Work on #13287
This is not ready for a merge yet, but I wanted to get some eyes on what I have done so far.
As of right now, all references in the text to managed boxes or pointers are removed. Code associated with those specific sections of text have likewise been altered. I also removed all references to managed closures.
There is a small change I would like to add to the work done in 3137cd5, on the new lines 1495 and 1496, I would like to change those values to 10 and 20. I did the same in a later change on lines 1596 and 1508.
There are still bits of sample code that use managed pointers and the sigil @. Those are next on my list to remove, but I wanted to have the outstanding changes reviewed first. The uses of @ in the code samples are a bit more embedded, and I will need to be more careful changing them as to not change the purpose of the code examples.
I ensured that make check still passes, although I'm not sure if that actually tests the code in tutorial.md.
One issues I ran into, and tried to avoid, was that `tutorial.md` is formatted with a nice column limit. I was unsure how this was enforced, so wherever I edited a line, I did my best to keep edits on the line they previously existed on. As such, the plain text of `tutorial.md` looks a bit strange as I've left it, and I will clean that up as suggested. The rendered markdown output should not be affected.
rustc: feature-gate `concat_idents!`.
concat_idents! is not as useful as it could be, due to macros only being
allowed in limited places, and hygiene, so lets feature gate it until we
make a decision about it.
cc #13294
This was missed when dropping the null-termination from our string
types. An explicit null byte can still be placed anywhere in a string if
desired, but there's no reason to stick one at the end of every string
constant.
concat_idents! is not as useful as it could be, due to macros only being
allowed in limited places, and hygiene, so lets feature gate it until we
make a decision about it.
cc #13294
These syntax extensions need a place to be documented, and this starts passing a
`--cfg dox` parameter to `rustdoc` when building and testing documentation in
order to document macros so that they have no effect on the compiled crate, but
only documentation.
Closes#5605
This was missed when dropping the null-termination from our string
types. An explicit null byte can still be placed anywhere in a string if
desired, but there's no reason to stick one at the end of every string
constant.
Closes#13285 (rustc: Stop using LLVMGetSectionName)
Closes#13280 (std: override clone_from for Vec.)
Closes#13277 (serialize: add a few missing pubs to base64)
Closes#13275 (Add and remove some ignore-win32 flags)
Closes#13273 (Removed managed boxes from libarena.)
Closes#13270 (Minor copy-editing for the tutorial)
Closes#13267 (fix Option<~ZeroSizeType>)
Closes#13265 (Update emacs mode to support new `#![inner(attribute)]` syntax.)
Closes#13263 (syntax: Remove AbiSet, use one Abi)
These syntax extensions need a place to be documented, and this starts passing a
`--cfg dox` parameter to `rustdoc` when building and testing documentation in
order to document macros so that they have no effect on the compiled crate, but
only documentation.
Closes#5605
This change removes the AbiSet from the AST, converting all usage to have just
one Abi value. The current scheme selects a relevant ABI given a list of ABIs
based on the target architecture and how relevant each ABI is to that
architecture.
Instead of this mildly complicated scheme, only one ABI will be allowed in abi
strings, and pseudo-abis will be created for special cases as necessary. For
example the "system" abi exists for stdcall on win32 and C on win64.
Closes#10049
Note: "different to" is not exactly incorrect, but "different from" is more
commonly accepted in both US and Commonwealth English, and also more
consistent with other usage within this tutorial.
A vector can reuse its allocation (and the allocations/resources of any
contained values) when cloning into an already-instantiated vector, so
we might as well do so.
The recent pull request to remove libc from libstd has hit a wall in compiling
on windows, and I've been trying to investigate on the try bots as to why (it
compiles locally just fine). To the best of my knowledge, the LLVM section
iterator is behaving badly when iterating over the sections of the libc DLL.
Upon investigating the LLVMGetSectionName function in LLVM, I discovered that
this function doesn't always return a null-terminated string. It returns the
data pointer of a StringRef instance (LLVM's equivalent of &str essentially),
but it has no method of returning the length of the name of the section.
This commit modifies the section iteration when loading libraries to invoke a
custom LLVMRustGetSectionName which will correctly return both the length and
the data pointer.
I have not yet verified that this will fix landing liblibc, as it will require a
snapshot before doing a full test. Regardless, this is a worrisome situation
regarding the LLVM API, and should likely be fixed anyway.
Update the instructions to reflect that we have binary installers for all
supported platforms, and move the building from source directions into a
dedicated "Building from Source" directory.
