This adds support for `-gc=boehm` on `-target=wasip1` and `-target=wasm`
(in a browser or NodeJS). Notably it does *not* add Boehm GC support for
`-target=wasip2`, since that target doesn't have a real libc.
For the threads scheduler, it makes sense to have NumCPU available.
For all other schedulers, the number of available CPUs is practically
limited to one by the scheduler (even though the system might have more
CPUs).
Instead of relying on a build when TinyGo is being built, do it like all
other libraries when it is needed.
This brings a few benefits:
* No more running `make wasi-libc` on the command line as a special
case for WebAssembly. The generic `git submodule update --init` step
is now enough for wasi-libc.
* It becomes much easier to customize the build per system. For
example: include/exclude malloc as needed, disable/enable bulk
memory operations per target, etc.
This adds support for the well-known Boehm GC. It's significantly faster
than our own naive GC and could be used as an alternative on bigger
systems.
In the future, this GC might also be supported on WebAssembly with some
extra work. Right now it's Linux only (though Windows/MacOS shouldn't be
too difficult to add).
This requires an API introduced in MacOS 11. I think that's fine, since
the version before that (MacOS 10.15) is EOL since 2022. Though if
needed, we could certainly work around it by using an older and slightly
less nice API.
The C printf function is sometimes needed for C files included using
CGo. This commit makes sure they're available on all systems where CGo
is fully supported (that is, everywhere except on AVR).
For baremetal systems using picolibc, I've picked the integer-only
version of printf to save on flash size. We might want to consider
providing a way to pick the floating point version instead, if needed.
These libraries will be automatically built when needed and cached.
The main reason these were needed is for play.tinygo.org, but I've now
prebuilt them there directly (so they don't need to be built for every
tarball).
This function is needed for Go 1.22, and is used from various packages
like math/rand.
When there is no random number generator available, it falls back to a
static sequence of numbers. I think this is fine, because as far as I
can see it is only used for non-cryptographic needs.
This is a big change: apart from removing LLVM 14 it also removes typed
pointer support (which was only fully supported in LLVM up to version
14). This removes about 200 lines of code, but more importantly removes
a ton of special cases for LLVM 14.
This gives some more optimization opportunities to LLVM, because it
understands these intrinsics. For example, it might convert
llvm.sqrt.f64 to llvm.sqrt.f32 if possible.
Arch Linux has turned on the stack protector by default.
This causes a crash in libc init because the stack protector uses TLS before it is initialized.
This commit adds support for musl-libc and uses it by default on Linux.
The main benefit of it is that binaries are always statically linked
instead of depending on the host libc, even when using CGo.
Advantages:
- The resulting binaries are always statically linked.
- No need for any tools on the host OS, like a compiler, linker, or
libc in a release build of TinyGo.
- This also simplifies cross compilation as no cross compiler is
needed (it's all built into the TinyGo release build).
Disadvantages:
- Binary size increases by 5-6 kilobytes if -no-debug is used. Binary
size increases by a much larger margin when debugging symbols are
included (the default behavior) because musl is built with debugging
symbols enabled.
- Musl does things a bit differently than glibc, and some CGo code
might rely on the glibc behavior.
- The first build takes a bit longer because musl needs to be built.
As an additional bonus, time is now obtained from the system in a way
that fixes the Y2038 problem because musl has been a bit more agressive
in switching to 64-bit time_t.
Ayke van Laethem
leongross
Damian Gryski
Dan Kegel
Nia Waldvogel