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).
There were a few issues that were causing qemu-system-arm and
qemu-system-riscv to give the wrong exit codes. They are in fact capable
of exiting with 0 or 1 signalled from the running application, but this
functionality wasn't used. This commit changes this in the following
ways:
* It fixes SemiHosting codes, which were incorrectly written in
decimal while they should have been written in hexadecimal (oops!).
* It modifies all the baremetal main functions (aka reset handlers) to
exit with `exit(0)` instead of `abort()`.
* It changes `syscall.Exit` to call `exit(code)` instead of `abort()`
on baremetal targets.
* It adds these new exit functions where necessary, implemented in a
way that signals the correct exit status if running under QEMU.
All in all, this means that `tinygo test` doesn't have to look at the
output of a test to determine the outcome. It can simply look at the
exit code.
This means that machine.UART0, machine.UART1, etc are of type
*machine.UART, not machine.UART. This makes them easier to pass around
and avoids surprises when they are passed around by value while they
should be passed around by reference.
There is a small code size impact in some cases, but it is relatively
minor.
There is no reason to specialize this per chip as it is only ever used
for JavaScript. Not only that, it is causing confusion and is yet
another quirk to learn when porting the runtime to a new
microcontroller.
On some boards the FPU is already enabled on startup, probably as part
of the bootloader. On other chips it was enabled as part of the runtime
startup code. In all these cases, enabling the FPU is currently
unsupported: the automatic stack sizing of goroutines assumes that the
processor won't need to reserve space for FPU registers. Enabling the
FPU therefore can lead to a stack overflow.
This commit either removes the code that enables the FPU, or simply
disables it in startup code. A future change should fully enable the FPU
so that operations on float32 can be performed by the FPU instead of in
software, greatly speeding up such code.
This reduces current consumption from 500-1000µA to very low (<10µA)
current consumption. This change is important for battery powered
devices, especially devices that may be running for long periods of
time.
- Fix UART & putChar
- Timer-based sleep
- Enable systick in abort
- Buffered, interrupt-based UART TX
- Use the new interrupt API and fix sleepTicks
- Make pins behave more like other boards
- Use the MCU's UART numbering
- Allow interrupts to wake the scheduler (#1214)
Ayke van Laethem
Damian Gryski
Ethan Reesor