This implements the semantics as discussed in today's compiler meeting,
where the alignment of pointers to fields of default-layout unions
cannot exceed the field's alignment.
Resolves: #15878
This allows doing Windows-style case insensitive comparisons from any target, but means that it will need to include its own copy of the uppercase data table (5,088 bytes) to do so.
When targeting Windows, the ntdll functions are used instead to avoid including a redundant copy of the uppercase data in the resulting binary.
Previously, interned values were represented as AIR instructions using
the `interned` tag. Now, the AIR ref directly encodes the InternPool
index. The encoding works as follows:
* If the ref matches one of the static values, it corresponds to the same InternPool index.
* Otherwise, if the MSB is 0, the ref corresponds to an InternPool index.
* Otherwise, if the MSB is 1, the ref corresponds to an AIR instruction index (after removing the MSB).
Note that since most static InternPool indices are low values (the
exceptions being `.none` and `.var_args_param_type`), the first rule is
almost a nop.
When targeting WebAssembly, we default to building a single-threaded build
as threads are still experimental. The user however can enable a multi-
threaded build by specifying '-fno-single-threaded'. It's a compile-error
to enable this flag, but not also enable shared-memory.
When a thread is detached from the main thread, we automatically
cleanup any allocated memory. For this we first reset the stack-pointer
to the original stack-pointer of the main-thread so we can safely clear
the memory which also contains the thread's stack.
When `join` detects a thread has completed, it will free the allocated
memory of the thread. For this we must first copy the allocator. This is
required as the allocated memory holds a reference to the original
allocator. If we free the memory, we would end up with UB as the
allocator would free itself.
We now reset the Thread ID to 0 and wake up the main thread listening
for the thread to finish. We use inline assembly as we cannot use
the stack to set the thread ID as it could possibly clobber any
of the memory.
Currently, we leak the memory that was allocated for the thread.
We need to implement a way where we can clean up the memory without
using the stack (as the stack is stored inside this same memory).
We now store the original allocator that was used to allocate the
memory required for the thread. This allocator can then be used
in any cleanup functionality to ensure the memory is freed correctly.
Secondly, we now use a function to set the stack pointer instead of
generating a function using global assembly. This is a lot cleaner
and more readable.
