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Nicholas Nethercote
406c0b8ae4 Remove unnecessary mut.
`mut_results` immediately below is the `&mut self` version, this one
should be `&self`.
2023-11-24 13:12:08 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
0f12da17c0 Remove unused arguments from on_all_children_bits.
`on_all_children_bits` has two arguments that are unused: `tcx` and
`body`. This was not detected by the compiler because it's a recursive
function.

This commit removes them, and removes lots of other arguments and fields
that are no longer necessary.
2023-11-24 06:36:27 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
118308ee03 Remove unused EverInitializedPlaces::tcx field. 2023-11-24 06:15:32 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
dc365e8c37 Remove unneeded derives from MaybeLiveLocals. 2023-11-24 06:13:00 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
e4fc5df7cc Remove an unneeded local variable.
`body` is already a `&Body`.
2023-11-23 18:49:58 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
f450bf49c0 Use 'mir lifetime name more.
Some types have a `body: &'mir Body<'tcx>` and some have `body: &'a
Body<'tcx>`. The former is more readable, so this commit converts some
fo the latter to the former.
2023-11-23 18:49:58 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
a65e68a43b Remove unnecessary things from State and Map. 2023-11-23 18:49:58 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
62ffb14c3d Remove unnecessary and misleading .. in a pattern.
All the fields are named.
2023-11-23 15:29:26 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
b8d340db14 Remove unnecessary ValueAnalysisWrapper::Direction.
`Forward` is the default.
2023-11-23 15:29:26 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
64a8c4ddda Reduce pub usage. 2023-11-23 15:29:24 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
c16d3f32a4 Avoid unnecessary exports. 2023-11-23 14:06:57 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
ca741945f4 Remove indexes module.
It's not useful, and only obfuscates things.
2023-11-23 14:06:46 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
e7781c75f8 Move has_rustc_mir_with.
`lib.rs` is a strange place for it, and it's only used within
`rustc_peek.rs`, so it doesn't need to be `pub`.
2023-11-23 14:06:32 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
36b25f5386 Reorder some use items.
The current order is a mess.
2023-11-23 14:06:25 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
2052d2b17c Remove unused feature. 2023-11-23 08:15:11 +11:00
bors
cc4bb0de20 Auto merge of #117928 - nnethercote:rustc_ast_pretty, r=fee1-dead
`rustc_ast_pretty` cleanups

Some improvements I found while looking at this code.

r? `@fee1-dead`
2023-11-22 05:09:33 +00:00
bors
739d556826 Auto merge of #117582 - compiler-errors:uplift-canonical-var, r=jackh726
Uplift `CanonicalVarInfo` and friends into `rustc_type_ir`

Depends on #117580 and #117578

Uplift `CanonicalVarInfo` and friends into `rustc_type_ir` so they can be consumed by an interner-agnostic `Canonicalizer` implementation for the new trait solver ❤️

r? `@ghost`
2023-11-22 02:43:23 +00:00
bors
ed10a53025 Auto merge of #118152 - matthiaskrgr:rollup-bqcck4w, r=matthiaskrgr
Rollup of 5 pull requests

Successful merges:

 - #117972 (Add VarDebugInfo to Stable MIR)
 - #118109 (rustdoc-search: simplify `checkPath` and `sortResults`)
 - #118110 (Document `DefiningAnchor` a bit more)
 - #118112 (Don't ICE when ambiguity is found when selecting `Index` implementation in typeck)
 - #118135 (Remove quotation from filename in stable_mir)

Failed merges:

 - #118012 (Add support for global allocation in smir)

r? `@ghost`
`@rustbot` modify labels: rollup
2023-11-22 00:30:56 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
6686221d29 Remove outdated reference to compiler plugins. 2023-11-22 11:06:24 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
9fe6bb4a10 Add some comments. 2023-11-22 11:06:16 +11:00
Matthias Krüger
914891fc58
Rollup merge of #118135 - ouz-a:fix_stable_span, r=celinval
Remove quotation from filename in stable_mir

Previously we had quotation marks in filenames which is obviously wrong this fixes that.

r? ```@celinval```
2023-11-21 23:46:20 +01:00
Matthias Krüger
802f71b294
Rollup merge of #118112 - compiler-errors:index-ambiguity-ice, r=aliemjay
Don't ICE when ambiguity is found when selecting `Index` implementation in typeck

Fixes #118111

The problem here is when we're manually "selecting" an impl for `base_ty: Index<?0>`, we don't consider placeholder region errors (leak check) or ambiguous predicates. Those can lead to us not actually emitting any fulfillment errors on line 3131.
2023-11-21 23:46:20 +01:00
Matthias Krüger
a11be28e13
Rollup merge of #118110 - compiler-errors:defining-anchor, r=aliemjay
Document `DefiningAnchor` a bit more

r? types
2023-11-21 23:46:19 +01:00
Matthias Krüger
bdb929e788
Rollup merge of #118109 - notriddle:notriddle/search-cleanup-2, r=GuillaumeGomez
rustdoc-search: simplify `checkPath` and `sortResults`

These two commits reduce the amount of code in search.js with no noticeable change in performance.

https://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-5/profile-5/index.html
2023-11-21 23:46:19 +01:00
Matthias Krüger
a98698e9c4
Rollup merge of #117972 - ouz-a:stable_debuginfo, r=celinval
Add VarDebugInfo to Stable MIR

Previously we omitted `VarDebugInfo` because we didn't have `Projection` now that https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117517 is merged it's possible to add `VarDebugInfo` information in `Body`. This PR adds stable version of the `VarDebugInfo` to `Body`

r? ```@celinval```
2023-11-21 23:46:18 +01:00
bors
fec80b4475 Auto merge of #118143 - Nilstrieb:only-borrow-what-you-need, r=compiler-errors
Fix `clippy::needless_borrow` in the compiler

`x clippy compiler -Aclippy::all -Wclippy::needless_borrow --fix`.

Then I had to remove a few unnecessary parens and muts that were exposed now.

r? `@compiler-errors` you told me you want to review this

I will do a self review first (which, for this, is easiest on GitHub once the PR is open) - did it
2023-11-21 22:34:19 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
10c8b56af1 Factor out common code in PrintState.
The AST and HIR versions of `State::print_ident` are textually
identical, but the types differ slightly. This commit factors out the
common code they both have by replacing `print_ident` with `ann_post`,
which is a smaller function that still captures the type difference.
2023-11-22 08:13:21 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
e16b52d4f0 Streamline PrintState.
`PrintState` is a trait containing code that can be used by both AST and
HIR pretty-printing. But several of its methods are only used by AST
printing.

This commit moves those methods out of the trait and into the AST
`State` impl, so they are not exposed unnecessarily. This commit also
removes four unused methods: `param_to_string`,
`foreign_item_to_string`, `assoc_item_to_string`, and
`print_inner_attributes_inline`.
2023-11-22 08:13:21 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
c6a9027102 Remove unused PrintState::generic_params_to_string method. 2023-11-22 08:13:21 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
d9443f71c7 Remove or downgrade unnecessary pub visibility markers. 2023-11-22 08:13:21 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
33cee0b22c Remove NO_ANN.
This makes `rustc_hir_pretty` more like `rustc_ast_pretty`.
2023-11-22 08:13:21 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
ce363bb6e6 Remove IterDelimited.
itertools has `with_position` which does the same thing.
2023-11-22 08:13:21 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
3eadc6844b Update itertools to 0.11.
Because the API for `with_position` improved in 0.11 and I want to use
it.
2023-11-22 08:13:21 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
1d320ed387 Remove unnecessary derives. 2023-11-22 08:13:21 +11:00
Nicholas Nethercote
2f51f0b290 Remove unneeded features. 2023-11-22 08:13:21 +11:00
Michael Howell
28f17d97a9 rustdoc-search: make primitives and keywords less special
The search sorting code already sorts by item type discriminant,
putting things with smaller discriminants first. There was
also a special case for sorting keywords and primitives earlier,
and this commit removes it by giving them lower discriminants.

The sorting code has another criteria where items with descriptions
appear earlier than items without, and that criteria has higher
priority than the item type. This shouldn't matter, though,
because primitives and keywords normally only appear in the
standard library, and it always gives them descriptions.
2023-11-21 13:59:26 -07:00
Michael Howell
d82a08537a rustdoc-search: clean up checkPath
This computes the same result with less code by computing many of
the old checks at once:

* It won't enter the loop if clength > length, because then the
  result of length - clength will be negative and the
  loop conditional will fail.
* i + clength will never be greater than length, because it
  starts out as i = length - clength, implying that i + clength
  equals length, and it only goes down from there.
* The aborted variable is replaced with control flow.
2023-11-21 13:09:53 -07:00
Nilstrieb
21a870515b Fix clippy::needless_borrow in the compiler
`x clippy compiler -Aclippy::all -Wclippy::needless_borrow --fix`.

Then I had to remove a few unnecessary parens and muts that were exposed
now.
2023-11-21 20:13:40 +01:00
Michael Goulet
d1daf0e841 Uplift CanonicalVarInfo and friends 2023-11-21 17:49:57 +00:00
Michael Goulet
f26e8ff3ac Uplift BoundVar 2023-11-21 17:49:56 +00:00
bors
2f8d81f9db Auto merge of #118137 - roblabla:update-backtrace, r=ChrisDenton
Update backtrace submodule

This PR updates the backtrace submodule, avoiding panics when resolving backtraces on Windows 7:

- https://github.com/rust-lang/backtrace-rs/pull/578

Fixes #117941

I ran the std unit tests locally on a Windows7 machine, and can confirm that this indeed fixes #117941.
2023-11-21 17:23:25 +00:00
roblabla
08803eb4c8 Update backtrace submodule 2023-11-21 16:33:42 +01:00
bors
0ff8610964 Auto merge of #118134 - Nilstrieb:rollup-kyo1l6e, r=Nilstrieb
Rollup of 6 pull requests

Successful merges:

 - #116085 (rustdoc-search: add support for traits and associated types)
 - #117522 (Remove `--check-cfg` checking of command line `--cfg` args)
 - #118029 (Expand Miri's BorTag GC to a Provenance GC)
 - #118035 (Fix early param lifetimes in generic_const_exprs)
 - #118083 (Remove i686-apple-darwin cross-testing)
 - #118091 (Remove now deprecated target x86_64-sun-solaris.)

r? `@ghost`
`@rustbot` modify labels: rollup
2023-11-21 15:08:24 +00:00
ouz-a
0b25415559 remove quotation from filename 2023-11-21 16:56:19 +03:00
Nilstrieb
fa8878bdcc
Rollup merge of #118091 - psumbera:solaris-target, r=compiler-errors
Remove now deprecated target x86_64-sun-solaris.
2023-11-21 14:36:15 +01:00
Nilstrieb
61e06fe446
Rollup merge of #118083 - calebzulawski:remove-i686-apple-darwin, r=albertlarsan68
Remove i686-apple-darwin cross-testing

The Xcode SDK no longer ships with 32-bit Intel (i686-apple-darwin) support as of [Xcode 14](https://developer.apple.com/news/upcoming-requirements/?id=06062022a) (related, #112753).  On an up-to-date Intel Mac, `x.py test --bless` fails.

r? ``@rust-lang/bootstrap``
2023-11-21 14:36:14 +01:00
Nilstrieb
4bb3ae39b7
Rollup merge of #118035 - ouz-a:november_ice2, r=compiler-errors
Fix early param lifetimes in generic_const_exprs

In cases like below, we never actually be able to capture region name for two reasons, first `'static` becomes anonymous lifetime and second we never capture region if it doesn't have a name so this results in ICE.
```
struct DataWrapper<'static> {
    data: &'a [u8; Self::SIZE],
}

impl DataWrapper<'a> {
```

Fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/118021
2023-11-21 14:36:14 +01:00
Nilstrieb
cbadb2e1c0
Rollup merge of #118029 - saethlin:allocid-gc, r=RalfJung
Expand Miri's BorTag GC to a Provenance GC

As suggested in https://github.com/rust-lang/miri/issues/3080#issuecomment-1732505573

We previously solved memory growth issues associated with the Stacked Borrows and Tree Borrows runtimes with a GC. But of course we also have state accumulation associated with whole allocations elsewhere in the interpreter, and this PR starts tackling those.

To do this, we expand the visitor for the GC so that it can visit a BorTag or an AllocId. Instead of collecting all live AllocIds into a single HashSet, we just collect from the Machine itself then go through an accessor `InterpCx::is_alloc_live` which checks a number of allocation data structures in the core interpreter. This avoids the overhead of all the inserts that collecting their keys would require.

r? ``@RalfJung``
2023-11-21 14:36:13 +01:00
Nilstrieb
aff407eef5
Rollup merge of #117522 - Urgau:check-cfg-cli-own-lint, r=petrochenkov
Remove `--check-cfg` checking of command line `--cfg` args

Back in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/100574 we added to the `unexpected_cfgs` lint the checking of `--cfg` CLI arguments and emitted unexpected names and values for them.

The implementation works as expected, but it's usability in particular when using it in combination with Cargo+`RUSTFLAGS` as people who set `RUSTFLAGS=--cfg=tokio_unstable` (or whatever) have `unexpected_cfgs` warnings on all of their crates is debatable. ~~To fix this issue this PR proposes that we split the CLI argument checking into it's own separate allow-by-default lint: `unexpected_cli_cfgs`.~~

~~This has the advantage of letting people who want CLI warnings have them (although not by default anymore), while still linting on every unexpected cfg name and values in the code.~~

After some discussion with the Cargo team ([Zulip thread](https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/246057-t-cargo/topic/check-cfg.20and.20RUSTFLAGS.20interaction)) and member of the compiler team (see below), I propose that we follow the suggestion from `@epage:` never check `--cfg` arguments, but still reserve us the possibility to do it later.

We would still lint on unexpected cfgs found in the source code no matter the `--cfg` args passed. This mean reverting https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/100574 but NOT https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/99519.

r? `@petrochenkov`
2023-11-21 14:36:13 +01:00
Nilstrieb
e62f7be638
Rollup merge of #116085 - notriddle:notriddle/search-associated-types, r=GuillaumeGomez
rustdoc-search: add support for traits and associated types

# Summary

Trait associated type queries work in rustdoc's type driven search. The data is included in the search-index.js file, and the queries are designed to "do what I mean" when users type them in, so, for example, `Iterator<Item=T> -> Option<T>` includes `Iterator::next` in the SERP[^SERP], and `Iterator<T> -> Option<T>` also includes `Iterator::next` in the SERP.

[^SERP]: search engine results page

## Sample searches

* [`iterator<Item=T>, fnmut -> T`][iterreduce]
* [`iterator<T>, fnmut -> T`][iterreduceterse]

[iterreduce]: http://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-5/associated-types/std/index.html?search=iterator%3CItem%3DT%3E%2C%20fnmut%20-%3E%20T&filter-crate=std
[iterreduceterse]: http://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-5/associated-types/std/index.html?search=iterator%3CT%3E%2C%20fnmut%20-%3E%20T&filter-crate=std

# Motivation

My primary motivation for working on search.js at all is to make it easier to use highly generic APIs, like the Iterator API. The type signature describes these functions pretty well, while the names are almost arbitrary.

Before this PR, type bindings were not consistently included in search-index.js at all (you couldn't find Iterator::next by typing in its function signature) and you couldn't explicitly search for them. This PR fixes both of these problems.

# Guide-level explanation

*Excerpt from [the Rustdoc book](http://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-5/associated-types/rustdoc/read-documentation/search.html), included in this PR.*

> Function signature searches can query generics, wrapped in angle brackets, and traits will be normalized like types in the search engine if no type parameters match them. For example, a function with the signature `fn my_function<I: Iterator<Item=u32>>(input: I) -> usize` can be matched with the following queries:
>
> * `Iterator<Item=u32> -> usize`
> * `Iterator<u32> -> usize` (you can leave out the `Item=` part)
> * `Iterator -> usize` (you can leave out iterator's generic entirely)
> * `T -> usize` (you can match with a generic parameter)
>
> Each of the above queries is progressively looser, except the last one would not match `dyn Iterator`, since that's not a type parameter.

# Reference-level explanation

Inside the angle brackets, you can choose whether to write a name before the parameter and the equal sign. This syntax is called [`GenericArgsBinding`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/paths.html#paths-in-expressions) in the Rust Reference, and it allows you to constrain a trait's associated type.

As a convenience, you don't actually have to put the name in (Rust requires it, but Rustdoc Search doesn't). This works about the same way unboxing already works in Search: the terse `Iterator<u32>` is a match for `Iterator<Item=u32>`, but the opposite is not true, just like `u32` is a match for `Iterator<u32>`.

When converting a trait method for the search index, the trait is substituted for `Self`, and all associated types are bound to generics. This way, if you have the following trait definition:

```rust
pub trait MyTrait {
    type Output;
    fn method(self) -> Self::Output;
}
```

The following queries will match its method:

  * `MyTrait<Output=T> -> T`
  * `MyTrait<T> -> T`
  * `MyTrait -> T`

But these queries will not match it:

  * <i>`MyTrait<Output=u32> -> u32`</i>
  * <i>`MyTrait<Output> -> Output`</i>
  * <i>`MyTrait -> MyTrait::Output`</i>

# Drawbacks

It's a little bit bigger:

```console
$ du before/search-index1.74.0.js after/search-index1.74.0.js
4020    before/search-index1.74.0.js
4068    after/search-index1.74.0.js
```

# Rationale and alternatives

I don't want to just not do this. On it's own, it's not terribly useful, but in addition to searching by normal traits, this is also intended as a desugaring target for closures. That's why it needs to actually distinguish the two: it allows the future desugaring to distinguish function output and input.

The other alternative would be to not allow users to leave out the name, so `iterator<u32>` doesn't work. That would be unfortunate, because mixing up which ones have out params and which ones are plain generics is an easy enough mistake that the Rust compiler itself helps people out with it.

# Prior art

  * <http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2020/06/hoogle-searching-overview.html>

    The current Rustdoc algorithm, both before this PR and after it, has a fairly expensive matching algorithm over a fairly simple file format. Luckily, we aren't trying to scale to all of crates.io, so it's usable, but it's not great when I throw it at docs.servo.org

# Unresolved questions

Okay, but *how do we want to handle closures?* I know the system will desugar `FnOnce(T) -> U` into `trait:FnOnce<Output=U, primitive:tuple<T>>`, but what if I don't know what trait I'm looking for? This PR can merge with nothing, but it'd be nice to have a plan.

Specifically, how should the special form used to handle all varieties of basic callable: primitive:fn (function pointers), and trait:Fn, trait:FnOnce, and trait:FnMut should all be searchable using a single syntax, because I'm always forgetting which one is used in the function I'm looking for.

The essential question is how closely we want to copy Rust's own syntax. The tersest way to expression Option::map might be:

    Option<T>, (T -> U) -> Option<U>

That's the approach I would prefer, but nobody's going to attempt it without being told, so maybe this would be better?

    Option<T>, (fn(T) -> U) -> Option<U>

It does require double parens, but at least it's mostly unambiguous. Unfortunately, it looks like the syntax you'd use for function pointers, implying that if you specifically wanted to limit your search to function pointers, you'd need to use `primitive:fn(T) -> U`. Then again, searching is normally case-insensitive, so you'd want that anyway to disambiguate from `trait:Fn(T) -> U`.

# Future possibilities

## This thing really needs a ranking algorithm

That is, this PR increases the number of matches for some type-based queries. They're usually pretty good matches, but there's still more of them, and it's evident that if you have two functions, `foo(MyTrait<u8>)` and `bar(MyTrait<Item=u8>)`, if the user typed `MyTrait<u8>` then `foo` should show up first.

A design choice that these PRs have followed is that adding more stuff to the search query always reduces the number of functions that get matched. The advantage of doing it that way is that you can rank them by just counting how many atoms are in the function's signature (lowest score goes on top). Since it's impossible for a matching function to have fewer atoms than the search query, if there's a function with exactly the same set of atoms in it, then that'll be on top.

More complicated ranking algos tend to penalize long documents anyway, if the [distance metrics](https://www.benfrederickson.com/distance-metrics/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other) I found through [Flipboard](https://flipboard.com/`@arnie0426/building-recommender-systems-nvue3iqtgrn10t45)` (and postgresql's `ts_rank_cd`) are anything to go by. Real-world data sets tend to have weird outliers, like they have God Functions with zillions of arguments of all sorts of types, and Rustdoc ought to put such a function at the bottom.

The other natural choice would be interleaving with `unifyFunctionTypes` to count the number of unboxings and reorderings. This would compute a distance function, and would do a fine job of ranking the results, as [described here](https://ndmitchell.com/downloads/slides-hoogle_finding_functions_from_types-16_may_2011.pdf) by the Hoogle dev, but is more complicated than it sounds. The current algorithm returns when it finds a result that *exists at all*, but a distance function should find an *optimal solution* to find the smallest sequence of edits.

## This could also use a benchmark suite and some optimization

This approach also lends itself to layering a bloom filter in front of the backtracking unification engine.

* At load time, hash the typeNameIdMap ID for each atom and set the matching entry in a fixed-size byte array for each function to 1. Call it `fnType.bloomFilter`
* At search time, do the same for the atoms in the query (excluding special forms like `[]` that can match more than one thing). Call it `parsedQuery.bloomFilter`
* For each function, `if (fnType.bloomFilter | (~parsedQuery.bloomFilter) !== ~0) { return false; }`

There's also room to optimize the unification engine itself, by using stacks and persistent data structures instead of copying arrays around, or by using hashing instead of linear scans (the current algorithm was rewritten from one that tried to do that, but was too much to fit in my head and had a bunch of bugs). The advantage of Just Backtracking Better over the bloom filter is that it doesn't require the engine to retain any special algebraic properties.

But, first, we need a set of benchmarks to be able to judge if such a thing will actually help.

## Referring to associated types by path

*I don't want to implement this one, but if I did, this is how I'd do it.*

In Rust, this is represented by a structure called a qualified path, or QPath. They look like this:

    <Self as Iterator>::Item
    <F as FnOnce>::Output

They can also, if it's unambiguous, use a plain path and just let the system figure it out:

    Self::Item
    F::Output

In Rustdoc Type-Driven Search, we don't want to force people to be unambiguous. Instead, we should try *all reasonable interpretations*, return results whenever any of them match, and let users make their query more specific if too many results are matches.

To enable associated type path searches in Rustdoc, we need to:

1. When lowering a trait method to a search-index.js function signature, Self should be explicitly represented as a generic argument. It should always be assigned `-1`, so that if the user uses `Self` in their search query, we can ensure it always matches the real Self and not something else. Any functions that don't *have* a Self should drop a `0` into the first position of the where clause, to express that there isn't one and reserve the `-1` position.
   * Reminder: generics are negative, concrete types are positive, and zero is a reserved sentinel.
   * Right now, `Iterator::next` is lowered as if it were `fn next<T>(self: Iterator<Item=T>) -> Option<T>`.
     It should become `fn next<Self, T>(self: Self) -> Option<T> where Self: Iterator<Item=T>` instead.
3. Add another backtracking edge to the unification engine, so that when the user writes something like `some::thing`, the interpretation where `some` is a module and `thing` is a standalone item becomes one possible match candidate, while the interpretation where `some` is a trait and `thing` is an associated type is a separate match candidate. The backtracking engine is basically powerful enough to do this already, since unboxing generic type parameters into their traits already requires the ability to do this kind of thing.
   * When interpreting `some::thing` where `some` is a trait and `thing` is an associated type, it should be treated equivalently to `<self as some>::thing`. If you want to bind it to some generic parameter other than `Self`, you need to explicitly say so.
   * If no trait called `some` actually exists, treat it as a generic type parameter instead. Track every trait mentioned in the current working function signature, and add a match candidate for each one.
   * A user that explicitly wants the trait-associated-type interpretation could write a qpath (like `<self as trait>::type`), and a user that explicitly wants the module-item interpretation should use an item type filter (like `struct:module::type`).
4. To actually do the matching, maintain a `Map<(QueryGenericParamId, TraitId), FnGenericParamId>` alongside the existing `Map<QueryGenericParamId, FnGenericParamId>` that is already used to handle plain generic parameters. This works, because, when a trait function signature is lowered to search-index.js, the `rustdoc` backend always generates an FnGenericParamId for every trait associated type it sees mentioned in the function's signature.
5. Parse QPaths. Specifically,
   * QueryElem adds three new fields. `isQPath` is a boolean flag, and `traitNameId` contains an entry for `typeNameIdMap` corresponding to the trait part of a qpath, and `parentId` may contain either a concrete type ID or a negative number referring to a generic type parameter. The actual `id` of the query elem will always be a negative number, because this is essentially a funny way to add a generic type constraint.
   * If it's a QPath, then both of those IDs get filled in with the respective parts of the map. The unification engine will check the where clause to ensure the trait actually applies to the generic parameter in question, will check the type parameter constraint, and will add a mapping to `mgens` recording this as a solution.
   * If it's just a regular path, then `isQPath` is false, and the parser will fill in both `traitNameId` and `parentId` based on the same path. The unification engine, seeing isQPath is false and that these IDs were filled in, will try all three solutions: the path might be part of a concrete type name, or it might be referring to a trait, or it might be referring to a generic type parameter.

### Why not implement QPath searches?

I'm not sure if anybody really wants to write such complicated queries. You can do a pretty good job of describing the generic functions in the standard library without resorting to FQPs.

These two queries, for example, would both match the Iterator::map function if we added support for higher order function queries and a rule that allows a type to match its *notable traits*.

    // I like this version, because it's identical to how `Option::map` would be written.
    // There's a reason why Iterator::map and Option::map have the same name.
    Iterator<T>, (T -> U) -> Iterator<U>

    // This version explicitly uses the type parameter constraints.
    Iterator<Item=T>, (T -> U) -> Iterator<Item=U>

If I try to write this one using FQP, however, the results seem worse:

    // This one is less expressive than the versions that don't use associated type paths.
    // It matches `Iterator::filter`, while the above two example queries don't.
    Iterator, (Iterator::Item -> Iterator::Item) -> Iterator

    // This doesn't work, because the return type of `Iterator::map` is not a generic
    // parameter with an `Iterator` trait bound. It's a concrete type that
    // implements `Iterator`. Return-Position-Impl-Trait is the same way.
    //
    // There's a difference between something like `map`, whose return value
    // implements Iterator, and something like `collect`, where the caller
    // gets to decide what the concrete type is going to be.
    //Self, (Self::Item -> I::Item) -> I where Self: Iterator, I: Iterator

    // This works, but it seems subjectively ugly, complex, and counterintuitive to me.
    Self, (<Self as Iterator>::Item -> T) -> Iterator<Item=T>
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