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
The stdlib functions specify the difference between `err` and `errx`
is that the former prints a message obtained with `strerror`.
However, RGBDS' implementation breaks that contract, and `warn`'s puts the
added semicolon in the wrong place.
