It seems that "ld -r" on macOS doesn't include objects from
libraries for common symbols. Because of that, sim build
ends up with undefined references to globals like g_binfmts
and g_mmheap.
@(#)PROGRAM:ld PROJECT:ld64-530
BUILD 18:57:17 Dec 13 2019
configured to support archs: armv6 armv7 armv7s arm64 arm64e arm64_32 i386 x86_64 x86_64h armv6m armv7k armv7m armv7em
LTO support using: LLVM version 11.0.0, (clang-1100.0.33.17) (static support for 23, runtime is 23)
TAPI support using: Apple TAPI version 11.0.0 (tapi-1100.0.11)
sched/init/nx_bringup.c: Fix a naming collision.
sched/init: Rename os_start() to nx_start()
sched/init: Rename os_smp* to nx_smp*
sched/init: Rename os_bringup to nx_bringup
sched/init: rename all internal static functions to begin with nx_ vs os_
The solution is to remove all of the memory management function calls from the interface. Instead, the interface exports the userspace heap structure and then kernel size implementations of those memory management functions will operate on the userspace heap structure. This avoids the unnecessary system calls and, more importantly, failures do to freeing memory when a test exits.
Xiang Xiao