When forming a specific (previously called a generic instance), evaluate
the eval block of the generic to determine the values of any constants
used in that specific. The majority of the work here is updating
eval.cpp so that it can use the results of prior evaluations in the same
block when computing later values.
Include the computed results in the formatted SemIR output.
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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
For each generic, build a list of instructions describing the
computations we need to do when resolving an instance of the generic:
this is a list of the instance-specific constants and types that the
generic uses. Another way of viewing this list is as a block of Carbon
SemIR code that is evaluated in order to form an instance of the generic
-- this is referenced in the code as the "eval block" for the generic.
For each instruction in the generic whose type or value is a symbolic
constant, replace that type or constant value with a symbolic reference
that says "to find the actual type or value, look at index N in the list
of values for the generic instance".
For an instruction with a symbolic constant value, we can just add that
instruction to our list. For an instruction with a symbolic constant
type, however, we may not have a corresponding instruction computing the
type within the generic and may need to build a new instruction, but
will reuse one where possible. In the case where we build a new
instruction, we use the existing substitution code to build the type
within the eval block.
For now, this transformation is only done in the declaration region of
the generic, not in the definition region. Also, we map back from the
symbolic references to the underlying constant value in a few places
where we will eventually need to do a lookup into a generic instance, in
order to avoid regressing the tests.
By adding an `ImportDecl` instruction, this creates something that can
be referenced through `ImportIRInst`.
packages/no_prelude/implicit_imports_entities.carbon is getting a test
of this (import_conflict and import_conflict_reverse).
Also re-packs ImportIR from 24 bytes to 16 on 64-bit, since I'm touching
everywhere that makes one anyways.
In `ClassType`s and `InterfaceType`s, track a `GenericInstanceId` for
the instance rather than just the argument list.
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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
Build a `Generic` object for generic functions. This object tracks the
generic parameters that are in scope for the generic entity. Eventually
it will track other information about the generic too.
Add basic SemIR formatting support for generic functions.
When constant evaluation produces a known non-symbolic value, treat the
result as a symbolic constant anyway if the type of the value is
symbolic.
We don't yet have many ways to produce a constant that has a known value
but a symbolic type. The added test case is one such way: an array `[T;
0]` initialized from `()` is a symbolic constant only because its type
is symbolic -- we know its value is always `()`. More ways to form such
constants will be appearing soon as we start to support generics: for
example, a method of a generic class has a symbolic type but a known
constant value of `{}`.
When substituting into a symbolic constant, also substitute into its
type.
Richard SmithandJon Ross-Perkins