Deleted 16,000+ lines of c++ code, including:
* an implementation of blake hashing
* the cache hash system
* compiler.cpp
* all the linking code, and everything having to do with building
glibc, musl, and mingw-w64
* much of the stage1 compiler internals got slimmed down since it
now assumes it is always outputting an object file.
More stuff:
* stage1 is now built with a different strategy: we have a tiny
zig0.cpp which is a slimmed down version of what stage1 main.cpp used
to be. Its only purpose is to build stage2 zig code into an object
file, which is then linked by the host build system (cmake) into
stage1. zig0.cpp uses the same C API that stage2 now has access to,
so that stage2 zig code can call into stage1 c++ code.
- stage1.h is
- stage2.h is
- stage1.zig is the main entry point for the Zig/C++
hybrid compiler. It has the functions exported from Zig, called
in C++, and bindings for the functions exported from C++, called
from Zig.
* removed the memory profiling instrumentation from stage1.
Abandon ship!
* Re-added the sections to the README about how to build stage2 and
stage3.
* stage2 now knows as a comptime boolean whether it is being compiled
as part of stage1 or as stage2.
- TODO use this flag to call into stage1 for compiling zig code.
* introduce -fdll-export-fns and -fno-dll-export-fns and clarify
its relationship to link_mode (static/dynamic)
* implement depending on LLVM to detect native target cpu features when
LLVM extensions are enabled and zig lacks CPU feature detection for
that target architecture.
* C importing is broken, will need some stage2 support to function
again.
fff3c1fff4 broke the docs generation for
own user code. This adds a workaround, because all the code in docs/main.js
is relying on the fact that the root package of the main package is the
root package itself.
Make fallthrough an error when compiler supports it. This requires a new
macro that is defined with such compilers to be used as a statement, at
all fallthrough sites:
switch (...) {
case 0:
...
ZIG_FALLTHROUGH;
case 1:
...
break;
default:
...
break;
}
If we ever move to C++17 as minimal requirement, then the macro can be
replaced with `[[fallthrough]];` at statement sites.
Previously, the compiler had special logic to determine whether to
include the startup code, which was in `std/special/start.zig`. Now,
the file is moved to `std/start.zig`, and there is no special logic
in the compiler. Instead, the standard library unconditionally imports
the `start.zig` file, which then has a `comptime` block that does the
logic of determining what, if any, start symbols to export. Instead of
`start.zig` being in its own special package, it is just another normal
file that is part of the standard library.
`std.builtin.TestFn` is now part of the standard library rather than
specially generated by the compiler.
This removes the remaining hack in the implementation of anonymous
struct literals, and they can now therefore now have greater than 16
fields/elements.
And then get the struct field astNodes through the containerDecl astNode.
The type of a struct field is still stored in the types array, but the
static information is in the astNodes.
This commit adds `-fgenerate-docs` CLI option, and it outputs:
* doc/index.html
* doc/data.js
* doc/main.js
In this strategy, we have 1 static html page and 1 static javascript
file, which loads the semantic analysis dump directly and renders it
using dom manipulation.
Currently, all it does is list the declarations. But there is a lot more
data available to work with. The next step would be making the
declarations hyperlinks, and handling page navigation.
Another strategy would be to generate a static site with no javascript,
based on the semantic analysis dump that zig now provides. I invite the
Zig community to take on such a project. However this version which
heavily relies on javascript will also be a direction explored.
I also welcome contributors to improve the html, css, and javascript of
what this commit started, as well as whatever improvements are necessary
to the static analysis dumping code to provide more information.
See #21.
This commit adds -fdump-analysis which creates
a `$NAME-analysis.json` file with all of the finished
semantic analysis that the stage1 compiler produced.
It contains types, packages, declarations, and files.
This is an initial implementation; some data will be
missing. However it's easy to improve the implementation,
which is in `src/dump_analysis.cpp`.
The next step for #21 will be to create Zig code which parses
this json file and creates user-facing HTML documentation.
This feature has other uses, however; for example, it could
be used for IDE integration features until the self-hosted
compiler is available.