It addresses a number of problems that were present in earlier
versions.
The calls to the "init" and "fini" functions of shared libraries
have been reordered, so that they are called in a strictly nested
fashion, as is required for C++ constructors and destructors. In
addition, the "init" functions are called in better order relative
to each other. That makes the system more tolerant of C++ programs
which depend on a library's being initialized before its clients.
The dynamic linker is now more tolerant of shared libraries in
which dependencies on other shared libraries are incompletely
recorded.
Cleanup in the event of errors has been improved throughout the
dynamic linker. A number of memory leaks were eliminated.
The warning message for a shared library whose minor version number
is too old has been clarified.
The code dealing with the "ld.so.hints" file has been cleaned up.
A bug that caused the hints file to be unmapped incompletely has
been fixed. A different bug that could potentially cause the hints
file to be mapped on top of a loaded object has been fixed.
The code that searches for shared libraries has been cleaned up.
The searching is now more compatible with that done by SunOS and
SVR4. Also, some unnecessary and useless searches of both the
hints file and library directories have been eliminated.
Reviewed by: nate@freebsd.org
and add selection traversal callbacks so context-sensitive behavior can
even be implemented for individual menu items. These work around the two
largest issues holding me back with some of my sysinstall changes.
last time. I should have pulled these in last time as it allows easier
comparison of "where we are at" relative to the current version from
cyclic.com. Since this is in a 4.4BSD style tree layout, the changelogs
dont exactly match the file layout, but it's close enough.
-mprofiler-epilogue to support it and documented the option.
cc.1:
Listed all the machine-dependent options, even the temporary
debugging ones.
invoke.texi:
Fixed the sense of -mno-ieee-fp.
Sorted the machine-dependent options.
Two uninitialised variables were causing a phkmalloc warning (another notch
in phkmalloc's belt) and caused the full rcstemplate to not be constructed
for commits on freefall.
(Note that you need to have either done a 'make world' or explicitly
run a 'make distrib-dirs' (in src/etc) to get some needed directories in
/usr/share/examples/cvs to be built.)
The code, as written, appears to load the new database data into a new
hash file and renames the two.
Due to a run of bugs and lack of error checking, it's going a whole
mess of unlink() and rename() calls that are failing. It only
worked in the first place because the data was being inserted into a
"live" hash file. (I wonder how much stale data has assumulated?)
Submitted by: Laurence Lopez <lopez@mv.mv.com>
plus a couple of minor changes..
Some highlights of the new stuff that was not in the old version:
- remote access support.. full checkout/commit/log/etc..
- much improved dead file support..
- speed improvements
- better $CVSROOT handling
- $Name$ support
- support for a "cvsadmin" group to cut down rampant use of "cvs admin -o"
- safer setuid/setgid support
- many bugs fixed.. :-)
- probably some new ones.. :-(
- more that I cannot remember offhand..
plus a couple of minor changes..
Some highlights of the new stuff that was not in the old version:
- remote access support.. full checkout/commit/log/etc..
- much improved dead file support..
- speed improvements
- better $CVSROOT handling
- $Name$ support
- support for a "cvsadmin" group to cut down rampant use of "cvs admin -o"
- safer setuid/setgid support
- many bugs fixed.. :-)
- probably some new ones.. :-(
- more that I cannot remember offhand..
plus a couple of minor changes..
Some highlights of the new stuff that was not in the old version:
- remote access support.. full checkout/commit/log/etc..
- much improved dead file support..
- speed improvements
- better $CVSROOT handling
- $Name$ support
- support for a "cvsadmin" group to cut down rampant use of "cvs admin -o"
- safer setuid/setgid support
- many bugs fixed.. :-)
- probably some new ones.. :-(
- more that I cannot remember offhand..
Changed beforeinstall rule to use `install -C' instead of `cmp -s'
and `install -c'. `install -C' has exactly the right semantics
for installing headers and should be used elsewhere.
vector. Now it is called the "symbol caching" vector. This was made
possible and unconfusing by other changes that allowed me to localize
everything having to do with the caching vector in the function
reloc_map().
Switched to alloca() for allocating the caching vector, and eliminated
the special mmap-based allocation routines. Although this was motivated
by performance reasons, it led to significant simplification of the
code, and made it possible to confine the symbol caching code to the
single function reloc_map().
Got rid of the unnecessary and inefficient division loop at the
beginning of rtld().
Reduced the number of calls to getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH") to just 1, on
suggestion from <davidg@root.com>.
Added breaks out of the relocation loops when the relocation address is
found to be 0. A relocation address of 0 is caused by an unused
relocation entry. Unused relocation entries are caused by linking a
shared object with the "-Bsymbolic" switch. The runtime linker itself
is linked that way, and the last 40% of its relocation entries are
unused. Thus, breaking out of the loop on the first such entry is a
performance win when ld.so relocates itself. As a side benefit, it
permits removing a test from md_relocate_simple() in
../i386/md-static-funcs.c.
Unused relocation entries in other shared objects (linked with
"-Bsymbolic") caused even bigger problems in previous versions of the
runtime linker. The runtime linker interpreted the unused entries as if
they were valid. That caused it to perform repeated relocations of the
first byte of the shared object. In order to do that, it had to remap
the text segment writable. Breaking out of the loop on the first unused
relocation entry solves that.
Submitted by: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
them. Good greif! This was causing an unimaginable amount of brain-damage!
The mere fact that I griped about $ Log $ in a previous commit (misspelled
deliberately here) meant that the blasted thing was being expanded from the
middle of the log entry as well as the beginning, and using " * All these"
as the comment leader.. AARGH!!!! We *really* need to prevent these from
being expanded! (or remove the magic identifier from the source).
All those $Log$ entries, combined with the whitespace changes are a real
pain.
I'm committing this now, before it's completely finished to get it compiling
and working again ASAP. Some of the FreeBSD specific features are not working
in this commit yet (mainly rlog stuff and $FreeBSD$ support)
This is going to be pretty messy.... Although the vendor import was correct,
both the vendor and release tags are the same "gnu"... :-/
Getting cvs to choose the correct one might be rather interesting...
Note, this is going to be messy.. 2.3 was vendor-branch imported, while
2.6 was done as a delta. Sigh. I'm importing this on a vendor branch so
that it will be easier to deal with next time..
(cvs-1.6 wants rcs-5.7, and rcs-5.7 suggests diffutils-2.7)
Implemented symbol memorizing to reduce the number of calls to lookup(),
making relocation go faster. While relocating a given shared object,
the dynamic linker maintains a memorizing vector that is directly
indexed by the symbol number in the relocation entry. The first time a
given symbol is looked up, the memorizing vector is filled in with a
pointer to the symbol table entry, and a pointer to the so_map of the
shared object in which the symbol was defined. On subsequent uses of
the same symbol, that information is retrieved directly from the
memorizing vector, without calling lookup() again.
A symbol that is referenced in a relocation entry is typically
referenced in many relocation entries, so this memorizing reduces the
number of calls to lookup() dramatically. The overall improvement in
the speed of dynamic linking is also dramatic -- as much as a factor of
three for programs that use many shared libaries.
Submitted by: jdp@polstra.com "John Polstra"
