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2023-04-27all: Fix spelling mistakes based on codespell check.Damien George
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2023-02-27py/emitnative: Explicitly compare comparison ops in binary_op emitter.Pepijn de Vos
Without this it's possible to get a compiler error about the comparison always being true, because MP_BINARY_OP_LESS is 0. And it seems that gcc optimises these 6 equality comparisons into the same size machine code as before.
2022-12-16py/emitnative: Initialise locals as Python object type for native code.Damien George
In @micropython.native code the types of variables and expressions are always Python objects, so they can be initialised as such. This prevents problems with compiling optimised code like while-loops where a local may be referenced before it is assigned to. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-11-11py/emitnative: Ensure load_subscr does not clobber existing REG_ARG_2.Damien George
Follow up from a similar fix in 426785a19eeb12aef7383fbda4693575d8c4dddf Fixes issue #6314. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-07-12py/emitnative: Fix STORE_ATTR viper code-gen when value is not a pyobj.Jim Mussared
There was a missing call to MP_F_CONVERT_NATIVE_TO_OBJ. Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
2022-06-20py/emit: Suppress unreachable bytecode/native code that follows jump.Damien George
This new logic tracks when an unconditional jump/raise occurs in the emitted code stream (bytecode or native machine code) and suppresses all subsequent code, until a label is assigned. This eliminates a lot of cases of dead code, with relatively simple logic. This commit combined with the previous one (that removed the existing dead-code finding logic) has the following code size change: bare-arm: -16 -0.028% minimal x86: -60 -0.036% unix x64: -368 -0.070% unix nanbox: -80 -0.017% stm32: -204 -0.052% PYBV10 cc3200: +0 +0.000% esp8266: -232 -0.033% GENERIC esp32: -224 -0.015% GENERIC[incl -40(data)] mimxrt: -192 -0.054% TEENSY40 renesas-ra: -200 -0.032% RA6M2_EK nrf: +28 +0.015% pca10040 rp2: -256 -0.050% PICO samd: -12 -0.009% ADAFRUIT_ITSYBITSY_M4_EXPRESS Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-06-20py/emit: Remove logic to detect last-emit-was-return-value.Damien George
This optimisation to remove dead code is not as good as it could be. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-05-23py/asmthumb: Make ARMv7-M instruction use dynamically selectable.Damien George
This commit adjusts the asm_thumb_xxx functions so they can be dynamically configured to use ARMv7-M instructions or not. This is available when MICROPY_DYNAMIC_COMPILER is enabled, and then controlled by the value of mp_dynamic_compiler.native_arch. If MICROPY_DYNAMIC_COMPILER is disabled the previous behaviour is retained: the functions emit ARMv7-M instructions only if MICROPY_EMIT_THUMB_ARMV7M is enabled. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-05-23py/emitnative: Access qstr values using indirection table qstr_table.Damien George
This changes the native emitter to access qstr values using the qstr indirection table qstr_table, but only when generating native code that will be saved to a .mpy file. This makes the resulting native code fully static, ie it does not require any fix-ups or rewriting when it is imported. The performance of native code is more or less unchanged. Benchmark results on PYBv1.0 (using --via-mpy and --emit native) are: N=100 M=100 baseline -> this-commit diff diff% (error%) bm_chaos.py 407.16 -> 411.85 : +4.69 = +1.152% (+/-0.01%) bm_fannkuch.py 100.89 -> 101.20 : +0.31 = +0.307% (+/-0.01%) bm_fft.py 3521.17 -> 3441.72 : -79.45 = -2.256% (+/-0.00%) bm_float.py 6707.29 -> 6644.83 : -62.46 = -0.931% (+/-0.00%) bm_hexiom.py 55.91 -> 55.41 : -0.50 = -0.894% (+/-0.00%) bm_nqueens.py 5343.54 -> 5326.17 : -17.37 = -0.325% (+/-0.00%) bm_pidigits.py 603.89 -> 632.79 : +28.90 = +4.786% (+/-0.33%) core_qstr.py 64.18 -> 64.09 : -0.09 = -0.140% (+/-0.01%) core_yield_from.py 313.61 -> 311.11 : -2.50 = -0.797% (+/-0.03%) misc_aes.py 654.29 -> 659.75 : +5.46 = +0.834% (+/-0.02%) misc_mandel.py 4205.10 -> 4272.08 : +66.98 = +1.593% (+/-0.01%) misc_pystone.py 3077.79 -> 3128.39 : +50.60 = +1.644% (+/-0.01%) misc_raytrace.py 388.45 -> 393.71 : +5.26 = +1.354% (+/-0.01%) viper_call0.py 576.83 -> 566.76 : -10.07 = -1.746% (+/-0.05%) viper_call1a.py 550.39 -> 540.12 : -10.27 = -1.866% (+/-0.11%) viper_call1b.py 438.32 -> 432.09 : -6.23 = -1.421% (+/-0.11%) viper_call1c.py 442.96 -> 436.11 : -6.85 = -1.546% (+/-0.08%) viper_call2a.py 536.31 -> 527.37 : -8.94 = -1.667% (+/-0.04%) viper_call2b.py 378.99 -> 377.50 : -1.49 = -0.393% (+/-0.08%) Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-05-19py/emitnative: Provide dedicated local for exception unwind handler ptr.Damien George
This eliminates the need to save and restore the exception unwind handler pointer when calling nlr_push. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-05-19py/emitnative: Simplify generation of code that loads prelude pointer.Damien George
It's possible to use REG_PARENT_ARG_1 instead of REG_LOCAL_3. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-05-18py/compile: De-duplicate constant objects in module's constant table.Damien George
The recent rework of bytecode made all constants global with respect to the module (previously, each function had its own constant table). That means the constant table for a module is shared among all functions/methods/etc within the module. This commit add support to the compiler to de-duplicate constants in this module constant table. So if a constant is used more than once -- eg 1.0 or (None, None) -- then the same object is reused for all instances. For example, if there is code like `print(1.0, 1.0)` then the parser will create two independent constants 1.0 and 1.0. The compiler will then (with this commit) notice they are the same and only put one of them in the constant table. The bytecode will then reuse that constant twice in the print expression. That allows the second 1.0 to be reclaimed by the GC, also means the constant table has one less entry so saves a word. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-05-17py/emitnative: Put a pointer to the native prelude in child_table array.Damien George
Some architectures (like esp32 xtensa) cannot read byte-wise from executable memory. This means the prelude for native functions -- which is usually located after the machine code for the native function -- must be placed in separate memory that can be read byte-wise. Prior to this commit this was achieved by enabling N_PRELUDE_AS_BYTES_OBJ for the emitter and MICROPY_EMIT_NATIVE_PRELUDE_AS_BYTES_OBJ for the runtime. The prelude was then placed in a bytes object, pointed to by the module's constant table. This behaviour is changed by this commit so that a pointer to the prelude is stored either in mp_obj_fun_bc_t.child_table, or in mp_obj_fun_bc_t.child_table[num_children] if num_children > 0. The reasons for doing this are: 1. It decouples the native emitter from runtime requirements, the emitted code no longer needs to know if the system it runs on can/can't read byte-wise from executable memory. 2. It makes all ports have the same emitter behaviour, there is no longer the N_PRELUDE_AS_BYTES_OBJ option. 3. The module's constant table is now used only for actual constants in the Python code. This allows further optimisations to be done with the constants (eg constant deduplication). Code size change for those ports that enable the native emitter: unix x64: +80 +0.015% stm32: +24 +0.004% PYBV10 esp8266: +88 +0.013% GENERIC esp32: -20 -0.002% GENERIC[incl -112(data)] rp2: +32 +0.005% PICO Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-05-17py/bc: Provide separate code-state setup funcs for bytecode and native.Damien George
mpy-cross will now generate native code based on the size of mp_code_state_native_t, and the runtime will use this struct to calculate the offset of the .state field. This makes native code generation and execution (which rely on this struct) independent to the settings MICROPY_STACKLESS and MICROPY_PY_SYS_SETTRACE, both of which change the size of the mp_code_state_t struct. Fixes issue #5059. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-04-14Revert "py/emitnative: Don't store prelude at end of machine code if..."Damien George
This reverts commit 7e8222ae063d78ae8f901bb0f9fef663edd2edb6. The prelude data must exist somewhere in the native code so load_raw_code and mpy-tool.py can access and parse it. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-03-31py/runtime: Allow multiple **args in a function call.David Lechner
This is a partial implementation of PEP 448 to allow multiple ** unpackings when calling a function or method. The compiler is modified to encode the argument as a None: obj key-value pair (similar to how regular keyword arguments are encoded as str: obj pairs). The extra object that was pushed on the stack to hold a single ** unpacking object is no longer used and is removed. The runtime is modified to decode this new format. Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@pybricks.com>
2022-03-30py/emitnative: Don't store prelude at end of machine code if not needed.Damien George
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-03-28py: Change jump opcodes to emit 1-byte jump offset when possible.Damien George
This commit introduces changes: - All jump opcodes are changed to have variable length arguments, of either 1 or 2 bytes (previously they were fixed at 2 bytes). In most cases only 1 byte is needed to encode the short jump offset, saving bytecode size. - The bytecode emitter now selects 1 byte jump arguments when the jump offset is guaranteed to fit in 1 byte. This is achieved by checking if the code size changed during the last pass and, if it did (if it shrank), then requesting that the compiler make another pass to get the correct offsets of the now-smaller code. This can continue multiple times until the code stabilises. The code can only ever shrink so this iteration is guaranteed to complete. In most cases no extra passes are needed, the original 4 passes are enough to get it right by the 4th pass (because the 2nd pass computes roughly the correct labels and the 3rd pass computes the correct size for the jump argument). This change to the jump opcode encoding reduces .mpy files and RAM usage (when bytecode is in RAM) by about 2% on average. The performance of the VM is not impacted, at least within measurment of the performance benchmark suite. Code size is reduced for builds that include a decent amount of frozen bytecode. ARM Cortex-M builds without any frozen code increase by about 350 bytes. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-02-24py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data.Damien George
Background: .mpy files are precompiled .py files, built using mpy-cross, that contain compiled bytecode functions (and can also contain machine code). The benefit of using an .mpy file over a .py file is that they are faster to import and take less memory when importing. They are also smaller on disk. But the real benefit of .mpy files comes when they are frozen into the firmware. This is done by loading the .mpy file during compilation of the firmware and turning it into a set of big C data structures (the job of mpy-tool.py), which are then compiled and downloaded into the ROM of a device. These C data structures can be executed in-place, ie directly from ROM. This makes importing even faster because there is very little to do, and also means such frozen modules take up much less RAM (because their bytecode stays in ROM). The downside of frozen code is that it requires recompiling and reflashing the entire firmware. This can be a big barrier to entry, slows down development time, and makes it harder to do OTA updates of frozen code (because the whole firmware must be updated). This commit attempts to solve this problem by providing a solution that sits between loading .mpy files into RAM and freezing them into the firmware. The .mpy file format has been reworked so that it consists of data and bytecode which is mostly static and ready to run in-place. If these new .mpy files are located in flash/ROM which is memory addressable, the .mpy file can be executed (mostly) in-place. With this approach there is still a small amount of unpacking and linking of the .mpy file that needs to be done when it's imported, but it's still much better than loading an .mpy from disk into RAM (although not as good as freezing .mpy files into the firmware). The main trick to make static .mpy files is to adjust the bytecode so any qstrs that it references now go through a lookup table to convert from local qstr number in the module to global qstr number in the firmware. That means the bytecode does not need linking/rewriting of qstrs when it's loaded. Instead only a small qstr table needs to be built (and put in RAM) at import time. This means the bytecode itself is static/constant and can be used directly if it's in addressable memory. Also the qstr string data in the .mpy file, and some constant object data, can be used directly. Note that the qstr table is global to the module (ie not per function). In more detail, in the VM what used to be (schematically): qst = DECODE_QSTR_VALUE; is now (schematically): idx = DECODE_QSTR_INDEX; qst = qstr_table[idx]; That allows the bytecode to be fixed at compile time and not need relinking/rewriting of the qstr values. Only qstr_table needs to be linked when the .mpy is loaded. Incidentally, this helps to reduce the size of bytecode because what used to be 2-byte qstr values in the bytecode are now (mostly) 1-byte indices. If the module uses the same qstr more than two times then the bytecode is smaller than before. The following changes are measured for this commit compared to the previous (the baseline): - average 7%-9% reduction in size of .mpy files - frozen code size is reduced by about 5%-7% - importing .py files uses about 5% less RAM in total - importing .mpy files uses about 4% less RAM in total - importing .py and .mpy files takes about the same time as before The qstr indirection in the bytecode has only a small impact on VM performance. For stm32 on PYBv1.0 the performance change of this commit is: diff of scores (higher is better) N=100 M=100 baseline -> this-commit diff diff% (error%) bm_chaos.py 371.07 -> 357.39 : -13.68 = -3.687% (+/-0.02%) bm_fannkuch.py 78.72 -> 77.49 : -1.23 = -1.563% (+/-0.01%) bm_fft.py 2591.73 -> 2539.28 : -52.45 = -2.024% (+/-0.00%) bm_float.py 6034.93 -> 5908.30 : -126.63 = -2.098% (+/-0.01%) bm_hexiom.py 48.96 -> 47.93 : -1.03 = -2.104% (+/-0.00%) bm_nqueens.py 4510.63 -> 4459.94 : -50.69 = -1.124% (+/-0.00%) bm_pidigits.py 650.28 -> 644.96 : -5.32 = -0.818% (+/-0.23%) core_import_mpy_multi.py 564.77 -> 581.49 : +16.72 = +2.960% (+/-0.01%) core_import_mpy_single.py 68.67 -> 67.16 : -1.51 = -2.199% (+/-0.01%) core_qstr.py 64.16 -> 64.12 : -0.04 = -0.062% (+/-0.00%) core_yield_from.py 362.58 -> 354.50 : -8.08 = -2.228% (+/-0.00%) misc_aes.py 429.69 -> 405.59 : -24.10 = -5.609% (+/-0.01%) misc_mandel.py 3485.13 -> 3416.51 : -68.62 = -1.969% (+/-0.00%) misc_pystone.py 2496.53 -> 2405.56 : -90.97 = -3.644% (+/-0.01%) misc_raytrace.py 381.47 -> 374.01 : -7.46 = -1.956% (+/-0.01%) viper_call0.py 576.73 -> 572.49 : -4.24 = -0.735% (+/-0.04%) viper_call1a.py 550.37 -> 546.21 : -4.16 = -0.756% (+/-0.09%) viper_call1b.py 438.23 -> 435.68 : -2.55 = -0.582% (+/-0.06%) viper_call1c.py 442.84 -> 440.04 : -2.80 = -0.632% (+/-0.08%) viper_call2a.py 536.31 -> 532.35 : -3.96 = -0.738% (+/-0.06%) viper_call2b.py 382.34 -> 377.07 : -5.27 = -1.378% (+/-0.03%) And for unix on x64: diff of scores (higher is better) N=2000 M=2000 baseline -> this-commit diff diff% (error%) bm_chaos.py 13594.20 -> 13073.84 : -520.36 = -3.828% (+/-5.44%) bm_fannkuch.py 60.63 -> 59.58 : -1.05 = -1.732% (+/-3.01%) bm_fft.py 112009.15 -> 111603.32 : -405.83 = -0.362% (+/-4.03%) bm_float.py 246202.55 -> 247923.81 : +1721.26 = +0.699% (+/-2.79%) bm_hexiom.py 615.65 -> 617.21 : +1.56 = +0.253% (+/-1.64%) bm_nqueens.py 215807.95 -> 215600.96 : -206.99 = -0.096% (+/-3.52%) bm_pidigits.py 8246.74 -> 8422.82 : +176.08 = +2.135% (+/-3.64%) misc_aes.py 16133.00 -> 16452.74 : +319.74 = +1.982% (+/-1.50%) misc_mandel.py 128146.69 -> 130796.43 : +2649.74 = +2.068% (+/-3.18%) misc_pystone.py 83811.49 -> 83124.85 : -686.64 = -0.819% (+/-1.03%) misc_raytrace.py 21688.02 -> 21385.10 : -302.92 = -1.397% (+/-3.20%) The code size change is (firmware with a lot of frozen code benefits the most): bare-arm: +396 +0.697% minimal x86: +1595 +0.979% [incl +32(data)] unix x64: +2408 +0.470% [incl +800(data)] unix nanbox: +1396 +0.309% [incl -96(data)] stm32: -1256 -0.318% PYBV10 cc3200: +288 +0.157% esp8266: -260 -0.037% GENERIC esp32: -216 -0.014% GENERIC[incl -1072(data)] nrf: +116 +0.067% pca10040 rp2: -664 -0.135% PICO samd: +844 +0.607% ADAFRUIT_ITSYBITSY_M4_EXPRESS As part of this change the .mpy file format version is bumped to version 6. And mpy-tool.py has been improved to provide a good visualisation of the contents of .mpy files. In summary: this commit changes the bytecode to use qstr indirection, and reworks the .mpy file format to be simpler and allow .mpy files to be executed in-place. Performance is not impacted too much. Eventually it will be possible to store such .mpy files in a linear, read-only, memory- mappable filesystem so they can be executed from flash/ROM. This will essentially be able to replace frozen code for most applications. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2021-09-13py/emitnative: Ensure load_subscr does not clobber existing REG_RET.Damien George
Fixes issue #7782, and part of issue #6314. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2021-07-19py/emitnative: Ensure stack settling is safe mid-branch.Jim Mussared
And add a test for the case where REG_RET could be in use. Fixes #7523. Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
2021-07-19py/emitnative: Reuse need_reg_all func in need_stack_settled.Damien George
To reduce code size and code duplication. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2021-05-20py/emitnative: Fix x86-64 emitter to generate correct 8/16-bit stores.Damien George
Fixes issue #6643. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2021-01-29py/emitnative: Support binary ops on ARMv6M without use of ite instr.graham sanderson
2021-01-29py/emitnative: Ensure encoding to load prelude_offset doesn't change sz.Damien George
Based on change made by Graham Sanderson. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2020-06-27py/emitnative: Implement binary operations for viper uint operands.Damien George
uint types in viper mode can now be used for all binary operators except floor-divide and modulo. Fixes issue #1847 and issue #6177. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2020-04-05all: Use MP_ERROR_TEXT for all error messages.Jim Mussared
2020-02-28all: Reformat C and Python source code with tools/codeformat.py.Damien George
This is run with uncrustify 0.70.1, and black 19.10b0.
2020-02-28py: Removing dangling "else" to improve code format consistency.Damien George
2020-01-27py/emitnative: Stop after finding an unwind target.Jim Mussared
The loop searches backwards for a target, but doesn't stop after finding the first result, meaning that it'll always end up at the outermost exception handler.
2020-01-27py/emitnative: Use NULL for pending exception (not None).Jim Mussared
This previously made the native emitter incompatible with the bytecode emitter, and mp_resume (and subsequently mp_obj_generator_resume) expects the bytecode emitter behavior (i.e. throw==NULL).
2019-12-12py/nativeglue: Add new header file with native function table typedef.Damien George
2019-11-07py/emitnative: Fix typo, REG_PARENT_ARG_RET should be REG_PARENT_RET.Thea Flowers
2019-10-05py: Add new Xtensa-Windowed arch for native emitter.Damien George
Enabled via the configuration MICROPY_EMIT_XTENSAWIN.
2019-10-05py/emitnative: Add support for archs that cannot read executable data.Damien George
In which case place the native function prelude in a bytes object, linked from the const_table of that function. An architecture should define N_PRELUDE_AS_BYTES_OBJ to 1 before including py/emitnative.c to emit correct machine code, then enable MICROPY_EMIT_NATIVE_PRELUDE_AS_BYTES_OBJ so the runtime can correctly handle the prelude being in a bytes object.
2019-10-05py/emitnative: Add support for using setjmp with native emitter.Damien George
To enable this feature the N_NLR_SETJMP macro should be set to 1 before including py/emitnative.c.
2019-10-05py/emitnative: Add support for archs with windowed registers.Damien George
Such that args/return regs for the parent are different to args/return regs for child calls. For an architecture to use this feature it should define the REG_PARENT_xxx macros before including py/emitnative.c.
2019-10-01py: Rework and compress second part of bytecode prelude.Damien George
This patch compresses the second part of the bytecode prelude which contains the source file name, function name, source-line-number mapping and cell closure information. This part of the prelude now begins with a single varible length unsigned integer which encodes 2 numbers, being the byte-size of the following 2 sections in the header: the "source info section" and the "closure section". After decoding this variable unsigned integer it's possible to skip over one or both of these sections very easily. This scheme saves about 2 bytes for most functions compared to the original format: one in the case that there are no closure cells, and one because padding was eliminated.
2019-10-01py: Compress first part of bytecode prelude.Damien George
The start of the bytecode prelude contains 6 numbers telling the amount of stack needed for the Python values and exceptions, and the signature of the function. Prior to this patch these numbers were all encoded one after the other (2x variable unsigned integers, then 4x bytes), but using so many bytes is unnecessary. An entropy analysis of around 150,000 bytecode functions from the CPython standard library showed that the optimal Shannon coding would need about 7.1 bits on average to encode these 6 numbers, compared to the existing 48 bits. This patch attempts to get close to this optimal value by packing the 6 numbers into a single, varible-length unsigned integer via bit-wise interleaving. The interleaving scheme is chosen to minimise the average number of bytes needed, and at the same time keep the scheme simple enough so it can be implemented without too much overhead in code size or speed. The scheme requires about 10.5 bits on average to store the 6 numbers. As a result most functions which originally took 6 bytes to encode these 6 numbers now need only 1 byte (in 80% of cases).
2019-10-01py: Add n_state to mp_code_state_t struct.Damien George
This value is used often enough that it is better to cache it instead of decode it each time.
2019-09-26mpy-cross: Set number of registers in nlr_buf_t based on native arch.Damien George
Fixes #5059. Done in collaboration with Jim Mussared.
2019-09-26py/emitnative: Factor sizeof/offsetof calculations to macros.Damien George
2019-05-29py/nativeglue: Remove dependency on mp_fun_table in dyn-compiler mode.Damien George
mpy-cross uses MICROPY_DYNAMIC_COMPILER and MICROPY_EMIT_NATIVE but does not actually need to execute native functions, and does not need mp_fun_table. This commit makes it so mp_fun_table and all its entries are not built when MICROPY_DYNAMIC_COMPILER is enabled, significantly reducing the size of the mpy-cross executable and allowing it to be built on more machines/OS's.
2019-05-06py: remove "if (0)" and "if (false)" branches.Jun Wu
Prior to this commit, building the unix port with `DEBUG=1` and `-finstrument-functions` the compilation would fail with an error like "control reaches end of non-void function". This change fixes this by removing the problematic "if (0)" branches. Not all branches affect compilation, but they are all removed for consistency.
2019-05-03py/native: Improve support for bool type in viper functions.Damien George
Variables with type bool now act more like an int, and there is proper casting to/from Python objects.
2019-03-14py/compile: Add support to select the native emitter at runtime.Damien George
2019-03-14py: Move mp_native_type_from_qstr() from emitnative.c to nativeglue.c.Damien George
2019-03-08py: Add support to save native, viper and asm code to .mpy files.Damien George
This commit adds support for saving and loading .mpy files that contain native code (native, viper and inline-asm). A lot of the ground work was already done for this in the form of removing pointers from generated native code. The changes here are mainly to link in qstr values to the native code, and change the format of .mpy files to contain native code blocks (possibly mixed with bytecode). A top-level summary: - @micropython.native, @micropython.viper and @micropython.asm_thumb/ asm_xtensa are now allowed in .py files when compiling to .mpy, and they work transparently to the user. - Entire .py files can be compiled to native via mpy-cross -X emit=native and for the most part the generated .mpy files should work the same as their bytecode version. - The .mpy file format is changed to 1) specify in the header if the file contains native code and if so the architecture (eg x86, ARMV7M, Xtensa); 2) for each function block the kind of code is specified (bytecode, native, viper, asm). - When native code is loaded from a .mpy file the native code must be modified (in place) to link qstr values in, just like bytecode (see py/persistentcode.c:arch_link_qstr() function). In addition, this now defines a public, native ABI for dynamically loadable native code generated by other languages, like C.
2019-03-08py/emitnative: Adjust accounting of size of const_table.Damien George
n_obj no longer includes a count for mp_fun_table to make it a bit simpler.
2019-03-08py/emitnative: Provide concentrated points of qstr emit.Damien George