gc: use raw stack access whenever possible

The only architecture that actually needs special support for scanning
the stack is WebAssembly. All others allow raw access to the stack with
a small bit of assembly. Therefore, don't manually keep track of all
these objects on the stack manually and instead just use conservative
stack scanning.

This results in a massive code size decrease in the affected targets
(only tested linux/amd64 for code size) - sometimes around 33%. It also
allows for future improvements such as using proper stackful goroutines.
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Ayke van Laethem
2020-09-25 16:09:37 +02:00
committed by Ron Evans
parent bfa29f17da
commit 67de8b490d
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.section .text.tinygo_scanCurrentStack
.global tinygo_scanCurrentStack
.type tinygo_scanCurrentStack, %function
tinygo_scanCurrentStack:
// Sources:
// * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18024672/what-registers-are-preserved-through-a-linux-x86-64-function-call
// * https://godbolt.org/z/q7e8dn
// Save callee-saved registers.
pushl %ebx
pushl %esi
pushl %edi
pushl %ebp
// Scan the stack.
pushl %esp
calll tinygo_scanstack
// Restore the stack pointer. Registers do not need to be restored as they
// were only pushed to be discoverable by the GC.
addl $20, %esp
retl