We use the same conversion codepath to handle both qualification
conversions and derived-to-base conversions, because we allow both to be
performed at once. However, we were previously modeling the
qualification conversion as happening *first*, and producing a result
whose type is the target type of the overall conversion (that is, the
base class type). That led to bogus SemIR, where a `Derived` -> `const
Base` conversion would first have a "compatible" conversion from
`Derived` to `const Base`, *then* an access of the base subobject (of
type `const Base`, within an object of type `const Base`).
We now reverse the order: first we do a derived-to-base conversion,
which already has logic to preserve qualifiers, and then we do any
necessary qualification conversions on the result to reach the overall
target type.
In passing, we now skip forming the `as_compatible` instruction at all
for a pure derived-to-base conversion that has no qualification
conversion, simplifying the SemIR by one instruction in the common case.
Fix a few API issues. There's also a newly-added file in compiler-rt
that is not supposed to be built by default but is not being excluded
properly by a glob. Added a patch to exclude that and sent
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/208861 upstream.
Each file dump now starts with a `; ---` comment and ends with a blank
line. This makes it easier to visually scan the dump for a file of
interest. The comment format is somewhat arbitrary; I chose `---` to
align with the `--- filename.carbon` separator in SemIR dumps, but
without the filename, because that appears on each of the next two lines
already.
Move the existing derived->base conversion earlier in
`PerformBuiltinConversion`, into the block that handles qualifier
conversions. This allows, for example, converting from `partial Derived`
to `partial Base` -- see the tests in
`toolchain/check/testdata/class/inheritance/derived_to_base.carbon`.
Richard Smith
Nicholas Bishop
Geoff Romer
David Blaikie