This is one of the final steps needed to complete #9128. It still needs a little bit of polish before closing that issue, but it's in a pretty much "done" state now.
The idea here is that the entire event loop implementation using libuv is now housed in `librustuv` as a completely separate library. This library is then injected (via `extern mod rustv`) into executable builds (similarly to how libstd is injected, tunable via `#[no_uv]`) to bring in the "rust blessed event loop implementation."
Codegen-wise, there is a new `event_loop_factory` language item which is tagged on a function with 0 arguments returning `~EventLoop`. This function's symbol is then inserted into the crate map for an executable crate, and if there is no definition of the `event_loop_factory` language item then the value is null.
What this means is that embedding rust as a library in another language just got a little harder. Libraries don't have crate maps, which means that there's no way to find the event loop implementation to spin up the runtime. That being said, it's always possible to build the runtime manually. This request also makes more runtime components public which should probably be public anyway. This new public-ness should allow custom scheduler setups everywhere regardless of whether you follow the `rt::start `path.
The actual fix would be to make rustpkg use `rustc::monitor` so it picks
up anything special that rustc needs, but for now let's keep the tests
from breaking.
The previous implementation, when combined with small discriminants and
immediate types, caused problems for types like `Either<u8, i16>` which
are now small enough to be immediate and can have fields intersecting
the highest-alignment variant's alignment padding (which LLVM doesn't
preserve). So let's not do that.
Otherwise, run-pass/deriving-primitive.rs breaks on 32-bit platforms,
because `int::min_value` is `0xffffffff7fffffff` when evaluated for the
discriminant declaration.
Not only can discriminants be smaller than int now, but they can be
larger than int on 32-bit targets. This has obvious implications for the
reflection interface. Without this change, things fail with LLVM
assertions when we try to "extend" i64 to i32.
The variant used in debug-info/method-on-enum.rs had its layout changed
by the smaller discriminant, so that the `u32` no longer overlaps both
of the `u16`s, and thus the debugger is printing partially uninitialized
data when it prints the wrong variant.
Thus, the test runner is modified to accept wildcards (using a string
that should be unlikely to occur literally), to allow for this.
Note that raising an error during trans doesn't stop the compile or cause
rustc to exit with a failure status, currently, so this is of more than
cosmetic importance.
Allows an enum with a discriminant to use any of the primitive integer
types to store it. By default the smallest usable type is chosen, but
this can be overridden with an attribute: `#[repr(int)]` etc., or
`#[repr(C)]` to match the target's C ABI for the equivalent C enum.
This commit breaks a few things, due to transmutes that now no longer
match in size, or u8 enums being passed to C that expects int, or
reflection; later commits on this branch fix them.
There are a few reasons that this is a desirable move to take:
1. Proof of concept that a third party event loop is possible
2. Clear separation of responsibility between rt::io and the uv-backend
3. Enforce in the future that the event loop is "pluggable" and replacable
Here's a quick summary of the points of this pull request which make this
possible:
* Two new lang items were introduced: event_loop, and event_loop_factory.
The idea of a "factory" is to define a function which can be called with no
arguments and will return the new event loop as a trait object. This factory
is emitted to the crate map when building an executable. The factory doesn't
have to exist, and when it doesn't then an empty slot is in the crate map and
a basic event loop with no I/O support is provided to the runtime.
* When building an executable, then the rustuv crate will be linked by default
(providing a default implementation of the event loop) via a similar method to
injecting a dependency on libstd. This is currently the only location where
the rustuv crate is ever linked.
* There is a new #[no_uv] attribute (implied by #[no_std]) which denies
implicitly linking to rustuv by default
Closes#5019
This is, I think, the minimal change required. I would have included a test but as far as I can tell there is currently no way to precisely test that the span for an error underlines the correct word. I did verify it manually.
