This is a breaking change.
This updates `std.zig.fmtId` to support conditionally escaping
primitives and the reserved `_` identifier via format specifiers:
- `{}`: escape invalid identifiers, identifiers that shadow primitives
and the reserved `_` identifier.
- `{p}`: same as `{}`, but don't escape identifiers that
shadow primitives.
- `{_}`: same as `{}`, but don't escape the reserved `_` identifier.
- `{p_}` or `{_p}`: only escape invalid identifiers.
(The idea is that `p`/`_` mean "allow primitives/underscores".)
Any other format specifiers will result in compile errors.
Additionally, `isValidId` now considers `_` a valid identifier. If this
distinction is important, consider combining existing uses of this
function with the new `isUnderscore` function.
A lot of these "shorthand" doc comments were redundant, low quality
filler content. Better to let the actual modules speak for themselves
with top level doc comments rather than trying to document their
aliases.
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.
Most of this migration was performed automatically with `zig fmt`. There
were a few exceptions which I had to manually fix:
* `@alignCast` and `@addrSpaceCast` cannot be automatically rewritten
* `@truncate`'s fixup is incorrect for vectors
* Test cases are not formatted, and their error locations change
The compiler now provides a server protocol for an interactive session
with another process. The build runner uses this protocol to communicate
compilation errors semantically from zig compiler subprocesses to the
build runner.
The protocol is exposed via stdin/stdout, or on a network socket,
depending on whether the CLI flag `--listen=-` or e.g.
`--listen=127.0.0.1:1337` is used.
Additionally:
* add the zig version string to the build runner cache prefix
* remove --prominent-compile-errors CLI flag because it no longer does
anything. Compilation errors are now unconditionally displayed at the
bottom of the build summary output when using the terminal-based
build runner.
* Remove the color field from std.Build. The build steps are no longer
supposed to interact with stderr directly. Instead they communicate
semantically back to the build runner, which has its own logic about
TTY configuration.
* Use the cleanExit() pattern in the build runner.
* Build steps can now use error.MakeFailed when they have already
properly reported an error, or they can fail with any other error
code in which case the build runner will create a simple message
based on this error code.
Introduces std.zig.ErrorBundle which is a trivially serializeable set
of compilation errors. This is in the standard library so that both
the compiler and the build runner can use it. The idea is they will
use it to communicate compilation errors over a binary protocol.
The binary encoding of ErrorBundle is a bit problematic - I got a little
too aggressive with compaction. I need to change it in a follow-up
commit to use some indirection in the error message list, otherwise
iteration is too unergonomic. In fact it's so problematic right now that
the logic getAllErrorsAlloc() actually fails to produce a viable
ErrorBundle because it puts SourceLocation data in between the root
level ErrorMessage data.
This commit has a simplification - redundant logic for rendering AST
errors to stderr has been removed in favor of moving the logic for
lowering AST errors into AstGen. So even if we get parse errors, the
errors will get lowered into ZIR before being reported. I believe this
will be useful when working on --autofix. Either way, some redundant
brittle logic was happily deleted.
In Compilation, updateSubCompilation() is improved to properly perform
error reporting when a sub-compilation object fails. It no longer dumps
directly to stderr; instead it populates an ErrorBundle object, which
gets added to the parent one during getAllErrorsAlloc().
In package fetching code, instead of dumping directly to stderr, it now
populates an ErrorBundle object, and gets properly reported at the CLI
layer of abstraction.
* std.zig.parse is moved to std.zig.Ast.parse
* the new function has an additional parameter that requires passing
Mode.zig or Mode.zon
* moved parser.zig code to Parse.zig
* added parseZon function next to parseRoot function
The core of this change is to re-use the escape sequence parsing logic
for parsing both string and character literals.
The actual fix is that UTF-8 encoding was missing for string literals
with \u{...} escape sequences.
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.
* Added doc comments for `std.Target.ObjectFormat` enum
* `std.Target.oFileExt` is removed because it is incorrect for Plan-9
targets. Instead, use `std.Target.ObjectFormat.fileExt` and pass a
CPU architecture.
* Added `Compilation.Directory.joinZ` for when a null byte is desired.
* Improvements to `Compilation.create` logic for computing `use_llvm`
and reporting errors in contradictory flags. `-femit-llvm-ir` and
`-femit-llvm-bc` will now imply `-fLLVM`.
* Fix compilation when passing `.bc` files on the command line.
* Improvements to the stage2 LLVM backend:
- cleaned up error messages and error reporting. Properly bubble up
some errors rather than dumping to stderr; others turn into panics.
- properly call ZigLLVMCreateTargetMachine and
ZigLLVMTargetMachineEmitToFile and implement calculation of the
respective parameters (cpu features, code model, abi name, lto,
tsan, etc).
- LLVM module verification only runs in debug builds of the compiler
- use LLVMDumpModule rather than printToString because in the case
that we incorrectly pass a null pointer to LLVM it may crash during
dumping the module and having it partially printed is helpful in
this case.
- support -femit-asm, -fno-emit-bin, -femit-llvm-ir, -femit-llvm-bc
- Support LLVM backend when used with Mach-O and WASM linkers.
Portable Executable is an executable format, not an object format.
Everywhere in the entire zig codebase, we treated coff and pe as if they
were the same. Remove confusion by not including pe in the
std.Target.ObjectFormat enum.
* rename files to adhere to conventions
* remove unnecessary function / optionality
* fix merge conflict
* better panic message
* remove unnecessary TODO comment
* proper namespacing of declarations
* clean up documentation comments
* no copyright header needed for a brand new zig file that is not
copied from anywhere
In order to not regress the quality of compile errors, some improvements
had to be made.
* std.zig.parseCharLiteral is improved to return more detailed parse
failure information.
* tokenizer is improved to handle null bytes in the middle of strings,
character literals, and line comments.
* validating how many unicode escape digits in string literals is moved
to std.zig.parseStringLiteral rather than handled in the tokenizer.
* when a tokenizer error occurs, if the reported token is the 'invalid'
tag, an error note is added to point to the invalid byte location.
Further improvements would be:
- Mention the expected set of allowed bytes at this location.
- Display the invalid byte (if printable, print it, otherwise
escape-print it).
This matches the behaviour of other languages and leaves us
the ability to create actual static Wasm archives with
```
zig build-lib -static some.zig
```
which can then be combined with other Wasm object files and linked
into either a Wasm lib or executable using `wasm-ld`.
Update langref to reflect the fact we now ship WASI libc.
