Since we now elide more ZIR blocks in AstGen, care must be taken in
codegen to introduce lexical scopes for every body, not just `block`s.
Also, elide a few unnecessary AIR blocks in Sema.
The signature and variants of Sema's main loop have evolved over time to
what was a quite confusing state of affairs. This commit makes minor
changes to how `analyzeBodyInner` works, and restructures/renames the
wrapper functions, adding doc comments to clarify their purposes. The
most notable change is that `analyzeBodyInner` now returns
`CompileError!void`; inline breaks are now all communicated via
`error.ComptimeBreak`.
Certain symbols were left unmarked, meaning they would not be emit into
the final binary incorrectly. We now mark the synthetic symbols to ensure
they are emit as they are already created under the circumstance they're
needed for. This also re-enables disabled tests that were left disabled
in a previous merge conflict.
Lastly, this adds the shared-memory test to the test harnass as it was
previously forgotten and therefore regressed.
Rather than using the logger, we now emit proper 'compiler'-errors just
like the ELF and MachO linkers with notes. We now also support emitting
multiple errors before quiting the linking process in certain phases,
such as symbol resolution. This means we will print all symbols which
were resolved incorrectly, rather than the first one we encounter.
This introduces some type safety so we cannot accidently give an atom
index as a symbol index. This also means we do not have to store any
optionals and therefore allow for memory optimizations. Lastly, we can
now always simply access the symbol index of an atom, rather than having
to call `getSymbolIndex` as it is easy to forget.
We now use a single function to use the in-house WebAssembly linker
rather than wasm-ld. For both incremental compilation and traditional
linking we use the same codepath.
Previously we could directly write the type index because we used the
index that was known in the final binary. However, as we now process
the Zig module as its own relocatable object file, we must ensure to
generate a relocation for type indexes. This also ensures that we can
later link the relocatable object file as a standalone also.
This also fixes generating indirect function table entries for ZigObject
as it now correctly points to the relocation symbol index rather than
the symbol index that owns the relocation.
We cannot keep function indexes as maxInt(u32) due to functions being
dedupliated when they point to the same function. For this reason we now
use a regular arraylist which will have new functions appended to, and
when deleted, its index is appended to the free list, allowing us to
re-use slots in the function list.
Removes the symbol from the decl's list of exports, marks it as dead,
as well as appends it to the symbol free list. Also removes it from
the list of global symbols as all exports are global.
In the future we should perhaps use a map for the export list to prevent
linear lookups. But this requires a benchmark as having more than 1
export for the same decl is very rare.
We now correctly create a symbol for each exported decl with its export-
name. The symbol points to the same linker-object. We store a map from
decl to all of its exports so we can update exports if it already exists
rather than infinitely create new exports.
We now parse the decls right away into atoms and allocate the
corresponding linker-object, such as segment and function, rather than
waiting until `flushModule`.
This function was previously only called by the backend which generates
a synthetical function that is not represented by any AIR or Zig code.
For this reason, the ownership is moved to the zig-object and stored
there so it can be linked with the other object files without the driver
having to specialize it.
Rather than using the optional, we now directly use `File.Index` which
can already represent an unknown file due to its `.null` value. This
means we do not pay for the memory cost.
This type of index is now used for:
- SymbolLoc
- Key of the functions map
- InitFunc
Now we can simply pass things like atom.file, object.file, loc.file etc
whenever we need to access its representing object file which makes it
a lot easier.
When merging sections we now make use of the `File` abstraction so all
objects such as globals, functions, imports, etc are also merged from
the `ZigObject` module. This allows us to use a singular way to perform
each link action without having to check the kind of the file.
The logic is mostly handled in the abstract file module, unless its
complexity warrants the handling within the corresponding module itself.
CodeGen will create linking objects such as symbols, function types, etc
in ZigObject, rather than in the linker driver where the final result
will be stored. They will end up in the linker driver module during
the `flush` phase instead.
This must mean we must call functions such as `addOrGetFuncType` in the
correct namespace or else it will be created in the incorrect list and
therefore return incorrect indexes.
When we have a ZigCompileUnit and don't use LLVM, we initialize the
ZigObject which will encapsulate the Zig Module as an object file in-
memory. During initialization we also create symbols which the object
will need such as the stack pointer.
Rather than specializing the linker-driver to be able to handle objects
generated by a ZCU, we store all data in-memory in ZigObject. ZigObject
acts more like a regular object file which will allow us to treat it
as us. This will make linking much more simple, but will also reduce
the complexity of incremental-linking as we can simply update ZigObject
and relink it.
Part of #19063.
Primarily, this moves Aro from deps/ to lib/compiler/ so that it can be
lazily compiled from source. src/aro_translate_c.zig is moved to
lib/compiler/aro_translate_c.zig and some of Zig CLI logic moved to a
main() function there.
aro_translate_c.zig becomes the "common" import for clang-based
translate-c.
Not all of the compiler was able to be detangled from Aro, however, so
it still, for now, remains being compiled with the main compiler
sources due to the clang-based translate-c depending on it. Once
aro-based translate-c achieves feature parity with the clang-based
translate-c implementation, the clang-based one can be removed from Zig.
Aro made it unnecessarily difficult to depend on with these .def files
and all these Zig module requirements. I looked at the .def files and
made these observations:
- The canonical source is llvm .def files.
- Therefore there is an update process to sync with llvm that involves
regenerating the .def files in Aro.
- Therefore you might as well just regenerate the .zig files directly
and check those into Aro.
- Also with a small amount of tinkering, the file size on disk of these
generated .zig files can be made many times smaller, without
compromising type safety in the usage of the data.
This would make things much easier on Zig as downstream project,
particularly we could remove those pesky stubs when bootstrapping.
I have gone ahead with these changes since they unblock me and I will
have a chat with Vexu to see what he thinks.
- Add default values to the list of comptime-known elements in
`zirValidatePtrArrayInit`
- In `structFieldValueComptime`, only assert `haveFieldInits` if we
enter the`fieldIsComptime` branch (otherwise they are not needed).
