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.
This is purely a refactor, to make the next change simpler.
The wordpack functionality used to be necessary in transform passes, but
now it isn't anymore so let's not complicate this more than necessary.
ThinLTO results in a small code size reduction, which is nice
(especially on these very small chips). It also brings us one step
closer to using ThinLTO everywhere.
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.
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).
Moving settings to a separate config struct has two benefits:
- It decouples the compiler a bit from other packages, most
importantly the compileopts package. Decoupling is generally a good
thing.
- Perhaps more importantly, it precisely specifies which settings are
used while compiling and affect the resulting LLVM module. This will
be necessary for caching the LLVM module.
While it would have been possible to cache without this refactor, it
would have been very easy to miss a setting and thus let the
compiler work with invalid/stale data.
Previously, EmitPointerPack would generate an out-of-bounds read from an
alloca. This commit fixes that by creating an alloca of the appropriate
size instead of using the size of the to-be-packed data (which might be
smaller than a pointer).
I discovered this error while working on a rewrite of the interp
package, which checks for out-of-bounds reads and writes. There I
discovered this issue when the image package was compiled.
This adds an optimization to EmitPointerPack when all values are constants.
The values are stored in a constant global instead of on the heap.
This eliminates a heap allocation, and can reduce binary size.
This commit makes a number of changes:
* It avoids a dependency on Compiler.emitStartGoroutine.
* It moves the func-lowering pass to the transform package.
* It adds testing to func lowering.
No functionality should have changed with this commit.
This code is required by transformation passes which are being moved
into a separate package, but is too complicated to simply copy.
Therefore, I decided to move them into a new package.
