This causes some increase of the dynamic linker size, but benefits of
avoiding compiling private copy or the linker when debugging is
required. definitely worth it.
The dbg() calls can be compiled out by defining LD_NO_DEBUG symbol.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
No functional change intended.
The requirement is for a GCC-compatible compiler and not necessarily
GCC itself. However, we currently expect any compiler used for building
the whole of FreeBSD to be GCC-compatible and many things will break if
not; there's no longer a need to have an explicit test for this in rtld.
Reviewed by: imp, kib
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2422
functions to be used by the dynamic linker. This can be called by
threads packages at start-up time. I will add the call to libc_r
soon.
Also add a default locking method that is used up until dllockinit()
is called. The default method works by blocking SIGVTALRM, SIGPROF,
and SIGALRM in critical sections. It is based on the observation
that most user-space threads packages implement thread preemption
with one of these signals (usually SIGVTALRM).
The dynamic linker has never been reentrant, but it became less
reentrant in revision 1.34 of "src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c".
Starting with that revision, multiple threads each doing lazy
binding could interfere with each other. The usual symptom was
that a symbol was falsely reported as undefined at start-up time.
It was rare but not unseen. This commit fixes it.
quite a few enhancements and bug fixes. There are still some known
deficiencies, but it should be adequate to get us started with ELF.
Submitted by: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
