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Author SHA1 Message Date
Alex Crichton
f94d671bfa core: Remove the cast module
This commit revisits the `cast` module in libcore and libstd, and scrutinizes
all functions inside of it. The result was to remove the `cast` module entirely,
folding all functionality into the `mem` module. Specifically, this is the fate
of each function in the `cast` module.

* transmute - This function was moved to `mem`, but it is now marked as
              #[unstable]. This is due to planned changes to the `transmute`
              function and how it can be invoked (see the #[unstable] comment).
              For more information, see RFC 5 and #12898

* transmute_copy - This function was moved to `mem`, with clarification that is
                   is not an error to invoke it with T/U that are different
                   sizes, but rather that it is strongly discouraged. This
                   function is now #[stable]

* forget - This function was moved to `mem` and marked #[stable]

* bump_box_refcount - This function was removed due to the deprecation of
                      managed boxes as well as its questionable utility.

* transmute_mut - This function was previously deprecated, and removed as part
                  of this commit.

* transmute_mut_unsafe - This function doesn't serve much of a purpose when it
                         can be achieved with an `as` in safe code, so it was
                         removed.

* transmute_lifetime - This function was removed because it is likely a strong
                       indication that code is incorrect in the first place.

* transmute_mut_lifetime - This function was removed for the same reasons as
                           `transmute_lifetime`

* copy_lifetime - This function was moved to `mem`, but it is marked
                  `#[unstable]` now due to the likelihood of being removed in
                  the future if it is found to not be very useful.

* copy_mut_lifetime - This function was also moved to `mem`, but had the same
                      treatment as `copy_lifetime`.

* copy_lifetime_vec - This function was removed because it is not used today,
                      and its existence is not necessary with DST
                      (copy_lifetime will suffice).

In summary, the cast module was stripped down to these functions, and then the
functions were moved to the `mem` module.

    transmute - #[unstable]
    transmute_copy - #[stable]
    forget - #[stable]
    copy_lifetime - #[unstable]
    copy_mut_lifetime - #[unstable]

[breaking-change]
2014-05-11 01:13:02 -07:00
Alex Crichton
cc6ec8df95 log: Introduce liblog, the old std::logging
This commit moves all logging out of the standard library into an external
crate. This crate is the new crate which is responsible for all logging macros
and logging implementation. A few reasons for this change are:

* The crate map has always been a bit of a code smell among rust programs. It
  has difficulty being loaded on almost all platforms, and it's used almost
  exclusively for logging and only logging. Removing the crate map is one of the
  end goals of this movement.

* The compiler has a fair bit of special support for logging. It has the
  __log_level() expression as well as generating a global word per module
  specifying the log level. This is unfairly favoring the built-in logging
  system, and is much better done purely in libraries instead of the compiler
  itself.

* Initialization of logging is much easier to do if there is no reliance on a
  magical crate map being available to set module log levels.

* If the logging library can be written outside of the standard library, there's
  no reason that it shouldn't be. It's likely that we're not going to build the
  highest quality logging library of all time, so third-party libraries should
  be able to provide just as high-quality logging systems as the default one
  provided in the rust distribution.

With a migration such as this, the change does not come for free. There are some
subtle changes in the behavior of liblog vs the previous logging macros:

* The core change of this migration is that there is no longer a physical
  log-level per module. This concept is still emulated (it is quite useful), but
  there is now only a global log level, not a local one. This global log level
  is a reflection of the maximum of all log levels specified. The previously
  generated logging code looked like:

    if specified_level <= __module_log_level() {
        println!(...)
    }

  The newly generated code looks like:

    if specified_level <= ::log::LOG_LEVEL {
        if ::log::module_enabled(module_path!()) {
            println!(...)
        }
    }

  Notably, the first layer of checking is still intended to be "super fast" in
  that it's just a load of a global word and a compare. The second layer of
  checking is executed to determine if the current module does indeed have
  logging turned on.

  This means that if any module has a debug log level turned on, all modules
  with debug log levels get a little bit slower (they all do more expensive
  dynamic checks to determine if they're turned on or not).

  Semantically, this migration brings no change in this respect, but
  runtime-wise, this will have a perf impact on some code.

* A `RUST_LOG=::help` directive will no longer print out a list of all modules
  that can be logged. This is because the crate map will no longer specify the
  log levels of all modules, so the list of modules is not known. Additionally,
  warnings can no longer be provided if a malformed logging directive was
  supplied.

The new "hello world" for logging looks like:

    #[phase(syntax, link)]
    extern crate log;

    fn main() {
        debug!("Hello, world!");
    }
2014-03-15 22:26:36 -07:00
Alex Crichton
daf5f5a4d1 Drop the '2' suffix from logging macros
Who doesn't like a massive renaming?
2013-10-22 08:09:56 -07:00
Alex Crichton
ebf5f406ef cfail: Remove usage of fmt! 2013-09-30 23:21:20 -07:00
Huon Wilson
e4f7561bcd Clean-up tests after debug!/std-macros change.
The entire testsuite is converted to using info! rather than debug!
because some depend on the code within the debug! being trans'd.
2013-07-17 03:10:13 +10:00
Patrick Walton
206ab89629 librustc: Stop reexporting the standard modules from prelude. 2013-05-29 19:04:53 -07:00
Patrick Walton
c6a9e28842 librustc: Rename reinterpret_cast to transmute_copy and remove the intrinsic 2013-04-29 14:30:53 -07:00
Huon Wilson
7d7e149748 testsuite: tests for #[packed] structs. 2013-04-10 23:47:53 +10:00