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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
Richard Smith dd7cfdb149 Relax alias restrictions. (#7190)
Implement the alias rules from proposal #5389, wherein an alias is
permitted so long as the target has a constant value. While that
proposal is not yet accepted, this seems like a reasonable basis for
further iteration, and will be useful for the examples we're currently
pursuing.
2026-05-12 17:22:44 +00:00
Dana Jansens f8dd4d85bf Do not treat impls in different scopes as redeclarations (#7161)
An impl in a different scope, with the same parameters, will overlap and
get diagnosed for that later by the [prioritization
rule](https://docs.carbon-lang.dev/docs/design/generics/details.html#prioritization-rule),
if they are not in a match_first block. But they are not considered as
redeclarations.

See [proposal
p5366](https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/62b94f79322039acc3fc8e175896a64a32df470e/proposals/p5366.md)
for the rule.
2026-05-04 19:11:51 +00:00
Dana Jansens 88931a4196 Give the .Self instruction a location (#7147)
This lets us stop eliding it in textual semir tests with dump ranges.
Previously it would always get elided, even though it was part of the
range being dumped, and was referred to by other instructions in the
dump range.

Since each `.Self` is unique (can change its type if not its value) in a
facet type, having each one distinct by location also aids
understanding.
2026-05-04 14:45:06 +00:00
Geoff Romer 4c9049346d Replace form insts with actions (#7100)
See
[here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rWcueFwIfZox6GKVGxiUG4cBzjrZ6djXiIDGyJDtrE4/edit?tab=t.0)
for the design doc.

This also removes the default value of the `result_type_inst_id`
parameter of `HandleAction`, moves it before the action in the parameter
list, and documents it. This solves two problems:
- The default made it easy to forget, leading to unnecessary
`TypeOfInst` instructions.
- When it was present, putting it after the fairly "bulky" action
argument tended to make the callsite harder to read.
2026-04-29 18:13:42 +00:00
Richard Smith 23339bc810 Fix initialization of var parameters. (#7023)
When an initializing expression is used to initialize a var parameter,
we need to create the storage earlier in SemIR than the initializing
expression. To do so, pass a pending block to initialization containing
the var storage.

Also stop using `temporary` for this purpose, since we treat temporaries
as potentially-constant and immutable, but `var` parameters can be
mutated by the callee. We should ideally introduce a new kind of
instruction for this purpose but for now we just use `var_storage`.
2026-04-28 20:10:13 +00:00
Geoff RomerandChandler Carruth 49c7288619 Restructure return declaration handling (#7076)
- A function with a return declaration always has exactly one
`ReturnSlotPattern`, representing the whole return declaration (whereas
previously that was omitted for value and reference returns).
- The `ReturnSlotPattern` always has a subpattern with the same form.
`OutParamPattern` already plays that role for initializing forms, and
`TuplePattern` will play that role for tuple forms. This change
introduces `ValueReturnPattern` and `RefReturnPattern` to represent
value and reference return forms.
- As before, the `ReturnSlotPattern` has a corresponding `ReturnSlot`
that represents the output that is initialized by a `return` statement.
Its structure parallels the structure of the `ReturnSlotPattern`, so we
need `ValueReturn` and `RefReturn` insts that correspond to
`ValueReturnPattern` and `RefReturnPattern`.

This is a step toward supporting generic return forms, where the
`ReturnSlotPattern`'s subpattern may be an action: this change ensures
that evaluating the action for a specific form produces the same SemIR
as if the form were concrete to begin with. More speculatively, this
should simplify the implementation of `return` statements with compound
return forms.

---------

Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
2026-04-22 23:38:21 +00:00
Geoff Romer 6f02354d62 Fix malformed split (#7035) 2026-04-08 00:31:43 +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
Nicholas Bishop bf6a14ac39 Support Temporary constants (#6983)
Evaluate `Temporary` constants to a `Temporary` with the `storage` field
set to `None`.
2026-03-30 19:07:46 +00:00
Geoff Romer 18f87e4f79 Include the type in the location of binding insts (#6963) 2026-03-26 18:43:29 +00:00
Richard Smith 37b238fa28 Make C++ types impl Core.Default. (#6962)
C++ classes that are default-constructible now implement `Core.Default`
by calling the default constructor.
2026-03-25 21:07:24 +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
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
Richard SmithandGeoff Romer ce50f181f1 Add an interface for initialization of vars without an explicit initializer (#6934)
When a `var` is not explicitly given an initializer, initialize it in
one of two ways:

* If its type implements the new interface `Core.Default`, call
`Core.Default.Op` to initialize it.
* Otherwise, if its type implements `UnformedInit`, leave it in an
unformed state. For now, this is always an uninitialized state, but that
will change in the future.
* If neither of those apply, the `var` declaration is ill-formed.

This is a step towards implementing leads decision #6739 and proposals
#257 and #5913.

Assisted-by: Gemini 3.1 Pro via Antigravity

---------

Co-authored-by: Geoff Romer <gromer@google.com>
2026-03-19 23:46:06 +00:00
Geoff Romer 08148f3a3a Refactor AddBindingPattern into composable pieces (#6927)
This is part of some bigger changes in pattern matching, factored out
because it causes some test churn.

Assisted-by: Gemini 3.1 Pro via Antigravity
2026-03-19 19:20:03 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins c5761d2d16 Improve parsing large integers (#6908)
Though I started this thinking about performance of parse of large
decimal integers, I extended it to generally improve performance of
integer values (TBH I hadn't expected such a difference for binary/hex,
but I'll take it).

Note I think tests change because I'm making subtle changes to bit
widths. The changes themselves appear harmless to me, but happy to make
changes if it'd help.

Bumping up the number of digits by 10x because it's not really a
performance issue anymore (eh, maybe somebody will want to specify a
256-byte value in binary). But, at a certain point it still seems like a
mistake if somebody has that many digits in a row.

Fixes #980

Highlighting benchmark differences:
```diff
- BM_ComputeValue_IntDecimalN/1           37.1 ns         37.1 ns     18887116
+ BM_ComputeValue_IntDecimalN/1           21.9 ns         21.9 ns     31902433
- BM_ComputeValue_IntDecimalN/10000 1251228680 ns   1250457559 ns            1
+ BM_ComputeValue_IntDecimalN/10000     458818 ns       458626 ns         1523
- BM_ComputeValue_IntBinaryN/1            29.0 ns         29.0 ns     24058533
+ BM_ComputeValue_IntBinaryN/1            22.2 ns         22.1 ns     31566949
- BM_ComputeValue_IntBinaryN/10000     1390557 ns      1389782 ns          506
+ BM_ComputeValue_IntBinaryN/10000       16402 ns        16396 ns        42744
- BM_ComputeValue_IntHexN/1               34.0 ns         34.0 ns     20562432
+ BM_ComputeValue_IntHexN/1               22.4 ns         22.4 ns     31238055
- BM_ComputeValue_IntHexN/10000        5387942 ns      5385262 ns          130
+ BM_ComputeValue_IntHexN/10000          39249 ns        39233 ns        17859
```

Benchmark before:
```
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark                                  Time             CPU   Iterations
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
BM_Lex_Float                            10.6 ns         10.6 ns     66138191
BM_Lex_Int                              15.5 ns         15.4 ns     45149703
BM_Lex_IntDecimalN/1                    3.11 ns         3.11 ns    225524908
BM_Lex_IntDecimalN/10                   11.8 ns         11.8 ns     56719805
BM_Lex_IntDecimalN/100                   102 ns          102 ns      6867468
BM_Lex_IntDecimalN/1000                  943 ns          942 ns       745313
BM_Lex_IntDecimalN/10000                9465 ns         9461 ns        73970
BM_ComputeValue_Float                   61.6 ns         61.6 ns     11377463
BM_ComputeValue_Int                      106 ns          106 ns      6587381
BM_ComputeValue_IntDecimalN/1           37.1 ns         37.1 ns     18887116
BM_ComputeValue_IntDecimalN/10          87.7 ns         87.7 ns      7960837
BM_ComputeValue_IntDecimalN/100         7963 ns         7956 ns        88858
BM_ComputeValue_IntDecimalN/1000     1212577 ns      1211906 ns          578
BM_ComputeValue_IntDecimalN/10000 1251228680 ns   1250457559 ns            1
BM_ComputeValue_IntBinaryN/1            29.0 ns         29.0 ns     24058533
BM_ComputeValue_IntBinaryN/10           69.4 ns         69.4 ns     10108642
BM_ComputeValue_IntBinaryN/100           963 ns          962 ns       726982
BM_ComputeValue_IntBinaryN/1000        21562 ns        21551 ns        32506
BM_ComputeValue_IntBinaryN/10000     1390557 ns      1389782 ns          506
BM_ComputeValue_IntHexN/1               34.0 ns         34.0 ns     20562432
BM_ComputeValue_IntHexN/10              70.4 ns         70.4 ns      9953165
BM_ComputeValue_IntHexN/100             1474 ns         1473 ns       472776
BM_ComputeValue_IntHexN/1000           61818 ns        61762 ns        11363
BM_ComputeValue_IntHexN/10000        5387942 ns      5385262 ns          130
```

Benchmark after:
```
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark                                  Time             CPU   Iterations
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
BM_Lex_Float                            10.9 ns         10.9 ns     63993114
BM_Lex_Int                              15.1 ns         15.1 ns     46869766
BM_Lex_IntDecimalN/1                    3.16 ns         3.16 ns    220923300
BM_Lex_IntDecimalN/10                   12.2 ns         12.2 ns     57731654
BM_Lex_IntDecimalN/100                   102 ns          102 ns      6875516
BM_Lex_IntDecimalN/1000                  942 ns          942 ns       742359
BM_Lex_IntDecimalN/10000                9353 ns         9350 ns        75096
BM_ComputeValue_Float                   44.9 ns         44.9 ns     15619691
BM_ComputeValue_Int                     48.9 ns         48.9 ns     14361507
BM_ComputeValue_IntDecimalN/1           21.9 ns         21.9 ns     31902433
BM_ComputeValue_IntDecimalN/10          30.3 ns         30.3 ns     23134117
BM_ComputeValue_IntDecimalN/100          224 ns          223 ns      3092567
BM_ComputeValue_IntDecimalN/1000        5834 ns         5830 ns       117469
BM_ComputeValue_IntDecimalN/10000     458818 ns       458626 ns         1523
BM_ComputeValue_IntBinaryN/1            22.2 ns         22.1 ns     31566949
BM_ComputeValue_IntBinaryN/10           32.9 ns         32.9 ns     21306927
BM_ComputeValue_IntBinaryN/100           198 ns          198 ns      3545277
BM_ComputeValue_IntBinaryN/1000         1671 ns         1669 ns       419656
BM_ComputeValue_IntBinaryN/10000       16402 ns        16396 ns        42744
BM_ComputeValue_IntHexN/1               22.4 ns         22.4 ns     31238055
BM_ComputeValue_IntHexN/10              47.8 ns         47.7 ns     14694407
BM_ComputeValue_IntHexN/100              436 ns          436 ns      1609794
BM_ComputeValue_IntHexN/1000            3966 ns         3962 ns       177109
BM_ComputeValue_IntHexN/10000          39249 ns        39233 ns        17859
```

Assisted-by: Google Antigravity with Gemini
2026-03-16 20:00:51 +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.

---------

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: 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
Jon Ross-Perkins 002b7c74ea Support CARBON_KIND with Any types (#6828)
This uses the `CARBON_KIND_ANY(AnyImportRef, auto import_ref):` syntax
that seemed to be favored [on
Discord](https://discord.com/channels/655572317891461132/655578254970716160/1478486848207720478).

This converted uses in the `sem_ir` directory to show it works
initially, then added `check` for full coverage plus validating the
`SemIR::` namespace discard.

Note in inst_namer.cpp, AnyBindingPattern includes FormBindingPattern
which wasn't previously handled.

I'm disabling clang-format because I think it formats with readability
issues, e.g.:

```
#define CARBON_KIND_ANY_EXPAND_AnyBinding(X, SEP)                        \
  X(::Carbon::SemIR::AliasBinding)                                       \
  SEP X(::Carbon::SemIR::FormBinding) SEP X(::Carbon::SemIR::RefBinding) \
      SEP X(::Carbon::SemIR::SymbolicBinding)                            \
          SEP X(::Carbon::SemIR::ValueBinding)
```

Since `SEP` is typically a comma, it's also a nuisance to treat as an
argument to `X` (which could get better results).

Assisted-by: Google Antigravity with Gemini 3 Flash
2026-03-05 01:20:37 +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.

---------

Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
2026-03-03 00:19:47 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins b14015602b Make Destroy.Op functions able to have a body (#6729)
This is iterating on how `Destroy.Op` generates, to start adding body
capabilities. This changes the way the signature is created, and adds a
`CoreWitness` function kind so that mangling can prevent name
collisions. The result is that what _was_ `DestroyOp` is now
`Core.Destroy.Op` or, as can be seen in
toolchain/lower/testdata/interop/cpp/nullptr.carbon,
`_COp.<hash>:core.Destroy.Core` where `:core` is indicating that it's a
core witness (taking a note from `:thunk`).

Assisted-by: Google Antigravity with Gemini 3 Flash
2026-03-02 17:57:31 +00:00
Dana Jansens cea52ad2d8 Format the InterfaceWithSelf and NamedConstraintWithSelf generic name with its ".WithSelf" suffix (#6798)
We used the ".WithSelf" suffix when formatting a parent scope, but
missed the suffix when formatting the scope name on its own.
2026-02-27 13:50:56 +00:00
bf9219d30e Check support for form literals and :? bindings (#6747)
Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Carbon Infra Bot <carbon-external-infra@google.com>
2026-02-26 23:01:24 +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
Dana Jansens fbc8d59d32 Introduce Diagnostics::ContextScope and remove diagnoser callbacks in type completion (#6761)
Introduces `Context` and `SoftContext` messages, which can be introduced
through a `ContextBuilder`:
- The `Context` messages come before the diagnostic in the output.
- The first `Context` message steals the diagnostic level from the main
diagnostic, and turns the main diagnostic into a Note attached to the
context.
- A `SoftContext` message works similarly, but if it's preceeded by a
`Context` or `SoftContext` message, then it is dropped. This can be used
as a default/backup scope when nothing more interesting is provided up
the stack, such as in `TryEvalBlockForSpecific`.

The `ContextBuilder` is provided to a callback through
`Diagnostics::ContextScope`, an RAII type `AnnotationScope` but for
context messages.

This allows a high level operation to provide a context message like
"failed to identify facet type {0}" which will then be used as the error
if a diagnostic is produced during identification, with the latter
diagnostic attached as a note to explain why the contextual operation
failed.

In particular, this allows monomorphization errors (such as an array
bound being negative) to be attached to a higher lever operation instead
of being top-level diagnostics themselves, with the monomorphization
site being a note. This inverts the source code locations that appear in
the diagnostic, so that the top-level diagnostic points to the "user
code" which causes the monomorphization.

This is presented as an alternative strategy to #6753, which plumbed
diagnoser callbacks around to achieve the same goals.

We replace the diagnoser callbacks in type completion and operators with
ContextScope callbacks instead, which now provide better diagnostics for
monomorphization errors. Other callers to MakeSpecific do not yet have
ContextScopes introduced in order to turn monomorphization errors into
more interesting diagnostics.
2026-02-25 15:15:29 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins e2bdbe8507 Make semir scope labels only print when non-empty (#6780)
This shifts logic a little so that empty top-level scopes are printed
less often. This affects imports mainly for now, but should be expected
to affect the soon-to-be-added generated scope more significantly.

Assisted-by: Google Antigravity with Gemini 3 Flash
2026-02-25 00:28:59 +00:00
fdb188ccfd Implement unused pattern bindings, continued (#6518)
Implementation of unused pattern bindings #2022, continued.

Whereas previous PR #6460 took care of parsing, and PR #6479 prepared
the stage by using _ in some test cases, this PR has the the actual
implementation, using a simple dataflow analysis.

---------

Co-authored-by: Burak Emir <bqe@google.com>
Co-authored-by: jonmeow <jperkins@google.com>
2026-02-19 23:33:36 +00:00
Dana Jansens 917a6ea971 Add an interface-with-self generic to each interface and same for constraints (#6667)
Currently each interface has a `Self` facet internally that becomes a
binding to every entity inside the interface: associated constants,
functions, and require decls. Each of these has to be independently
generic as a result. This makes is challenging in extended name lookup
to move into an extended scope of an interface, as we have a specific
for the interface, but the names within require a different specific
that includes a `Self` facet value.

We generalize this relationship by adding a second generic to Interface,
called `generic_with_self`. When we want to work with entities inside
the interface, we move from the interface-without-specific to the
interface-with-self specific by adding a Self to the specific. This is
done independently of any particular entity inside the Interface, as
those entities are now all members of the interface-with-self generic.

Associated constants no longer need a generic of their own, as they do
not have separate generic bindings. Functions retain a generic, but if
the function has no generic arguments, it will have no bindings of its
own now.

Require decls retain a generic so that their specific can be
instantiated separately from the interface. Requiring the interface to
be complete does not require the types in a require decl to be complete
unless it is modified by `extend`. So we allow them to be completed
later by keeping them in a separate generic.

Named constraints look like interfaces and gain the additional inner
generic-with-self, with the same relationship to require decls.

This removes the need for name lookup to perform Substitution of a Self
facet into the extended scope instruction. Instead, the
`SpecificConstant` instruction inserted by a `require` decl is part of
the interface-with-self generic. When looking through a FacetType for
extended scopes, for each interface, we push the scope with the specific
for the interface-with-self. Then the constant value of the
`SpecificConstant` is correctly modified by the provided self
automatically through applying that specific.
2026-02-19 16:24:07 +00:00
Geoff Romer 3c324e4877 Add category to parameter format, and share some code. (#6730) 2026-02-13 22:20:05 +00:00
Geoff Romer 1c885a629e Format FormType as "Core.Form" (#6734) 2026-02-13 19:44:21 +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
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.

---------

Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2026-02-04 02:27:12 +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 e1ec8d42d1 Give ReturnExpr a target only when initialization is in-place (#6570)
Also clarify and enforce that `ConversionTarget::init_id` is used only
as storage for in-place initialization, and correspondingly rename it to
`storage_id`.
2026-01-13 01:20:15 +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
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
Jon Ross-Perkins c5eba90317 Change Destroy to use a CustomWitness instead of a blanket impl (#6512)
Pursuant to recent decisions on #6124, switch `Destroy` to use a
`CustomWitness` for its implementation. Right now this is manufacturing
no-op implementation functions on each lookup, which obviously isn't
ideal but is intended as a first pass. I'm mostly trying to find the
right balance between updating the approach to reflect new decisions,
while still breaking apart work in a way.

The `CoreInterface` logic is intended to build on `CoreIdentifier`
support. We have a number of additional interfaces that require
specialized logic, and that'll extend pretty far with C++ interop, so it
seemed easiest to have a generic function for it. That's what's
replacing the logic inside C++ interop that was doing string comparisons
(which could have already been moved to `CoreIdentifier`, I just missed
it in my first pass).

This adds `CustomWitness` support because the `Destroy` witnesses can be
imported cross-file. `CustomWitness` was previously only used for C++
types, which don't yet support import, which is why that wasn't
previously an issue. The addition of `query_specific_interface_id` is
similarly needed in order to get correct sorting of witness blocks when
imported.

This PR also removes builtin constraint logic (note this is in a
separate commit to help review; it's not a separate PR because it's
difficult to split apart without tests breaking). This had been made
generic with the expectation that destroy, copy, move, and conversions
would all need related support. Under the new decision, we are not going
to do blanket impls and will instead just manufacture a `CustomWitness`
for everything.

A lot of SemIR fingerprints change, but that's probably because the
addition of `Destroy` on core classes is yielding structural changes.
2025-12-19 18:36:06 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins 47e551141f Change the package namespace to use the package name (#6495)
Instead of naming the root namespace `package` (because it's accessed by
the `package` keyword), change it to use the current package name. Note,
buried in the checksum changes,
`toolchain/check/testdata/package_expr/fail_not_found.carbon`:

```
-  // CHECK:STDERR: fail_not_found.carbon:[[@LINE+4]]:16: error: member name `x` not found in `package` [MemberNameNotFoundInInstScope]
+  // CHECK:STDERR: fail_not_found.carbon:[[@LINE+4]]:16: error: member name `x` not found in `Main` [MemberNameNotFoundInInstScope]
```

for:

```
  // CHECK:STDERR:   var y: i32 = package.x;
  // CHECK:STDERR:                ^~~~~~~~~
```

I'll leave it to you if you prefer this; the alternative I see is to
just rename `IsCorePackage` to `IsImportedCorePackage`, and/or change it
to a helper that takes a `Context` and does the right thing with
`parse_tree` (which, I need for `Destroy`-related reasons and was my
default approach).
2025-12-16 01:33:53 +00:00
Richard Smith 154e4012c4 Include the parent scope when fingerprinting an entity name. (#6473)
This is a prerequisite for support for interop with C++ template names.
No behavior change here, except that it sadly changes the fingerprinting
for a lot of tests.
2025-12-08 15:31:13 +00:00
Geoff Romer 2b8fdf3417 Switch the prelude to use ref instead of addr (#6359) 2025-11-14 00:40:26 +00:00
Dana Jansens 5ae5170421 Allow deduction of tuple and struct literals as symbolic generic facet types (#6365)
Give TupleLiteral and StructLiteral a constant value, if their contents
have constant values. Their constant values are TupleValue and
StructValue respectively. This supports their ability to convert to a
constant type (or facet type).

This way when deduce finds a TupleLiteral as the argument to a
_symbolic_ facet type, it can also find a constant value to use for that
argument. This allows deduction to move onto step two, where it can
substitute into the symbolic parameter from previous deduced arguments,
and then perform the conversion from the TupleValue to the desired facet
type.

Allow `PerformBuiltinConversion()` to convert from a canonical
TupleValue or StructValue to `type` instead of only from literals. Then,
also support conversion from a symbolic binding of type TupleType or
StructType to `type`.
2025-11-13 20:17:44 +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
Geoff Romer 0811d996e1 Finish renaming BindName and related insts. (#6281)
Resolves the TODO from #6235
2025-10-28 17:17:38 +00:00
Geoff Romer 09710d102f Separate binding insts for refs and values (#6235)
This resolves a TODO in `expr_info.cpp` by using the inst kind rather
than the bound value to track the binding's category.

Since we're churning all the `bind_name` insts in testdata anyway, I'm
also taking this opportunity to align the inst naming with the design's
terminology, by calling these insts "bindings" (this aspect of the PR is
dependent on #6231 resolving an ambiguity in that terminology). For
consistency we'll need to rename several other insts as well (see the
TODO on `RefBinding`); I'm deferring that to a separate PR to minimize
the review load, but I think those name changes are in-scope for this
review.
2025-10-23 01:46:24 +00:00
Dana Jansens e682a6660d Avoid adding extraneous local instructions while importing witness table entries (#6180)
When deducing arguments for generic parameters of an `impl`, the
deduction calls `Convert` on the input arguments. Often, the input
argument is a facet, and needs to be converted to a type via
FacetAccessType in order to produce a different facet. These
instructions end up being added to the semir, but only their constant
values are needed for the resulting specific returned from Deduce.

In the best case, these extra instructions are just noise in the semir,
or they just cause instruction names to get differentiated with larger
suffixes.

In the worst case, these extra instructions contain references to
instructions from a generic context, and leak them out of that generic
context and into another. In particular, when importing a
LookupImplWitness instruction, the re-evaluation of it can do deduce
(when the lookup is against a generic `impl`). The instructions created
in Deduce are not part of the import, and end up referring to imported
instructions from the local context, which leads to confusion in the
toolchain, and can crash.

The `import_self_specific.carbon` test demonstrates this. It causes the
`I.F` function to be imported from the `I` interface when building the
witness table for the `impl`. Doing so imports the specific of `C` which
includes a LookupImplWitness for `Self.Accoc` in `I`. The `Self` is a
BindSymbolicName with generic binding index 0, in `I`. When Convert
creates instructions in the generic `impl forall D`, however, they end
up referencing and including this BindSymbolicName into its eval block.
But the generic binding 0 in the `impl` is a very different thing (a
value of type `E`). This confusion leads to crashes.
2025-10-09 16:07:30 +00:00
Dana Jansens fe020ee08b Make FacetAccessType evaluate to SymbolicBindingType for type-of a BindSymbolicName (#6115)
The SymbolicBindingType refers to the type value that will be
substituted in for the BindSymbolicName, but holds onto the EntityNameId
from the BindSymbolicName instead of (or in addition to, for now) the
instruction.

The EntityNameId will be used to look in the ScopeStack to find the
witnesses either from the BindSymbolicName instruction, or other
instructions that specify `impls` constraints against the EntityName.

This will allow us to have the `T` in `I(T)` resolve to a `.Self`
reference in the type so that we get type equality with the binding's
type: `T:! I(.Self)`.
2025-10-06 18:56:43 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins 4a6376cf59 Rename/restructure Destroy logic to better reflect #6124 (#6144)
This also does a little restructuring in the same direction, following
#6124.

Leads want `Destroy` to work similarly now for all types. As a
consequence, there doesn't seem to be as much benefit to splitting off
aggregate destruction. In this PR, the `type.destroy` function can now
be expected to destroy anything that's destructible; that means it'll be
usable for the `final fn` once that support is available.

Similarly, this gets rid of the impls other than the single blanket
impl, now using `type.can_destroy`. Since they all need to use the same
function, there's no benefit to splitting approaches. Also, now it can
just be a `final impl` since there should be no need for people to
create specializations -- if this blanket impl applies, it means the
`final fn` is the same.

This also slips in `partial` support since there's no reason to have it
diverge anymore. Also `abstract`, which I'm not sure is broadly testable
since most cases it'd come up, the `abstract` keyword is explicitly
detected/rejected.

Note though that this doesn't make any really big changes. It's just
realigning on the leads decision. I'm going this way to try to reduce
name-related churn for other changes.
2025-09-30 20:43:36 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins 47081be67a Reduce test sensitivity to small import loc changes (#6145)
Locations are similarly fragile, because adding a comment changes them.
This has made me pause when making prelude changes in #6144, so dropping
them for those cases.

Instruction ids aren't actually that interesting outside debugging, and
can be churny when doing other structural changes. I've seen this in
particular when doing singleton changes, which bump every instruction
id.

Note there are still other ways fragility from locations can crop up.
This shouldn't be considered a complete fix, but hopefully a small
improvement.
2025-09-30 17:20:14 +00:00