From ef419dd72d3fc9ec1454099367bd8d43f1b5037b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian <15335529+Sobeston@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 02:57:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mem.zeroes .Array improvements

Before (when given an array with many elements):
```
zig\std\mem.zig:345:13: error: evaluation exceeded 1000
backwards branches
            for (array) |*element| {
            ^
```
related to https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4847#issuecomment-605721461
---
 lib/std/mem.zig | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/std/mem.zig b/lib/std/mem.zig
index 7fd94c227b..446683abdb 100644
--- a/lib/std/mem.zig
+++ b/lib/std/mem.zig
@@ -341,11 +341,7 @@ pub fn zeroes(comptime T: type) T {
             }
         },
         .Array => |info| {
-            var array: T = undefined;
-            for (array) |*element| {
-                element.* = zeroes(info.child);
-            }
-            return array;
+            return [_]info.child{zeroes(info.child)} ** info.len;
         },
         .Vector,
         .ErrorUnion,