There were a few issues that were causing qemu-system-arm and
qemu-system-riscv to give the wrong exit codes. They are in fact capable
of exiting with 0 or 1 signalled from the running application, but this
functionality wasn't used. This commit changes this in the following
ways:
* It fixes SemiHosting codes, which were incorrectly written in
decimal while they should have been written in hexadecimal (oops!).
* It modifies all the baremetal main functions (aka reset handlers) to
exit with `exit(0)` instead of `abort()`.
* It changes `syscall.Exit` to call `exit(code)` instead of `abort()`
on baremetal targets.
* It adds these new exit functions where necessary, implemented in a
way that signals the correct exit status if running under QEMU.
All in all, this means that `tinygo test` doesn't have to look at the
output of a test to determine the outcome. It can simply look at the
exit code.
This is necessary to support the ESP32-C3, which lacks the A (atomic)
extension and thus requires these 32-bit atomic operations.
With this commit, flashing ./testdata/atomic.go to the ESP32-C3 works
correctly and produces the expected output on the serial console.
This change adds support for the ESP32-C3, a new chip from Espressif. It
is a RISC-V core so porting was comparatively easy.
Most peripherals are shared with the (original) ESP32 chip, but with
subtle differences. Also, the SVD file I've used gives some
peripherals/registers a different name which makes sharing code harder.
Eventually, when an official SVD file for the ESP32 is released, I
expect that a lot of code can be shared between the two chips.
More information: https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-c3
TODO:
- stack scheduler
- interrupts
- most peripherals (SPI, I2C, PWM, etc)
At startup, a large chunk of virtual memory is used up by the heap. This
works fine in emulation (qemu-arm), but doesn't work so well on an
actual Raspberry Pi. Therefore, this commit reduces the requested amount
until a heap size is found that works on the system.
This can certainly be improved, but for now it's an important fix
because it allows TinyGo built binaries to actually run on a Raspberry
Pi with just 1GB RAM.
This allows the assembly routines in these files to be stripped as dead
code if they're not referenced. This solves the link issues on MacOS
when the `leaking` garbage collector or the `coroutines` scheduler
are selected.
Fixes#2081
heapptr is assinged to heapStart (which is 0) when it's declared, but preinit()
may have moved the heap somewhere else. Set heapptr to the proper value
of heapStart when we initialize the heap properly.
This allows the leaking allocator to work on unix.
This is mainly useful to be able to run `tinygo test`, for example:
tinygo test -target=cortex-m-qemu -v math
This is not currently supported, but will be in the future.
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.
Previously we used the i386 target, probably with all optional features
disabled. However, the Pentium 4 has been released a _long_ time ago and
it seems reasonable to me to take that as a minimum requirement.
Upstream Go now also seems to move in this direction:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40255
The main motivation for this is that there were floating point issues
when running the tests for the math package:
GOARCH=386 tinygo test math
I haven't investigated what's the issue, but I strongly suspect it's
caused by the weird x87 80-bit floating point format. This could perhaps
be fixed in a different way (by setting the FPU precision to 64 bits)
but I figured that just setting the minimum requirement to the Pentium 4
would probably be fine. If needed, we can respect the GO386 environment
variable to support these very old CPUs.
To support this newer CPU, I had to make sure that the stack is aligned
to 16 bytes everywhere. This was not yet always the case.
The math package failed the package tests on arm64 and wasm:
GOARCH=arm64 tinygo test math
Apparently the builtins llvm.maximum.f64 and llvm.minimum.f64 have
slightly different behavior on arm64 and wasm compared to what Go
expects.
This commit fixes two things:
* It changes the alignment to 16 bytes (from 4), to match max_align_t
in C.
* It manually aligns heapStart on WebAssembly, to work around a bug in
wasm-ld with --stack-first (see https://reviews.llvm.org/D106499).
This function previously returned the atomic time, that isn't affected
by system time changes but also has a time base at some arbitrary time
in the past. This makes sense for baremetal platforms (which typically
don't know the wall time) but it gives surprising results on Linux and
macOS: time.Now() usually returns a time somewhere near the start of
1970.
This commit fixes this by obtaining both time values: the monotonic time
and the wall clock time. This is also how the Go runtime implements the
time.now function.
These two heaps conflict with each other, so that if any function uses
the dlmalloc heap implementation it will eventually result in memory
corruption.
This commit fixes this by implementing all heap-related functions. This
overrides the functions that are implemented in wasi-libc. That's why
all of them are implemented (even if they just panic): to make sure no
program accidentally uses the wrong one.
The wasm build tag together with GOARCH=arm was causing problems in the
internal/cpu package. In general, I think having two architecture build
tag will only cause problems (in this case, wasm and arm) so I've
removed the wasm build tag and replaced it with tinygo.wasm.
This is similar to the tinygo.riscv build tag, which is used for older
Go versions that don't yet have RISC-V support in the standard library
(and therefore pretend to be GOARCH=arm instead).
Because arm.SVCall1 lets pointers escape, the return value of
sd_softdevice_is_enabled (passed as a pointer in a parameter) will
escape and thus this value will be heap allocated.
Use a global variable for this purpose instead to avoid the heap
allocation. This is safe as waitForEvent may only be called outside of
interrupts.
Previously, the machine.UART0 object had two meanings:
- it was the first UART on the chip
- it was the default output for println
These two meanings conflict, and resulted in workarounds like:
- Defining UART0 to refer to the USB-CDC interface (atsamd21,
atsamd51, nrf52840), even though that clearly isn't an UART.
- Defining NRF_UART0 to avoid a conflict with UART0 (which was
redefined as a USB-CDC interface).
- Defining aliases like UART0 = UART1, which refer to the same
hardware peripheral (stm32).
This commit changes this to use a new machine.Serial object for the
default serial port. It might refer to the first or second UART
depending on the board, or even to the USB-CDC interface. Also, UART0
now really refers to the first UART on the chip, no longer to a USB-CDC
interface.
The changes in the runtime package are all just search+replace. The
changes in the machine package are a mixture of search+replace and
manual modifications.
This commit does not affect binary size, in fact it doesn't affect the
resulting binary at all.
This means that machine.UART0, machine.UART1, etc are of type
*machine.UART, not machine.UART. This makes them easier to pass around
and avoids surprises when they are passed around by value while they
should be passed around by reference.
There is a small code size impact in some cases, but it is relatively
minor.
Make the GC globals scan phase conservative instead of precise on
WebAssembly. This reduces code size at the risk of introducing some
false positives.
This is a stopgap measure to mitigate an issue with the precise scanning
of globals that doesn't track all pointers. It works for regular globals
but globals created in the interp package don't always have a type and
therefore may be missed by the AddGlobalsBitmap pass.
The same issue is present on Linux and macOS, but is not as noticeable
there.
There is no reason to specialize this per chip as it is only ever used
for JavaScript. Not only that, it is causing confusion and is yet
another quirk to learn when porting the runtime to a new
microcontroller.
This commit improves the timers on various microcontrollers to better
deal with counter wraparound. The result is a reduction in RAM size of
around 12 bytes and a small effect (sometimes positive, sometimes
negative) on flash consumption. But perhaps more importantly: getting
the current time is now interrupt-safe (it previously could result in a
race condition) and the timer will now be correct when the timer isn't
retrieved for a long duration. Before this commit, a call to `time.Now`
more than 8 minutes after the previous call could result in an incorrect
time.
For more details, see:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/microcontrollers/correct-timing-by-timer-overflow-count/msg749617/#msg749617
Instead, leave args at its default value (which provides a fake argv[0] as it has for a long time).
linux and mac do not seem affected.
Fixes#1862 (tinygo apps after v0.17.0-113-g7b761fa crash if run without argv[0])
This commit does two things:
1. It makes it possible to grow the heap on Linux and MacOS by
allocating 1GB of virtual memory on startup and then slowly using it
as necessary, when running out of available heap space.
2. It switches the default GC to be the conservative GC (previously
extalloc). This is good for consistency with other platforms that
all use this same GC.
This makes the extalloc GC unused by default.
This heap allocation would normally be optimized away, but with -opt=0
perhaps not. This is a problem if the conservative GC is used, because
the conservative GC needs to be initialized before use.
On some boards the FPU is already enabled on startup, probably as part
of the bootloader. On other chips it was enabled as part of the runtime
startup code. In all these cases, enabling the FPU is currently
unsupported: the automatic stack sizing of goroutines assumes that the
processor won't need to reserve space for FPU registers. Enabling the
FPU therefore can lead to a stack overflow.
This commit either removes the code that enables the FPU, or simply
disables it in startup code. A future change should fully enable the FPU
so that operations on float32 can be performed by the FPU instead of in
software, greatly speeding up such code.
- Add some extra fields: FPUPresent, CPU and NVICPrioBits which may
come in handy at a later time (and are easy to add).
- Rename DEVICE to Device, to match Go style.
This is in preparation to the next commit, which requires the FPUPresent
flag.
This improves compatibility between the regular browser target
(-target=wasm) and the WASI target (-target=wasi). Specifically, it
allows running WASI tests like this:
tinygo test -target=wasi encoding/base32
This currently doesn't work with `tinygo flash` yet (even with
`-programmer=openocd`), you can use pyocd instead. For example, from the
Bluetooth package:
tinygo build -o test.hex -target=microbit-v2-s113v7 ./examples/advertisement/
pyocd flash --target=nrf52 test.hex
I intend to add support for pyocd to work around this issue, so that a simple
`tinygo flash` suffices.
There is no good reason for func values to refer to interface type
codes. The only thing they need is a stable identifier for function
signatures, which is easily created as a new kind of globals. Decoupling
makes it easier to change interface related code.