This clarifies that it is legal to return an invalid pointer from a
function, provided that such pointer is not dereferenced.
This matches current status quo of the language. Any change to this
should be a proposal that argues for different semantics.
It is also legal in C to return a pointer to a local. The C backend
lowers such thing directly, so the corresponding warning in C must be
disabled (`-Wno-return-stack-address`).
This instruction actually has fairly useless semantics, and even the
cases that were semantically correct could save 1 cycle of latency by
using a different sequnce involving the avx version instead.
Closes#25174
The LLVM backend lowers unions where all fields are zero-bit as
equivalent to their backing enum, and expects them to have the same
by-ref-ness in at least one place in the backend, probably more.
Resolves: #23577
This commit expands on the foundations laid by https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/23177
and moves even more `Sema`-only functionality from `Value`
to `Sema.arith`. Specifically all shift and bitwise operations,
`@truncate`, `@bitReverse` and `@byteSwap` have been moved and
adapted to the new rules around `undefined`.
Especially the comptime shift operations have been basically
rewritten, fixing many open issues in the process.
New rules applied to operators:
* `<<`, `@shlExact`, `@shlWithOverflow`, `>>`, `@shrExact`: compile error if any operand is undef
* `<<|`, `~`, `^`, `@truncate`, `@bitReverse`, `@byteSwap`: return undef if any operand is undef
* `&`, `|`: Return undef if both operands are undef, turn undef into actual `0xAA` bytes otherwise
Additionally this commit canonicalizes the representation of
aggregates with all-undefined members in the `InternPool` by
disallowing them and enforcing the usage of a single typed
`undef` value instead. This reduces the amount of edge cases
and fixes a bunch of bugs related to partially undefined vecs.
List of operations directly affected by this patch:
* `<<`, `<<|`, `@shlExact`, `@shlWithOverflow`
* `>>`, `@shrExact`
* `&`, `|`, `~`, `^` and their atomic rmw + reduce pendants
* `@truncate`, `@bitReverse`, `@byteSwap`
