wasm linker: aggressive DODification

The goals of this branch are to:
* compile faster when using the wasm linker and backend
* enable saving compiler state by directly copying in-memory linker
  state to disk.
* more efficient compiler memory utilization
* introduce integer type safety to wasm linker code
* generate better WebAssembly code
* fully participate in incremental compilation
* do as much work as possible outside of flush(), while continuing to do
  linker garbage collection.
* avoid unnecessary heap allocations
* avoid unnecessary indirect function calls

In order to accomplish this goals, this removes the ZigObject
abstraction, as well as Symbol and Atom. These abstractions resulted
in overly generic code, doing unnecessary work, and needless
complications that simply go away by creating a better in-memory data
model and emitting more things lazily.

For example, this makes wasm codegen emit MIR which is then lowered to
wasm code during linking, with optimal function indexes etc, or
relocations are emitted if outputting an object. Previously, this would
always emit relocations, which are fully unnecessary when emitting an
executable, and required all function calls to use the maximum size LEB
encoding.

This branch introduces the concept of the "prelink" phase which occurs
after all object files have been parsed, but before any Zcu updates are
sent to the linker. This allows the linker to fully parse all objects
into a compact memory model, which is guaranteed to be complete when Zcu
code is generated.

This commit is not a complete implementation of all these goals; it is
not even passing semantic analysis.
This commit is contained in:
Andrew Kelley
2024-11-04 17:26:17 -08:00
parent 77273103a8
commit 795e7c64d5
34 changed files with 4322 additions and 7204 deletions

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@@ -643,9 +643,9 @@ set(ZIG_STAGE2_SOURCES
src/link/StringTable.zig
src/link/Wasm.zig
src/link/Wasm/Archive.zig
src/link/Wasm/Flush.zig
src/link/Wasm/Object.zig
src/link/Wasm/Symbol.zig
src/link/Wasm/ZigObject.zig
src/link/aarch64.zig
src/link/riscv.zig
src/link/table_section.zig