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.
Ayke van Laethem
Jaden Weiss