As it stands, the backend is incomplete, and there is no active contributor,
making it dead weight.
However, anyone is free to resurrect this backend at any time.
Just like when new parse errors occur during an update, when new AstGen
errors occur during an update, we do not reveal compile errors for Decl
objects which are inside of a newly failed File. Once the File passes
AstGen successfully, it will be compared with the previously succeeded
ZIR and the saved Decl compile errors will be handled properly.
* Do not report export collision errors until the very end, because it
is possible, during an update, for a new export to be added before an
old one is semantically analyzed to be deleted. In such a case there
should be no compile error.
- Likewise we defer emitting exports until the end when we know for
sure what will happen.
* Sema: Fix not adding a Decl dependency on imported files.
* Sema: Properly add Decl dependencies for all identifier and namespace
lookups.
* After semantic analysis for a Decl, if it is still marked as
`in_progress`, change it to `dependency_failure` because if the Decl
itself failed, it would have already been changed during the call to
add the compile error.
* Remove the ability for GenZir parent Scope to be null. Now there is a
Top Scope at the top.
* Introduce Scope.Namespace to contain a table of decl names in order
to emit a compile error for name conflicts.
* Fix use of invalid memory when reporting compile errors by
duplicating decl names into a temporary heap allocated buffer.
* Fix memory leak in while and for loops, not cleaning up their
labeled_breaks and store_to_block_ptr_list arrays.
* Fix stage2 test cases because now the source location of redundant
comptime keyword compile errors is improved.
* Implement compile error for local variable shadowing declaration.
Conflicts:
* lib/std/os/linux.zig
* lib/std/os/windows/bits.zig
* src/Module.zig
* src/Sema.zig
* test/stage2/test.zig
Mainly I wanted Jakub's new macOS code for respecting stack size, since
we now depend on it for debug builds able to pass one of the test cases
for recursive comptime function calls with `@setEvalBranchQuota`.
The conflicts were all trivial.
* Compilation: iteration over the deletion_set only tries to delete the
first one, relying on Decl destroy to remove itself from the deletion
set.
* link: `freeDecl` now has to handle the possibility of freeing a Decl
that was never called with `allocateDeclIndexes`.
* `deleteDecl` recursively iterates over a Decl's Namespace sub-Decl
objects and calls `deleteDecl` on them.
- Prevents Decl objects from being destroyed when they are still in
`deletion_set`.
* Sema: fix cleanup of anonymous Decl objects when an error occurs
during semantic analysis.
* tests: update test cases for fully qualified names
Decl objects need to know whether they are the owner of the Type/Value
associated with them, in order to decide whether to destroy the
associated Namespace, Fn, or Var when cleaning up.
Conflicts:
* doc/langref.html.in
* lib/std/enums.zig
* lib/std/fmt.zig
* lib/std/hash/auto_hash.zig
* lib/std/math.zig
* lib/std/mem.zig
* lib/std/meta.zig
* test/behavior/alignof.zig
* test/behavior/bitcast.zig
* test/behavior/bugs/1421.zig
* test/behavior/cast.zig
* test/behavior/ptrcast.zig
* test/behavior/type_info.zig
* test/behavior/vector.zig
Master branch added `try` to a bunch of testing function calls, and some
lines also had changed how to refer to the native architecture and other
`@import("builtin")` stuff.
* Sema: implement global variables
- Improved global constants to stop needlessly creating a Var
structure; they can just store the value directly.
- This required making memory management a bit more sophisticated to
detect when a Decl owns the Namespace associated with it, for the
purposes of deinitialization.
* Decl.name and Namespace decl table keys no longer directly
reference ZIR; instead they have heap-duped names, so that deleted
decls, which no longer have any ZIR to reference for their names, can
be removed from the parent Namespace table.
- In the future I would like to explore going a different direction
with this, where the strings would still point to the ZIR however
they would be removed from their owner Namespace objects during the
update detection. The design principle here is that the existence
of incremental compilation as a feature should not incur any cost
for the use case when it is not used. In this example Decl names
could simply point to ZIR string table memory, and it is only
because of incremental compilation that we duplicate their names.
* AstGen: implement threadlocal variables
* CLI: call cleanExit after building a compilation so that in release
modes we don't bother freeing memory or closing file descriptors,
allowing the OS to do it more efficiently.
* Avoid calling `freeDecl` in the linker for unreferenced Decl objects.
* Fix CBE test case expecting the compile error to point to the wrong
column.
There are some small problems here and there, mostly due to the pointers
having the lsb set and disrupting the fn alignment tests and the
`@FrameSize` implementation.
The @ptrCast(X, @alignCast(@alignOf(T), Y)) pattern is only correct if T
is not a function type or a pointer, in that case the @alignOf refers to
the pointer itself and not to the pointee type.
The code would previously assume every function would start at addresses
being multiples of 16, this is not true beside some specific cases.
Moreover LLVM picks different alignment values depending on whether it's
trying to generate dense or fast code.
Let's use the minimum guaranteed alignment as base value, computed
according to how big the opcodes are.
The alignment of function pointers is always 1, a safe value that won't
cause any error at runtime. Note that this was already the case before
this commit, here we're making this choice explicit.
Let the 'alignment' field for TypeInfo of fn types reflect the ABI
alignment used by the compiler, make this field behave similarly to the
'alignment' one for pointers.
