- Use compiler-rt and picolibc instead of avr-libc.
- Use ld.lld instead of avr-ld (or avr-gcc).
This makes it much easier to get started with TinyGo on AVR because
installing these extra tools (gcc-avr, avr-libc) can be a hassle.
It also opens the door for future improvements such as ThinLTO.
There is a code size increase but I think it's worth it in the long run.
The code size increase can hopefully be reduced with improvements to the
LLVM AVR backend and to compiler-rt.
You can see that it works with the following command:
tinygo run -target=simavr ./testdata/recover.go
This also gets the following tests to pass again:
go test -run=Build -target=simavr -v
Adding support for AVR was a bit more compliated because it's also
necessary to save and restore the Y register.
The AVR backend has several critical atomics bugs.
This change invokes libcalls for all atomic operations on AVR.
Now `testdata/atomic.go` compiles and runs correctly.
This can be used in the future to trigger garbage collection. For now,
it provides a more useful error message in case the heap is completely
filled up.
Make sure every to-be-implemented GC can use the same interface. As a
result, a 1MB chunk of RAM is allocated on Unix systems on init instead
of allocating on demand.
* Use 64-bit integers on 64-bit platforms, just like gc and gccgo:
https://golang.org/doc/go1.1#int
* Do not use a separate length type. Instead, use uintptr everywhere a
length is expected.