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Packed memory has a well-defined layout that doesn't require conversion from an integer to read from. Let's use it :-) This change means that for bitcasting to/from a packed value that is N layers deep, we no longer have to create N temporary big-ints and perform N copies. Other miscellaneous improvements: - Adds support for casting to packed enums and vectors - Fixes bitcasting to/from vectors outside of a packed struct - Adds a fast path for bitcasting <= u/i64 - Fixes bug when bitcasting f80 which would clear following fields This also changes the bitcast memory layout of exotic integers on big-endian systems to match what's empirically observed on our targets. Technically, this layout is not guaranteed by LLVM so we should probably ban bitcasts that reveal these padding bits, but for now this is an improvement.
A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Resources
- Introduction
- Download & Documentation
- Chapter 0 - Getting Started | ZigLearn.org
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The ultimate goal of the Zig project is to serve users. As a first-order effect, this means users of the compiler, helping programmers to write better software. Even more important, however, are the end-users.
Zig is intended to be used to help end-users accomplish their goals. Zig should be used to empower end-users, never to exploit them financially, or to limit their freedom to interact with hardware or software in any way.
However, such problems are best solved with social norms, not with software licenses. Any attempt to complicate the software license of Zig would risk compromising the value Zig provides.
Therefore, Zig is available under the MIT (Expat) License, and comes with a humble request: use it to make software better serve the needs of end-users.
This project redistributes code from other projects, some of which have other licenses besides MIT. Such licenses are generally similar to the MIT license for practical purposes. See the subdirectories and files inside lib/ for more details.