Add a failure checkpoint after the typechecking pass. There are still many
fatal errors in typeck, but loosening up this one makes it easier to lean on
the compiler when making changes to types.
Issue #440.
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.
This way, the pretty-printer does not have to know about middle::ty.
(This is a preparation for separating the AST functionality into a
separate crate.)
An expression like:
foo(1, fail, 2)
was failing to parse, because the parser was interpreting the comma
as the start of an expression that was an argument to fail, rather
than recognizing that the fail here has no arguments
Fixed this by using can_begin_expr to determine whether the next
token after a fail token suggests that this is a nullary fail or a
unary fail.
In addition, when translating calls, check before translating each
argument that the block still isn't terminated. This has the effect
that if an argument list includes fail, the back-end won't keep trying
to generate code for successive arguments and trip the !*terminated
assertion.
The code for translating a fail (for example) would call
Unreachable(), which terminates the block; if a fail appeared as an
argument, this would cause an LLVM assertion failure. Changed
trans_call to handle this situation correctly.
Only link attributes of the meta_list type are considered when matching crate
attributes. Instead of doing nothing we can at least log that link attributes
of other types were ignored.
(Using the * operator.)
This makes tags more useful as nominal 'newtype' types, since you no
longer have to copy out their contents (or construct a cumbersome
boilerplate alt) to access them.
I could have gone with a scheme where you could dereference individual
arguments of an n-ary variant with ._0, ._1, etc, but opted not to,
since we plan to move to a system where all variants are unary (or, I
guess, nullary).
