These functions have a very error-prone API. They are essentially
`all(cmp(op, ...))` but that's not reflected in the name.
This renames these functions to `compareAllAgainstZero...` etc.
for clarity and fixes >20 locations where the predicate was
incorrect.
In the future, the scalar `compare` should probably be split off
from the vector comparison. Rank-polymorphic programming is great,
but a proper implementation in Zig would decouple comparison and
reduction, which then needs a way to fuse ops at comptime.
Many of the Managed methods accepted by-val parameters which could
reference Limb slices that became invalid memory after any
ensureCapacity calls. Now, Managed methods accept `*const Managed`
parameters so that if the function allows aliasing and the
ensure-capacity call resizes the Limb slice, it also affects the
aliased parameters, avoiding use-after-free bugs.
This is a breaking change that reduces the requirement for callsites to
manually make the ensure-capacity changes prior to calling many of the
Managed methods.
Closes#11897
Rather than allocating Decl objects with an Allocator, we instead allocate
them with a SegmentedList. This provides four advantages:
* Stable memory so that one thread can access a Decl object while another
thread allocates additional Decl objects from this list.
* It allows us to use u32 indexes to reference Decl objects rather than
pointers, saving memory in Type, Value, and dependency sets.
* Using integers to reference Decl objects rather than pointers makes
serialization trivial.
* It provides a unique integer to be used for anonymous symbol names,
avoiding multi-threaded contention on an atomic counter.
* `Value.toType` accepts a buffer parameter instead of an allocator
parameter and can no longer fail.
* Module: remove the unused `mod: *Module` parameter from various
functions.
* `Value.compare` now accepts a `Type` parameter which indicates the
type of both operands. There is also a `Value.compareHetero` which
accepts only Value parameters and supports comparing mixed types.
Likewise, `Value.eql` requires a `Type` parameter.
* `Value.hash` is removed; instead the hash map context structs now
have a `ty: Type` field, and the hash function lives there, where it
has access to a Value's Type when it computes a hash.
- This allowed the hash function to be greatly simplified and sound
in the sense that the same Values, even with different
representations, always hash to the same thing.
* Sema: Fix source location of zirCmp when an operand is runtime known
but needs to be comptime known.
* Remove unused target parameter from `Value.floatCast`.
AstGen is now completely independent from the rest of the compiler. It
ingests an AST tree and produces ZIR code as the output, without
depending on any of the glue code of the compiler.
The logic for putting ranges into the else prong is moved from AstGen to
Sema. However, logic to emit multi-items the same as single-items cannot
be done until TZIR supports mapping multiple items to the same block of
code. This will be simple to represent when we do the upcoming TZIR memory
layout changes.
Not yet implemented in this commit is the validation of duplicate
values. The trick is going to be emitting error messages with accurate
source locations, without adding extra source nodes to the ZIR
switch instruction.
This will be done by computing the respective AST node based on the
switch node (which we do have available), only when a compile error
occurs and we need to know the source location to attach the message to.
