Problem:
- `static` variables consume memory and sometimes are less
optimizable.
- `static const` variables can be `constexpr`, usually.
- `static` function-local variables require an initialization check
every time the function is run.
Solution:
- If a global `static` variable is only used in a single function then
move it into the function and make it non-`static` and `constexpr`.
- Make all global `static` variables `constexpr` instead of `const`.
- Change function-local `static const[expr]` variables to be just
`constexpr`.
The separate backtrace that the PANIC emits isn't useful and just adds
more data to visually filter from the output when debugging an issue.
Instead of calling PANIC, just emit the message with dbgln() and
manually halt the system.
GCC with -flto is more aggressive when it comes to inlining and
discarding functions which is why we must mark some of the functions
as NEVER_INLINE (because they contain asm labels which would be
duplicated in the object files if the compiler decides to inline
the function elsewhere) and __attribute__((used)) for others so
that GCC doesn't discard them.
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
We now build the kernel with partial UBSAN support.
The following -fsanitize sub-options are enabled:
* nonnull-attribute
* bool
If the kernel detects UB at runtime, it will now print a debug message
with a stack trace. This is very cool! I'm leaving it on by default for
now, but we'll probably have to re-evaluate this as more options are
enabled and slowdown increases.