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by dnautics 12 days ago
intermediate representation. attempting to analyze zig code directly would be too hard (especially with comptime). on the way to the compiler backend, the compiler builds a simplified representation that only has "actually existing functions" and is very straightforward, e.g.

    function 10112:
    0: argument 0
    1: argument 1
    2: argument 2
    3: add 0, 1
    4: store 2
    5: call function 1342, (2, 4)
    6: return 5
you can see how building a data dependency graph from this would be easy.