With these changes I was able to cross compile for windows from a linux box. (Using the mingw-w64 package on Debian Testing).
Fixed a bug where the `target_family` cfg would be wrong when targeting something with a different value than the host. (i.e windows -> unix or unix -> windows).
Also, removed `LIBUV_FLAGS` in `mk/rt.mk` because of the redundancy between it and `CFG_GCCISH_CFLAGS_(target)`.
After this we can create a snapshot and migrate to mingw64 instead of mingw32.
This is based off of @blake2-ppc's work on #9429. That PR bitrotted and I haven't been able to contact the original author so I decided to take up the cause.
Overview
======
`Mut` encapsulates a mutable, non-nullable slot. The `Cell` type is currently used to do this, but `Cell` is much more commonly used as a workaround for the inability to move values into non-once functions. `Mut` provides a more robust API.
`Mut` duplicates the semantics of borrowed pointers with enforcement at runtime instead of compile time.
```rust
let x = Mut::new(0);
{
// make some immutable borrows
let p = x.borrow();
let y = *p.get() + 10;
// multiple immutable borrows are allowed simultaneously
let p2 = x.borrow();
// this would throw a runtime failure
// let p_mut = x.borrow_mut();
}
// now we can mutably borrow
let p = x.borrow_mut();
*p.get() = 10;
```
`borrow` returns a `Ref` type and `borrow_mut` returns a `RefMut` type, both of which are simple smart pointer types with a single method, `get`, which returns a reference to the wrapped data.
This also allows `RcMut<T>` to be deleted, as it can be replaced with `Rc<Mut<T>>`.
Changes
======
I've done things a little bit differently than the original proposal.
* I've added `try_borrow` and `try_borrow_mut` methods that return `Option<Ref<T>>` and `Option<RefMut<T>>` respectively instead of failing on a borrow check failure. I'm not totally sure when that'd be useful, but I don't see any reason to not put them in and @cmr requested them.
* `ReadPtr` and `WritePtr` have been renamed to `Ref` and `RefMut` respectively, as `Ref` is to `ref foo` and `RefMut` is to `ref mut foo` as `Mut` is to `mut foo`.
* `get` on `MutRef` now takes `&self` instead of `&mut self` for consistency with `&mut`. As @alexcrichton pointed, out this violates soundness by allowing aliasing `&mut` references.
* `Cell` is being left as is. It solves a different problem than `Mut` is designed to solve.
* There are no longer methods implemented for `Mut<Option<T>>`. Since `Cell` isn't going away, there's less of a need for these, and I didn't feel like they provided a huge benefit, especially as that kind of `impl` is very uncommon in the standard library.
Open Questions
============
* `Cell` should now be used exclusively for movement into closures. Should this be enforced by reducing its API to `new` and `take`? It seems like this use case will be completely going away once the transition to `proc` and co. finishes.
* Should there be `try_map` and `try_map_mut` methods along with `map` and `map_mut`?
I cannot tell whether the original comment was unsure about the
arithmetic calculations, or if it was unsure about the assumptions
being made about the alignment of the current allocation pointer.
The arithmetic calculation looks fine to me, though. This technique
is documented e.g. in Henry Warren's "Hacker's Delight" (section 3-1).
(I am sure one can find it elsewhere too, its not an obscure
property.)
I added a test case which does not compile today, and required changes on
privacy's side of things to get right. Additionally, this moves a good bit of
logic which did not belong in reachability into privacy.
All of reachability should solely be responsible for determining what the
reachable surface area of a crate is given the exported surface area (where the
exported surface area is that which is usable by external crates).
Privacy will now correctly figure out what's exported by deeply looking
through reexports. Previously if a module were reexported under another name,
nothing in the module would actually get exported in the executable. I also
consolidated the phases of privacy to be clearer about what's an input to what.
The privacy checking pass no longer uses the notion of an "all public" path, and
the embargo visitor is no longer an input to the checking pass.
Currently the embargo visitor is built as a saturating analysis because it's
unknown what portions of the AST are going to get re-exported.
This also cracks down on exported methods from impl blocks and trait blocks. If you implement a private trait, none of the symbols are exported, and if you have an impl for a private type none of the symbols are exported either. On the other hand, if you implement a public trait for a private type, the symbols are still exported. I'm unclear on whether this last part is correct, but librustc will fail to link unless it's in place.
I added a test case which does not compile today, and required changes on
privacy's side of things to get right. Additionally, this moves a good bit of
logic which did not belong in reachability into privacy.
All of reachability should solely be responsible for determining what the
reachable surface area of a crate is given the exported surface area (where the
exported surface area is that which is usable by external crates).
Privacy will now correctly figure out what's exported by deeply looking
through reexports. Previously if a module were reexported under another name,
nothing in the module would actually get exported in the executable. I also
consolidated the phases of privacy to be clearer about what's an input to what.
The privacy checking pass no longer uses the notion of an "all public" path, and
the embargo visitor is no longer an input to the checking pass.
Currently the embargo visitor is built as a saturating analysis because it's
unknown what portions of the AST are going to get re-exported.
I cannot tell whether the original comment was unsure about the
arithmetic calculations, or if it was unsure about the assumptions
being made about the alignment of the current allocation pointer.
The arithmetic calculation looks fine to me, though. This technique
is documented e.g. in Henry Warren's "Hacker's Delight" (section 3-1).
(I am sure one can find it elsewhere too, its not an obscure
property.)
New benchmark tests in vec.rs:
`push`, `starts_with_same_vector`, `starts_with_single_element`,
`starts_with_diff_one_element_end`, `ends_with_same_vector`,
`ends_with_single_element`, `ends_with_diff_one_element_beginning` and
`contains_last_element`
This replaces the old section on managed pointers because the syntax is
going to be removed and it's currently feature gated so the examples
don't work out-of-the-box. Dynamic mutability coverage can be added
after the `Mut<T>` work has landed.
This replaces the old section on managed pointers because the syntax is
going to be removed and it's currently feature gated so the examples
don't work out-of-the-box. Dynamic mutability coverage can be added
after the `Mut<T>` work has landed.
