# # This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public # License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this # file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. # Roll our own custom logic here for the import library ############################################################################### # # Linking Mozilla itself to jemalloc is not particularly difficult. To do this # we avoid linking directly to the Microsoft-provided CRT import libraries. # Instead, we link to our own import library which we generate here. To # replace the CRT's malloc/free/other memory management symbols we export # our own versions out of jemalloc.dll. We then take the import library that # the compiler generates for jemalloc.dll and combine it with the MS CRT import # libraries. We put our library on the command line first, and the CRT symbols # are discarded in favor of our versions! # # Unfortunately that was too easy. The CRT import library is not a standard # import library that contains a list of symbols and whatnot. It also includes # object files that are linked into generated programs. One of these, # crtdll.obj is (as one might expect) linked into all DLLs that link against # the CRT. This file does things like run static C++ constructors when the # DLL is attached, call DllMain, etc. # # In the CRT source all malloc/free calls are made to malloc_crt and free_crt. # In debug builds these are both defined to malloc_dbg and free_dbg. In opt # builds malloc_crt is an actual function, implemented and exposed from the # CRT. free_crt is, however, defined to be just plain old free. This works # fine inside the CRT where malloc_crt and free operate on the same heap. # Outside the CRT malloc_crt is in the CRT's heap, but free is in jemalloc's # heap. This causes much pain at shutdown :-( # # The obvious solution here is to override malloc_crt too. Unfortunately, # that doesn't work because the CRT expects to be able to call msize on this # piece of memory deep inside the CRT, which will fail because it'll call the # CRT's msize on a pointer in jemalloc's heap. # # Our solution to this is quite devious. We take apart the CRT's import lib # and remove the problematic object file. We then poke at the object file's # symbol table and replace '__imp__free' (which means grab free from some # other DLL) with '__imp__frex'. Then we define our own dummy no-op function # in jemalloc.dll and export it as frex. Then we put the CRT import lib # back together with the patched crtdll.obj, glue it to the end of jemalloc's # import library and link the rest of Mozilla to that. # # The result? A binary that uses jemalloc, doesn't crash, and leaks a tiny # amount of memory (32 words per DLL in the 2010 CRT) at shutdown. # ############################################################################### target:: mozcrt.lib $(INSTALL) $(IFLAGS2) mozcrt.lib $(DIST)/lib # And finally combine that with the jemalloc import library to get an import # library that has our malloc/free/etc and the CRT's everything else mozcrt.lib: ../build/mozglue.lib msvc_modified.lib lib -OUT:$@ $^ # Put the fixed object file back in msvc_modified.lib: msvc_removed.lib crtdll_fixed.obj lib -OUT:$@ $^ # Fix the object file crtdll_fixed.obj: crtdll.obj $(PYTHON) $(srcdir)/fixcrt.py # Find the path of crtdll.obj CRTDLL_FULLPATH=$(subst \,\\,$(shell lib -list msvc_combined.lib | grep crtdll\\.obj)) # Remove the broken object file, only after we have extracted it msvc_removed.lib: msvc_combined.lib crtdll.obj lib -OUT:$@ msvc_combined.lib -REMOVE:$(CRTDLL_FULLPATH) # Extract the broken object file out of the combined library crtdll.obj: msvc_combined.lib lib -OUT:$@ $^ -EXTRACT:$(CRTDLL_FULLPATH) # Grab both CRT libraries and combine them into one library to simplify things msvc_combined.lib: lib -OUT:$@ $(WIN32_CRT_LIBS) # Normally, we'd use SDK_LIBRARY, but we can't because all the tricks above # involve *not* defining the library in moz.build, so SDK_LIBRARY = True would # not have the expected outcome. SDK_FILES = mozcrt.lib SDK_DEST = $(SDK_LIB_DIR) SDK_TARGET = target INSTALL_TARGETS += SDK