tinygo/CHANGELOG.md

0.14.1

• command-line
  • support for Go 1.15
• compiler
  • loader: work around Windows symlink limitation

0.14.0

• command-line
  • fix getDefaultPort() on non-English Windows locales
  • compileopts: improve error reporting of unsupported flags
  • fix test subcommand
  • use auto-retry to locate MSD for UF2 and HEX flashing
  • fix touchSerialPortAt1200bps on Windows
  • support package names with backslashes on Windows
• compiler
  • fix a few crashes due to named types
  • add support for atomic operations
  • move the channel blocked list onto the stack
  • fix -gc=none
  • fix named string to []byte slice conversion
  • implement func value and builtin defers
  • add proper parameter names to runtime.initAll, to fix a panic
  • builder: fix picolibc include path
  • builder: use newer version of gohex
  • builder: try to determine stack size information at compile time
  • builder: remove -opt=0
  • interp: fix sync/atomic.Value load/store methods
  • loader: add Go module support
  • transform: fix debug information in func lowering pass
  • transform: do not special-case zero or one implementations of a method call
  • transform: introduce check for method calls on nil interfaces
  • transform: gc: track 0-index GEPs to fix miscompilation
• cgo
  • Add LDFlags support
• standard library
  • extend stdlib to allow import of more packages
  • replace master/slave terminology with appropriate alternatives (MOSI->SDO etc)
  • internal/bytealg: reimplement bytealg in pure Go
  • internal/task: fix nil panic in (*internal/task.Stack).Pop
  • os: add Args and stub it with mock data
  • os: implement virtual filesystem support
  • reflect: add Cap and Len support for map and chan
  • runtime: fix return address in scheduler on RISC-V
  • runtime: avoid recursion in printuint64 function
  • runtime: replace ReadRegister with AsmFull inline assembly
  • runtime: fix compilation errors when using gc.extalloc
  • runtime: add cap and len support for chans
  • runtime: refactor time handling (improving accuracy)
  • runtime: make channels work in interrupts
  • runtime/interrupt: add cross-chip disable/restore interrupt support
  • sync: implement sync.Cond
  • sync: add WaitGroup
• targets
  • arm: allow nesting in DisableInterrupts and EnableInterrupts
  • arm: make FPU configuraton consistent
  • arm: do not mask fault handlers in critical sections
  • atmega2560: fix pin mapping for pins D2, D5 and the L port
  • atsamd: return an error when an incorrect PWM pin is used
  • atsamd: add support for pin change interrupts
  • atsamd: add DAC support
  • atsamd21: add more ADC pins
  • atsamd51: fix ROM / RAM size on atsamd51j20
  • atsamd51: add more pins
  • atsamd51: add more ADC pins
  • atsamd51: add pin change interrupt settings
  • atsamd51: extend pinPadMapping
  • arduino-nano33: use (U)SB flag to ensure that device can be found when not on default port
  • arduino-nano33: remove (d)ebug flag to reduce console noise when flashing
  • avr: use standard pin numbering
  • avr: unify GPIO pin/port code
  • avr: add support for PinInputPullup
  • avr: work around codegen bug in LLVM 10
  • avr: fix target triple
  • fe310: remove extra println left in by mistake
  • feather-nrf52840: add support for the Feather nRF52840
  • maixbit: add board definition and dummy runtime
  • nintendoswitch: Add experimental Nintendo Switch support without CRT
  • nrf: expose the RAM base address
  • nrf: add support for pin change interrupts
  • nrf: add microbit-s110v8 target
  • nrf: fix bug in SPI.Tx
  • nrf: support debugging the PCA10056
  • pygamer: add Adafruit PyGamer suport
  • riscv: fix interrupt configuration bug
  • riscv: disable linker relaxations during gp init
  • stm32f4disco: add new target with ST-Link v2.1 debugger
  • teensy36: add Teensy 3.6 support
  • wasm: fix event handling
  • wasm: add --no-demangle linker option
  • wioterminal: add support for the Seeed Wio Terminal
  • xiao: add support for the Seeed XIAO

0.13.1

• standard library
  • runtime: do not put scheduler and GC code in the same section
  • runtime: copy stack scan assembly for GBA
• boards
  • gameboy-advance: always use ARM mode instead of Thumb mode

0.13.0

• command line
  • use gdb-multiarch for debugging Cortex-M chips
  • support tinygo run with simavr
  • support LLVM 10
  • support Go 1.14
  • retry 3 times when attempting to do a 1200-baud reset
• compiler
  • mark the abort function as noreturn
  • fix deferred calls to exported functions
  • add debug info for local variables
  • check for channel size limit
  • refactor coroutine lowering
  • add dereferenceable_or_null attribute to pointer parameters
  • do not perform nil checking when indexing slices and on unsafe.Pointer
  • remove runtime.isnil hack
  • use LLVM builtins for runtime memcpy/memmove/memzero functions
  • implement spec-compliant shifts on negative/overflow
  • support anonymous type asserts
  • track pointer result of string concatenation for GC
  • track PHI nodes for GC
  • add debug info to goroutine start wrappers
  • optimize comparing interface values against nil
  • fix miscompilation when deferring an interface call
  • builder: include picolibc for most baremetal targets
  • builder: run tools (clang, lld) as separate processes
  • builder: use -fshort-enums consistently
  • interp: add support for constant type asserts
  • interp: better support for interface operations
  • interp: include backtrace with error
  • transform: do not track const globals for GC
  • transform: replace panics with source locations
  • transform: fix error in interface lowering pass
  • transform: make coroutine lowering deterministic
  • transform: fix miscompilation in func lowering
• cgo
  • make -I and -L paths absolute
• standard library
  • machine: set the USB VID and PID to the manufacturer values
  • machine: correct USB CDC composite descriptors
  • machine: move errors.New calls to globals
  • runtime: support operations on nil maps
  • runtime: fix copy builtin return value on AVR
  • runtime: refactor goroutines
  • runtime: support -scheduler=none on most platforms
  • runtime: run package initialization in the main goroutine
  • runtime: export malloc / free for use from C
  • runtime: add garbage collector that uses an external allocator
  • runtime: scan callee-saved registers while marking the stack
  • runtime: remove recursion from conservative GC
  • runtime: fix blocking select on nil channel
  • runtime/volatile: include ReplaceBits method
  • sync: implement trivial sync.Map
• targets
  • arm: use -fomit-frame-pointer
  • atmega1284: support this chip for testing purposes
  • atsamd51: make QSPI available on all boards
  • atsamd51: add support for ADC1
  • atsamd51: use new interrupt registration in UART code
  • attiny: clean up pin definitions
  • avr: use the correct RAM start address
  • avr: pass the correct -mmcu flag to the linker
  • avr: add support for tasks scheduler (disabled by default)
  • avr: fix linker problem with overlapping program/data areas
  • nrf: fix typo in pin configuration options
  • nrf: add lib/nrfx/mdk to include dirs
  • nrf52840: implement USB-CDC
  • riscv: implement VirtIO target and add RISC-V integration test
  • riscv: add I2C support for the HiFive1 rev B board
  • stm32: refactor GPIO pin handling
  • stm32: refactor UART code
  • stm32f4: add SPI
  • wasm: support Go 1.14 (breaking previous versions)
  • wasm: support syscall/js.CopyBytesToJS
  • wasm: sync polyfills from Go 1.14.
• boards
  • arduino-mega2560: add the Arduino Mega 2560
  • clue-alpha: add the Adafruit CLUE Alpha
  • gameboy-advance: enable debugging with GDB
  • particle-argon: add the Particle Argon board
  • particle-boron: add the Particle Boron board
  • particle-xenon: add the Particle Xenon board
  • reelboard: add reelboard-s140v7 SoftDevice target

0.12.0

• command line
  • add initial FreeBSD support
  • remove getting a serial port in gdb subcommand
  • add support for debugging through JLinkGDBServer
  • fix CGo when cross compiling
  • remove default port check for Digispark as micronucleus communicates directly using HID
  • differentiate between various serial/USB error messages
• builder
  • improve detection of Clang headers
• compiler
  • fix assertion on empty interface
  • don't crash when encountering types.Invalid
  • revise defer to use heap allocations when running a variable number of times
  • improve error messages for failed imports
  • improve "function redeclared" error
  • add globaldce pass to start of optimization pipeline
  • add support for debugging globals
  • implement RISC-V CSR operations as intrinsics
  • add support for CGO_ENABLED environment variable
  • do not emit debug info for extern globals (bugfix)
  • add support for interrupts
  • implement maps for arbitrary keys
  • interp: error location for "unknown GEP" error
  • wasm-abi: create temporary allocas in the entry block
• cgo
  • add support for symbols in #define
  • fix a bug in number tokenization
• standard library
  • machine: avoid bytes package in USB logic
  • runtime: fix external address declarations
  • runtime: provide implementation for internal/bytealg.IndexByte
• targets
  • atsamd51: fix volatile usage
  • atsamd51: fix ADC, updating to 12-bits precision
  • atsamd51: refactor SPI pin configuration to only look at pin numbers
  • atsamd51: switch UART to use new pin configuration
  • atsamd51: fix obvious bug in I2C code
  • atsamd51: use only the necessary UART interrupts
  • atsamd51: refactor I2C pin handling to auto-detect pin mode
  • avr: use a garbage collector
  • fe310: use CLINT peripheral for timekeeping
  • fe310: add support for PLIC interrupts
  • fe310: implement UART receive interrupts
  • riscv: support sleeping in QEMU
  • riscv: add bare-bones interrupt support
  • riscv: print exception PC and code
  • wasm: implement memcpy and memset
  • wasm: include wasi-libc
  • wasm: use wasi ABI for basic startup/stdout
• boards
  • arduino: make avrdude command line compatible with Windows
  • arduino-nano: add this board
  • arduino-nano33: fix UART1 and UART2
  • circuitplay-bluefruit: add this board
  • digispark: add clock speed and pin mappings
  • gameboy-advance: include compiler-rt in build
  • gameboy-advance: implement interrupt handler
  • hifive1b: add support for gdb subcommand
  • pyportal: add this board
  • pyportal: remove manual SPI pin mapping as now handled by default

0.11.0

• command line
  • add support for QEMU in gdb subcommand
  • use builtin Clang when building statically, dropping the clang-9 dependency
  • search for default serial port on both macOS and Linux
  • windows: support tinygo flash directly by using win32 wmi
• compiler
  • add location information to the IR checker
  • make reflection sidetables constant globals
  • improve error locations in goroutine lowering
  • interp: improve support for maps with string keys
  • interp: add runtime fallback for mapassign operations
• standard library
  • machine: add support for SPI.Tx() on play.tinygo.org
  • machine: rename CPU_FREQUENCY to CPUFrequency()
• targets
  • adafruit-pybadge: add Adafruit Pybadge
  • arduino-nano33: allow simulation on play.tinygo.org
  • arduino-nano33: fix default SPI pin numbers to be D13/D11/D12
  • circuitplay-express: allow simulation on play.tinygo.org
  • hifive1-qemu: add target for testing RISC-V bare metal in QEMU
  • riscv: fix heap corruption due to changes in LLVM 9
  • riscv: add support for compiler-rt
  • qemu: rename to cortex-m-qemu

0.10.0

• command line
  • halt GDB after flashing with gdb subcommand
  • fix a crash when using -ocd-output
  • add info subcommand
  • add -programmer flag
• builder
  • macos: use llvm@8 instead of just llvm in paths
  • add linkerscript key to target JSON files
  • write a symbol table when writing out the compiler-rt lib
  • make Clang header detection more robust
  • switch to LLVM 9
• compiler
  • fix interface miscompilation with reflect
  • fix miscompile of static goroutine calls to closures
  • fix todo: store panic
  • fix incorrect starting value for optimized allocations in a loop
  • optimize coroutines on non-Cortex-M targets
  • fix crash for programs which have heap allocations but never hit the GC
  • add support for async interface calls
  • fix inserting non-const values in a const global
  • interp: improve error reporting
  • interp: implement comparing ptrtoint to 0
• cgo
  • improve diagnostics
  • implement the constant parser (for #define) as a real parser
  • rename reserved field names such as type
  • avoid "unsafe" imported but not used error
  • include all enums in the CGo Go AST
  • add support for nested structs and unions
  • implement #cgo CFLAGS
• standard library
  • reflect: add implementation of array alignment
  • runtime: improve scheduler performance when no goroutines are queued
  • runtime: add blocking select
  • runtime: implement interface equality in non-trivial cases
  • runtime: add AdjustTimeOffset to update current time
  • runtime: only implement CountString for required platforms
  • runtime: use MSP/PSP registers for scheduling on Cortex-M
• targets
  • arm: add system timer registers
  • atmega: add port C GPIO support
  • atsamd21: correct handling of pins >= 32
  • atsamd21: i2s initialization fixes
  • atsamd51: fix clock init code
  • atsamd51: correct initialization for RTC
  • atsamd51: fix pin function selection
  • atsamd51: pin method cleanup
  • atsamd51: allow setting pin mode for each of the SPI pins
  • atsamd51: correct channel init and pin map for ADC based on ItsyBitsy-M4
  • feather-m4: add Adafruit Feather M4 board
  • hifive1b: add support for SPI1
  • hifive1b: fix compiling in simulation
  • linux: fix time on arm32
  • metro-m4: add support for Adafruit Metro M4 Express Airlift board
  • metro-m4: fixes for UART2
  • pinetime-devkit0: add support for the PineTime dev kit
  • x9pro: add support for this smartwatch
  • pca10040-s132v6: add support for SoftDevice
  • pca10056-s140v7: add support for SoftDevice
  • arduino-nano33: added SPI1 connected to NINA-W102 chip on Arduino Nano 33 IOT

0.9.0

• command line
  • implement 1200-baud UART bootloader reset when flashing boards that support it
  • flash using mass-storage device for boards that support it
  • implement tinygo env
  • add support for Windows (but not yet producing Windows binaries)
  • add Go version to tinygo env
  • update SVD files for up-to-date peripheral interfaces
• compiler
  • add //go:align pragma
  • fix bug related to type aliases
  • add support for buffered channels
  • remove incorrect reflect optimization
  • implement copying slices in init interpretation
  • add support for constant indices with a named type
  • add support for recursive types like linked lists
  • fix miscompile of function nil panics
  • fix bug related to goroutines
• standard library
  • machine: do not check for nil slices in SPI.Tx
  • reflectlite: add support for Go 1.13
  • runtime: implement internal/bytealg.CountString
  • sync: properly handle nil New func in sync.Pool
• targets
  • arduino: fix .bss section initialization
  • fe310: implement Pin.Get
  • gameboy-advance: support directly outputting .gba files
  • samd: reduce code size by avoiding reflection
  • samd21: do not hardcode pin numbers for peripherals
  • stm32f103: avoid issue with time.Sleep less than 200µs

0.8.0

• command line
  • fix parsing of beta Go versions
  • check the major/minor installed version of Go before compiling
  • validate -target flag better to not panic on an invalid target
• compiler
  • implement full slice expression: s[:2:4]
  • fix a crash when storing a linked list in an interface
  • fix comparing struct types by making type IDs more unique
  • fix some bugs in IR generation
  • add support for linked lists in reflect data
  • implement []rune to string conversion
  • implement support for go on func values
• standard library
  • reflect: add support for named types
  • reflect: add support for t.Bits()
  • reflect: add basic support for t.AssignableTo()
  • reflect: implement t.Align()
  • reflect: add support for struct types
  • reflect: fix bug in v.IsNil and v.Pointer for addressable values
  • reflect: implement support for array types
  • reflect: implement t.Comparable()
  • runtime: implement stack-based scheduler
  • runtime: fix bug in the sleep queue of the scheduler
  • runtime: implement memcpy for Cortex-M
  • testing: implement stub testing.B struct
  • testing: add common test logging methods such as Errorf/Fatalf/Printf
• targets
  • 386: add support for linux/386 syscalls
  • atsamd21: make SPI pins configurable so that multiple SPI ports can be used
  • atsamd21: correct issue with invalid first reading coming from ADC
  • atsamd21: add support for reset-to-bootloader using 1200baud over USB-CDC
  • atsamd21: make pin selection more flexible for peripherals
  • atsamd21: fix minimum delay in time.Sleep
  • atsamd51: fix minimum delay in time.Sleep
  • nrf: improve SPI write-only speed, by making use of double buffering
  • stm32f103: fix SPI frequency selection
  • stm32f103: add machine.Pin.Get method for reading GPIO values
  • stm32f103: allow board specific UART usage
  • nucleo-f103rb: add support for NUCLEO-F103RB board
  • itsybitsy-m4: add support for this board with a SAMD51 family chip
  • cortex-m: add support for arm.SystemReset()
  • gameboy-advance: add initial support for the GameBoy Advance
  • wasm: add //go:wasm-module magic comment to set the wasm module name
  • wasm: add syscall/js.valueSetIndex support
  • wasm: add syscall/js.valueInvoke support

0.7.1

• targets
  • atsamd21: add support for the -port flag in the flash subcommand

0.7.0

• command line
  • try more locations to find Clang built-in headers
  • add support for tinygo test
  • build current directory if no package is specified
  • support custom .json target spec with -target flag
  • use zversion.go to detect version of GOROOT version
  • make initial heap size configurable for some targets (currently WebAssembly only)
• cgo
  • add support for bitfields using generated getters and setters
  • add support for anonymous structs
• compiler
  • show an error instead of panicking on duplicate function definitions
  • allow packages like github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/src/* by aliasing it
  • remove //go:volatile support
    It has been replaced with the runtime/volatile package.
  • allow poiners in map keys
  • support non-constant syscall numbers
  • implement non-blocking selects
  • add support for the -tags flag
  • add support for string to []rune conversion
  • implement a portable conservative garbage collector (with support for wasm)
  • add the //go:noinline pragma
• standard library
  • os: add os.Exit and syscall.Exit
  • os: add several stubs
  • runtime: fix heap corruption in conservative GC
  • runtime: add support for math intrinsics where supported, massively speeding up some benchmarks
  • testing: add basic support for testing
• targets
  • add support for a generic target that calls __tinygo_* functions for peripheral access
  • arduino-nano33: add support for this board
  • hifive1: add support for this RISC-V board
  • reelboard: add e-paper pins
  • reelboard: add PowerSupplyActive to enable voltage for on-board devices
  • wasm: put the stack at the start of linear memory, to detect stack overflows

0.6.0

• command line
  • some portability improvements
  • make $GOROOT more robust and configurable
  • check for Clang at the Homebrew install location as fallback
• compiler driver
  • support multiple variations of LLVM commands, for non-Debian distributions
• compiler
  • improve code quality in multiple ways
  • make panic configurable, adding trap on panic
  • refactor many internal parts of the compiler
  • print all errors encountered during compilation
  • implement calling function values of a named type
  • implement returning values from blocking functions
  • allow larger-than-int values to be sent across a channel
  • implement complex arithmetic
  • improve hashmap support
  • add debuginfo for function arguments
  • insert nil checks on stores (increasing code size)
  • implement volatile operations as compiler builtins
  • add //go:inline pragma
  • add build tags for the Go stdlib version
• cgo
  • implement char, enum and void* types
  • support #include for builtin headers
  • improve typedef/struct/enum support
  • only include symbols that are necessary, for broader support
  • mark external function args as nocapture
  • implement support for some #define constants
  • implement support for multiple CGo files in a single package

• standard library
  • machine: remove microbit matrix (moved to drivers repository)
  • machine: refactor pins to use Pin type instead of GPIO
  • runtime: print more interface types on panic, including error

• targets
  • arm: print an error on HardFault (including stack overflows)
  • atsamd21: fix a bug in the ADC peripheral
  • atsamd21: add support for I2S
  • feather-m0: add support for this board
  • nrf51: fix a bug in I2C
  • stm32f103xx: fix a bug in I2C
  • syscall: implement Exit on unix
  • trinket-m0: add support for this board
  • wasm: make main example smaller
  • wasm: don't cache wasm file in the server, for ease of debugging
  • wasm: work around bug #41508 that caused a deadlock while linking
  • wasm: add support for js.FuncOf

0.5.0

• compiler driver
  • use wasm-ld instead of wasm-ld-8 on macOS
  • drop dependency on llvm-ar
  • fix linker script includes when running outside TINYGOROOT
• compiler
  • switch to LLVM 8
  • add support for the Go 1.12 standard library (Go 1.11 is still supported)
  • work around lack of escape analysis due to nil checks
  • implement casting named structs and pointers to them
  • fix int casting to use the source signedness
  • fix some bugs around make([]T, …) with uncommon index types
  • some other optimizations
  • support interface asserts in interp for "math/rand" support
  • resolve all func value targets at compile time (wasm-only at the moment)
• cgo
  • improve diagnostics
  • implement C struct, union, and arrays
  • fix CGo-related crash in libclang
  • implement C.struct_ types
• targets
  • all baremetal: pretend to be linux/arm instead of js/wasm
  • avr: improve uintptr support
  • cortexm: implement memmove intrinsic generated by LLVM
  • cortexm: use the lld linker instead of arm-none-eabi-ld
  • darwin: use custom syscall package that links to libSystem.dylib
  • microbit: add blink example
  • samd21: support I2C1
  • samd21: machine/atsamd21: correct pad/pin handling when using both UART and USBCDC interfaces at same time
  • stm32f4discovery: add support for this board
  • wasm: support async func values
  • wasm: improve documentation and add extra example

0.4.1

• compiler
  • fix objcopy replacement to include the .data section in the firmware image
  • use llvm-ar-7 on Linux to fix the Docker image

0.4.0

• compiler
  • switch to the hardfloat ABI on ARM, which is more widely used
  • avoid a dependency on objcopy (arm-none-eabi-objcopy etc.)
  • fix a bug in make([]T, n) where n is 64-bits on a 32-bit platform
  • adapt to a change in the AVR backend in LLVM 8
  • directly support the .uf2 firmware format as used on Adafruit boards
  • fix a bug when calling panic() at init time outside of the main package
  • implement nil checks, which results in a ~5% increase in code size
  • inline slice bounds checking, which results in a ~1% decrease in code size
• targets
  • samd21: fix a bug in port B pins
  • samd21: implement SPI peripheral
  • samd21: implement ADC peripheral
  • stm32: fix a bug in timekeeping
  • wasm: fix a bug in wasm_exec.js that caused corruption in linear memory when running on Node.js.

0.3.0

• compiler
  • remove old -initinterp flag
  • add support for macOS
• cgo
  • add support for bool/float/complex types
• standard library
  • device/arm: add support to disable/enable hardware interrupts
  • machine: add CPU frequency for nrf-based boards
  • syscall: add support for darwin/amd64
• targets
  • circuitplay_express: add support for this board
  • microbit: add regular pin constants
  • samd21: fix time function for goroutine support
  • samd21: add support for USB-CDC (serial over USB)
  • samd21: add support for pins in port B
  • samd21: add support for pullup and pulldown pins
  • wasm: add support for Safari in example

0.2.0

• command line
  • add version subcommand
• compiler
  • fix a bug in floating point comparisons with NaN values
  • fix a bug when calling panic in package initialization code
  • add support for comparing complex64 and complex128
• cgo
  • add support for external globals
  • add support for pointers and function pointers
• standard library
  • fmt: initial support, fmt.Println works
  • math: support for most/all functions
  • os: initial support (only stdin/stdout/stderr)
  • reflect: initial support
  • syscall: add support for amd64, arm, and arm64