29 Commits
Author SHA1 Message Date
Dana Jansens fcae9610bd Make SemIR::TypeType be an empty FacetType instruction (#7813)
The type `type` is now a `FacetType` inst with no constraints. This
brings the model implemented in the toolchain into better alignment with
the language design. The `SemIR::TypeType` struct remains as a scope for
holding the `TypeInstId`, `ConstantId`, and `TypeId` constants, but is
not an `InstKind` anymore.

The `TypeType` inst looks a lot like singletons, but there are many
`FacetType` insts so it doesn't quite fit that model. So we put it
alongside singletons with a fixed inst id but refer to it as a more
general "builtin" inst that is not a singleton.
`Namespace::PackageInstId` is similar, and we group it with `TypeType`
conceptually as another builtin instruction with a fixed id.

No conversion is needed anymore to use a `type` as a facet, since types
also have a `FacetType` type. This simplifies and removes a number of
helpers and branches throughout the code.

The `TypeType` inst is now part of the constant store, so we end up
printing it in the constants block in every test. But it's also named
`type` rather than `%type` to preserve the majority of existing
formatting behaviour, though this does look different from other
constants.

Assisted-by: Opus 5 was used to generate a first draft and validate the
refactoring. Though nearly everything non-trivial the tool wrote has
been modified or rewritten.
2026-09-22 15:04:40 +00:00
Geoff Romer d21cc3197f Fix the textual IR name of WrapperBindingPattern (#7650)
`at_binding_pattern` is a relic from an earlier revision of #6930.
2026-08-18 22:31:27 +00:00
Richard Smith a8afc45ed5 Omit empty observe: blocks from formatted SemIR. (#7487)
Also add SemIR ranges to observe test, removing 5K lines of
uninteresting SemIR output.
2026-07-13 20:38:19 +00:00
Özgür T. ÖnsoyandDana Jansens 08385adeb5 Implement checking observe declarations (#6709)
This adds SemIR structs and implements building `observe` lists, as well
as naming, formatting, and importing `observe` declarations.

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Co-authored-by: Dana Jansens <danakj@orodu.net>
2026-07-08 17:07:10 +00:00
Geoff Romer e4b0903d2e Remove ValueBinding and RefBinding (#7427)
These inst kinds are now redundant with `WrapperBinding`.
2026-06-29 17:41:23 +00:00
Geoff RomerandRichard Smith e023f75254 Implement thunking in terms of constant evaluation (#7332)
The bulk of this change is changing most pattern insts to be `Always`
rather than `AlwaysUnique` constants, so that they can be wrapped in
`SpecificConstant`s to perform substitution. That then lets thunking
rely much more on `SpecificConstant` wrappers instead of deep-copying
the inst tree with modified types.

This approach to thunking should scale better, particularly as things
like form generics make function signatures more complex, because we can
leverage the existing support for constant evaluation and substitution.
Unfortunately, applying this approach to binding patterns will require
more work; see the TODO near the top of `thunk.cpp` for details.

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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2026-06-13 00:22:00 +00:00
Richard Smith cefa0397bb More fixes to package and library fingerprinting. (#7297)
Fix import logic to make all imported packages be children of the
`NameScopeId::Package` scope. Previously, indirectly-imported packages
would end up as children of their importing package's scope, which
resulted in them not being treated as packages at all, and in particular
not being fingerprinted as packages.

Fixing that caused a failure in the fingerprinting logic as we started
to encounter packages with no correspoding import scopes. Instead of
looking for import scopes, use a simpler mechanism to map packages to
their package names, and clean up.

Unfortunately the latter change churns all the fingerprints again :(
Hopefully this is the last time for a while.
2026-06-04 17:41:46 +00:00
Richard Smith f5e9c61f11 Don't include the library name in most fingerprints. (#7292)
When we import from another library in the same package, its entities
end up with our library as their parent scope, resulting in cross-file
fingerprint mismatches. Instead, only include the library ID when
fingerprinting either a package-private entity or an `ImportIRId` that
refers to a particular `SemIR::File`.
2026-06-02 19:31:30 +00:00
Richard Smith 05cc09daca Fix cross-package signature mismatches. (#7232)
Fixes link failures when referencing a symbol involving a fingerprint
from a different package.

Previously we included the `Namespace`'s `import_id` as part of its
fingerprint, which caused local and imported namespaces to get different
fingerprints. We now store the `import_id` on the `NameScope` instead of
on the `Namespace` inst to avoid this problem.

Also, when we reach a package-level `NameScopeId`, consistently
fingerprint it as a (package name, library name) pair. Previously the
fingerprinting depended on whether it was imported or not, as an
imported `NameScopeId` had a parent scope (the current package). We need
to include the library name here so that private entities with the same
name in different libraries have different fingerprints.
2026-05-21 00:02:29 +00:00
Geoff Romer e0c6800ab3 Reverse nesting structure of parameter patterns (#6930)
See
[here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rWcueFwIfZox6GKVGxiUG4cBzjrZ6djXiIDGyJDtrE4/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.7mi143mdhr2h)
for an overview of the changes and their rationale.

Assisted-by: Gemini 3.1 Pro via Antigravity
2026-03-23 20:38:20 +00:00
21291b4cc3 Remove InitForm::index (#6817)
This ensures that equal forms always have equal representations (because
the index depends on how the form is used, not on the value of the form
itself).

As a byproduct, also remove `NextCallParamIndex`.

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Co-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Nicholas Bishop <nicholasbishop@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Dana Jansens <danakj@orodu.net>
Co-authored-by: Boaz Brickner <brickner@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
Co-authored-by: Carbon Infra Bot <carbon-external-infra@google.com>
Co-authored-by: MK4070 <60286678+MK4070@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Christopher Di Bella <cjdb@google.com>
2026-03-06 17:35:48 +00:00
Geoff RomerandJon Ross-Perkins 6dba8ee111 Remove index fields from ParamPatterns (#6815)
This is a step toward removing the index from `InitForm`, so that equal
form values always have equal representations.

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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
2026-03-03 00:19:47 +00:00
Richard Smith f9ab963bd6 Add a type_literal instruction to represent syntactic type literals. (#6781)
This allows us to capture the location at which a type literal was used,
even in the cases where we don't otherwise need to create a new
instruction to represent the type such as for `char` or `str`.

The logic used to build the underlying type is now marked as desugaring.
For cases such as `iN`, this causes the call to `Core.Int` to no longer
be added as a dedicated IR instruction, and instead its constant value
is used directly as the value of the `type_literal`. This results in
this being on balance a reduction in the size of the IR.

This also fixes a crash in C++ interop when using a `char` literal as a
template argument. The crash was caused by the template argument not
having an associated location when mapping to a C++ location. See
changes to check/testdata/interop/cpp/template/type_param.carbon for an
example that used to crash before this change.

Update alias handling to allow an alias to point at any type literal,
reinstating support for aliases for type literals such as `bool` and
`i32` that had previously worked but stopped working when we
transitioned those types to being defined in the prelude. See changes to
toolchain/check/testdata/alias/builtins.carbon.

All the test changes other than the two mentioned above are mechanical
autoupdate changes switching to the new instruction.
2026-02-26 20:10:50 +00:00
Geoff Romer 1c885a629e Format FormType as "Core.Form" (#6734) 2026-02-13 19:44:21 +00:00
Geoff RomerandRichard Smith e5b05a1fac ExprCategory for guaranteed-in-place initializing expressions (#6623)
The primary change in this PR is to split the `Initializing` expression
category into separate `ReprInitializing` and `InPlaceInitializing`
categories, depending on whether initialization uses the types
initializing representation, or is guaranteed to be in place. It also
rationalizes and documents the SemIR-level semantics of those categories
(including where #5545's "ephemeral entire reference" category will
fit), and introduces two new inst kinds to close gaps exposed in the
process.

Some additional secondary changes:
- Consistently format the storage arguments of initializers with `to`,
regardless of whether initialization is in-place, and document the `to`
notation.
- Rename some inst kinds and functions, and restructure some of the
code, for clarity and consistency with the new documentation.
- Resolve a TODO to handle more category conversions in
`CategoryConverter`, in order to make it easier to reason about category
conversions.

See #6588 and the review history of this PR for background.

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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2026-02-04 02:27:12 +00:00
Richard SmithandGeoff Romer de0ad6730f Fix crash if a member of std::string_view is found in a derived class. (#6604)
Members of `std::string_view` can't be accessed directly, because that
type maps into Carbon's `str` type (`Core.String`), so member access
doesn't find the C++ members. But they can be named via qualified name
lookup into a derived type. That crashed because we didn't expect the
non-Cpp type `Core.String` to be the parent of a Cpp-imported member.

Plus add some more test coverage for related cases (not involving `str`)
that already worked.

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Co-authored-by: Geoff Romer <gromer@google.com>
2026-01-15 22:36:18 +00:00
Geoff Romer 4329a83e4c Form-aware textual format for return parameters and arguments (#6588)
The key changes are:
- Function output parameters are now prefixed with `out`, and more
consistently formatted as named parameters.
- Function and inst output arguments are now written as part of the inst
form, rather than as one of the inst arguments.

As a drive-by fix, this also changes `Temporary::storage_id` from
`DestInstId` to `InstId`, because it doesn't represent an output
parameter of the `Temporary` inst itself.

See the review of
[#6532](https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/pull/6532) and
[this Discord
discussion](https://discord.com/channels/655572317891461132/999638000126394370/1458268977020141589)
for additional background.
2026-01-14 23:27:21 +00:00
Geoff Romer 6985ecb1d4 Replace GetCurrentReturnSlot with GetReturnedVarParam (#6571)
Not all functions have a return slot, and once we have composite forms,
functions will be able to have any number of return slots. Obtaining a
unique return slot for a function only makes sense in `returned var`
handling.
2026-01-10 01:56:32 +00:00
Geoff Romer 505b1c86b9 Initial support for return forms (#6556)
The main changes here are:
- Introducing `InitForm` and `RefForm` to represent initializing and
reference forms (the two return forms currently supported by the
parser).
- Introducing the `FormType` singleton inst to represent their type
(i.e. `Core.Form`).
- Emitting an inst representing a function's declared return form as
part of handling the function signature.

The return form inst is currently ignored. Subsequent PRs will expose it
in `SemIR::Function` and use it to determine the form of call
expressions.
2026-01-07 00:54:18 +00:00
Boaz Brickner 5f561282eb Properly set the name for C++ overload set instructions in SemIR (#6156)
This is a followup of #5891.
Part of #5915.
2025-10-06 07:36:28 +00:00
Boaz Brickner 16999a79cc Fix a crash caused by a bug introduced in C++ overloads support in GetScopeIdOffset() (#6151)
After this change, we correctly increment the offset by the next switch
case type.
Before this change, we accidentally incremented the offset by
`functions()` size instead of `cpp_overload_sets()` size and vice versa.
Also sorted the switch cases according to the order of the enum, for
consistency. This might help prevent a future similar incident.

This fix prevents crashing in the newly introduced test
`multiple_too_few_args_calls`.

This also has the side effect of showing `null name` for
`cpp_overload_set_type` and `cpp_overload_set_value`, instead of having
an arbitrary name.
Examples that demonstrate the old name is arbitrary can easily be seen
in tests like `cpp_namespace.carbon` and `decayed_param.carbon`, but
careful review would show that all old names are arbitrary, though often
luckily almost make sense.

We might want to have a proper name for these, but it's beyond the scope
of this crash fixing change.
See #6156.

Part of #5915.
2025-10-02 14:34:34 +00:00
Ivana Ivanovska a24598f069 Lower CppOverloadSetValue (#6101)
Following up on comments from
[#5891](https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/pull/5891) ([
1](https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/pull/5891#discussion_r2317244981),
[2](https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/pull/5891#discussion_r2317266756)).

Lowering `CppOverloadSetValue` as an empty struct value, using
`context.GetLiteralAsValue()`. Also changed its constant kind to
`InstConstantKind::Always`.

Part of https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/issues/5915
2025-10-01 16:25:05 +00:00
Richard SmithandJon Ross-Perkins 1e7b7e53ae C++ interop: support for default arguments. (#6108)
The general strategy here is to force use of a thunk when we want to use
default arguments, and have Clang generate uses of the default arguments
on its side of the thunk.

To support this, change the key type used in `clang_decls` from being
just a `Decl*` to being a pair of `Decl*` and number of parameters in
the case of function decls. Import distinct `SemIR::Function`s for each
number of parameters that's used, and corresponding distinct thunks.

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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
2025-09-24 01:07:59 +00:00
730935691a Support for mapping str to std::string_view in interop. (#6079)
We already did the opposite direction; this enables use of `str` in
overload resolution.

Fixes #6062

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Co-authored-by: Dana Jansens <danakj@orodu.net>
Co-authored-by: Carbon Infra Bot <carbon-external-infra@google.com>
2025-09-16 23:40:33 +00:00
Richard Smith b054e3d2b0 Overload resolution support for more kinds of candidate. (#6071)
* Add support for template candidates by calling the suitable
`AddCandidate` function for them.
* Add support for overloading on `*this` qualifiers by calling
`AddMethodCandidate` when appropriate.
* Make mapping from Carbon arguments to Clang arguments a little more
faithful by mapping the Carbon expression category into the Clang value
kind.
2025-09-16 21:57:32 +00:00
Richard Smith bac828d244 Add support for char keyword per #5903. (#6078)
Make inst namer and stringify print `Core.Char` and `Core.String` as
`char` and `str` respectively. Plus a few cleanups.
2025-09-16 20:45:01 +00:00
Ivana Ivanovska 12ddfb9c7c [Carbon/C++ interop] Add support for C++ overloaded functions (#5891)
As proposed in [Carbon: C++ interop for overloaded functions and
function
templates](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KUxumZtNe3mY3TsjW2s_ZADOlAaFlrtsLKHVILtqIaM/edit?tab=t.0),
Clang is used to perform the overload resolution using C++ rules, when
an overloaded C++ set is called from Carbon. Once a function is
selected, it's converted into a Carbon function and called using the
Carbon rules including argument conversions.

A single non-templated function is treated the same way as an overload
set and the same rules apply for its call.
Template functions are not supported yet.

Demo:

a) Non-templated function calls:

```c++
// --- overloads.h

auto foo(int a, short b) -> void;
auto foo(double a) -> void;
auto foo(int a) -> void;
```

```c++
// overloads.cpp

#include "overloads.h"
#include <cstdio>

auto foo(int a, short b) -> void {
  printf("hello from foo_int_short(%d, %d) \n", a, b);
}
auto foo(double a) -> void { printf("hello from foo_double(%f) \n", a); }
auto foo(int a) -> void { printf("hello from foo_int(%d) \n", a); }
```
```c++
library "Main";

import Cpp library "overloads.h";

fn Run() -> i32 {
  Cpp.foo(1.1 as f64);
  return 0;
}
```
```
$ clang -c overloads.cpp 
$ bazel-bin/toolchain/carbon compile main.carbon
$ bazel-bin/toolchain/carbon link overloads.o main.o --output=demo
$ ./demo
hello from foo_double(1.100000) 
```

b) Constructors:
```c++
// --- constructor_overloads.h
class C {
 public:
  C();
  C(int a, int b);
};
```

```c++
// constructor_overloads.cpp
#include "constructor_overloads.h"
#include <cstdio>

C::C() { printf("hello from C() \n"); }
C::C(int a, int b) { printf("hello from C(%d, %d) \n", a, b); }
```
```c++
library "Main";

import Cpp library "constructor_overloads.h";

fn Run() -> i32 {
  let c1: Cpp.C = Cpp.C.C();
  let c2: Cpp.C = Cpp.C.C(1, 2);
  return 0;
}
```

```
$ clang -c constructor_overloads.cpp 
$ bazel-bin/toolchain/carbon compile main.carbon
$ bazel-bin/toolchain/carbon link constructor_overloads.o main.o \--output=demo
$ ./demo
hello from C() 
hello from C(1, 2) 
```


Follow-ups:

- `Cpp.foo({})` - proper handling of struct literals as call args.
- Fix access for overloaded sets.
- Fix tests:
- Method calls: `error: missing object argument in method call
[MissingObjectInMethodCall]` in tests.
    - Fix `toolchain/check/testdata/interop/cpp/import.carbon` test.
    - Fix `enums` support.
    - Fix `str` -> `std::string_view` mapping.


Part of #5915
2025-09-15 12:29:49 +00:00
Richard Smith db0a00d713 Fix double-destruction of temporaries. (#6010)
Attach the cleanup to the `Temporary` instruction instead of to the
`TemporaryStorage` instruction. We create `TemporaryStorage`
instructions speculatively when creating an initializing expression, and
may overwrite those instructions with other instructions if it turns out
that a temporary is not required. Instead, wait until we finalize the
temporary and create a `Temporary` instruction to register the cleanup.
2025-09-04 19:19:59 +00:00
Richard SmithandChandler Carruth bd90fe1d9b Interop: map C++ std::string_view into Carbon str when importing. (#5985)
We assume these types have the same representation. For now, that will
only be the case for libc++ on 64-bit targets, because libc++ puts the
size field first, and `Core.String` always uses a 64-bit size field even
on 32-bit targets.

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Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
2025-08-27 01:02:39 +00:00