This converts the existing const parser to the basics of a Pratt parser,
following the book "Writing An Interpreter In Go" by Thorsten Ball. It
doesn't really do anything interesting yet, it simply converts the
existing code (with existing tests) to the new structure.
The markExternal function is used when a global (function or global
variable) is somehow run at runtime. All the other globals it refers to
are from then on no longer known at compile time, so can't be used by
the interp package anymore.
This can also include inline assembly. While it is possible to modify
globals that way, it is only possible to modify exported globals:
similar to calling an undefined function (in C for example).
This commit disables the Clang static analyzer and ARCMigrate components
of Clang. These aren't used at the moment in TinyGo so don't need to be
enabled. This reduces the build by 200 files (2909 -> 2709).
The idea comes from here (via LLVM weekly):
https://www.cambus.net/speedbuilding-llvm-clang-in-5-minutes/
Previously, the machine.UART0 object had two meanings:
- it was the first UART on the chip
- it was the default output for println
These two meanings conflict, and resulted in workarounds like:
- Defining UART0 to refer to the USB-CDC interface (atsamd21,
atsamd51, nrf52840), even though that clearly isn't an UART.
- Defining NRF_UART0 to avoid a conflict with UART0 (which was
redefined as a USB-CDC interface).
- Defining aliases like UART0 = UART1, which refer to the same
hardware peripheral (stm32).
This commit changes this to use a new machine.Serial object for the
default serial port. It might refer to the first or second UART
depending on the board, or even to the USB-CDC interface. Also, UART0
now really refers to the first UART on the chip, no longer to a USB-CDC
interface.
The changes in the runtime package are all just search+replace. The
changes in the machine package are a mixture of search+replace and
manual modifications.
This commit does not affect binary size, in fact it doesn't affect the
resulting binary at all.
This means that machine.UART0, machine.UART1, etc are of type
*machine.UART, not machine.UART. This makes them easier to pass around
and avoids surprises when they are passed around by value while they
should be passed around by reference.
There is a small code size impact in some cases, but it is relatively
minor.
Make the USBCDC use a pointer receiver everywhere. This makes it easier
to pass around the object in the future.
This commit sometimes changes code size, but not significantly (a few
bytes) and usually in a positive way.
My eventual goal is the following:
- Declare `machine.USB` (or similar, name TBD) as a pointer receiver
for the USB-CDC interface.
- Let `machine.UART0` always point to an UART, never actually to a
USBCDC object.
- Define `machine.Serial`, which is either a real UART or an USB-CDC,
depending on the board.
This way, if you want a real UART you can use machine.UARTx and if you
just want to print to the default serial port, you can use
machine.Serial.
This change does have an effect on code size and memory consumption.
There is often a small reduction (-8 bytes) in RAM consumption and an
increase in flash consumption.
Make the GC globals scan phase conservative instead of precise on
WebAssembly. This reduces code size at the risk of introducing some
false positives.
This is a stopgap measure to mitigate an issue with the precise scanning
of globals that doesn't track all pointers. It works for regular globals
but globals created in the interp package don't always have a type and
therefore may be missed by the AddGlobalsBitmap pass.
The same issue is present on Linux and macOS, but is not as noticeable
there.
This results in smaller and likely more efficient code. It does require
some architecture specific code for each architecture, but I've kept the
amount of code as small as possible.
The next commit will change the implementation of func values on Linux
as a result of switching to a task-based scheduler. To keep the
compiler/testdata/func.go test working as expected, switch to
WebAssembly tests.
There is no reason to specialize this per chip as it is only ever used
for JavaScript. Not only that, it is causing confusion and is yet
another quirk to learn when porting the runtime to a new
microcontroller.
This commit improves the timers on various microcontrollers to better
deal with counter wraparound. The result is a reduction in RAM size of
around 12 bytes and a small effect (sometimes positive, sometimes
negative) on flash consumption. But perhaps more importantly: getting
the current time is now interrupt-safe (it previously could result in a
race condition) and the timer will now be correct when the timer isn't
retrieved for a long duration. Before this commit, a call to `time.Now`
more than 8 minutes after the previous call could result in an incorrect
time.
For more details, see:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/microcontrollers/correct-timing-by-timer-overflow-count/msg749617/#msg749617
This commit makes the output of `tinygo test` similar to that of `go
test`. It changes the following things in the process:
* Running multiple tests in a single command is now possible. They
aren't paralellized yet.
* Packages with no test files won't crash TinyGo, instead it logs it
in the same way the Go toolchain does.
With this is possible to enable e.g., SIMD in WASM using -llvm-features
+simd128. Multiple features can be specified separated by comma,
e.g., -llvm-features +simd128,+tail-call
With help from @deadprogram and @aykevl.
It is always implemented exactly the same way (as an uint8) so there is
no reason to implement it in each target separately.
This also makes it easier to add some documentation to it.
Instead, leave args at its default value (which provides a fake argv[0] as it has for a long time).
linux and mac do not seem affected.
Fixes#1862 (tinygo apps after v0.17.0-113-g7b761fa crash if run without argv[0])
This commit does two things:
1. It makes it possible to grow the heap on Linux and MacOS by
allocating 1GB of virtual memory on startup and then slowly using it
as necessary, when running out of available heap space.
2. It switches the default GC to be the conservative GC (previously
extalloc). This is good for consistency with other platforms that
all use this same GC.
This makes the extalloc GC unused by default.
This heap allocation would normally be optimized away, but with -opt=0
perhaps not. This is a problem if the conservative GC is used, because
the conservative GC needs to be initialized before use.
These two passes are related, but can definitely work independently.
Which is what this change does: it splits the two passes. This should
make it easier to change these two new passes in the future.
This change now also enables slightly better testing by testing these
two passes independently. In particular, the reflect lowering pass got
some actual tests: it was barely unit-tested before.
I have verified that this doesn't really change code size, at least not
on the microbit target. Two tests do change, but in a very minor way
(and in opposite direction).
The CircleCI macOS builds are failing, probably due to the old macOS
version that's used. This version (10.13 High Sierra) isn't supported
anymore on Homebrew so it seems best to me to simply bump the version.
I picked Xcode 11.1.0 because 10.3.0 is somehow triggering an error
while trying to install QEMU (the Python install fails).
Because of this newer Xcode version, I had to add an extra flag
(-isysroot) to the default command line for MacOS. The reason is that
this newer Xcode version no longer stores header files in /usr/local, an
SDK must be specified manually. With this change, the default SDK is
used.
Since 2018, Arduino Nanos and clones are sold with a new bootloader, which
requires programming at 115200 baud instead of the 57600 baud required
by the old one.
In many cases, position information is not stored in Go SSA instructions
because they don't exit directly in the source code. This includes
implicit type conversions, implicit returns at the end of a function,
the creation of a (hidden) slice when calling a variadic function, and
many other cases. I'm not sure where this information is supposed to
come from, but this patch takes the value (usually) from the value the
instruction refers to. This seems to work well for these implicit
conversions.
I've also added a few extra tests to the heap-to-stack transform pass,
of which one requires this improved position information.
On some boards the FPU is already enabled on startup, probably as part
of the bootloader. On other chips it was enabled as part of the runtime
startup code. In all these cases, enabling the FPU is currently
unsupported: the automatic stack sizing of goroutines assumes that the
processor won't need to reserve space for FPU registers. Enabling the
FPU therefore can lead to a stack overflow.
This commit either removes the code that enables the FPU, or simply
disables it in startup code. A future change should fully enable the FPU
so that operations on float32 can be performed by the FPU instead of in
software, greatly speeding up such code.
- Add some extra fields: FPUPresent, CPU and NVICPrioBits which may
come in handy at a later time (and are easy to add).
- Rename DEVICE to Device, to match Go style.
This is in preparation to the next commit, which requires the FPUPresent
flag.
This commit replaces most heap allocations in USB related code with
stack allocations. This is important for several reasons:
- It avoids running the GC unnecessarily.
- It reduces code size by 400-464 bytes.
- USB code might be called from interrupt handlers. The heap may be in
an inconsistent state when that happens if main thread code also
performs heap allocations.
The last one is by far the most important one: not doing heap
allocations in interrupts is critical for correctness. But the code size
reduction alone should be worth it.
There are two heap allocations in USB related code left: in the function
receiveUSBControlPacket (SAMD21 and SAMD51). This heap allocation must
also be removed because it runs in an interrupt, but I've left that for
a future change.
This allows better escape analysis even without being able to see the
entire program. This makes the stack allocation test case more complete
but probably won't have much of an effect outside of that (as the
compiler is able to infer these attributes in the whole-program
functionattrs pass).
This flag, if set, is a regexp for function names. If there are heap
allocations in the matching function names, these heap allocations will
be printed with an explanation why the heap allocation exists (and why
the object can't be stack allocated).
This allows for adding more advanced tests, for example tests that use
the compiler package so that test sources can be written in Go instead
of LLVM IR.
The interp package is in many cases able to execute map functions in the
runtime directly. This is probably slower than adding special support
for them in the interp package and also doesn't cover all cases (most
importantly, map keys that contain pointers) but removing this code also
removes a large amount of code that needs to be maintained and is
susceptible to hard-to-find bugs.
As a side effect, this resulted in different output of the
testdata/map.go test because the test relied on the existing iteration
order of TinyGo maps. I've updated the test to not rely on this test,
making the output compatible with what the Go toolchain would output.
Ayke van Laethem
Federico G. Schwindt
sago35
Yurii Soldak
Kenneth Bell
Dan Kegel
Olivier Fauchon
Raqbit
deadprogram