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feat: Allow structs and arrays as globals #1054

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@jfecher jfecher commented Mar 28, 2023

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Resolves #439

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Allows non-integers such as structs and arrays to be used as globals, as long as they're initialized as constants. There is nothing verifying the sub-expressions for these are also constants currently though, so it is possible to have unexpected behavior (calling a function which tries to use the uninitialized global internally).

Attempting to use these in an array-length context will not crash the compiler, but will issue a somewhat confusing error that can be improved later.

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We'll need to document that, in addition to integers, arbitrary structs and arrays can also be defined as globals. They must be initialized to struct or array literals however.

We should likely mention the sub-expressions within these struct/array literals should also be literals themselves even though this is not enforced yet.

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@jfecher jfecher changed the title Allow structs and arrays as globals feat: Allow structs and arrays as globals Mar 28, 2023
@kevaundray kevaundray added this pull request to the merge queue Mar 28, 2023
Merged via the queue into master with commit dadbd3c Mar 28, 2023
@kevaundray kevaundray deleted the jf/flexible-globals branch March 28, 2023 18:19
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