The sleep APIs are now documented as having spurious wakeups and no
precision of timing guaranteed. They also cannot fail. This commit makes
the entire range of u64 legal values to pass to std.os.time.sleep and
std.os.time.posixSleep. Values that do not fit in the native system APIs
will cause a sleep for the longest possible duration and then be handled
as a spurious wakeup.
* wasi: change URL to canon WASI-core.md
* wasi: import args_get and args_sizes_get
* wasi: Implement argsAlloc and argsFree
* test return value for wasi arg syscalls
* wasi: return unexpectedErrorPosix in argsAlloc
* wasi: Add TODO for ArgIterator
Documentation comments copied here:
On Linux, it is possible that the thread spawned with `spawnThread`
finishes executing entirely before the clone syscall completes. In this
case, `std.os.Thread.handle` will return 0 rather than the
no-longer-existing thread's pid.
This fixes comes thanks to Rich Felker from the musl libc project,
who gave me this crucial information:
"to satisfy the abi, your init code has to write the same value
to that memory location as the value passed to the [arch_prctl]
syscall"
This commit also changes the rules for when to build statically
by default. When building objects and static libraries, position
independent code is disabled if no libraries will be dynamically
linked and the target does not require position independent code.
closes#2063
Before, allocator implementations had to provide `allocFn`,
`reallocFn`, and `freeFn`.
Now, they must provide only `reallocFn` and `shrinkFn`.
Reallocating from a zero length slice is allocation, and
shrinking to a zero length slice is freeing.
When the new memory size is less than or equal to the
previous allocation size, `reallocFn` now has the option
to return `error.OutOfMemory` to indicate that the allocator
would not be able to take advantage of the new size.
For more details see #1306. This commit closes#1306.
This commit paves the way to solving #2009.
This commit also introduces a memory leak to all coroutines.
There is an issue where a coroutine calls the function and it
frees its own stack frame, but then the return value of `shrinkFn`
is a slice, which is implemented as an sret struct. Writing to
the return pointer causes invalid memory write. We could work
around it by having a global helper function which has a void
return type and calling that instead. But instead this hack will
suffice until I rework coroutines to be non-allocating. Basically
coroutines are not supported right now until they are reworked as
in #1194.
