I managed to get CGo sort-of working in VSCode (meaning that it will
typecheck code in the IDE itself) using a few crude hacks, but it
requires a few minor changes to the TinyGo standard library.
I intend to eventually add this support in the TinyGo extension for
VSCode directly, but for now I've manually updated .vscode/settings.json
to get IDE support. In any case, it would be nice to have this for when
I hopefully add this to the TinyGo extension eventually.
If an interrupt happens between the writes to SPL and SPH, the stack
pointer is inconsistent and terrible things will happen. Therefore,
disable interrupts while updating the stack pointer.
Interrupts are restored _before_ the write to SPH. This is safe, because
interrupts are re-enabled with a one cycle delay. The avr-gcc and Clang
compilers do the same thing when they need to update the stack pointer.
It's almost impossible to test for this bug, but it should make firmware
just a little bit more reliable.
The Cortex-M target isn't much changed, but much of the logic for the
AVR stack switcher that was previously in assembly has now been moved to
Go to make it more maintainable and in fact smaller in code size. Three
functions (tinygo_getCurrentStackPointer, tinygo_switchToTask,
tinygo_switchToScheduler) have been changed to one: tinygo_swapTask.
This reduction in assembly code should make the code more maintainable
and should make it easier to port stack switching to other
architectures.
I've also moved the assembly files to src/internal/task, which seems
like a more appropriate location to me.
Dan Kegel
Ayke van Laethem