* atom names - are stored locally and pulled from defining object's
strtab
* local symbols - same
* global symbols - in principle, we could store them locally, but
for better debugging experience - when things go wrong - we
store the offsets in a global strtab used by the symbol resolver
Use inline to vastly simplify the exposed API. This allows a
comptime-known endian parameter to be propogated, making extra functions
for a specific endianness completely unnecessary.
The main motivating change here is to prevent the creation of a fake
Decl object by the frontend in order to `@export()` a value.
Instead, `link.updateDeclExports` is renamed to `link.updateExports` and
accepts a tagged union which can be either a Decl.Index or a
InternPool.Index.
The main problem being fixed here is there was a getOrPut() that held on
to a reference to the value pointer too long, and meanwhile the call to
`lowerConst` ended up being recursive and mutating the hash map,
invoking undefined behavior.
caught via #17719
While this is a less flexible approach to being able to
allocated the PHDR anywhere in file, it is sadly generally expected
by the tooling in the wild.
Commit 5393e56500d499753dbc39704c0161b47d1e4d5c has a flaw pointed out
by @mlugg: the `ty` field of pointer values changes when comptime values
are pointer-casted. This commit introduces a new encoding which
additionally stores the "original pointer type" which is used to store
the alignment of the anonymous decl, and potentially other information
in the future such as section and pointer address space. However, this
new encoding is only used when the original pointer type differs from
the casted pointer type in a meaningful way.
I was able to make the LLVM backend and the C backend lower anonymous
decls with the appropriate alignment, however I will need some help
figuring out how to do this for the backends that lower anonymous decls
via src/codegen.zig and the wasm backend.
