standard library, because they never worked and come from an achingly old
version of the Pascal specification. Fix the implementations of New() and
Dispose() to use the standard C memory allocator rather than rolling their own
(also in C). Write test!
The system call puts the time in a pair of registers, not in the
timeval structure. Add code to move the time to the structure, so
programs see the correct time, not garbage. This fixes our example
programs that use the time as a random seed.
This preserves the name and value of every symbol. The type and other
info of a symbol might be lost. In gdb, one can now "disas main" or
"disas '.ret'" to disassemble functions by name.
Most symbols are in sections, so I also teach cvmach to emit the Mach
section headers. The entry point in plat/osx*/descr moves down to
make room for the section headers and LC_SYMTAB.
I fix some bugs in calculations of cvmach. They were wrong if ROM had
a greater alignment than TEXT, or if DATA did not start on a page
boundary. I introduce machseg[] to simplify the mess of variables in
main(). I declare most functions as static. Also, cvmach becomes the
first program to #include <object.h>.
This header declares functions in libobject. Our programs never
included object.h, but called functions in libobject without declaring
them. So, our build system never put object.h in the include path;
any #include <object.h> would fail to find the header.
With this commit, a program may #include <object.h> if it has
modules/src/object+lib in its deps.
Declare structs in object.h so we can use them in prototypes without
gcc warning, "'struct whatever' declared inside parameter list".
Remove inclusion of ansi.h from object.h. Programs would need to
depend on modules+headers to get ansi.h in the include path.
This uses uint32_t for the base, file offset, and alignment of each
section, to be consistent with the usage of uint32_t in h/out.h
Also declare setbit() as static.
corresponding invocation in the ncg table so the same helpers can be used for
both mcg and ncg. Add a new IR opcode, FARJUMP, which jumps to a helper
function but saves volatile registers.
occasionally the first hop of a block would try to rearrange its registers (due
to evicted throughs), resulting in the phi moves copying values into the wrong
registers.
unlink("core") doesn't work with OpenBSD, where core dumps have names
like "ncg.core". Users who don't want core dumps can turn them off
with "ulimit -c 0" in sh(1). Then the system doesn't write a core
dump. That's better than writing core then unlinking it.
This commit changes how ack(1) parses backslashes in its descr files.
Before this commit, ack set the high bit of each character escaped by
a backslash, and later cleared all high bits in command arguments, but
this lost the high bits in non-ASCII filenames. After this commit,
ack keeps backslashes in strings while processing them. Functions
scanvars(), scanexpr(), doassign(), unravel(), addargs() now
understand backslashes. I remove from ack_basename() the warning
about non-ASCII characters.
This commit makes some incompatible changes for backslashes in descr
files. None of our descr files uses backslashes, except for those
backslashes that continue lines, and there are no changes for those
backslashes. The problem with non-ASCII filenames had its cause in a
feature that we weren't using.
With this commit, ack now understands backslashes after the = sign in
both "var NAME=value" and "mapflag -flag NAME=value". Before, ack
never scanned backslashes in "var" lines, so "var A=\{B}" failed to
prevent expansion of B. Now it does. Before, ack did scan for
backslashes in the "-flag NAME=" part of "mapflag" lines. Now it
doesn't, so it is no longer possible to map a flag that contains a
literal space, tab, or star "*".
I removed the expansion of "{{" to "{". One can use "\{" for a
literal "{", and "\{" now works in "var" lines. Before and now, ack
never expanded "{" in flags for "mapflag", so the correct way to map a
literal flag "-{" remains "mapflag -{ ...", not "mapflag -{{ ...".
(The other way "mapflag -\{ ..." stops working with this commit.)
Backslashes in strange places, like "{NA\ME}", probably have different
behavior now.
Backslashes in "program" lines now work. Before, ack scanned for
backslashes there but forgot to clear the high bits later.
Escaping < or > as \< or \> now works, and prevents substitution of
the input or output file paths. Before, ack only expanded the first <
or > in each argument. Now, it expands every unescaped < or > in an
argument, but this is an accident of how I rewrote the code. I don't
suggest to put more than one each of < or > in a command. The code no
longer optimizes away its recursive calls when the argument is "<".
The code continues to set or clear the high bit NO_SCAN on the first
characters of flags. This doesn't seem to be a problem, because flags
usually begin with an ASCII hyphen '-'.
If fork() fails, then report a fatal error. Don't spin the cpu
retrying fork() until it succeeds. It can fail when we reach a limit
on the number of processes. Spinning on the cpu would slow down other
processes when we want them to exit. This would get bad if we had a
parallel build with multiple ack processes spinning.
