This commit adds support for LLVM 16 and switches to it by default. That
means three LLVM versions are supported at the same time: LLVM 14, 15,
and 16.
This commit includes work by QuLogic:
* Part of this work was based on a PR by QuLogic:
https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/pull/3649
But I also had parts of this already implemented in an old branch I
already made for LLVM 16.
* QuLogic also provided a CGo fix here, which is also incorporated in
this commit:
https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/pull/3869
The difference with the original PR by QuLogic is that this commit is
more complete:
* It switches to LLVM 16 by default.
* It updates some things to also make it work with a self-built LLVM.
* It fixes the CGo bug in a slightly different way, and also fixes
another one not included in the original PR.
* It does not keep compiler tests passing on older LLVM versions. I
have found this to be quite burdensome and therefore don't generally
do this - the smoke tests should hopefully catch most regressions.
When a function is exported using //export, but also had a
//go:wasm-module pragma, the //export name was ignored. The
//go:wasm-module doesn't actually do anything besides breaking the
export (exported functions don't have a module name).
I've refactored and cleaned up the code, and in the process removed this
weird edge case.
This gives a small improvement now, and is needed to be able to use the
Heap2Stack transform that's available in the Attributor pass. This
Heap2Stack transform could replace our custom OptimizeAllocs pass.
Most of the changes are just IR that changed, the actual change is
relatively small.
To give an example of why this is useful, here is the code size before
this change:
$ tinygo build -o test -size=short ./testdata/stdlib.go
code data bss | flash ram
95620 1812 968 | 97432 2780
$ tinygo build -o test -size=short ./testdata/stdlib.go
code data bss | flash ram
95380 1812 968 | 97192 2780
That's a 0.25% reduction. Not a whole lot, but nice for such a small
patch.
Using ThinLTO manages to optimize binaries quite significantly. The
exact amount varies a lot by program but it's about 10-15% usually.
Don't remove non-ThinLTO support yet. It would not surprise me if this
triggered some unintended side effect. Eventually, non-ThinLTO support
should be removed though.
I found that when I enable ThinLTO, a miscompilation triggers that had
been hidden all the time previously. The bug appears to happen as
follows:
1. TinyGo generates a function with a runtime.trackPointer call, but
without an alloca (or the alloca gets optimized away).
2. LLVM sees that no alloca needs to be kept alive across the
runtime.trackPointer call, and therefore it adds the 'tail' flag.
One of the effects of this flag is that it makes it undefined
behavior to keep allocas alive across the call (which is still safe
at that point).
3. The GC lowering pass adds a stack slot alloca and converts
runtime.trackPointer calls into alloca stores.
The last step triggers the bug: the compiler inserts an alloca where
there was none before but that's not valid as long as the 'tail' flag is
present.
This patch fixes the bug in a somewhat dirty way, by always creating a
dummy alloca so that LLVM won't do the optimization in step 2 (and
possibly other optimizations that rely on there being no alloca
instruction).
--allow-undefined can be a problem: it allows compiling code that will
fail when loaded. This change makes sure that if some symbols are
undefined, they are reported as an error by the linker.
Previously, people could get away with importing a function that was not
defined, like this:
func add(int a, int b) int
func test() {
println(add(3, 5))
}
This was always unintended but mostly worked. With this change, it isn't
possible anymore. Now every function needs to be marked with //export
explicitly:
//export add
func add(int a, int b) int
func test() {
println(add(3, 5))
}
As before, functions will be placed in the `env` module with the name
set from the `//export` tag. This can be overridden with
`//go:import-module`:
//go:import-module math
//export add
func add(int a, int b) int
func test() {
println(add(3, 5))
}
For the syscall/js package, I needed to give a list of symbols that are
undefined. This list is based on the JavaScript functions defined in
targets/wasm_exec.js.
I don't understand why this wasn't caught in CI. It should have. In any
case, because the llvm-features string was updated, these IR outputs
were updated.
Switch over to LLVM 14 for static builds. Keep using LLVM 13 for regular
builds for now.
This uses a branch of the upstream Espressif branch to fix an issue,
see: https://github.com/espressif/llvm-project/pull/59
This removes the parentHandle argument from the internal calling convention.
It was formerly used to implment coroutines.
Now that coroutines have been removed, it is no longer necessary.
When a package only uses runtime.trackPointer to create interface packs, the compiler fails to find runtime.trackPointer.
This change predeclares it alongside runtime.alloc and updates the tests to use runtime.trackPointer when the test's target uses it.
This adds support for building with `-tags=llvm13` and switches to LLVM
13 for tinygo binaries that are statically linked against LLVM.
Some notes on this commit:
* Added `-mfloat-abi=soft` to all Cortex-M targets because otherwise
nrfx would complain that floating point was enabled on Cortex-M0.
That's not the case, but with `-mfloat-abi=soft` the `__SOFTFP__`
macro is defined which silences this warning.
See: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100372
* Changed from `--sysroot=<root>` to `-nostdlib -isystem <root>` for
musl because with Clang 13, even with `--sysroot` some system
libraries are used which we don't want.
* Changed all `-Xclang -internal-isystem -Xclang` to simply
`-isystem`, for consistency with the above change. It appears to
have the same effect.
* Moved WebAssembly function declarations to the top of the file in
task_asyncify_wasm.S because (apparently) the assembler has become
more strict.
This layout parameter is currently always nil and ignored, but will
eventually contain a pointer to a memory layout.
This commit also adds module verification to the transform tests, as I
found out that it didn't (and therefore didn't initially catch all
bugs).
This attribute is also set by Clang when it compiles C source files
(unless -fexceptions is set). The advantage is that no unwind tables are
emitted on Linux (and perhaps other systems). It also avoids
__aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr0 on ARM when using the musl libc.
This commit changes a target triple like "armv6m-none-eabi" to
"armv6m-unknown-unknow-eabi". The reason is that while the former is
correctly parsed in Clang (due to normalization), it wasn't parsed
correctly in LLVM meaning that the environment wasn't set to EABI.
This change normalizes all target triples and uses the EABI environment
(-eabi in the triple) for Cortex-M targets.
This change also drops the `--target=` flag in the target JSON files,
the flag is now added implicitly in `(*compileopts.Config).CFlags()`.
This removes some duplication in target JSON files.
Unfortunately, this change also increases code size for Cortex-M
targets. It looks like LLVM now emits calls like __aeabi_memmove instead
of memmove, which pull in slightly more code (they basically just call
the regular C functions) and the calls themself don't seem to be as
efficient as they could be. Perhaps this is a LLVM bug that will be
fixed in the future, as this is a very common occurrence.
This patch adds a new pragma for functions and globals to set the
section name. This can be useful to place a function or global in a
special device specific section, for example:
* Functions may be placed in RAM to make them run faster, or in flash
(if RAM is the default) to not let them take up RAM.
* DMA memory may only be placed in a special memory area.
* Some RAM may be faster than other RAM, and some globals may be
performance critical thus placing them in this special RAM area can
help.
* Some (large) global variables may need to be placed in external RAM,
which can be done by placing them in a special section.
To use it, you have to place a function or global in a special section,
for example:
//go:section .externalram
var externalRAMBuffer [1024]byte
This can then be placed in a special section of the linker script, for
example something like this:
.bss.extram (NOLOAD) : {
*(.externalram)
} > ERAM
These pragmas weren't really tested anywhere, except that some code
might break if they are not properly applied.
These tests make it easy to see they work correctly and also provide a
logical place to add new pragma tests.
I've also made a slight change to how functions and globals are created:
with the change they're also created in the IR even if they're not
referenced. This makes testing easier.
