Only try to convert the C symbols to their Go equivalents that are
actually referenced by the Go code with C.<somesymbol>. This avoids
having to support all possible C types, which is difficult because of
oddities like `typedef void` or `__builtin_va_list`. Especially
__builtin_va_list, which varies between targets.
The generated wasm is 575 bytes when compiled with -no-debug (and
works), which is a much better first experience for new users than
the 20KB+ added (atm) just from including fmt.
In Go, it is not possible to construct pointers that are out of bounds
(and not null), so let LLVM know about this fact.
This leads to a significant code size reduction, around 3% in many
cases.
Most of these errors are actually "todo" or "unimplemented" errors, so
the return type is known. This means that compilation can proceed (with
errors) even though the output will be incorrect. This is useful because
this way, all errors in a compilation unit can be shown together to the
user.
This commit adds getValue which gets a const, global, or result of a
local SSA expression and replaces (almost) all uses of parseExpr with
getValue. The only remaining use is in parseInstr, which makes sure an
instruction is only evaluated once.
This commit replaces "unknown type" errors in getLLVMType with panics.
The main reason this is done is that it simplifies the code *a lot*.
Many `if err != nil` lines were there just because of type information.
Additionally, simply panicking is probably a better approach as the only
way this error can be produced is either with big new language features
or a serious compiler bug. Panicking is probably a better way to handle
this error anyway.
The LLVM library we use does not (yet) provide a llvm.Zero (like it
provides a llvm.Undef) so we have implemented our own. However, in
theory it might return an error in some cases.
No real-world errors have been seen in a while and errors would likely
indicate a serious compiler bug anyway (not an external error), so make
it panic instead of returning an error.
Every ABI has a slightly different implementation. Ideally, we would use
something like Clang TargetInfo or extract it by compiling some C code
and checking the IR, but this is a useful workaround for now.
These types (called elaborated types in C) are used as part of linked
lists, among others.
This is part an extra feature (to be compatible with CGo C.struct_
types) and part a bugfix: linked lists would result in endless recursion
leading to a stack overflow.
Sometimes when a GC happens while processing a C fragment with libclang,
a pointer-typed integer with value 0x1 ends up on the Go stack and the
GC will trip over it. This commit changes the offending struct type to
be uintptr_t instead of void*.
See https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/66332 for a similar
change.
Adds another example showing the simple case
of executing main, adds a README explaining how
everything fits together and how to execute the compiled
code in the browser. Include a minimal webserver for
local testing.
This replaces the older way which just does the following:
go install .
and
go test -v .
Instead, `make` and `make test` will now build TinyGo statically linked
against LLVM, so that `go install` and `go test -v` should be used
manually.
This has several advantages, among them:
- Many passes (heap-to-stack, dead arg elimination, inlining) do not
work with function pointer calls. Making them normal function calls
improves their effectiveness.
- Goroutine lowering to LLVM coroutines does not currently support
function pointers. By eliminating function pointers, coroutine
lowering gets support for them for free.
This is especially useful for WebAssembly.
Because of the second point, this work is currently only enabled for the
WebAssembly target.
Unions are somewhat hard to implement in Go because they are not a
native type. But it is actually possible with some compiler magic.
This commit inserts a special "C union" field at the start of a struct
to indicate that it is a union. As such a field cannot be written
directly in Go, this is a useful to distinguish structs and unions.
This commit adds the TinyGo root directory (`TINYGOROOT`) to the linker
script `-L` search path, so that linker scripts can be found when
running `tinygo` outside of the TinyGo root.
This was already working before when using an external linker by setting
the working directory, but this is not possible when using the internal
linker. However, by adding the root directory to the linker search path
(`-L`), it can now find these linker scripts.
fixes#265
The ar file format is pretty simple and can be implemented by using a Go
library. Use that instead of calling out to llvm-ar.
There are a few limitations to the used package, but that doesn't seem
to matter for our use case (linking compiler-rt for use with ld.lld):
* no index is created
* long filenames are truncated
* no support for archives bigger than 4GB
This makes CGo-emitted diagnostics very similar to regular errors
emitted while parsing/typechecking a package.
It's not complete, but after introducing some errors in testdata/cgo,
this is the resulting output:
# ./testdata/cgo/
testdata/cgo/main.h:18:11: error: a parameter list without types is only allowed in a function definition
testdata/cgo/main.go:5:10: note: in file included from testdata/cgo/main.go!cgo.c:2:
testdata/cgo/main.go:6:19: error: expected identifier or '('
Previously, this was the output:
/home/ayke/src/github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/testdata/cgo/main.h:18:11: error: a parameter list without types is only allowed in a function definition
cgo-fake.c:3:19: error: expected identifier or '('
# ./testdata/cgo/
cgo: libclang cannot parse fragment
This pattern is often used in some runtime intrinsics (especially the
ones related to slices) to do pointer arithmetic with unsafe.Pointer and
uintptr because Go does not support pointer arithmetic.
Recognizing this pattern and replacing it with a gep instruction
improves code size in various tests.
Add nocapture, readonly, and writeonly to runtime.memmove and
runtime.memcpy where appropriate. This teaches LLVM some more
optimizations it may perform, leading to reduced .text size in some
cases.
Ayke van Laethem
Justin Clift
Ron Evans
Johan Brandhorst
Yusuke Mitsuki