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Rich Felker 1db9a35569 clean up and reduce size of internal pthread structure
over time the pthread structure has accumulated a lot of cruft taking
up size. this commit removes unused fields and packs booleans and
other small data more efficiently. changes which would also require
changing code are not included at this time.

non-volatile booleans are packed as unsigned char bitfield members.

the canceldisable and cancelasync fields need volatile qualification
due to how they're accessed from the cancellation signal handler and
cancellable syscalls called from signal handlers. since volatile
bitfield semantics are not clearly defined, discrete char objects are
used instead.

the pid field is completely removed; it has been unused since commit
83dc6eb087.

the tid field's type is changed to int because its use is as a value
in futexes, which are defined as plain int. it has no conceptual
relationship to pid_t. also, its position is not ABI.

startlock is reduced to a length-1 array. the second element was
presumably intended as a waiter count, but it was never used and made
no sense, since there is at most one waiter.
2018-05-07 23:37:36 -04:00
arch work around arm gcc's rejection of r7 asm constraints in thumb mode 2018-05-01 14:34:22 -04:00
crt add s390x port 2016-11-11 23:06:21 -05:00
dist add another example option to dist/config.mak 2012-04-24 16:49:11 -04:00
include fix default feature profile in tar.h 2018-03-28 15:53:45 -04:00
ldso reintroduce hardening against partially-replaced allocator 2018-04-19 22:22:11 -04:00
src clean up and reduce size of internal pthread structure 2018-05-07 23:37:36 -04:00
tools add CFI generation script for x86_64 2015-10-13 18:09:46 -04:00
.gitignore remove obsolete gitignore rules 2016-07-06 00:21:25 -04:00
configure use explicit dynamic-list rather than symbolic-functions for linking 2018-04-17 19:23:00 -04:00
COPYRIGHT update authors/contributors list 2018-02-21 14:19:01 -05:00
dynamic.list allow interposition/replacement of allocator (malloc) 2018-04-18 14:22:49 -04:00
INSTALL add powerpc64 and s390x to list of supported archs in INSTALL file 2017-08-29 20:48:02 -04:00
Makefile adjust makefile target-specific CFLAGS rules to be more robust & complete 2018-03-24 22:47:36 -04:00
README update version reference in the README file 2014-06-25 14:16:53 -04:00
VERSION release 1.1.19 2018-02-22 13:39:19 -05:00
WHATSNEW release 1.1.19 2018-02-22 13:39:19 -05:00

    musl libc

musl, pronounced like the word "mussel", is an MIT-licensed
implementation of the standard C library targetting the Linux syscall
API, suitable for use in a wide range of deployment environments. musl
offers efficient static and dynamic linking support, lightweight code
and low runtime overhead, strong fail-safe guarantees under correct
usage, and correctness in the sense of standards conformance and
safety. musl is built on the principle that these goals are best
achieved through simple code that is easy to understand and maintain.

The 1.1 release series for musl features coverage for all interfaces
defined in ISO C99 and POSIX 2008 base, along with a number of
non-standardized interfaces for compatibility with Linux, BSD, and
glibc functionality.

For basic installation instructions, see the included INSTALL file.
Information on full musl-targeted compiler toolchains, system
bootstrapping, and Linux distributions built on musl can be found on
the project website:

    http://www.musl-libc.org/