This avoids redundancy between them (and also having to port fixes and features)
The error messages have been preserved through a string reporting mechanism
The files being diffed (especially for variants) are temp files, so their
names are pretty nondescript. This improve error output, using ANSI escape
sequences to make those lines stand out.
Stop using that bitfield for everything, including what can be determined otherwise
It also makes it easier to have a sane state, since some bits were (supposedly)
mutually exclusive
This is actually not necessary, because RGBLINK would warn about missing labels.
Besides, through semi-esoteric ways, it is possible to define more labels in this scope,
and there's no reason to prevent that.
POSIX leaves undefined the order of output if stderr is injected into stdout,
and in practice it differs on Windows (Linux buffers both streams separately,
Windows interleaves them as they arrive without buffering).
This should help testing on other platforms
The goal was to improve readability, but along the way a few things were
gained.
- Sorted sym and map files
- Infrastructure for supporting multiple .o versions
- Valgrind-proof, as far as my testing goes anyways
- Improved verbosity messages
- Added error checking
- Performance improvements, see end of commit message
The readability improvement was spurred while trying to make sense of the
old code while trying to implement features such as sorted sym and map
files.
I also did my best to remove hardcoded logic, such that modifications
should be doable; for example, "RAM loading" sections, which are linked
against a different location than the one they're stored at.
Some work remains to be done, see the "TODO:" and "FIXME:" comments.
Further, while regression tests pass, this new linker should be tested on
different codebases (ideally while instrumented with `make develop` and
under valgrind).
The few errors spotted in the man pages (alignment) need to be corrected.
Finally, documentation comments need to be written, I have written a lot of
them but not all.
This also provides a significant performance boost (benchmarked with a
51994-symbol project):
Current master RGBLINK:
2.02user 0.03system 0:02.06elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 84336maxresident)k
0inputs+11584outputs (0major+20729minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Rewritten RGBLINK:
0.19user 0.06system 0:00.63elapsed 40%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 32460maxresident)k
23784inputs+11576outputs (0major+7672minor)pagefaults 0swaps
