implementation.
This extention is even never compiled in, unless you set
setenv STARTUP_LOCALE
before rebuilding crt0.c or corresponding variable in /etc/make.conf
<machine/profile.h>. The old version was writing an incomplete
header without the profrate field that is necessary to handle the
current faster profiling clock. The counters that are where the
the profrate should be are usually 0 and gprof converts a profrate
of 0 to hz so the old version gave times too large by a factor of
profhz/hz = 10.24.
This fixes the problems Warner's having with ctors not being called
again with the latest round of ld changes and updates the file-names to what
Paul is using now.
The name change will not affect anything as we are not (yet) using it.
program. The idea was that these are 'alignment' crap, but the image
is 16byte-aligned without these. Location 0 still doesn't have a 0,
but who cares, binaries wil be built with page zero unmapped in the
near future.
