This is a big change: apart from removing LLVM 14 it also removes typed
pointer support (which was only fully supported in LLVM up to version
14). This removes about 200 lines of code, but more importantly removes
a ton of special cases for LLVM 14.
Some map keys are hard to compare, such as floats. They are stored as if
the map keys are of interface type instead of the key type itself. This
makes working with them in the runtime package easier: they are compared
as regular interfaces.
Iterating over maps didn't care about this special case though. It just
returns the key, value pair as it is stored in the map. This is buggy,
and this commit fixes this bug.
This is a fairly big commit, but it actually changes very little.
getValue should really be a property of the builder (or frame), where
the previously created instructions are kept.
This implementation simply casts types without special support to an
interface, to make the implementation simpler and possibly reducing the
code size too. It will likely be slower than the canonical Go
implementation though (which builds special compare and hash functions
at compile time).
Make sure all allocas are created in the entry block and are given the
right lifetimes. This is good for code quality:
* Moving allocas to the entry block makes sure they are always
allocated statically (avoiding the need for a frame pointer) and do
not grow the stack on each new alloca instruction. This is
especially useful in loops where it could otherwise lead to a stack
overflow even though there is no recursion.
* Adding lifetime markers allows LLVM to reuse stack areas for
different allocas as long as their lifetimes do not overlap.
All in all, this reduces code size in all tested cases for the BBC
micro:bit, and reduces code size for most cases for WebAssembly.
By moving all allocas used in hashmap operations to the entry block, the
stack frame remains at a fixed size known at compile time. This avoids
stack overflows when doing map operations in loops and in general
improves code quality: the compiled size of testdata/map.go went from
3776 to 3632 in .text size.
Most of these errors are actually "todo" or "unimplemented" errors, so
the return type is known. This means that compilation can proceed (with
errors) even though the output will be incorrect. This is useful because
this way, all errors in a compilation unit can be shown together to the
user.
This commit replaces "unknown type" errors in getLLVMType with panics.
The main reason this is done is that it simplifies the code *a lot*.
Many `if err != nil` lines were there just because of type information.
Additionally, simply panicking is probably a better approach as the only
way this error can be produced is either with big new language features
or a serious compiler bug. Panicking is probably a better way to handle
this error anyway.
