Use case:
zig build-exe non_existent_file.zig
Previous behavior:
error.FileNotFound, followed by an error return trace
Behavior after this commit:
error: unable to read non_existent_file.zig: FileNotFound
(end of stderr, exit code 1)
This turns AllErrors.Message into a tagged union which now has the
capability to represent both "plain" errors as well as source-based
errors (with file, line, column, byte offset). The "no entry point found"
error has moved to be a plain error message.
Positional shared library arguments were not being detected as causing
dynamic linking, resulting in invalid linker lines. LLD did not have an
error message for this when targeting x86_64-linux but it did emit an
error message when targeting aarch64-linux, which is how I noticed the
problem.
This surfaced an error having to do with fifo.pipe() in the cat example
which I did not diagnose but solved the issue by doing the revamp that
was already overdue for that example.
It appears that the zig-window project was exploiting the previous
behavior for it to function properly, so this prompts the question, is
there some kind of static/dynamic executable hybrid that the compiler
should recognize? Unclear - but we can discuss that in #7240.
ZigTypeIdOptional types have a different way of specifying their payload
value depending on whether the child type is a pointer or not (plus some
other special cases).
Fixes#7251
Make gen_const_ptr_struct_recursive aware of the possible presence of
some trailing padding by always bitcasting the pointer to its expected
type.
Not an elegant solution but makes LLVM happy and is consistent with how
the other callsites are handling this case.
Fixes#5398
Make the code used to calculate the variable slot index into the frame
match what's done during the structure layout calculation.
Prevents a few nasty LLVM errors when such types are passed around.
The mismatch between the argument slot type in the frame structure and
the one used in the store operation made the generated code write
garbage over the nearby fields.
Fixes#7104
The code tried to be too smart and skipped the equality (returning true)
if the payload type was zero-sized.
This optimization is completely wrong when the union payload is a
metatype!
Fixes#7047
