This resolves issue #908.
Notable changes:
- On Windows, LLVM integrated assembler emits bad stack unwind tables when segmented stacks are enabled. However, unwind info directives in the assembly output are correct, so we generate assembly first and then run it through an external assembler, just like it is already done for Android builds.
- Linker is invoked via "g++" command instead of "gcc": g++ passes the appropriate magic parameters to the linker, which ensure correct registration of stack unwind tables in dynamic libraries.
libuv handles are tied to the event loop that created them. In order to perform IO, the handle must be on the thread with its home event loop. Thus, when as task wants to do IO it must first go to the IO handle's home event loop and pin itself to the corresponding scheduler while the IO action is in flight. Once the IO action completes, the task is unpinned and either returns to its home scheduler if it is a pinned task, or otherwise stays on the current scheduler.
Making new blocking IO implementations (i.e. files) thread safe is rather simple. Add a home field to the IO handle's struct in uvio and implement the HomingIO trait. Wrap every IO call in the HomingIO.home_for_io method, which will take care of the scheduling.
I'm not sure if this remains thread safe in the presence of asynchronous IO at the libuv level. If we decide to do that, then this set up should be revisited.
what amount a T* pointer must be adjusted to reach the contents
of the box. For `~T` types, this requires knowing the type `T`,
which is not known in the case of objects.
This PR fixes#7235 and #3371, which removes trailing nulls from `str` types. Instead, it replaces the creation of c strings with a new type, `std::c_str::CString`, which wraps a malloced byte array, and respects:
* No interior nulls
* Ends with a trailing null
