Previously, the compiler had special logic to determine whether to
include the startup code, which was in `std/special/start.zig`. Now,
the file is moved to `std/start.zig`, and there is no special logic
in the compiler. Instead, the standard library unconditionally imports
the `start.zig` file, which then has a `comptime` block that does the
logic of determining what, if any, start symbols to export. Instead of
`start.zig` being in its own special package, it is just another normal
file that is part of the standard library.
`std.builtin.TestFn` is now part of the standard library rather than
specially generated by the compiler.
Total bytes used in stage1 std lib tests:
3.418 -> 3.198 GiB (saving 225 MiB)
There's still this from pass 1 not getting freed:
Const: 6909049 items, 72 bytes each, total 474.407 MiB
This is due to 2 things hanging on to references to IrAnalyze pointers:
* ZigVar->owner_exec->analysis
* LazyValue->ira
The LazyValue one could be solved by memoizing the results after the
lazy value is resolved, and then it could unref the IrAnalyze.
ZigVars that are determined to be comptime const, could have their
const_value set to that value, instead of using the mem_slot_index
mechanism. This would prevent an IrAnalyze ref in some cases.
Having ConstGlobalRefs be a pointer in ZigValue was a hack that caused
plenty of bugs. It was used to work around difficulties in type coercing
array values into slices.
However, after #3787 is merged, array values no longer type coerce into
slices, and so this provided an opportunity to clean up the code.
This has the nice effect of reducing stage1 peak RAM usage during the
std lib tests from 3.443 GiB to 3.405 GiB (saving 39 MiB).
There is one behavior test failing in this branch, which I plan to debug
after merging #3787.
this also deletes C string literals from the language, and then makes
the std lib changes and compiler changes necessary to get the behavior
tests and std lib tests passing again.
This removes the remaining hack in the implementation of anonymous
struct literals, and they can now therefore now have greater than 16
fields/elements.
This implements stage1 parser support for anonymous struct literal
syntax (see #685), as well as semantic analysis support for anonymous
struct literals and anonymous list literals (see #208). The semantic
analysis works when there is a type coercion in the result location;
inferring the struct type based on the values in the literal is not
implemented yet. Also remaining to do is zig fmt support for this new
syntax and documentation updates.
* delete the std/event/net directory
* `std.event.Loop.waitUntilFdReadable` and related functions
no longer have possibility of failure. On Linux, they fall
back to poll() and then fall back to sleep().
* add some missing `noasync` decorations in `std.event.Loop`
* redo the `std.net.Server` API. it's quite nice now, but
shutdown does not work cleanly. There is a race condition with
close() that I am actively working on.
* move `std.io.OutStream` to its own file to match `std.io.InStream`.
I started working on making `write` integrated with evented I/O,
but it got tricky so I backed off and filed #3557. However
I did integrate `std.os.writev` and `std.os.pwritev` with evented I/O.
* add `std.Target.stack_align`
* move networking tests to `lib/std/net/test.zig`
* add `std.net.tcpConnectToHost` and `std.net.tcpConnectToAddress`.
* rename `error.UnknownName` to `error.UnknownHostName` within the
context of DNS resolution.
* add `std.os.readv`, which is integrated with evented I/O.
* `std.os.preadv`, is now integrated with evented I/O.
* `std.os.accept4` now asserts that ENOTSOCK and EOPNOTSUPP never
occur (misuse of API), instead of returning errors.
* `std.os.connect` is now integrated with evented I/O.
`std.os.connect_async` is gone. Just use `std.os.connect`.
* fix false positive dependency loop regarding async function frames
* add more compile notes to help when dependency loops occur
in determining whether a function is async.
* ir: change an assert to ir_assert to make it easier to find
workarounds for when such an assert is triggered. In this case
it was trying to parse an IPv4 address at comptime.
