src/comp/syntax is currently just a sub-module of rustc, but it will,
in the near future, be its own crate. This includes:
- The AST data structure
- The parser
- The pretty-printer
- Visit, walk, and fold
- The syntax extension system
- Some utility stuff that should be in the stdlib*
*) Stdlib extensions currently require a snapshot before they can be
used, and the win build is very broken right now. This is temporary
and will be cleaned up when one of those problems goes away.
A lot of code was moved by this patch, mostly towards a more organized
layout. Some package paths did get longer, and I guess the new layout
will take some getting used to. Sorry about that!
Please try not to re-introduce any dependencies in syntax/ on any of
the other src/comp/ subdirs.
(Using the * operator.)
This makes tags more useful as nominal 'newtype' types, since you no
longer have to copy out their contents (or construct a cumbersome
boilerplate alt) to access them.
I could have gone with a scheme where you could dereference individual
arguments of an n-ary variant with ._0, ._1, etc, but opted not to,
since we plan to move to a system where all variants are unary (or, I
guess, nullary).
This is important since we are going to be making functions noncopyable
soon, which means we'll be seeing a lot of boxed functions.
(*f)(...) is really just too heavyweight.
Doing the autodereferencing was a very little bit tricky since
trans_call works with an *lval* of the function whereas existing
autoderef code was not for lvals.
This reduces some redundancy in the AST data structures and cruft in
the code that works with them. To get a def_id from a node_id, apply
ast::local_def, which adds the local crate_num to the given node_id.
Most code only deals with crate-local node_ids, and won't have to
create def_ids at all.
Revert "rustc: Export only what's needed from middle::ty"
This reverts commit 4255d58aa5db2a05362c4435a0e807205e1b8ed7.
Revert "rustc: Make name resolution errors less fatal"
This reverts commit b8ab9ea89c16c60237e7660804f4321f59ae0435.
Revert "rustc: Make import resolution errors less fatal"
This reverts commit 92a8ae94b971206bf0502da3dc5f416fcb24cc36.
Revert "rustc: Export only what's used from middle::resolve"
This reverts commit 4539a2cf7ad99851a165c98ed2f4e4a475cffd7d.
Revert "rustc: Re-introduce session.span_err, session.err"
This reverts commit 7fe9a88e31ae07f2fd89f6715efedd7e3edf49e6.
Revert "rustc: Rename session.span_err -> span_fatal, err -> fatal"
This reverts commit c394a7f49ac29a099994e243017065de2ff97f2a.
Most of the fields in an AST item were present in all variants. Things
could be simplified considerably by putting them in the rec rather
than in the variant tags.
I added a "resolved" version of the ast::constr type -- ty::constr_def
-- that has a def_id field instead of an ann_field. This is more
consistent with other types and eliminates some checking.
Incidentally, I removed the def_map argument to the top-level function
in middle::alias, since the ty::ctxt already has a def_map field.
This is a somewhat odd place to put these checks, but the data tracked
by that pass, and the available functions, make it trivial to do such
a check there.
It was too clunky and specific before. Now returns a vec of dereference specs
instead of a bunch of special-case information. Further accessors extract
the information they need from this vec.
Since the decl in a for or for-each loop must always be a local
decl, I changed the AST to express this. Fewer potential match
failures and "the impossible happened" error messages = yay!
Before, all aliases were implicitly mutable, and writing
&mutable was the same as writing &. Now, the two are
distinguished, and assignments to regular aliases are
no longer allowed.
Changed function types to include a list of constraints. Added
code for parsing and pretty-printing constraints. This necessitated
splitting pprust into two files (pprust and ppaux) to break a
circulate dependency, as ty_to_str now needs to print out constraints,
which may include literals, but pprust depended on ty.
There was a bug that would cause the alias analyser to allow you to
invalidate an alias that was no longer directly referred to, even if
another alias was rooted in it. It now properly tracks dependencies
between live aliases.
Required another case of copying values in map.rs.
The old system tried to ensure that the location an alias pointed at
would retain its type. That turned out to not be strong enough in the
face of aliases to the inside of tags.
The new system instead proves that values pointed to by aliases are
not replaced (or invalidated in some other way) at all. It knows of
two sufficient conditions for this, and tries to prove at least of
them:
A) The alias is 'immutably rooted' in a local, and this local is not
reassigned for the lifetime of the alias. Immutably rooted means
the alias refers to the local itself, or to something reachable
from the local through immutable dereferencing.
B) No value whose type might include the type of the 'inner mutable
element' of the thing the alias refers to (for example, the box in
rec(mutable x = @mutable int)) is from the outer scope is accessed
for the lifetime of the alias. This means for functions, no other
argument types may include the alias's inner mutable type. For alt,
for each, and for, it means the body does not refer to any locals
originating from outside their scope that include this type.
The lifetime of an alias in an alt, for each, or for body is defined
as the range from its definition to its last use, not to the point
where it goes out of scope. This makes working around these
restrictions somewhat less annoying. For example, you can assign to
your alt-ed value you don't refer to any bindings afterwards.
The alias checker works by ensuring that any value to which an alias
is created is rooted in some way that ensures it outlives the alias.
It is now disallowed to create an alias to the content of a mutable
box, or to a box hanging off a mutable field. There is also machinery
in place to prevent assignment to local variables whenever they are
the root of a live alias.
