Initially MIR differentiated between arguments and locals, which
introduced a need to add extra copies assigning the argument to a
local, even for simple bindings. This differentiation no longer exists,
but we're still creating those copies, bloating the MIR and LLVM IR we
emit.
Additionally, the current approach means that we create debug info for
both the incoming argument (marking it as an argument), and then
immediately shadow it a local that goes by the same name. This can be
confusing when using e.g. "info args" in gdb, or when e.g. a debugger
with a GUI displays the function arguments separately from the local
variables, especially when the binding is mutable, because the argument
doesn't change, while the local variable does.
This commit moves the calculation of the `LanguageItems` structure into a
query rather than being calculated before the `TyCtxt` exists, with the eventual
end goal of removing some `CrateStore` methods.
Operand: 72 -> 24 B
Statement: 192 -> 96 B
Terminator: 256 -> 112 B
librustc translation memory usage: 1795 -> 1669 MB
next step would be interning lvalues, I suppose?
This removes another special case of Switch by replacing it with the more general SwitchInt. While
this is more clunky currently, there’s no reason we can’t make it nice (and efficient) to use.
[MIR] track Location in MirVisitor, combine Location
All the users of MirVisitor::visit_statement implement their own statement index tracking. This PR move the tracking into MirVisitor itself.
Also, there were 2 separate implementations of Location that were identical. This PR eliminates one of them.
Implement the `!` type
This implements the never type (`!`) and hides it behind the feature gate `#[feature(never_type)]`. With the feature gate off, things should build as normal (although some error messages may be different). With the gate on, `!` is usable as a type and diverging type variables (ie. types that are unconstrained by anything in the code) will default to `!` instead of `()`.
Use it instead of a `panic` for inexhaustive matches and correct the
comment. I think we trust our match-generation algorithm enough to
generate these blocks, and not generating an `unreachable` means that
LLVM won't optimize `match void() {}` to an `unreachable`.
MSVC requires unwinding code to be split to a tree of *funclets*, where each funclet
can only branch to itself or to to its parent.
Luckily, the code we generates matches this pattern. Recover that structure in
an analyze pass and translate according to that.
