With the scheme used to translate 'else if' currently the if expression is
translated in a new (else) scope context. If that if expression wants to
result in a value that requires refcounting then it will need to drop the
refcount in the cleanups of the else block.
Blocks return in a copy of the result of their ending expression, not the
direct result of the ending expression, as that may be a local variable which
gets zeroed by drop_slot.
* Reorganized typestate into several modules.
* Made typestate check that any function with a non-nil return type
returns a value. For now, the check is a warning and not an error
(see next item).
* Added a "bot" type (prettyprinted as _|_), for constructs like be, ret, break, cont, and
fail that don't locally return a value that can be inspected. "bot"
is distinct from "nil". There is no concrete syntax for _|_, while
the concrete syntax for the nil type is ().
* Added support to the parser for a ! annotation on functions whose
result type is _|_. Such a function is required to have either a
fail or a call to another ! function that is reached in all control
flow paths. The point of this annotation is to mark functions like
unimpl() and span_err(), so that an alt with a call to err() in one
case isn't a false positive for the return-value checker. I haven't
actually annotated anything with it yet.
* Random bugfixes:
* * Fixed bug in trans::trans_binary that was throwing away the
cleanups for nested subexpressions of an and or or
(tests: box-inside-if and box-inside-if2).
** In typeck, unify the expected type arguments of a tag with the
actual specified arguments.
This finally allows the full lib-sha1 test to run in a reasonable amount of
time. Was 30s, now 3s. Trims a second or two from stage2/rustc. XFAIL lib-sha1
in stage0 since it will be very slow until the next snapshot.
This reduces the time to execute the new lib-str tests from 1:40ish to a few
seconds and will eventually allow the full lib-sha1 test to run in a
reasonable amount of time. XFAIL lib-str in stage0 - it will run very slowly
until the next snapshot.
This ensures we don't get compile errors on unreachable code (see
test/run-pass/artificial-block.rs for an example of sane code that
wasn't compiling). In the future, we might want to warn about
non-trivial code appearing in an unreachable context, and/or avoid
generating unreachable code altogether (though I'm sure LLVM will weed
it out as well).
