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| author | mlugg <mlugg@mlugg.co.uk> | 2023-05-13 17:10:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Andrew Kelley <andrew@ziglang.org> | 2023-05-20 12:27:48 -0700 |
| commit | 38b83d9d93db400e8103f02eeb77729040bd3666 (patch) | |
| tree | f88cdbe5603e27aca415071a3f15ef60f4023d2b /test/cases/compile_errors | |
| parent | 7077e90b3f8991c844deb08a16ad3f4e0569398f (diff) | |
| download | zig-38b83d9d93db400e8103f02eeb77729040bd3666.tar.gz zig-38b83d9d93db400e8103f02eeb77729040bd3666.zip | |
Zir: eliminate `field_call_bind` and `field_call_bind_named`
This commit removes the `field_call_bind` and `field_call_bind_named` ZIR
instructions, replacing them with a `field_call` instruction which does the bind
and call in one.
`field_call_bind` is an unfortunate instruction. It's tied into one very
specific usage pattern - its result can only be used as a callee. This means
that it creates a value of a "pseudo-type" of sorts, `bound_fn` - this type used
to exist in Zig, but now we just hide it from the user and have AstGen ensure
it's only used in one way. This is quite silly - `Type` and `Value` should, as
much as possible, reflect real Zig types and values.
It makes sense to instead encode the `a.b()` syntax as its own ZIR instruction,
so that's what we do here. This commit introduces a new instruction,
`field_call`. It's like `call`, but rather than a callee ref, it contains a ref
to the object pointer (`&a` in `a.b()`) and the string field name (`b`). This
eliminates `bound_fn` from the language, and slightly decreases the size of
generated ZIR - stats below.
This commit does remove a few usages which used to be allowed:
- `@field(a, "b")()`
- `@call(.auto, a.b, .{})`
- `@call(.auto, @field(a, "b"), .{})`
These forms used to work just like `a.b()`, but are no longer allowed. I believe
this is the correct choice for a few reasons:
- `a.b()` is a purely *syntactic* form; for instance, `(a.b)()` is not valid.
This means it is *not* inconsistent to not allow it in these cases; the
special case here isn't "a field access as a callee", but rather this exact
syntactic form.
- The second argument to `@call` looks much more visually distinct from the
callee in standard call syntax. To me, this makes it seem strange for that
argument to not work like a normal expression in this context.
- A more practical argument: it's confusing! `@field` and `@call` are used in
very different contexts to standard function calls: the former normally hints
at some comptime machinery, and the latter that you want more precise control
over parts of a function call. In these contexts, you don't want implicit
arguments adding extra confusion: you want to be very explicit about what
you're doing.
Lastly, some stats. I mentioned before that this change slightly reduces the
size of ZIR - this is due to two instructions (`field_call_bind` then `call`)
being replaced with one (`field_call`). Here are some numbers:
+--------------+----------+----------+--------+
| File | Before | After | Change |
+--------------+----------+----------+--------+
| Sema.zig | 4.72M | 4.53M | -4% |
| AstGen.zig | 1.52M | 1.48M | -3% |
| hash_map.zig | 283.9K | 276.2K | -3% |
| math.zig | 312.6K | 305.3K | -2% |
+--------------+----------+----------+--------+
Diffstat (limited to 'test/cases/compile_errors')
| -rw-r--r-- | test/cases/compile_errors/member_function_arg_mismatch.zig | 6 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/test/cases/compile_errors/member_function_arg_mismatch.zig b/test/cases/compile_errors/member_function_arg_mismatch.zig index 88f8b36a2d..b739be9544 100644 --- a/test/cases/compile_errors/member_function_arg_mismatch.zig +++ b/test/cases/compile_errors/member_function_arg_mismatch.zig @@ -6,10 +6,6 @@ pub export fn entry() void { var s: S = undefined; s.foo(true); } -pub export fn entry2() void { - var s: S = undefined; - @call(.auto, s.foo, .{true}); -} // error // backend=stage2 @@ -17,5 +13,3 @@ pub export fn entry2() void { // // :7:6: error: member function expected 2 argument(s), found 1 // :3:5: note: function declared here -// :11:19: error: member function expected 2 argument(s), found 1 -// :3:5: note: function declared here |
