7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Ayke van Laethem c4fd19be99 compiler: refactor public interface
This commit merges NewCompiler and Compile into one simplifying the
external interface. More importantly, it does away with the entire
Compiler object so the public API becomes a lot smaller.

The refactor is not complete: eventually, the compiler should just
compile a single package without trying to load it first (that should be
done by the builder package).
2020-03-25 20:17:46 +01:00
Ayke van Laethem 349ecf1736 compiler: rename Compiler.getValue -> builder.getValue
This is a fairly big commit, but it actually changes very little.
getValue should really be a property of the builder (or frame), where
the previously created instructions are kept.
2020-03-25 20:17:46 +01:00
Ayke van Laethem d5e11fa19b compiler: do not emit debug info for extern globals
This results in a link error in the following commit (undefined
reference to runtime.trackedGlobalsBitmap from .debug_info). Solution:
don't emit debug info for declared but not defined symbols.
2020-01-20 20:30:42 +01:00
Ayke van Laethem 3e521f710a compiler: add support for debugging globals
This makes most globals visible from GDB, using `info variables`.
2020-01-07 20:20:19 +01:00
Ayke van Laethem cf2a7b5089 compiler: add //go:align pragma
This is sometimes needed for globals. For example, the atsamd21 chip
requires the DMA buffers to be aligned on a 16 byte boundary.
2019-09-18 20:15:17 +02:00
Ayke van Laethem 10ed3decb0 compiler: rename getZeroValue to llvm.ConstNull
It does the same thing but should be more complete, and it probably is
faster as well (just one CGo call instead of several).
2019-09-15 19:09:10 +02:00
Ayke van Laethem b0e767c4a7 compiler: move global handling from ir to compiler package
This is part of a larger rafactor that tries to shrink the ir package
and in general tries to shrink the amount of state that is kept around
in the compiler. The end goal is being able to compile packages
independent of each other, linking them together in a later stage. Along
the way, it cleans up lots of old cruft that has accumulated over the
months.

This refactor also results in globals being loaded lazily. This may be a
problem for some specific programs but will probably change back in a
commit in the near future.
2019-06-08 22:17:09 +02:00