This handles the basics of type and value for structs. Structurally, these look like parameters and arguments (respectively) because expressions/generics may result in multiple IR nodes being generated.
Because `{}` needs to be cast to a type for storage, I'm also adding some validation that's not specific to `{}`, e.g. that `1` shouldn't be valid as a type for storage (previously, nothing errored for that).
This adds more stringification of types, particularly literals, because they come up in value errors now.
ImplicitAs is the result of me mulling whether I'm taking the right approach on type conversions. I think it needs to return a value so that if the implicit cast rewrites the value, the result is accessible to the caller. I may reorient the current TryTypeConversion logic to be more based on the ImplicitAs logic.
These changes should make output more stable when builtins are added to semantics. By omitting them from nodes and printing nodes as "relative to the last builtin", I should be able to add and remove builtins without automatically affecting every test. Also by printing builtin nodes as `nodeNameOfBuiltin`, it's a little easier to understand what's going on (for me, at least).
This is starting to build out actual lowering logic, for a really simple `fn Main() -> i32 { return 0; }`
Notes for achieving this:
- In semantics, currently function names are bound separate from the signature. When emitting IR, this turns out to be inconvenient because we want to know the name when we process the declaration and the definition. This change addresses that by merging the name into the FunctionDeclaration node, which is also accessible from the definition. It removes the separate BindName. This should be the cause of all the test changes in semantics, because the IR generated changes.
- Add a "Lowering" class which I'm using to hold the llvm builder state. This class now has minimal support for the SemanticsIR generated by the above example.
- In the "Lowering", values from expressions are stored in a DenseMap. I'll keep thinking about whether there's a cleaner way to achieve this, and I'd call it a temporary solution for now. However, this is how the `0` in `return 0` gets properly associated across SemanticsIR instructions, and it'll frequently be an issue in less trivial cases.
This adds tracking of call information plus basic type checking. It adds a builtin for the empty tuple, mainly so that I have the basis for a default function return type.
As an aside, it also unifies printing within SemanticsIR, fixing a missing comma after callables.
Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
Reals were mostly handled, but this PR adds storage of them. It also switches a little towards the FloatingPointType semantic from TokenizedBuffer.
While real literals like `1.0` were handled, the type literals were not. This just adds `f64`, similar to how I also only support `i32`.
The String type literal wasn't used, so I've added support in lexer and parser. Per discussion with @zygoloid String might be renamed based on the newer type literal plan, but it's still String in explorer and the design, so this is just consistent.
The builtin_types.carbon tests the three basic types that are there right now. The test is added to both parser and semantics so that it's clear what the state is in both stages.
Lazy allocation means that we can use a single node block for _all_ empty node blocks. The change in timing for when the definition node is emitted shouldn't affect semantic correctness; the signature is already present for recursive calls.
For parameters (and in the future, arguments too; generally comma-separated lists) track two node blocks:
1. param_ir: The complete IR.
2. param_refs: Nodes within the IR that are the "root" parameter.
param_refs should allow quick counting of the # of parameters, and more efficient comparison of call args with function parameters. param_ir should be necessary to generate the actual signature.
In order to construct this, this refactors the node_block_stack into its own class, which is reused in params_stack. These carry references to the underlying SmallVector for lazy modification in order to avoid a dependency cycle with SemanticsIR (also see notes on empty node blocks below).
When finalized, the block pair is pushed onto finished_params_stack. That's because node_stack only has space for one thing, and this is two things -- so I'm essentially choosing a trade-off of adding another stack in order to avoid consuming more space in the expectation that most parse nodes have 0 or 1 things to return, and 2 will be very rare.
As factored, this currently consolidates most empty node blocks into a single canonical empty node block. This is because I think empty blocks, i.e. `()`, will be very common. In order to achieve this, SemanticsNodeBlockStack does lazy creation.
An alternative approach would have been to use 1 node block per parameter. We decided against this in order to reduce the number of vectors being created.
The parser and lexer already produce YAML, so this is fundamentally a consistency issue. I've been thinking about this, and was looking again because I'm working on adding callables, and figured I'd just fix it now.
Currently, there's a mix of accessing node_stack_ both directly and indirectly, and there are already several Push/Pop methods to help wrap the behavior. However, there's also direct access because of shifting over time, as well as variations in _how_ the stack is used.
This migrates to a separate class in order to make a more specific contract for the API. It cleans up existing uses and adds APIs where needed.
This switches to single list storage of SemanticsNode. The driving motivation behind this is to simplify cross-references within a given IR. Types of nodes will frequently refer to other blocks. This causes a significant increase in the number of cross-references, which can become difficult to manage (and reason about). By reducing to a single list of nodes, cross-references are only needed when crossing IR boundaries.
Because cross-references now only have 2 things to track (IR and index), they can be a regular SemanticsNode and don't need further indirection. This wasn't motivating, but feels like it reinforces the simplification.
Note this isn't being used to deduplicate nodes, at least right now. That could lead to difficult-to-update situations, but also most nodes are associated with the underlying ParseTree::Node in order to track sources for diagnostics; as a consequence, nodes representing equal text in different source locations wouldn't be the same node. There may be future opportunities here, discussed with @zygoloid, but no action is taken at present.
We may eventually want to switch the storage of NodeBlocks to have `[start, end)` ranges instead of individual numbers, but I'm leaving that alone for now.
As an aside, I noticed I was accidentally overloading the copy constructor on SemanticsIR. I've added some disambiguation on that, but am not deleting the copy constructor per style advice (even though the type should never be copied due to storage size).
codespell tries to change `CrossReference -> cross-reference` so disabling it there.
When binding a name, add it to name lookup. On NameReference nodes, use name lookup.
- Switches from "identifiers" to the more generic "strings". Not strictly necessary here, but it's the overall direction I think we've agreed upon and wanted to do it while building more support out.
- Starts doing deduplication of strings.
- On BindName, registers names with name lookup.
- Does name lookup based on the deduplicated string.
- Per discussion with zygoloid, design is intended to be constant-time lookup regardless of the number of parent scopes.
- Adds scopes so that we can track names which will be deregistered from lookup.
This is a first pass at what semantic type checking might look like. Types propagate along nodes, we use an InvalidType object when there's an error, and once there's an InvalidType we stop doing so much type checking.
This adds some RealLiteral handling in order to get type mismatches. I'm cautious about creating some real value for SemanticsIR (since the tokenized buffer version is a bit constrained), so I'm not doing that yet. But I will probably need to in order to maintain SemanticsIR having hermetic copies of its data, without a parse tree dependency.
This starts adding builtins with TypeType and IntegerLiteralType. Note, structurally that's all they are, and not directly accessible in any way.
Adds a type field to SemanticsNode. Now, IntegerLiteralType can be identified as having type=TypeType, and IntegerLiteral as type=IntegerLiteralType. The current iteration doesn't do anything for type propagation, because I wanted to avoid making this too big.
This also switches the Identifier IR to instead BindName, with some side-effects. I'd been trying to think how to provide a name for TypeType, and switching around how things worked seemed like a better approach. And while I think it's the right direction (e.g., alias should just be a BindName), I also realized I don't need to name TypeType: there's probably a keyword to refer to the builtin, so it shouldn't use regular name lookup.
Jon Ross-Perkins
