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.
On WebAssembly it is possible to grow the heap with the memory.grow
instruction. This commit implements this feature and with that also
removes the -heap-size flag that was reportedly broken (I haven't
verified that). This should make it easier to use TinyGo for
WebAssembly, where there was no good reason to use a fixed heap size.
This commit has no effect on baremetal targets with optimizations
enabled.
For example, for running tests with -target=wasm or
-target=cortex-m-qemu. It looks at the output to determine whether tests
were successful in the absence of a status code.
This is the same problem as in
https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/pull/605, but other targets also
suffer from it.
Discovered with the GBA target, but as pointed out in
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42881#c1 this appears to be a bug
in the way external globals are declared, not in LLVM. Therefore I
decided that fixing it everywhere would be the best thing to do.