Lexer diagnostics used a single `const char*` as their source location,
which only allowed pointing at a single character rather than a run of
characters. This limited the underlining of unrecognized tokens, and
also made escape sequence diagnostics particularly strange by stopping
at whatever point the lexer discovered the error and pointing only at
that location. For example: `"\w"` was reported at the `w`, and `"\x"`
at the closing `"`.
This change tries to always keep the primary location of a diagnostic
the point at which typing (inserting or deleting) might fix the error.
So for `"\x"`, `\x` is underlined, but the position is at the `"` as
that's where you would type a hex code.
The lexer's emitter now takes a special lexing source location that
represents either a single position _between_ two characters, a single
character, or a range of the source buffer. The lexer diagnostics are
updated to construct these for the character range as appropriate.
Parser diagnostics for a missing token were located at the _next_ token,
which is particularly confusing for terminators like missing `;`s. Now
they are located at a position after the previous token, with or without
a space depending on the token, but typically on the same line.
Diagnostics still sort by how far the parser has read.
The parser diagnostics for unclosed groups also now attaches a label to
the opening token when it is on a separate line. And the diagnostics for
mismatched indent in a multi-line string attaches a label to the closing
`'''` that establishes that indent.
There are likely more location improvements we should do here, but this
seemed like a reasonable incremental improvement and is what Claude
found when doing an initial audit. One example where I think we should
make further improvements is around suggesting raw identifiers when we
find an unexpected `Cpp` or `Core` or `base`. We do this consistently
now, but raw identifiers should be rare. A TODO is added for these
cases.
Assisted-by: Claude Code
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Carbon currently requires a comment to be the only non-whitespace on its
line. A `//` comment that follows other content on a line, called a
_trailing comment_, is a lexer error. This proposal removes that
restriction, allowing a comment to follow other content on a line.
Everything else about comments is unchanged: a comment still begins with
`//`, still requires whitespace after the `//`, and still runs to the
end of the line. Carbon continues to provide only line comments; no
block or intra-line comments are added.
Three observations motivate the change. First, trailing comments are
well suited to short _annotations_ attached to a specific entity or
value on a line. Second, the lexer design now makes it trivial to lex
trailing comments, and in fact requires extra logic and potentially cost
to reject them. Third, C++ code routinely uses trailing comments, so
allowing them lets Carbon carry the layout of migrated code over
directly, rather than reworking each comment to read well in a different
structure.
Implementation notes (beyond the proposal's design):
Keeping trailing comments cheap to lex required a few supporting
changes, all of which keep the cost off the lexer's hot path:
- The lexer already dispatches `//` to comment lexing wherever it
appears, so classifying a comment as trailing is a single O(1) check of
whether the `//` is the line's first non-whitespace (`start + indent`).
The hot comment path is otherwise unchanged.
- That check relies on each line's recorded indentation being its real
leading whitespace. Multi-line string literals previously recorded the
column where the literal opened for the lines they span; they now record
the true (closing-delimiter) indentation instead.
- Parser error recovery (`SkipPastLikelyEnd`) had relied on that
opening-column indentation to keep tokens following a multi-line string
literal attached to the same construct. It now reconstructs that
relationship directly by consulting the line on which the literal
opened, including when other tokens follow the closing delimiter (such
as `''' + "more"`). This is on the cold recovery path.
- `CommentData` records the trailing bit in the high bit of its length
field, keeping it at 8 bytes.
Assisted-by: Claude Code
When lexing a hash-prefixed character literal, the lexer assumed that
the hash level of escape sequences inside the literal was zero, which
allowed unclosed escape sequences inside the literal which crashed the
compiler.
Closes#6799
* `\x` escapes are not permitted in character literals
* ASCII control characters (U+0000 .. U+001F) are not permitted in
character literals unless specified with escape sequences.
toolchain/check/testdata/builtins/char/basics.carbon and
toolchain/lower/testdata/builtins/char.carbon are probably the most
interesting tests here. The parse tests is required because this adds a
new node kind, and we need coverage of it; but the attached info is
minor. There's a fair amount of test churn here because I'm adding the
Core.Char and Core.CharLiteral types as new singletons.
My intent here is that `CharId` is always a unicode code point, even
when the type is a `Char` and thus must be a single UTF-8 code unit
(single byte). This mainly means the stored value of a `CharValue` can
be printed internally without knowing the type.
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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
Adapts `StringLiteral` to lex characters. Adds a `CharLiteral` token,
which contains a `CharLiteralValue` which is a straight unicode code
point (suggested by zygoloid).
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Given the namespacing of `Diagnostics` in #5173, now we can use
`DiagnosticEmitter` for phase-specific emitters. This is consistent with
how we do `Context`, and also check had started this with
`DiagnosticBuilder` in anticipation of the namespacing.
Also renames `Emitter::DiagnosticBuilder` to `Emitter::Builder` for
consistency with other `Diagnostics` entities.
In check, I'm still splitting `DiagnosticEmitterBase` and
`DiagnosticEmitter` just to keep the emitter definition separate from
the context.
Also cleans up some incorrect check diagnostic emitter dependencies in
lower.
What this really does is avoids shadowing names, so that we can
comfortable have things like `Check::DiagnosticEmitter` or
`Check::DiagnosticLoc` without shadowing being a concern.
Note, down this path I'm also thinking about:
- Renaming misc DiagnosticConsumer/DiagnosticEmitter classes, possibly
just to DiagnosticConsumer/DiagnosticEmitter (so
`Check::DiagnosticEmitter` instead of `SemIRLocDiagnosticEmitter`).
- Dropping `Diagnostic` from `Emitter::DiagnosticBuilder`.
- But not for `Check::DiagnosticBuilder`, because `Check::Builder` would
be ambiguous.
- Renaming diagnostics/diagnostic_* to drop "diagnostic".
[Discussion about SemIRLoc ->
DiagnosticLoc](https://discord.com/channels/655572317891461132/655578254970716160/1353771570463768698)
reminded me of this (in particular the older [Check::DiagnosticBuilder
discussion](https://discord.com/channels/655572317891461132/655578254970716160/1344363562608627763)),
but I'd only do that rename if there's matching consensus about a path
forward where we keep SemIRLoc, and in a way that it's only ever used
for diagnostics (the divergence from which is at the root of current
LocId discussion).
I'm trying to keep that separate from a namespace addition for clarity.
This is a primarily automated change:
- Search & replace for capitalization
-
`(CARBON_DIAGNOSTIC\((?:\n\s+)?\w+,(?:\n\s+)?\s\w+,(?:\n\s+)?\s")([A-Z])`
- `$1\L$2`
- Search & replace for period
-
`(CARBON_DIAGNOSTIC\((?:\n\s+)?\w+,(?:\n\s+)?\s\w+,(?:\n\s+)?\s"(?:[^)]|\n)+)\.("[,)])`
- `$1$2`
- Limited search & replace for `ERROR: ` -> `error: ` in streamed things
- Leaving a TODO for command_line because there's more cleanup that can
be done there
- Modify diagnostic_consumer.cpp
- ERROR -> error
- WARNING -> warning
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This switches `DCHECK` and `FATAL` as well.
The goal is to reduce the code size impact of these assertions so that
we can keep more of them enabled. Currently, the largest cost I see from
`CHECK` is not the actual check or the cold code itself, but actually
the failure to inline trivial functions due to the presence of the cold
code. This means that our goal isn't to reduce apparent code size in the
final binary but the LLVM IR cost assessed for these routines in the
inliner, which closely correlates with code size but is a bit different.
As discussed in #4283, experimentation shows that a single function call
with a minimal number of arguments is the lowest cost model for these.
This is easily achieved with a format-string API that internally uses
`llvm::formatv`. This PR is essentially the `CHECK` version of #4283.
However, the check macros are substantially harder to make work with
both format strings and streaming because they also take a condition.
Also, unexpectedly, I was very successful at devising a regular
expression based automated rewrite from the streaming to the format
string form with only low 10s of manual fixes. This includes compacting
strings broken up across lines, etc. Given how well that went, I've
prepared this PR which just directly switches to the format string API
and migrate everything to use it.
One nice side-effect is that the format string approach ends up greatly
simplifying the implementation here as well.
This is ... *shockingly* effective. Parsing speeds up by more than 3%
with just this change. And checking speeds up by **8%** with this change
alone:
```
BM_CompileAPIFileDenseDecls<Phase::Parse>/256 86.3µs ± 1% 82.9µs ± 1% -3.94% (p=0.000 n=17+19)
BM_CompileAPIFileDenseDecls<Phase::Parse>/1024 431µs ± 1% 415µs ± 1% -3.76% (p=0.000 n=18+19)
BM_CompileAPIFileDenseDecls<Phase::Parse>/4096 1.77ms ± 1% 1.71ms ± 1% -3.18% (p=0.000 n=18+19)
BM_CompileAPIFileDenseDecls<Phase::Parse>/16384 7.44ms ± 1% 7.17ms ± 2% -3.56% (p=0.000 n=18+20)
BM_CompileAPIFileDenseDecls<Phase::Parse>/65536 30.7ms ± 1% 29.7ms ± 1% -3.15% (p=0.000 n=18+20)
BM_CompileAPIFileDenseDecls<Phase::Parse>/262144 131ms ± 1% 127ms ± 1% -2.81% (p=0.000 n=18+18)
BM_CompileAPIFileDenseDecls<Phase::Check>/256 878µs ± 2% 800µs ± 1% -8.91% (p=0.000 n=19+20)
BM_CompileAPIFileDenseDecls<Phase::Check>/1024 1.88ms ± 2% 1.72ms ± 1% -8.56% (p=0.000 n=19+20)
BM_CompileAPIFileDenseDecls<Phase::Check>/4096 5.78ms ± 2% 5.28ms ± 1% -8.70% (p=0.000 n=20+18)
BM_CompileAPIFileDenseDecls<Phase::Check>/16384 21.9ms ± 1% 20.1ms ± 1% -8.02% (p=0.000 n=18+20)
BM_CompileAPIFileDenseDecls<Phase::Check>/65536 90.4ms ± 2% 83.1ms ± 1% -8.04% (p=0.000 n=19+20)
BM_CompileAPIFileDenseDecls<Phase::Check>/262144 381ms ± 2% 352ms ± 1% -7.79% (p=0.000 n=19+19)
```
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Co-authored-by: josh11b <15258583+josh11b@users.noreply.github.com>
I was suggesting this because `FloatingPoint` is pretty long. `int` and
`float` should be familiar abbreviations. `unsigned` should be familiar
to developers too, but `UnsignedInt` still feels usefully clearer for
the additional chars.
Building on #3311, which started moving the result string into a
`unique_ptr`, instead have `StringLiteral` use a `BumpPtrAllocator` to
manage memory. But also, detect when a string is really trivial during
`Lex` and, if so, return `contents_` directly.
Continuing with #3070. Just a dir and file rename (only prefix change is
lexer_file_test). Everything in the lex dir should be marked as a move.
Note, I think this closes#3070. There may still be further cleanup
later, but the organizational changes suggested there are being
completed.
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