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.
We have an optimization for this specific pattern, but it's really just
a hack. With the addition of unsafe.Add in Go 1.17 we can directly
specify the intent instead and eventually remove this special case.
The code is also easier to read.
Go 1.19 started reformatting code in a way that makes it more obvious
how it will be rendered on pkg.go.dev. It gets it almost right, but not
entirely. Therefore, I had to modify some of the comments so that they
are formatted correctly.
In the early days of TinyGo, the idea of `postinit` was to enable
interrupts only after initializers have run. Which kind of makes
sense... except that `time.Sleep` is allowed in init code and
`time.Sleep` requires interrupts to be enabled. Therefore, interrupts
must be enabled while initializers are being run.
This commit simply moves the enabling of interrupts to a point right
before running package initializers. It also removes `runtime.postinit`,
which is not necessary anymore (and was only used on AVR).
Dan Kegel
Ayke van Laethem