Packed memory has a well-defined layout that doesn't require
conversion from an integer to read from. Let's use it :-)
This change means that for bitcasting to/from a packed value that
is N layers deep, we no longer have to create N temporary big-ints
and perform N copies.
Other miscellaneous improvements:
- Adds support for casting to packed enums and vectors
- Fixes bitcasting to/from vectors outside of a packed struct
- Adds a fast path for bitcasting <= u/i64
- Fixes bug when bitcasting f80 which would clear following fields
This also changes the bitcast memory layout of exotic integers on
big-endian systems to match what's empirically observed on our targets.
Technically, this layout is not guaranteed by LLVM so we should probably
ban bitcasts that reveal these padding bits, but for now this is an
improvement.
Prior to this commit, the logic for ABI size and ABI alignment for
integers was naive and incorrect. This results in wasted hardware as
well as undefined behavior in the LLVM backend when we memset an
incorrect number of bytes to 0xaa due to disagreeing with LLVM about the
ABI size of integers.
This commit introduces a "max int align" value which is different per
Target. This value is used to derive the ABI size and alignment of all
integers.
This commit makes an interesting change from stage1, which treats
128-bit integers as 16-bytes aligned for x86_64-linux. stage1 is
incorrect. The maximum integer alignment on this system is only 8 bytes.
This change breaks the behavior test called "128-bit cmpxchg" because on
that target, 128-bit cmpxchg does require a 16-bytes aligned pointer to
a 128 bit integer. However, this alignment property does not belong on
*all* 128 bit integers - only on the pointer type in the `@cmpxchg`
builtin function prototype. The user can then use an alignment override
annotation on a 128-bit integer variable or struct field to obtain such
a pointer.
This implements #10113 for the self-hosted compiler only. It removes the
ability to override alignment of packed struct fields, and removes the
ability to put pointers and arrays inside packed structs.
After this commit, nearly all the behavior tests pass for the stage2 llvm
backend that involve packed structs.
I didn't implement the compile errors or compile error tests yet. I'm
waiting until we have stage2 building itself and then I want to rework
the compile error test harness with inspiration from Vexu's arocc test
harness. At that point it should be a much nicer dev experience to work
on compile errors.
After a discussion about language specs, this seems like the best way to
go, because it's simpler to reason about both for humans and compilers.
The `bitcast_result_ptr` ZIR instruction is no longer needed.
This commit also implements writing enums, arrays, and vectors to
virtual memory at compile-time.
This unlocked some more of compiler-rt being able to build, which
in turn unlocks saturating arithmetic behavior tests.
There was also a memory leak in the comptime closure system which is now
fixed.
Before, Sema for comptime `@bitCast` would return the same Value but
change the Type. This gave invalid results because, for example, an
integer Value when the Type is a float would be interpreted numerically,
but `@bitCast` needs it to reinterpret how they would be stored in
memory.
This requires a mechanism to serialize a Value to a byte buffer and
deserialize a Value from a byte buffer.
Not done yet, but needs to happen: comptime dereferencing a pointer
to a Decl needs to perform a comptime bitcast on the loaded value.
Currently the value is silently wrong in the same way that `@bitCast`
was silently wrong before this commit.
The logic in Value for handling readFromMemory for large integers is
only correct for small integers. It needs to be fleshed out for proper
big integers.
As part of this change:
* std.math.big.Int: initial implementations of readTwosComplement and
writeTwosComplement. They only support bit_count <= 128 so far and
panic otherwise.
* compiler-rt: move the compareXf2 exports over to the stage2 section.
Even with the improvements in this commit, I'm still seeing test
failures in the widening behavior tests; more investigation is
needed.
Conflicts:
* doc/langref.html.in
* lib/std/enums.zig
* lib/std/fmt.zig
* lib/std/hash/auto_hash.zig
* lib/std/math.zig
* lib/std/mem.zig
* lib/std/meta.zig
* test/behavior/alignof.zig
* test/behavior/bitcast.zig
* test/behavior/bugs/1421.zig
* test/behavior/cast.zig
* test/behavior/ptrcast.zig
* test/behavior/type_info.zig
* test/behavior/vector.zig
Master branch added `try` to a bunch of testing function calls, and some
lines also had changed how to refer to the native architecture and other
`@import("builtin")` stuff.
Robin Voetter