This function is redundant with CType.sizeInBits(), and until the
previous commit they disagreed about the correct long double type
for several targets. Although they're all synced up now, it's much
simpler just to have a single source of truth.
This is encoded as a primitive AIR instruction to resolve one corner
case: A function may include a `catch { ... }` or `else |err| { ... }`
block but not call any errorable fn. In that case, there is no error
return trace to save the index of and codegen needs to avoid
interacting with the non-existing error trace.
By using a primitive AIR op, we can depend on Liveness to mark this
unused in this corner case.
* When a field starts at some bit offset within a byte you need to load
starting from that byte and shift, not starting from the next byte,
so a rounded-down divide is required here, not a rounded-up one.
* Remove paragraph from doc that no longer relates to anything.
Closes#12363
When we want a runtime pointer to a zero-bit value we use an undef
pointer, but what if we want a runtime pointer to a comptime-only value?
Normally, if `T` is a comptime-only type such as `*const comptime_int`,
then `*const T` would also be a comptime-only type, so anything
referencing a comptime-only value is usually also comptime-only, and
therefore not emitted to the executable.
However, what if instead we have a `*const anyopaque` pointing to a
comptime-only value? Certainly, `*const anyopaque` is a runtime type,
and so we need some runtime value to store, even when it happens to be
pointing to a comptime-only value. In this case we want to do the same
thing as we do when pointing to a zero-bit value, so we use
`hasRuntimeBits` to handle both cases instead of ignoring comptime.
Closes#12025
Stage 2's softfloat support still had a couple of gaps, which were
preventing us from lowering `f16` on this target. With any luck,
this is enough to get PPC64 working as a Tier 2 target again.
This commit changes the way Zig is intended to deal with variable
declaration for exotic targets. Where previously the idea was to
enfore local/global variables to be placed into their respective
address spaces, depending on the target, this is now fixed to the
generic address space.
To facilitate this for targets where local variables _must_ be
generated into a specific address space (ex. amdgcn where locals
must be generated into the private address space), the variable
allocations (alloca) are generated into the right address space
and then addrspace-casted back to the generic address space. While this
could be less efficient in theory, LLVM will hopefull deal with figuring
out the actual correct address space for a pointer for us. HIP seems to
do the same thing in this regard.
Global variables are handled in a similar way.
Without the packed qualifier, the type layout that we use to
initialize doesn't match the correct layout of the underlying
storage, causing corrupted data and past-the-end writes.
When encountering a fn type that returns an error (union), a backend
that supports error return tracing will want the StackTrace struct and
its fields to be analyzed.
