Global constant initializers can reference functions, so forward declare
the constants and initialize them later with the function definitions,
which guarantees that they appear after all declarations.
These ifs were missing a case for f80 which should have shifted by one,
but we can just compute the correct value instead. Also, we want the
fractional bits to be a multiple of four, not the mantissa bits, since
the mantissa could have a leading one which we want to be separated.
This makes it easier to understand how control flow should happen in
various cases; already just by doing this it is revealed that
UndefinedSymbol and UndefinedSymbolReference should be merged, and that
MissingMainEntrypoint should be removed in favor of the ErrorFlags
mechanism thath we already have for missing the main entrypoint.
The main motivation for this change, however, is preventing a compile
error when there is conditional compilation inside linker
implementations, causing the flush() error set to depend on compilation
options. With this change, the error set is fixed, and, notably, the
`-Donly-c` flag no longer has compilation errors due to this error set.
The larger alignment on this platform means that long double reports
a sizeof 16 bytes, but it's underlying size is really just the 10
bytes of `f80`
C doesn't give us a way to see the "underlying" size of a type, so
this has to be caught by hand or by monitoring runtime memory. Luckily,
x86 and x86-64 are the only platforms that seem to use a non-power-of-two
type like this.
This option can be used to produce a C backend build of the self-hosted
compiler, which only has the C backend enabled. Once the C backend is
capable of self-hosting, this will be a way for us to replace our stage1
codebase with a C backend build of self-hosted, which we can then use
for bootstrapping. See #5246 for more details.
Using this option right now results in a crash because the C backend is
not yet passing all the behavior tests.
