- Eliminates all the `get_context` calls that async lowering created.
- Replace all `Local` `ResumeTy` types with `&mut Context<'_>`.
The `Local`s that have their types replaced are:
- The `resume` argument itself.
- The argument to `get_context`.
- The yielded value of a `yield`.
The `ResumeTy` hides a `&mut Context<'_>` behind an unsafe raw pointer, and the
`get_context` function is being used to convert that back to a `&mut Context<'_>`.
Ideally the async lowering would not use the `ResumeTy`/`get_context` indirection,
but rather directly use `&mut Context<'_>`, however that would currently
lead to higher-kinded lifetime errors.
See <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/105501>.
The async lowering step and the type / lifetime inference / checking are
still using the `ResumeTy` indirection for the time being, and that indirection
is removed here. After this transform, the generator body only knows about `&mut Context<'_>`.
Replaces using `ResumeTy` / `get_context` in favor of using `&'static mut Context<'_>`.
Usage of the `'static` lifetime here is technically "cheating", and replaces
the raw pointer in `ResumeTy` and the `get_context` fn that pulls the
correct lifetimes out of thin air.
Previously, async constructs would be lowered to "normal" generators,
with an additional `from_generator` / `GenFuture` shim in between to
convert from `Generator` to `Future`.
The compiler will now special-case these generators internally so that
async constructs will *directly* implement `Future` without the need
to go through the `from_generator` / `GenFuture` shim.
The primary motivation for this change was hiding this implementation
detail in stack traces and debuginfo, but it can in theory also help
the optimizer as there is less abstractions to see through.
Support `#[track_caller]` on async fns
Adds `#[track_caller]` to the generator that is created when we desugar the async fn.
Fixes#78840
Open questions:
- What is the performance impact of adding `#[track_caller]` to every `GenFuture`'s `poll(...)` function, even if it's unused (i.e., the parent span does not set `#[track_caller]`)? We might need to set it only conditionally, if the indirection causes overhead we don't want.
This patch allows the usage of the `track_caller` annotation on
generators, as well as sets them conditionally if the parent also has
`track_caller` set.
Also add this annotation on the `GenFuture`'s `poll()` function.
Some improvements to the async docs
The goal here is to make the docs overall a little bit more comprehensive and add more links between the things.
One thing that's not working yet is the links to the keywords. Somehow I couldn't get them to work.
r? ````@GuillaumeGomez```` do you know how I could get the keyword links to work?
Minor improvements to `future::join!`'s implementation
This is a follow-up from #91645, regarding [some remarks I made](https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/187312-wg-async-foundations/topic/join!/near/264293660).
Mainly:
- it hides the recursive munching through a private `macro`, to avoid leaking such details (a corollary is getting rid of the need to use ``@`` to disambiguate);
- it uses a `match` binding, _outside_ the `async move` block, to better match the semantics from function-like syntax;
- it pre-pins the future before calling into `poll_fn`, since `poll_fn`, alone, cannot guarantee that its capture does not move (to clarify: I believe the previous code was sound, thanks to the outer layer of `async`. But I find it clearer / more robust to refactorings this way 🙂).
- it uses `@ibraheemdev's` very neat `.ready()?`;
- it renames `Took` to `Taken` for consistency with `Done` (tiny nit 😄).
~~TODO~~Done:
- [x] Add unit tests to enforce the function-like `:value` semantics are respected.
r? `@nrc`
This is a follow-up from #91645, regarding [some remarks I made](https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/187312-wg-async-foundations/topic/join!/near/264293660).
Mainly:
- it hides the recursive munching through a private `macro`, to avoid leaking such details (a corollary is getting rid of the need to use `@` to disambiguate);
- it uses a `match` binding, _outside_ the `async move` block, to better match the semantics from function-like syntax;
- it pre-pins the future before calling into `poll_fn`, since `poll_fn`, alone, cannot guarantee that its capture does not move;
- it uses `.ready()?` since it's such a neat pattern;
- it renames `Took` to `Taken` for consistency with `Done`.
The `Unpin` bound was originally added in #56939 following the
recommendation of @withoutboats in
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/55766#issue-378417538
That comment does not give explicit justification for why the bound
should be added. The relevant context was:
> [ ] Remove `impl<P> Unpin for Pin<P>`
>
> This impl is not justified by our standard justification for unpin
> impls: there is no pointer direction between `Pin<P>` and `P`. Its
> usefulness is covered by the impls for pointers themselves.
>
> This futures impl (link to the impl changed in this PR) will need to
> change to add a `P: Unpin` bound.
The decision to remove the unconditional impl of `Unpin for Pin` is
sound (these days there is just an auto-impl for when `P: Unpin`). But,
I think the decision to also add the `Unpin` bound for `impl Future` may
have been unnecessary. Or if that's not the case, I'd be very interested
to have the argument for why written down somewhere. The bound _appears_
to not be needed, since the presence of a `Pin<P>` should indicate that
it's safe to project to `Pin<&mut P::Target>` just like for
`Pin::as_mut`.
"spotlight" is not a very specific or self-explaining name.
Additionally, the dialog that it triggers is called "Notable traits".
So, "notable trait" is a better name.
* Rename `#[doc(spotlight)]` to `#[doc(notable_trait)]`
* Rename `#![feature(doc_spotlight)]` to `#![feature(doc_notable_trait)]`
* Update documentation
* Improve documentation
