This commit improves error reporting in several ways:
* Location information is read from the intruction that causes the
error, as far as that's available.
* The package that is being interpreted is included in the error
message. This may be the most useful part of the improvements.
* The hashmap update intrinsics now doesn't panic, instead it logs a
clear error (with location information, as in the above two bullet
points).
This is possible thanks to improvements in LLVM 9. This means that after
this change, TinyGo will depend on LLVM 9.
This flag is overloaded. It can be used in two ways:
* Choosing the flash method to use (openocd, msd, command).
* Choosing the OpenOCD programmer name.
For example, you can use one of these to use OpenOCD instead of the
mass-storage device programmer:
tinygo flash -target=microbit -programmer=openocd
tinygo flash -target=microbit -programmer=cmsis-dap
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.
Move most of the logic of determining which compiler configuration to
use (such as GOOS/GOARCH, build tags, whether to include debug symbols,
panic strategy, etc.) into the compileopts package. This makes it a
single source of truth for anything related to compiler configuration.
It has a few advantages:
* The compile configuration is independent of the compiler package.
This makes it possible to move optimization passes out of the
compiler, as they don't rely on compiler.Config anymore.
* There is only one place to look if an incorrect compile option is
used.
* The compileopts provides some resistance against unintentionally
picking the wrong option, such as with c.selectGC() vs c.GC() in the
compiler.
* It is now a lot easier to change compile options, as most options
are getters now.
Most programmers support the "reset halt" command, which resets the
target but keeps it halted at the first instruction. This is a much more
natural way of working with GDB, and allows setting breakpoints before
the program is started.
This commit switches to `reset halt` by default and also stops running
the program directly when debugging natively on the host.
This makes it possible to query these environment variables from
anywhere, which might be useful. More importantly, it puts them in a
central location from where they can be queried, useful for a `go env`
subcommand.
Instead of specifying explicit commands, most of these commands have
been replaced by more specific properties.
This is work that will be necessary for an eventual -programmer flag to
the compiler, with which it is possible to select which programmer to
use to flash or debug a chip. That's not very useful for boards that
already include a programmer or bootloader for that purpose, but is very
useful for novel boards or single-purpose boards that are not already
included in TinyGo.
The above changes might indeed introduce inconsistencies in the IR, but
the code is small and doesn't change often so it's unnecessary to always
check for errors. It will be tested again later anyway.
The compile time impact was somewhere around 6%, so that's a nice
improvement.
This scheduler is intended to live along the (stackless) coroutine based
scheduler which is needed for WebAssembly and unsupported platforms. The
stack based scheduler is somewhat simpler in implementation as it does
not require full program transform passes and supports things like
function pointers and interface methods out of the box with no changes.
Code size is reduced in most cases, even in the case where no scheduler
scheduler is used at all. I'm not exactly sure why but these changes
likely allowed some further optimizations somewhere. Even RAM is
slightly reduced, perhaps some global was elminated in the process as
well.
When the target supports it, allow the (initial) heap size to be
configured. Currently only supported in WebAssembly.
This also changes the default heap size of WebAssembly from 64kB to 1MB.
dumb -> leaking:
make it more clear what this "GC" does: leak everything.
marksweep -> conservative:
"marksweep" is too generic, use "conservative" to differentiate
between future garbage collectors: precise marksweep / mark-compact /
refcounting.
Without this, clang tries to process the header line as part of
its valid input. eg:
main.ll:1:1: error: expected top-level entity
Generated LLVM IR:
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