This is smaller and more efficient than the previous code that called memcpy(). It also avoids a theoretical issue if the user's code included an incompatible definition of memcpy.
This allows it to use MVN-based copying code in more cases, including when moving to/from local variables on the stack. This is slightly shorter and more efficient than calling a helper function.
With the addition of designated initializers, ORCA/C now supports all the major mandatory language features added between C90 and C17, apart from those made optional by C11. There are still various small areas of nonconformance and a number of missing library functions, but at this point it is reasonable for ORCA/C to report itself as being a C17 implementation.
Long addressing was not being used to access the values, which could lead to mis-evaluation of comparisons against values in global structs, unions, or arrays, depending on the memory layout.
This could sometimes affect the c99desinit.c test, when run with large memory model and at least intermediate code peephole optimization. It could also affect this simpler test (depending on memory layout):
#pragma memorymodel 1
#pragma optimize 1
struct S {
void *p;
} s = {&s};
int main(void) {
return s.p != &s; /* should be 0 */
}
*Initialization of floating-point variables from unsigned long expressions with value > LONG_MAX would give the wrong value.
*Initialization of floating-point variables from (unsigned) long long expressions would give the wrong value.
*Initialization of _Bool variables should give 0 or 1, as per the usual rules for conversion to _Bool.
*Initialization of integer variables from floating-point expressions should be allowed, applying the usual conversions.
There is a tradeoff of code size vs. speed, since a sequence of STZ instructions is faster than a call to ~ZERO but could be quite large for a big array or struct. We now use ~ZERO for initializations of over 50 bytes to avoid excessive code bloat; the exact number chosen is somewhat arbitrary.
This avoids needing to generate many intermediate code records representing the data at most 8 bytes at a time, which should reduce memory use and probably improve performance for large initialized arrays or structs.
Static initialization of arrays/structs/unions now essentially "executes" the initializer records to fill in a buffer (and keep track of relocations), then emits pcode to represent that initialized state. This supports overlapping and out-of-order initializer records, as can be produced by designated initialization.
This prohibits empty initializers ({}) for arrays of unknown size, consistent with C23 requirements. Previous versions of C did not allow empty initializers at all, but ORCA/C historically did in some cases, so this patch still allows them for structs/unions/arrays of known size.
When the expression is initially parsed, we do not necessarily know whether it is the initializer for the struct/union or for its first member. That needs to be determined based on the type. To support that, a new function is added to evaluate the expression separately from using it to initialize an object.
This is currently used in a couple places in the designated initializer code (solving the problem with #pragma expand in the last commit). It could probably be used elsewhere too, but for now it is not.
As noted previously, there is some ambiguity in the standards about how anonymous structs/unions participate in initialization. ORCA/C follows the model that they do participate as structs or unions, and designated initialization of them is implemented accordingly.
This currently has a slight issue in that extra copies of the anonymous member field name will be printed in #pragma expand output.
This generally simplifies things, and always generates individual initializer records for each explicit initialization of a bit-field (which was previously done for automatic initialization, but not static).
This should work correctly for automatic initialization, but needs corresponding code changes in GenSymbols for static initialization.
This could maybe be simplified to just fill on levels with braces, but I want to consider that after implementing designated initializers for structs and unions.
The idea (not yet implemented) is to use this to support out-of-order initialization. For automatic variables, we can just initialize the subobjects in the order that initializers appear. For static variables, we will eventually need to reorder the initializers in order, but this can be done based on their recorded displacements.
The part of the declaration within the header could be ignored on subsequent compilations using the .sym file, which could lead to errors or misbehavior.
(This also applies to headers that end in the middle of a _Static_assert(...) or segment directive.)
Commit 9cc72c8845 introduced otherch tokens but did not properly update these tables to account for them. This would cause * not to be accepted as the first character in an expression, and might also cause other problems.
