This commit introduces the new `ref_coerced_ty` result type into AstGen.
This represents a expression which we want to treat as an lvalue, and
the pointer will be coerced to a given type.
This change gives known result types to many expressions, in particular
struct and array initializations. This allows certain casts to work
which previously required explicitly specifying types via `@as`. It also
eliminates our dependence on anonymous struct types for expressions of
the form `&.{ ... }` - this paves the way for #16865, and also results
in less Sema magic happening for such initializations, also leading to
potentially better runtime code.
As part of these changes, this commit also implements #17194 by
disallowing RLS on explicitly-typed struct and array initializations.
Apologies for linking these changes - it seemed rather pointless to try
and separate them, since they both make big changes to struct and array
initializations in AstGen. The rationale for this change can be found in
the proposal - in essence, performing RLS whilst maintaining the
semantics of the intermediary type is a very difficult problem to solve.
This allowed the problematic `coerce_result_ptr` ZIR instruction to be
completely eliminated, which in turn also simplified the logic for
inferred allocations in Sema - thanks to this, we almost break even on
line count!
In doing this, the ZIR instructions surrounding these initializations
have been restructured - some have been added and removed, and others
renamed for clarity (and their semantics changed slightly). In order to
optimize ZIR tag count, the `struct_init_anon_ref` and
`array_init_anon_ref` instructions have been removed in favour of using
`ref` on a standard anonymous value initialization, since these
instructions are now virtually never used.
Lastly, it's worth noting that this commit introduces a slightly strange
source of generic poison types: in the expression `@as(*anyopaque, &x)`,
the sub-expression `x` has a generic poison result type, despite no
generic code being involved. This turns out to be a logical choice,
because we don't know the result type for `x`, and the generic poison
type represents precisely this case, providing the semantics we need.
Resolves: #16512Resolves: #17194
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
This test was also covering this behavior:
```zig
test "equality of pointers to comptime const" {
const a: i32 = undefined;
comptime assert(&a == &a);
}
```
This check belongs in its own behavior test which isolates this
behavior; not bundled along with a C pointer test.
All tests have been manually verified which are now passing. This means that any remaining
TODO is an actual to-be-fixed or to-be-implemented test case.
This fixes one of the major issues plaguing the `std.sort` comptime tests.
The high level issue is that at comptime, we need to know whether `elem_ptr` is
being used to subslice an array-like pointer or access a child value. High-level
example:
var x: [2][2]i32 = undefined;
var a = &x[0]; // elem_ptr, type *[2]i32
var y: [5]i32 = undefined;
var b = y[1..3]; // elem_ptr, type *[2]i32
`a` is pointing directly to the 0th element of `x`. But `b` is
subslicing the 1st and 2nd element of `y`. At runtime with a well
defined memory layout, this is an inconsequential detail. At comptime,
the values aren't laid out exactly in-memory so we need to know the
difference.
This becomes an issue specifically in this case:
var c: []i32 = a;
var d: []i32 = b;
When converting the `*[N]T` to `[]T` we need to know what array to point
to. For runtime, its all the same. For comptime, we need to know if its
the parent array or the child value.
See the behavior tests for more details.
This commit fixes this by adding a boolean to track this on the
`elem_ptr`. We can't just immediately deref the child for `&x[0]`
because it is legal to ptrCast it to a many-pointer, do arithmetic, and
then cast it back (see behavior test) so we need to retain access to the
"parent" indexable.
By the time zirElemVal is reached for a many pointer, a load has already
happened, making sure the operand is already dereferenced.
This makes `mem.sliceTo` now work.
