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zig/stage0
Motiejus 2cfd4ac668 sema: reuse callee func_decl for non-inline calls, bump 80→84
Fix non-inline function call to reuse the callee's existing func_decl
IP entry instead of creating a new one with func_inst as owner_nav.
Ported from upstream Sema.zig analyzeCall: func_val references the
resolved callee function, not a newly-created entry.

The callee is looked up by name in the file namespace. If the nav's
resolved_type already points to a func_decl (IP_KEY_FUNC), it's used
directly. Otherwise, the func_type from resolved_type is used to
construct and deduplicate the func_decl key.

Also fixes the coercion dedup fix from the previous commit: switched
semaCoerceIntRef from ipForceIntern to ipIntern now that skip_dedup
handles cross-shard separation.

Tests 80-83 now pass (call_inside_runtime_conditional, multi_func_call,
runtime_conditional_with_early_return, field_access_chain).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-03 07:41:10 +00:00
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2026-02-20 12:33:48 +02:00
2026-02-26 00:45:27 +02:00
2026-02-17 10:56:11 +00:00

About

zig0 aspires to be an interpreter of zig 0.15.2 written in C.

Except for the lexer (written by hand by yours truly), it's been written by an LLM.

The goal of stage0 is to be able to implement enough zig to be able to build zig1.wasm. For that we need:

  1. Lexer: DONE, written by hand by yours truly in late 2024.
  2. Parser: DONE, written mostly by an LLM.
  3. AstGen: DONE, written fully by an LLM.
  4. Sema: in progress.

Testing

Quick test:

zig build fmt-zig0 test-zig0

Static analysis (takes a while, run separately):

zig build lint-zig0

More elaborate (tries all compilers + static analysis + ReleaseSafe):

zig build all-zig0 -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe

Most elaborate, takes >10m:

zig build all-zig0 -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe -Dvalgrind |& grep -v Warning

Debugging tips

Test runs infinitely? Build the test program executable:

$ zig build test-zig0 -Dzig0-no-exec

And then run it, capturing the stack trace:

gdb -batch \
    -ex "python import threading; threading.Timer(1.0, lambda: gdb.post_event(lambda: gdb.execute('interrupt'))).start()" \
    -ex run \
    -ex "bt full" \
    -ex quit \
    zig-out/bin/test

You are welcome to replace -ex "bt full" with anything other of interest.

Float Handling

Float literals are parsed with strtold() (C11 standard, portable). On x86-64 Linux, long double is 80-bit extended precision (63 fraction bits).

When a float doesn't round-trip through f64, it's emitted as f128 (ZIR float128 instruction). The 80-bit extended value is converted to IEEE 754 binary128 encoding by bit manipulation — both formats share the same 15-bit exponent with bias 16383. The top 63 of binary128's 112 fraction bits come from the 80-bit value; the bottom 49 are zero-padded.

This means float128 literals lose ~49 bits of precision compared to the upstream Zig implementation (which uses native f128). This is acceptable because stage0 is a bootstrap tool — the real Zig compiler re-parses all source with full f128 precision in later stages. The test comparison mask in astgen_test.zig skips float128 payloads to account for this.

Previous approach used __float128/strtof128 (GCC/glibc extensions) for full precision, but these are not portable to TCC and other C11 compilers.