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Module libcalls

Module libcalls 

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Runtime library calls.

Note that Wasm compilers may sometimes perform these inline rather than calling them, particularly when CPUs have special instructions which compute them directly.

These functions are called by compiled Wasm code, and therefore must take certain care about some things:

  • They must always be pub extern "C" and should only contain basic, raw i32/i64/f32/f64/pointer parameters that are safe to pass across the system ABI!

  • If any nested function propagates an Err(trap) out to the library function frame, we need to raise it. This involves some nasty and quite unsafe code under the covers! Notable, after raising the trap, drops will not be run for local variables! This can lead to things like leaking InstanceHandles which leads to never deallocating JIT code, instances, and modules! Therefore, always use nested blocks to ensure drops run before raising a trap:

    pub extern "C" fn my_lib_function(...) {
        let result = {
            // Do everything in here so drops run at the end of the block.
            ...
        };
        if let Err(trap) = result {
            // Now we can safely raise the trap without leaking!
            raise_lib_trap(trap);
        }
    }

Functions§

wasmtime_data_drop
Implementation of data.drop.
wasmtime_defined_memory_copy
Implementation of memory.copy for locally defined memories.
wasmtime_elem_drop
Implementation of elem.drop.
wasmtime_f32_ceil
Implementation of f32.ceil
wasmtime_f32_floor
Implementation of f32.floor
wasmtime_f32_nearest
Implementation of f32.nearest
wasmtime_f32_trunc
Implementation of f32.trunc
wasmtime_f64_ceil
Implementation of f64.ceil
wasmtime_f64_floor
Implementation of f64.floor
wasmtime_f64_nearest
Implementation of f64.nearest
wasmtime_f64_trunc
Implementation of f64.trunc
wasmtime_imported_memory32_grow
Implementation of memory.grow for imported 32-bit memories.
wasmtime_imported_memory32_size
Implementation of memory.size for imported 32-bit memories.
wasmtime_imported_memory_copy
Implementation of memory.copy for imported memories.
wasmtime_imported_memory_fill
Implementation of memory.fill for imported memories.
wasmtime_memory32_grow
Implementation of memory.grow for locally-defined 32-bit memories.
wasmtime_memory32_size
Implementation of memory.size for locally-defined 32-bit memories.
wasmtime_memory_fill
Implementation of memory.fill for locally defined memories.
wasmtime_memory_init
Implementation of memory.init.
wasmtime_table_copy
Implementation of table.copy.
wasmtime_table_init
Implementation of table.init.