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* Gccgo: (gccgo). A GCC-based compiler for the Go language
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Introduction
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This manual describes how to use 'gccgo', the GNU compiler for the Go
programming language. This manual is specifically about 'gccgo'. For
more information about the Go programming language in general, including
language specifications and standard package documentation, see
<http://golang.org/>.
* Menu:
* Copying:: The GNU General Public License.
* GNU Free Documentation License::
How you can share and copy this manual.
* Invoking gccgo:: How to run gccgo.
* Import and Export:: Importing and exporting package data.
* C Interoperability:: Calling C from Go and vice-versa.
* Index:: Index.

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How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
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GNU Free Documentation License
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or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
Free Documentation License''.
If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover
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If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other
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their use in free software.

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1 Invoking gccgo
****************
The 'gccgo' command is a frontend to 'gcc' and supports many of the same
options. *Note Option Summary: (gcc)Option Summary. This manual only
documents the options specific to 'gccgo'.
The 'gccgo' command may be used to compile Go source code into an
object file, link a collection of object files together, or do both in
sequence.
Go source code is compiled as packages. A package consists of one or
more Go source files. All the files in a single package must be
compiled together, by passing all the files as arguments to 'gccgo'. A
single invocation of 'gccgo' may only compile a single package.
One Go package may 'import' a different Go package. The imported
package must have already been compiled; 'gccgo' will read the import
data directly from the compiled package. When this package is later
linked, the compiled form of the package must be included in the link
command.
Go programs must generally be compiled with debugging information,
and '-g1' is the default as described below. Stripping a Go program
will generally cause it to misbehave or fail.
'-IDIR'
Specify a directory to use when searching for an import package at
compile time.
'-LDIR'
When linking, specify a library search directory, as with 'gcc'.
'-fgo-pkgpath=STRING'
Set the package path to use. This sets the value returned by the
PkgPath method of reflect.Type objects. It is also used for the
names of globally visible symbols. The argument to this option
should normally be the string that will be used to import this
package after it has been installed; in other words, a pathname
within the directories specified by the '-I' option.
'-fgo-prefix=STRING'
An alternative to '-fgo-pkgpath'. The argument will be combined
with the package name from the source file to produce the package
path. If '-fgo-pkgpath' is used, '-fgo-prefix' will be ignored.
Go permits a single program to include more than one package with
the same name in the 'package' clause in the source file, though
obviously the two packages must be imported using different
pathnames. In order for this to work with 'gccgo', either
'-fgo-pkgpath' or '-fgo-prefix' must be specified when compiling a
package.
Using either '-fgo-pkgpath' or '-fgo-prefix' disables the special
treatment of the 'main' package and permits that package to be
imported like any other.
'-fgo-relative-import-path=DIR'
A relative import is an import that starts with './' or '../'. If
this option is used, 'gccgo' will use DIR as a prefix for the
relative import when searching for it.
'-frequire-return-statement'
'-fno-require-return-statement'
By default 'gccgo' will warn about functions which have one or more
return parameters but lack an explicit 'return' statement. This
warning may be disabled using '-fno-require-return-statement'.
'-fgo-check-divide-zero'
Add explicit checks for division by zero. In Go a division (or
modulos) by zero causes a panic. On Unix systems this is detected
in the runtime by catching the 'SIGFPE' signal. Some processors,
such as PowerPC, do not generate a SIGFPE on division by zero.
Some runtimes do not generate a signal that can be caught. On
those systems, this option may be used. Or the checks may be
removed via '-fno-go-check-divide-zero'. This option is currently
on by default, but in the future may be off by default on systems
that do not require it.
'-fgo-check-divide-overflow'
Add explicit checks for division overflow. For example, division
overflow occurs when computing 'INT_MIN / -1'. In Go this should
be wrapped, to produce 'INT_MIN'. Some processors, such as x86,
generate a trap on division overflow. On those systems, this
option may be used. Or the checks may be removed via
'-fno-go-check-divide-overflow'. This option is currently on by
default, but in the future may be off by default on systems that do
not require it.
'-g'
This is the standard 'gcc' option (*note Debugging Options:
(gcc)Debugging Options.). It is mentioned here because by default
'gccgo' turns on debugging information generation with the
equivalent of the standard option '-g1'. This is because Go
programs require debugging information to be available in order to
get backtrace information. An explicit '-g0' may be used to
disable the generation of debugging information, in which case
certain standard library functions, such as 'runtime.Callers', will
not operate correctly.

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2 Import and Export
*******************
When 'gccgo' compiles a package which exports anything, the export
information will be stored directly in the object file. When a package
is imported, 'gccgo' must be able to find the file.
When Go code imports the package 'GOPACKAGE', 'gccgo' will look for
the import data using the following filenames, using the first one that
it finds.
'GOPACKAGE.gox'
'libGOPACKAGE.so'
'libGOPACKAGE.a'
'GOPACKAGE.o'
The compiler will search for these files in the directories named by
any '-I' options, in order in which the directories appear on the
command line. The compiler will then search several standard system
directories. Finally the compiler will search the current directory (to
search the current directory earlier, use '-I.').
The compiler will extract the export information directly from the
compiled object file. The file 'GOPACKAGE.gox' will typically contain
nothing but export data. This can be generated from 'GOPACKAGE.o' via
objcopy -j .go_export GOPACKAGE.o GOPACKAGE.gox
For example, it may be desirable to extract the export information
from several different packages into their independent 'GOPACKAGE.gox'
files, and then to combine the different package object files together
into a single shared library or archive.
At link time you must explicitly tell 'gccgo' which files to link
together into the executable, as is usual with 'gcc'. This is different
from the behaviour of other Go compilers.

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3 C Interoperability
********************
When using 'gccgo' there is limited interoperability with C, or with C++
code compiled using 'extern "C"'.
This information is provided largely for documentation purposes. For
ordinary use it is best to build programs with the go tool and then use
'import "C"', as described at <http://golang.org/cmd/cgo>.
* Menu:
* C Type Interoperability:: How C and Go types match up.
* Function Names:: How Go functions are named.

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3.1 C Type Interoperability
===========================
Basic types map directly: an 'int' in Go is an 'int' in C, etc. Go
'byte' is equivalent to C 'unsigned char'. Pointers in Go are pointers
in C. A Go 'struct' is the same as C 'struct' with the same field names
and types.
The Go 'string' type is currently defined as a two-element structure:
struct __go_string {
const unsigned char *__data;
int __length;
};
You can't pass arrays between C and Go. However, a pointer to an
array in Go is equivalent to a C pointer to the equivalent of the
element type. For example, Go '*[10]int' is equivalent to C 'int*',
assuming that the C pointer does point to 10 elements.
A slice in Go is a structure. The current definition is:
struct __go_slice {
void *__values;
int __count;
int __capacity;
};
The type of a Go function with no receiver is equivalent to a C
function whose parameter types are equivalent. When a Go function
returns more than one value, the C function returns a struct. For
example, these functions have equivalent types:
func GoFunction(int) (int, float)
struct { int i; float f; } CFunction(int)
A pointer to a Go function is equivalent to a pointer to a C function
when the functions have equivalent types.
Go 'interface', 'channel', and 'map' types have no corresponding C
type ('interface' is a two-element struct and 'channel' and 'map' are
pointers to structs in C, but the structs are deliberately
undocumented). C 'enum' types correspond to some integer type, but
precisely which one is difficult to predict in general; use a cast. C
'union' types have no corresponding Go type. C 'struct' types
containing bitfields have no corresponding Go type. C++ 'class' types
have no corresponding Go type.
Memory allocation is completely different between C and Go, as Go
uses garbage collection. The exact guidelines in this area are
undetermined, but it is likely that it will be permitted to pass a
pointer to allocated memory from C to Go. The responsibility of
eventually freeing the pointer will remain with C side, and of course if
the C side frees the pointer while the Go side still has a copy the
program will fail. When passing a pointer from Go to C, the Go function
must retain a visible copy of it in some Go variable. Otherwise the Go
garbage collector may delete the pointer while the C function is still
using it.

File: gccgo.info, Node: Function Names, Prev: C Type Interoperability, Up: C Interoperability
3.2 Function Names
==================
Go code can call C functions directly using a Go extension implemented
in 'gccgo': a function declaration may be preceded by a comment giving
the external name. The comment must be at the beginning of the line and
must start with '//extern'. This must be followed by a space and then
the external name of the function. The function declaration must be on
the line immediately after the comment. For example, here is how the C
function 'open' can be declared in Go:
//extern open
func c_open(name *byte, mode int, perm int) int
The C function naturally expects a nul terminated string, which in Go
is equivalent to a pointer to an array (not a slice!) of 'byte' with a
terminating zero byte. So a sample call from Go would look like (after
importing the 'os' package):
var name = [4]byte{'f', 'o', 'o', 0};
i := c_open(&amp;name[0], os.O_RDONLY, 0);
Note that this serves as an example only. To open a file in Go
please use Go's 'os.Open' function instead.
The name of Go functions accessed from C is subject to change. At
present the name of a Go function that does not have a receiver is
'prefix.package.Functionname'. The prefix is set by the '-fgo-prefix'
option used when the package is compiled; if the option is not used, the
default is simply 'go'. To call the function from C you must set the
name using the 'gcc' '__asm__' extension.
extern int go_function(int) __asm__ ("myprefix.mypackage.Function");

File: gccgo.info, Node: Index, Prev: C Interoperability, Up: Top
Index
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* Menu:
* '-fgo-check-divide-overflow': Invoking gccgo. (line 83)
* '-fgo-check-divide-zero': Invoking gccgo. (line 72)
* '-fgo-pkgpath': Invoking gccgo. (line 37)
* '-fgo-prefix': Invoking gccgo. (line 45)
* '-fgo-relative-import-path': Invoking gccgo. (line 61)
* '-fno-go-check-divide-overflow': Invoking gccgo. (line 83)
* '-fno-go-check-divide-zero': Invoking gccgo. (line 72)
* '-fno-require-return-statement': Invoking gccgo. (line 67)
* '-frequire-return-statement': Invoking gccgo. (line 67)
* '-g for gccgo': Invoking gccgo. (line 93)
* '-I': Invoking gccgo. (line 30)
* '-L': Invoking gccgo. (line 34)
* '.gox': Import and Export. (line 10)
* 'extern': Function Names. (line 6)
* external names: Function Names. (line 6)
* FDL, GNU Free Documentation License: GNU Free Documentation License.
(line 6)
* 'slice' in C: C Type Interoperability.
(line 23)
* 'string' in C: C Type Interoperability.
(line 11)

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