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Authored by brooks on Sep 24 2024, 10:41 PM.
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Officially since C11 (and in reality FreeBSD since 3.0 with commit
1b46cb523df3) errno has been defined to be a macro. Rename it to
__errno and move it to FBSDprivate_1.0 for use by libthr. Add a
FBSD_1.0 compat symbol for existing binaries that were incorrectly
linked to the errno symbol during libc.so.7's lifetime.

This breaks linking previously broken software that directly linked to
errno.

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Does this solve the ABI issue that we have two errno's for binaries that did 'extern int errno;' explicitly? I suspect not, since they should get a COPY reloc resolved from libc errno, and now it would either error out on image activation, or still be silently broken.

I believe an experiment is due.

lib/libsys/Symbol.sys.map
387

Can we rename it even more, to make it less confusing? E.g. __libsys_errno.

  • errno -> libsys_errno
  • Only export errno compat symbol from libsys so there's only one version.
kib added inline comments.
lib/libthr/sys/thr_error.c
42

Please remove tabs

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 25 2024, 11:54 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.