Working through giving example documentation to every Simd function.
The major change in this patch is using doc macros to generate
type-specific examples for each function, using a visually-apparent type
constructor. This makes it feel nicer to have twelve separate
documentation entries for reduce_product(), for example.
A simpler variant of rust-lang/portable-simd#206.
* Comparisons are moved to `SimdPartialEq`, `SimdPartialOrd`, and `SimdOrd`. The function names are prefixed with `simd_` to disambiguate from the regular `PartialEq` etc functions. With the functions on traits instead of `Simd` directly, shadowing the function names doesn't work very well.
* Floating point `Ord`-like functions are put into a `SimdFloat` trait. The intention is that eventually (some time after this PR) all floating point functions will be moved from `Simd` to `SimdFloat`, and the same goes for future `SimdInt`/`SimdUint` traits.
Now that we are thoroughly embedded in libcore, we don't need these on by default.
Indeed, their presence may provide confusing results during integration attempts.
Another approach that fixesrust-lang/portable-simd#223, as an alternative to rust-lang/portable-simd#238.
This adds the `ToBitMask` trait, which is implemented on a vector for each bitmask type it supports. This includes all unsigned integers with enough bits to contain it. The byte array variant has been separated out for now into rust-lang/portable-simd#246 and still requires `generic_const_exprs`, but the integer variants no longer require it and can make it to nightly.
* Explain unsafe contracts of core::simd
This permeates the module with remarks on safety for pub methods,
layout of the Simd type, correct use of intrinsics, et cetera.
This is mostly to help others curious about how core::simd works,
including other Rust contributors, `unsafe` library authors,
and eventually ourselves.
The way the macro expands, it may sometimes infer
"this is a uint, but doesn't impl Neg???"
Also, I made the "wrong path for intrinsics" error.
These fixes allow integration into libcore.
impl std::simd::StdFloat
This introduces an extension trait to allow use of floating point methods
that need runtime support. It is *excessively* documented because its mere
existence is quite vexing, as the entire thing constitutes a leakage of
implementation details into user observable space. Eventually the entire
thing will ideally be folded into core and restructured to match the rest
of the library, whatever that structure might look like at the time. This
is preferred in lieu of the "lang item" path because any energy the lang
items require (and it will be significant, by Simulacrum's estimation) is
better spent on implementing our libmvec.
While consulting with Simulacrum on how to make available the float
functions that currently require runtime support for `Simd<f32, N>` and
`Simd<f64, N>`, we realized breaking coherence with the classic approach
of lang items was, since `{core,std}::simd::Simd` is a `ty::Adt`, likely
to be quite a bit nasty. The project group has a long-term plan for how
to get around this kind of issue and move the associated functions into
libcore, but that will likely take time as well. Since all routes
forward are temporally costly, we probably will skip the lang item
approach entirely and go the "proper" route, but in the interests of
having something this year for people to play around with, this
extension trait was whipped up.
For now, while it involves a lot of fairly internal details most users
shouldn't have to care about, I went ahead and fully documented the
situation for any passerby to read on the trait, as the situation is
quite unusual and puzzling to begin with.
