This is the same problem as in
https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/pull/605, but other targets also
suffer from it.
Discovered with the GBA target, but as pointed out in
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42881#c1 this appears to be a bug
in the way external globals are declared, not in LLVM. Therefore I
decided that fixing it everywhere would be the best thing to do.
This scheduler is intended to live along the (stackless) coroutine based
scheduler which is needed for WebAssembly and unsupported platforms. The
stack based scheduler is somewhat simpler in implementation as it does
not require full program transform passes and supports things like
function pointers and interface methods out of the box with no changes.
Code size is reduced in most cases, even in the case where no scheduler
scheduler is used at all. I'm not exactly sure why but these changes
likely allowed some further optimizations somewhere. Even RAM is
slightly reduced, perhaps some global was elminated in the process as
well.
See the following bug: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42881
I think this is a bug in LLVM, but the code in question wasn't the best
code anyway. By fixing this, about 16 bytes of code are saved on ARM
chips (and much more on AVR).
This is very useful for debugging. It differentiates between a stack
overflow and other errors (because it's easy to see when a stack
overflow occurs) and prints the old stack pointer and program counter if
available.
So far, we've pretended to be js/wasm in baremetal targets to make the
stdlib happy. Unfortunately, this has various problems because
syscall/js (a dependency of many stdlib packages) thinks it can do JS
calls, and emulating them gets quite hard with all changes to the
syscall/js packages in Go 1.12.
This commit does a few things:
* It lets baremetal targets pretend to be linux/arm instead of
js/wasm.
* It lets the loader only select particular packages from the src
overlay, instead of inserting them just before GOROOT. This makes it
possible to pick which packages to overlay for a given target.
* It adds a baremetal-only syscall package that stubs out almost all
syscalls.
Ayke van Laethem