Previously, we picked a single Carbon parameter pattern for each C++
parameter pattern. This doesn't work well in cases where the Carbon
semantics and the C++ semantics are not perfectly aligned. In
particular, when a parameter is passed by value in C++, that might mean
either pass-by-move (which in Carbon would best be modeled by a `var`
pattern, as no other form of parameter would perform a move) or
pass-by-copy (which in Carbon would best be modeled by a value
parameter, as a `var` parameter would force an extra copy).
After this change, we compute a passing mode for each parameter based on
the implicit conversion sequence from the argument to the parameter as
determined by C++ overload resolution, and use that to determine the
Carbon pattern corresponding to each C++ parameter. This results in
potentially generating multiple different thunks for the same C++
function if it's called in different ways, but we already did that to
handle default arguments and list-initialization. The passing modes are
included in the thunk mangling.
Add a new value store for clang decl signatures, which capture the
information about parameter passing mode as well as the other existing
information about different ways that a C++ function might be imported
to Carbon.
Most of the rules for computing passing modes are the same as before:
const references use pass by value, non-const lvalue references use
pass-by-ref, non-const rvalue references use pass-by-var. But for C++
non-reference parameters, pick between pass-by-value and pass-by-var
based on whether the implicit conversion sequence was effectively
performing a copy. Prefer pass-by-value if either would work and they'd
do the same thing. We still use pass-by-value for const references, even
when the argument is an lvalue and we could pass a reference; we may
want to change this in future.
For virtual functions, we try to pick a worst-case passing mode, as we
can only pick a single signature for what goes in the vtable. Calls to
virtual functions will still use a thunk to C++, allowing variance in
the calling convention at call sites. We don't allow variance in the
overriders as we don't implement support for thunks for virtual
functions yet. We currently use pass-by-value for const reference
parameters here, but that should probably change at some point.
Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
`PerformCppOverloadResolution` computes an overload set from a
`CppOverloadSetId`, but the compiler sometimes needs to synthesise a
local overload set for witnesses. `PerformCppOverloadResolution` now
requires callers to produce the `CppOverloadSet` to address this
problem.
Treat the initial sequence ofarguments in a call to a C++ function up to
and including the last argument that is a type or template as being the
explicit template arguments for the call, rather than rejecting them
because they can't be converted to the parameter types.
Implements the current direction on leads issue #6768, except that no
syntax for explicitly annotating an argument as being a template
argument is provided.
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Co-authored-by: Carbon Infra Bot <carbon-external-infra@google.com>
Don't attempt to defer overload resolution by creating a
`CppOverloadSet`; this was incorrect as we weren't saving the complete
clang::OverloadCandidateSet, resulting in template candidates not being
found. Moreover, saving the overload candidate set would be expensive,
as the representation is surprisingly large, and is unnecessary since
we're about to build a call.
In passing, improve the diagnostics for overload resolution failure to
use Clang's operator overload resolution messages rather than its call
overload resolution messages.
This fixes calls to templated operator overloads, which is the final
piece needed for us to successfully compile an iostream-based "Hello
world" program.
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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
Instead of calling `PerformCppOverloadResolution()` and use the complex
return value to call `PerformCallToFunction()`, we call
`PerformCallToCppFunction()` which will call both
`PerformCppOverloadResolution()` and `PerformCallToFunction()`.
Followup of #6112.
Part of #5995.
Richard Smith
Christopher Di Bella
Boaz Brickner