Commit `13993c4f62`

Matthew Lugg <mlugg@mlugg.co.uk>

2025-11-10 13:56:35

compiler: warn when using -fincremental with LLVM backend

This configuration hasn't had much work put into it yet, so is all but guaranteed to miscompile or crash. Since users are starting to try out `-fincremental`, and LLVM is still the default backend in many cases, it's worth having this warning to avoid bug reports like https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/25873.

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src

main.zig

@@ -3360,6 +3360,10 @@ fn buildOutputType(
         fatal("--debug-incremental requires -fincremental", .{});
     }
 
+    if (incremental and create_module.resolved_options.use_llvm) {
+        warn("-fincremental is currently unsupported by the LLVM backend; crashes or miscompilations are likely", .{});
+    }
+
     const cache_mode: Compilation.CacheMode = b: {
         // Once incremental compilation is the default, we'll want some smarter logic here,
         // considering things like the backend in use and whether there's a ZCU.

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