It appears that c2go dropped comments inside struct { ... } and enum { ... }.
Restore them.
Identified missing comments by checking for comments present
in the C code but not the Go code, made a list, and then reapplied
with some mechanical help.
Missing comment finder: http://play.golang.org/p/g6qNUAo1Y0
Change-Id: I323ab45c7ef9d51e28eab3b699eb14bee1eef66b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/6899
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
The creation of liblink and subsequent introduction of more explicit
TLS handling broke 6l's (unsupported) -shared flag. This change adds
-shared flags to cmd/asm and 6g and changes liblink to generate shared-
library compatible instruction sequences when they are passed, and
changes 6l to emit the appropriate ELF relocation.
A proper fix probably also requires go tool changes.
Fixes#9652.
Change-Id: I7b7718fe7305c802ac994f4a5c8de68cfbe6c76b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/4321
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Run rsc.io/grind rev a26569f on C->Go conversions.
The new change in grind is the inlining of goto targets.
If code says 'goto x' and the block starting at label x is unreachable
except through that goto and the code can be moved to where
the goto is without changing the meaning of its variable names,
grind does that move. Simlarly, a goto to a plain return statement
turns into that return statement (even if there are other paths to
the return statement).
Combined, these remove many long-distance gotos, which in turn
makes it possible to reduce the scope of more variable declarations.
(Because gotos can't jump across declarations, the gotos were
keeping the declarations from moving.)
Checked bit-for-bit compatibility with toolstash + buildall.
Reduces compiler runtime in html/template by about 12%.
Change-Id: Id727c0bd7763a61aa22f3daa00aeb8fccbc057a3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/6472
Reviewed-by: Aram Hăvărneanu <aram@mgk.ro>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
mv cmd/new5l cmd/5l and so on.
Minimal changes to cmd/dist and cmd/go to keep things building.
More can be deleted in followup CLs.
Change-Id: I1449eca7654ce2580d1f413a56dc4a75f3d4618b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/6361
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Liblink is still needed for the linker (for a bit longer) but mostly not.
Delete the unused parts.
Change-Id: Ie63a7c1520dee52b17425b384943cd16262d36e3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/6110
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Make cmd/ld a real library invoked by the individual linkers.
There are no reverse symbol references anymore
(symbols referred to in cmd/ld but defined in cmd/5l etc).
This means that in principle we could do an automatic
conversion of these to Go, as a stopgap until cmd/link is done
or as a replacement for cmd/link.
Change-Id: I4a94570257a3a7acc31601bfe0fad9dea0aea054
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/4649
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
This isn't everything, but it's a start.
Still producing bit-identical compiler output.
The semantics of the old back ends is preserved,
even when they are probably buggy.
There are some TODOs in gc/gsubr.c to
remove special cases to preserve bugs in 5g and 8g.
Change-Id: I28ae295fbfc94ef9df43e13ab96bd6fc2f194bc4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3802
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
This makes names like ANOP, ATEXT, AGLOBL, ACALL, AJMP, ARET
available for use by architecture-independent processing passes.
On arm and ppc64, the alternate names are now aliases for the
official ones (ABL for ACALL, AB or ABR for AJMP, ARETURN for ARET).
Change-Id: Id027771243795af2b3745199c645b6e1bedd7d18
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3577
Reviewed-by: Aram Hăvărneanu <aram@mgk.ro>
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
Use AXXX instead of AGOK (neither is a valid instruction but AXXX is zero)
for the initial setting of Prog.as, and now there are no non-zero default
field settings.
Remove the arch-specific zprog/zprg in favor of a single global zprog.
Remove the arch-specific prg constructor in favor of emallocz(sizeof(Prog)).
Change-Id: Ia73078726768333d7cdba296f548170c1bea9498
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3575
Reviewed-by: Aram Hăvărneanu <aram@mgk.ro>
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
Most ppc64 relocations come in six or more variants where the basic
relocation formula is the same, but which bits of the computed value
are installed where changes. Introduce the concept of "variants" for
internal relocations to support this. Since this applies to
architecture-independent relocation types like R_PCREL, we do this in
relocsym.
Currently there is only an identity variant. A later CL that adds
support for ppc64 ELF relocations will introduce more.
Change-Id: I0c5f0e7dbe5beece79cd24fe36267d37c52f1a0c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2005
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Previously, this code generated bogus section indexes for dynamic
symbols. It turns out this didn't matter, since we only emit these
when generating an executable and in an executable it only matters
whether a symbol is defined or undefined, but it leads to perplexing
code full of mysterious constants.
Unfortunately, this happens too early to put in real section indexes,
so just use section index 1 to distinguish the symbol from an
undefined symbol.
Change-Id: I0e514604bf31f21683598ebd3e020b66acf767ef
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/1720
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
This will be used by ppc64 to add call stubs to the .text section.
ARM needs a similar pass to generate veneers for arm->thumb
transitions.
Change-Id: Iaee74036e60643a56fab15b564718f359c5910eb
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2004
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
The pretty printers for these make it hard to understand
what's actually in the fields of these structures. These
"ugly printers" show exactly what's in each field, which can
be useful for understanding and debugging code.
LGTM=rsc
R=rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/175780043
NaCl requires the addition of a 32-byte "halt sled" at the end
of the text segment. This means that segtext.len is actually
32 bytes shorter than reality. The computation of the file offset
of the end of the data segment did not take this 32 bytes into
account, so if len and len+32 rounded up (by 64k) to different
values, the symbol table overwrote the last page of the data
segment.
The last page of the data segment is usually the C .string
symbols, which contain the strings used in error prints
by the runtime. So when this happens, your program
probably crashes, and then when it does, you get binary
garbage instead of all the usual prints.
The chance of hitting this with a randomly sized text segment
is 32 in 65536, or 1 in 2048.
If you add or remove ANY code while trying to debug this
problem, you're overwhelmingly likely to bump the text
segment one way or the other and make the bug disappear.
Correct all the computations to use segdata.fileoff+segdata.filelen
instead of trying to rederive segdata.fileoff.
This fixes the failure during the nacl/amd64p32 build.
TBR=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/135050043
The main changes fall into a few patterns:
1. Replace #define with enum.
2. Add /*c2go */ comment giving effect of #define.
This is necessary for function-like #defines and
non-enum-able #defined constants.
(Not all compilers handle negative or large enums.)
3. Add extra braces in struct initializer.
(c2go does not implement the full rules.)
This is enough to let c2go typecheck the source tree.
There may be more changes once it is doing
other semantic analyses.
LGTM=minux, iant
R=minux, dave, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/106860045
The new code is adapted from the Go 1.2 nosplit code,
but it does not have the bug reported in issue 7623:
g% go run nosplit.go
g% go1.2 run nosplit.go
BUG
rejected incorrectly:
main 0 call f; f 120
linker output:
# _/tmp/go-test-nosplit021064539
main.main: nosplit stack overflow
120 guaranteed after split check in main.main
112 on entry to main.f
-8 after main.f uses 120
g%
Fixes#6931.
Fixes#7623.
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant, ality
CC=golang-codereviews, r
https://golang.org/cl/88190043
When I did the original 386 ports on Linux and OS X, I chose to
define GS-relative expressions like 4(GS) as relative to the actual
thread-local storage base, which was usually GS but might not be
(it might be FS, or it might be a different constant offset from GS or FS).
The original scope was limited but since then the rewrites have
gotten out of control. Sometimes GS is rewritten, sometimes FS.
Some ports do other rewrites to enable shared libraries and
other linking. At no point in the code is it clear whether you are
looking at the real GS/FS or some synthesized thing that will be
rewritten. The code manipulating all these is duplicated in many
places.
The first step to fixing issue 7719 is to make the code intelligible
again.
This CL adds an explicit TLS pseudo-register to the 386 and amd64.
As a register, TLS refers to the thread-local storage base, and it
can only be loaded into another register:
MOVQ TLS, AX
An offset from the thread-local storage base is written off(reg)(TLS*1).
Semantically it is off(reg), but the (TLS*1) annotation marks this as
indexing from the loaded TLS base. This emits a relocation so that
if the linker needs to adjust the offset, it can. For example:
MOVQ TLS, AX
MOVQ 8(AX)(TLS*1), CX // load m into CX
On systems that support direct access to the TLS memory, this
pair of instructions can be reduced to a direct TLS memory reference:
MOVQ 8(TLS), CX // load m into CX
The 2-instruction and 1-instruction forms correspond roughly to
ELF TLS initial exec mode and ELF TLS local exec mode, respectively.
Liblink applies this rewrite on systems that support the 1-instruction form.
The decision is made using only the operating system (and probably
the -shared flag, eventually), not the link mode. If some link modes
on a particular operating system require the 2-instruction form,
then all builds for that operating system will use the 2-instruction
form, so that the link mode decision can be delayed to link time.
Obviously it is late to be making changes like this, but I despair
of correcting issue 7719 and issue 7164 without it. To make sure
I am not changing existing behavior, I built a "hello world" program
for every GOOS/GOARCH combination we have and then worked
to make sure that the rewrite generates exactly the same binaries,
byte for byte. There are a handful of TODOs in the code marking
kludges to get the byte-for-byte property, but at least now I can
explain exactly how each binary is handled.
The targets I tested this way are:
darwin-386
darwin-amd64
dragonfly-386
dragonfly-amd64
freebsd-386
freebsd-amd64
freebsd-arm
linux-386
linux-amd64
linux-arm
nacl-386
nacl-amd64p32
netbsd-386
netbsd-amd64
openbsd-386
openbsd-amd64
plan9-386
plan9-amd64
solaris-amd64
windows-386
windows-amd64
There were four exceptions to the byte-for-byte goal:
windows-386 and windows-amd64 have a time stamp
at bytes 137 and 138 of the header.
darwin-386 and plan9-386 have five or six modified
bytes in the middle of the Go symbol table, caused by
editing comments in runtime/sys_{darwin,plan9}_386.s.
Fixes#7164.
LGTM=iant
R=iant, aram, minux.ma, dave
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/87920043
The relocation and automatic variable types were using
arch-specific numbers. Introduce portable enumerations
instead.
To the best of my knowledge, these are the only arch-specific
bits left in the new object file format.
Remove now, before Go 1.3, because file formats are forever.
LGTM=iant
R=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/87670044
REP MOVSQ and REP STOSQ have a really high startup overhead.
Use a Duff's device to do the repetition instead.
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
BenchmarkClearFat32 7.20 1.60 -77.78%
BenchmarkCopyFat32 6.88 2.38 -65.41%
BenchmarkClearFat64 7.15 3.20 -55.24%
BenchmarkCopyFat64 6.88 3.44 -50.00%
BenchmarkClearFat128 9.53 5.34 -43.97%
BenchmarkCopyFat128 9.27 5.56 -40.02%
BenchmarkClearFat256 13.8 9.53 -30.94%
BenchmarkCopyFat256 13.5 10.3 -23.70%
BenchmarkClearFat512 22.3 18.0 -19.28%
BenchmarkCopyFat512 22.0 19.7 -10.45%
BenchmarkCopyFat1024 36.5 38.4 +5.21%
BenchmarkClearFat1024 35.1 35.0 -0.28%
TODO: use for stack frame zeroing
TODO: REP prefixes are still used for "reverse" copying when src/dst
regions overlap. Might be worth fixing.
LGTM=rsc
R=golang-codereviews, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews, r
https://golang.org/cl/81370046
The new channel and map runtime routines take pointers
to values, typically temporaries. Without help, the compiler
cannot tell when those temporaries stop being needed,
because it isn't sure what happened to the pointer.
Arrange to insert explicit VARKILL instructions for these
temporaries so that the liveness analysis can avoid seeing
them as "ambiguously live".
The change is made in order.c, which was already in charge of
introducing temporaries to preserve the order-of-evaluation
guarantees. Now its job has expanded to include introducing
temporaries as needed by runtime routines, and then also
inserting the VARKILL annotations for all these temporaries,
so that their lifetimes can be shortened.
In order to do its job for the map runtime routines, order.c arranges
that all map lookups or map assignments have the form:
x = m[k]
x, y = m[k]
m[k] = x
where x, y, and k are simple variables (often temporaries).
Likewise, receiving from a channel is now always:
x = <-c
In order to provide the map guarantee, order.c is responsible for
rewriting x op= y into x = x op y, so that m[k] += z becomes
t = m[k]
t2 = t + z
m[k] = t2
While here, fix a few bugs in order.c's traversal: it was failing to
walk into select and switch case bodies, so order of evaluation
guarantees were not preserved in those situations.
Added tests to test/reorder2.go.
Fixes#7671.
In gc/popt's temporary-merging optimization, allow merging
of temporaries with their address taken as long as the liveness
ranges do not intersect. (There is a good chance of that now
that we have VARKILL annotations to limit the liveness range.)
Explicitly killing temporaries cuts the number of ambiguously
live temporaries that must be zeroed in the godoc binary from
860 to 711, or -17%. There is more work to be done, but this
is a good checkpoint.
Update #7345
LGTM=khr
R=khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/81940043
This CL replays the following one CL from the rsc-go13nacl repo.
This is the last replay CL: after this CL the main repo will have
everything the rsc-go13nacl repo did. Changes made to the main
repo after the rsc-go13nacl repo branched off probably mean that
NaCl doesn't actually work after this CL, but all the code is now moved
over and just needs to be redebugged.
---
cmd/6l, cmd/8l, cmd/ld: support for Native Client
See golang.org/s/go13nacl for design overview.
This CL is publicly visible but not CC'ed to golang-dev,
to avoid distracting from the preparation of the Go 1.2
release.
This CL and the others will be checked into my rsc-go13nacl
clone repo for now, and I will send CLs against the main
repo early in the Go 1.3 development.
R≡khr
https://golang.org/cl/15750044
---
LGTM=bradfitz, dave, iant
R=dave, bradfitz, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/69040044
The "fat" referred to being used for multiword values only.
We're going to use it for non-fat values sometimes too.
No change other than the renaming.
TBR=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/63650043
We now use the %A, %D, %P, and %R routines from liblink
across the board.
Fixes#7178.
Fixes#7055.
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, gobot, rsc, dave, iant, remyoudompheng
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/49170043
Second part of the solaris/amd64 linker changes: relocation and symbol table.
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/61330043
rsc suggested that we split the whole linker changes into three parts.
This is the first one, mostly dealing with adding Hsolaris.
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant, dave
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/54210050
- new object file reader/writer (liblink/objfile.c)
- remove old object file writing routines
- add pcdata iterator
- remove all trace of "line number stack" and "path fragments" from
object files, linker (!!!)
- dwarf now writes a single "compilation unit" instead of one per package
This CL disables the check for chains of no-split functions that
could overflow the stack red zone. A future CL will attack the problem
of reenabling that check (issue 6931).
This CL is just the liblink and cmd/ld changes.
There are minor associated adjustments in CL 37030045.
Each depends on the other.
R=golang-dev, dave, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/39680043
There is an enormous amount of code moving around in this CL,
but the code is the same, and it is invoked in the same ways.
This CL is preparation for the new linker structure, not the new
structure itself.
The new library's definition is in include/link.h.
The main change is the use of a Link structure to hold all the
linker-relevant state, replacing the smattering of global variables.
The Link structure should both make it clearer which state must
be carried around and make it possible to parallelize more easily
later.
The main body of the linker has moved into the architecture-independent
cmd/ld directory. That includes the list of known header types, so the
distinction between Hplan9x32 and Hplan9x64 is removed (no other
header type distinguished 32- and 64-bit formats), and code for unused
formats such as ipaq kernels has been deleted.
The code being deleted from 5l, 6l, and 8l reappears in liblink or in ld.
Because multiple files are being merged in the liblink directory,
it is not possible to show the diffs nicely in hg.
The Prog and Addr structures have been unified into an
architecture-independent form and moved to link.h, where they will
be shared by all tools: the assemblers, the compilers, and the linkers.
The unification makes it possible to write architecture-independent
traversal of Prog lists, among other benefits.
The Sym structures cannot be unified: they are too fundamentally
different between the linker and the compilers. Instead, liblink defines
an LSym - a linker Sym - to be used in the Prog and Addr structures,
and the linker now refers exclusively to LSyms. The compilers will
keep using their own syms but will fill out the corresponding LSyms in
the Prog and Addr structures.
Although code from 5l, 6l, and 8l is now in a single library, the
code has been arranged so that only one architecture needs to
be linked into a particular program: 5l will not contain the code
needed for x86 instruction layout, for example.
The object file writing code in liblink/obj.c is from cmd/gc/obj.c.
Preparation for golang.org/s/go13linker work.
This CL does not build by itself. It depends on 35740044
and will be submitted at the same time.
R=iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/35790044
This change allows the garbage collector to examine stack
slots that are determined as live and containing a pointer
value by the garbage collector. This results in a mean
reduction of 65% in the number of stack slots scanned during
an invocation of "GOGC=1 all.bash".
Unfortunately, this does not yet allow garbage collection to
be precise for the stack slots computed as live. Pointers
confound the determination of what definitions reach a given
instruction. In general, this problem is not solvable without
runtime cost but some advanced cooperation from the compiler
might mitigate common cases.
R=golang-dev, rsc, cshapiro
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/14430048
Add the -installsuffix flag to gc and {5,6,8}l, which overrides -race
for the suffix if both are supplied.
Pass this flag from the go tool for build and install.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/14246044
Bug #1:
Issue 5406 identified an interesting case:
defer iface.M()
may end up calling a wrapper that copies an indirect receiver
from the iface value and then calls the real M method. That's
two calls down, not just one, and so recover() == nil always
in the real M method, even during a panic.
[For the purposes of this entire discussion, a wrapper's
implementation is a function containing an ordinary call, not
the optimized tail call form that is somtimes possible. The
tail call does not create a second frame, so it is already
handled correctly.]
Fix this bug by introducing g->panicwrap, which counts the
number of bytes on current stack segment that are due to
wrapper calls that should not count against the recover
check. All wrapper functions must now adjust g->panicwrap up
on entry and back down on exit. This adds slightly to their
expense; on the x86 it is a single instruction at entry and
exit; on the ARM it is three. However, the alternative is to
make a call to recover depend on being able to walk the stack,
which I very much want to avoid. We have enough problems
walking the stack for garbage collection and profiling.
Also, if performance is critical in a specific case, it is already
faster to use a pointer receiver and avoid this kind of wrapper
entirely.
Bug #2:
The old code, which did not consider the possibility of two
calls, already contained a check to see if the call had split
its stack and so the panic-created segment was one behind the
current segment. In the wrapper case, both of the two calls
might split their stacks, so the panic-created segment can be
two behind the current segment.
Fix this by propagating the Stktop.panic flag forward during
stack splits instead of looking backward during recover.
Fixes#5406.
R=golang-dev, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/13367052
Pull the stack split generation into its own function.
This will make an upcoming change to fix recover
easier to digest.
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/13611044
The entry for LEAL/LEAQ in these optabs was listed as having
two data bytes in the y array. In fact they had and expect no data
bytes. However, the general loop expects to be able to look at at
least one data byte, to make sure it is not 0x0f. So give them each
a single data byte set to 0 (not 0x0f).
Since the MOV instructions have the largest optab cases, this
requires growing the size of the data array.
Clang found this bug because the general o->op[z] == 0x0f
test was using z == 22, which was out of bounds.
In practice the next byte in memory was probably not 0x0f
so it wasn't truly broken. But might as well be clean.
Update #5764
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/13241050
Also introduce BGET2/4, BPUT2/4 as they are widely used.
Slightly improve BGETC/BPUTC implementation.
This gives ~5% CPU time improvement on go install -a -p1 std.
Before:
real user sys
0m23.561s 0m16.625s 0m5.848s
0m23.766s 0m16.624s 0m5.846s
0m23.742s 0m16.621s 0m5.868s
after:
0m22.999s 0m15.841s 0m5.889s
0m22.845s 0m15.808s 0m5.850s
0m22.889s 0m15.832s 0m5.848s
R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12745047
See golang.org/s/go12nil.
This CL is about getting all the right checks inserted.
A followup CL will add an optimization pass to
remove redundant checks.
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12970043
This CL is an aggregate of 10271047, 10499043, 9733044. Descriptions of each follow:
10499043
runtime,cmd/ld: Merge TLS symbols and teach 5l about ARM TLS
This CL prepares for external linking support to ARM.
The pseudo-symbols runtime.g and runtime.m are merged into a single
runtime.tlsgm symbol. When external linking, the offset of a thread local
variable is stored at a memory location instead of being embedded into a offset
of a ldr instruction. With a single runtime.tlsgm symbol for both g and m, only
one such offset is needed.
The larger part of this CL moves TLS code from gcc compiled to internally
compiled. The TLS code now uses the modern MRC instruction, and 5l is taught
about TLS fallbacks in case the instruction is not available or appropriate.
10271047
This CL adds support for -linkmode external to 5l.
For 5l itself, use addrel to allow for D_CALL relocations to be handled by the
host linker. Of the cases listed in rsc's comment in issue 4069, only case 5 and
63 needed an update. One of the TODO: addrel cases was since replaced, and the
rest of the cases are either covered by indirection through addpool (cases with
LTO or LFROM flags) or stubs (case 74). The addpool cases are covered because
addpool emits AWORD instructions, which in turn are handled by case 11.
In the runtime, change the argv argument in the rt0* functions slightly to be a
pointer to the argv list, instead of relying on a particular location of argv.
9733044
The -shared flag to 6l outputs a shared library, implemented in Go
and callable from non-Go programs such as C.
The main part of this CL change the thread local storage model.
Go uses the fastest and least general mode, local exec. TLS data in shared
libraries normally requires at least the local dynamic mode, however, this CL
instead opts for using the initial exec mode. Initial exec mode is faster than
local dynamic mode and can be used in linux since the linker has reserved a
limited amount of TLS space for performance sensitive TLS code.
Initial exec mode requires an extra load from the GOT table to determine the
TLS offset. This penalty will not be paid if ld is not in -shared mode, since
TLS accesses will be reduced to local exec.
The elf sections .init_array and .rela.init_array are added to register the Go
runtime entry with cgo at library load time.
The "hidden" attribute is added to Cgo functions called from Go, since Go
does not generate call through the GOT table, and adding non-GOT relocations for
a global function is not supported by gcc. Cgo symbols don't need to be global
and avoiding the GOT table is also faster.
The changes to 8l are only removes code relevant to the old -shared mode where
internal linking was used.
This CL only address the low level linker work. It can be submitted by itself,
but to be useful, the runtime changes in CL 9738047 is also needed.
Design discussion at
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/golang-nuts/zmjXkGrEx6QFixes#5590.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12871044
The compilers assume they can generate temporary variables
as needed to preserve the right semantics or simplify code
generation and the back end will still generate good code.
This turns out not to be true. The back ends will only
track the first 128 variables per function and give up
on the remainder. That needs to be fixed too, in a later CL.
This CL merges temporary variables with equal types and
non-overlapping lifetimes using the greedy algorithm in
Poletto and Sarkar, "Linear Scan Register Allocation",
ACM TOPLAS 1999.
The result can be striking in the right functions.
Top 20 frame size changes in a 6g godoc binary by bytes saved:
5464 1984 (-3480, -63.7%) go/build.(*Context).Import
4456 1824 (-2632, -59.1%) go/printer.(*printer).expr1
2560 80 (-2480, -96.9%) time.nextStdChunk
3496 1608 (-1888, -54.0%) go/printer.(*printer).stmt
1896 272 (-1624, -85.7%) net/http.init
2688 1400 (-1288, -47.9%) fmt.(*pp).printReflectValue
2800 1512 (-1288, -46.0%) main.main
3296 2016 (-1280, -38.8%) crypto/tls.(*Conn).clientHandshake
1664 488 (-1176, -70.7%) time.loadZoneZip
1760 608 (-1152, -65.5%) time.parse
4104 3072 (-1032, -25.1%) runtime/pprof.writeHeap
1680 712 ( -968, -57.6%) go/ast.Walk
2488 1560 ( -928, -37.3%) crypto/x509.parseCertificate
1128 392 ( -736, -65.2%) math/big.nat.divLarge
1528 864 ( -664, -43.5%) go/printer.(*printer).fieldList
1360 712 ( -648, -47.6%) regexp/syntax.(*parser).factor
2104 1528 ( -576, -27.4%) encoding/asn1.parseField
1064 504 ( -560, -52.6%) encoding/xml.(*Decoder).text
584 48 ( -536, -91.8%) html.init
1400 864 ( -536, -38.3%) go/doc.playExample
In the same godoc build, cuts the number of functions with
too many vars from 83 to 32.
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12829043
We can then include this file in assembly to replace
cryptic constants like "7" with meaningful constants
like "(NOPROF|DUPOK|NOSPLIT)".
Converting just pkg/runtime/asm*.s for now. Dropping NOPROF
and DUPOK from lots of places where they aren't needed.
More .s files to come in a subsequent changelist.
A nonzero number in the textflag field now means
"has not been converted yet".
R=golang-dev, daniel.morsing, rsc, khr
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12568043
This CL introduces a FUNCDATA number for runtime-specific
garbage collection metadata, changes the C and Go compilers
to emit that metadata, and changes the runtime to expect it.
The old pseudo-instructions that carried this information
are gone, as is the linker code to process them.
R=golang-dev, dvyukov, cshapiro
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/11406044
