.chain_mut_ref() is the mutable alternative to .chain_ref().
A use case example for this method is extraction of an optional value
from an Option<Container> value.
This pull request includes various improvements:
+ Composite types (structs, tuples, boxes, etc) are now handled more cleanly by debuginfo generation. Most notably, field offsets are now extracted directly from LLVM types, as opposed to trying to reconstruct them. This leads to more stable handling of edge cases (e.g. packed structs or structs implementing drop).
+ `debuginfo.rs` in general has seen a major cleanup. This includes better formatting, more readable variable and function names, removal of dead code, and better factoring of functionality.
+ Handling of `VariantInfo` in `ty.rs` has been improved. That is, the `type VariantInfo = @VariantInfo_` typedef has been replaced with explicit uses of @VariantInfo, and the duplicated logic for creating VariantInfo instances in `ty::enum_variants()` and `typeck::check::mod::check_enum_variants()` has been unified into a single constructor function. Both function now look nicer too :)
+ Debug info generation for enum types is now mostly supported. This includes:
+ Good support for C-style enums. Both DWARF and `gdb` know how to handle them.
+ Proper description of tuple- and struct-style enum variants as unions of structs.
+ Proper handling of univariant enums without discriminator field.
+ Unfortunately `gdb` always prints all possible interpretations of a union, so debug output of enums is verbose and unintuitive. Neither `LLVM` nor `gdb` support DWARF's `DW_TAG_variant` which allows to properly describe tagged unions. Adding support for this to `LLVM` seems doable. `gdb` however is another story. In the future we might be able to use `gdb`'s Python scripting support to alleviate this problem. In agreement with @jdm this is not a high priority for now.
+ The debuginfo test suite has been extended with 14 test files including tests for packed structs (with Drop), boxed structs, boxed vecs, vec slices, c-style enums (standalone and embedded), empty enums, tuple- and struct-style enums, and various pointer types to the above.
~~What is not yet included is DI support for some enum edge-cases represented as described in `trans::adt::NullablePointer`.~~
Cheers,
Michael
PS: closes#7819, fixes#7712
This does a bunch of cleanup on the data structures for the trait system. (Unfortunately it doesn't remove `provided_method_sources`. Maybe later.)
It also changes how cross crate methods are handled, so that information about them is exported in metadata, instead of having the methods regenerated by every crate that imports an impl.
r? @nikomatsakis, maybe?
Some notes about the commits.
Exit code propagation commits:
* ```Reimplement unwrap()``` has the same old code from ```arc::unwrap``` ported to use modern atomic types and finally (it's considerably nicer this way)
* ```Add try_unwrap()``` has some new slightly-tricky (but pretty simple) concurrency primitive code
* ```Add KillHandle``` and ```Add kill::Death``` are the bulk of the logic.
Task killing commits:
* ```Implement KillHandle::kill() and friends```, ```Do a task-killed check```, and ```Add BlockedTask``` implement the killing logic;
* ```Change the HOF context switchers``` turns said logic on
Linked failure commits:
* ```Replace *rust_task ptrs``` adapts the taskgroup code to work for both runtimes
* ```Enable taskgroup code``` does what it says on the tin.
r? @brson
r? @brson `rustpkg build`, if executed in a package source directory inside
a workspace, will now build that package. By "inside a workspace"
I mean that the parent directory has to be called `src`, and rustpkg
will create a `build` directory in .. if there isn't already one.
Same goes for `rustpkg install` and `rustpkg clean`.
For the time being, `rustpkg build` (etc.) will still error out if
you run it inside a directory whose parent isn't called `src`.
I'm not sure whether or not it's desirable to have it do something
in a non-workspace directory.
