This is an experimental patch to try to reduce the codegen complexity of
TokenStream's FromIterator and Extend implementations for downstream
crates, by moving the core logic into a helper type. This might help
improve build performance of crates which depend on proc_macro as
iterators are used less, and the compiler may take less time to do
things like attempt specializations or other iterator optimizations.
The change intentionally sacrifices some optimization opportunities,
such as using the specializations for collecting iterators derived from
Vec::into_iter() into Vec.
This is one of the simpler potential approaches to reducing the amount
of code generated in crates depending on proc_macro, so it seems worth
trying before other more-involved changes.
This significantly reduces the cost of common interactions with TokenStream
when running with the CrossThread execution strategy, by reducing the number of
RPC calls required.
Remove migrate borrowck mode
Closes#58781Closes#43234
# Stabilization proposal
This PR proposes the stabilization of `#![feature(nll)]` and the removal of `-Z borrowck`. Current borrow checking behavior of item bodies is currently done by first infering regions *lexically* and reporting any errors during HIR type checking. If there *are* any errors, then MIR borrowck (NLL) never occurs. If there *aren't* any errors, then MIR borrowck happens and any errors there would be reported. This PR removes the lexical region check of item bodies entirely and only uses MIR borrowck. Because MIR borrowck could never *not* be run for a compiled program, this should not break any programs. It does, however, change diagnostics significantly and allows a slightly larger set of programs to compile.
Tracking issue: #43234
RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2094-nll.md
Version: 1.63 (2022-06-30 => beta, 2022-08-11 => stable).
## Motivation
Over time, the Rust borrow checker has become "smarter" and thus allowed more programs to compile. There have been three different implementations: AST borrowck, MIR borrowck, and polonius (well, in progress). Additionally, there is the "lexical region resolver", which (roughly) solves the constraints generated through HIR typeck. It is not a full borrow checker, but does emit some errors.
The AST borrowck was the original implementation of the borrow checker and was part of the initially stabilized Rust 1.0. In mid 2017, work began to implement the current MIR borrow checker and that effort ompleted by the end of 2017, for the most part. During 2018, efforts were made to migrate away from the AST borrow checker to the MIR borrow checker - eventually culminating into "migrate" mode - where HIR typeck with lexical region resolving following by MIR borrow checking - being active by default in the 2018 edition.
In early 2019, migrate mode was turned on by default in the 2015 edition as well, but with MIR borrowck errors emitted as warnings. By late 2019, these warnings were upgraded to full errors. This was followed by the complete removal of the AST borrow checker.
In the period since, various errors emitted by the MIR borrow checker have been improved to the point that they are mostly the same or better than those emitted by the lexical region resolver.
While there do remain some degradations in errors (tracked under the [NLL-diagnostics tag](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3ANLL-diagnostics), those are sufficiently small and rare enough that increased flexibility of MIR borrow check-only is now a worthwhile tradeoff.
## What is stabilized
As said previously, this does not fundamentally change the landscape of accepted programs. However, there are a [few](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3ANLL-fixed-by-NLL) cases where programs can compile under `feature(nll)`, but not otherwise.
There are two notable patterns that are "fixed" by this stabilization. First, the `scoped_threads` feature, which is a continutation of a pre-1.0 API, can sometimes emit a [weird lifetime error](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/95527) without NLL. Second, actually seen in the standard library. In the `Extend` impl for `HashMap`, there is an implied bound of `K: 'a` that is available with NLL on but not without - this is utilized in the impl.
As mentioned before, there are a large number of diagnostic differences. Most of them are better, but some are worse. None are serious or happen often enough to need to block this PR. The biggest change is the loss of error code for a number of lifetime errors in favor of more general "lifetime may not live long enough" error. While this may *seem* bad, the former error codes were just attempts to somewhat-arbitrarily bin together lifetime errors of the same type; however, on paper, they end up being roughly the same with roughly the same kinds of solutions.
## What isn't stabilized
This PR does not completely remove the lexical region resolver. In the future, it may be possible to remove that (while still keeping HIR typeck) or to remove it together with HIR typeck.
## Tests
Many test outputs get updated by this PR. However, there are number of tests specifically geared towards NLL under `src/test/ui/nll`
## History
* On 2017-07-14, [tracking issue opened](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/43234)
* On 2017-07-20, [initial empty MIR pass added](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/43271)
* On 2017-08-29, [RFC opened](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2094)
* On 2017-11-16, [Integrate MIR type-checker with NLL](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/45825)
* On 2017-12-20, [NLL feature complete](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/46862)
* On 2018-07-07, [Don't run AST borrowck on mir mode](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/52083)
* On 2018-07-27, [Add migrate mode](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/52681)
* On 2019-04-22, [Enable migrate mode on 2015 edition](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/59114)
* On 2019-08-26, [Don't downgrade errors on 2015 edition](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/64221)
* On 2019-08-27, [Remove AST borrowck](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/64790)
The change was "Show invisible delimiters (within comments) when pretty
printing". It's useful to show these delimiters, but is a breaking
change for some proc macros.
Fixes#97608.
Reduce the amount of unstable features used in libproc_macro
This makes it easier to adapt the source for stable when copying it into rust-analyzer to load rustc compiled proc macros.
This updates the standard library's documentation to use the new syntax. The
documentation is worthwhile to update as it should be more idiomatic
(particularly for features like this, which are nice for users to get acquainted
with). The general codebase is likely more hassle than benefit to update: it'll
hurt git blame, and generally updates can be done by folks updating the code if
(and when) that makes things more readable with the new format.
A few places in the compiler and library code are updated (mostly just due to
already having been done when this commit was first authored).
Implement `panic::update_hook`
Add a new function `panic::update_hook` to allow creating panic hooks that forward the call to the previously set panic hook, without race conditions. It works by taking a closure that transforms the old panic hook into a new one, while ensuring that during the execution of the closure no other thread can modify the panic hook. This is a small function so I hope it can be discussed here without a formal RFC, however if you prefer I can write one.
Consider the following example:
```rust
let prev = panic::take_hook();
panic::set_hook(Box::new(move |info| {
println!("panic handler A");
prev(info);
}));
```
This is a common pattern in libraries that need to do something in case of panic: log panic to a file, record code coverage, send panic message to a monitoring service, print custom message with link to github to open a new issue, etc. However it is impossible to avoid race conditions with the current API, because two threads can execute in this order:
* Thread A calls `panic::take_hook()`
* Thread B calls `panic::take_hook()`
* Thread A calls `panic::set_hook()`
* Thread B calls `panic::set_hook()`
And the result is that the original panic hook has been lost, as well as the panic hook set by thread A. The resulting panic hook will be the one set by thread B, which forwards to the default panic hook. This is not considered a big issue because the panic handler setup is usually run during initialization code, probably before spawning any other threads.
Using the new `panic::update_hook` function, this race condition is impossible, and the result will be either `A, B, original` or `B, A, original`.
```rust
panic::update_hook(|prev| {
Box::new(move |info| {
println!("panic handler A");
prev(info);
})
});
```
I found one real world use case here: 988cf403e7/src/detection.rs (L32) the workaround is to detect the race condition and panic in that case.
The pattern of `take_hook` + `set_hook` is very common, you can see some examples in this pull request, so I think it's natural to have a function that combines them both. Also using `update_hook` instead of `take_hook` + `set_hook` reduces the number of calls to `HOOK_LOCK.write()` from 2 to 1, but I don't expect this to make any difference in performance.
### Unresolved questions:
* `panic::update_hook` takes a closure, if that closure panics the error message is "panicked while processing panic" which is not nice. This is a consequence of holding the `HOOK_LOCK` while executing the closure. Could be avoided using `catch_unwind`?
* Reimplement `panic::set_hook` as `panic::update_hook(|_prev| hook)`?
This feature is aimed at giving proc macros access to powers similar to
those used by builtin macros such as `format_args!` or `concat!`. These
macros are able to accept macros in place of string literal parameters,
such as the format string, as they perform recursive macro expansion
while being expanded.
This can be especially useful in many cases thanks to helper macros like
`concat!`, `stringify!` and `include_str!` which are often used to
construct string literals at compile-time in user code.
For now, this method only allows expanding macros which produce
literals, although more expresisons will be supported before the method
is stabilized.
Add proc_macro::Span::{before, after}.
This adds `proc_macro::Span::before()` and `proc_macro::Span::after()` to get a zero width span at the start or end of the span.
These are equivalent to rustc's `Span::shrink_to_lo()` and `Span::shrink_to_hi()` but with a less cryptic name. They are useful when generating diagnostlics like "missing \<thing\> after \<thing\>".
E.g.
```rust
syn::Error::new(ident.span().after(), "missing `:` after field name").into_compile_error()
```
