Previously we used to scan between _edata and _end. This is not correct:
the .data section starts *before* _edata.
Fixing this would mean changing _edata to _etext, but that didn't quite
work either. It appears that there are inaccessible pages between _etext
and _end on ARM. Therefore, a different solution was needed.
What I've implemented is similar to Windows and MacOS: namely, finding
writable segments by parsing the program header of the currently running
program. It's a lot more verbose, but it should be correct on all
architectures. It probably also reduces the globals to scan to those
that _really_ need to be scanned.
This bug didn't result in issues in CI, but did result in a bug in the
recover branch: https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/pull/2331. This
patch fixes this bug.
Precise globals require a whole program optimization pass that is hard
to support when building packages separately. This patch removes support
for these globals by converting the last use (Linux) to use
linker-defined symbols instead.
For details, see: https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/issues/2870
Do it all at once in preparation for Go 1.18 support.
To make this commit, I've simply modified the `fmt-check` Makefile
target to rewrite files instead of listing the differences. So this is a
fully mechanical change, it should not have introduced any errors.
This function previously returned the atomic time, that isn't affected
by system time changes but also has a time base at some arbitrary time
in the past. This makes sense for baremetal platforms (which typically
don't know the wall time) but it gives surprising results on Linux and
macOS: time.Now() usually returns a time somewhere near the start of
1970.
This commit fixes this by obtaining both time values: the monotonic time
and the wall clock time. This is also how the Go runtime implements the
time.now function.
This commit does two things:
1. It makes it possible to grow the heap on Linux and MacOS by
allocating 1GB of virtual memory on startup and then slowly using it
as necessary, when running out of available heap space.
2. It switches the default GC to be the conservative GC (previously
extalloc). This is good for consistency with other platforms that
all use this same GC.
This makes the extalloc GC unused by default.
Yurii Soldak
Ayke van Laethem
Dan Kegel