This function is needed when a library exposes one of its own library
dependency's headers as part of its own public API.
Also, improve error message when a file system error occurs during
install file step.
This includes a breaking change:
std.compress.gzip.GzipStream renamed to
std.compress.gzip.Decompress
This follows the same naming convention as std.compress.xz so that the
stream type can be passed as a comptime parameter.
* add xz to std.compress
* prefer importing std.zig by file name, to reduce reliance on the
standard library being a special case.
* extract some types from inside generic functions. These types are the
same regardless of the generic parameters.
* expose some more types in the std.compress.xz namespace.
* rename xz.stream to xz.decompress
* rename check.Kind to Check
* use std.leb for LEB instead of a redundant implementation
All but 3 callsites of this function in the standard library and
compiler were unnecessary and were removed in faf2fd18.
In this commit, the remaining 3 callsites are removed. One of them
turned out to also be unnecessary and has been replaced by slicing
directly with the length..
The 2 remaining callsites were in the very pointer-math heavy
std/os/linux/vdso.zig code which should perhaps be refactored to better
utilize slices. These 2 callsites are replaced with a plain
@ptrCast([*:0]u8, ptr) though could likely use std.mem.sliceTo() if the
surrounding code was refactored.
This fixes a bug in std.net caused during the introduction of
meta.assumeSentinel due to the unfortunate semantics of mem.span()
This leaves only 3 remaining uses of meta.assumeSentinel() in the
standard library, each of which could be a simple @ptrCast([*:0]T, foo)
instead. I think this function should likely be removed.
From RFC 1952:
> If FHCRC is set, a CRC16 for the gzip header is present,
> immediately before the compressed data. The CRC16 consists
> of the two least significant bytes of the CRC32 for all
> bytes of the gzip header up to and not including the CRC16.
* no longer repeat -lc on the linker line redundantly
* when using linkLibrary() with a static library, it will now also put
the static library's static library dependencies on the linker line,
recursively.
* refactor out a common pattern to an addFlag function
