SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
The shared library libicudata.so has a DT_SYMBOLIC entry:
Dynamic Section:
NEEDED libgcc_s.so
SONAME libicudata.so.69
SYMBOLIC 0x00000000
HASH 0x00000094
STRTAB 0x000000c8
SYMTAB 0x000000a8
STRSZ 0x0000002a
SYMENT 0x00000010
According to the ELF spec DT_SYMBOLIC has no special meaning
for the dynamic loader.
(...and ASSERT_NOT_REACHED => VERIFY_NOT_REACHED)
Since all of these checks are done in release builds as well,
let's rename them to VERIFY to prevent confusion, as everyone is
used to assertions being compiled out in release.
We can introduce a new ASSERT macro that is specifically for debug
checks, but I'm doing this wholesale conversion first since we've
accumulated thousands of these already, and it's not immediately
obvious which ones are suitable for ASSERT.
It's a lot faster to iterate the GNU hash tables if we don't have to
compute the length of every symbol name before rejecting it anyway while
comparing the first character. :^)
When performing a global symbol lookup, we were recomputing the symbol
hashes once for every dynamic object searched. The hash function was
at the very top of a profile (15%) of program startup.
With this change, the hash function is no longer visible among the top
stacks in the profile. :^)
Let's use a stronger type than void* for this since we're talking
specifically about a virtual address and not necessarily a pointer
to something actually in memory (yet).
It was very confusing how these functions used the "undefined" state
of Symbol to signal lookup failure. Let's use Optional<T> to make things
a bit more understandable.
The dynamic loader will now mark RELRO segments read-only after
performing relocations. This is pretty cool!
Note that this only applies to main executables so far,.
RELRO support for shared libraries will require some reorganizing
of the dynamic loader.
