Instead of putting the magic in the AST, generate regular accessor
methods. This avoids a number of special cases in the compiler, and
avoids missing any of them.
The resulting union accesses are somewhat clunkier to use, but the
compiler implementation has far less coupling between the CGo
implementation and the IR generator.
When using reflect, arbitrary types can be synthesized. This invalidates
a few assumptions in the interface-lowering pass, that think they can
see all types that are in use in a program and optimize accordingly.
The file size impact depends on the specific program. Sometimes it's
nonexistent, sometimes it's rather hefty (up to 30% bigger). Especially
the samd21 targets seem to be affected, with a 2000-6000 bytes increase
in code size. A moderately large case (the stdlib test) increases by
4%/6%/15% depending on the target.
I hope that this increase could be mitigated, but I don't see an obvious
way to do that.
Previously, the cycle was broken by inserting an unsafe.Pointer type in
some places. This is of course incorrect, and makes debugging harder.
However, LLVM provides a way to make temporary nodes that are later
replaced, exactly for this purpose.
This commit uses those temporary metadata nodes to allow such recursive
types.
This implements the copy() built-in function. It may not work in all
cases, but should work in most cases.
This commit gets the following 3 packages to compile, according to
tinygo-site/imports/main.go:
* encoding/base32
* encoding/base64
* encoding/pem (was blocked by encoding/base64)
This commit allows starting a new goroutine directly from a func value,
not just when the static callee is known.
This is necessary to support the whole time package, not just the
commonly used subset that was compiled with the SimpleDCE pass enabled.
This scheduler is intended to live along the (stackless) coroutine based
scheduler which is needed for WebAssembly and unsupported platforms. The
stack based scheduler is somewhat simpler in implementation as it does
not require full program transform passes and supports things like
function pointers and interface methods out of the box with no changes.
Code size is reduced in most cases, even in the case where no scheduler
scheduler is used at all. I'm not exactly sure why but these changes
likely allowed some further optimizations somewhere. Even RAM is
slightly reduced, perhaps some global was elminated in the process as
well.
Linked lists are usually implemented as follows:
type linkedList struct {
next *linkedList
data int // whatever
}
This caused a stack overflow while writing out the reflect run-time type
information. This has now been fixed by splitting the allocation of a
named type number from setting the underlying type in the sidetable.
There are a lot more fields that are important when comparing structs
with each other. Take them into account when building the unique ID per
struct type.
Example code that differs between the compilers:
https://play.golang.org/p/nDX4tSHOf_T
With this change, it becomes possible to get the element type of named
slices, pointers, and channels.
This is a prerequisite to enable the common named struct types. There's
more to come.
This commit fixes the following issue:
https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/issues/309
Also, it prepares for some other reflect-related changes that should
make it easier to add support for named types (etc.) in the future.
strings.IndexByte was implemented in the runtime up to Go 1.11. It is
implemented using a direct call to internal/bytealg.IndexByte since Go
1.12.
Make sure we remain compatible with both.
Enum types are implemented as named types (with possible accompanying
typedefs as type aliases). The constants inside the enums are treated as
Go constants like in the Go toolchain.
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.
Instead of storing the value to send/receive in the coroutine promise,
store only a pointer in the promise. This simplifies the code a lot and
allows larger value sizes to be sent across a channel.
Unfortunately, this new system has a code size impact. For example,
compiling testdata/channel.go for the BBC micro:bit, there is an
increase in code size from 4776 bytes to 4856 bytes. However, the
improved flexibility and simplicity of the code should be worth it. If
this becomes an issue, we can always refactor the code at a later time.
This is implemented as follows:
* The parent coroutine allocates space for the return value in its
frame and stores a pointer to this frame in the parent coroutine
handle.
* The child coroutine obtains the alloca from its parent using the
parent coroutine handle. It then stores the result value there.
* The parent value reads the data from the alloca on resumption.
A bitcast was inserted when the receiver of the call wasn't a *i8. This
is a pretty common case, and did not play well with goroutines.
Avoid this bitcast by changing each call to a direct call, after
unpacking the receiver type from the *i8 parameter. This might also fix
some undefined behavior in the resulting program, as it is technically
not allowed to call a function with a different signature (even if the
signature is compatible).
Only try to convert the C symbols to their Go equivalents that are
actually referenced by the Go code with C.<somesymbol>. This avoids
having to support all possible C types, which is difficult because of
oddities like `typedef void` or `__builtin_va_list`. Especially
__builtin_va_list, which varies between targets.
