emitAtomicCmpxchg: LLVMBuildAtomicCmpXchg (success/failure orderings,
singleThread=0) returns a {T, i1} pair; LLVMSetWeak for the weak variant. The
sx ?T result (null = SUCCESS) is built as { extractvalue 0 (actual value),
xor(extractvalue 1 (success), true) } -- has_value = NOT success. Integer-only
(recognizer guard), so never a pointer/niche optional.
examples/1702 green: successful CAS returns null (value updated), failing CAS
returns the actual value (unchanged), weak retry loop increments a counter
(100 -> 105). LLVM IR shows `cmpxchg ... acq_rel acquire` and `cmpxchg weak`.
Unit test `emit: atomic cmpxchg (strong + weak)` locks `cmpxchg` + the weak
marker. Suite green (718/0).
compare_exchange/_weak wired end-to-end except LLVM emission (bails loudly;
A.2b makes it real). New IR op atomic_cmpxchg + AtomicCmpxchg{ptr, cmp, new,
val_ty, success_ordering, failure_ordering, weak}; result type = ?T (null =
SUCCESS, failure carries the actual value for retry). print arm; emit dispatch
-> emitAtomicCmpxchg (BAILS). comptime_vm arm does real single-thread CAS (read
actual / compare / store-on-equal / build ?T: success->none, failure->some;
weak == strong at comptime). Recognizer extended (atomic_cmpxchg/_weak, 6 args)
-- CAS restricted to INTEGER T (loud reject); BOTH orderings resolved via
atomicOrderingFromNode; dual-ordering validation (failure may not be
release/acq_rel nor stronger than success, via atomicOrderingRank). Methods
compare_exchange/_weak on Atomic($T) with comptime $success/$failure: Ordering.
examples/1702 locked to the bail; examples/1186 locks a rejected ordering pair.
Suite green (718/0).
emitAtomicRmw: LLVMBuildAtomicRMW (binop from RmwKind; signed Min/Max vs
unsigned UMin/UMax from val_ty; singleThread=0; LLVM supplies ABI alignment).
examples/1701 green (add/sub/and/or/xor/min/max return old values, results
verified). Unit test 'emit: atomic rmw (add + signed/unsigned min)' locks
'atomicrmw add' + signed 'min' vs unsigned 'umin'. Suite green (716/0).
Migrate Atomic methods from seq_cst-only to the explicit ordering surface now
that comptime value params work on generic-struct methods (workers 3c4305f /
d7a6857 / d95ba0a):
- atomic.sx: load/store take a comptime $o: Ordering (explicit, Rust-style; no
default, matching design 4.6). a.load(.acquire) -> 'load atomic .. acquire'.
- call.zig: atomicOrderingFromNode resolves a comptime-bound ordering identifier
via comptimeIntNamed (+ atomicOrderingFromTag); documents the sx-Ordering <->
IR-AtomicOrdering declaration-order invariant. The per-op validity guard fires
through the method path (a.load(.release) is a compile error).
- 1700 migrated to explicit orderings (output unchanged 7/42/43).
Suite green (715/0).
Adversarial review of A.0 found two silent-wrong defects reachable via the public
atomic_load/atomic_store intrinsics (raw LLVM verifier errors, not clean sx
diagnostics) + a latent alignment fallback. All fixed:
- scalar-kind allowlist (call.zig): the size-only T guard admitted same-sized
aggregates ([8]u8, 8-byte structs) -> invalid 'load atomic [8 x i8]'. Now an
allowlist switch (integer/float/bool/pointer/enum/vector) rejects loudly.
- per-op ordering validity (call.zig): load cannot release/acq_rel, store cannot
acquire/acq_rel -> loud diagnostic instead of invalid LLVM.
- val_ty align fallback (ops.zig): the 'else .i64' (align 8) default would
over-align a sub-8 store -> now bails loudly on a missing val_ty.
Locked by examples 1130 (non-scalar) + 1131 (bad ordering). Suite green (713/0).
Replace the A.0a emit bail with real LLVM atomic codegen:
- emitAtomicLoad: LLVMBuildLoad2 + LLVMSetOrdering + LLVMSetAlignment
- emitAtomicStore: LLVMBuildStore + LLVMSetOrdering + LLVMSetAlignment (value
coerced to the pointee type, mirroring emitStore)
- llvmOrdering: explicit sx AtomicOrdering -> LLVMAtomicOrdering map (LLVM's enum
is non-contiguous; never an identity cast)
examples/1700 now prints 7/42/43; IR is 'load atomic i64, ptr .. seq_cst, align 8'
+ 'store atomic ..'. Unit test 'emit: atomic load/store (seq_cst, aligned)' locks
the emission shape (load atomic/store atomic/seq_cst/align 8) without a fragile
full-module .ir snapshot. Suite green (710 examples + units).
Stream A (atomics) foundation. Net-new atomic load/store codegen path, wired
end-to-end except LLVM emission, which deliberately bails loudly so the example
locks to a clean diagnostic (A.0b turns it green — cadence: no commit both adds a
test and makes it pass).
- library/modules/std/atomic.sx: Ordering enum, Atomic($T) transparent wrapper
(init/load/store, seq_cst-only for now), atomic_load/atomic_store #builtin
intrinsics. Opt-in import, NOT in the universal std facade (Ordering in the
prelude grows every program's type table + churns 37 .ir snapshots).
- IR: atomic_load/atomic_store ops + AtomicOrdering (all 5) + structs (inst.zig);
print arms; comptime_vm arms reuse load/store (single-thread correct);
recognizer tryLowerAtomicIntrinsic (const-ordering + scalar-size guards, both
loud); emit dispatch -> emitAtomicLoad/Store bail via comptime_failed.
- examples/1700-atomics-load-store.sx locked to the bail diagnostic.
Full ordering surface (a.load(.acquire)) blocked on comptime-constant ordering
propagation (comptime enum value params) — A.0.5, migrated not legacy.