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2025-10-29Elf2: start implementing dynamic linkingJacob Young
2025-10-29Merge pull request #25592 from ziglang/init-std.IoAndrew Kelley
std: Introduce `Io` Interface
2025-10-29remove all IBM AIX and z/OS supportAlex Rønne Petersen
As with Solaris (dba1bf935390ddb0184a4dc72245454de6c06fd2), we have no way to actually audit contributions for these OSs. IBM also makes it even harder than Oracle to actually obtain these OSs. closes #23695 closes #23694 closes #3655 closes #23693
2025-10-29compiler: update for introduction of std.IoAndrew Kelley
only thing remaining is using libc dns resolution when linking libc
2025-10-02Lld: fix implib emit pathmlugg
Resolves: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/24993
2025-08-29std.Io: delete GenericReaderAndrew Kelley
and delete deprecated alias std.io
2025-08-25start adding big endian RISC-V supportAlex Rønne Petersen
The big endian RISC-V effort is mostly driven by MIPS (the company) which is pivoting to RISC-V, and presumably needs a big endian variant to fill the niche that big endian MIPS (the ISA) did. GCC already supports these targets, but LLVM support will only appear in 22; this commit just adds the necessary target knowledge and checks on our end.
2025-08-11std.ArrayList: make unmanaged the defaultAndrew Kelley
2025-08-08std.Io: remove BufferedWriterAndrew Kelley
2025-07-17LLD: don't default allow_shlib_undefined when cross compilingAndrew Kelley
prevents e.g. lld-link: warning: undefined symbol: SystemFunction036 from being only a warning
2025-07-07compiler: fix remaining build failuresAndrew Kelley
2025-07-07std.fmt.format: use {t} for tag name rather than {s}Andrew Kelley
prevents footgun when formatted type changes from string to enum
2025-07-07compiler: update a bunch of format stringsAndrew Kelley
2025-07-07compiler: update all instances of std.fmt.FormatterAndrew Kelley
2025-07-07std.fmt: breaking API changesAndrew Kelley
added adapter to AnyWriter and GenericWriter to help bridge the gap between old and new API make std.testing.expectFmt work at compile-time std.fmt no longer has a dependency on std.unicode. Formatted printing was never properly unicode-aware. Now it no longer pretends to be. Breakage/deprecations: * std.fs.File.reader -> std.fs.File.deprecatedReader * std.fs.File.writer -> std.fs.File.deprecatedWriter * std.io.GenericReader -> std.io.Reader * std.io.GenericWriter -> std.io.Writer * std.io.AnyReader -> std.io.Reader * std.io.AnyWriter -> std.io.Writer * std.fmt.format -> std.fmt.deprecatedFormat * std.fmt.fmtSliceEscapeLower -> std.ascii.hexEscape * std.fmt.fmtSliceEscapeUpper -> std.ascii.hexEscape * std.fmt.fmtSliceHexLower -> {x} * std.fmt.fmtSliceHexUpper -> {X} * std.fmt.fmtIntSizeDec -> {B} * std.fmt.fmtIntSizeBin -> {Bi} * std.fmt.fmtDuration -> {D} * std.fmt.fmtDurationSigned -> {D} * {} -> {f} when there is a format method * format method signature - anytype -> *std.io.Writer - inferred error set -> error{WriteFailed} - options -> (deleted) * std.fmt.Formatted - now takes context type explicitly - no fmt string
2025-07-06wasi: Build emulated libraries into libc.aAlex Rønne Petersen
This matches what we do for small helper libraries like this in MinGW-w64. It simplifies the compiler a bit, and also means the build system doesn't have to treat these library names specially. Closes #24325.
2025-06-29Replace `unreachable` with error return for non-standard Windows targetsRyan Liptak
This new error mirrors the error returned from the Elf struct (error.UnsupportedElfArchitecture): https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/0adcfd60f4fcfd01c74a6477cbcef187ce06f533/src/link/Lld.zig#L112 Before: ``` $ zig build-exe -target riscv64-windows-gnu main.zig thread 543087 panic: reached unreachable code ``` After: ``` $ zig build-exe -target riscv64-windows-gnu main.zig error: unable to create compilation: UnsupportedCoffArchitecture ``` Closes #24287
2025-06-19Target: pass and use locals by pointer instead of by valueJacob Young
This struct is larger than 256 bytes and code that copies it consistently shows up in profiles of the compiler.
2025-06-12compiler: improve progress outputmlugg
* "Flush" nodes ("LLVM Emit Object", "ELF Flush") appear under "Linking" * "Code Generation" disappears when all analysis and codegen is done * We only show one node under "Semantic Analysis" to accurately convey that analysis isn't happening in parallel, but rather that we're pausing one task to do another
2025-06-12compiler: rework emit paths and cache modesmlugg
Previously, various doc comments heavily disagreed with the implementation on both what lives where on the filesystem at what time, and how that was represented in code. Notably, the combination of emit paths outside the cache and `disable_lld_caching` created a kind of ad-hoc "cache disable" mechanism -- which didn't actually *work* very well, 'most everything still ended up in this cache. There was also a long-standing issue where building using the LLVM backend would put a random object file in your cwd. This commit reworks how emit paths are specified in `Compilation.CreateOptions`, how they are represented internally, and how the cache usage is specified. There are now 3 options for `Compilation.CacheMode`: * `.none`: do not use the cache. The paths we have to emit to are relative to the compiler cwd (they're either user-specified, or defaults inferred from the root name). If we create any temporary files (e.g. the ZCU object when using the LLVM backend) they are emitted to a directory in `local_cache/tmp/`, which is deleted once the update finishes. * `.whole`: cache the compilation based on all inputs, including file contents. All emit paths are computed by the compiler (and will be stored as relative to the local cache directory); it is a CLI error to specify an explicit emit path. Artifacts (including temporary files) are written to a directory under `local_cache/tmp/`, which is later renamed to an appropriate `local_cache/o/`. The caller (who is using `--listen`; e.g. the build system) learns the name of this directory, and can get the artifacts from it. * `.incremental`: similar to `.whole`, but Zig source file contents, and anything else which incremental compilation can handle changes for, is not included in the cache manifest. We don't need to do the dance where the output directory is initially in `tmp/`, because our digest is computed entirely from CLI inputs. To be clear, the difference between `CacheMode.whole` and `CacheMode.incremental` is unchanged. `CacheMode.none` is new (previously it was sort of poorly imitated with `CacheMode.whole`). The defined behavior for temporary/intermediate files is new. `.none` is used for direct CLI invocations like `zig build-exe foo.zig`. The other cache modes are reserved for `--listen`, and the cache mode in use is currently just based on the presence of the `-fincremental` flag. There are two cases in which `CacheMode.whole` is used despite there being no `--listen` flag: `zig test` and `zig run`. Unless an explicit `-femit-bin=xxx` argument is passed on the CLI, these subcommands will use `CacheMode.whole`, so that they can put the output somewhere without polluting the cwd (plus, caching is potentially more useful for direct usage of these subcommands). Users of `--listen` (such as the build system) can now use `std.zig.EmitArtifact.cacheName` to find out what an output will be named. This avoids having to synchronize logic between the compiler and all users of `--listen`.
2025-06-12link.Lld: remove dead caching logicmlugg
It turns out that LLD caching hasn't been in use for a while. On master, it is currently only enabled when you compile via the build system, passing `-fincremental`, using LLD (and so LLVM if there's a ZCU). That case never happens, because `-fincremental` is only useful when you're using a backend *other* than the LLVM backend. My previous commits accidentally re-enabled this logic in some cases, exposing bugs; that ultimately led to this realisation. So, let's just delete that logic -- less LLVM-related cruft to maintain.
2025-06-12link: divorce LLD from the self-hosted linkersmlugg
Similar to the previous commit, this commit untangles LLD integration from the self-hosted linkers. Despite the big network of functions which were involved, it turns out what was going on here is quite simple. The LLD linking logic is actually very self-contained; it requires a few flags from the `link.File.OpenOptions`, but that's really about it. We don't need any of the mutable state on `Elf`/`Coff`/`Wasm`, for instance. There was some legacy code trying to handle support for using self-hosted codegen with LLD, but that's not a supported use case, so I've just stripped it out. For now, I've just pasted the logic for linking the 3 targets we currently support using LLD for into this new linker implementation, `link.Lld`; however, it's almost certainly possible to combine some of the logic and simplify this file a bit. But to be honest, it's not actually that bad right now. This commit ends up eliminating the distinction between `flush` and `flushZcu` (formerly `flushModule`) in linkers, where the latter previously meant something along the lines of "flush, but if you're going to be linking with LLD, just flush the ZCU object file, don't actually link"?. The distinction here doesn't seem like it was properly defined, and most linkers seem to treat them as essentially identical anyway. Regardless, all calls to `flushZcu` are gone now, so it's deleted -- one `flush` to rule them all! The end result of this commit and the preceding one is that LLVM and LLD fit into the pipeline much more sanely: * If we're using LLVM for the ZCU, that state is on `zcu.llvm_object` * If we're using LLD to link, then the `link.File` is a `link.Lld` * Calls to "ZCU link functions" (e.g. `updateNav`) lower to calls to the LLVM object if it's available, or otherwise to the `link.File` if it's available (neither is available under `-fno-emit-bin`) * After everything is done, linking is finalized by calling `flush` on the `link.File`; for `link.Lld` this invokes LLD, for other linkers it flushes self-hosted linker state There's one messy thing remaining, and that's how self-hosted function codegen in a ZCU works; right now, we process AIR with a call sequence something like this: * `link.doTask` * `Zcu.PerThread.linkerUpdateFunc` * `link.File.updateFunc` * `link.Elf.updateFunc` * `link.Elf.ZigObject.updateFunc` * `codegen.generateFunction` * `arch.x86_64.CodeGen.generate` So, we start in the linker, take a scenic detour through `Zcu`, go back to the linker, into its implementation, and then... right back out, into code which is generic over the linker implementation, and then dispatch on the *backend* instead! Of course, within `arch.x86_64.CodeGen`, there are some more places which switch on the `link` implementation being used. This is all pretty silly... so it shall be my next target.