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ianlancetaylor opened this issue Sep 2, 2015 · 5 comments
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cmd/compile: document go:systemstack comment #12454

ianlancetaylor opened this issue Sep 2, 2015 · 5 comments
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Now that the runtime has been entirely converted from C to Go, I believe we can remove the go:systemstack comment. It follows that we can remove the Cfunc field from Lsym, remove all the uses of it, and remove the morestackc function.

I see exactly one remaining use of go:systemstack, on persistentalloc1 in runtime/malloc.go.

CC @randall77 in case you disagree.
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I don't think we should get rid of this feature. It is nice to annotate and check that routines that should not run on a normal Go stack don't in fact do that. We don't have any C code that needs this checking anymore, but there is Go code (and assembly, probably) that does. We should probably be using go:systemstack in other places, for example in all the stack copying code, signal handlers, etc.

Maybe a rename of Cfunc and morestackc is in order, though.

@ianlancetaylor ianlancetaylor changed the title cmd/compile: remove go:systemstack comment cmd/compile: document go:systemstack comment Sep 2, 2015
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SGTM. I've changed this issue to call for documenting it, presumably in cmd/compile/doc.go.

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That works for me too.

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CL https://golang.org/cl/14274 mentions this issue.

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