Forbid usage of `hir` `Infer` const/ty variants in ambiguous contexts
The feature `generic_arg_infer` allows providing `_` as an argument to const generics in order to infer them. This introduces a syntactic ambiguity as to whether generic arguments are type or const arguments. In order to get around this we introduced a fourth `GenericArg` variant, `Infer` used to represent `_` as an argument to generic parameters when we don't know if its a type or a const argument.
This made hir visitors that care about `TyKind::Infer` or `ConstArgKind::Infer` very error prone as checking for `TyKind::Infer`s in `visit_ty` would find *some* type infer arguments but not *all* of them as they would sometimes be lowered to `GenericArg::Infer` instead.
Additionally the `visit_infer` method would previously only visit `GenericArg::Infer` not *all* infers (e.g. `TyKind::Infer`), this made it very easy to override `visit_infer` and expect it to visit all infers when in reality it would only visit *some* infers.
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This PR aims to fix those issues by making the `TyKind` and `ConstArgKind` types generic over whether the infer types/consts are represented by `Ty/ConstArgKind::Infer` or out of line (e.g. by a `GenericArg::Infer` or accessible by overiding `visit_infer`). We then make HIR Visitors convert all const args and types to the versions where infer vars are stored out of line and call `visit_infer` in cases where a `Ty`/`Const` would previously have had a `Ty/ConstArgKind::Infer` variant:
API Summary
```rust
enum AmbigArg {}
enum Ty/ConstArgKind<Unambig = ()> {
...
Infer(Unambig),
}
impl Ty/ConstArg {
fn try_as_ambig_ty/ct(self) -> Option<Ty/ConstArg<AmbigArg>>;
}
impl Ty/ConstArg<AmbigArg> {
fn as_unambig_ty/ct(self) -> Ty/ConstArg;
}
enum InferKind {
Ty(Ty),
Const(ConstArg),
Ambig(InferArg),
}
trait Visitor {
...
fn visit_ty/const_arg(&mut self, Ty/ConstArg<AmbigArg>) -> Self::Result;
fn visit_infer(&mut self, id: HirId, sp: Span, kind: InferKind) -> Self::Result;
}
// blanket impl'd, not meant to be overriden
trait VisitorExt {
fn visit_ty/const_arg_unambig(&mut self, Ty/ConstArg) -> Self::Result;
}
fn walk_unambig_ty/const_arg(&mut V, Ty/ConstArg) -> Self::Result;
fn walk_ty/const_arg(&mut V, Ty/ConstArg<AmbigArg>) -> Self::Result;
```
The end result is that `visit_infer` visits *all* infer args and is also the *only* way to visit an infer arg, `visit_ty` and `visit_const_arg` can now no longer encounter a `Ty/ConstArgKind::Infer`. Representing this in the type system means that it is now very difficult to mess things up, either accessing `TyKind::Infer` "just works" and you won't miss *some* type infers- or it doesn't work and you have to look at `visit_infer` or some `GenericArg::Infer` which forces you to think about the full complexity involved.
Unfortunately there is no lint right now about explicitly matching on uninhabited variants, I can't find the context for why this is the case 🤷♀️
I'm not convinced the framing of un/ambig ty/consts is necessarily the right one but I'm not sure what would be better. I somewhat like calling them full/partial types based on the fact that `Ty<Partial>`/`Ty<Full>` directly specifies how many of the type kinds are actually represented compared to `Ty<Ambig>` which which leaves that to the reader to figure out based on the logical consequences of it the type being in an ambiguous position.
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tool changes have been modified in their own commits for easier reviewing by anyone getting cc'd from subtree changes. I also attempted to split out "bug fixes arising from the refactoring" into their own commit so they arent lumped in with a big general refactor commit
Fixes#112110
remove support for the (unstable) #[start] attribute
As explained by `@Noratrieb:`
`#[start]` should be deleted. It's nothing but an accidentally leaked implementation detail that's a not very useful mix between "portable" entrypoint logic and bad abstraction.
I think the way the stable user-facing entrypoint should work (and works today on stable) is pretty simple:
- `std`-using cross-platform programs should use `fn main()`. the compiler, together with `std`, will then ensure that code ends up at `main` (by having a platform-specific entrypoint that gets directed through `lang_start` in `std` to `main` - but that's just an implementation detail)
- `no_std` platform-specific programs should use `#![no_main]` and define their own platform-specific entrypoint symbol with `#[no_mangle]`, like `main`, `_start`, `WinMain` or `my_embedded_platform_wants_to_start_here`. most of them only support a single platform anyways, and need cfg for the different platform's ways of passing arguments or other things *anyways*
`#[start]` is in a super weird position of being neither of those two. It tries to pretend that it's cross-platform, but its signature is a total lie. Those arguments are just stubbed out to zero on ~~Windows~~ wasm, for example. It also only handles the platform-specific entrypoints for a few platforms that are supported by `std`, like Windows or Unix-likes. `my_embedded_platform_wants_to_start_here` can't use it, and neither could a libc-less Linux program.
So we have an attribute that only works in some cases anyways, that has a signature that's a total lie (and a signature that, as I might want to add, has changed recently, and that I definitely would not be comfortable giving *any* stability guarantees on), and where there's a pretty easy way to get things working without it in the first place.
Note that this feature has **not** been RFCed in the first place.
*This comment was posted [in May](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/29633#issuecomment-2088596042) and so far nobody spoke up in that issue with a usecase that would require keeping the attribute.*
Closes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/29633
try-job: x86_64-gnu-nopt
try-job: x86_64-msvc-1
try-job: x86_64-msvc-2
try-job: test-various
deprecate `std::intrinsics::transmute` etc, use `std::mem::*` instead
The `rustc_allowed_through_unstable_modules` attribute lets users call `std::mem::transmute` as `std::intrinsics::transmute`. The former is a reexport of the latter, and for a long time we didn't properly check stability for reexports, so making this a hard error now would be a breaking change for little gain. But at the same time, `std::intrinsics::transmute` is not the intended path for this function, so I think it is a good idea to show a deprecation warning when that path is used. This PR implements that, for all the functions in `std::intrinsics` that carry the attribute.
I assume this will need ``@rust-lang/libs-api`` FCP.
Treat safe target_feature functions as unsafe by default [less invasive variant]
This unblocks
* #134090
As I stated in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/134090#issuecomment-2541332415 I think the previous impl was too easy to get wrong, as by default it treated safe target feature functions as safe and had to add additional checks for when they weren't. Now the logic is inverted. By default they are unsafe and you have to explicitly handle safe target feature functions.
This is the less (imo) invasive variant of #134317, as it doesn't require changing the Safety enum, so it only affects FnDefs and nothing else, as it should.
turn rustc_box into an intrinsic
I am not entirely sure why this was made a special magic attribute, but an intrinsic seems like a more natural way to add magic expressions to the language.
Begin to implement type system layer of unsafe binders
Mostly TODOs, but there's a lot of match arms that are basically just noops so I wanted to split these out before I put up the MIR lowering/projection part of this logic.
r? oli-obk
Tracking:
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/130516
cleanup region handling: add `LateParamRegionKind`
The second commit is to enable a split between `BoundRegionKind` and `LateParamRegionKind`, by avoiding `BoundRegionKind` where it isn't necessary.
The third comment then adds `LateParamRegionKind` to avoid having the same late-param region for separate bound regions. This fixes#124021.
r? `@compiler-errors`
Because `TokenStreamIter` is a much better name for a `TokenStream`
iterator. Also rename the `TokenStream::trees` method as
`TokenStream::iter`, and some local variables.
Add some convenience helper methods on `hir::Safety`
Makes a lot of call sites simpler and should make any refactorings needed for https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/134090#issuecomment-2541332415 simpler, as fewer sites have to be touched in case we end up storing some information in the variants of `hir::Safety`
Remove support for specializing ToString outside the standard library
This is the only trait specializable outside of the standard library. Before stabilizing specialization we will probably want to remove support for this. It was originally made specializable to allow a more efficient ToString in libproc_macro back when this way the only way to get any data out of a TokenStream. We now support getting individual tokens, so proc macros no longer need to call it as often.
(Re-)Implement `impl_trait_in_bindings`
This reimplements the `impl_trait_in_bindings` feature for local bindings.
"`impl Trait` in bindings" serve as a form of *trait* ascription, where the type basically functions as an infer var but additionally registering the `impl Trait`'s trait bounds for the infer type. These trait bounds can be used to enforce that predicates hold, and can guide inference (e.g. for closure signature inference):
```rust
let _: impl Fn(&u8) -> &u8 = |x| x;
```
They are implemented as an additional set of bounds that are registered when the type is lowered during typeck, and then these bounds are tied to a given `CanonicalUserTypeAscription` for borrowck. We enforce these `CanonicalUserTypeAscription` bounds during borrowck to make sure that the `impl Trait` types are sensitive to lifetimes:
```rust
trait Static: 'static {}
impl<T> Static for T where T: 'static {}
let local = 1;
let x: impl Static = &local;
//~^ ERROR `local` does not live long enough
```
r? oli-obk
cc #63065
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Why can't we just use TAIT inference or something? Well, TAITs in bodies have the problem that they cannot reference lifetimes local to a body. For example:
```rust
type TAIT = impl Display;
let local = 0;
let x: TAIT = &local;
//~^ ERROR `local` does not live long enough
```
That's because TAITs requires us to do *opaque type inference* which is pretty strict, since we need to remap all of the lifetimes of the hidden type to universal regions. This is simply not possible here.
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I consider this part of the "impl trait everywhere" experiment. I'm not certain if this needs yet another lang team experiment.
Rollup of 8 pull requests
Successful merges:
- #134252 (Fix `Path::is_absolute` on Hermit)
- #134254 (Fix building `std` for Hermit after `c_char` change)
- #134255 (Update includes in `/library/core/src/error.rs`.)
- #134261 (Document the symbol Visibility enum)
- #134262 (Arbitrary self types v2: adjust diagnostic.)
- #134265 (Rename `ty_def_id` so people will stop using it by accident)
- #134271 (Arbitrary self types v2: better feature gate test)
- #134274 (Add check-pass test for `&raw`)
r? `@ghost`
`@rustbot` modify labels: rollup
Rename `ty_def_id` so people will stop using it by accident
This function is just for cycle detection, but people keep using it because they think it's the right way of getting the def id from a `Ty` (and I can't blame them necessarily).
Tweak multispan rendering to reduce output length
Consider comments and bare delimiters the same as an "empty line" for purposes of hiding rendered code output of long multispans. This results in more aggressive shortening of rendered output without losing too much context, specially in `*.stderr` tests that have "hidden" comments. We do that check not only on the first 4 lines of the multispan, but now also on the previous to last line as well.
