* std.option allows overriding the debug Io instance
* if the default is used, start code initializes environ and argv0
also fix some places that needed recancel(), thanks mlugg!
See #30562
The subsystem detection was flaky and often incorrect and was not
actually needed by the compiler or standard library. The actual
subsystem won't be known until at link time, so it doesn't make
sense to try to determine it at compile time.
There is no straightforward way for the Zig team to access the Solaris system
headers; to do this, one has to create an Oracle account, accept their EULA to
download the installer ISO, and finally install it on a machine or VM. We do not
have to jump through hoops like this for any other OS that we support, and no
one on the team has expressed willingness to do it.
As a result, we cannot audit any Solaris contributions to std.c or other
similarly sensitive parts of the standard library. The best we would be able to
do is assume that Solaris and illumos are 100% compatible with no way to verify
that assumption. But at that point, the solaris and illumos OS tags would be
functionally identical anyway.
For Solaris especially, any contributions that involve APIs introduced after the
OS was made closed-source would also be inherently more risky than equivalent
contributions for other proprietary OSs due to the case of Google LLC v. Oracle
America, Inc., wherein Oracle clearly demonstrated its willingness to pursue
legal action against entities that merely copy API declarations.
Finally, Oracle laid off most of the Solaris team in 2017; the OS has been in
maintenance mode since, presumably to be retired completely sometime in the 2030s.
For these reasons, this commit removes all Oracle Solaris support.
Anyone who still wishes to use Zig on Solaris can try their luck by simply using
illumos instead of solaris in target triples - chances are it'll work. But there
will be no effort from the Zig team to support this use case; we recommend that
people move to illumos instead.
MIPS I has load hazards so we need to insert nops in a few places. This is not a
problem for MIPS II and later.
While doing this, I also touched up all the inline asm to use ABI register
aliases and a consistent formatting convention. Also fixed a few places that
didn't properly check if the syscall return value should be negated.
This only matters if `callMain` is called by a user, since `std.start`
will never itself call `callMain` when `target.os.tag == .other`.
However, it *is* a valid use case for a user to call
`std.start.callMain` in their own startup logic, so this makes sense.
The big endian RISC-V effort is mostly driven by MIPS (the company) which is
pivoting to RISC-V, and presumably needs a big endian variant to fill the niche
that big endian MIPS (the ISA) did.
GCC already supports these targets, but LLVM support will only appear in 22;
this commit just adds the necessary target knowledge and checks on our end.
LLVM always assumes these are on. Zig backends do not observe them.
If Zig backends want to start using them, they can be introduced, one
arch at a time, with proper documentation.
Andrew Kelley