Some 64-bit fields were run through 32-bit words, some counts were
not checked for overflow, and relocations must fit in 32 bits.
Tests to follow.
R=golang-dev, dsymonds
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/9033043
src/cmd/6g/peep.c:471 set and not used: r
src/cmd/6g/peep.c:560 overspecified class: regconsttyp GLOBL STATIC
src/cmd/6g/peep.c:761 more arguments than format IND STRUCT Prog
src/cmd/6g/reg.c:185 set and not used: r1
src/cmd/6g/reg.c:786 format mismatch d VLONG, arg 3
src/cmd/6g/reg.c:1064 format mismatch d VLONG, arg 5
R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/8197044
Now that the type information is in TYPE instructions
that are not rewritten by the optimization passes,
we don't have to try to preserve the type information
(no longer) attached to MOV instructions.
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7402054
The type information is (and for years has been) included
as an extra field in the address chunk of an instruction.
Unfortunately, suppose there is a string at a+24(FP) and
we have an instruction reading its length. It will say:
MOVQ x+32(FP), AX
and the type of *that* argument is int (not slice), because
it is the length being read. This confuses the picture seen
by debuggers and now, worse, by the garbage collector.
Instead of attaching the type information to all uses,
emit an explicit list of TYPE instructions with the information.
The TYPE instructions are no-ops whose only role is to
provide an address to attach type information to.
For example, this function:
func f(x, y, z int) (a, b string) {
return
}
now compiles into:
--- prog list "f" ---
0000 (/Users/rsc/x.go:3) TEXT f+0(SB),$0-56
0001 (/Users/rsc/x.go:3) LOCALS ,
0002 (/Users/rsc/x.go:3) TYPE x+0(FP){int},$8
0003 (/Users/rsc/x.go:3) TYPE y+8(FP){int},$8
0004 (/Users/rsc/x.go:3) TYPE z+16(FP){int},$8
0005 (/Users/rsc/x.go:3) TYPE a+24(FP){string},$16
0006 (/Users/rsc/x.go:3) TYPE b+40(FP){string},$16
0007 (/Users/rsc/x.go:3) MOVQ $0,b+40(FP)
0008 (/Users/rsc/x.go:3) MOVQ $0,b+48(FP)
0009 (/Users/rsc/x.go:3) MOVQ $0,a+24(FP)
0010 (/Users/rsc/x.go:3) MOVQ $0,a+32(FP)
0011 (/Users/rsc/x.go:4) RET ,
The { } show the formerly hidden type information.
The { } syntax is used when printing from within the gc compiler.
It is not accepted by the assemblers.
The same type information is now included on global variables:
0055 (/Users/rsc/x.go:15) GLOBL slice+0(SB){[]string},$24(AL*0)
This more accurate type information fixes a bug in the
garbage collector's precise heap collection.
The linker only cares about globals right now, but having the
local information should make things a little nicer for Carl
in the future.
Fixes#4907.
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7395056
Change ARM context register to R7, to get out of the way
of the register allocator during the compilation of the
prologue statements (it wants to use R0 as a temporary).
Step 2 of http://golang.org/s/go11func.
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7369048
runtime: add context argument to gogocall
Too many other things use AX, and at least one
(stack zeroing) cannot be moved onto a different
register. Use the less special DX instead.
Preparation for step 2 of http://golang.org/s/go11func.
Nothing interesting here, just split out so that we can
see it's correct before moving on.
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7395050
Also:
- faster code for example extraction
- simplify handling of command documentation:
all "main" packages are treated as commands
- various minor cleanups along the way
For commands written in Go, any doc.go file containing
documentation must now be part of package main (rather
then package documentation), otherwise the documentation
won't show up in godoc (it will still build, though).
For commands written in C, documentation may still be
in doc.go files defining package documentation, but the
recommended way is to explicitly ignore those files with
a +build ignore constraint to define package main.
Fixes#4806.
R=adg, rsc, dave, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7333046
Plan 9 compilers insist this but as we don't have Plan 9
builders, we'd better let gcc check the prototypes.
Inspired by CL 7289050.
R=golang-dev, seed, dave, rsc, lucio.dere
CC=akumar, golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7288056
* Avoid treating CALL fn(SB) as justification for introducing
and tracking a registerized variable for fn(SB).
* Remove USED(n) after declaration and zeroing of n.
It was left over from when the compiler emitted more
aggressive set and not used errors, and it was keeping
the optimizer from removing a redundant zeroing of n
when n was a pointer or integer variable.
Update #597.
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7277048
The peephole optimizer would keep hands off AX and X0 during returns, even though go doesn't return through registers.
R=dave, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7030046
remove zerostack compiler experiment; will do at link time instead
««« original CL description
cmd/gc: add GOEXPERIMENT=zerostack to clear stack on function entry
This is expensive but it might be useful in cases where
people are suffering from false positives during garbage
collection and are willing to trade the CPU time for getting
rid of the false positives.
On the other hand it only eliminates false positives caused
by other function calls, not false positives caused by dead
temporaries stored in the current function call.
The 5g/6g/8g changes were pulled out of the history, from
the last time we needed to do this (to work around a goto bug).
The code in go.h, lex.c, pgen.c is new but tiny.
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6938073
»»»
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7002051
This is expensive but it might be useful in cases where
people are suffering from false positives during garbage
collection and are willing to trade the CPU time for getting
rid of the false positives.
On the other hand it only eliminates false positives caused
by other function calls, not false positives caused by dead
temporaries stored in the current function call.
The 5g/6g/8g changes were pulled out of the history, from
the last time we needed to do this (to work around a goto bug).
The code in go.h, lex.c, pgen.c is new but tiny.
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6938073
5g: Prog went from 128 bytes to 88 bytes
6g: Prog went from 174 bytes to 144 bytes
8g: Prog went from 124 bytes to 92 bytes
There may be a little more that can be squeezed out of Addr, but alignment will be a factor.
All: remove the unused pun field from Addr
R=rsc, minux.ma
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6922048
Change suggested by iant. The compiler generates
special code for a/b when a is -0x80...0 and b = -1.
A single instruction can cover the case where b is -1,
so only one comparison is needed.
Fixes#3551.
R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6922049
This allows 5g and 8g to benefit from the rewrite as shifts
or magic multiplies. The 64-bit arithmetic is not handled there,
and left in 6g.
Update #2230.
R=golang-dev, dave, mtj, iant, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6819123
The patch adds more cases to agenr to allocate registers later,
and makes 6g generate addresses for sgen in something else than
SI and DI. It avoids a complex save/restore sequence that
amounts to allocate a register before descending in subtrees.
Fixes#4207.
R=golang-dev, dave, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6817080
Compiling expressions like:
s[s[s[s[s[s[s[s[s[s[s[s[i]]]]]]]]]]]]
make 5g and 6g run out of registers. Such expressions can arise
if a slice is used to represent a permutation and the user wants
to iterate it.
This is due to the usual problem of allocating registers before
going down the expression tree, instead of allocating them in a
postfix way.
The functions cgenr and agenr (that generate a value to a newly
allocated register instead of an existing location), are either
introduced or modified when they already existed to allocate
the new register as late as possible, and sudoaddable is disabled
for OINDEX nodes so that igen/agenr is used instead.
Update #4207.
R=dave, daniel.morsing, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6733055
This is an experiment in static analysis of Go programs
to understand which struct fields a program might use.
It is not part of the Go language specification, it must
be enabled explicitly when building the toolchain,
and it may be removed at any time.
After building the toolchain with GOEXPERIMENT=fieldtrack,
a specific field can be marked for tracking by including
`go:"track"` in the field tag:
package pkg
type T struct {
F int `go:"track"`
G int // untracked
}
To simplify usage, only named struct types can have
tracked fields, and only exported fields can be tracked.
The implementation works by making each function begin
with a sequence of no-op USEFIELD instructions declaring
which tracked fields are accessed by a specific function.
After the linker's dead code elimination removes unused
functions, the fields referred to by the remaining
USEFIELD instructions are the ones reported as used by
the binary.
The -k option to the linker specifies the fully qualified
symbol name (such as my/pkg.list) of a string variable that
should be initialized with the field tracking information
for the program. The field tracking string is a sequence
of lines, each terminated by a \n and describing a single
tracked field referred to by the program. Each line is made
up of one or more tab-separated fields. The first field is
the name of the tracked field, fully qualified, as in
"my/pkg.T.F". Subsequent fields give a shortest path of
reverse references from that field to a global variable or
function, corresponding to one way in which the program
might reach that field.
A common source of false positives in field tracking is
types with large method sets, because a reference to the
type descriptor carries with it references to all methods.
To address this problem, the CL also introduces a comment
annotation
//go:nointerface
that marks an upcoming method declaration as unavailable
for use in satisfying interfaces, both statically and
dynamically. Such a method is also invisible to package
reflect.
Again, all of this is disabled by default. It only turns on
if you have GOEXPERIMENT=fieldtrack set during make.bash.
R=iant, ken
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6749064
This patch is enough to fix compilation of
exp/types tests but only passes a stripped down
version of the appripriate torture test.
Update #4207.
R=dave, nigeltao, rsc, golang-dev
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6621061
In two cases, registers were allocated too early resulting
in exhausting of available registers when nesting these
operations.
The case of method calls was due to missing cases in igen,
which only makes calls but doesn't allocate a register for
the result.
The case of 8-bit multiplication was due to a wrong order
in register allocation when Ullman numbers were bigger on the
RHS.
Fixes#3907.
Fixes#4156.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev, remy
https://golang.org/cl/6560054
The assembly offsets were converted mechanically using
code.google.com/p/rsc/cmd/asmlint. The instruction
changes were done by hand.
Fixes#2188.
R=iant, r, bradfitz, remyoudompheng
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6550058
This CL makes the compiler understand that the type of
the len or cap of a map, slice, or string is 'int', not 'int32'.
It does not change the meaning of int, but it should make
the eventual change of the meaning of int in 6g a bit smoother.
Update #2188.
R=ken, dave, remyoudompheng
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6542059
Revision 63f7abcae015 introduced a bug caused by
code assuming registers started at X5, not X0.
Fixes#4138.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev, remy
https://golang.org/cl/6558043
The width was not being set on the address, which meant
that the optimizer could not find variables that overlapped
with it and mark them as having had their address taken.
This let to the compiler believing variables had been set
but never used and then optimizing away the set.
Fixes#4129.
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6552059
It is enough to load directly the data word and the itab word
from memory, so we save a LEA instruction for each method call,
and allow elimination of some extra temporaries.
Update #1914.
R=daniel.morsing, rsc
CC=golang-dev, remy
https://golang.org/cl/6501110
Removes an extra LEAL/LEAQ instructions there and usually saves
a useless temporary in the idiom
if err := foo(); err != nil {...}
Generated code is also less involved:
MOVQ err+n(SP), AX
CMPQ AX, $0
(potentially CMPQ n(SP), $0) instead of
LEAQ err+n(SP), AX
CMPQ (AX), $0
Update #1914.
R=daniel.morsing, nigeltao, rsc
CC=golang-dev, remy
https://golang.org/cl/6493099
