You can now say
let {bcx, val} = some_result_returner();
Similar for loop variables. Assigning to such variables is not safe
yet. Function arguments also remain a TODO.
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.
src/comp/syntax is currently just a sub-module of rustc, but it will,
in the near future, be its own crate. This includes:
- The AST data structure
- The parser
- The pretty-printer
- Visit, walk, and fold
- The syntax extension system
- Some utility stuff that should be in the stdlib*
*) Stdlib extensions currently require a snapshot before they can be
used, and the win build is very broken right now. This is temporary
and will be cleaned up when one of those problems goes away.
A lot of code was moved by this patch, mostly towards a more organized
layout. Some package paths did get longer, and I guess the new layout
will take some getting used to. Sorry about that!
Please try not to re-introduce any dependencies in syntax/ on any of
the other src/comp/ subdirs.
Modified typestate to throw away any constraints mentioning a
variable on the LHS of an assignment, recv, assign_op, or on
either side of a swap.
Some code cleanup as well.
Changed function types to include a list of constraints. Added
code for parsing and pretty-printing constraints. This necessitated
splitting pprust into two files (pprust and ppaux) to break a
circulate dependency, as ty_to_str now needs to print out constraints,
which may include literals, but pprust depended on ty.
Some of the vec utilities now only work on immutable vecs, since they
would have to be rewritten to do a lot more copying to be alias-safe.
Some forced copying was added to map.rs, showing a weakness in the
alias checker (or maybe the alias system): when fn args are passed
into a function, calling them must assume all aliases that are not
immutably rooted (directly connected to a local or temporary without
any mutable edges) become invalid. This will be a drag on functional
programming in Rust.
Work around alias issues in the stdlib
