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.
Tydescs are currently re-created for each compilation unit (and I
guess for structural types, they have to be, though the duplication
still bothers me). This means a destructor can not be inlined in the
drop glue for a resource type, since other crates don't have access to
the destructor body.
Destructors are now compiled as separate functions with an external
symbol that can be looked up in the crate (under the resource type's
def_id), and called from the drop glue.
Instead of linking directly to the rust crate, try to figure out the location
and name of the library from the file name, then call gcc with appropriate -L,
-l flags. This will allow dynamic linking to be more forgiving about where it
loads the library from at runtime - currently a stage3 compiler can't run
correctly from the stage0 directory. Only tested on Linux. Fingers crossed.
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
