diff --git a/issues/0086-vector-lane-store-unresolved-panic.md b/issues/0086-vector-lane-store-unresolved-panic.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9666fac --- /dev/null +++ b/issues/0086-vector-lane-store-unresolved-panic.md @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +# 0086 — writing to a Vector lane (`v.x = …`) panics with "unresolved type reached LLVM emission" + +## Symptom +Assigning to a component of a `Vector` local — `v.x = 1.0` (also `.y` / `.z` / +`.w`) — aborts the compiler with the internal panic: + +``` +thread … panic: unresolved type reached LLVM emission — a type resolution +failure was not diagnosed/aborted + src/backend/llvm/types.zig:175 toLLVMTypeInfo (.unresolved arm @panic) + src/backend/llvm/ops.zig:358 emitStore (.pointer => toLLVMType(p.pointee)) +``` + +READING a lane (`x := v.x`) is fine; only the STORE side hits it. The init form +(`= ---` undefined vs `= .[…]` literal) does not matter — both panic once a lane +is written. A literal lane count (`Vector(3, f32)`) triggers it, so this is NOT +the lane-count resolution class (issue 0083); it is a distinct bug in the +vector-lane **store** path, where the store's pointee type resolves to the +`.unresolved` sentinel instead of the lane element type. + +Discovered while fixing issue 0083 (attempt 5). It is pre-existing and orthogonal +— confirmed by reproducing on the pristine pre-0083-attempt-5 compiler — so it was +NOT introduced by the lane-count fix. The standard vector idiom (construct via a +`.[…]` literal / a constructor function returning `.[…]`, then read components or +use vector arithmetic, as in `examples/1500-vectors-vector-math.sx`) is +unaffected; only component ASSIGNMENT is broken. + +## Reproduction +```sx +#import "modules/std.sx"; +main :: () { + v : Vector(3, f32) = .[0.0, 0.0, 0.0]; + v.x = 1.0; // panic here + print("x={}\n", v.x); +} +``` +`./zig-out/bin/sx run` panics. Removing the `v.x = 1.0` line (read-only) prints +`x=0.000000` and exits 0. + +## Investigation prompt +A store to a `Vector` lane (`v.x = …`) lowers a pointer-to-lane whose pointee +type reaches LLVM as `.unresolved`, so `emitStore` +(`src/backend/llvm/ops.zig:358`, the `.pointer => toLLVMType(p.pointee)` arm) +hits the `.unresolved` tripwire panic in +`src/backend/llvm/types.zig:175`. The lane READ path computes the lane element +type correctly, so compare the lvalue/store lowering for a vector-component +assignment against the rvalue/load path — the component-write path is likely +building the lane pointer's pointee from a vector `.x`/`.y`/`.z`/`.w` field +resolution that returns `.unresolved` (or a vector field-access that resolves the +element type on load but not on store). Find where a `Vector` swizzle/component +assignment lowers its destination pointer (grep for vector component handling in +`lower.zig` assignment lowering and in the LLVM `emitStore` GEP path) and resolve +the lane element type there the same way the load path does. Verify with the +repro (expect `x=1.000000`) plus a `.[…]`-init write and a write to each of +`.x/.y/.z/.w` on a 4-lane vector, then `zig build && zig build test && bash +tests/run_examples.sh` green.