This commit switches from the previous behavior of compiling the whole
program at once, to compiling every package in parallel and linking the
LLVM bitcode files together for further whole-program optimization.
This is a small performance win, but it has several advantages in the
future:
- There are many more things that can be done per package in parallel,
avoiding the bottleneck at the end of the compiler phase. This
should speed up the compiler futher.
- This change is a necessary step towards a non-LTO build mode for
fast incremental builds that only rebuild the changed package, when
compiler speed is more important than binary size.
- This change refactors the compiler in such a way that it will be
easier to inspect the IR for one package only. Inspecting this IR
will be very helpful for compiler developers.
This is an addition that landed in Go 1.12 but we couldn't use before
because we were supporting Go back until Go 1.11. It simplifies the code
around processes a bit.
This should make exported names a bit more consistent.
I believe there was a bug report for this issue, but I can't easily find
it. In any case, I think it's an important improvement to match the
behavior of the Go toolchain.
There were a few problems with the go/packages package. While it is more
or less designed for our purpose, it didn't work quite well as it didn't
provide access to indirectly imported packages (most importantly the
runtime package). This led to a workaround that sometimes broke
`tinygo test`.
This PR contains a number of related changes:
* It uses `go list` directly to retrieve the list of packages/files to
compile, instead of relying on the go/packages package.
* It replaces our custom TestMain replace code with the standard code
for running tests (generated by `go list`).
* It adds a dummy runtime/pprof package and modifies the testing
package, to get tests to run again with the code generated by
`go list`.
This commit replaces the existing ad-hoc package loader with a package
loader that uses the x/tools/go/packages package to find all
to-be-loaded packages.
This commit changes the way that packages are looked up. Instead of
working around the loader package by modifying the GOROOT variable for
specific packages, create a new GOROOT using symlinks. This GOROOT is
cached for the specified configuration (Go version, underlying GOROOT
path, TinyGo path, whether to override the syscall package).
This will also enable go module support in the future.
Windows is a bit harder to support, because it only allows the creation
of symlinks when developer mode is enabled. This is worked around by
using symlinks and if that fails, using directory junctions or hardlinks
instead. This should work in the vast majority of cases. The only case
it doesn't work, is if developer mode is disabled and TinyGo, the Go
toolchain, and the cache directory are not all on the same filesystem.
If this is a problem, it is still possible to improve the code by using
file copies instead.
As a side effect, this also makes diagnostics use a relative file path
only when the file is not in GOROOT or in TINYGOROOT.
This commit also adds a bit of version independence, in particular for
external commands. It also adds the LLVM version to the `tinygo version`
command, which might help while debugging.
Add location information (whenever possible) to failed imports. This
helps in debugging where an incorrect import came from.
For example, show the following error message:
/home/ayke/src/github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/src/machine/machine.go:5:8: cannot find package "foobar" in any of:
/usr/local/go/src/foobar (from $GOROOT)
/home/ayke/src/foobar (from $GOPATH)
Instead of the following:
error: cannot find package "foobar" in any of:
/usr/local/go/src/foobar (from $GOROOT)
/home/ayke/src/foobar (from $GOPATH)
This allows importing (for example) both
"github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/src/machine" and "machine" without issues.
The former is renamed to just "machine".
This is a big commit that does a few things:
* It moves CGo processing into a separate package. It never really
belonged in the loader package, and certainly not now that the
loader package may be refactored into a driver package.
* It adds support for multiple CGo files (files that import package
"C") in a single package. Previously, this led to multiple
definition errors in the Go typecheck phase because certain C
symbols were defined multiple times in all the files. Now it
generates a new fake AST that defines these, to avoid multiple
definition errors.
* It improves debug info in a few edge cases that are probably not
relevant outside of bugs in cgo itself.
Check various locations that $GOROOT may live, including the location of
the go binary. But make it possible to override this autodetection by
setting GOROOT manually as an environment variable.
This makes CGo-emitted diagnostics very similar to regular errors
emitted while parsing/typechecking a package.
It's not complete, but after introducing some errors in testdata/cgo,
this is the resulting output:
# ./testdata/cgo/
testdata/cgo/main.h:18:11: error: a parameter list without types is only allowed in a function definition
testdata/cgo/main.go:5:10: note: in file included from testdata/cgo/main.go!cgo.c:2:
testdata/cgo/main.go:6:19: error: expected identifier or '('
Previously, this was the output:
/home/ayke/src/github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/testdata/cgo/main.h:18:11: error: a parameter list without types is only allowed in a function definition
cgo-fake.c:3:19: error: expected identifier or '('
# ./testdata/cgo/
cgo: libclang cannot parse fragment
So far, we've pretended to be js/wasm in baremetal targets to make the
stdlib happy. Unfortunately, this has various problems because
syscall/js (a dependency of many stdlib packages) thinks it can do JS
calls, and emulating them gets quite hard with all changes to the
syscall/js packages in Go 1.12.
This commit does a few things:
* It lets baremetal targets pretend to be linux/arm instead of
js/wasm.
* It lets the loader only select particular packages from the src
overlay, instead of inserting them just before GOROOT. This makes it
possible to pick which packages to overlay for a given target.
* It adds a baremetal-only syscall package that stubs out almost all
syscalls.
