WASI reactor mode

[slinkydeveloper]

Hi all,

I've been experimenting with tinygo having some fun prototyping a go wasm application hosted by wasmtime-java. Unfortunately, I hit a bug/missing feature when trying to access the memory: kawamuray/wasmtime-java#21. As described in that issue, tinygo cannot compile in reactor mode, hence preventing wasmtime-java to access its memory. Although this might be recognized as a limitation of the engine (apparently others, at least from the documentation, can switch the usage mode independently from the exports https://wasmedge.org/book/en/dev/go.html#a-simple-function-run), I think it would be nice if tinygo can support the reactor mode.

I tried to prototype the support myself following what was done for clang https://reviews.llvm.org/D62922 and this is roughly what I needed to come up with a correct export:

• Patch manually wasi.json adding the ldflag "--entry=_initialize"
• Rename the export _start to _initialize: https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/blob/release/src/runtime/runtime_wasm_wasi.go#L15

If you want I can also provide a proper PR, but i need some guidance :)

[codefromthecrypt]

There may be issues after this, but I guess the main question is how to control the //export name (ex based on flags). Is templating supported?

https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/blob/release/src/runtime/runtime_wasm_wasi.go#L16

[aykevl]

#4451 implements reactor mode for wasip1.

[deadprogram]

Closing since this was implemented some time ago. Thanks everyone!