This commit makes some big changes to how we track state for Zig source
files. In particular, it changes:
* How `File` tracks its path on-disk
* How AstGen discovers files
* How file-level errors are tracked
* How `builtin.zig` files and modules are created
The original motivation here was to address incremental compilation bugs
with the handling of files, such as #22696. To fix this, a few changes
are necessary.
Just like declarations may become unreferenced on an incremental update,
meaning we suppress analysis errors associated with them, it is also
possible for all imports of a file to be removed on an incremental
update, in which case file-level errors for that file should be
suppressed. As such, after AstGen, the compiler must traverse files
(starting from analysis roots) and discover the set of "live files" for
this update.
Additionally, the compiler's previous handling of retryable file errors
was not very good; the source location the error was reported as was
based only on the first discovered import of that file. This source
location also disappeared on future incremental updates. So, as a part
of the file traversal above, we also need to figure out the source
locations of imports which errors should be reported against.
Another observation I made is that the "file exists in multiple modules"
error was not implemented in a particularly good way (I get to say that
because I wrote it!). It was subject to races, where the order in which
different imports of a file were discovered affects both how errors are
printed, and which module the file is arbitrarily assigned, with the
latter in turn affecting which other files are considered for import.
The thing I realised here is that while the AstGen worker pool is
running, we cannot know for sure which module(s) a file is in; we could
always discover an import later which changes the answer.
So, here's how the AstGen workers have changed. We initially ensure that
`zcu.import_table` contains the root files for all modules in this Zcu,
even if we don't know any imports for them yet. Then, the AstGen
workers do not need to be aware of modules. Instead, they simply ignore
module imports, and only spin off more workers when they see a by-path
import.
During AstGen, we can't use module-root-relative paths, since we don't
know which modules files are in; but we don't want to unnecessarily use
absolute files either, because those are non-portable and can make
`error.NameTooLong` more likely. As such, I have introduced a new
abstraction, `Compilation.Path`. This type is a way of representing a
filesystem path which has a *canonical form*. The path is represented
relative to one of a few special directories: the lib directory, the
global cache directory, or the local cache directory. As a fallback, we
use absolute (or cwd-relative on WASI) paths. This is kind of similar to
`std.Build.Cache.Path` with a pre-defined list of possible
`std.Build.Cache.Directory`, but has stricter canonicalization rules
based on path resolution to make sure deduplicating files works
properly. A `Compilation.Path` can be trivially converted to a
`std.Build.Cache.Path` from a `Compilation`, but is smaller, has a
canonical form, and has a digest which will be consistent across
different compiler processes with the same lib and cache directories
(important when we serialize incremental compilation state in the
future). `Zcu.File` and `Zcu.EmbedFile` both contain a
`Compilation.Path`, which is used to access the file on-disk;
module-relative sub paths are used quite rarely (`EmbedFile` doesn't
even have one now for simplicity).
After the AstGen workers all complete, we know that any file which might
be imported is definitely in `import_table` and up-to-date. So, we
perform a single-threaded graph traversal; similar to what
`resolveReferences` plays for `AnalUnit`s, but for files instead. We
figure out which files are alive, and which module each file is in. If a
file turns out to be in multiple modules, we set a field on `Zcu` to
indicate this error. If a file is in a different module to a prior
update, we set a flag instructing `updateZirRefs` to invalidate all
dependencies on the file. This traversal also discovers "import errors";
these are errors associated with a specific `@import`. With Zig's
current design, there is only one possible error here: "import outside
of module root". This must be identified during this traversal instead
of during AstGen, because it depends on which module the file is in. I
tried also representing "module not found" errors in this same way, but
it turns out to be much more useful to report those in Sema, because of
use cases like optional dependencies where a module import is behind a
comptime-known build option.
For simplicity, `failed_files` now just maps to `?[]u8`, since the
source location is always the whole file. In fact, this allows removing
`LazySrcLoc.Offset.entire_file` completely, slightly simplifying some
error reporting logic. File-level errors are now directly built in the
`std.zig.ErrorBundle.Wip`. If the payload is not `null`, it is the
message for a retryable error (i.e. an error loading the source file),
and will be reported with a "file imported here" note pointing to the
import site discovered during the single-threaded file traversal.
The last piece of fallout here is how `Builtin` works. Rather than
constructing "builtin" modules when creating `Package.Module`s, they are
now constructed on-the-fly by `Zcu`. The map `Zcu.builtin_modules` maps
from digests to `*Package.Module`s. These digests are abstract hashes of
the `Builtin` value; i.e. all of the options which are placed into
"builtin.zig". During the file traversal, we populate `builtin_modules`
as needed, so that when we see this imports in Sema, we just grab the
relevant entry from this map. This eliminates a bunch of awkward state
tracking during construction of the module graph. It's also now clearer
exactly what options the builtin module has, since previously it
inherited some options arbitrarily from the first-created module with
that "builtin" module!
The user-visible effects of this commit are:
* retryable file errors are now consistently reported against the whole
file, with a note pointing to a live import of that file
* some theoretical bugs where imports are wrongly considered distinct
(when the import path moves out of the cwd and then back in) are fixed
* some consistency issues with how file-level errors are reported are
fixed; these errors will now always be printed in the same order
regardless of how the AstGen pass assigns file indices
* incremental updates do not print retryable file errors differently
between updates or depending on file structure/contents
* incremental updates support files changing modules
* incremental updates support files becoming unreferenced
Resolves: #22696
To an average user, it may be unclear why these notes are not just in
the reference trace; that's because they are more important, because
they are inline calls through which comptime values may propagate. There
are now 3 possible wordings for this note:
* "called at comptime here"
* "called inline here"
* "generic function instantiated here"
An alternative could be these wordings:
* "while analyzing comptime call here"
* "while analyzing inline call here"
* "while analyzing generic instantiation here"
I'm not sure which is better -- but this commit is certainly better than
status quo.
Inline calls which happened in the erroring `AnalUnit` still show as
error notes, because they tend to make very important context (e.g. to
see how comptime values propagate through them). However, "earlier"
inline calls are still useful to see to understand how something is
being referenced, so we should include them in the reference trace.
When `-freference-trace` is not passed, we want to show exactly one
reference trace. Previously, we set the reference trace root in `Sema`
iff there were no other failed analyses. However, this results in an
arbitrary error being the one with the reference trace after error
sorting. It is also incompatible with incremental compilation, where
some errors might be unreferenced. Instead, set the field on all
analysis errors, and decide in `Compilation.getAllErrorsAlloc` which
reference trace[s] to actually show.
* Indexing zero-bit types should not produce AIR indexing instructions
* Getting a runtime-known element pointer from a many-pointer should
check that the many-pointer is not comptime-only
Resolves: #23405
Compile log output is now separated based on the `AnalUnit` which
perfomred the `@compileLog` call, so that we can omit the output for
unreferenced ("dead") units. The units are also sorted when collecting
the `ErrorBundle`, so that compile logs are always printed in a
consistent order, like compile errors are. This is important not only
for incremental compilation, but also for parallel analysis.
Resolves: #23609
LLVM 20 started tail-calling it in some of our test cases, resulting in:
error: AndMyCarIsOutOfGas
/home/alexrp/Source/ziglang/zig-llvm20/repro.zig:2:5: 0x103ef9d in main (repro)
return error.TheSkyIsFalling;
^
/home/alexrp/Source/ziglang/zig-llvm20/repro.zig:6:5: 0x103efa5 in main (repro)
return error.AndMyCarIsOutOfGas;
^
/home/alexrp/Source/ziglang/zig-llvm20/lib/std/start.zig:656:37: 0x103ee83 in posixCallMainAndExit (repro)
const result = root.main() catch |err| {
^
instead of the expected:
error: AndMyCarIsOutOfGas
/home/alexrp/Source/ziglang/zig-llvm20/repro.zig:2:5: 0x103f00d in main (repro)
return error.TheSkyIsFalling;
^
/home/alexrp/Source/ziglang/zig-llvm20/repro.zig:6:5: 0x103f015 in main (repro)
return error.AndMyCarIsOutOfGas;
^
/home/alexrp/Source/ziglang/zig-llvm20/repro.zig:11:9: 0x103f01d in main (repro)
try bar();
^
This is actually completely well-defined. The resulting slice always has
0 elements. The only disallowed case is casting *to* a slice of a
zero-bit type, because in that case, you cna't figure out how many
destination elements to use (and there's *no* valid destination length
if the source slice corresponds to more than 0 bits).
While it is not allowed for a function coercion to change whether a
function is generic, it *is* okay to make existing concrete parameters
of a generic function also generic, or vice versa. Either of these cases
implies that the result is a generic function, so comptime type checks
will happen when the function is ultimately called.
Resolves: #21099
This commit reworks how Sema handles arithmetic on comptime-known
values, fixing many bugs in the process.
The general pattern is that arithmetic on comptime-known values is now
handled by the new namespace `Sema.arith`. Functions handling comptime
arithmetic no longer live on `Value`; this is because some of them can
emit compile errors, so some *can't* go on `Value`. Only semantic
analysis should really be doing arithmetic on `Value`s anyway, so it
makes sense for it to integrate more tightly with `Sema`.
This commit also implements more coherent rules surrounding how
`undefined` interacts with comptime and mixed-comptime-runtime
arithmetic. The rules are as follows.
* If an operation cannot trigger Illegal Behavior, and any operand is
`undefined`, the result is `undefined`. This includes operations like
`0 *| undef`, where the LHS logically *could* be used to determine a
defined result. This is partly to simplify the language, but mostly to
permit codegen backends to represent `undefined` values as completely
invalid states.
* If an operation *can* trigger Illegal Behvaior, and any operand is
`undefined`, then Illegal Behavior results. This occurs even if the
operand in question isn't the one that "decides" illegal behavior; for
instance, `undef / 1` is undefined. This is for the same reasons as
described above.
* An operation which would trigger Illegal Behavior, when evaluated at
comptime, instead triggers a compile error. Additionally, if one
operand is comptime-known undef, such that the other (runtime-known)
operand isn't needed to determine that Illegal Behavior would occur,
the compile error is triggered.
* The only situation in which an operation with one comptime-known
operand has a comptime-known result is if that operand is undefined,
in which case the result is either undefined or a compile error per
the above rules. This could potentially be loosened in future (for
instance, `0 * rt` could be comptime-known 0 with a runtime assertion
that `rt` is not undefined), but at least for now, defining it more
conservatively simplifies the language and allows us to easily change
this in future if desired.
This commit fixes many bugs regarding the handling of `undefined`,
particularly in vectors. Along with a collection of smaller tests, two
very large test cases are added to check arithmetic on `undefined`.
The operations which have been rewritten in this PR are:
* `+`, `+%`, `+|`, `@addWithOverflow`
* `-`, `-%`, `-|`, `@subWithOverflow`
* `*`, `*%`, `*|`, `@mulWithOverflow`
* `/`, `@divFloor`, `@divTrunc`, `@divExact`
* `%`, `@rem`, `@mod`
Other arithmetic operations are currently unchanged.
Resolves: #22743Resolves: #22745Resolves: #22748Resolves: #22749Resolves: #22914
This commits adds the following distinct integer types to std.zig.Ast:
- OptionalTokenIndex
- TokenOffset
- OptionalTokenOffset
- Node.OptionalIndex
- Node.Offset
- Node.OptionalOffset
The `Node.Index` type has also been converted to a distinct type while
`TokenIndex` remains unchanged.
`Ast.Node.Data` has also been changed to a (untagged) union to provide
safety checks.
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
Functions like isMinGW() and isGnuLibC() have a good reason to exist: They look
at multiple components of the target. But functions like isWasm(), isDarwin(),
isGnu(), etc only exist to save 4-8 characters. I don't think this is a good
enough reason to keep them, especially given that:
* It's not immediately obvious to a reader whether target.isDarwin() means the
same thing as target.os.tag.isDarwin() precisely because isMinGW() and similar
functions *do* look at multiple components.
* It's not clear where we would draw the line. The logical conclusion before
this commit would be to also wrap Arch.isX86(), Os.Tag.isSolarish(),
Abi.isOpenHarmony(), etc... this obviously quickly gets out of hand.
* It's nice to just have a single correct way of doing something.
* arm_apcs is the long dead "OABI" which we never had working support for.
* arm_aapcs16_vfp is for arm-watchos-none which is a dead target that we've
dropped support for.
