Implements the accepted proposal to introduce `@branchHint`. This
builtin is permitted as the first statement of a block if that block is
the direct body of any of the following:
* a function (*not* a `test`)
* either branch of an `if`
* the RHS of a `catch` or `orelse`
* a `switch` prong
* an `or` or `and` expression
It lowers to the ZIR instruction `extended(branch_hint(...))`. When Sema
encounters this instruction, it sets `sema.branch_hint` appropriately,
and `zirCondBr` etc are expected to reset this value as necessary. The
state is on `Sema` rather than `Block` to make it automatically
propagate up non-conditional blocks without special handling. If
`@panic` is reached, the branch hint is set to `.cold` if none was
already set; similarly, error branches get a hint of `.unlikely` if no
hint is explicitly provided. If a condition is comptime-known, `cold`
hints from the taken branch are allowed to propagate up, but other hints
are discarded. This is because a `likely`/`unlikely` hint just indicates
the direction this branch is likely to go, which is redundant
information when the branch is known at comptime; but `cold` hints
indicate that control flow is unlikely to ever reach this branch,
meaning if the branch is always taken from its parent, then the parent
is also unlikely to ever be reached.
This branch information is stored in AIR `cond_br` and `switch_br`. In
addition, `try` and `try_ptr` instructions have variants `try_cold` and
`try_ptr_cold` which indicate that the error case is cold (rather than
just unlikely); this is reachable through e.g. `errdefer unreachable` or
`errdefer @panic("")`.
A new API `unwrapSwitch` is introduced to `Air` to make it more
convenient to access `switch_br` instructions. In time, I plan to update
all AIR instructions to be accessed via an `unwrap` method which returns
a convenient tagged union a la `InternPool.indexToKey`.
The LLVM backend lowers branch hints for conditional branches and
switches as follows:
* If any branch is marked `unpredictable`, the instruction is marked
`!unpredictable`.
* Any branch which is marked as `cold` gets a
`llvm.assume(i1 true) [ "cold"() ]` call to mark the code path cold.
* If any branch is marked `likely` or `unlikely`, branch weight metadata
is attached with `!prof`. Likely branches get a weight of 2000, and
unlikely branches a weight of 1. In `switch` statements, un-annotated
branches get a weight of 1000 as a "middle ground" hint, since there
could be likely *and* unlikely *and* un-annotated branches.
For functions, a `cold` hint corresponds to the `cold` function
attribute, and other hints are currently ignored -- as far as I can tell
LLVM doesn't really have a way to lower them. (Ideally, we would want
the branch hint given in the function to propagate to call sites.)
The compiler and standard library do not yet use this new builtin.
Resolves: #21148
This reverts commit a7de02e05216db9a04e438703ddf1b6b12f3fbef.
This did not implement the accepted proposal, and I did not sign off
on the changes. I would like a chance to review this, please.
This commit eliminates the `dbg_block_{begin,end}` instructions from
both ZIR and AIR. Instead, lexical scoping of `dbg_var_{ptr,val}`
instructions is decided based on the AIR block they exist within. This
is a much more robust system, and also results in a huge drop in ZIR
bytes - around 7% for Sema.zig.
This required some enhancements to Sema to prevent elision of blocks
when they are required for debug variable scoping. This can be observed
by looking at the AIR for the following simple test program with and
without `-fstrip`:
```zig
export fn f() void {
{
var a: u32 = 0;
_ = &a;
}
{
var a: u32 = 0;
_ = &a;
}
}
```
When `-fstrip` is passed, no AIR blocks are generated. When `-fno-strip`
is passed, the ZIR blocks are lowered to true AIR blocks to give correct
lexical scoping to the debug vars.
The changes here incidentally reolve #19060. A corresponding behavior
test has been added.
Resolves: #19060
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.
This actually used to be how it worked in stage1, and there was this
issue to change it: #2649
So this commit is a reversal to that idea. One motivation for that issue
was avoiding emitting the panic handler in compilations that do not have
any calls to panic. This commit only resolves the panic handler in the
event of a safety check function being emitted, so it does not have that
flaw.
The other reason given in that issue was for optimizations that elide
safety checks. It's yet to be determined whether that was a good idea or
not; this can get re-explored when we start adding optimization passes
to AIR.
This commit adds these AIR instructions, which are only emitted if
`backendSupportsFeature(.safety_checked_arithmetic)` is true:
* add_safe
* sub_safe
* mul_safe
It removes these nonsensical AIR instructions:
* addwrap_optimized
* subwrap_optimized
* mulwrap_optimized
The safety-checked arithmetic functions push the burden of invoking the
panic handler into the backend. This makes for a messier compiler
implementation, but it reduces the amount of AIR instructions emitted by
Sema, which reduces time spent in the secondary bottleneck of the
compiler. It also generates more compact LLVM IR, reducing time spent in
the primary bottleneck of the compiler.
Finally, it eliminates 1 stack allocation per safety-check which was
being used to store the resulting tuple. These allocations were going to
be annoying when combined with suspension points.
Most of this migration was performed automatically with `zig fmt`. There
were a few exceptions which I had to manually fix:
* `@alignCast` and `@addrSpaceCast` cannot be automatically rewritten
* `@truncate`'s fixup is incorrect for vectors
* Test cases are not formatted, and their error locations change
The Zig language allows the compiler to make this optimization
automatically. We should definitely make the compiler do that, and
revert this commit. However, that will not happen in this branch, and I
want to continue to explore achieving performance parity with
merge-base. So, this commit changes all InternPool parameters to be
passed by const pointer rather than by value.
I measured a 1.03x ± 0.03 speedup vs the previous commit compiling the
(set of passing) behavior tests. Against merge-base, this commit is
1.17x ± 0.04 slower, which is an improvement from the previous
measurement of 1.22x ± 0.02.
Related issue: #13510
Related issue: #14129
Related issue: #15688
One change worth noting in this commit is that `module.global_error_set`
is no longer kept strictly up-to-date. The previous code reserved
integer error values when dealing with error set types, but this is no
longer needed because the integer values are not needed for semantic
analysis unless `@errorToInt` or `@intToError` are used and therefore
may be assigned lazily.
* Add some assertions to make sure instructions are not none. I tested
all these with master branch as well and made sure the behavior tests
still passed with the assertions intact (along with a handful of
callsite updates).
* Fix Sema.resolveMaybeUndefValAllowVariablesMaybeRuntime not noticing
that interned values are comptime-known. This was causing all kinds
of chaos.
* Fix print_air writeType calling tag() without checking for ip_index
store:
The value to store may be undefined, in which case the destination
memory region has undefined bytes after this instruction is
evaluated. In such case ignoring this instruction is legal
lowering.
store_safe:
Same as `store`, except if the value to store is undefined, the
memory region should be filled with 0xaa bytes, and any other
safety metadata such as Valgrind integrations should be notified of
this memory region being undefined.
* Sema: upgrade operands to array pointers if possible when emitting
AIR.
* Implement safety checks for length mismatch and aliasing.
* AIR: make ptrtoint support slice operands. Implement in LLVM backend.
* C backend: implement new `@memset` semantics. `@memcpy` is not done
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.
