.with_c_str() is a replacement for the old .as_c_str(), to avoid
unnecessary boilerplate.
Replace all usages of .to_c_str().with_ref() with .with_c_str().
what amount a T* pointer must be adjusted to reach the contents
of the box. For `~T` types, this requires knowing the type `T`,
which is not known in the case of objects.
These changes remove unnecessary basic blocks and the associated branches from
the LLVM IR that we emit. Together, they reduce the time for unoptimized builds
in stage2 by about 10% on my box.
Currently, the helper functions in the "build" module can only append
at the end of a block. For certain things we'll want to be able to
insert code at arbitrary locations inside a block though. Although can
we do that by directly calling the LLVM functions, that is rather ugly
and means that somethings need to be implemented twice. Once in terms
of the helper functions and once in terms of low level LLVM functions.
Instead of doing that, we should provide a Builder type that provides
low level access to the builder, and which can be used by both, the
helper functions in the "build" module, as well larger units of
abstractions that combine several LLVM instructions.
If the TLS key is 0-sized, then the linux linker is apparently smart enough to
put everything at the same pointer. OSX on the other hand, will reserve some
space for all of them. To get around this, the TLS key now actuall consumes
space to ensure that it gets a unique pointer
cc #6004 and #3273
This is a rewrite of TLS to get towards not requiring `@` when using task local storage. Most of the rewrite is straightforward, although there are two caveats:
1. Changing `local_set` to not require `@` is blocked on #7673
2. The code in `local_pop` is some of the most unsafe code I've written. A second set of eyes should definitely scrutinize it...
The public-facing interface currently hasn't changed, although it will have to change because `local_data::get` cannot return `Option<T>`, nor can it return `Option<&T>` (the lifetime isn't known). This will have to be changed to be given a closure which yield `&T` (or as an Option). I didn't do this part of the api rewrite in this pull request as I figured that it could wait until when `@` is fully removed.
This also doesn't deal with the issue of using something other than functions as keys, but I'm looking into using static slices (as mentioned in the issues).
Instead of determining paths from the path tag, we iterate through
modules' children recursively in the metadata. This will allow for
lazy external module resolution.
Remove all the explicit @mut-fields from CrateContext, though many
fields are still @-ptrs.
This required changing every single function call that explicitly
took a @CrateContext, so I took advantage and changed as many as I
could get away with to &-ptrs or &mut ptrs.
