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* New AIR instruction: slice, which constructs a slice out of a pointer
and a length.
* AstGen: use `coerced_ty` for start and end expressions, use `none`
for the sentinel, and don't try to load the result of the slice
operation because it returns a by-value result.
* Sema: pointer arithmetic is extracted into analyzePointerArithmetic
and it is used by the implementation of slice.
- Also I implemented comptime pointer addition.
* Sema: extract logic into analyzeSlicePtr, analyzeSliceLen and use them
inside the slice semantic analysis.
- The approach in stage2 is much cleaner than stage1 because it uses
more granular analysis calls for obtaining the slice pointer, doing
arithmetic on it, and checking if the length is comptime-known.
* Sema: use the slice Value Tag for slices when doing coercion from
pointer-to-array.
* LLVM backend: detect when emitting a GEP instruction into a
pointer-to-array and add the extra index that is required.
* Type: ptrAlignment for c_void returns 0.
* Implement Value.hash and Value.eql for slices.
* Remove accidentally duplicated behavior test.
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Resources
- Introduction
- Download & Documentation
- Chapter 0 - Getting Started | ZigLearn.org
- Community
- Contributing
- Code of Conduct
- Frequently Asked Questions
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- download a pre-built binary
- install from a package manager
- build from source
- bootstrap zig for any target
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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.