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
- make sure dclcontext == PAUTO only in function bodies
- introduce PDISCARD to discard declarations in bodies of repeated imports
- skip printing initializing OAS'es in export mode, assuming they only occur after ODCL's
- remove ODCL and the initializing OAS from inl.c:ishairy
- fix confused use of ->typecheck in typecheckinl: it's about the ->inl, not about the fn.
- debuging aids: print ntype on ONAMEs too and -Emm instead of -Ell.
fixes#2812
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6800043
Since this patch changes the way complex literals are written
in export data, there are a few other glitches.
Fixes#4159.
R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev, remy
https://golang.org/cl/6674047
Also allow multiple invalid import statements in a
single file.
Fixes#3021. The changes to go/parser and the
language specifcation have already been committed.
R=rsc, gri
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5672084
Cross- and intra package inlining of single assignments or return <expression>.
Minus some hairy cases, currently including other calls, expressions with closures and ... arguments.
R=rsc, rogpeppe, adg, gri
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5400043
Got rid of all the magic mystery globals. Now
for %N, %T, and %S, the flags +,- and # set a sticky
debug, sym and export mode, only visible in the new fmt.c.
Default is error mode. Handle h and l flags consistently with
the least side effects, so we can now change
things without worrying about unrelated things
breaking.
fixes#2361
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5316043
string literals used as package qualifiers are now prefixed with '@'
which obviates the need for the extra ':' before tags.
R=rsc, gri, lvd
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5129057
The linker would catch them if gc succeeded,
but too often the cycle manifests as making the
current package and the imported copy of itself
appear as different packages, which result in
type signature mismatches that confuse users.
As a crutch, add the -p flag to say 'if you see an
import of this package, give up early'. Results in
messages like (during gotest in sort):
export_test.go:7: import "sort" while compiling that package (import cycle)
export_test.go:7: import "container/heap": package depends on "sort" (import cycle)
Fixes#2042.
R=ken
CC=bradfitz, dsymonds, golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4972057
Was keeping a pointer to the labeled statement in n->right,
which meant that generic traversals of the tree visited it twice.
That combined with aggressive flattening of the block
structure when possible during parsing meant that
the kinds of label: code label: code label: code sequences
generated by yacc were giving the recursion 2ⁿ paths
through the program.
Fixes#2212.
R=lvd
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4960050
#include "go.h" (or "gg.h")
becomes
#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>
#include "go.h"
so that go.y can #include <stdio.h>
after <u.h> but before "go.h".
This is necessary on Plan 9.
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4971041
The decision for when to say "hash/crc32".New instead of
crc32.New in an error was double-counting imports
from different packages or indirect imports, so it was
quoting even when there was no ambiguity.
R=ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4645070
This is in preparation of escape analysis; function parameters
can now be tagged with interesting bits by the compiler by
assigning to n->note.
tested by having typecheck put a fake tag on all parameters of
pointer type and compiling the tree.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4524092
go/types: update for export data format change
reflect: require package qualifiers to match during interface check
runtime: require package qualifiers to match during interface check
test: fixed bug324, adapt to be silent
Fixes#1550.
Issue 1536 remains open.
R=gri, ken2, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4442071