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This fixes one of the major issues plaguing the `std.sort` comptime tests.
The high level issue is that at comptime, we need to know whether `elem_ptr` is
being used to subslice an array-like pointer or access a child value. High-level
example:
var x: [2][2]i32 = undefined;
var a = &x[0]; // elem_ptr, type *[2]i32
var y: [5]i32 = undefined;
var b = y[1..3]; // elem_ptr, type *[2]i32
`a` is pointing directly to the 0th element of `x`. But `b` is
subslicing the 1st and 2nd element of `y`. At runtime with a well
defined memory layout, this is an inconsequential detail. At comptime,
the values aren't laid out exactly in-memory so we need to know the
difference.
This becomes an issue specifically in this case:
var c: []i32 = a;
var d: []i32 = b;
When converting the `*[N]T` to `[]T` we need to know what array to point
to. For runtime, its all the same. For comptime, we need to know if its
the parent array or the child value.
See the behavior tests for more details.
This commit fixes this by adding a boolean to track this on the
`elem_ptr`. We can't just immediately deref the child for `&x[0]`
because it is legal to ptrCast it to a many-pointer, do arithmetic, and
then cast it back (see behavior test) so we need to retain access to the
"parent" indexable.
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