[breaking-change] for lint authors
You must now implement LateLintPass or EarlyLintPass as well as LintPass and use either register_late_lint_pass or register_early_lint_pass, rather than register_lint_pass.
The second commit in this PR will stop printing the macro definition site in backtraces, which cuts their length in half and increases readability (the definition site was only correct for local macros).
The third commit will not print an invocation if the last one printed occurred at the same place (span). This will make backtraces caused by a self-recursive macro much shorter.
(A possible alternative would be to capture the backtrace first, then limit it to a few frames at the start and end of the chain and print `...` inbetween. This would also work with multiple macros calling each other, which is not addressed by this PR - although the backtrace will still be halved)
Example:
```rust
macro_rules! m {
( 0 $($t:tt)* ) => ( m!($($t)*); );
() => ( fn main() {0} );
}
m!(0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0);
```
On a semi-recent nightly, this yields:
```
test.rs:3:21: 3:22 error: mismatched types:
expected `()`,
found `_`
(expected (),
found integral variable) [E0308]
test.rs:3 () => ( fn main() {0} );
^
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: expansion site
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: expansion site
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: expansion site
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: expansion site
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: expansion site
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: expansion site
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: expansion site
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: expansion site
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: expansion site
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: expansion site
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: expansion site
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: expansion site
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: expansion site
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: expansion site
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: expansion site
test.rs:1:1: 4:2 note: in expansion of m!
test.rs:6:1: 6:35 note: expansion site
test.rs:3:21: 3:22 help: run `rustc --explain E0308` to see a detailed explanation
error: aborting due to previous error
```
After this patch:
```
test.rs:3:21: 3:22 error: mismatched types:
expected `()`,
found `_`
(expected (),
found integral variable) [E0308]
test.rs:3 () => ( fn main() {0} );
^
test.rs:2:23: 2:34 note: in this expansion of m!
test.rs:6:1: 6:35 note: in this expansion of m!
test.rs:3:21: 3:22 help: run `rustc --explain E0308` to see a detailed explanation
error: aborting due to previous error
```
This halves the backtrace length. The definition site wasn't very useful
anyways, since it may be invalid (for compiler expansions) or located in
another crate. Since the macro name is still printed, grepping for it is
still an easy way of finding the definition.
This adds a new Python script (compatible with 2.7 and 3.x) that will consume some JSON files that define a platform's intrinsics. It can output a file that defines the intrinsics in the compiler, or an `extern` block that will import them.
The complexity of the generator is to be DRY: platforms (especially ARM and AArch64) have a lot of repetition with their intrinsics, for different versions with different types, so being able to write it once is nice.
This is necessary to reflect the ARM APIs accurately, since some
functions explicitly take an unsigned parameter and a signed one, of the
same integer shape, so the no-duplicates check will fail unless we
distinguish.
