This reverts commit c75e11bf6aa67f2ca62b9b6677d134592777bfec.
Caused this problem on some machines:
"this step declares an upper bound of 9126805504 bytes of memory,
exceeding the available 7515721728 bytes of memory".
Instead the next commit will disable std lib tests with the C backend on
Windows.
I observed clang taking 8G to compile the output from the std lib tests
using the C backend. This commit should make the Windows CI stop failing
due to OOM.
* docs(std.math): elaborate on difference between absCast and absInt
* docs(std.rand.Random.weightedIndex): elaborate on likelihood
I think this makes it easier to understand.
* langref: add small reminder
* docs(std.fs.path.extension): brevity
* docs(std.bit_set.StaticBitSet): mention the specific types
* std.debug.TTY: explain what purpose this struct serves
This should also make it clearer that this struct is not supposed to provide unrelated terminal manipulation functionality such as setting the cursor position or something because terminals are complicated and we should keep this struct simple and focused on debugging.
* langref(package listing): brevity
* langref: explain what exactly `threadlocal` causes to happen
* std.array_list: link between swapRemove and orderedRemove
Maybe this can serve as a TLDR and make it easier to decide.
* PrefetchOptions.locality: clarify docs that this is a range
This confused me previously and I thought I can only use either 0 or 3.
* fix typos and more
* std.builtin.CallingConvention: document some CCs
* langref: explain possibly cryptic names
I think it helps knowing what exactly these acronyms (@clz and @ctz) and
abbreviations (@popCount) mean.
* variadic function error: add missing preposition
* std.fmt.format docs: nicely hyphenate
* help menu: say what to optimize for
I think this is slightly more specific than just calling it
"optimizations". These are speed optimizations. I used the word
"performance" here.
* Disable 128-bit atomics for x86_64 generic (currently also baseline)
because they require heavy abi agreement to correctly lower.
** This is a breaking change **
* Enable 128-bit atomics for aarch64 in Sema since it just works.
Since the Zig language documentation claims support for `.Min` and
`.Max` in `@atomicRmw` with floats, allow in Sema and implement for both
the llvm and C backends.
The self-hosted aarch64 backend is not currently functional due to the
Liveness changes. A previous commit disabled aarch64 on the behavior
tests; this commit disables it and arm for the test cases. Moreover, all
incremental test cases have been unified into shared cross-platform
cases, which can be gradually enabled as the backends improve.
Uses the new liveness behaviour. This also removes useless calls
to `processDeath` on branches that were just initialized. Branch
consolidation and processing deaths on branches inside `condbr`
is still a TODO, just like before.
This also skips var_args on other native backends as they do not
support this feature yet.
Backends want to avoid emitting unused instructions which do not have
side effects: to that end, they all have `Liveness.isUnused` checks for
many instructions. However, checking this in the backends avoids a lot
of potential optimizations. For instance, if a nested field is loaded,
then the first field access would still be emitted, since its result is
used by the next access (which is then unreferenced).
To elide more instructions, Liveness can track this data instead. For
operands which do not have to be lowered (i.e. are not side effecting
and are not something special like `arg), Liveness can ignore their
operand usages, and push the unused information further up, potentially
marking many more instructions as unreferenced.
In doing this, I also uncovered a bug in the LLVM backend relating to
discarding the result of `@cVaArg`, which this change fixes. A behaviour
test has been added to cover it.
Also remove an incorrect piece of logic which allowed fetching the 'len'
property on non-single-ptrs (e.g. many-ptrs) and add a corresponding
compile error test case.
Resolves: #4765
The CI now runs C backend tests in addition to compiling them. It uses
-std=c99 -pedantic -Werror in order to catch non-conformant C code.
This necessitated disabling a test case that caused a C compile error,
in addition to disabling a handful of warnings that are already being
triggered by Zig's C backend output for the behavior tests.
The upshot is that I was able to, very cleanly, integrate the C backend
tests into the build system, so that it communicates via the test runner
protocol along with all the other behavior tests.
Make the test targets use options that match the actual options of
CompileStep. This makes the code more straightforward, and ends up
making fewer tests incorrectly skipped. For example, now the CI runner
on Windows will no longer skip self-hosted x86_64 backend tests.
