Unlike coercing from reference to unsafe pointer, coercing between two
unsafe pointers doesn't need an AutoDerefRef, because there is no region
that regionck would need to know about.
In unoptimized libcore, this reduces the number of "auto_deref" allocas
from 174 to 4.
The current codegen tests only compare IR line counts between similar
rust and C programs, the latter getting compiled with clang. That looked
like a good idea back then, but actually things like lifetime intrinsics
mean that less IR isn't always better, so the metric isn't really
helpful.
Instead, we can start doing tests that check specific aspects of the
generated IR, like attributes or metadata. To do that, we can use LLVM's
FileCheck tool which has a number of useful features for such tests.
To start off, I created some tests for a few things that were recently
added and/or broken.
This breaks code like:
struct Foo {
...
}
pub fn make_foo() -> Foo {
...
}
Change this code to:
pub struct Foo { // note `pub`
...
}
pub fn make_foo() -> Foo {
...
}
The `visible_private_types` lint has been removed, since it is now an
error to attempt to expose a private type in a public API. In its place
a `#[feature(visible_private_types)]` gate has been added.
Closes#16463.
RFC #48.
[breaking-change]
When there is only a single store to the ret slot that dominates the
load that gets the value for the "ret" instruction, we can elide the
ret slot and directly return the operand of the dominating store
instruction. This is the same thing that clang does, except for a
special case that doesn't seem to affect us.
Fixes#8238
