Instead of storing an increasing version number in relevant packages
(compiler.Version, interp.Version, cgo.Version, ...), read the build ID
from the currently running executable. This has several benefits:
* All changes relevant to the compiled packages are caught.
* No need to bump the version for each change to these packages.
This avoids merge conflicts.
* During development, `go install` is enough. No need to run
`tinygo clean` all the time.
Of course, the drawback is that it might be updated a bit more often
than necessary but I think the overall benefit is big.
Regular release users shouldn't see any difference. Because the tinygo
binary stays the same, the cache works well.
This change swaps the stack chain when switching goroutines, ensuring that the chain is maintained consistently.
This is only really currently necessary with asyncify on wasm.
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.
FreeBSD support has been broken for a long time, probably since
https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/pull/1860 (merged in May). Nobody
has complained yet, so I am going to assume nobody uses it.
This doesn't remove support for FreeBSD entirely: the code necessary to
build TinyGo on FreeBSD is still there. It just removes the code
necessary to build binaries targetting FreeBSD. But again, it could very
well be broken as we don't test it.
If anybody wants to re-enable support for FreeBSD, they would be welcome
to do that. But I think it would at the very least need a smoke test of
some sort.
This patch adds //go: pragmas directly to declared functions and
globals found during CGo processing. This simplifies the logic in the
compiler: it no longer has to consider special "C." prefixed function
names. It also makes the cgo pass more flexible in the pragmas it emits
for functions and global variables.
This change implements a new "scheduler" for WebAssembly using binaryen's asyncify transform.
This is more reliable than the current "coroutines" transform, and works with non-Go code in the call stack.
runtime (js/wasm): handle scheduler nesting
If WASM calls into JS which calls back into WASM, it is possible for the scheduler to nest.
The event from the callback must be handled immediately, so the task cannot simply be deferred to the outer scheduler.
This creates a minimal scheduler loop which is used to handle such nesting.
This PR fixes two bugs at once:
1. Indices were incorrectly extended to a bigger type. Specifically,
unsigned integers were sign extended and signed integers were zero
extended. This commit swaps them around.
2. The getelementptr instruction was given the raw index, even if it
was a uint8 for example. However, getelementptr assumes the indices
are signed, and therefore an index of uint8(200) was interpreted as
an index of int8(-56).
This matches Clang, and with that, it adds support for inlining between
Go and C because LLVM only allows inlining if the "target-cpu" and
"target-features" string attributes match.
For example, take a look at the following code:
// int add(int a, int b) {
// return a + b;
// }
import "C"
func main() {
println(C.add(3, 5))
}
The 'add' function is not inlined into the main function before this
commit, but after it, it can be inlined and trivially be optimized to
`println(8)`.
This makes sure that the LLVM target features match the one generated by
Clang:
- This fixes a bug introduced when setting the target CPU for all
targets: Cortex-M4 would now start using floating point operations
while they were disabled in C.
- This will make it possible in the future to inline C functions in Go
and vice versa. This will need some more work though.
There is a code size impact. Cortex-M4 targets are increased slightly in
binary size while Cortex-M0 targets tend to be reduced a little bit.
Other than that, there is little impact.
Instead of doing everything in the interrupt lowering pass, generate
some more code in gen-device to declare interrupt handler functions and
do some work in the compiler so that interrupt lowering becomes a lot
simpler.
This has several benefits:
- Overall code is smaller, in particular the interrupt lowering pass.
- The code should be a bit less "magical" and instead a bit easier to
read. In particular, instead of having a magic
runtime.callInterruptHandler (that is fully written by the interrupt
lowering pass), the runtime calls a generated function like
device/sifive.InterruptHandler where this switch already exists in
code.
- Debug information is improved. This can be helpful during actual
debugging but is also useful for other uses of DWARF debug
information.
For an example on debug information improvement, this is what a
backtrace might look like before this commit:
Breakpoint 1, 0x00000b46 in UART0_IRQHandler ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00000b46 in UART0_IRQHandler ()
#1 <signal handler called>
[..etc]
Notice that the debugger doesn't see the source code location where it
has stopped.
After this commit, breaking at the same line might look like this:
Breakpoint 1, (*machine.UART).handleInterrupt (arg1=..., uart=<optimized out>) at /home/ayke/src/github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/src/machine/machine_nrf.go:200
200 uart.Receive(byte(nrf.UART0.RXD.Get()))
(gdb) bt
#0 (*machine.UART).handleInterrupt (arg1=..., uart=<optimized out>) at /home/ayke/src/github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/src/machine/machine_nrf.go:200
#1 UART0_IRQHandler () at /home/ayke/src/github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/src/device/nrf/nrf51.go:176
#2 <signal handler called>
[..etc]
By now, the debugger sees an actual source location for UART0_IRQHandler
(in the generated file) and an inlined function.
The target triples have to match mostly to be able to link LLVM modules.
Linking LLVM modules is already possible (the triples already match),
but testing becomes much easier when they match exactly.
For macOS, I picked "macosx10.12.0". That's an old and unsupported
version, but I had to pick _something_. Clang by default uses
"macos10.4.0", which is much older.
This matches the behavior of Clang, which uses optsize for -Os and adds
minsize for -Oz.
The code size change is all over the map, but using a hacked together
size comparison tool I've found that there is a slight reduction in
binary size overall (-1.6% with the tinygo smoke tests and -0.8% for the
drivers smoke test).
This commit has a few related changes:
* It sets the optsize attribute immediately in the compiler instead of
adding it to each function afterwards in a loop. This seems to me
like the more appropriate way to do it.
* It centralizes setting the optsize attribute in the transform
package, to make later changes easier.
* It sets the optsize in a few more places: to runtime.initAll and to
WebAssembly i64 wrappers.
This commit does not affect the binary size of any of the smoke tests,
so should be risk-free.
This commit adds object layout information to new heap allocations. It
is not yet used anywhere: the next commit will make use of it.
Object layout information will eventually be used for a (mostly) precise
garbage collector. This is what the data is made for. However, it is
also useful in the interp package which can work better if it knows the
memory layout and thus the approximate LLVM type of heap-allocated
objects.
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 commit simplifies the IR a little bit: instead of calling
pseudo-functions runtime.interfaceImplements and
runtime.interfaceMethod, real declared functions are being called that
are then defined in the interface lowering pass. This should simplify
the interaction between various transformation passes. It also reduces
the number of lines of code, which is generally a good thing.
This adds support for a construct like this:
type foo func(fn foo)
Unfortunately, LLVM cannot create function pointers that look like this.
LLVM only supports named types for structs (not for pointers) and thus
can't add a pointer to a function type of the same type to a parameter
of that function type.
The fix is simple: cast all function pointers to a void function, in
LLVM IR:
void ()*
Raw function pointers are cast to this type before storing, and cast
back to the regular function type before calling. This means that
function parameters will never refer to its own type because raw
function types are fixed at that one type.
Somehow, this does have an effect on binary size in some cases. The
effect is small and goes both ways. On top of that, there is work
underway in LLVM which would make all pointer types opaque (without a
pointee type). This would make this whole commit useless and therefore
should fix any size increases that might happen.
https://llvm.org/docs/OpaquePointers.html
The division and remainder operations were lowered directly to LLVM IR.
This is wrong however because the Go specification defines exactly what
happens on a divide by zero or signed integer overflow and LLVM IR
itself treats those cases as undefined behavior. Therefore, this commit
implements divide by zero and signed integer overflow according to the
Go specification.
This does have an impact on the generated code, but it is surprisingly
small. I've used the drivers repo to test the code before and after, and
to my surprise most driver smoke tests are not changed at all. Those
that are, have only a small increase in code size. At the same time,
this change makes TinyGo more compliant to the Go specification.
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.
... instead of setting a special -target= value. This is more robust and
makes sure that the test actually tests different arcitectures as they
would be compiled by TinyGo. As an example, the bug of the bugfix in the
previous commit ("arm: use armv7 instead of thumbv7") would have been
caught if this change was applied earlier.
I've decided to put GOOS/GOARCH in compileopts.Options, as it makes
sense to me to treat them the same way as command line parameters.
For example, the following did not work before but does work with this
change:
// int add(int a, int b) {
// return a + b;
// }
import "C"
func main() {
println("add:", C.add(3, 5))
}
Even better, the functions in the header are compiled together with the
rest of the Go code and so they can be optimized together! Currently,
inlining is not yet allowed but const-propagation across functions
works. This should be improved in the future.
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 is a loose collection of small fixes flagged by staticcheck:
- dead code
- regexp expressions not using backticks (`foobar` / "foobar")
- redundant types of slice and map initializers
- misc other fixes
Not all of these seem very useful to me, but in particular dead code is
nice to fix. I've fixed them all just so that if there are problems,
they aren't hidden in the noise of less useful issues.
For example, in this code:
type kv struct {
v float32
}
func foo(a *kv) {
type kv struct {
v byte
}
}
Both 'kv' types would be given the same LLVM type, even though they are
different types! This is fixed by only creating a LLVM type once per Go
type (types.Type).
As an added bonus, this change gives a performance improvement of about
0.4%. Not that much, but certainly not nothing for such a small change.
This commit improves make([]T, len) to be closer to upstream Go. The
difference is unlikely to have much real-world effect, but previously
certain make([]T, len) expressions would not result in a slice out of
bounds error in TinyGo while they would have done such a thing in Go
proper. In practice, available RAM is likely to be a bigger limiting
factor.
This commit adds support for the following packages:
- crypto/md5
- crypto/sha1
- crypto/sha256
- crypto/sha512
They would normally need assembly implementations, but with these
aliases they already work everywhere.
This makes them more flexible, especially with Go 1.17 making the
situation more complicated (see
1d20a362d0).
It also makes it possible to do the same for many other functions, such
as assembly implementations of cryptographich functions which are
similarly dependent on the architecture.
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.
This commit includes two changes:
* It makes unexported interface methods package-private, so that it's
not possible to type-assert on an unexported method in a different
package.
* It makes the globals used to identify interface methods defined
globals, so that they can (eventually) be left in the program for an
eventual non-LTO build mode.
Do not store the context parameter (which is used for closures and
function pointers) in the goroutine start parameter bundle for direct
functions that don't need a context parameter. This avoids storing the
(undef) context parameter and thus makes the IR to start a new goroutine
simpler in most cases.
This reduces code size in the channel.go and goroutines.go tests.
Surprisingly, all test cases (when compiled with -target=microbit) have
a changed binary, I haven't investigated why but I suppose the codegen
is slightly different for the runtime.run function (which starts the
main goroutine).
Closure variables are allocated in a parent function and are thus never
nil. Don't do a nil check before reading or modifying the value.
This commit results in a slight reduction in code size in some test
cases: calls.go, channel.go, goroutines.go, json.go, sort.go -
presumably wherever closures are used.
Not sure why you would ever do this, but it appears to be allowed by the
Go specification and previously TinyGo would crash with an unhelpful
error message when you would do this. I don't see any practical use of
it.
The implementation simply runs the builtin directly.
This commit adds a test for both WebAssembly and Cortex-M targets (which
use a different way of goroutine lowering) to show how they lower
goroutines. It makes it easier to show how the output changes in future
commits.
