Rewrite runtime, switch to tracing GC and bootstrap (#1559)

BREAKING: The exported runtime interface has changed, affecting how external objects are being kept alive. Please refer to the updated documentation on [Garbage collection](https://www.assemblyscript.org/garbage-collection.html) for all the details.

Author: dcodeIO

.eslintignore

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 dist/
 docs/
+lib/binaryen.js
 lib/parse/index.js
 out/
 raw/

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -102,6 +102,25 @@ jobs:
       run: npm test
     - name: Test browser build
       run: node tests/browser-asc
+  test-bootstrap:
+    name: "Compiler (Bootstrap)"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: check
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v1.0.0
+    - uses: dcodeIO/setup-node-nvm@master
+      with:
+        node-version: current
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: npm ci --no-audit
+    - name: Clean distribution files
+      run: npm run clean
+    - name: Bootstrap the compiler
+      run: npm run bootstrap
+    - name: Run compiler tests (untouched-bootstrap)
+      run: npm run test:compiler -- --wasm out/assemblyscript.untouched-bootstrap.wasm
+    - name: Run compiler tests (optimized-bootstrap)
+      run: npm run test:compiler -- --wasm out/assemblyscript.optimized-bootstrap.wasm
   test-features:
     name: "Features"
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -134,18 +153,18 @@ jobs:
       run: npm ci --no-audit
     - name: Clean distribution files
       run: npm run clean
-    - name: Test full runtime
+    - name: Test default allocator
       run: |
-        cd tests/allocators/rt-full
+        cd tests/allocators/default
         npm run build
         cd ..
-        npm test rt-full
-    - name: Test stub runtime
+        npm test default
+    - name: Test stub allocator
       run: |
-        cd tests/allocators/rt-stub
+        cd tests/allocators/stub
         npm run build
         cd ..
-        npm test rt-stub
+        npm test stub
   test-loader:
     name: "Loader"
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -164,20 +183,3 @@ jobs:
         cd lib/loader
         npm run asbuild
         npm run test
-  test-bootstrap:
-    name: "Bootstrap"
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: check
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v1.0.0
-    - uses: dcodeIO/setup-node-nvm@master
-      with:
-        node-version: current
-    - name: Install dependencies
-      run: npm ci --no-audit
-    - name: Clean distribution files
-      run: npm run clean
-    - name: Test self-compilation
-      run: |
-        npm run asbuild
-        npm run astest

.gitignore

@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ out/
 raw/
 .history
 *.backup
-.vscode
+.vscode
+.idea

NOTICE

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ under the licensing terms detailed in LICENSE:
 * Gabor Greif <ggreif@gmail.com>
 * Martin Fredriksson <martin.fredriksson@vikinganalytics.se>
 * forcepusher <bionitsoup@gmail.com>
+* Piotr Oleś <piotrek.oles@gmail.com>
 
 Portions of this software are derived from third-party works licensed under
 the following terms:

cli/asc.d.ts

@@ -55,6 +55,39 @@ export interface MemoryStream extends OutputStream {
   toString(): string;
 }
 
+/** Relevant subset of the Source class for diagnostic reporting. */
+export interface Source {
+  /** Normalized path with file extension. */
+  normalizedPath: string;
+}
+
+/** Relevant subset of the Range class for diagnostic reporting. */
+export interface Range {
+  /** Start offset within the source file. */
+  start: number;
+  /** End offset within the source file. */
+  end: number;
+  /** Respective source file. */
+  source: Source;
+}
+
+/** Relevant subset of the DiagnosticMessage class for diagnostic reporting. */
+export interface DiagnosticMessage {
+  /** Message code. */
+  code: number;
+  /** Message category. */
+  category: number;
+  /** Message text. */
+  message: string;
+  /** Respective source range, if any. */
+  range: Range | null;
+  /** Related range, if any. */
+  relatedRange: Range | null;
+}
+
+/** A function handling diagnostic messages. */
+type DiagnosticReporter = (diagnostic: DiagnosticMessage) => void;
+
 /** Compiler options. */
 export interface CompilerOptions {
   /** Prints just the compiler's version and exits. */
@@ -157,6 +190,8 @@ export interface APIOptions {
   writeFile?: (filename: string, contents: Uint8Array, baseDir: string) => void;
   /** Lists all files within a directory. */
   listFiles?: (dirname: string, baseDir: string) => string[] | null;
+  /** Handler for diagnostic messages. */
+  reportDiagnostic?: DiagnosticReporter;
 }
 
 /** Convenience function that parses and compiles source strings directly. */
@@ -176,7 +211,7 @@ export function main(argv: string[], options: APIOptions, callback?: (err: Error
 export function main(argv: string[], callback?: (err: Error | null) => number): number;
 
 /** Checks diagnostics emitted so far for errors. */
-export function checkDiagnostics(emitter: Record<string,unknown>, stderr?: OutputStream): boolean;
+export function checkDiagnostics(emitter: Record<string,unknown>, stderr?: OutputStream, reportDiagnostic?: DiagnosticReporter): boolean;
 
 /** An object of stats for the current task. */
 export interface Stats {