RetroArch (PPSA99169) stops at alarm on main: `FAIL: unresolved ELF import DQXJraCc1rA from libSceLibcInternal.prx`.
alarm(seconds) arms one process-wide real-time alarm and returns the seconds left on the previous one, rounded up like FreeBSD's alarm.c (any partial second counts); alarm(0) cancels it. When it expires, SIGALRM's disposition as recorded by sigaction or signal applies: ignored, nothing happens; default, the process terminates as on FreeBSD (exit status 128 + 14); a guest handler throws, because asynchronous delivery to a guest handler is not implemented.
The timer lives in libkernel next to the signal dispositions (GuestAlarm_nid_no_patch); libSceLibcInternal, which the titles import alarm from, forwards to it.
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A title's own libc.prx implements __cxa_thread_atexit and the
destructor pass of exit() through _sceLibcInternalThreadAtexit and
_sceLibcInternalThreadDtors. Its __cxa_finalize calls
_sceLibcInternalForceTlsDestructor.
Destructors are kept per thread and run newest first, including those
registered while they run, as FreeBSD's __cxa_thread_call_dtors does.
A null destructor or one outside every loaded image throws instead of
being skipped. The first registration installs the pass as the
libkernel thread exit hook, so it runs on every guest thread before
the thread can be joined. _sceLibcInternalForceTlsDestructor throws.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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