always resolve to universal regions if possible
`RegionConstraintCollector::opportunistic_resolve_var`, which is used in canonicalization and projection logic, doesn't resolve the region var to an equal universal region. So if we have equated `'static == '1 == '2`, it doesn't resolve `'1` or `'2` to `'static`. Now it does!
Addresses review comment https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/107376#discussion_r1093233687.
r? `@lcnr`
rustc_middle: Remove trait `DefIdTree`
This trait was a way to generalize over both `TyCtxt` and `Resolver`, but now `Resolver` has access to `TyCtxt`, so this trait is no longer necessary.
rustc_infer: Consolidate obligation elaboration de-duplication
# Explanation
The obligations `Elaborator` is doing de-duplication of obligations in 3 different locations. 1 off which has a comment.
This PR consolidates the functionality and comment to a single function.
(This is a large commit. The changes to
`compiler/rustc_middle/src/ty/context.rs` are the most important ones.)
The current naming scheme is a mess, with a mix of `_intern_`, `intern_`
and `mk_` prefixes, with little consistency. In particular, in many
cases it's easy to use an iterator interner when a (preferable) slice
interner is available.
The guiding principles of the new naming system:
- No `_intern_` prefixes.
- The `intern_` prefix is for internal operations.
- The `mk_` prefix is for external operations.
- For cases where there is a slice interner and an iterator interner,
the former is `mk_foo` and the latter is `mk_foo_from_iter`.
Also, `slice_interners!` and `direct_interners!` can now be `pub` or
non-`pub`, which helps enforce the internal/external operations
division.
It's not perfect, but I think it's a clear improvement.
The following lists show everything that was renamed.
slice_interners
- const_list
- mk_const_list -> mk_const_list_from_iter
- intern_const_list -> mk_const_list
- substs
- mk_substs -> mk_substs_from_iter
- intern_substs -> mk_substs
- check_substs -> check_and_mk_substs (this is a weird one)
- canonical_var_infos
- intern_canonical_var_infos -> mk_canonical_var_infos
- poly_existential_predicates
- mk_poly_existential_predicates -> mk_poly_existential_predicates_from_iter
- intern_poly_existential_predicates -> mk_poly_existential_predicates
- _intern_poly_existential_predicates -> intern_poly_existential_predicates
- predicates
- mk_predicates -> mk_predicates_from_iter
- intern_predicates -> mk_predicates
- _intern_predicates -> intern_predicates
- projs
- intern_projs -> mk_projs
- place_elems
- mk_place_elems -> mk_place_elems_from_iter
- intern_place_elems -> mk_place_elems
- bound_variable_kinds
- mk_bound_variable_kinds -> mk_bound_variable_kinds_from_iter
- intern_bound_variable_kinds -> mk_bound_variable_kinds
direct_interners
- region
- intern_region (unchanged)
- const
- mk_const_internal -> intern_const
- const_allocation
- intern_const_alloc -> mk_const_alloc
- layout
- intern_layout -> mk_layout
- adt_def
- intern_adt_def -> mk_adt_def_from_data (unusual case, hard to avoid)
- alloc_adt_def(!) -> mk_adt_def
- external_constraints
- intern_external_constraints -> mk_external_constraints
Other
- type_list
- mk_type_list -> mk_type_list_from_iter
- intern_type_list -> mk_type_list
- tup
- mk_tup -> mk_tup_from_iter
- intern_tup -> mk_tup
Use `tcx.ty_error_with_guaranteed` in more places, rename variants
1. Use `ty_error_with_guaranteed` more so we don't delay so many span bugs
2. Rename `ty_error_with_guaranteed` to `ty_error`, `ty_error` to `ty_error_misc`. This is to incentivize using the former over the latter in cases where we already are witness to a `ErrorGuaranteed` token.
Second commit is just name replacement, so the first commit can be reviewed on its own with more scrutiny.
Use associated type bounds in some places in the compiler
Use associated type bounds for some nested `impl Trait<Assoc = impl Trait2>` cases. I'm generally keen to introduce new lang features that are more mature into the compiler, but maybe let's see what others think?
Side-note: I was surprised that the only use-cases of nested impl trait in the compiler are just iterator related?!
apply query response: actually define opaque types
not sure whether this fixes any code considering that #107891 doesn't break anything, but this is currently wrong as the `eq` there should just always fail right now.
We can definitely hit this code if we remove the `replace_opaque_types_with_inference_vars` hack. Doing so without this PR causes a few tests to ICE, e.g.
bd4a96a12d/tests/ui/impl-trait/issue-99642.rs (L1-L7)
r? `@oli-obk`
Don't delay `ReError` bug during lexical region resolve
Lexical region resolution returns a list of `RegionResolutionError` which don't necessarily correspond to diagnostics being emitted. The compiler may, validly, throw away these resolution errors and do something else. Therefore it's not valid to use `ReError` during lifetime resolution, since we may actually be on a totally fine compilation path.
For example, the `implied_bounds_entailment` lint runs region resolution twice, and only emits an error if it fails both times. If we delay a bug and create a `ReError` during this first run, then we will ICE.
Fixes#108170
----
Side-note: this is conceptually equivalent to how we can't necessarily delay bugs or create `ty::Error` during trait solving/fulfillment, since the compiler is allowed to throw away these fulfillment errors to do other things. It's only once we actually emit an error (`report_region_errors` / `report_fulfillment_errors`)
Remove type-traversal trait aliases
#107924 moved the type traversal (folding and visiting) traits into the type library, but created trait aliases in `rustc_middle` to minimise both the API churn for trait consumers and the arising boilerplate. As mentioned in that PR, an alternative approach of defining subtraits with blanket implementations of the respective supertraits was also considered at that time but was ruled out as not adding much value.
Unfortunately, it has since emerged that rust-analyzer has difficulty with these trait aliases at present, resulting in a degraded contributor experience (see the recent [r-a has become useless](https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/182449-t-compiler.2Fhelp/topic/r-a.20has.20become.20useless) topic on the #t-compiler/help Zulip stream).
This PR removes the trait aliases, and accordingly the underlying type library traits are now used directly; they are parameterised by `TyCtxt<'tcx>` rather than just the `'tcx` lifetime, and imports have been updated to reflect the fact that the trait aliases' explicitly named traits are no longer automatically brought into scope. These changes also roll-back the (no-longer required) workarounds to #107747 that were made in b409329c62.
Since this PR is just a find+replace together with the changes necessary for compilation & tidy to pass, it's currently just one mega-commit. Let me know if you'd like it broken up.
r? `@oli-obk`
Instead of loading the Fluent resources for every crate in
`rustc_error_messages`, each crate generates typed identifiers for its
own diagnostics and creates a static which are pulled together in the
`rustc_driver` crate and provided to the diagnostic emitter.
Signed-off-by: David Wood <david.wood@huawei.com>
Better debug logs for borrowck constraint graph
It's really cumbersome to work with `RegionVar`s when trying to debug borrowck code or when trying to understand how the borrowchecker works. This PR collects some region information (behind `cfg(debug_assertions)`) for created `RegionVar`s (NLL region vars, this PR doesn't touch canonicalization) and prints the nodes and edges of the strongly connected constraints graph using representatives that use that region information (either lifetime names, locations in MIR or spans).
Name placeholder in some region errors
Also don't print `ReVar` or `ReLateBound` as debug... these error messages are super uncommon anyways, but in the case they do trigger, let's be slightly more helpful.
Deny non-lifetime bound vars in `for<..> ||` closure binders
Moves the check for illegal bound var types from astconv to resolve_bound_vars. If a binder is defined to have a type or const late-bound var that's not allowed, we'll resolve any usages to ty error or const error values, so we shouldn't ever see late-bound types or consts in places they aren't expected.
Fixes#108184Fixes#108181Fixes#108192
Switch to `EarlyBinder` for `type_of` query
Part of the work to finish #105779 and implement https://github.com/rust-lang/types-team/issues/78.
Several queries `X` have a `bound_X` variant that wraps the output in `EarlyBinder`. This adds `EarlyBinder` to the return type of the `type_of` query and removes `bound_type_of`.
r? `@lcnr`
Do not ICE on unmet trait alias impl bounds
Fixes#108132
I've also added some documentation to the `impl_def_id` field of `DerivedObligationCause` to try and minimise the risk of such errors in future.
r? `@compiler-errors`
Implement partial support for non-lifetime binders
This implements support for non-lifetime binders. It's pretty useless currently, but I wanted to put this up so the implementation can be discussed.
Specifically, this piggybacks off of the late-bound lifetime collection code in `rustc_hir_typeck::collect::lifetimes`. This seems like a necessary step given the fact we don't resolve late-bound regions until this point, and binders are sometimes merged.
Q: I'm not sure if I should go along this route, or try to modify the earlier nameres code to compute the right bound var indices for type and const binders eagerly... If so, I'll need to rename all these queries to something more appropriate (I've done this for `resolve_lifetime::Region` -> `resolve_lifetime::ResolvedArg`)
cc rust-lang/types-team#81
r? `@ghost`
Rollup of 7 pull requests
Successful merges:
- #106347 (More accurate spans for arg removal suggestion)
- #108057 (Prevent some attributes from being merged with others on reexports)
- #108090 (`if $c:expr { Some($r:expr) } else { None }` =>> `$c.then(|| $r)`)
- #108092 (note issue for feature(packed_bundled_libs))
- #108099 (use chars instead of strings where applicable)
- #108115 (Do not ICE on unmet trait alias bounds)
- #108125 (Add new people to the compiletest review rotation)
Failed merges:
r? `@ghost`
`@rustbot` modify labels: rollup
Optimize `mk_region`
PR #107869 avoiding some interning under `mk_ty` by special-casing `Ty` variants with simple (integer) bodies. This PR does something similar for regions.
r? `@compiler-errors`
Don't suggest `#[doc(hidden)]` trait methods with matching return type
Fixes#107983, addressing the bad suggestion.
The test can probably be made more specific to this case, but I'm unsure how.
`@rustbot` label +A-diagnostics
Avoid accessing HIR when it can be avoided
Experiment to see if it helps some incremental cases.
Will be rebased once https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/107942 gets merged.
r? `@ghost`
Rollup of 7 pull requests
Successful merges:
- #105300 (rework min_choice algorithm of member constraints)
- #107163 (Remove some superfluous type parameters from layout.rs.)
- #107173 (Suggest the correct array length on mismatch)
- #107411 (Handle discriminant in DataflowConstProp)
- #107968 (Enable `#[thread_local]` on armv6k-nintendo-3ds)
- #108032 (Un📦ing the Resolver)
- #108060 (Revert to using `RtlGenRandom` as a fallback)
Failed merges:
r? `@ghost`
`@rustbot` modify labels: rollup
Suggest the correct array length on mismatch
Fixes#107156
I wasn't able to find a way to get the `Span` for the actual array size unfortunately, so this suggestion can't be applied automatically.
``@rustbot`` label +A-diagnostics
use semantic equality for const param type equality assertion
Fixes#107898
See added test for what caused this ICE
---
The current in assertion in `relate.rs` is rather inadequate when keeping in mind future expansions to const generics:
- it will ICE when there are infer vars in a projection in a const param ty
- it will spurriously return false when either ty has infer vars because of using `==` instead of `infcx.at(..).eq`
- i am also unsure if it would be possible with `adt_const_params` to craft a situation where the const param type is not wf causing `normalize_erasing_regions` to `bug!` when we would have emitted a diagnostic.
This impl feels pretty Not Great to me although i am not sure what a better idea would be.
- We have to have the logic behind a query because neither `relate.rs` or `combine.rs` have access to trait solving machinery (without evaluating nested obligations this assert will become _far_ less useful under lazy norm, which consts are already doing)
- `relate.rs` does not have access to canonicalization machinery which is necessary in order to have types potentially containing infer vars in query arguments.
We could possible add a method to `TypeRelation` to do this assertion rather than a query but to avoid implementing the same logic over and over we'd probably end up with the logic in a free function somewhere in `rustc_trait_selection` _anyway_ so I don't think that would be much better.
We could also just remove this assertion, it should not actually be necessary for it to be present. It has caught some bugs in the past though so if possible I would like to keep it.
r? `@compiler-errors`
Much like there are specialized variants of `mk_ty`. This will enable
some optimization in the next commit.
Also rename the existing `re_error*` functions as `mk_re_error*`, for
consistency.
fix: improve the suggestion on future not awaited
Considering the following code
```rust
fn foo() -> u8 {
async fn async_fn() -> u8 { 22 }
async_fn()
}
fn main() {}
```
the error generated before this commit from the compiler is
```
➜ rust git:(macros/async_fn_suggestion) ✗ rustc test.rs --edition 2021
error[E0308]: mismatched types
--> test.rs:4:5
|
1 | fn foo() -> u8 {
| -- expected `u8` because of return type
...
4 | async_fn()
| ^^^^^^^^^^ expected `u8`, found opaque type
|
= note: expected type `u8`
found opaque type `impl Future<Output = u8>`
help: consider `await`ing on the `Future`
|
4 | async_fn().await
| ++++++
error: aborting due to previous error
```
In this case the error is nor perfect, and can confuse the user that do not know that the opaque type is the future.
So this commit will propose (and conclude the work start in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/80658)
to change the string `opaque type` to `future` when applicable and also remove the Expected vs Received note by adding a more specific one regarding the async function that return a future type.
So the new error emitted by the compiler is
```
error[E0308]: mismatched types
--> test.rs:4:5
|
1 | fn foo() -> u8 {
| -- expected `u8` because of return type
...
4 | async_fn()
| ^^^^^^^^^^ expected `u8`, found future
|
note: calling an async function returns a future
--> test.rs:4:5
|
4 | async_fn()
| ^^^^^^^^^^
help: consider `await`ing on the `Future`
|
4 | async_fn().await
| ++++++
error: aborting due to previous error
```
Fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/80658
It remains to rework the case described in the following issue https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/107899 but I think this deserves its own PR after we discuss a little bit how to handle these kinds of cases.
r? `@eholk`
`@rustbot` label +I-async-nominated
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Palazzo <vincenzopalazzodev@gmail.com>
Considering the following code
```rust
fn foo() -> u8 {
async fn async_fn() -> u8 { 22 }
async_fn()
}
fn main() {}
```
the error generated before this commit from the compiler is
```
➜ rust git:(macros/async_fn_suggestion) ✗ rustc test.rs --edition 2021
error[E0308]: mismatched types
--> test.rs:4:5
|
1 | fn foo() -> u8 {
| -- expected `u8` because of return type
...
4 | async_fn()
| ^^^^^^^^^^ expected `u8`, found opaque type
|
= note: expected type `u8`
found opaque type `impl Future<Output = u8>`
help: consider `await`ing on the `Future`
|
4 | async_fn().await
| ++++++
error: aborting due to previous error
```
In this case the error is nor perfect, and can confuse the user
that do not know that the opaque type is the future.
So this commit will propose (and conclude the work start in
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/80658)
to change the string `opaque type` to `future` when applicable
and also remove the Expected vs Received note by adding a more
specific one regarding the async function that return a future type.
So the new error emitted by the compiler is
```
error[E0308]: mismatched types
--> test.rs:4:5
|
1 | fn foo() -> u8 {
| -- expected `u8` because of return type
...
4 | async_fn()
| ^^^^^^^^^^ expected `u8`, found future
|
note: calling an async function returns a future
--> test.rs:4:5
|
4 | async_fn()
| ^^^^^^^^^^
help: consider `await`ing on the `Future`
|
4 | async_fn().await
| ++++++
error: aborting due to previous error
```
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Palazzo <vincenzopalazzodev@gmail.com>
Implement `deferred_projection_equality` for erica solver
Somewhat of a revival of #96912. When relating projections now emit an `AliasEq` obligation instead of attempting to determine equality of projections that may not be as normalized as possible (i.e. because of lazy norm, or just containing inference variables that prevent us from resolving an impl). Only do this when the new solver is enabled
Avoid exposing type parameters and implementation details sourced from macro expansions
Fixes#107745.
~~I would like to **request some guidance** for this issue, because I don't think this is a good fix (a band-aid at best).~~
### The Problem
The code
```rust
fn main() {
println!("{:?}", []);
}
```
gets desugared into (`rustc +nightly --edition=2018 issue-107745.rs -Z unpretty=hir`):
```rust
#[prelude_import]
use std::prelude::rust_2018::*;
#[macro_use]
extern crate std;
fn main() {
{
::std::io::_print(<#[lang = "format_arguments"]>::new_v1(&["",
"\n"], &[<#[lang = "format_argument"]>::new_debug(&[])]));
};
}
```
so the diagnostics code tries to be as specific and helpful as possible, and I think it finds that `[]` needs a type parameter and so does `new_debug`. But since `[]` doesn't have an origin for the type parameter definition, it points to `new_debug` instead and leaks the internal implementation detail since all `[]` has is an type inference variable.
### ~~The Bad Fix~~
~~This PR currently tries to fix the problem by bypassing the generated function `<#[lang = "format_argument"]>::new_debug` to avoid its generic parameter (I think it is auto-generated from the argument `[_; 0]`?) from getting collected as an `InsertableGenericArg`. This is problematic because it also prevents the help from getting displayed.~~
~~I think this fix is not ideal and hard-codes the format generated code pattern, but I can't think of a better fix. I have tried asking on Zulip but no responses there yet.~~
Rename `replace_bound_vars_with_*` to `instantiate_binder_with_*`
Mentioning "binder" rather than "bound vars", imo, makes it clearer that we're doing something to the binder as a whole.
Also, "instantiate" is the verb that I'm always reaching for when I'm looking for these functions, and the name that we use in the new solver anyways.
r? types
Fix problem noticed in PR106859 with char -> u8 suggestion
HN reader `@ayosec` noticed that my #106859 a few weeks back, malfunctions if you have a Unicode escape, the code suggested b'\u{0}' if you tried to use '\u{0}' where a byte should be, when of course b'\u{0}' is not a byte literal, regardless of the codepoint you can't write Unicode escapes in a byte literal at all.
My proposed fix here just checks that the "character" you wrote is fewer than 5 bytes, thus allowing \x7F and similar escapes but conveniently forbidding even the smallest Unicode escape \u{0} before offering the suggestion as before.
I have provided an updated test which includes examples which do and don't work because of this additional rule.
Modify existing bounds if they exist
Fixes#107335.
This implementation is kinda gross but I don't really see a better way to do it.
This primarily does two things: Modifies `suggest_constraining_type_param` to accept a new parameter that indicates a span to be replaced instead of added, if presented, and limit the additive suggestions to either suggest a new bound on an existing bound (see newly added unit test) or add the generics argument if a generics argument wasn't found.
The former change is required to retain the capability to add an entirely new bounds if it was entirely omitted.
r? ``@compiler-errors``
Refine error spans for "The trait bound `T: Trait` is not satisfied" when passing literal structs/tuples
This PR adds a new heuristic which refines the error span reported for "`T: Trait` is not satisfied" errors, by "drilling down" into individual fields of structs/enums/tuples to point to the "problematic" value.
Here's a self-contained example of the difference in error span:
```rs
struct Burrito<Filling> {
filling: Filling,
}
impl <Filling: Delicious> Delicious for Burrito<Filling> {}
fn eat_delicious_food<Food: Delicious>(food: Food) {}
fn will_type_error() {
eat_delicious_food(Burrito { filling: Kale });
// ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (before) The trait bound `Kale: Delicious` is not satisfied
// ^~~~ (after) The trait bound `Kale: Delicious` is not satisfied
}
```
(kale is fine, this is just a silly food-based example)
Before this PR, the error span is identified as the entire argument to the generic function `eat_delicious_food`. However, since only `Kale` is the "problematic" part, we can point at it specifically. In particular, the primary error message itself mentions the missing `Kale: Delicious` trait bound, so it's much clearer if this part is called out explicitly.
---
The _existing_ heuristic tries to label the right function argument in `point_at_arg_if_possible`. It goes something like this:
- Look at the broken base trait `Food: Delicious` and find which generics it mentions (in this case, only `Food`)
- Look at the parameter type definitions and find which of them mention `Filling` (in this case, only `food`)
- If there is exactly one relevant parameter, label the corresponding argument with the error span, instead of the entire call
This PR extends this heuristic by further refining the resulting expression span in the new `point_at_specific_expr_if_possible` function. For each `impl` in the (broken) chain, we apply the following strategy:
The strategy to determine this span involves connecting information about our generic `impl`
with information about our (struct) type and the (struct) literal expression:
- Find the `impl` (`impl <Filling: Delicious> Delicious for Burrito<Filling>`)
that links our obligation (`Kale: Delicious`) with the parent obligation (`Burrito<Kale>: Delicious`)
- Find the "original" predicate constraint in the impl (`Filling: Delicious`) which produced our obligation.
- Find all of the generics that are mentioned in the predicate (`Filling`).
- Examine the `Self` type in the `impl`, and see which of its type argument(s) mention any of those generics.
- Examing the definition for the `Self` type, and identify (for each of its variants) if there's a unique field
which uses those generic arguments.
- If there is a unique field mentioning the "blameable" arguments, use that field for the error span.
Before we do any of this logic, we recursively call `point_at_specific_expr_if_possible` on the parent
obligation. Hence we refine the `expr` "outwards-in" and bail at the first kind of expression/impl we don't recognize.
This function returns a `Result<&Expr, &Expr>` - either way, it returns the `Expr` whose span should be
reported as an error. If it is `Ok`, then it means it refined successfull. If it is `Err`, then it may be
only a partial success - but it cannot be refined even further.
---
I added a new test file which exercises this new behavior. A few existing tests were affected, since their error spans are now different. In one case, this leads to a different code suggestion for the autofix - although the new suggestion isn't _wrong_, it is different from what used to be.
This change doesn't create any new errors or remove any existing ones, it just adjusts the spans where they're presented.
---
Some considerations: right now, this check occurs in addition to some similar logic in `adjust_fulfillment_error_for_expr_obligation` function, which tidies up various kinds of error spans (not just trait-fulfillment error). It's possible that this new code would be better integrated into that function (or another one) - but I haven't looked into this yet.
Although this code only occurs when there's a type error, it's definitely not as efficient as possible. In particular, there are definitely some cases where it degrades to quadratic performance (e.g. for a trait `impl` with 100+ generic parameters or 100 levels deep nesting of generic types). I'm not sure if these are realistic enough to worry about optimizing yet.
There's also still a lot of repetition in some of the logic, where the behavior for different types (namely, `struct` vs `enum` variant) is _similar_ but not the same.
---
I think the biggest win here is better targeting for tuples; in particular, if you're using tuples + traits to express variadic-like functions, the compiler can't tell you which part of a tuple has the wrong type, since the span will cover the entire argument. This change allows the individual field in the tuple to be highlighted, as in this example:
```
// NEW
LL | want(Wrapper { value: (3, q) });
| ---- ^ the trait `T3` is not implemented for `Q`
// OLD
LL | want(Wrapper { value: (3, q) });
| ---- ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ the trait `T3` is not implemented for `Q`
```
Especially with large tuples, the existing error spans are not very effective at quickly narrowing down the source of the problem.
Remove confusing 'while checking' note from opaque future type mismatches
Maybe I'm just misinterpreting the wording of the note. The only value I can see in this note is that it points out where the async's opaque future is coming from, but the way it's doing it is misleading IMO.
For example:
```rust
note: while checking the return type of the `async fn`
--> $DIR/dont-suggest-missing-await.rs:7:24
|
LL | async fn make_u32() -> u32 {
| ^^^ checked the `Output` of this `async fn`, found opaque type
```
We point at the type `u32` in the HIR, but then say "found opaque type". We also say "while checking"... but we're typechecking a totally different function when we get this type mismatch!
r? ``@estebank`` but feel free to reassign and/or take your time reviewing this. I'd be inclined to also discuss reworking the presentation of this type mismatch to restore some of these labels in a way that makes it more clear what it's trying to point out.
Track bound types like bound regions
When we instantiate bound types into placeholder types, we throw away the names for some reason. These names are particularly useful for error reporting once we have `for<T>` binders.
r? types
Use `FallibleTypeFolder` for `ConstInferUnifier` not `TypeRelation`
I am not sure why this was using a `TypeRelation`, maybe it predates the ability to have fallible type folders
internally change regions to be covariant
Surprisingly, we consider the reference type `&'a T` to be contravaraint in its lifetime parameter. This is confusing and conflicts with the documentation we have in the reference, rustnomicon, and rustc-dev-guide. This also arguably not the correct use of terminology since we can use `&'static u8` in a place where `&' a u8` is expected, this implies that `&'static u8 <: &' a u8` and consequently `'static <: ' a`, hence covariance.
Because of this, when relating two types, we used to switch the argument positions in a confusing way:
`Subtype(&'a u8 <: &'b u8) => Subtype('b <: 'a) => Outlives('a: 'b) => RegionSubRegion('b <= 'a)`
The reason for the current behavior is probably that we wanted `Subtype('b <: 'a)` and `RegionSubRegion('b <= 'a)` to be equivalent, but I don' t think this is a good reason since these relations are sufficiently different in that the first is a relation in the subtyping lattice and is intrinsic to the type-systems, while the the second relation is an implementation detail of regionck.
This PR changes this behavior to use covariance, so..
`Subtype(&'a u8 <: &'b u8) => Subtype('a <: 'b) => Outlives('a: 'b) => RegionSubRegion('b <= 'a) `
Resolves#103676
r? `@lcnr`
