Change ty_fn to have a controlflow field. A 'controlflow' is
essentially a bit of data that says whether or not this function
never returns to the caller (if it never returns, that means it calls
"fail" or another "never-returns" function on every control path).
Also add syntax for annotating functions that never return:
fn foo() -> ! {
fail;
}
for example. Functions marked with ! implicitly have a result type of
ty_bot, which is a new type that this commit also adds.
Keywords are now only recognized in contexts where they are valid. The
lexer no longer recognizes them, all words are lexed as IDENT tokens,
that get interpreted by the parser.
One step closer to removing fold and having a single, immutable AST.
Resolve still uses fold, because it has to detect and transform
expr_field expressions. If we go through on our plan of moving to a
different syntax for module dereferencing, the parser can spit out
expr_field expressions, and resolve can move to walk.
(I am truly sorry for the things I did in typestate_check.rs. I expect
we'll want to change that to walk as well in the near future, at which
point it should probably pass around a context record, which could
hold the def_map.)
* Cleans up the algorithm
* Move first pass to walk (second still folds)
* Support part of a type/value namespace split
(crate metadata and module indices still need to be taught about this)
* Remove a few blatant inefficiencies (import tables being recreated for
every lookup, most importantly)
This commit reinstates the requirement that the predicate in a
"check" must be a manifest call to a special kind of function
declared with the new "pred" keyword instead of "fn". Preds must
have a boolean return type and can only call other preds; they
can't have any effects (as enforced by the typechecker).
The arguments to a predicate in a check expression must be
slot variables or literals.
This giant commit changes the syntax of Rust to use "assert" for
"check" expressions that didn't mean anything to the typestate
system, and continue using "check" for checks that are used as
part of typestate checking.
Most of the changes are just replacing "check" with "assert" in test
cases and rustc.
Summary says it all. Actually, only nested objects and functions
are handled, but that's better than before. The fold that I was using
before to traverse a crate wasn't working correctly, because annotations
have to reflect the number of local variables of the nearest enclosing
function (in turn, because annotations are represented as bit vectors).
The fold was traversing the AST in the wrong order, first filling in
the annotations correctly, but then re-traversing them with the bit
vector length for any outer nested functions, and so on.
Remedying this required writing a lot of tedious boilerplate code
because I scrapped the idea of using a fold altogether.
I also made typestate_check handle unary, field, alt, and fail.
Also, some miscellaneous changes:
* added annotations to blocks in typeck
* fix pprust so it can handle spawn
* added more logging functions in util.common
* fixed _vec.or
* added maybe and from_maybe in option
* removed fold_block field from ast_fold, since it was never used
This makes passing them around cheaper. There is now a table (see
front/codemap.rs) that is needed to transform such an uint into an
actual filename/line/col location.
Also cleans up the span building in the parser a bit.
Nicer parsing of self-calls (expr_self_method nodes inside expr_call
nodes, rather than a separate expr_call_self) makes typechecking
tractable. We can now write self-calls that take arguments and return
values (see: test/run-pass/obj-self-*.rs).
It's still sketchy. I added a typestate annotation field to statements
tagged stmt_decl or stmt_expr, because a stmt_decl statement has a typestate
that's different from that of its child node. This necessitated trivial
changes to a bunch of other files all over to the compiler. I also added a
few small standard library functions, some of which I didn't actually end
up using but which I thought might be useful anyway.
Mostly:
* Merciless refactoring of trans.rs so that trans_call can work for
self-calls as well as other kinds of calls
Also:
* Various changes to go with having idents, rather than exprs, in
expr_call_self AST nodes
* Added missing case for SELF token to token.to_str()
I added a new field to the ast "ann" type for typestate information.
Currently, the field contains a record of a precondition bit vector and
postcondition vector, but I tried to structure things so as to make
it easy to change the representation of the typestate annotation type.
I also had to add annotations to some syntactic forms that didn't have
them before (fail, ret, be...), with all the boilerplate changes
that that would imply.
The main call to the typestate_check entry point is commented out and
the actual pre-postcondition algorithm only has a few cases
implemented, though the overall AST traversal is there. The rest of
the typestate algorithm isn't implemented yet.
