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  1. /* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1 OR MIT */
  2. /* nolibc.h
  3. * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>
  4. */
  5. /*
  6. * This file is designed to be used as a libc alternative for minimal programs
  7. * with very limited requirements. It consists of a small number of syscall and
  8. * type definitions, and the minimal startup code needed to call main().
  9. * All syscalls are declared as static functions so that they can be optimized
  10. * away by the compiler when not used.
  11. *
  12. * Syscalls are split into 3 levels:
  13. * - The lower level is the arch-specific syscall() definition, consisting in
  14. * assembly code in compound expressions. These are called my_syscall0() to
  15. * my_syscall6() depending on the number of arguments. The MIPS
  16. * implementation is limited to 5 arguments. All input arguments are cast
  17. * to a long stored in a register. These expressions always return the
  18. * syscall's return value as a signed long value which is often either a
  19. * pointer or the negated errno value.
  20. *
  21. * - The second level is mostly architecture-independent. It is made of
  22. * static functions called sys_<name>() which rely on my_syscallN()
  23. * depending on the syscall definition. These functions are responsible
  24. * for exposing the appropriate types for the syscall arguments (int,
  25. * pointers, etc) and for setting the appropriate return type (often int).
  26. * A few of them are architecture-specific because the syscalls are not all
  27. * mapped exactly the same among architectures. For example, some archs do
  28. * not implement select() and need pselect6() instead, so the sys_select()
  29. * function will have to abstract this.
  30. *
  31. * - The third level is the libc call definition. It exposes the lower raw
  32. * sys_<name>() calls in a way that looks like what a libc usually does,
  33. * takes care of specific input values, and of setting errno upon error.
  34. * There can be minor variations compared to standard libc calls. For
  35. * example the open() call always takes 3 args here.
  36. *
  37. * The errno variable is declared static and unused. This way it can be
  38. * optimized away if not used. However this means that a program made of
  39. * multiple C files may observe different errno values (one per C file). For
  40. * the type of programs this project targets it usually is not a problem. The
  41. * resulting program may even be reduced by defining the NOLIBC_IGNORE_ERRNO
  42. * macro, in which case the errno value will never be assigned.
  43. *
  44. * Some stdint-like integer types are defined. These are valid on all currently
  45. * supported architectures, because signs are enforced, ints are assumed to be
  46. * 32 bits, longs the size of a pointer and long long 64 bits. If more
  47. * architectures have to be supported, this may need to be adapted.
  48. *
  49. * Some macro definitions like the O_* values passed to open(), and some
  50. * structures like the sys_stat struct depend on the architecture.
  51. *
  52. * The definitions start with the architecture-specific parts, which are picked
  53. * based on what the compiler knows about the target architecture, and are
  54. * completed with the generic code. Since it is the compiler which sets the
  55. * target architecture, cross-compiling normally works out of the box without
  56. * having to specify anything.
  57. *
  58. * Finally some very common libc-level functions are provided. It is the case
  59. * for a few functions usually found in string.h, ctype.h, or stdlib.h.
  60. *
  61. * The nolibc.h file is only a convenient entry point which includes all other
  62. * files. It also defines the NOLIBC macro, so that it is possible for a
  63. * program to check this macro to know if it is being built against and decide
  64. * to disable some features or simply not to include some standard libc files.
  65. *
  66. * A simple static executable may be built this way :
  67. * $ gcc -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-ident -s -Os -nostdlib \
  68. * -static -include nolibc.h -o hello hello.c -lgcc
  69. *
  70. * Simple programs meant to be reasonably portable to various libc and using
  71. * only a few common includes, may also be built by simply making the include
  72. * path point to the nolibc directory:
  73. * $ gcc -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-ident -s -Os -nostdlib \
  74. * -I../nolibc -o hello hello.c -lgcc
  75. *
  76. * The available standard (but limited) include files are:
  77. * ctype.h, errno.h, signal.h, stdio.h, stdlib.h, string.h, time.h
  78. *
  79. * In addition, the following ones are expected to be provided by the compiler:
  80. * float.h, stdarg.h, stddef.h
  81. *
  82. * The following ones which are part to the C standard are not provided:
  83. * assert.h, locale.h, math.h, setjmp.h, limits.h
  84. *
  85. * A very useful calling convention table may be found here :
  86. * http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscall.2.html
  87. *
  88. * This doc is quite convenient though not necessarily up to date :
  89. * https://w3challs.com/syscalls/
  90. *
  91. */
  92. #ifndef _NOLIBC_H
  93. #define _NOLIBC_H
  94. #include "std.h"
  95. #include "arch.h"
  96. #include "types.h"
  97. #include "sys.h"
  98. #include "ctype.h"
  99. #include "signal.h"
  100. #include "stdio.h"
  101. #include "stdlib.h"
  102. #include "string.h"
  103. #include "time.h"
  104. #include "unistd.h"
  105. /* Used by programs to avoid std includes */
  106. #define NOLIBC
  107. #endif /* _NOLIBC_H */