Instead of making its own inside create. 10 out of 10 calls to create()
had already an arena in scope, so this commit means that 10 instances of
Compilation now reuse an existing arena with the same lifetime rather
than creating a redundant one.
In other words, this very slightly optimizes initialization of the
frontend in terms of memory allocation.
implement builtin.zig file population for all modules rather than
assuming there is only one global builtin.zig module.
move some fields from link.File to Compilation
move some fields from Module to Compilation
compute debug_format in global Compilation config resolution
wire up C compilation to the concept of owner modules
make whole cache mode call link.File.createEmpty() instead of
link.File.open()
Much of the logic from Compilation.create() is extracted into
Compilation.Config.resolve() which accepts many optional settings and
produces concrete settings. This separate step is needed by API users of
Compilation so that they can pass the resolved global settings to the
Module creation function, which itself needs to resolve per-Module
settings.
Since the target and other things are no longer global settings, I did
not want them stored in link.File (in the `options` field). That options
field was already a kludge; those options should be resolved into
concrete settings. This commit also starts to work on that, deleting
link.Options, moving the fields into Compilation and
ObjectFormat-specific structs instead. Some fields were ephemeral and
should not have been stored at all, such as symbol_size_hint.
The link.File object of Compilation is now a `?*link.File` and `null`
when -fno-emit-bin is passed. It is now arena-allocated along with
Compilation itself, avoiding some messy cleanup code that was there
before.
On the command line, it is now possible to configure the standard
library itself by using `--mod std` just like any other module. This
meant that the CLI needed to create the standard library module rather
than having Compilation create it.
There are a lot of changes in this commit and it's still not done. I
didn't realize how quickly this changeset was going to balloon out of
control, and there are still many lines that need to be changed before
it even compiles successfully.
* introduce std.Build.Cache.HashHelper.oneShot
* add error_tracing to std.Build.Module
* extract build.zig file generation into src/Builtin.zig
* each CSourceFile and RcSourceFile now has a Module owner, which
determines some of the C compiler flags.
The first instruction in the block was never checked resulting in `struct_is_comptime` being incorrectly cleared if there are no instructions before the first field of the comptime struct.
Fixes#17119
This option is not needed since the link_libc flag can be set directly
when creating compiler_rt.
This fixes a problem where an immutable flag was being mutated in Sema.
This reverts commit f88b523065fbb8afbd723fd6e803ace0334b713c.
Let's please go through the language proposal process for this change. I
don't see any justification for this breaking change even in the commit
message.
* Update the msdos stub to be eight bytes smaller, which moves the
machine PE header field into the first 128 bytes of the file,
allowing it to be matched by a binfmt_misc magic sequence.
This allows the build system to get the correct error during exec.
* Fix library name memory leaks in Sema.
This reverts commit 547481c31c8a538a7badbdce66d81820177ce87f.
There is a comment that did not get addressed with this patch, and the
required test cases are not added.
Reopens#17798.
There are two optimizations here, which work together to avoid a
pathological case.
The first optimization is that AstGen now records the result type of an
array multiplication expression where possible. This type is not used
according to the language specification, but instead as an optimization.
In the expression '.{x} ** 1000', if we know that the result must be an
array, then it is much more efficient to coerce the LHS to an array with
length 1 before doing the multiplication. Otherwise, we end up with a
1000-element tuple which we must coerce to an array by individually
extracting each field.
Secondly, the previous logic would repeatedly extract element/field
values from the LHS when initializing the result. This is unnecessary:
each element must only be extracted once, and the result reused.
These changes together give huge improvements to compiler performance on
a pathological case: AIR instructions go from 65551 to 15, and total AIR
bytes go from 1.86MiB to 264.57KiB. Codegen time spent on this function
(in a debug compiler build) goes from minutes to essentially zero.
Resolves: #17586
b3462b7 caused a regression in a third-party project, since it forced
resolution of field initializers for any field call 'foo.bar()', despite
this only being necessary when 'bar' is a comptime field.
See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/17692#issuecomment-1802096734.
