SPIR-V doesn't support true element indexing, so we probably
need to switch over to isByRef like in llvm for this to work
properly. Currently a temporary is used, which at least
seems to work.
This will help us both to make the implementation a little
more efficient by caching emission for certain types like structs,
and also allow us to attach extra information about types that we
can use while lowering without performing a search over the entire
type tree for some property.
When the tag is not known, it's set to `.none`. In this case, the value is either an
array of bytes (for extern unions) or an integer (for packed unions).
When struct types have no field names, the names are implicitly
understood to be strings corresponding to the field indexes in
declaration order. It used to be the case that a NullTerminatedString
would be stored for each field in this case, however, now, callers must
handle the possibility that there are no names stored at all. This
commit introduces `legacyStructFieldName`, a function to fake the
previous behavior. Probably something better could be done by reworking
all the callsites of this function.
This changeset fixes the handling of alignment in several places. The
new rules are:
* `@alignOf(T)` where `T` is a runtime zero-bit type is at least 1,
maybe greater.
* Zero-bit fields in `extern` structs *do* force alignment, potentially
offsetting following fields.
* Zero-bit fields *do* have addresses within structs which can be
observed and are consistent with `@offsetOf`.
These are not necessarily all implemented correctly yet (see disabled
test), but this commit fixes all regressions compared to master, and
makes one new test pass.
Structs were previously using `SegmentedList` to be given indexes, but
were not actually backed by the InternPool arrays.
After this, the only remaining uses of `SegmentedList` in the compiler
are `Module.Decl` and `Module.Namespace`. Once those last two are
migrated to become backed by InternPool arrays as well, we can introduce
state serialization via writing these arrays to disk all at once.
Unfortunately there are a lot of source code locations that touch the
struct type API, so this commit is still work-in-progress. Once I get it
compiling and passing the test suite, I can provide some interesting
data points such as how it affected the InternPool memory size and
performance comparison against master branch.
I also couldn't resist migrating over a bunch of alignment API over to
use the log2 Alignment type rather than a mismash of u32 and u64 byte
units with 0 meaning something implicitly different and special at every
location. Turns out you can do all the math you need directly on the
log2 representation of alignments.
* some manual fixes to generated CPU features code. in the future it
would be nice to make the script do those automatically. I suspect
the sm_90a thing is a bug in LLVM.
* add liteos to various target OS switches. I know nothing about this
OS; someone will need to work specifically on support for this OS
when the time comes to support it properly in zig.
* while waiting for the compiler, I went ahead and made more
conservative choices about when to use `inline` in std/Target.zig
Instead of using actual slices for InternPool.Key.AnonStructType, this
commit changes to use Slice types instead, which store a
long-lived index rather than a pointer.
This is a follow-up to 7ef1eb1c27754cb0349fdc10db1f02ff2dddd99b.