If you use a function expecting an alias argument in a context that
expects a function expecting a value argument, or vice versa, the
previous error message complained that the number of arguments was
wrong. Fixed the error message to be accurate.
typestate now drops constraints correctly in the post-state of
a move expression or a declaration whose op is a move. It doesn't
yet drop constraints mentioning variables that get updated.
To do this, I had to change typestate to use trit-vectors instead
of bit-vectors, because for every constraint, there are three
possible values: known-to-be-false (e.g. after x <- y, init(y) is
known-to-be-false), known-to-be-true, and unknown. Before, we
conflated known-to-be-false with unknown. But move requires them
to be treated differently. Consider:
(program a)
(a1) x = 1;
(a2) y <- x;
(a3) log x;
(program b)
(b1) x = 1;
(b2) y <- z;
(b3) log x;
With only two values, the postcondition of statement a2 for
constraint init(x) is the same as that of b2: 0. But in (a2)'s
postcondition, init(x) *must* be false, but in (b2)'s condition,
it's just whatever it was in the postcondition of the preceding statement.
This code was causing a bounds check failure:
fn hd[U](&vec[U] v) -> U {
fn hd1(&vec[U] w) -> U {
ret w.(0);
}
ret hd1(v);
}
because in hd1, U was being treated as if it referred to a type
parameter of hd1, rather than referring to the lexically enclosing binding
for U that's part of hd.
I'm actually not sure whether this is a legit program or not. But I wanted
to get rid of the bounds check error, so I assumed that program shouldn't
compile and made it a proper error message.
This involved, in part, changing the ast::def type so that a def_fn
has a "purity" field. This lets the typechecker determine whether
functions defined in other crates are pure.
It also required updating some error messages in tests. As a test
for cross-crate constrained functions, I added a safe_slice function
to std::str (slice(), with one of the asserts replaced with a
function precondition) and some test cases (various versions of
fn-constraint.rs) that call it. Also, I changed "fn" to "pred" for
some of the boolean functions in std::uint.
Right now rustc hardcodes -lrustllvm. The idea is to instead remember all the native
modules used and convert them to -l directives to the linker. In the case of a
library that is installed in an unusual location, Graydon suggested using metadata:
native module foo = "bar" {
}
