Implement tool_attributes feature (RFC 2103)
cc #44690
This is currently just a rebased and compiling (hopefully) version of #47773.
Let's see if travis likes this. I will add the implementation for `tool_lints` this week.
Fix an unresolved import issue with enabled `use_extern_macros`
This is a kinda ugly special-purpose solution that will break if we suddenly add a fourth namespace, but I hope to come up with something more general if I get to import resolution refactoring this summer.
Fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/50187 thus removing a blocker for stabilization of `use_extern_macros`
Module experiments: Add one more prelude layer for extern crate names passed with `--extern`
Implements one item from https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/the-great-module-adventure-continues/6678/183
When some name is looked up in lexical scope (`name`, i.e. not module-relative scope `some_mod::name` or `::name`), it's searched roughly in the next order:
- local variables
- items in unnamed blocks
- items in the current module
- ✨ NEW! ✨ crate names passed with `--extern` ("extern prelude")
- standard library prelude (`Vec`, `drop`)
- language prelude (built-in types like `u8`, `str`, etc)
The last two layers contain a limited set of names controlled by us and not arbitrary user-defined names like upper layers. We want to be able to add new names into these two layers without breaking user code, so "extern prelude" names have higher priority than std prelude and built-in types.
This is a one-time breaking change, that's why it would be nice to run this through crater.
Practical impact is expected to be minimal though due to stylistic reasons (there are not many `Uppercase` crates) and due to the way how primitive types are resolved (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/32131).
Warn on pointless #[derive] in more places
This fixes the regression in #49934 and ensures that unused `#[derive]` invocations on statements, expressions and generic type parameters survive to trip the `unused_attributes` lint. There is a separate warning hardcoded for `#[derive]` on macro invocations since linting (even the early-lint pass) occurs after expansion. This also adds regression tests for some nodes that were already warning properly.
closes#49934
This fixes the regression in #49934 and ensures that unused `#[derive]`s on statements, expressions and generic type parameters survive to trip the `unused_attributes` lint. For `#[derive]` on macro invocations it has a hardcoded warning since linting occurs after expansion. This also adds regression testing for some nodes that were already warning properly.
closes#49934
Edition breakage lint for absolute paths starting with modules
We plan to enable `extern_absolute_paths` in the 2018 edition. To allow for that, folks must transition their paths in a previous edition to the new one. This makes paths which import module contents via `use module::` or `::module::` obsolete, and we must edition-lint these.
https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/the-great-module-adventure-continues/6678/205?u=manishearth is the current plan for paths.
r? @nikomatsakis
Fixes#48722
This commit starts to lay some groundwork for the stabilization of custom
attribute invocations and general procedural macros. It applies a number of
changes discussed on [internals] as well as a [recent issue][issue], namely:
* The path used to specify a custom attribute must be of length one and cannot
be a global path. This'll help future-proof us against any ambiguities and
give us more time to settle the precise syntax. In the meantime though a bare
identifier can be used and imported to invoke a custom attribute macro. A new
feature gate, `proc_macro_path_invoc`, was added to gate multi-segment paths
and absolute paths.
* The set of items which can be annotated by a custom procedural attribute has
been restricted. Statements, expressions, and modules are disallowed behind
two new feature gates: `proc_macro_expr` and `proc_macro_mod`.
* The input to procedural macro attributes has been restricted and adjusted.
Today an invocation like `#[foo(bar)]` will receive `(bar)` as the input token
stream, but after this PR it will only receive `bar` (the delimiters were
removed). Invocations like `#[foo]` are still allowed and will be invoked in
the same way as `#[foo()]`. This is a **breaking change** for all nightly
users as the syntax coming in to procedural macros will be tweaked slightly.
* Procedural macros (`foo!()` style) can only be expanded to item-like items by
default. A separate feature gate, `proc_macro_non_items`, is required to
expand to items like expressions, statements, etc.
Closes#50038
[internals]: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/help-stabilize-a-subset-of-macros-2-0/7252
[issue]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/50038
Use sort_by_cached_key where appropriate
A follow-up to https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/48639, converting various slice sorting calls to `sort_by_cached_key` when the key functions are more expensive.
Expand macros in `extern {}` blocks
This permits macro and proc-macro and attribute invocations (the latter only with the `proc_macro` feature of course) in `extern {}` blocks, gated behind a new `macros_in_extern` feature.
A tracking issue is now open at #49476closes#48747
Some comments and documentation for name resolution crate
Hello
I'm trying to get a grasp of how the name resolution crate works, as part of helping with https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustc-guide/issues/16. Not that I'd be succeeding much, but as I was reading the code, I started to put some notes into it, to help me understand.
I guess I didn't get very far yet, but I'd like to share what I have, in case it might be useful for someone else. I hope these are correct (even if incomplete), but I'll be glad for a fast check in case I put something misleading there.
