This increases code size on the nrf, but it is a fixed increase and can
hopefully be reduced in the future.
The Makefile gets a lot smaller with this which is a huge advantage
(less build time complexity).
This is the last critical part of the C runtime.
Code size is reduced by 4 bytes for examples/blinky2 (probably due to
inlining) and is unchanged for examples/test.
This specifically fixes unix alloc(): previously when allocation fails
it would (recursively) call alloc() again to create an interface due to
lacking escape analysis.
Also, all other cases shouldn't try to allocate just because something
bad happens at runtime.
TODO: implement escape analysis.
Because a few things were left unimplemented it only happened to kind-of
work before in my test cases.
This commit should complete interface-to-interface type asserts.
Don't store addresses in the values of registers, this leads to problems
with char arrays (among others). Instead, do it like it's done in C with
raw addresses cast to struct pointers.
This commit also splits gen-device.py, as AVR and ARM have very
different ideas of what a register is. It's easier to just keep them
separate.
This has the benefit of not requiring a 'runtime' IR file, so that
complete relocatable files can be built without requiring input IR.
This makes the compiler a lot easier to use without the Makefile.
Code size is not affected.
Comparing an interface to nil is easy, as the dynamic type is also nil.
Comparing the dynamic values (when the dynamic types match) is much
harder and depends on reflection capabilities, so is not yet implemented.
TODO: do better at it by tracking min/max values of integers. The
following straightforward code doesn't have its bounds checks removed:
for _, n := range slice {
println(n)
}
I've tried writing my own, but I couldn't make it correct in all cases.
So just copy the one from upstream for now, hopefully to be replaced at
some point.
TODO: add a printfloat32() implementation, now it just casts to float64.
This will be useful for embedded systems that sometimes have float32 but
not float64.
CGo depends on syscall, which (in the standard library) depends on sync,
which depends on the runtime. There are also other import cycles. To be
able to use the syscall package from upstream, stop using CGo.
It took Android some time to even hit the 64K limit for regular method
calls, so switching to 16-bit IDs should be fine for method IDs of
interfaces. At least for the time being. When this limit is ever hit,
I'll think of another way, probably involving some platform-dependent
interface code (e.g. microcontrollers won't need 64K of methods) or
detecting the limit at build time.
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2014/12/google-play-services-and-dex-method.html
Code size isn't changed, probably because the compiler optimizes away
all method calls.
This commit moves the itfmethod call implemented directly in LLVM IR to
a Go implementation in the runtime. Additionally, it fixes variable
names to be more obvious and adds a lot of documentation to explain how
interfaces actually work in TinyGo.
Code size changes for src/examples/hello:
nrf: -144
unix: -93
I'm guessing this code size reduction is a result of removing the
'noinline' function attribute.
Missing features:
* keys other than strings
* more than 8 values in the hashmap
* growing a map when needed
* initial size hint
* delete(m, key)
* iterators (for range)
* initializing global maps
* ...more?
