bionic/libc
David 'Digit' Turner fc2693110e libc: Update auto-gen scripts
Make the scripts use external/kernel-headers/original by default.

clean_header.py:  Document -k<path>, add -d<path>
find_headers.py:  Make kernel config files optional
update_all.py:    Allow setting the path to kernel headers on the command-line
update_all.py:    Better formatting of output on ttys
update_all.py:    Automatically perform "git add/rm" on affected files.
SYSCALLS.TXT:     Fix typo in __socketcall definition.
checksyscalls.py: Add support for superH architecture in the checks.
gensyscalls.py:   Automatically perform "git add/rm" on affected files.
cpp.py:           Fixed a bug that prevented certain type definitions to
                  be kept in the generated clean header (e.g.
                  struct ethtool_drvinfo in <linux/ethtool.h>)

All scripts will use the content of external/kernel-headers/original by default now.

The generated code removes all empty lines and trailing whitespace. This is useful
to ensure a unified output even if we change the parser again in the future.

The top-level disclaimer has been edited with update instructions to regenerate
the headers when needed.

Also, a warning is now inserted every 8th line in the final output:

/* WARNING: DO NOT EDIT, AUTO-GENERATED CODE - SEE TOP FOR INSTRUCTIONS */

Changes under kernel/arch-arm and kernel/arch-x86 should correspond to whitespace
differences and additionnal struct definitions that were missed by the previous
parser implementation.

Change-Id: Icd1c056bacd766759f3e9b7bb5d63a246f3d656a

WARNING: If you run these script, do not submit the result to gerrit for now.
         It seems there are discrepancies between the content of original headers
         and those currently commited under bionic/libc/kernel/.

         (This problem is the main motivation to insert the warning repeatedly).

         Current list of issues:

           - Missing SuperH headers (i.e. external/kernel-headers/original/asm-sh)
2011-02-03 18:07:41 +01:00
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arch-arm libc: Add ftruncate64 and improve 64-bit parameter syscall handling. 2010-12-16 17:04:41 +01:00
arch-sh libc: Update auto-gen scripts 2011-02-03 18:07:41 +01:00
arch-x86 use consistent guards for off_t and size_t defines for IA 2011-01-07 11:42:54 -08:00
bionic Bug 3330205 Reentrant MD5 2011-01-09 12:37:26 -08:00
docs libc: Fix the definition of SIGRTMAX 2010-12-20 15:58:06 +01:00
include libc: Update auto-gen scripts 2011-02-03 18:07:41 +01:00
inet added missing ether_aton and ether_ntoa 2010-08-25 08:46:23 -07:00
kernel libc: Update auto-gen scripts 2011-02-03 18:07:41 +01:00
netbsd am 5d45fa40: am 2081fda6: Merge "Only look up A records if the system has IPv4." into gingerbread 2011-01-21 15:50:23 -08:00
private Fix __get_tls() in static C library to use kernel helpers. 2010-08-27 08:19:19 -07:00
regex Remove compiler warnings when building Bionic. 2010-06-22 17:51:41 -07:00
stdio Merge "Bug 3330205 Put blanks and zeroes in const area" 2011-01-16 08:50:20 -08:00
stdlib libc: remove obsolete sha1hash.c source file 2010-12-20 16:03:07 +01:00
string libc: optimize memmove() with memcpy() if possible. 2010-10-07 11:03:32 +02:00
tools libc: Update auto-gen scripts 2011-02-03 18:07:41 +01:00
tzcode Bug 3330205 Thread safe strptime implementation 2011-01-11 09:33:04 -08:00
unistd am 84f4753d: am 56faf66f: raise: Send signal to current thread 2011-01-21 12:40:07 -08:00
wchar wchar.h: improve wchar_t support in Bionic 2010-06-15 07:04:41 -07:00
zoneinfo Make timezones available to the host build. 2010-08-31 13:16:25 -07:00
Android.mk am 3d302be4: Merge "android-x86: add sigsetjmp.S" 2010-12-29 11:29:33 -08:00
CAVEATS auto import from //depot/cupcake/@135843 2009-03-03 19:28:35 -08:00
Jamfile auto import from //depot/cupcake/@135843 2009-03-03 19:28:35 -08:00
MODULE_LICENSE_BSD auto import from //depot/cupcake/@135843 2009-03-03 19:28:35 -08:00
NOTICE Clean up NOTICE files. 2010-10-19 15:12:40 -07:00
README Add an 's and a . to the bionic/libc README. 2009-07-23 17:41:47 -07:00
SYSCALLS.TXT libc: Update auto-gen scripts 2011-02-03 18:07:41 +01:00

Welcome to Bionic, Android's small and custom C library for the Android
platform.

Bionic is mainly a port of the BSD C library to our Linux kernel with the
following additions/changes:

- no support for locales
- no support for wide chars (i.e. multi-byte characters)
- its own smallish implementation of pthreads based on Linux futexes
- support for x86, ARM and ARM thumb CPU instruction sets and kernel interfaces

Bionic is released under the standard 3-clause BSD License

Bionic doesn't want to implement all features of a traditional C library, we only
add features to it as we need them, and we try to keep things as simple and small
as possible. Our goal is not to support scaling to thousands of concurrent threads
on multi-processors machines; we're running this on cell-phones, damnit !!

Note that Bionic doesn't provide a libthread_db or a libm implementation.


Adding new syscalls:
====================

Bionic provides the gensyscalls.py Python script to automatically generate syscall
stubs from the list defined in the file SYSCALLS.TXT. You can thus add a new syscall
by doing the following:

- edit SYSCALLS.TXT
- add a new line describing your syscall, it should look like:

   return_type  syscall_name(parameters)    syscall_number

- in the event where you want to differentiate the syscall function from its entry name,
  use the alternate:

   return_type  funcname:syscall_name(parameters)  syscall_number

- additionally, if the syscall number is different between ARM and x86, use:

   return_type  funcname[:syscall_name](parameters)   arm_number,x86_number

- a syscall number can be -1 to indicate that the syscall is not implemented on
  a given platform, for example:

   void   __set_tls(void*)   arm_number,-1


the comments in SYSCALLS.TXT contain more information about the line format

You can also use the 'checksyscalls.py' script to check that all the syscall
numbers you entered are correct. It does so by looking at the values defined in
your Linux kernel headers. The script indicates where the values are incorrect
and what is expected instead.