Introduce the concept of "target query" and "resolved target". A target
query is what the user specifies, with some things left to default. A
resolved target has the default things discovered and populated.
In the future, std.zig.CrossTarget will be rename to std.Target.Query.
Introduces `std.Build.resolveTargetQuery` to get from one to the other.
The concept of `main_mod_path` is gone, no longer supported. You have to
put the root source file at the module root now.
* remove deprecated API
* update build.zig for the breaking API changes in this branch
* move std.Build.Step.Compile.BuildId to std.zig.BuildId
* add more options to std.Build.ExecutableOptions, std.Build.ObjectOptions,
std.Build.SharedLibraryOptions, std.Build.StaticLibraryOptions, and
std.Build.TestOptions.
* remove `std.Build.constructCMacro`. There is no use for this API.
* deprecate `std.Build.Step.Compile.defineCMacro`. Instead,
`std.Build.Module.addCMacro` is provided.
- remove `std.Build.Step.Compile.defineCMacroRaw`.
* deprecate `std.Build.Step.Compile.linkFrameworkNeeded`
- use `std.Build.Module.linkFramework`
* deprecate `std.Build.Step.Compile.linkFrameworkWeak`
- use `std.Build.Module.linkFramework`
* move more logic into `std.Build.Module`
* allow `target` and `optimize` to be `null` when creating a Module.
Along with other fields, those unspecified options will be inherited
from parent `Module` when inserted into an import table.
* the `target` field of `addExecutable` is now required. pass `b.host`
to get the host target.
Specifically this is to make sure llvm data layout generation doesn't
regress. The no emit bin is to allow testing targets that can't
currently be linked. The commented out targets are ones that fail in
the linker anyway when no emit bin is passed.
Instead of using `zig test` to build a special version of the compiler
that runs all the test-cases, the zig build system is now used as much
as possible - all with the basic steps found in the standard library.
For incremental compilation tests (the ones that look like foo.0.zig,
foo.1.zig, foo.2.zig, etc.), a special version of the compiler is
compiled into a utility executable called "check-case" which checks
exactly one sequence of incremental updates in an independent
subprocess. Previously, all incremental and non-incremental test cases
were done in the same test runner process.
The compile error checking code is now simpler, but also a bit
rudimentary, and so it additionally makes sure that the actual compile
errors do not include *extra* messages, and it makes sure that the
actual compile errors output in the same order as expected. It is also
based on the "ends-with" property of each line rather than the previous
logic, which frankly I didn't want to touch with a ten-meter pole. The
compile error test cases have been updated to pass in light of these
differences.
Previously, 'error' mode with 0 compile errors was used to shoehorn in a
different kind of test-case - one that only checks if a piece of code
compiles without errors. Now there is a 'compile' mode of test-cases,
and 'error' must be only used when there are greater than 0 errors.
link test cases are updated to omit the target object format argument
when calling checkObject since that is no longer needed.
The test/stage2 directory is removed; the 2 files within are moved to be
directly in the test/ directory.
* test runner is improved to respect `error.SkipZigTest`
* start code is improved to `@setAlignStack(16)` before calling main()
* the newly passing behavior test has a workaround for the fact that
stage2 cannot yet call `std.Target.x86.featureSetHas()` at comptime.
This is blocking on comptime closures. The workaround is that there
is a new decl `@import("builtin").stage2_x86_cx16` which is a `bool`.
* Implement `@setAlignStack`. This language feature should be re-evaluated
at some point - I'll file an issue for it.
* LLVM backend: apply/remove the cold attribute and noinline attribute
where appropriate.
* LLVM backend: loads and stores are properly annotated with alignment
and volatile attributes.
* LLVM backend: allocas are properly annotated with alignment.
* Type: fix integers reporting wrong alignment for 256-bit integers and
beyond. Once you get to 16 byte aligned, there is no further
alignment for larger integers.
Also:
* improve the "ambiguous reference" error by swapping the order of
"declared here" and "also declared here" notes.
* improve the "not accessible from inner function" error:
- point out that it has to do with the thing being mutable
- eliminate the incorrect association with it being a function
- note where it crosses a namespace boundary
* struct field types are evaluated in a context that has the struct
namespace visible. Likewise with align expressions, linksection
expressions, enum tag values, and union/enum tag argument
expressions.
Closes#9194Closes#9622
Previous commit shifted everything down in the start.zig file, and
unfortunately our stage2 test harness depends on absolute line
numbers for a couple tests.
AstGen result locations now have a `coerced_ty` tag which is the same as
`ty` except it assumes that Sema will do a coercion, so it does not
redundantly add an `as` instruction into the ZIR code. This results in
cleaner ZIR and about a 14% reduction of ZIR bytes.
param and param_comptime ZIR instructions now have a block body for
their type expressions. This allows Sema to skip evaluation of the
block in the case that the parameter is comptime-provided. It also
allows a new mechanism to function: when evaluating type expressions of
generic functions, if it would depend on another parameter, it returns
`error.GenericPoison` which bubbles up and then is caught by the
param/param_comptime instruction and then handled.
This allows parameters to be evaluated independently so that the type
info for functions which have comptime or anytype parameters will still
have types populated for parameters that do not depend on values of
previous parameters (because evaluation of their param blocks will return
successfully instead of `error.GenericPoison`).
It also makes iteration over the block that contains function parameters
slightly more efficient since it now only contains the param
instructions.
Finally, it fixes the case where a generic function type expression contains
a function prototype. Formerly, this situation would cause shared state
to clobber each other; now it is in a proper tree structure so that
can't happen. This fix also required adding a field to Sema
`comptime_args_fn_inst` to make sure that the `comptime_args` field
passed into Sema is applied to the correct `func` instruction.
Source location for `node_offset_asm_ret_ty` is fixed; it was pointing at
the asm output name rather than the return type as intended.
Generic function instantiation is fixed, notably with respect to
parameter type expressions that depend on previous parameters, and with
respect to types which must be always comptime-known. This involves
passing all the comptime arguments at a callsite of a generic function,
and allowing the generic function semantic analysis to coerce the values
to the proper types (since it has access to the evaluated parameter type
expressions) and then decide based on the type whether the parameter is
runtime known or not. In the case of explicitly marked `comptime`
parameters, there is a check at the semantic analysis of the `call`
instruction.
Semantic analysis of `call` instructions does type coercion on the
arguments, which is needed both for generic functions and to make up for
using `coerced_ty` result locations (mentioned above).
Tasks left in this branch:
* Implement the memoization table.
* Add test coverage.
* Improve error reporting and source locations for compile errors.
* AIR no longer has a `variables` array. Instead of the `varptr`
instruction, Sema emits a constant with a `decl_ref`.
* AIR no longer has a `ref` instruction. There is no longer any
instruction that takes a value and returns a pointer to it. If this
is desired, Sema must either create an anynomous Decl and return a
constant `decl_ref`, or in the case of a runtime value, emit an
`alloc` instruction, `store` the value to it, and then return the
`alloc`.
* The `ref_val` Value Tag is eliminated. `decl_ref` should be used
instead. Also added is `eu_payload_ptr` which points to the payload
of an error union, given an error union pointer.
In general, Sema should avoid calling `analyzeRef` if it can be helped.
For example in the case of field_val and elem_val, there should never be
a reason to create a temporary (alloc or decl). Recent previous commits
made progress along that front.
There is a new abstraction in Sema, which looks like this:
var anon_decl = try block.startAnonDecl();
defer anon_decl.deinit();
// here 'anon_decl.arena()` may be used
const decl = try anon_decl.finish(ty, val);
// decl is typically now used with `decl_ref`.
This pattern is used to upgrade `ref_val` usages to `decl_ref` usages.
Additional improvements:
* Sema: fix source location resolution for calling convention
expression.
* Sema: properly report "unable to resolve comptime value" for loads of
global variables. There is now a set of functions which can be
called if the callee wants to obtain the Value even if the tag is
`variable` (indicating comptime-known address but runtime-known value).
* Sema: `coerce` resolves builtin types before checking equality.
* Sema: fix `u1_type` missing from `addType`, making this type have a
slightly more efficient representation in AIR.
* LLVM backend: fix `genTypedValue` for tags `decl_ref` and `variable`
to properly do an LLVMConstBitCast.
* Remove unused parameter from `Value.toEnum`.
After this commit, some test cases are no longer passing. This is due to
the more principled approach to comptime references causing more
anonymous decls to get sent to the linker for codegen. However, in all
these cases the decls are not actually referenced by the runtime machine
code. A future commit in this branch will implement garbage collection
of decls so that unused decls do not get sent to the linker for codegen.
This will make the tests go back to passing.
