The goal was/is to reduce the overhead for vtables in generics - the
previous representation/prior to this patch caused a new vtable to be
created in every specific which isn't generally what we want for Carbon
generics (the whole specific/generic thing is meant to avoid creating
specific versions for things that can be a generic form parameterized by
a specific instead of manifest as a unique entity per specific)
So this moves vtables to a top level object (like functions, classes,
etc). Each dynamic class will have a vtable in this list.
Classes have a `vtable_ptr` instruction in them that points to the
vtable.
The actual generic support hasn't been implemented in this patch, as
I've been struggling with just getting this part of the migration going
& wanted to get it flushed out before adding the additional
complications.
It's possible more laziness when doing cross-file importing would be
suitable - for instance if we only need to reference the vtable from
another file, but don't need to know its individual contents, it may be
beneficial for the functions in the vtable to be import_refs (or to add
another layer of indirection - so it can be a single import_ref
all-or-nothing for the functions in the vtable).
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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
Co-authored-by: Carbon Infra Bot <carbon-external-infra@google.com>
This adds something similar to the level of `const` support - that it's
a type, but not the conversions and limitations on usage that are
needed.
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Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
This was originally needed to support constant evaluation of name
expressions, but that's now done in a different way.
This is actually a step toward treating all patterns as constants. The
upcoming change will do so in a slightly different way, and so it will
simplify the review to start from a baseline where patterns are never
constant.
We eliminate the `FacetAccessWitness` instruction, which would sometimes
immediately evaluate to a concrete `ImplWitness`, and sometimes remain
symbolic. This instruction is now replaced by `LookupImplWitness` in all
cases. To support the same use cases, when it is evaluated,
`LookupImplWitness` will look in the self value if it's a facet value,
and attempt to return a concrete `ImplWitness` from it before looking
for an `impl` statement.
The `LookupImplWitness` instruction's value is now canonical, even when
it evaluates to a symbolic `LookupImplWitness` instruction, by
canonicalizing the self value of the lookup query. This canonicalization
unwraps `FacetAccessType` and `FacetValue` instructions to get to an
underlying canonical facet value. However we must preserve and use the
non-canonical query while evaluating the instruction in order to look
for a concrete `ImplWitness` if the query self value was a concrete
`FacetValue`. The canonicalization ensures that symbolic witnesses
obtained from a facet value are compatible with those obtained from an
impl statement, as long as the self types originate from the same
canonical facet value though they may have been narrowed.
Member access now unconditionally does a `LookupImplWitness()`
operation, instead of only sometimes doing the lookup for a final impl
declaration.
`EvalImplLookupResult` is marked `[[nodiscard]]` so that we don't
construct it and forget to return it. This was a mistake made at one
point during the creation of this PR. And the `has_concrete_value()`
method no longer has a precondition that `has_value()` is true, since we
want to look for a concrete result only in the new use of
`EvalImplLookupResult` returned from lookup into the query self facet
value.
The TODO from `FacetAccessWitness` evaluation is addressed by ensuring
the index of the witness in the `FacetValue` comes from the required
interfaces of the `FacetValue`'s type, and that the type (a `FacetType`)
is the same facet type used in the query to construct the `FacetValue`'s
witness block. This is made possible by eliminating the
`FacetAccessWitness` indirection. The lookup into a `FacetValue` happens
while evaluating `LookupImplWitness` and it does so directly on the self
value. This gives a consistent view of the witness set and the facet
type, as they both come from the same instruction.
All of this with 400 less lines of code. :)
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Co-authored-by: josh11b <15258583+josh11b@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
This allows us to import the table for a given impl only once, while we
can import many ImplWitness instructions with different specifics for a
generic impl.
For example in convert_facet_value_to_narrowed_facet_type.carbon we see
that a single witness table is imported for the BitAnd interface, with
multiple witnesses (for different specifics) imported and sharing the
same table.
The ImplWitnessTable now contains a back-link to the Impl the witness is
for, allowing inst namer to name that interface in the textual semir,
and allowing the interface to be found when debugging from a witness.
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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
Instead of using None, use an explicit ImplWitnessTablePlaceholder in
the witness table for entries that have not yet been populated, to aid
debugging. This would ensure they would show up very clearly in the
SemIR. This uncovered some `<invalid>` in the SemIR under erroneous
conditions that have now been turned into `<error>`.
Add the ImplWitnessAssociatedConstant instruction which wraps the
canonical instruction found from the constant value of the rewrite
constraint. This ensures that we have an instruction inside the eval
block for a generic impl declaration for each rewrite constraint's
value, which allows Subst to be performed to rewrite the symbolic
constant of the ImplWitnessAssociatedConstant instruction to associate
it with the generic. This will prevent the otherwise orphaned symbolic
constant of the rewrite's value from being used which can not have a
specific applied to them.
While applying the new insts in InitialFacetTypeImplWitness(), rearrange
the function to use less nesting. And avoid using entity names from
imported instructions (as we found is not effective in deduce.cpp) and
use a local instruction by going through the constant value.
This PR is part of the effort to allow a rewrite to name a generic
parameter, such as `impl forall [T:! type] T as Z where .X = T`, however
tests for this involve a final impl so that we can typecheck that the .X
value is a specific T, so the tests will come with that work. This piece
is split off because introducing new instructions causes a lot of SemIR
churn, and I wanted to get that done separately.
Fixes#5186
With @zygoloid's kind assistance, this generalizes the existing
non-const lowering of ClassInit, that had previously only handled
InitializeFrom, to find other cases - such as a nested ClassInit used to
initialize a class member.
This refactors the `FindReturnSlotArgForInitializer` from
`check/convert.cpp` into `sem_ir/file.{h,cpp}` for use from lowering
(since lower doesn't depend on check, which I assume is an intentional
layering constraint - so figured it made sense to move it to sem_ir, and
found one or two similar-ish utility functions in `sem_ir/file.{h,cpp}`,
so figured that was a good spot)
Geoff Romer
Jon Ross-PerkinsandRichard Smith
Boaz Brickner
