Prepare for sharing TFA and patch files between the VM and dart2wasm.

The VM patch files contain many annotations that guide the TFA and the
VM compilation pipeline. Most of these are not relevant to dart2wasm,
and having the TFA look at these when running inside dart2wasm leads to
sub-optimal, and sometimes even unsound, results.

In order to enable sharing of patch files between the VM and dart2wasm,
the annotation parser is given a target flag to control which
annotations it should recognize and how to parse them. The annotation
parser thus becomes an abstraction layer between the concrete
annotations in the patch files and the parsed annotations that the TFA
sees.

Additionally, external members used by dart2wasm don't always have
external names. To support this, the signature shaker must skip all
external members, not just the ones with an external name. This makes no
difference for the VM, since all of its external members either have an
external name or are implemented in a patch file, making them no longer
external.

TEST=ci + upcoming dart2wasm CL
Change-Id: Id425dd1ccc5560721034ae83c8cdc1593801a4e5
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/231102
Reviewed-by: Alexander Markov <alexmarkov@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Aske Simon Christensen <askesc@google.com>
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README.md

Dart

A client-optimized language for fast apps on any platform

Dart is:

  • Optimized for UI: Develop with a programming language specialized around the needs of user interface creation.

  • Productive: Make changes iteratively: use hot reload to see the result instantly in your running app.

  • Fast on all platforms: Compile to ARM & x64 machine code for mobile, desktop, and backend. Or compile to JavaScript for the web.

Dart's flexible compiler technology lets you run Dart code in different ways, depending on your target platform and goals:

  • Dart Native: For programs targeting devices (mobile, desktop, server, and more), Dart Native includes both a Dart VM with JIT (just-in-time) compilation and an AOT (ahead-of-time) compiler for producing machine code.

  • Dart Web: For programs targeting the web, Dart Web includes both a development time compiler (dartdevc) and a production time compiler (dart2js).

Dart platforms illustration

License & patents

Dart is free and open source.

See LICENSE and PATENT_GRANT.

Using Dart

Visit dart.dev to learn more about the language, tools, and to find codelabs.

Browse pub.dev for more packages and libraries contributed by the community and the Dart team.

Our API reference documentation is published at api.dart.dev, based on the stable release. (We also publish docs from our beta and dev channels, as well as from the primary development branch).

Building Dart

If you want to build Dart yourself, here is a guide to getting the source, preparing your machine to build the SDK, and building.

There are more documents on our wiki.

Contributing to Dart

The easiest way to contribute to Dart is to file issues.

You can also contribute patches, as described in Contributing.