to the link infrastructure, instead of being stored with Module.Fn. This
moves towards a strategy to make more efficient use of memory by not
storing Air or Liveness data in the Fn struct, but computing it on
demand, immediately sending it to the backend, and then immediately
freeing it.
Backends which want to defer codegen until flush() such as SPIR-V
must move the Air/Liveness data upon `updateFunc` being called and keep
track of that data in the backend implementation itself.
Previously, this field was used because the Zir.Inst.Ref encoding
supported the concept of references to function parameters. However now
thanks to whole-file-astgen, the implementations of indexToRef and
refToIndex are trivial addition/subtraction of a comptime const integer.
It's pretty compact, with each AIR instruction only taking up 4 bits,
plus a sparse table for special instructions such as conditional branch,
switch branch, and function calls with more than 2 arguments.
This commit changes the AIR file and the documentation of the memory
layout. The actual work of modifying the surrounding code (in Sema and
codegen) is not yet done.
c_void is *not* simply `const c_void = opaque{};`. It has unique
semantics as any pointer type may coerce to `*c_void` which is not true
for an arbitrary `*opaque{}`.
Use `@` syntax to escape `_` when used as an identifier.
Remove the stage1 astgen prohibition against assigning from `_`
Note: there a few stage1 bugs preventing `_` from being used as an identifier
for a local variable or function parameter; these will be fixed by stage2.
They are unlikely to arise in real C code since identifiers starting with
underscore are reserved for the implementation.
namely, fixes proper symbol reolution when scanning and including
objects from static archives, and properly discard any null symbols
when a tentative definition was substituted by a defined, global symbol.
It makes sense to have them as a dependent type since they only ever
deal with TextBlocks. Simplify Relocations to rely on symbol indices
and symbol resolver rather than pointers.
Amends b009aca38a861f74fd5378db19c65db286ad397e.
The PR predated the introduction of unused variable/constant checks,
thus the build checks weren't reporting this failure until later when
merged into master.
Also, add a solution to a degenerate case where on x86_64 a relocation
refers to a cell in a section via section start address even though
a symbol exists. In such case, make the section spawned symbol an alias
of the actual symbol.
