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compiler_rt_lib and compiler_rt_obj are extracted from the generic JobQueue into simple boolean flags, and then handled explicitly inside performAllTheWork(). Introduced generic handling of allocation failure and made setMiscFailure not return a possible error. Building the compiler-rt static library now takes advantage of Compilation's ThreadPool. This introduced a problem, however, because now each of the object files of compiler-rt all perform AstGen for the full standard library and compiler-rt files. Even though all of them end up being cache hits except for the first ones, this is wasteful - O(N*M) where N is number of compilation units inside compiler-rt and M is the number of .zig files in the standard library and compiler-rt combined. More importantly, however, it causes a deadlock, because each thread interacts with a file system lock for doing AstGen on files, and threads end up waiting for each other. This will need to be handled with a process-level file caching system, or some other creative solution.
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.