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This patch adds a small section regarding the call builtin.
rudedogg
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Dec 31, 2020
matu3ba
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| @@ -741,6 +741,37 @@ test "precision" { | |||
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| # Advanced Function Invocation | |||
| Zig offers a `@call` builtin function which gives you more flexibility with which how a function is | |||
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you can shorten this to what @call does and to me its more about controlling what the compiler does. :)
| invoked. There are options to enable or disable tail call optimizations, enable or disable inlining, | ||
| as well as force compile time generation. | ||
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| ```zig | ||
| const assert = @import("std").debug.assert; | ||
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| // These functions are effectively the same but are defined and invoked differently. |
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Thats vague. Why are they the same and how invoked differently? Explaining them sounds more understandable to me. Then likely the comments below can also reduced to the key differences.
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I think this has gone pretty stale and I'm sure there would be a few merge conflicts. I'm going to close it but if anyone else wants to pick this up, feel free. |
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This patch adds a small section regarding the
@callbuiltin.Closes #7