doc/asm: document that assembly function must use short name
e.g. ·Name instead of package·Name for automatic stack map to
be applied from its Go prototype.
The underlying reason is that liblink look up name with suffix
".args_stackmap" for the stackmap coming from its Go prototype,
but all the Go functions are named "".Name as this stage. Thus
an assembly function named package·Name will never find its
stackmap, which is named "".package.Name.args_stackmap.
Perhaps cmd/vet should give a warning for this.
Change-Id: I10d154a73ec969d574d20af877f747424350fbd1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2588
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
diff --git a/doc/asm.html b/doc/asm.html
index 771c493..43382fc 100644
--- a/doc/asm.html
+++ b/doc/asm.html
@@ -350,7 +350,11 @@
For an assembly function with no pointer results and
either no local stack frame or no function calls,
the only requirement is to define a Go prototype for the function
-in a Go source file in the same package.
+in a Go source file in the same package. The name of the assembly
+function must not contain the package name component (for example,
+function <code>Syscall</code> in package <code>syscall</code> should
+use the name <code>·Syscall</code> instead of the equivalent name
+<code>syscall·Syscall</code> in its <code>TEXT</code> directive).
For more complex situations, explicit annotation is needed.
These annotations use pseudo-instructions defined in the standard
<code>#include</code> file <code>funcdata.h</code>.
