- add feature gate
- add basic tests
- adjust parser to eliminate conflict between `const fn` and associated
constants
- allow `const fn` in traits/trait-impls, but forbid later in type check
- correct some merge conflicts
This should hopefully fix all cast-related ICEs once and for all.
I managed to make diagnostics hate me and give me spurious "decoder error"
- removing $build/tmp/extended-errors seems to fix it.
The error message was misleading, so I adjusted it, and I also added the long diagnostics for this error (resolves one point in #24407).
I was unsure about how to phrase the error message. Is “generic parameter binding” the correct term for this?
Explanations for E0079, E0080, E0081, E0082, E0083 and E0084 as part of #24407.
All the errors concern the use of `#[repr(X)]` with enum types.
I also updated the short description for E0079 so that it takes sign into account.
I've been working on improving the diagnostic registration system so that it can:
* Check uniqueness of error codes *across the whole compiler*. The current method using `errorck.py` is prone to failure as it relies on simple text search - I found that it breaks when referencing an error's ident within a string (e.g. `"See also E0303"`).
* Provide JSON output of error metadata, to eventually facilitate HTML output, as well as tracking of which errors need descriptions. The current schema is:
```
<error code>: {
"description": <long description>,
"use_site": {
"filename": <filename where error is used>,
"line": <line in file where error is used>
}
}
```
[Here's][metadata-dump] a pretty-printed sample dump for `librustc`.
One thing to note is that I had to move the diagnostics arrays out of the diagnostics modules. I really wanted to be able to capture error usage information, which only becomes available as a crate is compiled. Hence all invocations of `__build_diagnostics_array!` have been moved to the ends of their respective `lib.rs` files. I tried to avoid moving the array by making a plugin that expands to nothing but couldn't invoke it in item position and gave up on hackily generating a fake item. I also briefly considered using a lint, but it seemed like it would impossible to get access to the data stored in the thread-local storage.
The next step will be to generate a web page that lists each error with its rendered description and use site. Simple mapping and filtering of the metadata files also allows us to work out which error numbers are absent, which errors are unused and which need descriptions.
[metadata-dump]: https://gist.github.com/michaelsproul/3246846ff1bea71bd049
This error indicates that a constant references itself.
All constants need to resolve to a value in an acyclic manner.
For example, neither of the following can be sensibly compiled:
```
const X: u32 = X;
```
```
const X: u32 = Y;
const Y: u32 = X;
```
This error indicates that a constant references itself.
All constants need to resolve to a value in an acyclic manner.
For example, neither of the following can be sensibly compiled:
```
const X: u32 = X;
```
```
const X: u32 = Y;
const Y: u32 = X;
```
