Also remove `@frameSize`, closing #3654.
While the other machinery might remain depending on #23446, it is
settled that there will not be `async`/ `await` keywords in the
language.
This reverts commit dea72d15da4fba909dc3ccb2e9dc5286372ac023, reversing
changes made to ab381933c87bcc744058d25a876cfdc0d23fc674.
The changeset does not work as advertised and does not have sufficient
test coverage.
Reopens#22822
This commit reworks how anonymous struct literals and tuples work.
Previously, an untyped anonymous struct literal
(e.g. `const x = .{ .a = 123 }`) was given an "anonymous struct type",
which is a special kind of struct which coerces using structural
equivalence. This mechanism was a holdover from before we used
RLS / result types as the primary mechanism of type inference. This
commit changes the language so that the type assigned here is a "normal"
struct type. It uses a form of equivalence based on the AST node and the
type's structure, much like a reified (`@Type`) type.
Additionally, tuples have been simplified. The distinction between
"simple" and "complex" tuple types is eliminated. All tuples, even those
explicitly declared using `struct { ... }` syntax, use structural
equivalence, and do not undergo staged type resolution. Tuples are very
restricted: they cannot have non-`auto` layouts, cannot have aligned
fields, and cannot have default values with the exception of `comptime`
fields. Tuples currently do not have optimized layout, but this can be
changed in the future.
This change simplifies the language, and fixes some problematic
coercions through pointers which led to unintuitive behavior.
Resolves: #16865
This commit finishes implementing #21209 by removing the
`@setAlignStack` builtin in favour of `CallingConvention` payloads. The
x86_64 backend is updated to use the stack alignment given in the
calling convention (the LLVM backend was already updated in a previous
commit).
Resolves: #21209
Implements the accepted proposal to introduce `@branchHint`. This
builtin is permitted as the first statement of a block if that block is
the direct body of any of the following:
* a function (*not* a `test`)
* either branch of an `if`
* the RHS of a `catch` or `orelse`
* a `switch` prong
* an `or` or `and` expression
It lowers to the ZIR instruction `extended(branch_hint(...))`. When Sema
encounters this instruction, it sets `sema.branch_hint` appropriately,
and `zirCondBr` etc are expected to reset this value as necessary. The
state is on `Sema` rather than `Block` to make it automatically
propagate up non-conditional blocks without special handling. If
`@panic` is reached, the branch hint is set to `.cold` if none was
already set; similarly, error branches get a hint of `.unlikely` if no
hint is explicitly provided. If a condition is comptime-known, `cold`
hints from the taken branch are allowed to propagate up, but other hints
are discarded. This is because a `likely`/`unlikely` hint just indicates
the direction this branch is likely to go, which is redundant
information when the branch is known at comptime; but `cold` hints
indicate that control flow is unlikely to ever reach this branch,
meaning if the branch is always taken from its parent, then the parent
is also unlikely to ever be reached.
This branch information is stored in AIR `cond_br` and `switch_br`. In
addition, `try` and `try_ptr` instructions have variants `try_cold` and
`try_ptr_cold` which indicate that the error case is cold (rather than
just unlikely); this is reachable through e.g. `errdefer unreachable` or
`errdefer @panic("")`.
A new API `unwrapSwitch` is introduced to `Air` to make it more
convenient to access `switch_br` instructions. In time, I plan to update
all AIR instructions to be accessed via an `unwrap` method which returns
a convenient tagged union a la `InternPool.indexToKey`.
The LLVM backend lowers branch hints for conditional branches and
switches as follows:
* If any branch is marked `unpredictable`, the instruction is marked
`!unpredictable`.
* Any branch which is marked as `cold` gets a
`llvm.assume(i1 true) [ "cold"() ]` call to mark the code path cold.
* If any branch is marked `likely` or `unlikely`, branch weight metadata
is attached with `!prof`. Likely branches get a weight of 2000, and
unlikely branches a weight of 1. In `switch` statements, un-annotated
branches get a weight of 1000 as a "middle ground" hint, since there
could be likely *and* unlikely *and* un-annotated branches.
For functions, a `cold` hint corresponds to the `cold` function
attribute, and other hints are currently ignored -- as far as I can tell
LLVM doesn't really have a way to lower them. (Ideally, we would want
the branch hint given in the function to propagate to call sites.)
The compiler and standard library do not yet use this new builtin.
Resolves: #21148
This reverts commit a7de02e05216db9a04e438703ddf1b6b12f3fbef.
This did not implement the accepted proposal, and I did not sign off
on the changes. I would like a chance to review this, please.
this patch renames ComptimeStringMap to StaticStringMap, makes it
accept only a single type parameter, and return a known struct type
instead of an anonymous struct. initial motivation for these changes
was to reduce the 'very long type names' issue described here
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/19682.
this breaks the previous API. users will now need to write:
`const map = std.StaticStringMap(T).initComptime(kvs_list);`
* move `kvs_list` param from type param to an `initComptime()` param
* new public methods
* `keys()`, `values()` helpers
* `init(allocator)`, `deinit(allocator)` for runtime data
* `getLongestPrefix(str)`, `getLongestPrefixIndex(str)` - i'm not sure
these belong but have left in for now incase they are deemed useful
* performance notes:
* i posted some benchmarking results here:
https://github.com/travisstaloch/comptime-string-map-revised/issues/1
* i noticed a speedup reducing the size of the struct from 48 to 32
bytes and thus use u32s instead of usize for all length fields
* i noticed speedup storing KVs as a struct of arrays
* latest benchmark shows these wall_time improvements for
debug/safe/small/fast builds: -6.6% / -10.2% / -19.1% / -8.9%. full
output in link above.