Cut the 0.1.8 release (native GCC/binutils port forming the Montauk SDK,
revamped MTK-based Installer, anti-aliased MTK rounded-rect frames,
vblank-synced double-buffered Intel GPU page flips, max windows raised
to 32, and various bug fixes, including the halved ISO size from no
longer nesting ramdisk.tar). Archive the 0.1.8 ISO, publish it to the
website, refresh release notes and the downloads page, and open the
0.1.9 dev cycle (apiVersion 10, BuildNo reset).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Rewrite the Installer app on the Montauk Toolkit (Canvas + gui/mtk
widgets, theme, hover states, scrollbar) replacing the hand-rolled px_*
renderer and bespoke TrueType usage.
Add a new "Software" step: an expandable checkbox tree for optional
components (Montauk SDK with gcc/g++, binutils, tcc, lua sub-items;
Games; Office; Internet apps; Printing; experimental httpd and SDR).
Unchecked components' paths are excluded from the install copy, with a
longest-path ownership rule so e.g. sdk/tcc installs even when the rest
of the SDK is deselected. The update flow refreshes only the components
the target already has.
Add tri-state checkbox and disclosure-arrow widgets to the MTK toolkit
(anti-aliased, supersampled).
Merge tcc and lua into 0:/sdk (0:/sdk/tcc, 0:/sdk/lua) and drop 0:/lib:
update tcc config.h, lua luaconf.h, both Makefiles, the devkit clean
scope, man pages and montaukos.org notices.
Make printing optional: init skips printd when 0:/os/printd.elf is
absent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
stat() synthesized path-hash inodes for regular files but left
st_ino = 0 for directories. GCC's include-path setup deduplicates
directories by (st_dev, st_ino), so every directory on MontaukOS
compared equal and cc1plus silently dropped all C++ include dirs
except the first - <iostream> resolved but the target-specific
bits/c++config.h directory was gone. Directories now get the same
path-hash inodes as files. (Different spellings of one directory
hash differently; the harmless direction - a dir may be searched
twice, never dropped.)
Native GCC relinked against the fixed libc.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
The GCC driver relocates its install prefix from argv[0]. crt1
hardcoded argv[0] as "prog", so make_relative_prefix cwd-joined it
and computed exec prefixes relative to the current directory
(0:/users/admin/../libexec/gcc/...), and because the computed
gcc_exec_prefix is non-NULL the standard /sdk prefixes were never
searched. cc1plus was unreachable from anywhere except (by accident
of the path arithmetic) 0:/sdk/bin. sdk-diag proved the kernel and
libc layers all worked; only the driver's self-relocation was lost.
New SYS_GETEXECPATH (151) returns the absolute path the process was
spawned from (Process::name); crt1 uses it for argv[0] with a "prog"
fallback. With a real argv[0], make_relative_prefix computes
0:/sdk/bin/../libexec/gcc/ from any cwd. Native GCC relinked against
the new crt1; sdk-diag ships in the SDK as a permanent probe; the
montauk.h TCC mirror gains the wrapper (checker enforced it).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
ElfLoad read the entire binary into one kernel heap allocation before
copying segments out. The heap grows through ReallocConsecutive, so a
40 MB cc1plus required 10k physically contiguous pages - effectively
impossible after boot with a 368 MB ramdisk module resident, and the
failed spawn surfaced as posix_spawnp ENOENT in the gcc driver.
The loader now reads the ELF header and program header table (bounded
at 64 entries), then copies each PT_LOAD page and the PT_TLS template
directly from the VFS into freshly mapped process pages. Peak kernel
memory per load drops from fileSize to one page regardless of binary
size. Boot-smoke verified: all userspace loads through this path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Two ramdisk fixes exposed by shipping the C++ header tree:
Paths longer than 100 characters (libstdc++'s pb_ds detail headers)
are split by USTAR across the name field and the 155-byte prefix
field at offset 345. The parser only read the name field, so the
tails of 7 deep header paths appeared as bogus root-level entries
while the real paths were missing. The parser now joins
prefix + '/' + name, and MaxNameLen grows to 260 to hold the full
combined path.
SYS_CHDIR validated non-root targets by opening them as files, which
only ever worked because directories used to be openable. It now uses
the ReadDir probe, which fails for nonexistent paths and regular
files on all backends (ext2/fat32 already validate the inode type).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
SYS_OPEN succeeded on directory tar entries, so userspace stat() -
which tries open-as-file first - reported every directory as a
regular file. GCC's include-path setup stats each search directory
and rejected all the real ones with "not a directory" warnings.
Directories now fall through Open to -1 and stat() classifies them
via the (recently fixed) ReadDir existence probe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
ReadDirAt returned 0 (empty listing) for paths that do not exist at
all, so the libc's stat()/access() - which probe directory-ness via
SYS_READDIR - reported every nonexistent path as an existing
directory. Harmless for two years of callers, fatal for GCC's driver:
it access()-tests the optional specs file, got a false positive for
0:/sdk/lib/gcc/x86_64-montauk/14.2.0/specs, then died failing to read
it.
A path now has to have a directory entry or at least one child to
list as a directory; everything else returns -1. Real empty
directories (tar dir entries, runtime Mkdir) still list as empty.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Cross-build GCC 14.2.0 with --host=x86_64-montauk: the driver, cc1,
cc1plus and collect2 now link as static Montauk ET_EXEC binaries
against the hosted libstdc++, and ship in the SDK. Together with the
native binutils, TCC and the target sysroot, MontaukOS carries a
complete self-contained C and C++ toolchain at 0:/sdk.
libc: anonymous mmap/munmap over SYS_ALLOC (GCC's page allocator
wants mmap; SYS_ALLOC memory is page-aligned by construction),
getpagesize, minimal sysconf, MB_CUR_MAX, isascii/toascii, POSIX id
typedefs (ino_t, dev_t, nlink_t, ...), struct stat fields switched to
proper POSIX types (st_size is a signed off_t now), and a
conventional _STDIO_H guard marker so GMP's FILE detection works.
Build recipe and the five host-build gotchas (bundled config.subs,
gettext removal, stdio guard sniffing, endianness cache preset,
sysroot sdk symlink) are documented in toolchain/README.md. The
devkit stages the driver as gcc.elf/g++.elf/cpp.elf, the backends in
the libexec layout the driver expects, a copy of ld where collect2
searches, and a 0:/tmp scratch dir. Ramdisk: 1604 files, 368 MB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
The cross toolchain now builds real hosted C++: std::string, vector,
unique_ptr, iostreams and exceptions all work in a plain
x86_64-montauk-g++ invocation with no special flags. This is the
library that native cc1plus will link against for the GCC self-host.
crt1 now runs .preinit_array/.init_array before main and hooks
.fini_array through atexit (main returns via exit(), so destructors
run on both exit paths). Global constructors and libgcc's eh_frame
registration both ride this. GCC is reconfigured with
--enable-initfini-array (modern arrays instead of .ctors),
--with-newlib (satisfies libstdc++'s crossconfig for unknown hosts),
--disable-wchar_t and --disable-libstdcxx-pch; the montauk gcc patch
grows a hunk keeping os/generic ctype under --with-newlib (the
Montauk libc is not newlib).
libc additions harvested by the libstdc++ build: mbtowc/wctomb,
strxfrm, strtok/strtok_r, a real vfscanf/fscanf/scanf (character-
driven with widths and l/ll; also unblocks gprof later), fgetpos/
fsetpos/setbuf/fpos_t, modf plus the C99 float math variants
(acosf..tanhf, hypot/hypotf as wrappers), FP_* classification macros,
the full POSIX errno vocabulary, complete DT_* dirent types, and
mbstate_t.
The SDK ships the real libstdc++.a (was an empty stand-in), the C++
headers at 0:/sdk/include/c++, and cxx-test.elf (global ctor, string,
vector+sort, unique_ptr, throw/catch; exits 0 on 5/5). Ramdisk sits
at 1571 files, within the 2048 table.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
MontaukOS binaries could not use thread-local storage: the ELF loader
ignored PT_TLS and no FS base was ever programmed, so any %fs access
(initial-exec/local-exec TLS, e.g. libbfd's _Thread_local error state)
page faulted at address 0. This is the kernel prerequisite for
cc1plus/libstdc++ in the GCC port.
ELF loader: parse PT_TLS and build the main thread's TLS block above
the loaded image (x86-64 variant II ABI: block below the thread
pointer, TP = base + align_up(memsz, align), .tdata copied from the
template, .tbss zeroed, ABI self-pointer stored at [TP]). The
template description is kept on the process for thread spawns.
Scheduler: fsBase per thread, loaded into IA32_FS_BASE at every
dispatch site through a per-CPU cache - TLS-free processes cost one
MSR write per CPU ever, and userspace cannot desync the cache since
CR4.FSGSBASE stays off. SYS_THREAD_SPAWN gives each new thread its
own TLS block copied from the template (allocated from the process
heap; reclaimed at process teardown).
Ships tls-test.elf in the SDK (built by the devkit target): checks
.tdata values, .tbss zeroing, and the %fs:0 self-pointer, exiting
nonzero on failure. Boot-smoke verified; existing TLS-free programs
are unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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