The escaped newline in the middle of the variable reference breaks the
short hash substitution, leaving the link text exmpty; rewrap so that
each replacement is on its own line.
The escaped newline in the middle of the variable reference breaks the
short hash substitution, leaving the link text exmpty; rewrap so that
each replacement is on its own line.
Remove superfluous parentheses from the CTAGS_LOCATIONS expression.
Fixes the following error when executing `make TAGS.vi`:
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
This commit removes the libuv and gyp submodules, as well as all build
infrastructure related to them.
For more context, see the [runtime removal
RFC](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/230)
[breaking-change]
This commit removes the `librustuv` crate.
See the [runtime removal
RFC](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/230) for more context.
See [green-rs](https://github.com/alexcrichton/green-rs/) for a possible
migration path if you wish to continue using green-threaded I/O. The
library provides its own I/O API surface.
[breaking-change]
This makes the windows `make dist` target start producing binary tarballs, and tweaks install.sh so they work, in preparation for working on a combined Rust+Cargo installer.
Setting LC_ALL to C helps keep gdb's output consistent ('print' gives us expected output). This fixes#17423. I do not have access to a windows/mac machines to test this. I've only tested it on an x86_64 linux box.
Right now, libuv will **always** be built for the host system (at least when building on OSX) because the information about the cross compiler is never actually passed to GYP. I don't know how anybody has been managing to build cross compilers with this.
Note that, at least on OSX, there is a bug in GYP that will send clang flags to non-clang compilers and it will still attempt to use Xcode's libtool, so this doesn't completely fix the problem of cross-compiling on an OSX host, but it's a start.
Adds a new configure flag, --release-channel, which determines how the version
number should be augmented with a release label, as well as how the distribution
artifacts will be named. This is entirely for use by the build automation.
--release-channel can be either 'source', 'nightly', 'beta', or 'stable'.
Here's a summary of the affect of these values on version number and
artifact naming, respectively:
* source - '0.12.0-pre', 'rust-0.12.0-pre-...'
* nightly - '0.12.0-nightly', 'rust-nightly-...'
* beta - '0.12.0-beta', 'rust-beta-...'
* stable - '0.12.0', 'rust-0.12.0-...'
Per http://discuss.rust-lang.org/t/rfc-impending-changes-to-the-release-process/508/1
This updates our build system to prefer `i686-w64-mingw32` as the 32-bit windows triple instead of `i686-pc-mingw32`. This is an interim step to make the build artifacts consistent until https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/15717 is done.
The Guide isn't 100% perfect, but it's basically complete. It's
certainly better than the tutorial is. Time to start pointing more
people its way.
I also just made it consistent to call all things 'guides' rather than
tutorials.
Fixes#9874. This is the big one.
And two bugs that just go away.
Fixes#14503.
Fixes#15009.
The Guide isn't 100% perfect, but it's basically complete. It's
certainly better than the tutorial is. Time to start pointing more
people its way.
I also just made it consistent to call all things 'guides' rather than
tutorials.
Fixes#9874. This is the big one.
And two bugs that just go away.
Fixes#14503.
Fixes#15009.
gcc, ld, ar, dlltool, windres go into $(RUST)/bin/rustlib/<triple>/bin/
platform libraries and startup objects got into $(RUST)/bin/rustlib/<triple>/lib/
Bugs in pdflatex (#12804) are preventing the guide from landing (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/16657). This solves the immediate problem by changing the build system to prefer lualatex, xelatex to pdflatex (which is apparently obsolete). Because the xelatex on the snapshot bot seems to completely ignore the `-output-directory` option, I also had to frob the makefiles a bit for that case.
This builds on https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/17109, putting the target triple into the installer name so that we can have both 32-bit and 64-bit.
The resulting installers will be called `rust-0.12.0-pre-x86_64-w64-mingw32.exe`, etc.
Currently `./configure --llvm-root=...` and similar flags will break incremental builds by forcing reconfiguration on every `make`. This happens because `reconfig.mk` incorrectly treats submodules in the `-` (uninitialized) state as requiring reconfiguration, and `./configure` deliberately deinitializes unneeded submodules. The fix is to reconfigure only when submodules are in the `+` state (wrong commit checked out).
The performance hit from these checks is significant, but unoptimized
builds are already incredibly slow. Enabling these checks results in
better test coverage since there are bots doing unoptimized builds, and
the cost is relatively small in the context of an unoptimized build.
This also allows using `JEMALLOC_FLAGS` to override the default
configure flags.
When running `sudo make install`, we only want to run the actual install
as root, the building of the documentation and the distribution folder
should happen as the non-root user.
Related to #13728.
Our implementation of ebml has diverged from the standard in order
to better serve the needs of the compiler, so it doesn't make much
sense to call what we have ebml anyore. Furthermore, our implementation
is pretty crufty, and should eventually be rewritten into a format
that better suits the needs of the compiler. This patch factors out
serialize::ebml into librbml, otherwise known as the Really Bad
Markup Language. This is a stopgap library that shouldn't be used
by end users, and will eventually be replaced by something better.
[breaking-change]
Not included are two required patches:
* LLVM: segmented stack support for DragonFly [1]
* jemalloc: simple configure patches
[1]: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4705
We'll use this to run a subset of the test suite onto a dedicated
bot.
This puts the grammar tests and the pretty-printer tests under
check-secondary. It leanves the pretty tests under plain `check`
for now, until the new bot is added to take over.
Because check-secondary is not run as part of `make check` there
will be a set of tests that most users never run and are only
checked by bors. I think this will be ok because grammar tests
should rarely regress, and the people regressing such tests
should have the fortitude to deal with it.
The alignment of the line continuation backslashes is rather inconsistent. These commits solve that by removing the extra whitespace and adding a space where there previously was none. An alternative solution would be to fix the alignment.
Three small changes:
1. Re-organize headers in the Strings guide so they show up correctly.
2. build the strings guide with the other docs
3. include the strings guide in the list of guides
Add libunicode; move unicode functions from core
- created new crate, libunicode, below libstd
- split `Char` trait into `Char` (libcore) and `UnicodeChar` (libunicode)
- Unicode-aware functions now live in libunicode
- `is_alphabetic`, `is_XID_start`, `is_XID_continue`, `is_lowercase`,
`is_uppercase`, `is_whitespace`, `is_alphanumeric`, `is_control`, `is_digit`,
`to_uppercase`, `to_lowercase`
- added `width` method in UnicodeChar trait
- determines printed width of character in columns, or None if it is a non-NULL control character
- takes a boolean argument indicating whether the present context is CJK or not (characters with 'A'mbiguous widths are double-wide in CJK contexts, single-wide otherwise)
- split `StrSlice` into `StrSlice` (libcore) and `UnicodeStrSlice` (libunicode)
- functionality formerly in `StrSlice` that relied upon Unicode functionality from `Char` is now in `UnicodeStrSlice`
- `words`, `is_whitespace`, `is_alphanumeric`, `trim`, `trim_left`, `trim_right`
- also moved `Words` type alias into libunicode because `words` method is in `UnicodeStrSlice`
- unified Unicode tables from libcollections, libcore, and libregex into libunicode
- updated `unicode.py` in `src/etc` to generate aforementioned tables
- generated new tables based on latest Unicode data
- added `UnicodeChar` and `UnicodeStrSlice` traits to prelude
- libunicode is now the collection point for the `std::char` module, combining the libunicode functionality with the `Char` functionality from libcore
- thus, moved doc comment for `char` from `core::char` to `unicode::char`
- libcollections remains the collection point for `std::str`
The Unicode-aware functions that previously lived in the `Char` and `StrSlice` traits are no longer available to programs that only use libcore. To regain use of these methods, include the libunicode crate and `use` the `UnicodeChar` and/or `UnicodeStrSlice` traits:
extern crate unicode;
use unicode::UnicodeChar;
use unicode::UnicodeStrSlice;
use unicode::Words; // if you want to use the words() method
NOTE: this does *not* impact programs that use libstd, since UnicodeChar and UnicodeStrSlice have been added to the prelude.
closes#15224
[breaking-change]
- unicode tests live in coretest crate
- libcollections str tests need UnicodeChar trait.
- libregex perlw tests were checking a char in the Alphabetic category,
\x2161. Confirmed perl 5.18 considers this a \w character. Changed to
\x2961, which is not \w as the test expects.
This commit disables rustc's emission of rpath attributes into dynamic libraries
and executables by default. The functionality is still preserved, but it must
now be manually enabled via a `-C rpath` flag.
This involved a few changes to the local build system:
* --disable-rpath is now the default configure option
* Makefiles now prefer our own LD_LIBRARY_PATH over the user's LD_LIBRARY_PATH
in order to support building rust with rust already installed.
* The compiletest program was taught to correctly pass through the aux dir as a
component of LD_LIBRARY_PATH in more situations.
The major impact of this change is that neither rustdoc nor rustc will work
out-of-the-box in all situations because they are dynamically linked. It must be
arranged to ensure that the libraries of a rust installation are part of the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH. The default installation paths for all platforms ensure this,
but if an installation is in a nonstandard location, then configuration may be
necessary.
Additionally, for all developers of rustc, it will no longer be possible to run
$target/stageN/bin/rustc out-of-the-box. The old behavior can be regained
through the `--enable-rpath` option to the configure script.
This change brings linux/mac installations in line with windows installations
where rpath is not possible.
Closes#11747
[breaking-change]
- created new crate, libunicode, below libstd
- split Char trait into Char (libcore) and UnicodeChar (libunicode)
- Unicode-aware functions now live in libunicode
- is_alphabetic, is_XID_start, is_XID_continue, is_lowercase,
is_uppercase, is_whitespace, is_alphanumeric, is_control,
is_digit, to_uppercase, to_lowercase
- added width method in UnicodeChar trait
- determines printed width of character in columns, or None if it is
a non-NULL control character
- takes a boolean argument indicating whether the present context is
CJK or not (characters with 'A'mbiguous widths are double-wide in
CJK contexts, single-wide otherwise)
- split StrSlice into StrSlice (libcore) and UnicodeStrSlice
(libunicode)
- functionality formerly in StrSlice that relied upon Unicode
functionality from Char is now in UnicodeStrSlice
- words, is_whitespace, is_alphanumeric, trim, trim_left, trim_right
- also moved Words type alias into libunicode because words method is
in UnicodeStrSlice
- unified Unicode tables from libcollections, libcore, and libregex into
libunicode
- updated unicode.py in src/etc to generate aforementioned tables
- generated new tables based on latest Unicode data
- added UnicodeChar and UnicodeStrSlice traits to prelude
- libunicode is now the collection point for the std::char module,
combining the libunicode functionality with the Char functionality
from libcore
- thus, moved doc comment for char from core::char to unicode::char
- libcollections remains the collection point for std::str
The Unicode-aware functions that previously lived in the Char and
StrSlice traits are no longer available to programs that only use
libcore. To regain use of these methods, include the libunicode crate
and use the UnicodeChar and/or UnicodeStrSlice traits:
extern crate unicode;
use unicode::UnicodeChar;
use unicode::UnicodeStrSlice;
use unicode::Words; // if you want to use the words() method
NOTE: this does *not* impact programs that use libstd, since UnicodeChar
and UnicodeStrSlice have been added to the prelude.
closes#15224
[breaking-change]
The compiler will no longer insert a hash or version into a filename by default.
Instead, all output is simply based off the crate name being compiled. For
example, a crate name of `foo` would produce the following outputs:
* bin => foo
* rlib => libfoo.rlib
* dylib => libfoo.{so,dylib} or foo.dll
* staticlib => libfoo.a
The old behavior has been moved behind a new codegen flag,
`-C extra-filename=<hash>`. For example, with the "extra filename" of `bar` and
a crate name of `foo`, the following outputs would be generated:
* bin => foo (same old behavior)
* rlib => libfoobar.rlib
* dylib => libfoobar.{so,dylib} or foobar.dll
* staticlib => libfoobar.a
The makefiles have been altered to pass a hash by default to invocations of
`rustc` so all installed rust libraries will have a hash in their filename. This
is done because the standard libraries are intended to be installed into
privileged directories such as /usr/local. Additionally, it involves very few
build system changes!
RFC: 0035-remove-crate-id
[breaking-change]
This makes the `in-header`, `markdown-before-content`, and `markdown-after-content` options available to `rustdoc` when generating documentation for any crate.
Before, these options were only available when creating documentation *from* markdown. Now, they are available when generating documentation from source.
This also updates the `rustdoc -h` output to reflect these changes. It does not update the `man rustdoc` page, nor does it update the documentation in [the `rustdoc` manual](http://doc.rust-lang.org/rustdoc.html).
Libcore's test infrastructure is complicated by the fact that many lang
items are defined in the crate. The current approach (realcore/realstd
imports) is hacky and hard to work with (tests inside of core::cmp
haven't been run for months!).
Moving tests to a separate crate does mean that they can only test the
public API of libcore, but I don't feel that that is too much of an
issue. The only tests that I had to get rid of were some checking the
various numeric formatters, but those are also exercised through normal
format! calls in other tests.
In line with what @brson, @cmr, @nikomatsakis and I discussed this morning, my
redux of the tutorial will be implemented as the Guide. This way, I can work in
small iterations, rather than dropping a huge PR, which is hard to review. In
addition, the community can observe my work as I'm doing it.
This adds a note in line with [this comment][reddit] that clarifies the state
of the tutorial, and the community's involvement with it.
[reddit]: http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/28bew8/rusts_documentation_is_about_to_drastically/ci9c98k
The aim of these changes is not working out a generic bi-endianness architectures support but to allow people develop for little endian MIPS machines (issue #7190).
This commit disables rustc's emission of rpath attributes into dynamic libraries
and executables by default. The functionality is still preserved, but it must
now be manually enabled via a `-C rpath` flag.
This involved a few changes to the local build system:
* --disable-rpath is now the default configure option
* Makefiles now prefer our own LD_LIBRARY_PATH over the user's LD_LIBRARY_PATH
in order to support building rust with rust already installed.
* The compiletest program was taught to correctly pass through the aux dir as a
component of LD_LIBRARY_PATH in more situations.
The major impact of this change is that neither rustdoc nor rustc will work
out-of-the-box in all situations because they are dynamically linked. It must be
arranged to ensure that the libraries of a rust installation are part of the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH. The default installation paths for all platforms ensure this,
but if an installation is in a nonstandard location, then configuration may be
necessary.
Additionally, for all developers of rustc, it will no longer be possible to run
$target/stageN/bin/rustc out-of-the-box. The old behavior can be regained
through the `--enable-rpath` option to the configure script.
This change brings linux/mac installations in line with windows installations
where rpath is not possible.
Closes#11747
[breaking-change]
Closes#14888 (Allow disabling jemalloc as the memory allocator)
Closes#14905 (rustc: Improve span for error about using a method as a field.)
Closes#14920 (Fix#14915)
Closes#14924 (Add a Syntastic plugin for Rust.)
Closes#14935 (debuginfo: Correctly handle indirectly recursive types)
Closes#14938 (Reexport `num_cpus` in `std::os`. Closes#14707)
Closes#14941 (std: Don't fail the task when a Future is dropped)
Closes#14942 (rustc: Don't mark type parameters as exported)
Closes#14943 (doc: Fix a link in the FAQ)
Closes#14944 (Update "use" to "uses" on ln186)
Closes#14949 (Update repo location)
Closes#14950 (fix typo in the libc crate)
Closes#14951 (Update Sublime Rust github link)
Closes#14953 (Fix --disable-rpath and tests)
This involved a few changes to the local build system:
* Makefiles now prefer our own LD_LIBRARY_PATH over the user's LD_LIBRARY_PATH
in order to support building rust with rust already installed.
* The compiletest program was taught to correctly pass through the aux dir as a
component of LD_LIBRARY_PATH in more situations.
This change was spliced out of #14832 to consist of just the fixes to running
tests without an rpath setting embedded in executables.
It seems in one of rebases I’ve resolved conflicts wrong and left one redundant line, it is absent in current master and it might cause compilation failure by copying file into itself.
Rust no longer has support for JIT compilation, so it doesn't currently
require a PaX MPROTECT exception. The extended attributes are preferred
over modifying the binaries so it's not actually going to work on most
systems like this anyway.
If JIT compilation ends up being supported again, it should handle this
by *always* applying the exception via an extended attribute without
performing auto-detection of PaX on the host. The `paxctl` tool is only
necessary with the older method involving modifying the ELF binary.
This adds a new configure option, --jemalloc-root, which will specify a location
at which libjemalloc_pic.a must live. This library is then used for the build
triple as the jemalloc library to link.
This commit is the final step in the libstd facade, #13851. The purpose of this
commit is to move libsync underneath the standard library, behind the facade.
This will allow core primitives like channels, queues, and atomics to all live
in the same location.
There were a few notable changes and a few breaking changes as part of this
movement:
* The `Vec` and `String` types are reexported at the top level of libcollections
* The `unreachable!()` macro was copied to libcore
* The `std::rt::thread` module was moved to librustrt, but it is still
reexported at the same location.
* The `std::comm` module was moved to libsync
* The `sync::comm` module was moved under `sync::comm`, and renamed to `duplex`.
It is now a private module with types/functions being reexported under
`sync::comm`. This is a breaking change for any existing users of duplex
streams.
* All concurrent queues/deques were moved directly under libsync. They are also
all marked with #![experimental] for now if they are public.
* The `task_pool` and `future` modules no longer live in libsync, but rather
live under `std::sync`. They will forever live at this location, but they may
move to libsync if the `std::task` module moves as well.
[breaking-change]
When generating documentation, rustdoc has the ability to generate relative
links within the current distribution of crates to one another. To do this, it
must recognize when a crate's documentation is in the same output directory. The
current threshold for "local documentation for crate X being available" is
whether the directory "doc/X" exists.
This change modifies the build system to have new dependencies for each
directory of upstream crates for a rustdoc invocation. This will ensure that
when building documentation that all the crates in the standard distribution are
guaranteed to have relative links to one another.
This change is prompted by guaranteeing that offline docs always work with one
another. Before this change, races could mean that some docs were built before
others, and hence may have http links when relative links would suffice.
Closes#14747
When generating documentation, rustdoc has the ability to generate relative
links within the current distribution of crates to one another. To do this, it
must recognize when a crate's documentation is in the same output directory. The
current threshold for "local documentation for crate X being available" is
whether the directory "doc/X" exists.
This change modifies the build system to have new dependencies for each
directory of upstream crates for a rustdoc invocation. This will ensure that
when building documentation that all the crates in the standard distribution are
guaranteed to have relative links to one another.
This change is prompted by guaranteeing that offline docs always work with one
another. Before this change, races could mean that some docs were built before
others, and hence may have http links when relative links would suffice.
Closes#14747
As part of the libstd facade efforts, this commit extracts the runtime interface
out of the standard library into a standalone crate, librustrt. This crate will
provide the following services:
* Definition of the rtio interface
* Definition of the Runtime interface
* Implementation of the Task structure
* Implementation of task-local-data
* Implementation of task failure via unwinding via libunwind
* Implementation of runtime initialization and shutdown
* Implementation of thread-local-storage for the local rust Task
Notably, this crate avoids the following services:
* Thread creation and destruction. The crate does not require the knowledge of
an OS threading system, and as a result it seemed best to leave out the
`rt::thread` module from librustrt. The librustrt module does depend on
mutexes, however.
* Implementation of backtraces. There is no inherent requirement for the runtime
to be able to generate backtraces. As will be discussed later, this
functionality continues to live in libstd rather than librustrt.
As usual, a number of architectural changes were required to make this crate
possible. Users of "stable" functionality will not be impacted by this change,
but users of the `std::rt` module will likely note the changes. A list of
architectural changes made is:
* The stdout/stderr handles no longer live directly inside of the `Task`
structure. This is a consequence of librustrt not knowing about `std::io`.
These two handles are now stored inside of task-local-data.
The handles were originally stored inside of the `Task` for perf reasons, and
TLD is not currently as fast as it could be. For comparison, 100k prints goes
from 59ms to 68ms (a 15% slowdown). This appeared to me to be an acceptable
perf loss for the successful extraction of a librustrt crate.
* The `rtio` module was forced to duplicate more functionality of `std::io`. As
the module no longer depends on `std::io`, `rtio` now defines structures such
as socket addresses, addrinfo fiddly bits, etc. The primary change made was
that `rtio` now defines its own `IoError` type. This type is distinct from
`std::io::IoError` in that it does not have an enum for what error occurred,
but rather a platform-specific error code.
The native and green libraries will be updated in later commits for this
change, and the bulk of this effort was put behind updating the two libraries
for this change (with `rtio`).
* Printing a message on task failure (along with the backtrace) continues to
live in libstd, not in librustrt. This is a consequence of the above decision
to move the stdout/stderr handles to TLD rather than inside the `Task` itself.
The unwinding API now supports registration of global callback functions which
will be invoked when a task fails, allowing for libstd to register a function
to print a message and a backtrace.
The API for registering a callback is experimental and unsafe, as the
ramifications of running code on unwinding is pretty hairy.
* The `std::unstable::mutex` module has moved to `std::rt::mutex`.
* The `std::unstable::sync` module has been moved to `std::rt::exclusive` and
the type has been rewritten to not internally have an Arc and to have an RAII
guard structure when locking. Old code should stop using `Exclusive` in favor
of the primitives in `libsync`, but if necessary, old code should port to
`Arc<Exclusive<T>>`.
* The local heap has been stripped down to have fewer debugging options. None of
these were tested, and none of these have been used in a very long time.
[breaking-change]
This grows a new option inside of rustdoc to add the ability to submit examples
to an external website. If the `--markdown-playground-url` command line option
or crate doc attribute `html_playground_url` is present, then examples will have
a button on hover to submit the code to the playground specified.
This commit enables submission of example code to play.rust-lang.org. The code
submitted is that which is tested by rustdoc, not necessarily the exact code
shown in the example.
Closes#14654
As with the previous commit with `librand`, this commit shuffles around some
`collections` code. The new state of the world is similar to that of librand:
* The libcollections crate now only depends on libcore and liballoc.
* The standard library has a new module, `std::collections`. All functionality
of libcollections is reexported through this module.
I would like to stress that this change is purely cosmetic. There are very few
alterations to these primitives.
There are a number of notable points about the new organization:
* std::{str, slice, string, vec} all moved to libcollections. There is no reason
that these primitives shouldn't be necessarily usable in a freestanding
context that has allocation. These are all reexported in their usual places in
the standard library.
* The `hashmap`, and transitively the `lru_cache`, modules no longer reside in
`libcollections`, but rather in libstd. The reason for this is because the
`HashMap::new` contructor requires access to the OSRng for initially seeding
the hash map. Beyond this requirement, there is no reason that the hashmap
could not move to libcollections.
I do, however, have a plan to move the hash map to the collections module. The
`HashMap::new` function could be altered to require that the `H` hasher
parameter ascribe to the `Default` trait, allowing the entire `hashmap` module
to live in libcollections. The key idea would be that the default hasher would
be different in libstd. Something along the lines of:
// src/libstd/collections/mod.rs
pub type HashMap<K, V, H = RandomizedSipHasher> =
core_collections::HashMap<K, V, H>;
This is not possible today because you cannot invoke static methods through
type aliases. If we modified the compiler, however, to allow invocation of
static methods through type aliases, then this type definition would
essentially be switching the default hasher from `SipHasher` in libcollections
to a libstd-defined `RandomizedSipHasher` type. This type's `Default`
implementation would randomly seed the `SipHasher` instance, and otherwise
perform the same as `SipHasher`.
This future state doesn't seem incredibly far off, but until that time comes,
the hashmap module will live in libstd to not compromise on functionality.
* In preparation for the hashmap moving to libcollections, the `hash` module has
moved from libstd to libcollections. A previously snapshotted commit enables a
distinct `Writer` trait to live in the `hash` module which `Hash`
implementations are now parameterized over.
Due to using a custom trait, the `SipHasher` implementation has lost its
specialized methods for writing integers. These can be re-added
backwards-compatibly in the future via default methods if necessary, but the
FNV hashing should satisfy much of the need for speedier hashing.
A list of breaking changes:
* HashMap::{get, get_mut} no longer fails with the key formatted into the error
message with `{:?}`, instead, a generic message is printed. With backtraces,
it should still be not-too-hard to track down errors.
* The HashMap, HashSet, and LruCache types are now available through
std::collections instead of the collections crate.
* Manual implementations of hash should be parameterized over `hash::Writer`
instead of just `Writer`.
[breaking-change]
This commit shuffles around some of the `rand` code, along with some
reorganization. The new state of the world is as follows:
* The librand crate now only depends on libcore. This interface is experimental.
* The standard library has a new module, `std::rand`. This interface will
eventually become stable.
Unfortunately, this entailed more of a breaking change than just shuffling some
names around. The following breaking changes were made to the rand library:
* Rng::gen_vec() was removed. This has been replaced with Rng::gen_iter() which
will return an infinite stream of random values. Previous behavior can be
regained with `rng.gen_iter().take(n).collect()`
* Rng::gen_ascii_str() was removed. This has been replaced with
Rng::gen_ascii_chars() which will return an infinite stream of random ascii
characters. Similarly to gen_iter(), previous behavior can be emulated with
`rng.gen_ascii_chars().take(n).collect()`
* {IsaacRng, Isaac64Rng, XorShiftRng}::new() have all been removed. These all
relied on being able to use an OSRng for seeding, but this is no longer
available in librand (where these types are defined). To retain the same
functionality, these types now implement the `Rand` trait so they can be
generated with a random seed from another random number generator. This allows
the stdlib to use an OSRng to create seeded instances of these RNGs.
* Rand implementations for `Box<T>` and `@T` were removed. These seemed to be
pretty rare in the codebase, and it allows for librand to not depend on
liballoc. Additionally, other pointer types like Rc<T> and Arc<T> were not
supported. If this is undesirable, librand can depend on liballoc and regain
these implementations.
* The WeightedChoice structure is no longer built with a `Vec<Weighted<T>>`,
but rather a `&mut [Weighted<T>]`. This means that the WeightedChoice
structure now has a lifetime associated with it.
* The `sample` method on `Rng` has been moved to a top-level function in the
`rand` module due to its dependence on `Vec`.
cc #13851
[breaking-change]
This commit moves reflection (as well as the {:?} format modifier) to a new
libdebug crate, all of which is marked experimental.
This is a breaking change because it now requires the debug crate to be
explicitly linked if the :? format qualifier is used. This means that any code
using this feature will have to add `extern crate debug;` to the top of the
crate. Any code relying on reflection will also need to do this.
Closes#12019
[breaking-change]
