Lands the full VM/compiler-API arc on branch reify (701/0 both gates):
- abi(.compiler) ABI replaces abi(.zig) extern compiler + the fake
#library "compiler"; bodiless decl = compiler-API surface, bodied =
user compiler-domain fn (lowered for VM eval, emit-skipped).
- out is a plain sx fn (libc write) — the out builtin deleted; the VM
handles it via host-FFI. trace_resolve + interp_print_frames ported.
- 4B VM-native diagnostics: 1179/1180 render proper comptime type
construction failed: under strict.
- S5a: build_options/set_post_link_callback on abi(.compiler) with
BuildConfig threaded into the VM (green intermediate).
- 0522 fixed (describe(args: []Type)); regression 0638.
Strict deletion-gate down to 4 compiler_call bails (1609/1614/1615/1616)
+ 1654 (legitimate unresolvable-symbol diagnostic).
Introduce the welded comptime `compiler` library (`#library "compiler"` +
`abi(.zig) extern compiler`), per design/comptime-compiler-api.md, and unify
`callconv(...)` into the new `abi(...)` annotation.
abi(...) replaces callconv(...):
- New ABI enum { default, c, zig, pure }; `abi(.c|.zig|.pure)` parses in the
postfix slot before extern/export (and standalone). `kw_callconv` -> `kw_abi`.
- Migrated 52 sx files, the call-convention-mismatch diagnostic, and docs
(readme/specs) from `callconv(.c)` to `abi(.c)`.
Phase 1 — welded compiler library (parse -> registry -> validation -> bridge):
- `abi(.zig) extern compiler` parses on fn decls (carries abi/extern_lib) and
struct decls (StructDecl.abi/extern_lib).
- `#library "compiler"` is the comptime-only internal surface — never dlopen'd.
- src/ir/compiler_lib.zig: the binding registry (the safety boundary). `Field`
welded to StructInfo.Field with layout baked from the real Zig type
(@offsetOf/@sizeOf); `findType`/`findFn`. Welded structs are layout-validated
at registration (field set + total size) as a header checked against the impl.
- Host-call bridge: a `fn abi(.zig) extern compiler` dispatches under the
comptime interp to its registered Zig handler (intern/text_of round-trip),
never dlsym. IR Function.compiler_welded; validated in declareFunction.
- Comptime-only enforcement: a runtime call to a welded fn is a clean
build-gating error (emitCall), not an undefined-symbol link failure.
Phase 2.1 — byte-layout weld foundation:
- Decision: full byte-layout weld (sx struct laid out byte-identically to the
bound Zig type). Registered StructInfo (first non-natural / Zig-reordered
layout). `computeWeldPlan` — pure offset-ordered element plan + padding +
sx-field->LLVM-element remap; unit-tested. Emit/interp wiring is the next
sub-step (2.2+, see current/CHECKPOINT-COMPILER-API.md).
Examples: 0625/0626 (welded struct + fn round-trip), 1183/1184/1185
(layout-mismatch, unexported-fn, runtime-call diagnostics).
The compiler concept is declare/define (comptime type construction); the
old "reify" framing is gone from the entire repo.
- Rename: PLAN-REIFY → PLAN-METATYPE, CHECKPOINT-REIFY → CHECKPOINT-METATYPE,
PLAN-POST-REIFY → PLAN-POST-METATYPE (both rewritten around declare/define);
examples 0614/0615/0617 → comptime-metatype-* (+ their expected/ triplets),
headers rewritten.
- Scrub reify from design/execution-evolution-roadmap.md (§7 step 3 contracts,
§8.1, §9 decisions, §10 gates) → declare/define / comptime type construction.
- core.sx prelude pointer + parser.test.zig surface lock updated to the
declare/define builtins (define(handle, info) -> Type; EnumInfo.name).
No behavior change; renamed examples match their renamed snapshots. Full
suite green (673), all unit tests pass. Zero `reify` tokens remain in
src/docs/sx/examples.
REIFY Phase 0.0. Add the comptime type-metaprogramming surface as the
on-demand module modules/std/meta.sx (NOT the prelude — declaring its
data types in always-loaded core.sx interns them into every module's
type table and shifts every .ir snapshot):
- EnumVariant / EnumInfo / TypeInfo data types. TypeInfo's variant uses
the backtick raw escape `enum so it reads as the keyword.
- reify / type_info / field_type as bodyless #builtin decls.
Each builtin bails LOUDLY when reached unimplemented (no silent default):
- reify(...) in a :: type-alias position -> decl.zig .call branch
(also the Phase 0.2 construction hook); poisons the alias .unresolved.
- reify / field_type in any other type position ->
generic.zig resolveTypeCallWithBindings.
- type_info(...) in expression position -> call.zig tryLowerReflectionCall.
Unit test src/parser.test.zig (registered in root.zig) locks that the
decls parse. zig build test green (447 unit, 669 examples).
