tinygo/CHANGELOG.md

0.10.0

• command line
  • halt GDB after flashing with gdb subcommand
  • fix a crash when using -ocd-output
  • add info subcommand
  • add -programmer flag
• builder
  • macos: use llvm@8 instead of just llvm in paths
  • add linkerscript key to target JSON files
  • write a symbol table when writing out the compiler-rt lib
  • make Clang header detection more robust
  • switch to LLVM 9
• compiler
  • fix interface miscompilation with reflect
  • fix miscompile of static goroutine calls to closures
  • fix todo: store panic
  • fix incorrect starting value for optimized allocations in a loop
  • optimize coroutines on non-Cortex-M targets
  • fix crash for programs which have heap allocations but never hit the GC
  • add support for async interface calls
  • fix inserting non-const values in a const global
  • interp: improve error reporting
  • interp: implement comparing ptrtoint to 0
• cgo
  • improve diagnostics
  • implement the constant parser (for #define) as a real parser
  • rename reserved field names such as type
  • avoid "unsafe" imported but not used error
  • include all enums in the CGo Go AST
  • add support for nested structs and unions
  • implement #cgo CFLAGS
• standard library
  • reflect: add implementation of array alignment
  • runtime: improve scheduler performance when no goroutines are queued
  • runtime: add blocking select
  • runtime: implement interface equality in non-trivial cases
  • runtime: add AdjustTimeOffset to update current time
  • runtime: only implement CountString for required platforms
  • runtime: use MSP/PSP registers for scheduling on Cortex-M
• targets
  • arm: add system timer registers
  • atmega: add port C GPIO support
  • atsamd21: correct handling of pins >= 32
  • atsamd21: i2s initialization fixes
  • atsamd51: fix clock init code
  • atsamd51: correct initialization for RTC
  • atsamd51: fix pin function selection
  • atsamd51: pin method cleanup
  • atsamd51: allow setting pin mode for each of the SPI pins
  • atsamd51: correct channel init and pin map for ADC based on ItsyBitsy-M4
  • feather-m4: add Adafruit Feather M4 board
  • hifive1b: add support for SPI1
  • hifive1b: fix compiling in simulation
  • linux: fix time on arm32
  • metro-m4: add support for Adafruit Metro M4 Express Airlift board
  • metro-m4: fixes for UART2
  • pinetime-devkit0: add support for the PineTime dev kit
  • x9pro: add support for this smartwatch
  • pca10040-s132v6: add support for SoftDevice
  • pca10056-s140v7: add support for SoftDevice
  • arduino-nano33: added SPI1 connected to NINA-W102 chip on Arduino Nano 33 IOT

0.9.0

• command line
  • implement 1200-baud UART bootloader reset when flashing boards that support it
  • flash using mass-storage device for boards that support it
  • implement tinygo env
  • add support for Windows (but not yet producing Windows binaries)
  • add Go version to tinygo env
  • update SVD files for up-to-date peripheral interfaces
• compiler
  • add //go:align pragma
  • fix bug related to type aliases
  • add support for buffered channels
  • remove incorrect reflect optimization
  • implement copying slices in init interpretation
  • add support for constant indices with a named type
  • add support for recursive types like linked lists
  • fix miscompile of function nil panics
  • fix bug related to goroutines
• standard library
  • machine: do not check for nil slices in SPI.Tx
  • reflectlite: add support for Go 1.13
  • runtime: implement internal/bytealg.CountString
  • sync: properly handle nil New func in sync.Pool
• targets
  • arduino: fix .bss section initialization
  • fe310: implement Pin.Get
  • gameboy-advance: support directly outputting .gba files
  • samd: reduce code size by avoiding reflection
  • samd21: do not hardcode pin numbers for peripherals
  • stm32f103: avoid issue with time.Sleep less than 200µs

0.8.0

• command line
  • fix parsing of beta Go versions
  • check the major/minor installed version of Go before compiling
  • validate -target flag better to not panic on an invalid target
• compiler
  • implement full slice expression: s[:2:4]
  • fix a crash when storing a linked list in an interface
  • fix comparing struct types by making type IDs more unique
  • fix some bugs in IR generation
  • add support for linked lists in reflect data
  • implement []rune to string conversion
  • implement support for go on func values
• standard library
  • reflect: add support for named types
  • reflect: add support for t.Bits()
  • reflect: add basic support for t.AssignableTo()
  • reflect: implement t.Align()
  • reflect: add support for struct types
  • reflect: fix bug in v.IsNil and v.Pointer for addressable values
  • reflect: implement support for array types
  • reflect: implement t.Comparable()
  • runtime: implement stack-based scheduler
  • runtime: fix bug in the sleep queue of the scheduler
  • runtime: implement memcpy for Cortex-M
  • testing: implement stub testing.B struct
  • testing: add common test logging methods such as Errorf/Fatalf/Printf
• targets
  • 386: add support for linux/386 syscalls
  • atsamd21: make SPI pins configurable so that multiple SPI ports can be used
  • atsamd21: correct issue with invalid first reading coming from ADC
  • atsamd21: add support for reset-to-bootloader using 1200baud over USB-CDC
  • atsamd21: make pin selection more flexible for peripherals
  • atsamd21: fix minimum delay in time.Sleep
  • atsamd51: fix minimum delay in time.Sleep
  • nrf: improve SPI write-only speed, by making use of double buffering
  • stm32f103: fix SPI frequency selection
  • stm32f103: add machine.Pin.Get method for reading GPIO values
  • stm32f103: allow board specific UART usage
  • nucleo-f103rb: add support for NUCLEO-F103RB board
  • itsybitsy-m4: add support for this board with a SAMD51 family chip
  • cortex-m: add support for arm.SystemReset()
  • gameboy-advance: add initial support for the GameBoy Advance
  • wasm: add //go:wasm-module magic comment to set the wasm module name
  • wasm: add syscall/js.valueSetIndex support
  • wasm: add syscall/js.valueInvoke support

0.7.1

• targets
  • atsamd21: add support for the -port flag in the flash subcommand

0.7.0

• command line
  • try more locations to find Clang built-in headers
  • add support for tinygo test
  • build current directory if no package is specified
  • support custom .json target spec with -target flag
  • use zversion.go to detect version of GOROOT version
  • make initial heap size configurable for some targets (currently WebAssembly only)
• cgo
  • add support for bitfields using generated getters and setters
  • add support for anonymous structs
• compiler
  • show an error instead of panicking on duplicate function definitions
  • allow packages like github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/src/* by aliasing it
  • remove //go:volatile support
    It has been replaced with the runtime/volatile package.
  • allow poiners in map keys
  • support non-constant syscall numbers
  • implement non-blocking selects
  • add support for the -tags flag
  • add support for string to []rune conversion
  • implement a portable conservative garbage collector (with support for wasm)
  • add the //go:noinline pragma
• standard library
  • os: add os.Exit and syscall.Exit
  • os: add several stubs
  • runtime: fix heap corruption in conservative GC
  • runtime: add support for math intrinsics where supported, massively speeding up some benchmarks
  • testing: add basic support for testing
• targets
  • add support for a generic target that calls __tinygo_* functions for peripheral access
  • arduino-nano33: add support for this board
  • hifive1: add support for this RISC-V board
  • reelboard: add e-paper pins
  • reelboard: add PowerSupplyActive to enable voltage for on-board devices
  • wasm: put the stack at the start of linear memory, to detect stack overflows

0.6.0

• command line
  • some portability improvements
  • make $GOROOT more robust and configurable
  • check for Clang at the Homebrew install location as fallback
• compiler driver
  • support multiple variations of LLVM commands, for non-Debian distributions
• compiler
  • improve code quality in multiple ways
  • make panic configurable, adding trap on panic
  • refactor many internal parts of the compiler
  • print all errors encountered during compilation
  • implement calling function values of a named type
  • implement returning values from blocking functions
  • allow larger-than-int values to be sent across a channel
  • implement complex arithmetic
  • improve hashmap support
  • add debuginfo for function arguments
  • insert nil checks on stores (increasing code size)
  • implement volatile operations as compiler builtins
  • add //go:inline pragma
  • add build tags for the Go stdlib version
• cgo
  • implement char, enum and void* types
  • support #include for builtin headers
  • improve typedef/struct/enum support
  • only include symbols that are necessary, for broader support
  • mark external function args as nocapture
  • implement support for some #define constants
  • implement support for multiple CGo files in a single package

• standard library
  • machine: remove microbit matrix (moved to drivers repository)
  • machine: refactor pins to use Pin type instead of GPIO
  • runtime: print more interface types on panic, including error

• targets
  • arm: print an error on HardFault (including stack overflows)
  • atsamd21: fix a bug in the ADC peripheral
  • atsamd21: add support for I2S
  • feather-m0: add support for this board
  • nrf51: fix a bug in I2C
  • stm32f103xx: fix a bug in I2C
  • syscall: implement Exit on unix
  • trinket-m0: add support for this board
  • wasm: make main example smaller
  • wasm: don't cache wasm file in the server, for ease of debugging
  • wasm: work around bug #41508 that caused a deadlock while linking
  • wasm: add support for js.FuncOf

0.5.0

• compiler driver
  • use wasm-ld instead of wasm-ld-8 on macOS
  • drop dependency on llvm-ar
  • fix linker script includes when running outside TINYGOROOT
• compiler
  • switch to LLVM 8
  • add support for the Go 1.12 standard library (Go 1.11 is still supported)
  • work around lack of escape analysis due to nil checks
  • implement casting named structs and pointers to them
  • fix int casting to use the source signedness
  • fix some bugs around make([]T, …) with uncommon index types
  • some other optimizations
  • support interface asserts in interp for "math/rand" support
  • resolve all func value targets at compile time (wasm-only at the moment)
• cgo
  • improve diagnostics
  • implement C struct, union, and arrays
  • fix CGo-related crash in libclang
  • implement C.struct_ types
• targets
  • all baremetal: pretend to be linux/arm instead of js/wasm
  • avr: improve uintptr support
  • cortexm: implement memmove intrinsic generated by LLVM
  • cortexm: use the lld linker instead of arm-none-eabi-ld
  • darwin: use custom syscall package that links to libSystem.dylib
  • microbit: add blink example
  • samd21: support I2C1
  • samd21: machine/atsamd21: correct pad/pin handling when using both UART and USBCDC interfaces at same time
  • stm32f4discovery: add support for this board
  • wasm: support async func values
  • wasm: improve documentation and add extra example

0.4.1

• compiler
  • fix objcopy replacement to include the .data section in the firmware image
  • use llvm-ar-7 on Linux to fix the Docker image

0.4.0

• compiler
  • switch to the hardfloat ABI on ARM, which is more widely used
  • avoid a dependency on objcopy (arm-none-eabi-objcopy etc.)
  • fix a bug in make([]T, n) where n is 64-bits on a 32-bit platform
  • adapt to a change in the AVR backend in LLVM 8
  • directly support the .uf2 firmware format as used on Adafruit boards
  • fix a bug when calling panic() at init time outside of the main package
  • implement nil checks, which results in a ~5% increase in code size
  • inline slice bounds checking, which results in a ~1% decrease in code size
• targets
  • samd21: fix a bug in port B pins
  • samd21: implement SPI peripheral
  • samd21: implement ADC peripheral
  • stm32: fix a bug in timekeeping
  • wasm: fix a bug in wasm_exec.js that caused corruption in linear memory when running on Node.js.

0.3.0

• compiler
  • remove old -initinterp flag
  • add support for macOS
• cgo
  • add support for bool/float/complex types
• standard library
  • device/arm: add support to disable/enable hardware interrupts
  • machine: add CPU frequency for nrf-based boards
  • syscall: add support for darwin/amd64
• targets
  • circuitplay_express: add support for this board
  • microbit: add regular pin constants
  • samd21: fix time function for goroutine support
  • samd21: add support for USB-CDC (serial over USB)
  • samd21: add support for pins in port B
  • samd21: add support for pullup and pulldown pins
  • wasm: add support for Safari in example

0.2.0

• command line
  • add version subcommand
• compiler
  • fix a bug in floating point comparisons with NaN values
  • fix a bug when calling panic in package initialization code
  • add support for comparing complex64 and complex128
• cgo
  • add support for external globals
  • add support for pointers and function pointers
• standard library
  • fmt: initial support, fmt.Println works
  • math: support for most/all functions
  • os: initial support (only stdin/stdout/stderr)
  • reflect: initial support
  • syscall: add support for amd64, arm, and arm64