E.g. `fn foo() { foo() }`, or, more subtlely
impl Foo for Box<Foo+'static> {
fn bar(&self) {
self.bar();
}
}
The compiler will warn and point out the points where recursion occurs,
if it determines that the function cannot return without calling itself.
Closes#17899.
---
This is highly non-perfect, in particular, my wording above is quite precise, and I have some unresolved questions: This currently will warn about
```rust
fn foo() {
if bar { loop {} }
foo()
}
```
even though `foo` may never be called (i.e. our apparent "unconditional" recursion is actually conditional). I don't know if we should handle this case, and ones like it with `panic!()` instead of `loop` (or anything else that "returns" `!`).
However, strictly speaking, it seems to me that changing the above to not warn will require changing
```rust
fn foo() {
while bar {}
foo()
}
```
to also not warn since it could be that the `while` is an infinite loop and doesn't ever hit the `foo`.
I'm inclined to think we let these cases warn since true edge cases like the first one seem rare, and if they do occur they seem like they would usually be typos in the function call. (I could imagine someone accidentally having code like `fn foo() { assert!(bar()); foo() /* meant to be boo() */ }` which won't warn if the `loop` case is "fixed".)
(Part of the reason this is unresolved is wanting feedback, part of the reason is I couldn't devise a strategy that worked in all cases.)
---
The name `unconditional_self_calls` is kinda clunky; and this reconstructs the CFG for each function that is linted which may or may not be very expensive, I don't know.
E.g. `fn foo() { foo() }`, or, more subtlely
impl Foo for Box<Foo+'static> {
fn bar(&self) {
self.bar();
}
}
The compiler will warn and point out the points where recursion occurs,
if it determines that the function cannot return without calling itself.
Closes#17899.
The regex library was largely used for non-critical aspects of the compiler and
various external tooling. The library at this point is duplicated with its
out-of-tree counterpart and as such imposes a bit of a maintenance overhead as
well as compile time hit for the compiler itself.
The last major user of the regex library is the libtest library, using regexes
for filters when running tests. This removal means that the filtering has gone
back to substring matching rather than using regexes.
This allows one to look at an `ExprMethodCall` `foo.bar()` where `bar`
is a method in some trait and (sometimes) extract the `impl` that `bar`
is defined in, e.g.
trait Foo {
fn bar(&self);
}
impl Foo for uint { // <A>
fn bar(&self) {}
}
fn main() {
1u.bar(); // impl_def_id == Some(<A>)
}
This definitely doesn't handle all cases, but is correct when it is
known, meaning it should only be used for certain linting/heuristic
purposes; no safety analysis.
This is a bit of cleanup work to clean out some old deprecated flags and deprecated lint names from the compiler (they've been deprecated for quite awhile now).
This also notably puts `--pretty` behind the `-Z unstable-options` flag (where it was supposed to be previously).
This does the bare minimum to make registration of error codes work again. After this patch, every call to `span_err!` with an error code gets that error code validated against a list in that crate and a new tidy script `errorck.py` validates that no error codes are duplicated globally.
There are further improvements to be made yet, detailed in #19624.
r? @nikomatsakis
