For #7083.
The metadata issue with the old version is now fixed. Ready for review.
This is also not the full solution to #7083, because this is not supported yet:
```
trait Foo : Send { }
impl <T: Send> Foo for T { }
fn foo<T: Foo>(val: T, chan: std::comm::Chan<T>) {
chan.send(val);
}
```
cc @nikomatsakis
Given that bootstrapping and running the testsuite works without
exporting discriminant values as global constants, I conclude that
they're unused and can be removed.
This commit removes the "super_*" functions from
typeck::infer::combine, and adds them as default methods on the
Combine trait instead, making it possible to remove a lot of
boilerplate from the various impls of Combine.
I've been wanting to do this for over a year. In fact, it was my
original motivation for default methods!
It might be possible to tighten things up even more, but this is the
bulk of it.
The first commit message is pretty good, but whomever reviews this should probably also at least glance at the changes I made in LLVM. I basically reorganized our pending patch queue to be a bit more organized and clearer in what needs to go where. After this, our queue would be:
* Add the `no-split-stack` attribute
* Add the `fixedstacksegment` attribute
* Add split-stacks for arm android
* Add split-stacks for arm linux
* Add split stacks for mips
Then there's a patch which I added to get rust to build at all on LLVM-head, and I'm not quite sure why it's there, but nothing seems to be crashing for now! (famous last words).
Otherwise, I just updated code to reflect the changes I made in LLVM with the only major change being the advent of the new `no_split_stack` attribute. This is work towards #1226, but someone more familiar with the code should probably actually assign the attribute to the appropriate functions.
Also as a bonus, I've verified that this closes#5774
That is, there was lots more hacking than the other more-mechanical
ports Felix did.
There's also a strange pattern that I hacked in to accommodate the
Outer/Inner traversal structure of the existing code (which was
previously encoding this by untying the Y-combinator style knot of the
vtable, and then retying it but superimposing new methods that "stop
at items"). I hope either I or someone else can come back in the
future and replace this ugliness with something more natural.
Added boilerplate macro; all the OuterLint definitions are the same
(but must be abstracted over implementing struct, thus the macro).
Revised lint.rs use declarations to make ast references explicit.
Also removed unused imports.
Given that bootstrapping and running the testsuite works without
exporting discriminant values as global constants, I conclude that
they're unused and can be removed.
This requires changes to method search and to codegen. We now emit a
vtable for objects that includes methods from all supertraits.
Closes#4100.
Also, actually populate the cache for vtables, and also key it by type
so that it actually works.
When using a `do` block to call an internal iterator, if you forgot to
return a value from the body, it would tell you
error: Do-block body must return bool, but returns () here. Perhaps
you meant to write a `for`-loop?
This advice no longer applies as `for` loops are now for external
iterators. Delete this message outright and let it use the default error
message
error: mismatched types: expected `bool` but found `()`
r? @thestinger
Pointers to bound variables shouldn't be stored before checking pattern,
otherwise piped patterns can conflict with each other (issue #6338).
Closes#6338.
This pull request includes support for generic functions and self arguments in methods, and combinations thereof. This also encompasses any kind of trait methods, regular and static, with and without default implementation. The implementation is backed up by a felt ton of test cases `:)`
This is a very important step towards being able to compile larger programs with debug info, since practically any generic function caused an ICE before.
One point worth discussing is that activating debug info now automatically (and silently) sets the `no_monomorphic_collapse` flag. Otherwise debug info would show wrong type names in all but one instance of the monomorphized function.
Another thing to note is that the handling of generic types does not strictly follow the DWARF specification. That is, variables with type `T` (where `T=int`) are described as having type `int` and not as having type `T`. In other words, we are losing information whether a variable has been declared with a type parameter as its type. In practice this should not make much of difference though since the concrete type is mostly what one is interested in. I'll post an issue later so this won't be forgotten.
Also included are a number of bug fixes:
* Closes#1758
* Closes#8513
* Closes#8443
* Fixes handling of field names in tuple structs
* Fixes and re-enables test case for option-like enums that relied on undefined behavior before
* Closes#1339 (should have been closed a while ago)
Cheers,
Michael
When using a `do` block to call an internal iterator, if you forgot to
return a value from the body, it would tell you
error: Do-block body must return bool, but returns () here. Perhaps
you meant to write a `for`-loop?
This advice no longer applies as `for` loops are now for external
iterators. Delete this message outright and let it use the default error
message
error: mismatched types: expected `bool` but found `()`
Retry of PR #8471
Replace the remaining functions marked for issue #8228 with similar functions that are iterator-based.
Change `either::{lefts, rights}` to be iterator-filtering instead of returning a vector.
Replace `map_vec`, `map_vec2`, `iter_vec2` in std::result with three functions:
* `result::collect` gathers `Iterator<Result<V, U>>` to `Result<~[V], U>`
* `result::fold` folds `Iterator<Result<T, E>>` to `Result<V, E>`
* `result::fold_` folds `Iterator<Result<T, E>>` to `Result<(), E>`
Pointers to bound variables shouldn't be stored before checking pattern,
otherwise piped patterns can conflict with each other (issue #6338).
Closes#6338.
Rewriting visit.rs to operate on a borrowed `&mut V` where `<V:Visitor>`
r? @nikomatsakis
r? @pcwalton
This is the first in a planned series of incremental pull requests. (There will probably be five pull requests including this one, though they can be combined or split as necessary.)
Part of #7081. (But definitely does *not* complete it, not on its own, and not even after all five parts land; there are still a few loose ends to tie up or trim afterwards.)
The bulk of this change for this particular PR is pnkfelix@3d83010, which has the changes necessary to visit.rs to support everything else that comes later. The other commits are illustrating the standard mechanical transformation that I am applying.
One important point for nearly *all* of these pull requests: I was deliberately *not* trying to be intelligent in the transformation.
* My goal was to minimize code churn, and make the transformation as mechanical as possible.
* For example, I kept the separation between the Visitor struct (corresponding to the earlier vtable of functions that were potentially closed over local state) and the explicitly passed (and clones) visitor Env. I am certain that this is almost always unnecessary, and a later task will be to go through an meld the Env's into the Visitors as appropriate. (My original goal had been to make such melding part of this task; that's why I turned them into a (Env, vtable) tuple way back when. But I digress.)
* Also, my main goal here was to get rid of the record of `@fn`'s as described by the oldvisit.rs API. (This series gets rid of all but one such case; I'm still investigating that.) There is *still* plenty of `@`-boxing left to be removed, I'm sure, and even still some `@fn`'s too; removing all of those is not the goal here; its just to get rid of the encoded protocol of `@fn`'s in the (old)visit API.
To see where things will be going in the future (i.e., to get a sneak-preview of future pull-requests in the series), see:
* https://github.com/pnkfelix/rust/commits/fsk-visitor-vpar-defaults-step1 (that's this one)
* https://github.com/pnkfelix/rust/commits/fsk-visitor-vpar-defaults-step2
* https://github.com/pnkfelix/rust/commits/fsk-visitor-vpar-defaults-step3
* https://github.com/pnkfelix/rust/commits/fsk-visitor-vpar-defaults-step4
* https://github.com/pnkfelix/rust/commits/fsk-visitor-vpar-defaults-step5
* Note that between step 4 and step 5 there is just a single commit, but its a doozy because its the only case where my mechanical transformation did not apply, and thus more serious rewriting was necessary. See commit pnkfelix@da902b2ff3b1e0bee9fc63cf00c449cceea8abf7
If they are on the trait then it is extremely annoying to use them as
generic parameters to a function, e.g. with the iterator param on the trait
itself, if one was to pass an Extendable<int> to a function that filled it
either from a Range or a Map<VecIterator>, one needs to write something
like:
fn foo<E: Extendable<int, Range<int>> +
Extendable<int, Map<&'self int, int, VecIterator<int>>>
(e: &mut E, ...) { ... }
since using a generic, i.e. `foo<E: Extendable<int, I>, I: Iterator<int>>`
means that `foo` takes 2 type parameters, and the caller has to specify them
(which doesn't work anyway, as they'll mismatch with the iterators used in
`foo` itself).
This patch changes it to:
fn foo<E: Extendable<int>>(e: &mut E, ...) { ... }
LLVMConstStringInContext() doesn't need a null-terminated string. It
takes a length instead. Using .to_c_str() here triggers an ICE whenever
the string literal embeds a null, as in "\x00".
.with_c_str() is a replacement for the old .as_c_str(), to avoid
unnecessary boilerplate.
Replace all usages of .to_c_str().with_ref() with .with_c_str().
Alpha-renamed top-level visit_* functions to walk_*.
(Motivation: Distinguish visit action and recursive traversal.)
Abstract over `&mut self` rather than over `@mut self`.
This required some acrobatics, notably the
`impl<E> Visitor<E> for @mut Visitor<E>`
and corresponding introduction of `@mut Visitor` and some local `let
mut` bindings.
Remove oldvisit reference.
Added default implementations for all of the Visitor trait methods.
Note that both `visit_expr_post` and `visit_ty` are no-op's by
default, just like they are in `oldvisit::default_visitor`.
Refactoring: extract logic to ease swapping visit for oldvisit (hopefully).
Replace these with three functions based on iterators: collect, fold,
and fold_. The mapping part is replaced by iterator .map(), so the part
that these functions do is to accumulate the final Result<,> value.
* `result::collect` gathers `Iterator<Result<V, U>>` to `Result<~[V], U>`
* `result::fold` folds `Iterator<Result<T, E>>` to `Result<V, E>`
* `result::fold_` folds `Iterator<Result<T, E>>` to `Result<(), E>`
While looking over the code for object coercion, I realized that it wasn't quite handling freezing and reborrowing correctly. Tweak the code, adding tests for the relevant cases.
r? @pcwalton
This pull request re-implements handling of visibility scopes and source code positions in debug info. It should now be very stable and properly handle
+ variable shadowing
+ expanded code (macros and the new for-loop de-sugaring, for example)
+ variables in the middle of nested scopes
+ bindings declared in the head of match statement arms.
all of which did not work at all or did not work reliably before. Those interested in a more detailed description of the problems at hand, I kindly refer to http://michaelwoerister.github.io/2013/08/03/visibility-scopes.html
Why doesn't the `populate_scope_map()` function use `syntax::visit`?
Because it would not improve this particular AST walker (see: 69dc790849 (commitcomment-3781426))
Cheers,
Michael
Also cleanup the treatment of mutability in mem_categorization, which still
included the concept of interior mutability. At some point, we should
refactor the types to exclude the possibility of interior mutability rather
than just ignoring the mutability value in those cases.
to favor inherent methods over extension methods.
The reason to favor inherent methods is that otherwise an impl
like
impl Foo for @Foo { fn method(&self) { self.method() } }
causes infinite recursion. The current change to favor inherent methods is
rather hacky; the method resolution code is in need of a refactoring.
what amount a T* pointer must be adjusted to reach the contents
of the box. For `~T` types, this requires knowing the type `T`,
which is not known in the case of objects.
This can be applied to statics and it will indicate that LLVM will attempt to
merge the constant in .data with other statics.
I have preliminarily applied this to all of the statics generated by the new
`ifmt!` syntax extension. I compiled a file with 1000 calls to `ifmt!` and a
separate file with 1000 calls to `fmt!` to compare the sizes, and the results
were:
```
fmt 310k
ifmt (before) 529k
ifmt (after) 202k
```
This now means that ifmt! is both faster and smaller than fmt!, yay!
When there is only a single store to the ret slot that dominates the
load that gets the value for the "ret" instruction, we can elide the
ret slot and directly return the operand of the dominating store
instruction. This is the same thing that clang does, except for a
special case that doesn't seem to affect us.
Fixes#8238
When there is only a single store to the ret slot that dominates the
load that gets the value for the "ret" instruction, we can elide the
ret slot and directly return the operand of the dominating store
instruction. This is the same thing that clang does, except for a
special case that doesn't seem to affect us.
Fixes#8238
r? @graydon Also, notably, make rustpkgtest depend on the rustpkg executable (otherwise, tests that shell out to rustpgk might run when rustpkg doesn't exist).
This commit allows you to write:
extern mod x = "a/b/c";
which means rustc will search in the RUST_PATH for a package with
ID a/b/c, and bind it to the name `x` if it's found.
Incidentally, move get_relative_to from back::rpath into std::path
This can be applied to statics and it will indicate that LLVM will attempt to
merge the constant in .data with other statics.
I have preliminarily applied this to all of the statics generated by the new
`ifmt!` syntax extension. I compiled a file with 1000 calls to `ifmt!` and a
separate file with 1000 calls to `fmt!` to compare the sizes, and the results
were:
fmt 310k
ifmt (before) 529k
ifmt (after) 202k
This now means that ifmt! is both faster and smaller than fmt!, yay!
env! aborts compilation of the specified environment variable is not
defined and takes an optional second argument containing a custom
error message. option_env! creates an Option<&'static str> containing
the value of the environment variable.
There are no run-pass tests that check the behavior when the environment
variable is defined since the test framework doesn't support setting
environment variables at compile time as opposed to runtime. However,
both env! and option_env! are used inside of rustc itself, which should
act as a sufficient test.
Fixes#2248.
Code that collects fields in struct-like patterns used to ignore
wildcard patterns like `Foo{_}`. But `enter_defaults` considered
struct-like patterns as default in order to overcome this
(accoring to my understanding of situation).
However such behaviour caused code like this:
```
enum E {
Foo{f: int},
Bar
}
let e = Bar;
match e {
Foo{f: _f} => { /* do something (1) */ }
_ => { /* do something (2) */ }
}
```
consider pattern `Foo{f: _f}` as default. That caused inproper behaviour
and even segfaults while trying to destruct `Bar` as `Foo{f: _f}`.
Issues: #5625 , #5530.
This patch fixes `collect_record_or_struct_fields` to split cases of
single wildcard struct-like pattern and no struct-like pattern at all.
Former case resolved with `enter_rec_or_struct` (and not with
`enter_defaults`).
Closes#5625.
Closes#5530.
env! aborts compilation of the specified environment variable is not
defined and takes an optional second argument containing a custom
error message. option_env! creates an Option<&'static str> containing
the value of the environment variable.
There are no run-pass tests that check the behavior when the environment
variable is defined since the test framework doesn't support setting
environment variables at compile time as opposed to runtime. However,
both env! and option_env! are used inside of rustc itself, which should
act as a sufficient test.
Close#2248
According to #7887, we've decided to use the syntax of `fn map<U>(f: &fn(&T) -> U) -> U`, which passes a reference to the closure, and to `fn map_move<U>(f: &fn(T) -> U) -> U` which moves the value into the closure. This PR adds these `.map_move()` functions to `Option` and `Result`.
In addition, it has these other minor features:
* Replaces a couple uses of `option.get()`, `result.get()`, and `result.get_err()` with `option.unwrap()`, `result.unwrap()`, and `result.unwrap_err()`. (See #8268 and #8288 for a more thorough adaptation of this functionality.
* Removes `option.take_map()` and `option.take_map_default()`. These two functions can be easily written as `.take().map_move(...)`.
* Adds a better error message to `result.unwrap()` and `result.unwrap_err()`.
Code like this is fixed now:
```
fn foo(p: [u8, ..4]) {
match p {
[a, b, c, d] => {}
};
}
```
Invalid constructors are not reported as errors yet:
```
fn foo(p: [u8, ..4]) {
match p {
[_, _, _] => {} // this should be error
[_, _, _, _, _, .._] => {} // and this
_ => {}
}
}
```
Issue #8311 is partially fixed by this commit. Fixed-length arrays in
let statement are not yet allowed:
```
let [a, b, c] = [1, 2, 3]; // still fails
```
Code that collects fields in struct-like patterns used to ignore
wildcard patterns like `Foo{_}`. But `enter_defaults` considered
struct-like patterns as default in order to overcome this
(accoring to my understanding of situation).
However such behaviour caused code like this:
```
enum E {
Foo{f: int},
Bar
}
let e = Bar;
match e {
Foo{f: _f} => { /* do something (1) */ }
_ => { /* do something (2) */ }
}
```
consider pattern `Foo{f: _f}` as default. That caused inproper behaviour
and even segfaults while trying to destruct `Bar` as `Foo{f: _f}`.
Issues: #5625 , #5530.
This patch fixes `collect_record_or_struct_fields` to split cases of
single wildcard struct-like pattern and no struct-like pattern at all.
Former case resolved with `enter_rec_or_struct` (and not with
`enter_defaults`).
Closes#5625.
Closes#5530.
- Made naming schemes consistent between Option, Result and Either
- Changed Options Add implementation to work like the maybe monad (return None if any of the inputs is None)
- Removed duplicate Option::get and renamed all related functions to use the term `unwrap` instead
When strings lose their trailing null, this pattern will become dangerous:
let foo = "bar";
let foo_ptr: *u8 = &foo[0];
Instead we should use c_strs to handle this correctly.
* LLVM now has a C interface to LLVMBuildAtomicRMW
* The exception handling support for the JIT seems to have been dropped
* Various interfaces have been added or headers have changed
rvalues aren't going to be used anywhere but as the argument, so
there's no point in copying them. LLVM used to eliminate the copy
later, but why bother emitting it in the first place?
rvalues aren't going to be used anywhere but as the argument, so
there's no point in copying them. LLVM used to eliminate the copy
later, but why bother emitting it in the first place?
This is preparation for removing `@fn`.
This does *not* use default methods yet, because I don't know
whether they work. If they do, a forthcoming PR will use them.
This also changes the precedence of `as`.
* All globals marked as `pub` won't have the `internal` linkage type set
* All global references across crates are forced to use the address of the
global in the other crate via an external reference.
r? @graydon
Closes#8179
Change the former repetition::
for 5.times { }
to::
do 5.times { }
.times() cannot be broken with `break` or `return` anymore; for those
cases, use a numerical range loop instead.
* All globals marked as `pub` won't have the `internal` linkage type set
* All global references across crates are forced to use the address of the
global in the other crate via an external reference.
The purpose here is to get rid of compile_upto, which pretty much always requires the user to read the source to figure out what it does. It's replaced by a sequence of obviously-named functions:
- phase_1_parse_input(sess, cfg, input);
- phase_2_configure_and_expand(sess, cfg, crate);
- phase_3_run_analysis_passes(sess, expanded_crate);
- phase_4_translate_to_llvm(sess, expanded_crate, &analysis, outputs);
- phase_5_run_llvm_passes(sess, &trans, outputs);
- phase_6_link_output(sess, &trans, outputs);
Each of which takes what it takes and returns what it returns, with as little variation as possible in behaviour: no "pairs of options" and "pairs of control flags". You can tell if you missed a phase because you will be missing a `phase_N` call to some `N` between 1 and 6.
It does mean that people invoking librustc from outside need to write more function calls. The benefit is that they can _figure out what they're doing_ much more easily, and stop at any point, rather than further overloading the tangled logic of `compile_upto`.
As the title says, valid debug info is now generated for any kind of pattern-based bindings like an example from the automated tests:
```rust
let ((u, v), ((w, (x, Struct { a: y, b: z})), Struct { a: ae, b: oe }), ue) =
((25, 26), ((27, (28, Struct { a: 29, b: 30})), Struct { a: 31, b: 32 }), 33);
```
(Not that you would necessarily want to do a thing like that :P )
Fixes#2533
Previously having optional lang_items caused an assertion failure at
compile-time, and then once that was fixed there was a segfault at runtime of
using a NULL crate-map (crates with no_std)
Hi,
As noted in #6804, a pattern that contains `NaN` will never match because `NaN != NaN`. This adds a warning for such a case. The first commit handles the basic case and the second one generalizes it to more complex patterns using `walk_pat`.
Until now, we only optimized away impossible branches when there is a
literal true/false in the code. But since the LLVM IR builder already does
constant folding for us, we can trivially expand that to work with
constants as well.
Refs #7834
Infers type of constants used as discriminants and ensures they are
integral, instead of forcing them to be a signed integer.
Also, stores discriminant values as uint instead of int interally and
deals with related fallout.
Fixes issue #7994
This is a cleanup pull request that does:
* removes `os::as_c_charp`
* moves `str::as_buf` and `str::as_c_str` into `StrSlice`
* converts some functions from `StrSlice::as_buf` to `StrSlice::as_c_str`
* renames `StrSlice::as_buf` to `StrSlice::as_imm_buf` (and adds `StrSlice::as_mut_buf` to match `vec.rs`.
* renames `UniqueStr::as_bytes_with_null_consume` to `UniqueStr::to_bytes`
* and other misc cleanups and minor optimizations
The code to build the transmute intrinsic currently makes the invalid
assumption that if the in-type is non-immediate, the out-type is
non-immediate as well. But this is wrong, for example when transmuting
[int, ..1] to int. So we need to handle this fourth case as well.
Fixes#7988
This allows for control over the section placement of static, static
mut, and fn items. One caveat is that if a static and a static mut are
placed in the same section, the static is declared first, and the static
mut is assigned to, the generated program crashes. For example:
#[link_section=".boot"]
static foo : uint = 0xdeadbeef;
#[link_section=".boot"]
static mut bar : uint = 0xcafebabe;
Declaring bar first would mark .bootdata as writable, preventing the
crash when bar is written to.
Improve vtable resolution in a handful of ways. First, if we don't
find a vtable for a self/param type, do a regular vtable search. This
could find impls of the form "impl for A". Second, we don't require
that types be fully resolved before looking up subtables, and we
process tables in reverse order. This allows us to gain more
information about early type parameters based on how they are used by
the impls used to resolve later params.
Closes#6967, I believe.
This allows for control over the section placement of static, static
mut, and fn items. One caveat is that if a static and a static mut are
placed in the same section, the static is declared first, and the static
mut is assigned to, the generated program crashes. For example:
#[link_section=".boot"]
static foo : uint = 0xdeadbeef;
#[link_section=".boot"]
static mut bar : uint = 0xcafebabe;
Declaring bar first would mark .bootdata as writable, preventing the
crash when bar is written to.
Continuation of https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/7826.
AST spanned<T> refactoring, AST type renamings:
`crate => Crate`
`local => Local`
`blk => Block`
`crate_num => CrateNum`
`crate_cfg => CrateConfig`
`field => Field`
Also, Crate, Field and Local are not wrapped in spanned<T> anymore.
`crate => Crate`
`local => Local`
`blk => Block`
`crate_num => CrateNum`
`crate_cfg => CrateConfig`
Also, Crate and Local are not wrapped in spanned<T> anymore.
These changes remove unnecessary basic blocks and the associated branches from
the LLVM IR that we emit. Together, they reduce the time for unoptimized builds
in stage2 by about 10% on my box.
These blocks were required because previously we could only insert
instructions at the end of blocks, but we wanted to have all allocas in
one place, so they can be collapse. But now we have "direct" access the
the LLVM IR builder and can position it freely. This allows us to use
the same trick that clang uses, which means that we insert a dummy
"marker" instruction to identify the spot at which we want to insert
allocas. We can then later position the IR builder at that spot and
insert the alloca instruction, without any dedicated block.
The block for loading the closure environment can now also go away,
because the function context now provides the toplevel block, and the
translation of the loading happens first, so that's good enough.
Makes the LLVM IR a bit more readable, saving a bunch of branches in the
unoptimized code, which benefits unoptimized builds.
Currently, the helper functions in the "build" module can only append
at the end of a block. For certain things we'll want to be able to
insert code at arbitrary locations inside a block though. Although can
we do that by directly calling the LLVM functions, that is rather ugly
and means that somethings need to be implemented twice. Once in terms
of the helper functions and once in terms of low level LLVM functions.
Instead of doing that, we should provide a Builder type that provides
low level access to the builder, and which can be used by both, the
helper functions in the "build" module, as well larger units of
abstractions that combine several LLVM instructions.
Currently, all closures have an llenv block to load values from the
captured environment, but for closure that don't actually capture
anything, that block is useless and can be skipped.
This does a number of things, but especially dramatically reduce the
number of allocations performed for operations involving attributes/
meta items:
- Converts ast::meta_item & ast::attribute and other associated enums
to CamelCase.
- Converts several standalone functions in syntax::attr into methods,
defined on two traits AttrMetaMethods & AttributeMethods. The former
is common to both MetaItem and Attribute since the latter is a thin
wrapper around the former.
- Deletes functions that are unnecessary due to iterators.
- Converts other standalone functions to use iterators and the generic
AttrMetaMethods rather than allocating a lot of new vectors (e.g. the
old code would have to allocate a new vector to use functions that
operated on &[meta_item] on &[attribute].)
- Moves the core algorithm of the #[cfg] matching to syntax::attr,
similar to find_inline_attr and find_linkage_metas.
This doesn't have much of an effect on the speed of #[cfg] stripping,
despite hugely reducing the number of allocations performed; presumably
most of the time is spent in the ast folder rather than doing attribute
checks.
Also fixes the Eq instance of MetaItem_ to correctly ignore spans, so
that `rustc --cfg 'foo(bar)'` now works.
This pull request includes various improvements:
+ Composite types (structs, tuples, boxes, etc) are now handled more cleanly by debuginfo generation. Most notably, field offsets are now extracted directly from LLVM types, as opposed to trying to reconstruct them. This leads to more stable handling of edge cases (e.g. packed structs or structs implementing drop).
+ `debuginfo.rs` in general has seen a major cleanup. This includes better formatting, more readable variable and function names, removal of dead code, and better factoring of functionality.
+ Handling of `VariantInfo` in `ty.rs` has been improved. That is, the `type VariantInfo = @VariantInfo_` typedef has been replaced with explicit uses of @VariantInfo, and the duplicated logic for creating VariantInfo instances in `ty::enum_variants()` and `typeck::check::mod::check_enum_variants()` has been unified into a single constructor function. Both function now look nicer too :)
+ Debug info generation for enum types is now mostly supported. This includes:
+ Good support for C-style enums. Both DWARF and `gdb` know how to handle them.
+ Proper description of tuple- and struct-style enum variants as unions of structs.
+ Proper handling of univariant enums without discriminator field.
+ Unfortunately `gdb` always prints all possible interpretations of a union, so debug output of enums is verbose and unintuitive. Neither `LLVM` nor `gdb` support DWARF's `DW_TAG_variant` which allows to properly describe tagged unions. Adding support for this to `LLVM` seems doable. `gdb` however is another story. In the future we might be able to use `gdb`'s Python scripting support to alleviate this problem. In agreement with @jdm this is not a high priority for now.
+ The debuginfo test suite has been extended with 14 test files including tests for packed structs (with Drop), boxed structs, boxed vecs, vec slices, c-style enums (standalone and embedded), empty enums, tuple- and struct-style enums, and various pointer types to the above.
~~What is not yet included is DI support for some enum edge-cases represented as described in `trans::adt::NullablePointer`.~~
Cheers,
Michael
PS: closes#7819, fixes#7712
This does a bunch of cleanup on the data structures for the trait system. (Unfortunately it doesn't remove `provided_method_sources`. Maybe later.)
It also changes how cross crate methods are handled, so that information about them is exported in metadata, instead of having the methods regenerated by every crate that imports an impl.
r? @nikomatsakis, maybe?
This does a number of things, but especially dramatically reduce the
number of allocations performed for operations involving attributes/
meta items:
- Converts ast::meta_item & ast::attribute and other associated enums
to CamelCase.
- Converts several standalone functions in syntax::attr into methods,
defined on two traits AttrMetaMethods & AttributeMethods. The former
is common to both MetaItem and Attribute since the latter is a thin
wrapper around the former.
- Deletes functions that are unnecessary due to iterators.
- Converts other standalone functions to use iterators and the generic
AttrMetaMethods rather than allocating a lot of new vectors (e.g. the
old code would have to allocate a new vector to use functions that
operated on &[meta_item] on &[attribute].)
- Moves the core algorithm of the #[cfg] matching to syntax::attr,
similar to find_inline_attr and find_linkage_metas.
This doesn't have much of an effect on the speed of #[cfg] stripping,
despite hugely reducing the number of allocations performed; presumably
most of the time is spent in the ast folder rather than doing attribute
checks.
Also fixes the Eq instance of MetaItem_ to correctly ignore spaces, so
that `rustc --cfg 'foo(bar)'` now works.
