When the underlying value of an interface does not fit in a pointer, a
pointer to the value was correctly inserted in the heap. However, the
receiving method still assumed it got the underlying value instead of a
pointer to it leading to a crash.
This commit inserts wrapper functions for method calls on interfaces.
The bug wasn't obvious as on a 64-bit system, the underlying value was
almost always put directly in the interface. However, it led to a crash
on the AVR platform where pointer are (usually) just 16 bits making it
far more likely that underlying values cannot be directly stored in an
interface.
Make sure package initializers show up in backtraces, as they should. In
practice, it doesn't actually break backtraces as these functions are
usually inlined anyway, but it may help to debug an error in
initialization code.
Be more compatible with the Go toolchain by setting GOPATH in the same
way. This makes it possible to flash and run examples from the standard
GOPATH instead of only from the source tree.
This is one step towards removing unnecessary special casts in most
cases. It is also part of removing as much magic as possible from the
compiler (the pragma is explicit, the special name is not).
Use fields of small structs (3 or less fields when flattened
recursively) directly as parameter values.
Advantages:
* Code size is slightly reduced, both on unix and nrf.
* AVR can finally deal with struct parameters - at least the small
ones. examples/test now compiles. A real fix for struct parameters
should go into upstream LLVM, but this is a nice win.
fixes#20
Ayke van Laethem