Commit Briefs

Russ Cox

9c: fix tab




Russ Cox

rc: avoid problematic internal names "var", "thread"

For AIX.


Russ Cox

acme: avoid global named "class"

For AIX.


Russ Cox

libdiskfs: avoid problematic internal constant names

AIX defines some of these constants in its C header files.


Russ Cox

diff: rename class to fix AIX

math.h defines a function named class on AIX.



Russ Cox

lib9: avoid unportable use of d_namlen in dirread

Fixes #395.


Russ Cox

devdraw: use global drawlk instead of per-client

Setting up for a real window system.


Russ Cox

devdraw: use indirect impl interface

Setting up for a real window system.



Russ Cox

libthread: add pthreadperthread mode and use under ASAN

ASAN can't deal with the coroutine stacks. In theory we can call into ASAN runtime to let it know about them, but ASAN still has problems with fork or exit happening from a non-system stack. Bypass all possible problems by just having a full OS thread for each libthread thread. The threads are still cooperatively scheduled within a proc (in thos mode, a group of OS threads). Setting the environment variable LIBTHREAD=pthreadperthread will enable the pthreadperthread mode, as will building with CC9FLAGS='-fsanitize=address' in $PLAN9/config. This solution is much more general than ASAN - for example if you are trying to find all the thread stacks in a reproducible crash you can use pthreadperthread mode with any debugger that knows only about OS threads.


Russ Cox

INSTALL: build mk all the time

If mk gets into a bad state, it's not obvious that you can remove the binary to force the rebuild. Also, not rebuilding means that bugs in mkmk.sh are not noticed. Just rebuild from scratch every time. It doesn't take too long compared to the rest of INSTALL.


Russ Cox

9c, 9l: accept CC9FLAGS from config

Also, if CC9FLAGS includes -fsanitize=address (ASAN), predefine PLAN9PORT_ASAN for use by programs that need to know (mainly libthread). The 9c script used to have a variable called ngflags, which was ccflags except -g (ng stood for "no g"), but nothing needs it split out anymore, so simplify to just ccflags.