* add `@divTrunc` and `@divFloor` functions
* add `@rem` and `@mod` functions
* add compile error for `/` and `%` with signed integers
* add `.bit_count` for float primitive types
closes#217
Old:
```
while (condition; expression) {}
```
New:
```
while (condition) : (expression) {}
```
This is in preparation to allow nullable and
error union types as the condition. See #357
where Int is an integer type
also introduce `@intToPtr` builtin for converting a usize
to a pointer. users now have to use this instead of `(&T)(int)`.
closes#311
implicit semicolon rules apply recursively to the "else" clause of if and try
if (a) {} else {} // implicit semicolon
if (a) {} else if (a) {} // implicit semicolon
if (a) {} else while (a) {} // implicit semicolon
closes#292
* if, try, while, for, comptime, defer are "greedy" with {} blocks,
meaning if their bodies are blocks, then no suffix operator is allowed
after the block. The {} block gets "built into" the containing statement,
like the body of a switch statement.
* the Expression syntactic element is no longer "greedy" with {} blocks,
meaning it's possible to have suffix operators after {} blocks without
needing the {} block to be an rhs operand first.
* `zig build --export [obj|lib|exe]` changed to `zig build_obj`,
`zig build_lib` and `zig build_exe` respectively.
* `--name` parameter is optional when it can be inferred from the
root source filename. closes#207
* `zig build` now looks for `build.zig` which interacts with
`std.build.Builder` to describe the targets, and then the zig
build system prints TODO: build these targets. See #204
* add `@bitcast` which is mainly used for pointer reinterpret
casting and make explicit casting not do pointer reinterpretation.
Closes#290
* fix debug info for byval parameters
* sort command line help options
* `std.debug.panic` supports format string printing
* add `std.mem.IncrementingAllocator`
* fix const ptr to a variable with data changing at runtime.
closes#289
* introduce zigrt file. it contains only weak symbols so that
multiple instances can be merged. it contains __zig_panic
so that multiple .o files can call the same panic function.
* remove `@setFnVisible` builtin and add @setGlobalLinkage builtin
which is more powerful
* add `@panic` builtin function.
* fix collision of symbols with extern prototypes and internal
function names
* add stack protector safety when linking against libc. To add
the safety mechanism without libc requires implementing
Thread Local Storage. See #276
* `@truncate` builtin allows casting to the same size integer.
It also performs two's complement casting between signed and
unsigned integers.
* The idiomatic way to convert between bytes and numbers is now
`mem.readInt` and `mem.writeInt` instead of an unsafe cast.
It works at compile time, is safer, and looks cleaner.
* Implicitly casting an array to a slice is allowed only if the
slice is const.
* Constant pointer values know if their memory is from a compile-
time constant value or a compile-time variable.
* Cast from [N]u8 to []T no longer allowed, but [N]u8 to []const T
still allowed.
* Fix inability to pass a mutable pointer to comptime variable at
compile-time to a function and have the function modify the
memory pointed to by the pointer.
* Add the `comptime T: type` parameter back to mem.eql. Prevents
accidentally creating instantiations for arrays.
* add `@compileLog(...)` builtin function
- Helps debug code running at compile time
- See #240
* fix crash when there is an error on the start value of a slice
* add implicit cast from int and float types to int and float
literals if the value is known at compile time
* make array concatenation work with slices in addition to
arrays and c string literals
* fix compile error message for something not having field access
* fix crash when `@setDebugSafety()` was called from a
function being evaluated at compile-time
* fix compile-time evaluation of overflow math builtins.
* avoid debug safety panic handler in builtin.o and compiler_rt.o
since we use no debug safety in these modules anyway
* add compiler_rt functions for division on ARM
- Closes#254
* move default panic handler to std.debug so users can
call it manually
* std.io.printf supports a width in the format specifier
if and switch are implicitly inline if the condition/target
expression is known at compile time.
instead of:
```
inline if (condition) ...
inline switch (target) ...
```
one can use:
```
if (comptime condition) ...
switch (comptime target) ...
```
Andrew Kelley
Raul Leal
Josh Wolfe