This should make it more maintainable. Another big advantage that
generation time (including gofmt) is now 3 times faster. No real attempt
at refactoring has been made, that will need to be done at a later time.
Now that we use LLVM 9, RISC-V support in LLVM has far fewer bugs and we
can avoid the GNU toolchain.
* replace GNU linker with lld
* replace GCC with clang
Additionally, RISC-V was promoted to stable so it can be enabled by
default in CI.
This brings a big speedup. Not counting gofmt time,
`make gen-device-avr` became about 3x faster. In the future, it might be
an idea to generate the AST in-memory and write it out already
formatted.
The default Go version is 1.12. Because Go 1.13 introduced language
changes (improved numeric constants), TinyGo compiled with Go 1.12
cannot handle Go 1.13 code such as the Go 1.13 standard library.
Use Go 1.13 to build TinyGo on Azure Pipelines to fix this.
We don't need the separate submodule: compiler-rt is already included in
the llvm-project repository.
This should hopefully make CI slightly faster too.
This is a large commit that moves all code directly related to
compiling/linking into a new builder package. This has a number of
advantages:
* It cleanly separates the API between the command line and the full
compilation (with a very small API surface).
* When the compiler finally compiles one package at a time (instead of
everything at once as it does now), something will have to invoke it
once per package. This builder package will be the natural place to
do that, and also be the place where the whole process can be
parallelized.
* It allows the TinyGo compiler to be used as a package. A client can
simply import the builder package and compile code using it.
As part of this refactor, the following additional things changed:
* Exported symbols have been made unexported when they weren't needed.
* The compilation target has been moved into the compileopts.Options
struct. This is done because the target really is just another
compiler option, and the API is simplified by moving it in there.
* The moveFile function has been duplicated. It does not really belong
in the builder API but is used both by the builder and the command
line. Moving it into a separate package didn't seem useful either
for what is essentially an utility function.
* Some doc strings have been improved.
Some future changes/refactors I'd like to make after this commit:
* Clean up the API between the builder and the compiler package.
* Perhaps move the test files (in testdata/) into the builder package.
* Perhaps move the loader package into the builder package.
This smartwatch doesn't have an on-board debugger, so I picked the one I
was using while getting this smartwatch to run Go programs (the J-Link
EDU Mini).
Compared to the already supported stm32f103xx "bluepill" board this:
- features 128 KiB flash memory size ("RB" suffix) instead of 64 KiB, see `targets/stm32f103rb.ld`
- has onboard ST-LINK/V2-1 programmer and debugger requiring different OpenOCD configuration file
- uses USART2 connected to ST-LINK/V2-1 debugger as virtual COM port over USB for `putchar()`
- has a user-accessible button besides the reset button
Also add unit tests.
This is the first of several transformation (optimization/lowering)
passes that I'd like to move to the new transform package. This
separates the compiler from the optimizer.
Also, it finally adds unit tests for the compiler, not just end-to-end
compilation tests. This should improve robustness and should make it
easier to change these transformation passes in the future.
While the heap-to-stack transform is relatively simple, other passes are
much more complex. Adding unit tests not only helps robustness over
time, but also doubles as documentation as to what these transformation
passes do exactly.
Instead of trying to modify periperhals directly, external functions are
called. For example, __tinygo_gpio_set sets a GPIO pin to a specified
value (high or low). It is expected that binaries made this way will be
linked with some extra libraries that implement support for these
functions.
One particularly interesting case is this experimental board simulator:
https://github.com/aykevl/tinygo-play
Compiling code to WebAssembly with the correct build tag for a board
will enable this board to be simulated in the browser.
Atmel/Microchip based SAMD boards are not currently supported, because
their I2C/SPI support is somewhat uncommon and harder to support in the
machine API. They may require a modification to the machine API for
proper support.
The -DLLVM_TOOL_CLANG_TOOLS_EXTRA_BUILD=OFF option turning off the
building of the extra clang tools is required, otherwise linking
the tinygo binary fails.
This is a big commit that does a few things:
* It moves CGo processing into a separate package. It never really
belonged in the loader package, and certainly not now that the
loader package may be refactored into a driver package.
* It adds support for multiple CGo files (files that import package
"C") in a single package. Previously, this led to multiple
definition errors in the Go typecheck phase because certain C
symbols were defined multiple times in all the files. Now it
generates a new fake AST that defines these, to avoid multiple
definition errors.
* It improves debug info in a few edge cases that are probably not
relevant outside of bugs in cgo itself.
