MIR: hide .rodata constants vs by-ref ABI clash in trans.
Back in #45380, constants were copied into locals during MIR creation to ensure that arguments ' memory can be used by the callee, if the constant is placed in `.rodata` and the ABI passes it by-ref.
However, there are several drawbacks (see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/45380#discussion_r150447709), most importantly the complication of constant propagation (UB if a constant ends up in `Call` arguments) and inconveniencing analyses.
Instead, I've modified the `rustc_trans` implementation of calls to copy an `Operand::Constant` argument locally if it's not immediate, and added a test that segfaults without the copy.
cc @dotdash @arielb1
incr.comp.: Implement query result cache and use it to cache type checking tables.
This is a spike implementation of caching more than LLVM IR and object files when doing incremental compilation. At the moment, only the `typeck_tables_of` query is cached but MIR and borrow-check will follow shortly. The feature is activated by running with `-Zincremental-queries` in addition to `-Zincremental`, it is not yet active by default.
r? @nikomatsakis
integrate MIR type-checker with NLL inference
This branch refactors NLL type inference so that it uses the MIR type-checker to gather constraints. Along the way, it also refactors how region constraints are gathered in the normal inference context mildly. The new setup is like this:
- What used to be `region_inference` is split into two parts:
- `region_constraints`, which just collects up sets of constraints
- `lexical_region_resolve`, which does the iterative, lexical region resolution
- When `resolve_regions_and_report_errors` is invoked, the inference engine converts the constraints into final values.
- In the MIR type checker, however, we do not invoke this method, but instead periodically take the region constraints and package them up for the NLL solver to use later.
- This allows us to track when and where those constraints were incurred.
- We also remove the central fulfillment context from the MIR type checker, instead instantiating new fulfillment contexts at each point. This allows us to capture the set of obligations that occurred at a particular point, and also to ensure that if the same obligation arises at two points, we will enforce the region constraints at both locations.
- The MIR type checker is also enhanced to instantiate late-bound-regions with fresh variables and handle a few other corner cases that arose.
- I also extracted some of the 'outlives' logic from the regionck, which will be needed later (see future work) to handle the type-outlives relationships.
One concern I have with this branch: since the MIR type checker is used even without the `-Znll` switch, I'm not sure if it will impact performance. One simple fix here would be to only enable the MIR type-checker if debug-assertions are enabled, since it just serves to validate the MIR. Longer term I hope to address this by improving the interface to the trait solver to be more query-based (ongoing work).
There is plenty of future work left. Here are two things that leap to mind:
- **Type-region outlives.** Currently, the NLL solver will ICE if it is required to handle a constraint like `T: 'a`. Fixing this will require a small amount of refactoring to extract the implied bounds code. I plan to follow a file-up bug on this (hopefully with mentoring instructions).
- **Testing.** It's a good idea to enumerate some of the tricky scenarios that need testing, but I think it'd be nice to try and parallelize some of the actual test writing (and resulting bug fixing):
- Same obligation occurring at two points.
- Well-formedness and trait obligations of various kinds (which are not all processed by the current MIR type-checker).
- More tests for how subtyping and region inferencing interact.
- More suggestions welcome!
r? @arielb1
