Add smoke test and benchmarks

smoke links crt0.o + libc.a with -nostdlib -static and proves the whole chain runs without the dynamic linker; bench_strlen and bench_syscall measure the string core and raw syscall round-trip cost via make bench.

Ultraworked with [Sisyphus](https://github.com/code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent)

Co-authored-by: Sisyphus <[email protected]>

benchmarks/bench.h

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+/*
+ * bench.h — tiny shared helpers for nulsl-libc benchmarks.
+ *
+ * Deliberately dependency-free beyond the libc itself: timing goes
+ * through a raw clock_gettime syscall, and numbers are printed with
+ * putchar/write because printf() is still a stub. If you write a new
+ * benchmark, include this and stay this lean.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _NULSL_BENCH_H
+#define _NULSL_BENCH_H
+
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#define BENCH_CLOCK_MONOTONIC 1
+
+/* Monotonic time in nanoseconds, via raw clock_gettime(2). */
+static inline long long bench_now_ns(void)
+{
+    struct {
+        long tv_sec;
+        long tv_nsec;
+    } t;
+
+    syscall(SYS_clock_gettime, BENCH_CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &t);
+    return t.tv_sec * 1000000000LL + t.tv_nsec;
+}
+
+/* Print an unsigned integer plus a newline, without printf(). */
+static inline void bench_print_u64(unsigned long long v)
+{
+    char buf[24];
+    int i = sizeof buf;
+
+    buf[--i] = '\n';
+    do {
+        buf[--i] = (char)('0' + v % 10);
+        v /= 10;
+    } while (v);
+    write(STDOUT_FILENO, buf + i, sizeof buf - i);
+}
+
+#endif /* _NULSL_BENCH_H */

benchmarks/bench_strlen.c

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+/*
+ * bench_strlen.c — how fast is our string core?
+ *
+ * Measures strlen() over a typical short string. 10M iterations keeps
+ * the loop overhead negligible; results are printed as ns per call.
+ */
+
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include "bench.h"
+
+#define ITERS 10000000UL
+
+int main(void)
+{
+    static const char s[] = "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
+    volatile size_t sink = 0;
+    long long t0, t1;
+
+    t0 = bench_now_ns();
+    for (unsigned long i = 0; i < ITERS; i++)
+        sink += strlen(s);
+    t1 = bench_now_ns();
+
+    (void)sink; /* keep the loop observable */
+    bench_print_u64((unsigned long long)((t1 - t0) / ITERS));
+    return 0;
+}

benchmarks/bench_syscall.c

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+/*
+ * bench_syscall.c — raw syscall round-trip cost.
+ *
+ * This is the number that justifies the whole project: for a kernel-first
+ * libc (project guideline #6), every wrapper is one `syscall` instruction
+ * away from the kernel. getpid() is the cheapest syscall there is, so
+ * this measures the floor. 1M iterations; results in ns per call.
+ */
+
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include "bench.h"
+
+#define ITERS 1000000UL
+
+int main(void)
+{
+    volatile pid_t sink = 0;
+    long long t0, t1;
+
+    t0 = bench_now_ns();
+    for (unsigned long i = 0; i < ITERS; i++)
+        sink += getpid();
+    t1 = bench_now_ns();
+
+    (void)sink;
+    bench_print_u64((unsigned long long)((t1 - t0) / ITERS));
+    return 0;
+}