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arrayType

AstGen.arrayType

fn arrayType(gz: *GenZir, scope: *Scope, ri: ResultInfo, node: Ast.Node.Index) !Zir.Inst.Ref

File

lib/std/zig/AstGen.zig:3857

Code

fn arrayType(gz: *GenZir, scope: *Scope, ri: ResultInfo, node: Ast.Node.Index) !Zir.Inst.Ref {
    const astgen = gz.astgen;
    const tree = astgen.tree;

    const len_node, const elem_type_node = tree.nodeData(node).node_and_node;
    if (tree.nodeTag(len_node) == .identifier and
        mem.eql(u8, tree.tokenSlice(tree.nodeMainToken(len_node)), "_"))
    {
        return astgen.failNode(len_node, "unable to infer array size", .{});
    }
    const len = try reachableExprComptime(gz, scope, .{ .rl = .{ .coerced_ty = .usize_type } }, len_node, node, .type);
    const elem_type = try typeExpr(gz, scope, elem_type_node);

    const result = try gz.addPlNode(.array_type, node, Zir.Inst.Bin{
        .lhs = len,
        .rhs = elem_type,
    });
    return rvalue(gz, ri, result, node);
}