Having it in the alias pass was slightly more efficient (finding
expression roots has to be done in both passes), but further muddled
up the already complex alias checker.
Also factors out some duplication in the mutability-checking code.
We continue to leak string buffers in trans so this creates a way to get c
string buffers from strings while guaranteeing that they are not freed before
use.
Hopefully this can be made efficient in the istr regime.
You now do
bld::Ret(bcx, someval)
where you used to say
bcx.build.Ret(someval)
Two fewer boxes are allocated for each block context, and build calls
no longer go through a vtable.
src/comp/syntax is currently just a sub-module of rustc, but it will,
in the near future, be its own crate. This includes:
- The AST data structure
- The parser
- The pretty-printer
- Visit, walk, and fold
- The syntax extension system
- Some utility stuff that should be in the stdlib*
*) Stdlib extensions currently require a snapshot before they can be
used, and the win build is very broken right now. This is temporary
and will be cleaned up when one of those problems goes away.
A lot of code was moved by this patch, mostly towards a more organized
layout. Some package paths did get longer, and I guess the new layout
will take some getting used to. Sorry about that!
Please try not to re-introduce any dependencies in syntax/ on any of
the other src/comp/ subdirs.
The parser needs to parse unconfigured items into the AST so that they can
make the round trip back through the pretty printer, but subsequent passes
shouldn't care about items not being translated. Running a fold pass after
parsing is the lowest-impact way to make this work. The performance seems
fine.
Issue #489
typestate now drops constraints correctly in the post-state of
a move expression or a declaration whose op is a move. It doesn't
yet drop constraints mentioning variables that get updated.
To do this, I had to change typestate to use trit-vectors instead
of bit-vectors, because for every constraint, there are three
possible values: known-to-be-false (e.g. after x <- y, init(y) is
known-to-be-false), known-to-be-true, and unknown. Before, we
conflated known-to-be-false with unknown. But move requires them
to be treated differently. Consider:
(program a)
(a1) x = 1;
(a2) y <- x;
(a3) log x;
(program b)
(b1) x = 1;
(b2) y <- z;
(b3) log x;
With only two values, the postcondition of statement a2 for
constraint init(x) is the same as that of b2: 0. But in (a2)'s
postcondition, init(x) *must* be false, but in (b2)'s condition,
it's just whatever it was in the postcondition of the preceding statement.