This can be very useful for some purposes:
* It makes it possible to disable the UART in cases where it is not
needed or needs to be disabled to conserve power.
* It makes it possible to disable the serial output to reduce code
size, which may be important for some chips. Sometimes, a few kB can
be saved this way.
* It makes it possible to override the default, for example you might
want to use an actual UART to debug the USB-CDC implementation.
It also lowers the dependency on having machine.Serial defined, which is
often not defined when targeting a chip. Eventually, we might want to
make it possible to write `-target=nrf52` or `-target=atmega328p` for
example to target the chip itself with no board specific assumptions.
The defaults don't change. I checked this by running `make smoketest`
before and after and comparing the results.
In this commit I've moved all core-specific flags to files for that
specific core. This is a bit of a cleanup (less duplicated JSON) but
should also help in the future when core-specific changes are made, such
as core specific build tags or when the FPU finally gets supported in
TinyGo.
Some notable specific changes:
- I've removed floating point flags from the Teensy 3.6 target. The
reason is that the FPU is not yet supported in TinyGo (in goroutine
stack switching for example) and floating point numbers would only
be supported by C files, not Go files (because the LLVM FPU feature
flags aren't used). This would create an ABI mismatch across CGo.
- I've added the "cpu":"cortex-m7" to the cortex-m7.json file to match
the configuration for the Teensy 4.0. This implies a change to the
nucleo-f722ze (because now it has its CPU field set). Somehow that
reduces the code size, so it looks like a good change.
I don't believe any of these changes should have any practical
consequences.
One issue I've found is in the Cortex-M33 target: it uses armv7m, which
is incorrect: it should be armv8m. But the chip is backwards compatible
so this should mostly work. Switching to armv8m led to a compilation
failure because PRIMASK isn't defined, this may be an actual bug.
The -Qunused-arguments flag disables the warning where some flags are
not relevant to a compilation. This commonly happens when compiling
assembly files (.s or .S files) because some flags are specific to C and
not relevant to assembly.
Because practically all baremetal targets need some form of assembly,
this flag is added to most CFlags. This creates a lot of noise. And it
is also added for compiling C code where it might hide bugs (by hiding
the fact a flag is actually unused).
This commit adds the flag to all assembly compilations and removes them
from all target JSON files.
Setting the linker script as one property (instead of as part of the
generic ldflags property) allows it to be overriden.
This is important for the SoftDevice on Nordic chips, because the
SoftDevice takes up a fixed part of the flash/RAM and the application
must be flashed at a different position. With this linkerscript option,
it is possible to create (for example) a pca10040-s132v6 that overrides
the default linker script.
