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Richard Smith 5c544f7c2f Give thunks weak_odr linkage. (#7525)
We can end up emitting the same thunk from multiple compilations in some
cases -- in particular, when the thunk is wrapping a function that is
either synthesized by the compiler or imported from C++. When this
happens, we will have multiple-definition link errors unless we allow
redefinitions across multiple files.

It'd be nice to detect when we need to do this and when we don't, but
that's a bit tricky to do in practice. Ideally, in fact, we would use a
different strategy, and emit the thunks as discardable definitions in
each compilation that *uses* them. But for now emitting them with
weak_odr linkage seems like a good way to make progress.
2026-07-17 13:25:19 +00:00
David Blaikie cf6a89db3f Init vptrs in Carbon initialization of Carbon-derived-from-C++ objects (#7323)
For review convenience, the Clang patch is available as an LLVM Draft PR
here: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/202807
2026-06-16 04:50:57 +00:00
Geoff RomerandRichard Smith 85c53fa00c Reimplement derived class thunk in terms of down-casting (#7322)
This helps us move away from the clone-with-modifications approach to
thunking, which gets unwieldy as signatures get more complex.

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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2026-06-09 21:10:18 +00:00
Nicholas Bishop 5e62791ad2 Improve ClangDeclStore ergonomics (#7311)
Change `Lookup` by InstId to return a ClangDecl pointer. All callers
were immediately calling `Get` anyway, so this makes call sites a little
shorter. The other `Lookup` method, by ClangDeclKey, is sometimes called
without calling `Get`, so left that as-is, but renamed to `LookupId`.

Also add a `decl` method to ClangDecl so that the commonly repeated
`clang_decl->key.decl` can be written `clang_decl->decl()`.
2026-06-05 20:49:34 +00:00
Nicholas BishopandRichard Smith 1aa34d7642 Remove CppGlobalVarStore (#7309)
Replace all uses of CppGlobalVarStore store with ClangDeclStore.

Adding a VarStorage->VarDecl mapping to ClangDeclStore is now done with
the `AddVar` method, which takes an extra `pattern_id` arg. While the
corresponding `ClangDecl` is unchanged from before, the reverse mapping
in `inst_id_to_clang_decl_id_` now uses the `pattern_id` as the key.
This is necessary because in some places the original VarStorage
instructions gets replaced (e.g. by a call to `Convert`). The
`pattern_id` remains stable in those cases.

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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2026-06-05 02:07:46 +00:00
David Blaikie 2d87bb02d9 Use clang_decls as the source of truth for function interop mapping (#7303)
Removing the clang_decl_id on SemIR::Function - using only the
clang_decls map to create the association between SemIR::Function and
clang::FunctionDecls.

This adds an `is_external` flag to ClangDecl to indicate whether the
entity originated from Carbon or was imported from another language.
(I'm open to names - I guess for now we mostly use "is this from C++" to
be more specific than "is this external" - eg: NameScope::is_cpp_scope)
2026-06-04 23:16:11 +00:00
David Blaikie 2f9bbd067a Refactor: Inline global init function lowering (#7302)
This removes the need to support a function without a declaration in
these codepaths.
2026-06-04 19:13:18 +00:00
Nicholas Bishop f2d0c4d0ae Export Carbon global variables and static vars to C++ (#7298)
Add `ExportVarToCpp`. This checks the `clang_decls` mapping and returns
an existing decl if found. Otherwise, it creates a new `VarDecl` and
adds it to the `clang_decls` mapping.

When lowering, in `FileContext::BuildGlobalVariableDecl`, the
`clang_decls` mapping is used to lookup an existing
`llvm::GlobalVariable` for the instruction. If found, use that rather
than creating a new one to avoid an unwanted second definition in the
llvm IR.
2026-06-03 20:47:54 +00:00
Richard Smith be70c092fa Add a text mode for fingerprinting. (#7231)
The intent is to add visibility into how the fingerprint is computed, so
that fingerprinting issues and mangling collisions can be more readily
understood and fixed.

Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
2026-05-19 23:16:51 +00:00
Nicholas Bishop 773ecdfac6 Implement static var class fields (#7215)
This adds the `static` token to the lexer and parses it as a modifier.

In check, `FullPatternStack::Kind::FieldDecl` is now used for both
static and non-static vars. Static vars get treated basically the same
as `NameBindingDecl`s.

Global initialization is used for static var initializers. To make the
necessary stack information available to `pattern_match.cpp`, the
`full_pattern_stack` and `decl_introducer_state_stack` are now popped
later in `handle_let_and_var.cpp`.

In lowering, each class's body is checked for `VarStorage` insts and
lowered the same as global vars.
2026-05-18 20:09:17 +00:00
David Blaikie df8b25522e Import C++ vtables (#7174)
This correctly renders the vtable in SemIR, including allowing overrides
in
Carbon-derived-from-C++ classes.

It doesn't work in lowering because clang walks the methods of the
CXXRecordDecl - and we currently don't export anything into the
CXXRecordDecl's methods (we do export the fields) - so that's next.

This also doesn't teach Clang to affirmatively emit the vtable
regardless of the types use in C++ code - or to have Carbon use the
vtable in an object's initialization.
2026-05-11 17:33:08 +00:00
Lucile Rose Nihlen bc1ae703c3 return 0 from Run when it doesn't specify a return value (#7180)
https://carbon.compiler-explorer.com/z/88K9Kh5Wo shows the program
exiting with a garbage value copied from uninitialized memory.

This PR modifies `lower` to detect if the function lowered is the
entry point and doesn't specify a return type. If so, it emits
different LLVM IR to return int32 0, and modifies the lowered
function signature to match the int32 return type.
2026-05-08 19:00:47 +00:00
Richard Smith 12cdd406b0 Factor type lowering out of file_context.cpp. (#7099)
This file was getting too big. This seems like a nice, independent chunk
to move elsewhere.

Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
2026-04-24 00:43:18 +00:00
Richard Smith 709776ad1c Support for locations in transitively imported C++ code (#7093)
Instead of treating all C++ code as coming from a single synthetic
`CheckIRId`, track the `SemIR::File` associated with each C++ location.
This is necessary since each `SemIR::File` has a distinct `CppFile` and
therefore distinct `SourceLocation`s and `ClangSourceLocId`s.

Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
2026-04-23 20:11:04 +00:00
Dana Jansens 790cb6e6fe Make ImplWitnessAccess inst have constant kind Conditional (#7090)
ImplWitnessAccess can contain a LookupImplWitness instruction as an
operand, which used to be SymbolicOnly but has now become Conditional in
#6915. This opens up the possibility for LookupImplWitness to have a
concrete value, without resolving to a different instruction kind. If
this occurs when it's the operand of an ImplWitnessAccess, and the
access is unable to find a different value to resolve to through the
witness' self type, then the ImplWitnessAccess can also become concrete.

This can happen in particular when:
- You have an ImplWitnessAccess into a `.Self` symbolic in a facet type.
- You convert a concrete type to the facet type.
- The `.Self` is replaced by a concrete type, causing the impl lookup to
be on that concrete type.
- The (now concrete) impl lookup fails to find any impl witness, so it
remains a concrete LookupImplWitness

This results in a diagnostic, as the incoming type does not satisfy the
facet type, but in the meantime we have a concrete ImplWitnessAccess,
which we do not want to crash.

For example in this test:
```carbon
interface I {
  let I1:! type;
}
interface J {}

fn F(T:! I where .I1 impls J) {}

fn G() {
  class C;

  // This identifies `C as (I where .I1 impls J)`, which replaces `.Self.I1`
  // with `C.(I.I1)`. This is a concrete lookup since C and I are both concrete,
  // but it doesn't find anything as there is no impl.
  //
  // As such, the call to F fails to deduce a value for T.
  F(C);
}
```

This PR splits out the change to ImplWitnessAccess from the larger
change of replacing `.Self` in identified facet types (and comparisons
with identified facet types).
2026-04-22 17:11:40 +00:00
Geoff Romer af04d08965 Track declared form with an InstId instead of a ConstantId. (#7072)
This is mainly in order to track a location associated with the form.
2026-04-16 23:14:31 +00:00
Richard Smith a6061d975c Compute type layouts in SemIR / Check (#7066)
Instead of allowing lower to pick whatever type layout it desires,
compute the layouts of types as part of completing the type, and make
lower build types that match that representation.

For now we assume that all pointers are 64-bit, since we don't have
access to target information. We allow tail padding reuse for structs
and tuple types (and by extension, for classes, since they use structs
as their object representation), but not for arrays.

In order to build matching LLVM types, we create LLVM packed structs
where necessary, and we insert inter-field padding on the end of the
previous field so that GEP indexes still always match Carbon's
ElementIndexes.

We don't yet use the computed alignment much in LLVM IR generation -- in
particular, `alloca`s, `load`s, and `store`s should probably use the
computed type alignment, but don't.

Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
2026-04-16 22:37:48 +00:00
Richard SmithandGeoff Romer ea409f7cbf Fix crash lowering call to generic function with concrete type in signature (#7009)
When a function call appears in a generic, and calls another generic
that has a concrete type in its call-site signature, that concrete type
will be completed only in the file that contains the call. The generic
containing the call won't require completeness to be checked again when
forming a specific call, because the type was concrete. This means that
when lowering the call instruction, there is no single file that is
guaranteed to contain complete types for all of the callee's parameters
-- the file containing the specific callee won't necessarily have
completed the concrete parts of the signature, and the files containing
the definition and call won't necessarily have completed the symbolic
parts of the signature.

To handle this, look at both versions of the function when building its
lowered signature -- the version that we saw when forming the `call`
instruction and the version corresponding to the concrete, specific
callee, and combine information from both to form the LLVM function
type.

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Co-authored-by: Geoff Romer <gromer@google.com>
2026-04-03 21:24:00 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkinsandjonmeow 9266ced4e3 Improve CanDestroyType to handle remaining cases (#6943)
This is only fixing the decision about *whether* to produce a witness.
Implementation of the witness is still a TODO, though where a body is
generated, it should also precisely reflect where one _needs_ to be
generated.

Note the tests:

- toolchain/lower/testdata/function/generic/import_core_witness.carbon
- toolchain/lower/testdata/function/generic/import_unused_def.carbon

These tests can probably be produced _without_ Core.Destroy, but I found
the essence of them while trying to build //examples with Core.Destroy
and a simpler minimization wasn't striking me.

Assisted-by: Google Antigravity with Gemini

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Co-authored-by: jonmeow <jperkins@google.com>
2026-04-02 22:54:58 +00:00
Richard Smith be283a0744 Improve handling of incomplete signatures. (#7004)
Assert cleanly if we try to emit a definition or a call of a function
whose signature we were not able to emit exactly. This should make such
issues a lot easier to debug, as we were previously failing in quite
mysterious ways in this case.
2026-04-01 21:49:57 +00:00
Richard Smith dfac728571 Fix pointer sizes in debug info. (#7002)
The size is in bits, so 8 is an unlikely value. Also, don't hardcode a
size, ask the data layout for it.
2026-04-01 16:35:12 +00:00
Chandler Carruth 39eac6f277 Update LLVM and fix a couple of API usages (#6998)
The `TemplateArgLocInfo` change is more interesting than usual as this
isn't enforced in the type system, and only shows up as a crash.
2026-04-01 00:00:11 +00:00
Nicholas Bishop 1ef35e8299 Fix name mangling for Carbon functions called from C++ (#6984)
Since this requires using the `Mangler` class from `toolchain/check`,
moved it from `toolchain/lower` to `toolchain/sem_ir`.

The mangled name is then attached to the `FunctionDecl` with an
`AsmLabelAttr`.
2026-03-27 22:52:11 +00:00
Geoff Romer 8e5b358ec2 Add the form ID to FormParamPattern (#6928)
This enables some nice simplifications, and it's also a step toward a
broader restructuring of binding and parameter patterns.

Assisted-by: Gemini 3.1 Pro via Antigravity
2026-03-20 01:08:38 +00:00
Geoff RomerandJon Ross-Perkins 18cfeb7476 Add support for ->? return forms (#6849)
This includes checking and lowering for concrete form literals. Support
for symbolic forms is future work.

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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
2026-03-09 22:30:16 +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: 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>
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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 bea24a8bee Never ask the mangler to mangle a C++ declaration. (#6764)
This cleans up some logic that was left behind when we stopped emitting
C++ function declarations ourselves. We would ask our mangler for a
mangling for a C++ function declaration and then not use it.
2026-02-19 21:56:28 +00:00
Geoff Romer f21e0e17ac Introduce ExprCategory::Dependent (#6744)
This is needed to model things like the category of `x` in the body of
`fn Foo(F:! Core.Form, x:? F)`, where the category of `x` is determined
by the concrete value of `F` (see #5389 for the design of `:?`
bindings).

This will be used in a follow-up PR.
2026-02-17 20:28:15 +00:00
Richard Smith 773837e1bb Ask Clang to emit C++ global variables. (#6748)
Don't emit them ourselves. This was leading to our emitted variable
being renamed away from the proper symbol name, leading to link errors.

Fixes #6742.
2026-02-14 03:07:48 +00:00
Richard Smith 1b2ae912fc Add basic support for eval fn and musteval fn. (#6694)
Add support for compile-time functions. `eval fn` is analogous to C++
`constexpr`, and is evaluated at compile time when it has compile-time
arguments. `musteval fn` is analogous to C++ `consteval`, and requires
that its arguments be available at compile time and is always evaluated
at compile time. For now we require the modifier to match across
redeclarations of the function. The specific modifier syntax here is a
placeholder and not yet part of an approved design.

Limitations: Only very basic support for evaluation is provided. So far
there's no support for mutable state or `if` expressions, but otherwise
control flow and passing and returning values should work. Carbon
evaluation recursion is modeled by C++ recursion for now, so you can
overflow the toolchain stack easily. Functions that use in-place
initialization will generally not work yet, as they are modeled as
passing a non-compile-time-constant reference to a temporary to the
call.

Add missing categorization of `name_binding_decl` as `NotExpr` to match
other similar declaration instructions like `FunctionDecl`, so that we
can uniformly skip over them when they occur within function bodies.

Assisted-by: Gemini 3 Pro and Flash via Antigravity
2026-02-11 02:08:16 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins 2c6d9c7f66 Rename type's GetInstId to GetTypeInstId, reflecting returned type (#6708)
Discussed briefly [on
Discord](https://discord.com/channels/655572317891461132/655578254970716160/1470442830118912265),
done to reduce confusion.

Assisted-by: Google Antigravity with Gemini 3 Flash
2026-02-09 22:00:21 +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 Smith 093d5072db Add support for using C++ user-defined conversions via interop (#6646)
When performing an implicit conversion to or from a C++ class type, look
for a C++ implicit conversion, and if that conversion involves a
function call (to a constructor or conversion function), call that
function to perform the conversion.

Note that this is just a first pass at supporting implicit conversions.
There are a lot of other things that can happen in a C++ implicit
conversion, such as aggregate initialization or `std::initializer_list`
initialization that aren't handled here. In addition, we intentionally
leave all standard conversions to Carbon to perform, so that we will
reject conversions such as `i32 -> unsigned` that C++ would select but
Carbon considers to be invalid.

Also support `as` conversions. These are treated analogously, but
perform direct-initialization instead of copy-initialization, so they
also find `explicit` constructors and conversion functions.

In order to give good diagnostics, also track the original C++ source
location for imported C++ functions on the imported version of the
function.

Assisted-by: Gemini 3 Pro via Antigravity
2026-01-25 04:51:25 +00:00
David Blaikie 773b7136ef Use a single llvm::Module for C++ interop and Carbon IRGen (#6595)
Some module metadata changed - because rather than linking one module
with one module metadata value (eg: PIC Level 0, or unspecified) and one
module with a different one (PIC level 2, in clang) - we use Clang's
Module as-is, no merging required, so Clang's module metadata sticks
rather than being merged with default values from Carbon.

Also tweaked the name we use for Clang's module name so it matches the
carbon file name.

Otherwise the IR changes seem to be just reorderings - C++ interop goes
first, then Carbon, rather than the other way around.
2026-01-17 00:15:53 +00:00
Geoff Romer 75713908f4 Store and reuse lowered parameter order (#6593)
This resolves a longstanding TODO in `file_context.cpp`, and prepares
lowering to support compound return forms.
2026-01-15 23:15:48 +00:00
David Blaikie f1f6005d4a Perform Clang IRGen during check (#6569)
Background:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wi85FRiWh4X9A-gCYMVGKR40-q5fM6-3JaSpePk-XCY/edit?usp=sharing
And specifically this work is essentially an alternative to #5543

Clang's code generation is implemented through an ASTListener
(clang::CodeGenerator) that is attached throughout Clang's
parsing/sema/code
generation phases and acts on Clang AST incrementally throughout that
process.

Prior to this patch, Carbon has only created the CodeGenerator during
Carbon's
`lower` phase, missing out on key callbacks that would be made by Clang
during
`check`. Some of these issues were addressed by #6237 and #6483 - but
there were
still remaining cases where the delayed processing lead to missing
functionality.

With #6483 much of the Clang code that made multithreaded complexity of
#5543 is
no longer present, and we have access to the point of ASTListener
registration
so we can register the CodeGenerator there and consume its resulting
llvm::Module during lower.

Examples of some of the bugs this addresses are seen in the linked doc,
and
checked in as tests in this change in
`clang_code_generator_callbacks.carbon`

An indicental bug that's also fixed, and caused all the other test case
churn,
is that the `CodeGenerator` created during `lower` wasn't getting passed
the
Clang `CodeGenOpts` and was creating its own default - so, most notably,
optimization flags were not respected. This meant that the LLVM IR from
Clang
was always -O0 style IR (optnone, no inlinehint, no TBAA, etc). With
this
change, now the Clang IRGen gets the real `CodeGenOpts` and respects
optimization/other flags specified there.

This is only meant to be a rough proof of concept - I'm totally open to
reworking this in any way (even quite substantially) if folks have ideas
about
how this should be implemented most generally/elegantly/etc.
2026-01-14 00:54:37 +00:00
Dana Jansens c64117d0e0 Make IdTag typesafe (#6574)
The IdTag knows the type of the Id its tagging and the type of the Id
being used as the tag. This prevents mixing up tagged and untagged ids,
and avoids having to work with untyped integers.

Adds an Untagged marker struct that's used as the tag type in IdTag when
no tag is desired.

The complexity of ConstantIds and TypeIds became a bit visible: TypeIds
are concrete ConstantIds. And ConstantIds have two different tagging
schemes, one for concrete and one for symbolic ids. And ConstantIds are
actually re-cast InstIds with the same index. The LoweredTypeStore needs
to work with tagged TypeIds, but the tags actually come from an InstId
store in ConstantValueStore. Now this is expressed in the type system by
getting the tags for TypeIds from the ConstantValueStore.

ValueStores without an TagId type parameter are now visibly untagged.

IdTag is now only default constructible when it does not have a tag,
which means ValueStore is only default constructible when the TagId is
untagged. This forces tagged value stores to be constructed correctly
with a tag at compile time, and untagged ones to be constructed without.

FixedSizeValueStore has overloads for dealing with tagged and untagged
Ids, since it can't default-construct ValueStore for tagged ids, and no
longer requires passing in default-constructed tags when there is no tag
in the ids.
2026-01-13 22:44:38 +00:00
Richard Smith 7bfeae0fd5 Give internal linkage to global init function. (#6591)
The mangled name of the global init function is the same for all files
in a package, so giving it external linkage results in link errors if
more than one file in a package has global initializers. We never need
to refer to it from outside the file, so give it internal linkage.

This also requires that we stop eagerly emitting a declaration of it --
if it's empty, we don't emit a definition, and LLVM doesn't allow us to
emit an undefined declaration of an internal linkage symbol.
2026-01-13 22:02:12 +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
Geoff Romer 0e5832d3c2 Model ref tags as insts instead of annotations (#6541)
This continues the implementation of the proposed resolution of #6342.
2026-01-05 22:24:47 +00:00
Richard Smith 6b28213b36 Add interop support for naming and "calling" C++ templates. (#6474)
Expose C++ class templates, variable templates, alias templates, and
concepts as callable values in Carbon, and map calls to them into
template-id formation, mirroring how Carbon generics behave. For now,
only type template parameters are supported; non-type and template
template parameters produce a TODO error.
2025-12-15 17:45:01 +00:00
Richard Smith c4d162e5f5 Switch from clang::ASTUnit to clang::CompilerInstance. (#6483)
This gives us a lot more control over how the compiler is built and
invoked. But no functionality changes are intended in this PR.
2025-12-10 21:54:51 +00:00
Geoff Romer bf45b1cbf5 Refactor function return type representation (#6463)
This separates the return type from the return pattern, and replaces the
return pattern with a block of return patterns. This is a step toward
support for `ref` returns (where there's no corresponding return
pattern) and compund-form returns (where there may be multiple return
patterns).
2025-12-10 18:34:23 +00:00
Richard SmithandJon Ross-Perkins d208e950c7 Encapsulate clang::ASTUnit in SemIR::CppFile. (#6459)
This intends to avoid proliferation of dependencies on the exact API of
`clang::ASTUnit`, and would enable us to more easily switch to a
different approach that gives us more control over the construction of
the Clang AST.

Also remove some unnecessary tracking of the `CppFile` and instead
always retrieve it from the `SemIR::File`.

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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
2025-12-04 21:05:40 +00:00
David BlaikieandDana Jansens a179bd461b Start plumbing through debug info type information with function parameters/return value (#6410)
This adds just enough debug info for i32/int parameters and return
values, with a path forward for adding DWARF type metadata for other
types.

As it happens, return type information is carried separately from
parameter information:
* Return type information is carried in the `type` of the `DISubprogram`
  (as a `DISubroutineType` - which does carry parameter type information
  as well, but that's unused when the DWARF is emitted by LLVM)
* Parameter information is carried by `DILocalVariable`s with a non-zero
  `arg` value (representing the order of function parameters)

In the absence of locations for the parameters (future work), nothing
would usually keep the `DILocalVariable` live/reachable when emitting
DWARF - so for cases where this can happen (for clang, this happens in
optimized builds where all references to the parameter variable might be
optimized away) the variables can be "retained" in a list on the
`DISubprogram` - achieved by passing `AlwaysPreserve` parameter to
`createParameterVariable` (adds them to a list, then that list gets
attached to the `DISubprogram` when it's finalized later)

For now, any unsupported types are emitted as `void*` (except void
return, which is implemented as void) as a placeholder.

Given this example:
```
import Core library "io";
class MyClass {
}
fn Unsupported(v: MyClass) {
}
fn Ret() -> i32 {
  return 42;
}
fn Arg(x: i32) {
  Core.Print(x);
}
fn Run() {
}
```
this is the resulting DWARF:
```
DW_TAG_compile_unit
  DW_AT_name    ("test.carbon")
  DW_TAG_subprogram
    DW_AT_name  ("Unsupported")
    DW_TAG_formal_parameter
      DW_AT_type        (0x00000066 "void *")
  DW_TAG_subprogram
    DW_AT_name  ("Ret")
    DW_AT_type  (0x00000062 "int")
  DW_TAG_subprogram
    DW_AT_name  ("Arg")
    DW_TAG_formal_parameter
      DW_AT_type        (0x00000062 "int")
  DW_TAG_subprogram
    DW_AT_name  ("Run")
  DW_TAG_base_type
    DW_AT_name  ("int")
  DW_TAG_pointer_type
```
And the debugger:
```
(gdb) p Ret()
$1 = 42
(gdb) p Arg(4)
4
$2 = void
```

I'm not sure if there's a way this logic should be merged with the logic
for making the `llvm::Function` type (which the `DISubroutineType`
building code was inspired by/copied from) - since they're done at
different times/places, I don't think there's an easy way to do it in
one pass, but maybe the code can be shared (even if it's run twice) in
some generic `SemIR::Function` type walker.

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Co-authored-by: Dana Jansens <danakj@orodu.net>
2025-11-25 23:25:09 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins 93a8c5230c Ensure a symbolic final impl has a definition produced (#6236)
Right now, the impl lookup can both fail to resolve the specific
definition because it's symbolic, and return a "final" constant because
it's a `final impl`. This is adding an instruction to help ensure the
specific is resolved.

The constant evaluation is fully recursive, but I'm not adding a TODO
since that's a known issue with impl lookup in general.
2025-11-25 18:59:25 +00:00
Richard Smith 6c9a581a83 Switch GetExprCategory to be table-driven. (#6371)
Avoid using a large switch that needs to be manually extended when
adding a new kind of instruction. Instead, the expression category for
an instruction is now specified when defining the `InstKind`.

In passing, add a distinct expression category value for patterns. This
isn't used for much except some error checking at the moment, but it
keeps the number of instructions that we need to manually classify as
`NotExpr` despite having a type very low.
2025-11-20 00:09:10 +00:00
Richard Smith 0678501038 Replace builtin CppVoidType with a prelude type. (#6403)
Following #6357, map C++ `void` to a prelude class type
`Core.CppCompat.VoidBase`, not to a builtin type. This is mostly just
moving logic around, but does notably change `Cpp.void` from being an
incomplete type to being a complete-but-abstract type.

Also change `NullptrT` to be an adapter for `void*` instead of `()*`, to
follow the approved design.

Implicit conversions to `void` and to `void*` are still absent.

Part of #6280.
2025-11-19 20:40:17 +00:00
Geoff RomerandRichard Smith 43ffd721a4 Support ref tags on arguments to ref params (#6312)
The issue of whether/how to include `ref` tags in the textual and
in-memory SemIR (see discussion
[here](https://discord.com/channels/655572317891461132/655578254970716160/1431316355742961805))
is left as future work.

---------

Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2025-11-11 20:30:19 +00:00