Makes linker functions have small error sets, required to report
diagnostics properly rather than having a massive error set that has a
lot of codes.
Other linker implementations are not ported yet.
Also the branch is not passing semantic analysis yet.
The goals of this branch are to:
* compile faster when using the wasm linker and backend
* enable saving compiler state by directly copying in-memory linker
state to disk.
* more efficient compiler memory utilization
* introduce integer type safety to wasm linker code
* generate better WebAssembly code
* fully participate in incremental compilation
* do as much work as possible outside of flush(), while continuing to do
linker garbage collection.
* avoid unnecessary heap allocations
* avoid unnecessary indirect function calls
In order to accomplish this goals, this removes the ZigObject
abstraction, as well as Symbol and Atom. These abstractions resulted
in overly generic code, doing unnecessary work, and needless
complications that simply go away by creating a better in-memory data
model and emitting more things lazily.
For example, this makes wasm codegen emit MIR which is then lowered to
wasm code during linking, with optimal function indexes etc, or
relocations are emitted if outputting an object. Previously, this would
always emit relocations, which are fully unnecessary when emitting an
executable, and required all function calls to use the maximum size LEB
encoding.
This branch introduces the concept of the "prelink" phase which occurs
after all object files have been parsed, but before any Zcu updates are
sent to the linker. This allows the linker to fully parse all objects
into a compact memory model, which is guaranteed to be complete when Zcu
code is generated.
This commit is not a complete implementation of all these goals; it is
not even passing semantic analysis.
`Type.hasWellDefinedLayout` was in disagreement with pointer loading
logic about auto-layout structs with zero fields, `struct {}`. For
consistency, these types should not have a well-defined layout.
This is technically a breaking change.
This replaces the msdos-stub binary with a fully documented
byte array with inline comments to make it easy to understand what
every byte actually means.
`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.
Before the prior commit, the maximum comptime recursion depth on my
system was 4062. After the prior commit, it decreased to 2854. This
commit increases the compiler's stack size enough so that the recursion
depth limit is no less than it was before the `Sema.analyzeCall`
rewrite, preventing this from being a breaking change. Specifically,
this stack size increases my observed maximum comptime recursion depth
to 4105.
This rewrite improves some error messages, hugely simplifies the logic,
and fixes several bugs. One of these bugs is technically a new rule
which Andrew and I agreed on: if a parameter has a comptime-only type
but is not declared `comptime`, then the corresponding call argument
should not be *evaluated* at comptime; only resolved. Implementing this
required changing how function types work a little, which in turn
required allowing a new kind of function coercion for some generic use
cases: function coercions are now allowed to implicitly *remove*
`comptime` annotations from parameters with comptime-only types. This is
okay because removing the annotation affects only the call site.
Resolves: #22262
The relocation range issues will happen eventually as we add more code to the
standard library and test suites, so we may as well just deal with this now.
@MasonRemaley ran into this in #20271, for example.
* MSDN documentation page covering what resource IDs manifests should have:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/using-side-by-side-assemblies-as-a-resource
* This change ensures shared libraries that embed win32 manifests use the
proper ID of 2 instead of 1, which is only allowed for .exes. If the manifest
uses the wrong ID, it will not be found and is essentially ignored.
Rather than `Zcu.BuiltinDecl.Memoized` being a struct with fields, it
can instead just be an array, indexed by the enum. This allows runtime
indexing, avoiding a few now-unnecessary `inline` switch cases.
