This type is exactly the same as std.Build.Cache.Path, except for
one function which is not used anymore. Therefore we can replace
it without consequences.
The type `Zcu.Decl` in the compiler is problematic: over time it has
gained many responsibilities. Every source declaration, container type,
generic instantiation, and `@extern` has a `Decl`. The functions of
these `Decl`s are in some cases entirely disjoint.
After careful analysis, I determined that the two main responsibilities
of `Decl` are as follows:
* A `Decl` acts as the "subject" of semantic analysis at comptime. A
single unit of analysis is either a runtime function body, or a
`Decl`. It registers incremental dependencies, tracks analysis errors,
etc.
* A `Decl` acts as a "global variable": a pointer to it is consistent,
and it may be lowered to a specific symbol by the codegen backend.
This commit eliminates `Decl` and introduces new types to model these
responsibilities: `Cau` (Comptime Analysis Unit) and `Nav` (Named
Addressable Value).
Every source declaration, and every container type requiring resolution
(so *not* including `opaque`), has a `Cau`. For a source declaration,
this `Cau` performs the resolution of its value. (When #131 is
implemented, it is unsolved whether type and value resolution will share
a `Cau` or have two distinct `Cau`s.) For a type, this `Cau` is the
context in which type resolution occurs.
Every non-`comptime` source declaration, every generic instantiation,
and every distinct `extern` has a `Nav`. These are sent to codegen/link:
the backends by definition do not care about `Cau`s.
This commit has some minor technically-breaking changes surrounding
`usingnamespace`. I don't think they'll impact anyone, since the changes
are fixes around semantics which were previously inconsistent (the
behavior changed depending on hashmap iteration order!).
Aside from that, this changeset has no significant user-facing changes.
Instead, it is an internal refactor which makes it easier to correctly
model the responsibilities of different objects, particularly regarding
incremental compilation. The performance impact should be negligible,
but I will take measurements before merging this work into `master`.
Co-authored-by: Jacob Young <jacobly0@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jakub Konka <kubkon@jakubkonka.com>
This allows the mutate mutex to only be locked during actual grows,
which are rare. For the lists that didn't previously have a mutex, this
change has little effect since grows are rare and there is zero
contention on a mutex that is only ever locked by one thread. This
change allows `extra` to be mutated without racing with a grow.
This change modifies `Zcu.ErrorMsg` to store a `Zcu.LazySrcLoc` rather
than a `Zcu.SrcLoc`. Everything else is dominoes.
The reason for this change is incremental compilation. If a failed
`AnalUnit` is up-to-date on an update, we want to re-use the old error
messages. However, the file containing the error location may have been
modified, and `SrcLoc` cannot survive such a modification. `LazySrcLoc`
is designed to be correct across incremental updates. Therefore, we
defer source location resolution until `Compilation` gathers the compile
errors into the `ErrorBundle`.
This change seeks to more appropriately model the way semantic analysis
works by drawing a more clear line between errors emitted by analyzing a
`Decl` (in future a `Cau`) and errors emitted by analyzing a runtime
function.
This does change a few compile errors surrounding compile logs by adding
more "also here" notes. The new notes are more technically correct, but
perhaps not so helpful. They're not doing enough harm for me to put
extensive thought into this for now.
This commit reworks our representation of exported Decls and values in
Zcu to be memory-optimized and trivially serialized.
All exports are now stored in the `all_exports` array on `Zcu`. An
`AnalUnit` which performs an export (either through an `export`
annotation or by containing an analyzed `@export`) gains an entry into
`single_exports` if it performs only one export, or `multi_exports` if
it performs multiple.
We no longer store a persistent mapping from a `Decl`/value to all
exports of that entity; this state is not necessary for the majority of
the pipeline. Instead, we construct it in `Zcu.processExports`, just
before flush. This does not affect the algorithmic complexity of
`processExports`, since this function already iterates all exports in
the `Zcu`.
The elimination of `decl_exports` and `value_exports` led to a few
non-trivial backend changes. The LLVM backend has been wrangled into a
more reasonable state in general regarding exports and externs. The C
backend is currently disabled in this commit, because its support for
`export` was quite broken, and that was exposed by this work -- I'm
hoping @jacobly0 will be able to pick this up!
This patch is a pure rename plus only changing the file path in
`@import` sites, so it is expected to not create version control
conflicts, even when rebasing.
`LazySrcLoc` now stores a reference to the "base AST node" to which it
is relative. The previous tagged union is `LazySrcLoc.Offset`. To make
working with this structure convenient, `Sema.Block` contains a
convenience `src` method which takes an `Offset` and returns a
`LazySrcLoc`.
The "base node" of a source location is no longer given by a `Decl`, but
rather a `TrackedInst` representing either a `declaration`,
`struct_decl`, `union_decl`, `enum_decl`, or `opaque_decl`. This is a
more appropriate model, and removes an unnecessary responsibility from
`Decl` in preparation for the upcoming refactor which will split it into
`Nav` and `Cau`.
As a part of these `Decl` reworks, the `src_node` field is eliminated.
This change aids incremental compilation, and simplifies `Decl`. In some
cases -- particularly in backends -- the source location of a
declaration is desired. This was previously `Decl.srcLoc` and worked for
any `Decl`. Now, it is `Decl.navSrcLoc` in reference to the upcoming
refactor, since the set of `Decl`s this works for precisely corresponds
to what will in future become a `Nav` -- that is, source-level
declarations and generic function instantiations, but *not* type owner
Decls.
This commit introduces more tags to `LazySrcLoc.Offset` so as to
eliminate the concept of `error.NeededSourceLocation`. Now, `.unneeded`
should only be used to assert that an error path is unreachable. In the
future, uses of `.unneeded` can probably be replaced with `undefined`.
The `src_decl` field of `Sema.Block` no longer has a role in type
resolution. Its main remaining purpose is to handle namespacing of type
names. It will be eliminated entirely in a future commit to remove
another undue responsibility from `Decl`.
It is worth noting that in future, the `Zcu.SrcLoc` type should probably
be eliminated entirely in favour of storing `Zcu.LazySrcLoc` values.
This is because `Zcu.SrcLoc` is not valid across incremental updates,
and we want to be able to reuse error messages from previous updates
even if the source file in question changed. The error reporting logic
should instead simply resolve the location from the `LazySrcLoc` on the
fly.
`Decl` can no longer store un-interned values, so this field is now
unnecessary. The type can instead be fetched with the new `typeOf`
helper method, which just gets the type of the Decl's `Value`.
* make test names contain the fully qualified name
* make test filters match the fully qualified name
* allow multiple test filters, where a test is skipped if it does not
match any of the specified filters
This branch introduced an arena allocator for temporary allocations in
Compilation.update. Almost every implementation of flush() inside the
linker code was already creating a local arena that had the lifetime of
the function call. This commit passes the update arena so that all those
local ones can be deleted, resulting in slightly more efficient memory
usage with every compilation update.
While at it, this commit also removes the Compilation parameter from the
linker flush function API since a reference to the Compilation is now
already stored in `link.File`.
This is necessary because on COFF, the entry symbol name is not known
until the linker has looked at the set of global symbol names to
determine which of the four possible main entry points is present.
* fix relationship between createEmpty/open (similar logic as
607111aa758002bc51914b7dc800b23927c931b8)
* still resolve the start symbol when linking libc because when zig is
the linker it still needs to know the entry symbol.
* make use_llvm=false when there is no zig compilation unit.
implement builtin.zig file population for all modules rather than
assuming there is only one global builtin.zig module.
move some fields from link.File to Compilation
move some fields from Module to Compilation
compute debug_format in global Compilation config resolution
wire up C compilation to the concept of owner modules
make whole cache mode call link.File.createEmpty() instead of
link.File.open()