9eeae556cc
All but 3 callsites of this function in the standard library and compiler were unnecessary and were removed in faf2fd18. In this commit, the remaining 3 callsites are removed. One of them turned out to also be unnecessary and has been replaced by slicing directly with the length.. The 2 remaining callsites were in the very pointer-math heavy std/os/linux/vdso.zig code which should perhaps be refactored to better utilize slices. These 2 callsites are replaced with a plain @ptrCast([*:0]u8, ptr) though could likely use std.mem.sliceTo() if the surrounding code was refactored.
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.