We have an optimization for this specific pattern, but it's really just
a hack. With the addition of unsafe.Add in Go 1.17 we can directly
specify the intent instead and eventually remove this special case.
The code is also easier to read.
This is a big commit that changes the way runtime type information is stored in
the binary. Instead of compressing it and storing it in a number of sidetables,
it is stored similar to how the Go compiler toolchain stores it (but still more
compactly).
This has a number of advantages:
* It is much easier to add new features to reflect support. They can simply
be added to these structs without requiring massive changes (especially in
the reflect lowering pass).
* It removes the reflect lowering pass, which was a large amount of hard to
understand and debug code.
* The reflect lowering pass also required merging all LLVM IR into one
module, which is terrible for performance especially when compiling large
amounts of code. See issue 2870 for details.
* It is (probably!) easier to reason about for the compiler.
The downside is that it increases code size a bit, especially when reflect is
involved. I hope to fix some of that in later patches.
This commit fixes two related issues:
1. CanInterface was unimplemented. It now uses the same check as is
used in Interface() itself.
This issue led to https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/issues/3033
2. Allow making an interface out of a string char element.
Doing this in one commit (instead of two) because they are shown to be
correct with the same tests.
Go 1.19 started reformatting code in a way that makes it more obvious
how it will be rendered on pkg.go.dev. It gets it almost right, but not
entirely. Therefore, I had to modify some of the comments so that they
are formatted correctly.
The implementation has been mostly copied from the Go reference
implementation with some small changes to fit TinyGo.
Source: 77a11c05d6/src/reflect/deepequal.go
In addition, this commit also contains the following:
- A set of tests copied from the Go reflect package.
- An increased stack size for the riscv-qemu and hifive1-qemu targets
(because they otherwise fail to run the tests). Because these
targets are only used for testing, this seems fine to me.
In the case where:
- Value.Index() was called on an array
- that array was bigger than a pointer
- the element type fits in a pointer
- the 'indirect' flag isn't set
the Value.Index() method would still (incorrectly) load the value.
This commit fixes that.
The next commit adds a test which would have triggered this bug so works
as a regression test.
v.Interaface() could construct an interface in interface value if v was
of type interface. This is not correct, and doesn't follow upstream Go
behavior. Instead, it should return the interface value itself.
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).
These variants uses an unsafe.Pointer instead of uintptr so that the
pointer/non-pointer fields match those of real slices and strings. This
may be necessary in the future once we switch to a precise garbage
collector.
