The reasons for doing this are:
* The model on which linked failure is based is inherently complex
* The implementation is also very complex, and there are few remaining who
fully understand the implementation
* There are existing race conditions in the core context switching function of
the scheduler, and possibly others.
* It's unclear whether this model of linked failure maps well to a 1:1 threading
model
Linked failure is often a desired aspect of tasks, but we would like to take a
much more conservative approach in re-implementing linked failure if at all.
Closes#8674Closes#8318Closes#8863
Tests now have the same name as the test that they're running (to allow for
easier diagnosing of failure sources), and the main task is now specially named
`<main>` instead of `<unnamed>`.
Closes#10195Closes#10073
Tests now have the same name as the test that they're running (to allow for
easier diagnosing of failure sources), and the main task is now specially named
<main> instead of <unnamed>.
Closes#10195Closes#10073
Cleaned up the source in a few places
Renamed `map_move` to `map`, removed other `map` methods
Added `as_ref` and `as_mut` adapters to `Result`
Added `fmt::Default` impl
- `begin_unwind` is now generic over any `T: Any + Send`.
- Every value you fail with gets boxed as an `~Any`.
- Because of implementation details, `&'static str` and `~str` are still
handled specially behind the scenes.
- Changed the big macro source string in libsyntax to a raw string
literal, and enabled doc comments there.
Some code cleanup, sorting of import blocks
Removed std::unstable::UnsafeArc's use of Either
Added run-fail tests for the new FailWithCause impls
Changed future_result and try to return Result<(), ~Any>.
- Internally, there is an enum of possible fail messages passend around.
- In case of linked failure or a string message, the ~Any gets
lazyly allocated in future_results recv method.
- For that, future result now returns a wrapper around a Port.
- Moved and renamed task::TaskResult into rt::task::UnwindResult
and made it an internal enum.
- Introduced a replacement typedef `type TaskResult = Result<(), ~Any>`.
It is simply defined as `f64` across every platform right now.
A use case hasn't been presented for a `float` type defined as the
highest precision floating point type implemented in hardware on the
platform. Performance-wise, using the smallest precision correct for the
use case greatly saves on cache space and allows for fitting more
numbers into SSE/AVX registers.
If there was a use case, this could be implemented as simply a type
alias or a struct thanks to `#[cfg(...)]`.
Closes#6592
The mailing list thread, for reference:
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-July/004632.html
This lifts various restrictions on the runtime, for example the character limit
when logging a message. Right now the old debug!-style macros still involve
allocating (because they use fmt! syntax), but the new debug2! macros don't
involve allocating at all (unless the formatter for a type requires allocation.
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 is a fairly large rollup, but I've tested everything locally, and none of
it should be platform-specific.
r=alexcrichton (bdfdbdd)
r=brson (d803c18)
r=alexcrichton (a5041d0)
r=bstrie (317412a)
r=alexcrichton (135c85e)
r=thestinger (8805baa)
r=pcwalton (0661178)
r=cmr (9397fe0)
r=cmr (caa4135)
r=cmr (6a21d93)
r=cmr (4dc3379)
r=cmr (0aa5154)
r=cmr (18be261)
r=thestinger (f10be03)
