libunwind defines the _Unwind_* ABI used by libc++abi. This ABI is a
stable quasi-standard common between multiple implementations such as
LLVM and GNU. The _U* symbol name space is also safely within the symbol
name space that standard C & C++ reserve for the implementation.
Futhermore, libunwind also defines several unw_* symbols, and references
these from the _Unwind_* entry points so the standard/reserved part of
the ABI is dependent on the unw_* part of the ABI. This is not OK for a
C or C++ implementation. The unw_* symbols are reserved for C and extern
"C" used by application code.
This change renames each unw_* function to __unw* and adds a weak alias
unw_* to keep the public <libunwind.h> ABI unchanged for backwards
compatibility. Every reference to unw_* in the implementation has been
changed to use __unw* so that if other unw_* definitions are in force
because nothing uses <libunwind.h> in a particular program, no _Unwind*
code path depends on any unw_* symbol. Furthemore, __unw_* symbols are
hidden, which saves PLT overhead in the shared library case.
In the future, we should cconsider untangling the unw_* API/ABI from the
_Unwind_* API/ABI. The internal API backing the _Unwind_* ABI
implementation should not rely on any nonstandard symbols not in the
implementation-reserved name space. This would then allow separating the
_Unwind_* API/ABI from unw_* entirely, but that's a more substantial
change that's going to require more significant refactoring.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59921
llvm-svn: 357640
to reflect the new license. These used slightly different spellings that
defeated my regular expressions.
We understand that people may be surprised that we're moving the header
entirely to discuss the new license. We checked this carefully with the
Foundation's lawyer and we believe this is the correct approach.
Essentially, all code in the project is now made available by the LLVM
project under our new license, so you will see that the license headers
include that license only. Some of our contributors have contributed
code under our old license, and accordingly, we have retained a copy of
our old license notice in the top-level files in each project and
repository.
llvm-svn: 351648
This moves the majority of the unwind sources into the new project layout for
libunwind. This was previously discussed on llvmdev at [1]. This is a
purely movement related change, with the build infrastructure currently still
residing in the libc++abi repository.
[1] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2015-January/081507.html
llvm-svn: 235758
