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Comment reproduced here: Note the following u64 alignments: x86-linux: 4 x86-windows: 8 LLVM makes x86_fp80 have the following alignment and sizes regardless of operating system: x86_64: size=16, align=16 x86: size=12, align=4 However in Zig we override x86-windows to have size=16, align=16 in order for the property to hold that u80 and f80 have the same ABI size. Fixes "error: destination type 'f80' has size 12 but source type 'u80' has size 16" when trying to bitcast between f80 and u80 on i386-windows.
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
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- Frequently Asked Questions
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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.