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Proposal Details
This proposal suggests a modification to the Go compiler's WebAssembly (Wasm) target to change the mechanism used for passing command-line arguments and environment variables.
In the current implementation of the Go compiler targeting Wasm, command-line arguments and environment variables are written directly into the linear memory of the WebAssembly module, with the combined size of these parameters being limited to 8192 bytes.
The size limitation of 8192 bytes for the combined environment variables and command-line arguments is restrictive, particularly when considering the capabilities of mainstream operating systems:
Linux:MAX_ARG_STRLEN * 32, typically128KBWindows: Has a maximum environment block size of 32,767 characters.macOS: I don't have a macOS device, but in GitHub Actions, the macOS runner can apparently also store environment variables that are longer than 8192
This restriction has caused some real trouble. When running unit tests on GitHub Actions, for example, the length of environment variables included by default in the runner has exceeded this limit.
https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/blob/9c13ae1f06dfa909eb4a53882e3b7e4216a503fe/Makefile#L55-L62
I propose to instead use go.importObject for passing these parameters. Glue js should perform dynamic allocation of environment variables and command line arguments as the wasm application tries to read them, and then provide the values to the wasm application using logic similar to syscall/js.copyBytesToGo.