This was previously implemented by analyzing the AIR prior to the ZIR
`make_ptr_const` instruction. This solution was highly delicate, and in
particular broke down whenever there was a second `alloc` between the
`store` and `alloc` instructions, which is especially common in
destructure statements.
Sema now uses a different strategy to detect whether a `const` is
comptime-known. When the `alloc` is created, Sema begins tracking all
pointers and stores which refer to that allocation in temporary local
state. If any store is not comptime-known or has a higher runtime index
than the allocation, the allocation is marked as being runtime-known.
When we reach the `make_ptr_const` instruction, if the allocation is not
marked as runtime-known, it must be comptime-known. Sema will use the
set of `store` instructions to re-initialize the value in comptime
memory. We optimize for the common case of a single `store` instruction
by not creating a comptime alloc in this case, instead directly plucking
the result value from the instruction.
Resolves: #16083
AstGen emits an error when a closure over a known-runtime value crosses
a namespace boundary. This usually makes sense: however, this usage is
actually valid if the capture is within a `@TypeOf` operand. Sema
already has a special case to allow such closure within `@TypeOf` when
AstGen could not determine a value to be runtime-known. This commit
simply introduces analagous logic to AstGen to allow `var`s to cross
namespace boundaries within `@TypeOf`.
fixes#10731
Thanks @nektro for previous work in #14878
This change creates a small breaking change:
It removes the `is_pub` field of a decl in `@typeInfo`
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
It is possible to get comptime-known values from runtime-known values
for example the length of array. Allowing runtime only instructions to
be emitted outside function bodies allows these operations to happen.
In places where comptime-known values are required we have other methods
to ensure that and they usually result in more specific compile errors too.
Closes#12240
