Make continuations consistently "shallow" (#874)

Prior to this change, `__await` would make a deep copy of the continuation stack, but shallow-copy the individual stack frames within it. As a result, continuations appeared to have shallow semantics so long as the continuation stack had only a single frame.

This change also removes an obsolete test from the brief period when we intended continuations to have deep-copy semantics, which has been passing basically by accident.
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Geoff Romer
2021-10-11 14:57:09 -07:00
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parent 9211c98951
commit d177a08e01
5 changed files with 34 additions and 52 deletions
@@ -14,12 +14,17 @@ package ExecutableSemanticsTest api;
// Assignment for continuations is shallow, so `k2` refers to the same
// continuation as `k1`.
var x: i32 = 0;
fn Foo() {
x = x + 1;
__await;
x = x + 2;
}
fn main() -> i32 {
var x: i32 = 0;
__continuation k1 {
x = x + 1;
__await;
x = x + 2;
Foo();
}
var k2: __Continuation = k1;
__run k1;