The previous commit removes our patch that builds V8 at -O2 rather
than -O3 so there is not much point in keeping the configure switch
around.
The reason it did so was to work around an assortment of compiler and
linker bugs. In particular, certain combinations of g++ and binutils
generate bad or no code when -ffunction-sections or -finline-functions
is enabled (which -O3 implicitly does.)
It was quite the problem back in the day because everyone and his dog
built from source. Now that we have prebuilt binaries and packages
available, there is no longer a pressing need to be so accommodating.
If you experience spurious (or possibly not so spurious) segmentation
faults after this commit, you need to upgrade your compiler/linker
toolchain.
Resolves minor discrepancies between android and standard POSIX systems.
In addition, some configure parameters were added, and a helper-script
for android configuration. Ideally, this script should be merged into
the standard configure script.
To build for android, source the android-configure script with an NDK
path:
source ./android-configure ~/android-ndk-r8d
This will create an android standalone toolchain and export the
necessary environment parameters.
After that, build as normal:
make -j8
After the build, you should now have android-compatible NodeJS binaries.
Always define v8_postmortem_support, even if the platform does not
support it. Commit d8852aa adds a rule that references it in node.gyp.
Fixes the Windows build.
Turn off safe exception handlers, they're incompatible with how
openssl is compiled / linked under MSVS 2012.
Addresses the following build error:
openssl.lib(x86cpuid.obj) : error LNK2026: module unsafe for SAFESEH
image. [g:\jenkins\workspace\nodejs-oneoff\node.vcxproj]
openssl.lib(x86.obj) : error LNK2026: module unsafe for SAFESEH
image. [g:\jenkins\workspace\nodejs-oneoff\node.vcxproj]
# etc. etc.
g:\jenkins\workspace\nodejs-oneoff\Release\node.exe : fatal error
LNK1281: Unable to generate SAFESEH image.
[g:\jenkins\workspace\nodejs-oneoff\node.vcxproj]
Fixes#4242.
This is the only thing preventing a manually compiled version of GCC
(rather than Apple's provided llvm-gcc or heavily modified gcc 4.2)
from working properly, so we might as well enable support for that.
With this patch I was able to compile node using a manually compiled
gcc 4.7.1.
Closes#3887.
I disabled the -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections switches in 202df30
because they're horribly buggy with some gcc/binutils combos.
However, it turns out that the dtrace/ustack post-processing tool requires
that V8 is compiled with said switches and was broken because of it.
This commit turns them on again on SunOS systems. Let's hope for the best.
Compile at -O2 and disable optimizations that trigger gcc bugs.
Some people still reported mksnapshot crashes after commit b40f813 ("build: fix
spurious mksnapshot crashes for good" - so much for that).
Average performance of the -O2 binary is on par with the -O3 binary. Variance
on the http_simple bytes/8 benchmark appears to be slightly greater but small
enough that the possibly of it being noise cannot be excluded.
The new binary very slightly but consistently outperforms the -O3 binary (by
about 0.5%) on the mostly CPU-bound bytes/102400 benchmark. That could be an
artifact of the system I benchmarked it on, a Core 2 Duo with a puny 32 kB of
L1 instruction cache. The smaller binary seems to play nicer with the cache.
A variety of gcc bugs made mksnapshot crash with either a segmentation fault
or a 'pure virtual method callled' run-time error.
After much wailing and gnashing of teeth I managed to deduce that the bugs
show up when:
1. gcc 4.5.2 for i386-pc-solaris2.11 is used and -fstrict-aliasing is
enabled, or
2. gcc version 4.4.6 for x86_64-redhat-linux is used and
-ffunction-sections -finline-functions at -O2 or higher is enabled
Therefore, disable -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections unconditionally
and disable -fstrict-aliasing only on Solaris.
The -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections switches were nonsense anyway
because we don't link with -Wl,--gc-sections.
We already enable -fstrict-aliasing when gcc >= 4.6.0 but let's enable it for
gcc < 4.5.0 as well. The aliasing bugs that we ran into in the past are all
particular to the 4.5.x releases.
* compile with -DOPENSSL_NO_SOCK and -DOPENSSL_NO_DGRAM, we don't need it
* compile with -DOPENSSL_NO_GOST and -DOPENSSL_NO_HW_PADLOCK, works around the
brain dead linker on solaris and maybe others
* compile with -DTERMIOS, OS X doesn't have <termio.h>
* compile with -D__EXTENSIONS__ on solaris, makes siginfo_t available
* compile without -ansi on linux, it hides a number of POSIX declarations
(sigaction, NI_MAXHOST, etc.)
* fixes#2110
* includes V8 postmortem metadata in Solaris builds
* adds GYP support for DTrace probes and ustack helper
* ustack helper derives constants dynamically from libv8_base.a
* build with DTrace support by default on SunOS
A compiler bug in older versions of gcc makes it do unsafe optimizations at -O1
and higher. This manifested itself with (at least) gcc 4.5.2 on SmartOS because
it made V8 hang in a busy loop.
See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45883
Ben Noordhuis
Linus Mårtensson
Bert Belder
Fedor Indutny
Shigeki Ohtsu
Timothy J Fontaine
Nathan Rajlich
Robert Mustacchi
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Igor Zinkovsky
Ryan Dahl