These functions are currently footgunny when working with pointers to
arrays and slices. They just return the stated length of the array/slice
without iterating and looking for the first sentinel, even if the
array/slice is a sentinel terminated type.
From looking at the quite small list of places in the standard
library/compiler that this change breaks existing code, the new code
looks to be more readable in all cases.
The usage of std.mem.span/len was totally unneeded in most of the cases
affected by this breaking change.
We could remove these functions entirely in favor of other existing
functions in std.mem such as std.mem.sliceTo(), but that would be a
somewhat nasty breaking change as std.mem.span() is very widely used for
converting sentinel terminated pointers to slices. It is however not at
all widely used for anything else.
Therefore I think it is better to break these few non-standard and
potentially incorrect usages of these functions now and at some later
time, if deemed worthwhile, finally remove these functions.
If we wait for at least a full release cycle so that everyone adapts to
this change first, updating for the removal could be a simple find and
replace without needing to worry about the semantics.
This allows setting a custom buffer size. In this case I wanted it
because using a buffer size large enough to fit a TLS ciphertext record
elides a memcpy().
This commit also adds `readAtLeast` to the Reader interface.
See also commit 7287c7482a where
LinearFifo is removed from BufferedWriter
Basically, LinearFifo does extra work via copying bytes and increasing
an offset.
Adds error for taking a non comptime parameter in a function returning a
comptime-only type but not when that type is dependent on a parameter.
Co-authored-by: Veikka Tuominen <git@vexu.eu>
Looking at the BufferedWriter assembly generated, one can see that is
has to do a lot of work, just to copy over some bytes and increase an
offset. This is because the LinearFifo is a much more general construct
than what BufferedWriter needs and the optimizer cannot prove that we
don't need to do this extra work.
These changes have been made to resolve issue #10037. The `Random`
interface was implemented in such a way that causes significant slowdown
when calling the `fill` function of the rng used.
The `Random` interface is no longer stored in a field of the rng, and is
instead returned by the child function `random()` of the rng. This
avoids the performance issues caused by the interface.
We already have a LICENSE file that covers the Zig Standard Library. We
no longer need to remind everyone that the license is MIT in every single
file.
Previously this was introduced to clarify the situation for a fork of
Zig that made Zig's LICENSE file harder to find, and replaced it with
their own license that required annual payments to their company.
However that fork now appears to be dead. So there is no need to
reinforce the copyright notice in every single file.
The primary purpose of this change is to eliminate one usage of
`usingnamespace` in the standard library - specifically the usage for
errno values in `std.os.linux`.
This is accomplished by truncating the `E` prefix from error values, and
making errno a proper enum.
A similar strategy can be used to eliminate some other `usingnamespace`
sites in the std lib.
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.
This type is not widely applicable enough to be a public part of the
public interface of the std.
The current implementation in only fully utilized by the zig fmt
implementation, which could benefit by even tighter integration as
will be demonstrated in the next commit. Therefore, move the current
io.AutoIndentingStream to lib/std/zig/render.zig.
The C backend of the self hosted compiler also use this type currently,
but it does not require anywhere near its full complexity. Therefore,
implement a greatly simplified version of this interface in
src/codegen/c.zig.
