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This is a partial revert of 0d533433e21621177fb291e2a4901bee11834501, which regressed this behavior. The idea here is to avoid aliases, which happens when the same function is exported with multiple names. The problem with aliases is that weak aliases don't seem to work, causing symbol collisions when multiple of the same symbol are provided, despite the desired behavior that weak symbols are overridden. In this case we export redundant functions with different names. Thanks to -ffunction-sections, the unused functions will be garbage-collected at link time. This leaves us with the best of both worlds: Zig's compiler-rt will provide both sets of symbols, and it will be binary-compatible with different compilers that expect different names, while still resulting in binaries without garbage.
A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Resources
- Introduction
- Download & Documentation
- Chapter 0 - Getting Started | ZigLearn.org
- Community
- Contributing
- Code of Conduct
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Community Projects
Installation
- download a pre-built binary
- install from a package manager
- build from source
- bootstrap zig for any target
License
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.