* add `@bswap` builtin function. See #767
* comptime evaluation facilities are improved to be able to
handle a `@ptrCast` with a backing array.
* `@truncate` allows "truncating" a u0 value to any integer
type, and the result is always comptime known to be `0`.
* when specifying pointer alignment in a type expression,
the alignment value of pointers which do not have addresses
at runtime is ignored, and always has the default/ABI alignment
* threw in a fix to freebsd/x86_64.zig to update syntax from
language changes
* some improvements are pending #863closes#638closes#1733
std lib API changes
* io.InStream().readIntNe renamed to readIntNative
* io.InStream().readIntLe renamed to readIntLittle
* io.InStream().readIntBe renamed to readIntBig
* introduced io.InStream().readIntForeign
* io.InStream().readInt has parameter order changed
* io.InStream().readVarInt has parameter order changed
* io.InStream().writeIntNe renamed to writeIntNative
* introduced io.InStream().writeIntForeign
* io.InStream().writeIntLe renamed to writeIntLittle
* io.InStream().writeIntBe renamed to writeIntBig
* io.InStream().writeInt has parameter order changed
* mem.readInt has different parameters and semantics
* introduced mem.readIntNative
* introduced mem.readIntForeign
* mem.readIntBE renamed to mem.readIntBig and different API
* mem.readIntLE renamed to mem.readIntLittle and different API
* introduced mem.readIntSliceNative
* introduced mem.readIntSliceForeign
* introduced mem.readIntSliceLittle
* introduced mem.readIntSliceBig
* introduced mem.readIntSlice
* mem.writeInt has different parameters and semantics
* introduced mem.writeIntNative
* introduced mem.writeIntForeign
* mem.writeIntBE renamed to mem.readIntBig and different semantics
* mem.writeIntLE renamed to mem.readIntLittle and different semantics
* introduced mem.writeIntSliceForeign
* introduced mem.writeIntSliceNative
* introduced mem.writeIntSliceBig
* introduced mem.writeIntSliceLittle
* introduced mem.writeIntSlice
* removed mem.endianSwapIfLe
* removed mem.endianSwapIfBe
* removed mem.endianSwapIf
* added mem.littleToNative
* added mem.bigToNative
* added mem.toNative
* added mem.nativeTo
* added mem.nativeToLittle
* added mem.nativeToBig
* codegen: LLVMConstInlineAsm is deprecated.
* codegen: replace commas in asm constraint strings by pipes as required by LLVM.
* ir: enforce usage of '=' constraint modifier for inline assembly outputs.
Others are not currently supported and this was just asserted alter in `ir_render_asm`.
* asm: forbid comptime_int/floats as inputs in favor of explicitely sized constants.
Fixes a crash due to comptime_int/floats having no type_ref.
* asm: handle inputs with integers of <8 or non power of 2 bitsize.
We widen them to the next highest power of two.
We were caching the ConstExprValue of string literals,
which works if you can never modify ConstExprValues.
This premise is broken with `comptime var ...`.
So I implemented an optimization in ConstExprValue
arrays, where it stores a `Buf *` directly rather
than an array of ConstExprValues for the elements,
and then similar to array of undefined, it is
expanded into the canonical form when necessary.
However many operations can happen directly on the
`Buf *`, which is faster.
Furthermore, before a ConstExprValue array is expanded
into canonical form, it removes itself from the string
literal cache. This fixes the issue, because before an
array element is modified it would have to be expanded.
closes#1076
Andrew Kelley
kristopher tate
Jimmi Holst Christensen
Andrew Kelley
Sahnvour
Jimmi Holst Christensen
Jimmi Holst Christensen