The new builtins are:
* `@EnumLiteral`
* `@Int`
* `@Fn`
* `@Pointer`
* `@Tuple`
* `@Enum`
* `@Union`
* `@Struct`
Their usage is documented in the language reference.
There is no `@Array` because arrays can be created like this:
if (sentinel) |s| [n:s]T else [n]T
There is also no `@Float`. Instead, `std.meta.Float` can serve this use
case if necessary.
There is no `@ErrorSet` and intentionally no way to achieve this.
Likewise, there is intentionally no way to reify tuples with comptime
fields, or function types with comptime parameters. These decisions
simplify the Zig language specification, and moreover make Zig code more
readable by discouraging overly complex metaprogramming.
Co-authored-by: Ali Cheraghi <alichraghi@proton.me>
Resolves: #10710
I started this diff trying to remove a little dead code from the C
backend, but ended up finding a bunch of dead code sprinkled all over
the place:
* `packed` handling in the C backend which was made dead by `Legalize`
* Representation of pointers to runtime-known vector indices
* Handling for the `vector_store_elem` AIR instruction (now removed)
* Old tuple handling from when they used the InternPool repr of structs
* Straightforward unused functions
* TODOs in the LLVM backend for features which Zig just does not support
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`
These conversion routines accept a `round` argument to control how the
result is rounded and return whether the result is exact. Most callers
wanted this functionality and had hacks around it being missing.
Also delete `std.math.big.rational` because it was only being used for
float conversion, and using rationals for that is a lot more complex
than necessary. It also required an allocator, whereas the new integer
routines only need to be passed enough memory to store the result.
* Sema: allow binary operations and boolean not on vectors of bool
* langref: Clarify use of operators on vectors (`and` and `or` not allowed)
closes#24093
Pointers to thread-local variables do not have their addresses known
until runtime, so it is nonsensical for them to be comptime-known. There
was logic in the compiler which was essentially attempting to treat them
as not being comptime-known despite the pointer being an interned value.
This was a bit of a mess, the check was frequent enough to actually show
up in compiler profiles, and it was very awkward for backends to deal
with, because they had to grapple with the fact that a "constant" they
were lowering might actually require runtime operations.
So, instead, do not consider these pointers to be comptime-known in
*any* way. Never intern such a pointer; instead, when the address of a
threadlocal is taken, emit an AIR instruction which computes the pointer
at runtime. This avoids lots of special handling for TLVs across
basically all codegen backends; of all somewhat-functional backends, the
only one which wasn't improved by this change was the LLVM backend,
because LLVM pretends this complexity around threadlocals doesn't exist.
This change simplifies Sema and codegen, avoids a potential source of
bugs, and potentially improves Sema performance very slightly by
avoiding a non-trivial check on a hot path.
This commit reworks how Sema handles arithmetic on comptime-known
values, fixing many bugs in the process.
The general pattern is that arithmetic on comptime-known values is now
handled by the new namespace `Sema.arith`. Functions handling comptime
arithmetic no longer live on `Value`; this is because some of them can
emit compile errors, so some *can't* go on `Value`. Only semantic
analysis should really be doing arithmetic on `Value`s anyway, so it
makes sense for it to integrate more tightly with `Sema`.
This commit also implements more coherent rules surrounding how
`undefined` interacts with comptime and mixed-comptime-runtime
arithmetic. The rules are as follows.
* If an operation cannot trigger Illegal Behavior, and any operand is
`undefined`, the result is `undefined`. This includes operations like
`0 *| undef`, where the LHS logically *could* be used to determine a
defined result. This is partly to simplify the language, but mostly to
permit codegen backends to represent `undefined` values as completely
invalid states.
* If an operation *can* trigger Illegal Behvaior, and any operand is
`undefined`, then Illegal Behavior results. This occurs even if the
operand in question isn't the one that "decides" illegal behavior; for
instance, `undef / 1` is undefined. This is for the same reasons as
described above.
* An operation which would trigger Illegal Behavior, when evaluated at
comptime, instead triggers a compile error. Additionally, if one
operand is comptime-known undef, such that the other (runtime-known)
operand isn't needed to determine that Illegal Behavior would occur,
the compile error is triggered.
* The only situation in which an operation with one comptime-known
operand has a comptime-known result is if that operand is undefined,
in which case the result is either undefined or a compile error per
the above rules. This could potentially be loosened in future (for
instance, `0 * rt` could be comptime-known 0 with a runtime assertion
that `rt` is not undefined), but at least for now, defining it more
conservatively simplifies the language and allows us to easily change
this in future if desired.
This commit fixes many bugs regarding the handling of `undefined`,
particularly in vectors. Along with a collection of smaller tests, two
very large test cases are added to check arithmetic on `undefined`.
The operations which have been rewritten in this PR are:
* `+`, `+%`, `+|`, `@addWithOverflow`
* `-`, `-%`, `-|`, `@subWithOverflow`
* `*`, `*%`, `*|`, `@mulWithOverflow`
* `/`, `@divFloor`, `@divTrunc`, `@divExact`
* `%`, `@rem`, `@mod`
Other arithmetic operations are currently unchanged.
Resolves: #22743Resolves: #22745Resolves: #22748Resolves: #22749Resolves: #22914
This commit allows using ZON (Zig Object Notation) in a few ways.
* `@import` can be used to load ZON at comptime and convert it to a
normal Zig value. In this case, `@import` must have a result type.
* `std.zon.parse` can be used to parse ZON at runtime, akin to the
parsing logic in `std.json`.
* `std.zon.stringify` can be used to convert arbitrary data structures
to ZON at runtime, again akin to `std.json`.
* The langspec definition of `@memcpy` has been changed so that the
source and destination element types must be in-memory coercible,
allowing all such calls to be raw copying operations, not actually
applying any coercions.
* Implement aliasing check for comptime `@memcpy`; a compile error will
now be emitted if the arguments alias.
* Implement more efficient comptime `@memcpy` by loading and storing a
whole array at once, similar to how `@memset` is implemented.
The original motivation here was to fix regressions caused by #22414.
However, while working on this, I ended up discussing a language
simplification with Andrew, which changes things a little from how they
worked before #22414.
The main user-facing change here is that any reference to a prior
function parameter, even if potentially comptime-known at the usage
site or even not analyzed, now makes a function generic. This applies
even if the parameter being referenced is not a `comptime` parameter,
since it could still be populated when performing an inline call. This
is a breaking language change.
The detection of this is done in AstGen; when evaluating a parameter
type or return type, we track whether it referenced any prior parameter,
and if so, we mark this type as being "generic" in ZIR. This will cause
Sema to not evaluate it until the time of instantiation or inline call.
A lovely consequence of this from an implementation perspective is that
it eliminates the need for most of the "generic poison" system. In
particular, `error.GenericPoison` is now completely unnecessary, because
we identify generic expressions earlier in the pipeline; this simplifies
the compiler and avoids redundant work. This also entirely eliminates
the concept of the "generic poison value". The only remnant of this
system is the "generic poison type" (`Type.generic_poison` and
`InternPool.Index.generic_poison_type`). This type is used in two
places:
* During semantic analysis, to represent an unknown result type.
* When storing generic function types, to represent a generic parameter/return type.
It's possible that these use cases should instead use `.none`, but I
leave that investigation to a future adventurer.
One last thing. Prior to #22414, inline calls were a little inefficient,
because they re-evaluated even non-generic parameter types whenever they
were called. Changing this behavior is what ultimately led to #22538.
Well, because the new logic will mark a type expression as generic if
there is any change its resolved type could differ in an inline call,
this redundant work is unnecessary! So, this is another way in which the
new design reduces redundant work and complexity.
Resolves: #22494Resolves: #22532Resolves: #22538
This was done by regex substitution with `sed`. I then manually went
over the entire diff and fixed any incorrect changes.
This diff also changes a lot of `callconv(.C)` to `callconv(.c)`, since
my regex happened to also trigger here. I opted to leave these changes
in, since they *are* a correct migration, even if they're not the one I
was trying to do!
`Sema.explainWhyValueContainsReferenceToComptimeVar` (concise name!)
adds notes to an error explaining how to get from a given `Value` to a
pointer to some `comptime var` (or a comptime field). Previously, this
error could be very opaque in any case where it wasn't obvious where the
comptime var pointer came from; particularly for type captures. Now, the
error notes explain this to the user.
This commit separates semantic analysis of the annotated type vs value
of a global declaration, therefore allowing recursive and mutually
recursive values to be declared.
Every `Nav` which undergoes analysis now has *two* corresponding
`AnalUnit`s: `.{ .nav_val = n }` and `.{ .nav_ty = n }`. The `nav_val`
unit is responsible for *fully resolving* the `Nav`: determining its
value, linksection, addrspace, etc. The `nav_ty` unit, on the other
hand, resolves only the information necessary to construct a *pointer*
to the `Nav`: its type, addrspace, etc. (It does also analyze its
linksection, but that could be moved to `nav_val` I think; it doesn't
make any difference).
Analyzing a `nav_ty` for a declaration with no type annotation will just
mark a dependency on the `nav_val`, analyze it, and finish. Conversely,
analyzing a `nav_val` for a declaration *with* a type annotation will
first mark a dependency on the `nav_ty` and analyze it, using this as
the result type when evaluating the value body.
The `nav_val` and `nav_ty` units always have references to one another:
so, if a `Nav`'s type is referenced, its value implicitly is too, and
vice versa. However, these dependencies are trivial, so, to save memory,
are only known implicitly by logic in `resolveReferences`.
In general, analyzing ZIR `decl_val` will only analyze `nav_ty` of the
corresponding `Nav`. There are two exceptions to this. If the
declaration is an `extern` declaration, then we immediately ensure the
`Nav` value is resolved (which doesn't actually require any more
analysis, since such a declaration has no value body anyway).
Additionally, if the resolved type has type tag `.@"fn"`, we again
immediately resolve the `Nav` value. The latter restriction is in place
for two reasons:
* Functions are special, in that their externs are allowed to trivially
alias; i.e. with a declaration `extern fn foo(...)`, you can write
`const bar = foo;`. This is not allowed for non-function externs, and
it means that function types are the only place where it is possible
for a declaration `Nav` to have a `.@"extern"` value without actually
being declared `extern`. We need to identify this situation
immediately so that the `decl_ref` can create a pointer to the *real*
extern `Nav`, not this alias.
* In certain situations, such as taking a pointer to a `Nav`, Sema needs
to queue analysis of a runtime function if the value is a function. To
do this, the function value needs to be known, so we need to resolve
the value immediately upon `&foo` where `foo` is a function.
This restriction is simple to codify into the eventual language
specification, and doesn't limit the utility of this feature in
practice.
A consequence of this commit is that codegen and linking logic needs to
be more careful when looking at `Nav`s. In general:
* When `updateNav` or `updateFunc` is called, it is safe to assume that
the `Nav` being updated (the owner `Nav` for `updateFunc`) is fully
resolved.
* Any `Nav` whose value is/will be an `@"extern"` or a function is fully
resolved; see `Nav.getExtern` for a helper for a common case here.
* Any other `Nav` may only have its type resolved.
This didn't seem to be too tricky to satisfy in any of the existing
codegen/linker backends.
Resolves: #131
This commit reworks how anonymous struct literals and tuples work.
Previously, an untyped anonymous struct literal
(e.g. `const x = .{ .a = 123 }`) was given an "anonymous struct type",
which is a special kind of struct which coerces using structural
equivalence. This mechanism was a holdover from before we used
RLS / result types as the primary mechanism of type inference. This
commit changes the language so that the type assigned here is a "normal"
struct type. It uses a form of equivalence based on the AST node and the
type's structure, much like a reified (`@Type`) type.
Additionally, tuples have been simplified. The distinction between
"simple" and "complex" tuple types is eliminated. All tuples, even those
explicitly declared using `struct { ... }` syntax, use structural
equivalence, and do not undergo staged type resolution. Tuples are very
restricted: they cannot have non-`auto` layouts, cannot have aligned
fields, and cannot have default values with the exception of `comptime`
fields. Tuples currently do not have optimized layout, but this can be
changed in the future.
This change simplifies the language, and fixes some problematic
coercions through pointers which led to unintuitive behavior.
Resolves: #16865
This commit begins implementing accepted proposal #21209 by making
`std.builtin.CallingConvention` a tagged union.
The stage1 dance here is a little convoluted. This commit introduces the
new type as `NewCallingConvention`, keeping the old `CallingConvention`
around. The compiler uses `std.builtin.NewCallingConvention`
exclusively, but when fetching the type from `std` when running the
compiler (e.g. with `getBuiltinType`), the name `CallingConvention` is
used. This allows a prior build of Zig to be used to build this commit.
The next commit will update `zig1.wasm`, and then the compiler and
standard library can be updated to completely replace
`CallingConvention` with `NewCallingConvention`.
The second half of #21209 is to remove `@setAlignStack`, which will be
implemented in another commit after updating `zig1.wasm`.
There is one minor language change here, which is that comparisons of
the form `comptime_inf < runtime_f32` have their results comptime-known.
This is consistent with comparisons against comptime NaN for instance,
which are always comptime known. A corresponding behavior test is added.
This fixes a bug with int comparison elision which my previous commit
somehow triggered. `Sema.compareIntsOnlyPossibleResult` is much cleaner
now!
The compiler actually doesn't need any functional changes for this: Sema
does reification based on the tag indices of `std.builtin.Type` already!
So, no zig1.wasm update is necessary.
This change is necessary to disallow name clashes between fields and
decls on a type, which is a prerequisite of #9938.
My main gripes with this design were that it was incorrectly namespaced, the naming was inconsistent and a bit wrong (`fooAlign` vs `fooAlignment`).
This commit moves all the logic from `PerThread.zig` to use the zcu + tid system that the previous couple commits introduce.
I've organized and merged the functions to be a bit more specific to their own purpose.
- `fieldAlignment` takes a struct or union type, an index, and a Zcu (or the Sema version which takes a Pt), and gives you the alignment of the field at the index.
- `structFieldAlignment` takes the field type itself, and provides the logic to handle special cases, such as externs.
A design goal I had in mind was to avoid using the word 'struct' in the function name, when it worked for things that aren't structs, such as unions.
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>
