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.
When trying to retrieve 80bit fp values from clang using
getValueAsApproximateDouble we'd eventually hit the ceiling value and
return infinity, an invalid value for a fp literal.
Add some logic to prevent this error and warn the user.
Closes#8602
It turns out that the endianness-detection header delivered with the
softfloat library is extremely brittle and gives wrong results when
targeting FreeBSD (long story short, _BIG_ENDIAN is always defined there
and that breaks the #if defined() chain).
Use our own endianness detection header to work around any potential
problem.
- original PR #7949 (incorrectly) patched a generated-file and changes
have subsequently been lost/overwritten
- fix#7947 in a different way: drop `ppc32` because `ppc` already exists
std/crypto: use finer-grained error sets in function signatures
Returning the `crypto.Error` error set for all crypto operations
was very convenient to ensure that errors were used consistently,
and to avoid having multiple error names for the same thing.
The flipside is that callers were forced to always handle all
possible errors, even those that could never be returned by a
function.
This PR makes all functions return union sets of the actual errors
they can return.
The error sets themselves are all limited to a single error.
Larger sets are useful for platform-specific APIs, but we don't have
any of these in `std/crypto`, and I couldn't find any meaningful way
to build larger sets.