This matches the flash-command and is generally a bit easier to work
with.
This commit also prepares for allowing multiple formats to be used in
the emulator command, which is necessary for the esp32.
Switch over to LLVM 14 for static builds. Keep using LLVM 13 for regular
builds for now.
This uses a branch of the upstream Espressif branch to fix an issue,
see: https://github.com/espressif/llvm-project/pull/59
This adds support for building with `-tags=llvm13` and switches to LLVM
13 for tinygo binaries that are statically linked against LLVM.
Some notes on this commit:
* Added `-mfloat-abi=soft` to all Cortex-M targets because otherwise
nrfx would complain that floating point was enabled on Cortex-M0.
That's not the case, but with `-mfloat-abi=soft` the `__SOFTFP__`
macro is defined which silences this warning.
See: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100372
* Changed from `--sysroot=<root>` to `-nostdlib -isystem <root>` for
musl because with Clang 13, even with `--sysroot` some system
libraries are used which we don't want.
* Changed all `-Xclang -internal-isystem -Xclang` to simply
`-isystem`, for consistency with the above change. It appears to
have the same effect.
* Moved WebAssembly function declarations to the top of the file in
task_asyncify_wasm.S because (apparently) the assembler has become
more strict.
This makes sure that the LLVM target features match the one generated by
Clang:
- This fixes a bug introduced when setting the target CPU for all
targets: Cortex-M4 would now start using floating point operations
while they were disabled in C.
- This will make it possible in the future to inline C functions in Go
and vice versa. This will need some more work though.
There is a code size impact. Cortex-M4 targets are increased slightly in
binary size while Cortex-M0 targets tend to be reduced a little bit.
Other than that, there is little impact.
The target triples have to match mostly to be able to link LLVM modules.
Linking LLVM modules is already possible (the triples already match),
but testing becomes much easier when they match exactly.
For macOS, I picked "macosx10.12.0". That's an old and unsupported
version, but I had to pick _something_. Clang by default uses
"macos10.4.0", which is much older.
This is for consistency with Clang, which always adds a CPU flag even if
it's not specified in CFLAGS.
This commit also adds some tests to make sure the Clang target-cpu
matches the CPU property in the JSON files.
This does have an effect on the generated binaries. The effect is very
small though: on average just 0.2% increase in binary size, apparently
because Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4 are compiled a bit differently. However,
when rebased on top of https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/pull/2218
(minsize), the difference drops to -0.1% (a slight decrease on average).
This commit changes a target triple like "armv6m-none-eabi" to
"armv6m-unknown-unknow-eabi". The reason is that while the former is
correctly parsed in Clang (due to normalization), it wasn't parsed
correctly in LLVM meaning that the environment wasn't set to EABI.
This change normalizes all target triples and uses the EABI environment
(-eabi in the triple) for Cortex-M targets.
This change also drops the `--target=` flag in the target JSON files,
the flag is now added implicitly in `(*compileopts.Config).CFlags()`.
This removes some duplication in target JSON files.
Unfortunately, this change also increases code size for Cortex-M
targets. It looks like LLVM now emits calls like __aeabi_memmove instead
of memmove, which pull in slightly more code (they basically just call
the regular C functions) and the calls themself don't seem to be as
efficient as they could be. Perhaps this is a LLVM bug that will be
fixed in the future, as this is a very common occurrence.
This brings some consistency to the CFlags and fixes the issue that on
some platforms (Linux, MacOS), no optimization level was set and
therefore C files in packages were not optimized at all.
At the moment, all targets use the Clang compiler to compile C and
assembly files. There is no good reason to make this configurable
anymore and in fact it will make future changes more complicated (and
thus more likely to have bugs). Therefore, I've removed support for
setting the compiler.
Note that the same is not true for the linker. While it makes sense to
standardize on the Clang compiler (because if Clang doesn't support a
target, TinyGo is unlikely to support it either), linkers will remain
configurable for the foreseeable future. One example is Xtensa, which is
supported by the Xtensa LLVM fork but doesn't have support in ld.lld
yet.
I've also fixed a bug in compileAndCacheCFile: it wasn't using the right
CFlags for caching purposes. This could lead to using stale caches. This
commit fixes that too.
The -Qunused-arguments flag disables the warning where some flags are
not relevant to a compilation. This commonly happens when compiling
assembly files (.s or .S files) because some flags are specific to C and
not relevant to assembly.
Because practically all baremetal targets need some form of assembly,
this flag is added to most CFlags. This creates a lot of noise. And it
is also added for compiling C code where it might hide bugs (by hiding
the fact a flag is actually unused).
This commit adds the flag to all assembly compilations and removes them
from all target JSON files.
Instead of putting tinygo_scanCurrentStack in scheduler_*.S files, put
them in dedicated files. The function tinygo_scanCurrentStack has
nothing to do with scheduling and so doesn't belong there. Additionally,
while scheduling code is made specific for the Cortex-M, the
tinygo_scanCurrentStack is generic to all ARM targets so this move
removes some duplication there.
Specifically:
* tinygo_scanCurrentStack is moved out of scheduler_cortexm.S as it
isn't really part of the scheduler. It is now gc_arm.S.
* Same for the AVR target.
* Same for the RISCV target.
* scheduler_gba.S is removed, using gc_arm.S instead as it only
contains tinygo_scanCurrentStack.
Debug information is often useful and there is no reason to include it
for Go code but not for C code. Also, disabling debug information should
disable it entirely, not just for Go code.
This results in bigger code size, but it works around a bug in the
linker.
The issue starts with the problem that libraries (picolibc, compiler-rt)
were compiled as ARM and the rest as Thumb. This causes some blx
instructions to be inserted by the linker to call into these libraries.
Ideally we should fix the libraries to use Thumb mode instead, but that
requires some more extensive changes (including fixes to compiler-rt)
and it's just way easier to use ARM mode everywhere.
The GC stack scanning code was implemented in the Cortex-M assembly, which meant that it was not available on the GBA which is pre-cortex.
This change adds a copy of the relevant code into a new asembly file which is used on the GBA.
The frame pointer was already omitted in the object files that TinyGo
emits, but wasn't yet omitted in the C files it compiles. Omitting the
frame pointer is good for code size (and perhaps performance).
The frame pointer was originally used for printing stack traces in a
debugger. However, advances in DWARF debug info have made it largely
unnecessary (debug info contains enough information now to recover the
frame pointer even without an explicit frame pointer register). In fact,
GDB has been able to produce backtraces in TinyGo compiled code for a
while now while it didn't include a frame pointer.
This is necessary for better CGo support on bare metal. Existing
libraries expect to be able to include parts of libc and expect to be
able to link to those symbols.
Because with this all targets have a working libc, it is now possible to
add tests to check that a libc in fact works basically.
Not all parts of picolibc are included, such as the math or stdio parts.
These should be added later, when needed.
This commit also avoids the need for the custom memcpy/memset/memcmp
symbols that are sometimes emitted by LLVM. The C library will take care
of that.
Setting the linker script as one property (instead of as part of the
generic ldflags property) allows it to be overriden.
This is important for the SoftDevice on Nordic chips, because the
SoftDevice takes up a fixed part of the flash/RAM and the application
must be flashed at a different position. With this linkerscript option,
it is possible to create (for example) a pca10040-s132v6 that overrides
the default linker script.
