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The end-game for inline assembly is that the syntax is more integrated with zig, and it will not allow string concatenation for the assembler code, for the same reasons that Zig does not have a preprocessor. However, inline assembly in zig right now is lacking for a variety of use cases (take a look at the open issues having to do with inline assembly for example), and being able to use comptime expressions to concatenate text is a workaround that real-world users are exploiting to get by in the short term. This commit keeps "assembly code must use string literal syntax" as a compile error when using stage2, but allows it through when using stage1. I expect to revert this commit after making enough improvements to inline assembly that our real world users' needs are satisfied.
A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
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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.