When the compiler's state lives through multiple Compilation.update()
calls, the C backend stores the rendered C source code for each
decl code body and forward declarations.
With this commit, the state is still stored, but it is managed in one
big array list in link/C.zig rather than many array lists, one for each
decl. This means simpler serialization and deserialization.
SPIR-V doesn't support true element indexing, so we probably
need to switch over to isByRef like in llvm for this to work
properly. Currently a temporary is used, which at least
seems to work.
This will help us both to make the implementation a little
more efficient by caching emission for certain types like structs,
and also allow us to attach extra information about types that we
can use while lowering without performing a search over the entire
type tree for some property.
When the tag is not known, it's set to `.none`. In this case, the value is either an
array of bytes (for extern unions) or an integer (for packed unions).
When struct types have no field names, the names are implicitly
understood to be strings corresponding to the field indexes in
declaration order. It used to be the case that a NullTerminatedString
would be stored for each field in this case, however, now, callers must
handle the possibility that there are no names stored at all. This
commit introduces `legacyStructFieldName`, a function to fake the
previous behavior. Probably something better could be done by reworking
all the callsites of this function.
This changeset fixes the handling of alignment in several places. The
new rules are:
* `@alignOf(T)` where `T` is a runtime zero-bit type is at least 1,
maybe greater.
* Zero-bit fields in `extern` structs *do* force alignment, potentially
offsetting following fields.
* Zero-bit fields *do* have addresses within structs which can be
observed and are consistent with `@offsetOf`.
These are not necessarily all implemented correctly yet (see disabled
test), but this commit fixes all regressions compared to master, and
makes one new test pass.