The x/tools/go/ssa package splits slice loads/stores into two
operations. So for code like this:
x = p[3]
It has two instructions:
x_ptr = &p[3]
x = *x_ptr
This makes the IR simpler, but also means we're accidentally inserting
more nil checks than necessary: the slice index operation has
effectively already checked for nil by performing a bounds check.
Therefore, omit nil pointer checks for pointers created by
*ssa.IndexAddr.
This change is necessary to make sure a future removal of runtime.isnil
will not cause the escape analysis pass to regress. Apart from that, it
reduces code size slightly in many smoke tests (with no increases in
code size).
This patch is a combination of two related changes:
1. The compiler now allows other types than `int` when specifying the
size of a channel in a make(chan ..., size) call.
2. The compiler now checks for maximum allowed channel sizes. Such
checks are trivially optimized out in the vast majority of cases as
channel sizes are usually constant.
I discovered this issue when trying out channels on AVR.
Move these asserts into compiler/asserts.go, to keep them together.
The make([]T) asserts aren't moved yet because that code is (still!)
quite ugly and in need of some clean up.
This commit implements nil checks for all platforms. These nil checks
can be optimized on systems with a MMU, but since a major target is
systems without MMU, keep it this way for now.
It implements three checks:
* Nil checks before dereferencing a pointer.
* Nil checks before calculating an address (*ssa.FieldAddr and
*ssa.IndexAddr)
* Nil checks before calling a function pointer.
The first check has by far the biggest impact, with around 5% increase
in code size. The other checks only trigger in only some test cases and
have a minimal impact on code size.
This first nil check is also the one that is easiest to avoid on systems
with MMU, if necessary.
