The mechanism behind initializing a union's tag is a bit complicated,
depending on whether the union is initialized at runtime,
forced comptime, or implicit comptime.
`coerce_result_ptr` now does not force a block to be a runtime context;
instead of adding runtime instructions directly, it forwards analysis to
the respective functions for initializing optionals and error unions.
`validateUnionInit` now has logic to still emit a runtime
`set_union_tag` instruction even if the union pointer is comptime-known,
for the case of a pointer that is not comptime mutable, such as a
variable or the result of `@intToPtr`.
`validateStructInit` looks for a completely different pattern now; it
now handles the possibility of the corresponding AIR instruction for
the `field_ptr` to be missing or the corresponding `store` to be missing.
See the new comment added to the function for more details. An
equivalent change should probably be made to `validateArrayInit`.
`analyzeOptionalPayloadPtr` and `analyzeErrUnionPayloadPtr` functions now
emit a `optional_payload_ptr_set` or `errunion_payload_ptr_set`
instruction respectively if `initializing` is true and the pointer value
is not comptime-mutable.
`storePtr2` now tries the comptime pointer store before checking if the
element type has one possible value because the comptime pointer store
can have side effects of setting a union tag, setting an optional payload
non-null, or setting an error union to be non-error.
The LLVM backend `lowerParentPtr` function is improved to take into
account the differences in how the LLVM values are lowered depending on
the Zig type. It now handles unions correctly as well as additionally
handling optionals and error unions.
In the LLVM backend, the instructions `optional_payload_ptr_set` and
`errunion_payload_ptr_set` check liveness analysis and only do the side
effects in the case the result of the instruction is unused.
A few wasm and C backend test cases regressed, but they are due to TODOs
in lowering of constants, so this is progress.
Prior to this commit, the AIR arg instruction kept a reference to a ZIR
string index for the corresponding parameter name. This is used by DWARF
emitting code. However, this is a design flaw because we want AIR
objects to be independent from ZIR.
This commit saves the parameter names into memory managed by
`Module.Fn`. This is sub-optimal because we should be able to get the
parameter names from the ZIR for a function without having them
redundantly stored along with `Fn` memory. However the current way that
ZIR param instructions are encoded does not support this case. They
appear in the same ZIR body as the function instruction, just before it.
Instead, they should be embedded within the function instruction, which
will allow this TODO to be solved. That improvement is too big for this
commit, however.
After this there is one last dependency to untangle, which is for inline
assembly. The issue for that is #10784.
