This is enough to support calling methods that take a `Base` or `Base*`
as their `self`. But name lookup doesn't look in the base class yet, so
base class methods aren't actually found.
Per the design, field access into a class value expression is a value
expression, even though we could produce an ephemeral reference
expression instead and avoid performing a value binding. This slightly
pessimizes class member access in some cases, but we should be able to
restore the old generated code by deferring actually performing the
value binding until a value expression is needed.
If the initializing representation is the same as the value
representation, don't materialize a temporary and perform a value
binding. Instead, directly extract the value, using a new
`value_of_initializer` node.
This removes a lot of redundant `alloca`s from our generated LLVM IR.
For now, we treat class types and `String` as non-copyable, because we
don't know how to emit SemIR to copy them yet. This will change as we
add support for copying those types when appropriate.
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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
Adds a `BoundMethod` SemIR node to represent an `x.F` bound method, with
a new builtin type `BoundMethodType`. Reorganized conversion of call
expression arguments to also check and convert a `self` parameter in the
implicit parameters list.
In passing, improved diagnostics and error recovery for bad call
expressions. We now build a `call` node with the appropriate type and
value category, but with invalid arguments, if the argument conversion
failed, and diagnose calls to non-callable expressions.
`addr self` methods don't work properly yet; the `addr` is ignored for
now.
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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
Add support for member access into classes, for both non-instance
members and for fields.
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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
Track the fields in a class, and generate a corresponding struct type as
the object representation for the class. For now, we always use a
pointer as the value representation for a class.
Richard Smith
josh11b
