avr: properly support the .rodata section

Unfortunately, the .rodata section can't be stored in flash. Instead, an
explicit .progmem section should be used, which is supported in LLVM as
address space 1 but not exposed to normal programs.

Eventually a pass should be written that converts trivial const globals
of which all loads are visible to be in addrspace 1, to get the benefits
of storing those globals directly in ROM.
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Ayke van Laethem
2020-10-31 20:40:20 +01:00
committed by Ron Evans
parent 3364da6f25
commit 171f793c1e
6 changed files with 4 additions and 44 deletions
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@@ -117,18 +117,6 @@ func Build(pkgName, outpath string, config *compileopts.Config, action func(Buil
return errors.New("verification failure after LLVM optimization passes")
}
// On the AVR, pointers can point either to flash or to RAM, but we don't
// know. As a temporary fix, load all global variables in RAM.
// In the future, there should be a compiler pass that determines which
// pointers are flash and which are in RAM so that pointers can have a
// correct address space parameter (address space 1 is for flash).
if strings.HasPrefix(config.Triple(), "avr") {
transform.NonConstGlobals(mod)
if err := llvm.VerifyModule(mod, llvm.PrintMessageAction); err != nil {
return errors.New("verification error after making all globals non-constant on AVR")
}
}
// LLVM 11 by default tries to emit tail calls (even with the target feature
// disabled) unless it is explicitly disabled with a function attribute.
// This is a problem, as it tries to emit them and prints an error when it