The fix to the atomicArc looks to use `-1` as the check value from the
`SharedPtr` solution. However, it should be `-rcIncrement` since the
refcount is bit shifted in ARC/ORC.
I discovered this playing around doing atomic updates of refcounts in a
user library.
Related to https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/22711
@ringabout I believe you ported the sharedptr fix?
**TODO**
- [x] fixes changelog
With the new option `nimPreviewVtables`, `methods` are confined in the
same module where the type of the first parameter is defined
- [x] make it opt in after CI checks its feasibility
## In the following-up PRs
- [ ] in the following PRs, refactor code into a more efficient one
- [ ] cpp needs special treatments since it cannot embed array in light
of the preceding limits: ref
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/20977#discussion_r1035528927; we
can support cpp backends with vtable implementations later on the
comprise that uses indirect vtable access
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Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
* fix/workaround for nimrtl and nimhcr on arc/orc
fixes#21803
* try fix clang, debug linux failure
* just make duplicated procs not rtl
* actual fix for duplicated procs
* quit value gets saturated to ranges
* add documentation
* minimal changes
* refactor
* small fix
* add documentation
* fixes
* Update lib/system.nim
Co-authored-by: Juan Carlos <juancarlospaco@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Juan Carlos <juancarlospaco@gmail.com>
* ORC: prepare for another patent-pending optimization
* bugfix
* '=copy' for refs can take a cyclic parameter for more ORC optimizations
* ORC: exploit the common 'it = it.next' pattern
* can't hurt to check for nil
* use an algorithm that is not obviously broken
* restore the test case
* final cleanups for --gc:orc
