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on the break instruction operands. This involves a new TZIR instruction, br_block_flat, which represents a break instruction where the operand is the result of a flat block. See the doc comments on the instructions for more details. How it works: when adding break instructions in semantic analysis, the underlying allocation is slightly padded so that it is the size of a br_block_flat instruction, which allows the break instruction to later be converted without removing instructions inside the parent body. The extra type coercion instructions go into the body of the br_block_flat, and backends are responsible for dispatching the instruction correctly (it should map to the same function calls for related instructions).
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.