trans::trans_lval will now autobind if the given expression was the
name of a generic functions. Those callees (trans_call and trans_bind)
that are interested in the generics information call trans_lval_gen
now.
Previously, we were creating both a normal vtable entry and a
forwarding function for overriding methods, when they should have just
gotten a vtable entry. This patch fixes that.
This adds support for dropping cleanups for temporary values when they
are moved somewhere else. It then adds wraps most copy operations
(return, put in data structure, box, etc) in a way that will fall back
to a move when it is safe.
This saves a lot of taking/dropping, shaving over a megabyte off the
stage2/rustc binary size.
In some cases, most notably function returns, we could detect that the
returned value is a local variable, and can thus be safely moved even
though it is not a temporary. This will require putting some more
information in lvals.
I did not yet handle function arguments, since the logic for passing
them looked too convoluted to touch. I'll probably try that in the
near future, since it's bound to be a big win.
(The old syntax is still supported as well, for now.)
It is now possible to leave out the parens around if, while, and
do/while conditions, and around alt expressions. Cases in an alt block
can now leave off the case keyword and parens around the pattern.
After the next snapshot, we can start migrating our code to use the
new alt syntax, probably with a pretty-printer pass. The paren-free
syntax will remain optional (you may always parenthesize expressions),
but the old case syntax will no longer be supported in the future.
If a closure inside a case alternative (for example, a for each loop)
referenced a pattern-bound variable, this would cause an assertion
failure in trans. Changed trans::collect_upvars to handle pattern-bound
vars correctly.
Incidentally, eliminated all direct uses of option::get in trans.
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.
Implement "claim" (issue #14), which is a version of "check" that
doesn't really do the check at runtime. It's an unsafe feature.
The new flag --check-claims turns claims into checks automatically --
but it's off by default, so by default, the assertion in a claim
doesn't execute at runtime.
The meta items within a crate's link attribute are used in linkage:
#[link(name = "std",
vers = "1.0",
custom = "whatever")];
Name and vers are treated specially, and everything else is hashed together
into the crate meta hash.
Issue #487
Resources are now defined like...
resource fd(int n) { close(n); }
Calling fd with an int will then produce a non-copyable value
that, when dropped, will call close on the given int.
