* add TypedValue.Managed which represents a Type, a Value, and some
kind of memory management strategy.
* introduce an analysis queue
* flesh out how incremental compilation works with respect to exports
* ir.text.Module is only capable of one error message during parsing
* link.zig no longer has a decl table map and instead has structs that
exist directly on ir.Module.Decl and ir.Module.Export
* implement primitive .text block allocation
* implement linker code for updating Decls and Exports
* implement null Type
Some supporting std lib changes:
* add std.ArrayList.appendSliceAssumeCapacity
* add std.fs.File.copyRange and copyRangeAll
* fix std.HashMap having modification safety on in ReleaseSmall builds
* add std.HashMap.putAssumeCapacityNoClobber
* introduce std.ArrayListUnmanaged for when you have the allocator
stored elsewhere
* move std.heap.ArenaAllocator implementation to its own file. extract
the main state into std.heap.ArenaAllocator.State, which can be
stored as an alternative to storing the entire ArenaAllocator, saving
24 bytes per ArenaAllocator on 64 bit targets.
* std.LinkedList.Node pointer field now defaults to being null
initialized.
* Rework self-hosted compiler Package API
* Delete almost all the bitrotted self-hosted compiler code. The only bit
rotted code left is in main.zig and compilation.zig
* Add call instruction to ZIR
* self-hosted compiler ir API and link API are reworked to support
a long-running compiler that incrementally updates declarations
* Introduce the concept of scopes to ZIR semantic analysis
* ZIR text format supports referencing named decls that are declared
later in the file
* Figure out how memory management works for the long-running compiler
and incremental compilation. The main roots are top level
declarations. There is a table of decls. The key is a cryptographic
hash of the fully qualified decl name. Each decl has an arena
allocator where all of the memory related to that decl is stored.
Each code block has its own arena allocator for the lifetime of
the block. Values that want to survive when going out of scope in
a block must get copied into the outer block. Finally, values must
get copied into the Decl arena to be long-lived.
* Delete the unused MemoryCell struct. Instead, comptime pointers are
based on references to Decl structs.
* Figure out how caching works. Each Decl will store a set of other
Decls which must be recompiled when it changes.
This branch is still work-in-progress; this commit breaks the build.
Jonathan S writes:
On common systems with a 022 umask, this will still result in a
file created with 755 permissions, but it works appropriately if the
system is configured more leniently. (As another data point, C's fopen
seems to open files with the 666 mode.)
This new name (and the fact that it is a function returning a type) will
make it more clear which use cases are better suited for ArrayList and
which are better suited for ArrayListSentineled.
Also for consistency with ArrayList,
* `append` => `appendSlice`
* `appendByte` => `append`
Thanks daurnimator for pointing out the confusion of std.Buffer.
closes#4682
The self-hosted compiler is still bit rotted and still not compiling
successfully yet. I have a more serious rework of the code in a
different branch.
* re-introduce `std.build.Target` which is distinct from `std.Target`.
`std.build.Target` wraps `std.Target` so that it can be annotated as
"the native target" or an explicitly specified target.
* `std.Target.Os` is moved to `std.Target.Os.Tag`. The former is now a
struct which has the tag as well as version range information.
* `std.elf` gains some more ELF header constants.
* `std.Target.parse` gains the ability to parse operating system
version ranges as well as glibc version.
* Added `std.Target.isGnuLibC()`.
* self-hosted dynamic linker detection and glibc version detection.
This also adds the improved logic using `/usr/bin/env` rather than
invoking the system C compiler to find the dynamic linker when zig
is statically linked. Related: #2084
Note: this `/usr/bin/env` code is work-in-progress.
* `-target-glibc` CLI option is removed in favor of the new `-target`
syntax. Example: `-target x86_64-linux-gnu.2.27`
closes#1907
The new plan to support hobby operating systems is #3784.
And what kind of name is "Zen" anyway? There's already a
[Zen programming language](http://zenlang.sourceforge.net/)
and that's just confusing.
this also deletes C string literals from the language, and then makes
the std lib changes and compiler changes necessary to get the behavior
tests and std lib tests passing again.
* CLI: `-target [name]` instead of `--target-*` args.
This matches clang's API.
* `builtin.Environ` renamed to `builtin.Abi`
- likewise `builtin.environ` renamed to `builtin.abi`
* stop hiding the concept of sub-arch. closes#1526
* `zig targets` only shows available targets. closes#438
* include all targets in readme, even those that don't
print with `zig targets` but note they are Tier 4
* refactor target.cpp and make the naming conventions
more consistent
* introduce the concept of a "default C ABI" for a given
OS/Arch combo. As a rule of thumb, if the system compiler
is clang or gcc then the default C ABI is the gnu ABI.
* fix race condition in std.event.Channel deinit
* add support to zig build for --no-rosegment
* add passing self-hosted compare-output test for calling a function
* put a global lock on LLD linking because it's not thread safe
