#16081 fixed an issue where a nested return statement would cause incorrect behaviour due to the inner return writing over the return stack slot that had already been written too. However, the check was very broad and picked many cases that wouldn't ever be affected by this issue.
As a result, the number of allocas increased dramatically and therefore stack-size increased. LLVM is not able to remove all of the extraneous allocas. Any code that had multiple return values in a compound expression at the end of a function (including loops) would be hit by the issue.
The check now uses a control-flow graph to only consider the case when the inner return is executed conditionally. By itself, this narrowed definition causes #15763 to return, so the control-flow graph is also used to avoid passing the return slot as a destination when the result won't be used.
This change allows the stack-size of the main rustc task to be reduced to 8MB from 32MB.
I was reading through the Rust Guide (hopefully looking to learn some Rust), and I figured it would be a good idea to open a pull request with some of the errata I noticed along the way. Most of the changes are pretty mundane, but there are a couple that might raise a bit of discussion.
### Punctuation outside of 'key term' quotes
This is something that was inconsistent in the Guide. While the convention in American English is to place punctuation immediately following a quotation mark *inside* the quotation mark, it seems strange to do this with 'key terms', considering they are not a true quotation.
### Changed comment placement in 17.2 code block
This is what the code block in [17.2 — Ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes](http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide.html#ownership,-borrowing,-and-lifetimes) looks like in fullscreened Safari 8:
Some of the comments extend *just* too far, causing them to bleed into the next line, so I moved a few of them above the relevant lines of code to avoid this.
It is useful to move all the elements out of a hashmap without deallocating
the underlying buffer. It came up in IRC, and this patch implements it as
`drain`.
r? @Gankro
cc: @frankmcsherry
This commit shuffles around some CLI flags of the compiler to some more stable
locations with some renamings. The changes made were:
* The `-v` flag has been repurposes as the "verbose" flag. The version flag has
been renamed to `-V`.
* The `-h` screen has been split into two parts. Most top-level options (not
all) show with `-h`, and the remaining options (generally obscure) can be
shown with `--help -v` which is a "verbose help screen"
* The `-V` flag (version flag now) has lost its argument as it is now requested
with `rustc -vV` "verbose version".
* The `--emit` option has had its `ir` and `bc` variants renamed to `llvm-ir`
and `llvm-bc` to emphasize that they are LLVM's IR/bytecode.
* The `--emit` option has grown a new variant, `dep-info`, which subsumes the
`--dep-info` CLI argument. The `--dep-info` flag is now deprecated.
* The `--parse-only`, `--no-trans`, `--no-analysis`, and `--pretty` flags have
moved behind the `-Z` family of flags.
* The `--debuginfo` and `--opt-level` flags were moved behind the top-level `-C`
flag.
* The `--print-file-name` and `--print-crate-name` flags were moved behind one
global `--print` flag which now accepts one of `crate-name`, `file-names`, or
`sysroot`. This global `--print` flag is intended to serve as a mechanism for
learning various metadata about the compiler itself.
* The top-level `--pretty` flag was moved to a number of `-Z` options.
No warnings are currently enabled to allow tools like Cargo to have time to
migrate to the new flags before spraying warnings to all users.
cc https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/19051
The `is_power_of_two()` method of the `UnsignedInt` trait currently returns `true` for `self == 0`. Zero is not a power of two, assuming an integral exponent `k >= 0`. I've therefore moved this functionality to the new method `is_power_of_two_or_zero()` and reformed `is_power_of_two()` to return false for `self == 0`.
To illustrate the usefulness of the existence of both functions, consider `HashMap`. Its capacity must be zero or a power of two; conversely, it also requires a (non-zero) power of two for key and val alignment.
Also, added a small amount of documentation regarding #18604.
parse_ty() no longer takes a boolean parameter. quote_ty! implementation has not yet been modified accordingly.
As a matter of fact, quote_ty! was not covered by tests. One test (called qquotes) references it, but it has been ignored for nearly one year and now need heavy refactoring.
quote_token.rs seemed like a good place to test quote_ty!, many other quote_*! macros were asserted there.
This commit shuffles around some CLI flags of the compiler to some more stable
locations with some renamings. The changes made were:
* The `-v` flag has been repurposes as the "verbose" flag. The version flag has
been renamed to `-V`.
* The `-h` screen has been split into two parts. Most top-level options (not
all) show with `-h`, and the remaining options (generally obscure) can be
shown with `--help -v` which is a "verbose help screen"
* The `-V` flag (version flag now) has lost its argument as it is now requested
with `rustc -vV` "verbose version".
* The `--emit` option has had its `ir` and `bc` variants renamed to `llvm-ir`
and `llvm-bc` to emphasize that they are LLVM's IR/bytecode.
* The `--emit` option has grown a new variant, `dep-info`, which subsumes the
`--dep-info` CLI argument. The `--dep-info` flag is now deprecated.
* The `--parse-only`, `--no-trans`, and `--no-analysis` flags have
moved behind the `-Z` family of flags.
* The `--debuginfo` and `--opt-level` flags were moved behind the top-level `-C`
flag.
* The `--print-file-name` and `--print-crate-name` flags were moved behind one
global `--print` flag which now accepts one of `crate-name`, `file-names`, or
`sysroot`. This global `--print` flag is intended to serve as a mechanism for
learning various metadata about the compiler itself.
No warnings are currently enabled to allow tools like Cargo to have time to
migrate to the new flags before spraying warnings to all users.
- Various grammatical changes
- Place punctuation outside of key term quotes
- Change comment placement in 17.2 code block
- Replace double hyphens with en dashes
