This avoids redundancy between them (and also having to port fixes and features)
The error messages have been preserved through a string reporting mechanism
Make the bool field an actual bool
Rename `iReloc` to a more exact `isKnown` (as was already pointed out by some
comments)
Make the value of `BANK(symbol)` consistent when the argument is invalid
This option allows for automatic dependency detection and generation:
as soon as a missing file is found, it is output to the dep file, and
assembly immediately aborts. (No .o file is produced, even if `-o` was
speicified.) This doesn't cause an error, either; the point is that once
the file is added to the dep file, the Makefile is re-parsed, and this
time the file will be generated, so the dep list builds up automatically.
This mimicks GCC's option and behavior.
Allows overriding the output file in dependencies, which also allows
outputting those without also outputting the object file.
This, again, mimicks GCC's option.
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.
The error was due to casting `const` away for permuting argv
elements, which is necessary for a libc for compatibility with older
systems, but not for us.
Checkpatch will complain about the style not being followed, but this is not
our code, so it can be ignored.
Both `getopt_long` and `getopt_long_only` are GNU-specific, so we'll be
copying musl's implementation for portability.
This was retrieved as of commit 90251cf73dfdd44e7a3f085d236e89a7dff1b00b.
musl is licensed as MIT, which is compatible (being identical...) to RGBDS'.
The file is being copied as-is, without a copyright notice or attribution,
but this is only to have a verbatim copy in the history. Those will be added
in the next commit.
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
