This re-factor is intended to make it easier to track what kind of
operator/expression consumes a result location, without overloading the
ResultLoc union for this purpose.
This is used in the following commit to keep track of initializer
expressions of `const` variables to avoid popping error traces
pre-maturely. Hopefully this will also be useful for implementing
RLS temporaries in the future.
When we want a runtime pointer to a zero-bit value we use an undef
pointer, but what if we want a runtime pointer to a comptime-only value?
Normally, if `T` is a comptime-only type such as `*const comptime_int`,
then `*const T` would also be a comptime-only type, so anything
referencing a comptime-only value is usually also comptime-only, and
therefore not emitted to the executable.
However, what if instead we have a `*const anyopaque` pointing to a
comptime-only value? Certainly, `*const anyopaque` is a runtime type,
and so we need some runtime value to store, even when it happens to be
pointing to a comptime-only value. In this case we want to do the same
thing as we do when pointing to a zero-bit value, so we use
`hasRuntimeBits` to handle both cases instead of ignoring comptime.
Closes#12025
Without the packed qualifier, the type layout that we use to
initialize doesn't match the correct layout of the underlying
storage, causing corrupted data and past-the-end writes.
We call `sema.resolveTypeFields` in order to get the fields of structs
and unions inserted into their data structures. If it isn't called, it
can happen that the fields of a type is queried before those fields are
inserted into (for instance) `Module.Union.fields`, which would result in
a wrong 'no field named' error.
Fixes: #12486
Previously, Zig had inconsistent semantics for an enum like this:
`enum(u8){zero = 0}`
Although in theory this can only hold one possible value, the tag
`zero`, Zig no longer will treat the type this way. It will do loads and
stores, as if the type has runtime bits.
Closes#12619
Tests passed locally:
* test-behavior
* test-cases
`validateExternType` does not require the type to be resolved so we can
check it earlier. Only doing it in `resolveTypeFully` lead to worse or
missing compile errors.
