Insights: ziglang/zig

29 Pull requests merged by 19 people

• compiler_rt: restructure compiler_rt.zig according to README.md

  #14622 merged Feb 19, 2023

• ignore SIGPIPE by default

  #11982 merged Feb 19, 2023

• Implement `writeToMemory`/`readFromMemory` for pointers

  #11734 merged Feb 19, 2023

• wasi: add Preopens.findDir, update tests to preopen `/tmp'

  #14661 merged Feb 19, 2023

• implement multi-object for loops

  #14671 merged Feb 19, 2023

• Correctly handle carriage return characters according to the spec

  #12661 merged Feb 19, 2023

• Fix grammatical error in doc comment

  #14662 merged Feb 19, 2023

• std.Build.RunStep: fix default caching logic

  #14674 merged Feb 19, 2023

• bitcast packed unions to integers

  #14669 merged Feb 18, 2023

• compiler_rt: Fixed unexported functions #14615

  #14621 merged Feb 18, 2023

• Ast: fix expected_block error message

  #14665 merged Feb 17, 2023

• [all linkers] fail hard on unsupported flags

  #11906 merged Feb 17, 2023

• [linker] ignore --sort-common

  #11915 merged Feb 16, 2023

• [elf linker] add --sort-section

  #11914 merged Feb 16, 2023

• [linker] add --no-undefined, -z undefs

  #11912 merged Feb 16, 2023

• crypto: add AES-CMAC (RFC 4493)

  #14545 merged Feb 16, 2023

• split `@qualCast` into `@constCast` and `@volatileCast`

  #14638 merged Feb 14, 2023

• comp: reinstate -fcompiler-rt when used with build-obj as output

  #14644 merged Feb 14, 2023

• Zld: Report archive file with cpu arch mismatch

  #14633 merged Feb 14, 2023

• Add std.c.umask.

  #14639 merged Feb 14, 2023

• move the cache system from compiler to std lib and start using it in the build system

  #14571 merged Feb 13, 2023

• Some std.json fixes

  #14548 merged Feb 13, 2023

• Add -ferror-tracing and -fno-error-tracing compile options

  #14629 merged Feb 13, 2023

• langref: make more examples testable

  #14616 merged Feb 13, 2023

• Fixes #14600 - Support deserialising JSON strings containing escape seqences into sentinel slice

  #14626 merged Feb 13, 2023

• std.crypto: add the Ascon permutation

  #14613 merged Feb 13, 2023

• zig fmt: additionally format .zon files

  #14582 merged Feb 13, 2023

• compiler_rt: document math functions

  #14552 merged Feb 13, 2023

• small misc fixes

  #14618 merged Feb 13, 2023

11 Pull requests opened by 9 people

• Clarify blocks being statements in doco

  #14640 opened Feb 13, 2023

• zig build: run steps in parallel

  #14647 opened Feb 14, 2023

• autodoc: fix markdown list rendering

  #14655 opened Feb 15, 2023

• New module CLI

  #14664 opened Feb 17, 2023

• wasm: implement float operations with compiler-rt

  #14668 opened Feb 17, 2023

• Improved IO API around seeking

  #14670 opened Feb 17, 2023

• Improve 'slice of single-item pointer' error message

  #14673 opened Feb 18, 2023

• wasi: add Preopens.findDir; update tests, docs

  #14678 opened Feb 19, 2023

• Linker: -z<arg> should be equivalent to -z <arg>

  #14680 opened Feb 19, 2023

• trim(Left|Right): clarify that values_to_strip is a set

  #14681 opened Feb 19, 2023

• add test coverage for fixed stage1 bugs

  #14682 opened Feb 20, 2023

39 Issues closed by 6 people

• literal number from a conditional expression is not being coerced to assignee type

  #5557 closed Feb 20, 2023

• Runtime crash when passing anonymous union literal to generic function

  #5498 closed Feb 20, 2023

• Generic struct identity broken when passing string literal as generic param?

  #5479 closed Feb 20, 2023

• Yet another compiler segfault

  #5426 closed Feb 20, 2023

• Compiler segfault with anonymous lists

  #4755 closed Feb 20, 2023

• LLVM module found: Terminator found in the middle of a basic block! This is a bug in the Zig compiler.

  #4429 closed Feb 20, 2023

• Mispelt external library linkage name stalls compilation.

  #4308 closed Feb 20, 2023

• build-obj fails for sources with fn main() on Windows without -lc

  #4193 closed Feb 20, 2023

• `error: FileNotFound` during compile

  #4069 closed Feb 20, 2023

• exporting main crashes the compiler

  #3659 closed Feb 20, 2023

• usingnamespace + @import("root") + zig test crashes compiler

  #3658 closed Feb 20, 2023

• compiler crash on circular pub use import

  #3333 closed Feb 20, 2023

• stage2: compiler panic when using `@ptrToInt` in bitwise AND

  #11211 closed Feb 19, 2023

• Proposal: Multi-object `for` loops

  #7257 closed Feb 19, 2023

• Cases of retokenization invalidly assume that the tokenizer is stateless leading to crashes in various edge cases

  #12674 closed Feb 19, 2023

• CR-LF Line Endings Break Multi-Line Strings

  #11414 closed Feb 19, 2023

• std.Build.RunStep only works once on windows

  #14666 closed Feb 19, 2023

• two unused functions in lib/compiler_rt/gehf2

  #14615 closed Feb 18, 2023

• for detecting the native dynamic linker path, zig should prefer /usr/bin/env to its own executable

  #5280 closed Feb 18, 2023

• zig build returns error.SystemResources on MacOS when build-lib command exceeds ARG_MAX

  #10693 closed Feb 18, 2023

• `[64]u1` occupies 64 bytes instead of 8 bytes

  #14672 closed Feb 18, 2023

• `std.testing.refAllDecls` references `pub` decls only, private ones are ignored

  #12838 closed Feb 17, 2023

• Bad error message for invalid identifier in test

  #14579 closed Feb 17, 2023

• zig fmt produces wrong indent for multiline if expression

  #14652 closed Feb 15, 2023

• Nested-Container-Tests

  #14648 closed Feb 14, 2023

• Regression in run step caching

  #14646 closed Feb 14, 2023

• -fcompiler-rt broken with object file builds

  #14099 closed Feb 14, 2023

• add an implementation of __aeabi_memcpy and related memory builtins to compiler-rt

  #4189 closed Feb 14, 2023

• Disable ANSI escape sequences on sourcehut

  #3554 closed Feb 14, 2023

• limits on absolute and relative paths include with @embedFile

  #14637 closed Feb 14, 2023

• Invalid free in std.json.parseFree

  #9509 closed Feb 13, 2023

• std.json.Parser: ValueTree returned by parse() contains dangling allocator pointers

  #5229 closed Feb 13, 2023

• ability to explicitly enable error return tracing in release-fast mode and disable it in debug mode

  #691 closed Feb 13, 2023

• std.json: assertion failure when deserializing string with escape sequence into sentinel slice

  #14600 closed Feb 13, 2023

• make zig fmt additionally format .zon files

  #14530 closed Feb 13, 2023

• ld.lld: undefined symbol when taking pointer to extern function referenced through alias

  #14610 closed Feb 13, 2023

• @cUndef wrongly defined as #undefine

  #14617 closed Feb 13, 2023

• zig fmt forces if/else expressions onto one line if it contains a type-inferred struct literal

  #14056 closed Feb 13, 2023

• Type inference regression in stage2

  #14077 closed Feb 13, 2023

19 Issues opened by 17 people

• compiler: taking the address of a captured loop range causes a segmentation fault

  #14679 opened Feb 19, 2023

• incompatible types note points to the wrong line when using for

  #14677 opened Feb 19, 2023

• `@ptrCast()` from null pointer to function pointer doesn't panic

  #14676 opened Feb 19, 2023

• Mutual dependency on modules results in error on some test executables with custom runner

  #14667 opened Feb 17, 2023

• use a declarative table for CLI linker argument parsing

  #14663 opened Feb 17, 2023

• Wasm backend uses fully-qualified name for function symbols

  #14660 opened Feb 16, 2023

• std.debug.panic: default panic handler is not signal safe

  #14658 opened Feb 15, 2023

• macos: compiler error when printing to 'stderr'

  #14657 opened Feb 15, 2023

• Proposal: code annotations

  #14656 opened Feb 15, 2023

• zig fmt idempotency: fn param doc comment not properly formatted in one go

  #14654 opened Feb 15, 2023

• `-fno-lto` flag abnormal behavior

  #14653 opened Feb 15, 2023

• Targeting a specific macOS version with `zig cc` doesn't work.

  #14651 opened Feb 15, 2023

• @Type(@typeInfo(c_int)) != c_int

  #14650 opened Feb 15, 2023

• Unexpected error returned from a function that returns "error{SomeError}!?void" (error union optional void)

  #14649 opened Feb 15, 2023

• `cannot assign to constant` points to the wrong line when using switch.

  #14645 opened Feb 14, 2023

• test: standalone/issue_12588 is not testing anything

  #14643 opened Feb 14, 2023

• translate-c fails on macro with `assert(1 && "error message")`

  #14642 opened Feb 14, 2023

• Compiler crash when accessing tagged union global

  #14641 opened Feb 14, 2023

• error: TemporaryNameServerFailure when using package management on Termux

  #14636 opened Feb 13, 2023

53 Unresolved conversations

Sometimes conversations happen on old items that aren’t yet closed. Here is a list of all the Issues and Pull Requests with unresolved conversations.

• Support file:/// URIs and relative paths in package manager

  #14603 commented on Feb 18, 2023 • 9 new comments

• Turning single item pointer into slice of length 1

  #3156 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 6 new comments

• inline assembly improvements

  #215 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 6 new comments

• Zstandard decompressor

  #14394 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 4 new comments

• zig build-lib does not allow linking to a C program

  #14416 commented on Feb 14, 2023 • 3 new comments

• LLVM assertion tripped when building compiler_rt for sparc64

  #12011 commented on Feb 14, 2023 • 3 new comments

• Compiler crash with PackedIntArray

  #14596 commented on Feb 18, 2023 • 3 new comments

• Add .stride field to slices

  #2255 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 2 new comments

• remove memset calls when setting to undefined in unsafe modes

  #14104 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 2 new comments

• compiler_rt: declutter int.zig, add mulXi3 tests

  #14623 commented on Feb 14, 2023 • 2 new comments

• Fixes #14574 - Panic on NoSpaceLeft when formatting duration as we have a fixed buffer

  #14630 commented on Feb 18, 2023 • 2 new comments

• nested packed struct incorrect behavior

  #14632 commented on Feb 13, 2023 • 1 new comment

• add __clear_cache to compiler-rt

  #4792 commented on Feb 13, 2023 • 1 new comment

• comptime recursion crashes

  #13780 commented on Feb 14, 2023 • 1 new comment

• tail call codegen for error returns

  #690 commented on Feb 14, 2023 • 1 new comment

• JSON comptime type parser should support dynamic objects

  #5326 commented on Feb 14, 2023 • 1 new comment

• use C++ LLVM API rather than C API for array types to support 64 bits

  #1424 commented on Feb 15, 2023 • 1 new comment

• support fetching dependencies with the file:/// protocol scheme

  #14339 commented on Feb 15, 2023 • 1 new comment

• change std.ChildProcess to accept a directory handle for cwd rather than a string

  #5190 commented on Feb 15, 2023 • 1 new comment

• build system terminology update: package, project, module, dependency

  #14307 commented on Feb 16, 2023 • 1 new comment

• Validate literals at a later stage

  #12449 commented on Feb 17, 2023 • 1 new comment

• test std lib TLS implementation against many real world servers

  #14172 commented on Feb 17, 2023 • 1 new comment

• sigsetsize argument to epoll_pwait is incorrect

  #12715 commented on Feb 18, 2023 • 1 new comment

• support fetch plugins to download dependencies from less common protocols

  #14294 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 1 new comment

• C macro value needs to be escaped in `LibExeObjStep.defineCMacro`

  #14625 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 1 new comment

• Can't take the address of an extern variable as a constant value

  #5344 commented on Feb 20, 2023 • 1 new comment

• std: replace builtin.Version with SemanticVersion

  #13998 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 1 new comment

• std.math.big.int: Initialize limbs in addWrap

  #14482 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 1 new comment

• Tracking issue for compiler_rt ARM compatibility

  #14634 commented on Feb 13, 2023 • 0 new comments

• enumerate all kinds of undefined behavior, even that which cannot be safety-checked

  #1966 commented on Feb 14, 2023 • 0 new comments

• Disallow omitting unused capture value in `switch` if not `void`

  #14137 commented on Feb 14, 2023 • 0 new comments

• ability to fetch only needed dependencies

  #14597 commented on Feb 15, 2023 • 0 new comments

• zig fmt messes `if` indentation after line break

  #7363 commented on Feb 15, 2023 • 0 new comments

• No compile error for missing error set member

  #5410 commented on Feb 20, 2023 • 0 new comments

• Struct with comptime field cannot be initiated

  #5497 commented on Feb 20, 2023 • 0 new comments

• Compiler unreachable when accessing pointer field of a tuple's TypeInfo

  #5508 commented on Feb 20, 2023 • 0 new comments

• problem of coercion from single-item pointer to slice.

  #5516 commented on Feb 20, 2023 • 0 new comments

• odd behavior of coercion from pointer to slice

  #5518 commented on Feb 20, 2023 • 0 new comments

• retry cache file creation

  #12139 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 0 new comments

• Hacked timed wait for stderr_mutex

  #12207 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 0 new comments

• Introduce ChildProcess.collectOutput

  #12295 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 0 new comments

• Relax `std.sort.binarySearch` requirements

  #12727 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 0 new comments

• std: add peek function to std.json.TokenStream

  #12798 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 0 new comments

• stage2: Include `catch` expressions in error return trace

  #12990 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 0 new comments

• std.math: add lerp

  #13002 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 0 new comments

• test/standalone: reinstate std.ChildProcess tests

  #13639 commented on Feb 14, 2023 • 0 new comments

• Fixes POSIX file locking with fcntl test

  #13926 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 0 new comments

• std.build: check for lib prefix with pkg-config

  #13941 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 0 new comments

• Add zlib stream writer

  #13977 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 0 new comments

• std.child_process: enable non-standard streams

  #14152 commented on Feb 15, 2023 • 0 new comments

• lib: add panic test runner

  #14351 commented on Feb 14, 2023 • 0 new comments

• Improvements to docs and text

  #14460 commented on Feb 18, 2023 • 0 new comments

• std.fmt: add option for `+` sign of positive number

  #14483 commented on Feb 19, 2023 • 0 new comments