The vast majority of libc functions return `c_int` for the return value,
when setting errno. This utility function is for those cases.
Other cases can hand-roll the logic, or additional helpers can be added.
This prevents symbols from these libraries from polluting the dynamic symbol
tables of binaries built with Zig. The downside is that we no longer deduplicate
the symbols at run time due to weak linkage.
Closes#7935.
Closes#13303.
Closes#19342.
This lays the groundwork for #2879. This library will be built and linked when a
static libc is going to be linked into the compilation. Currently, that means
musl, wasi-libc, and MinGW-w64. As a demonstration, this commit removes the musl
C code for a few string functions and implements them in libzigc. This means
that those libzigc functions are now load-bearing for musl and wasi-libc.
Note that if a function has an implementation in compiler-rt already, libzigc
should not implement it. Instead, as we recently did for memcpy/memmove, we
should delete the libc copy and rely on the compiler-rt implementation.
I repurposed the existing "universal libc" code to do this. That code hadn't
seen development beyond basic string functions in years, and was only usable-ish
on freestanding. I think that if we want to seriously pursue the idea of Zig
providing a freestanding libc, we should do so only after defining clear goals
(and non-goals) for it. See also #22240 for a similar case.
