Add support for `const unsafe? extern fn`
This works just as you might expect - an `const extern fn` is a `const fn` that is callable from foreign code.
Currently, panicking is not allowed in `const`s. When https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2345 (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/51999) is stabilized, then panicking in an `const extern fn` will produce a compile-time error when invoked at compile time, and an abort when invoked at runtime.
Since this is extending the language (we're allowing the `const` keyword in a new context), I believe that this will need an FCP. However, it's a very minor change, so I didn't think that filing an RFC was necessary.
This will allow libc (and other FFI crates) to make many functions `const`, without having to give up on making them `extern` as well.
Tracking issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/64926.
proc_macro API: Expose `macro_rules` hygiene
Proc macros do not have direct access to our oldest and most stable hygiene kind - `macro_rules` hygiene.
To emulate it macro authors have to go through two steps - first generate a temporary `macro_rules` item (using a derive, at least until https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/64035 is merged), then generate a macro call to that item. Popular crates like [proc_macro_hack](https://crates.io/crates/proc-macro-hack) use this trick to generate hygienic identifiers from proc macros.
I'd say that these workarounds with nested macro definitions have more chances to hit some corner cases in our hygiene system, in which we don't have full confidence.
So, let's provide a direct access to `macro_rules` hygiene instead.
This PR does that by adding a new method `Span::mixed_site` (bikeshedding is welcome) in addition to existing `Span::call_site` (stable) and `Span::def_site` (unstable).
Identifiers with this span resolve at def-site in for local variables, labels and `$crate`, and resolve at call-site for everything else, i.e. exactly like identifiers produced by `macro_rules`.
This API addition opens the way to stabilizing proc macros in expression positions (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54727), for which use of call-site hygiene or workarounds with temporary items would be quite unfortunate.
(`macro_rules` expanded in expression position, on the other hand, are stable since 1.0 and widely used.)
r? @dtolnay @alexcrichton
Deprecate `#![plugin]` & `#[plugin_registrar]`
This PR deprecates `#![plugin]` and `#[plugin_registrar]`.
~A removal deadline is set: 1.44.0. This will be in 9 months from now and should give everyone who is still relying on the feature ample time to rid themselves of this dependency.~
cc https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/29597
r? @Mark-Simulacrum
This commit improves the suggestions provided when function parameters
do not have types:
- A new suggestion is added for arbitrary self types, which suggests
adding `self: ` before the type.
- Existing suggestions are now provided when a `<` is found where a `:`
was expected (previously only `,` and `)` or trait items), this gives
suggestions in the case where the unnamed parameter type is generic
in a free function.
- The suggestion that a type name be provided (e.g. `fn foo(HashMap<u32>)`
-> `fn foo(HashMap: TypeName<u32>)`) will no longer occur when a `<` was
found instead of `:`.
- The ident will not be used for recovery when a `<` was found instead
of `:`.
Signed-off-by: David Wood <david@davidtw.co>
This works just as you might expect - an 'extern const fn' is a 'const
fn' that is callable from foreign code.
Currently, panicking is not allowed in consts. When RFC 2345 is
stabilized, then panicking in an 'extern const fn' will produce a
compile-time error when invoked at compile time, and an abort when
invoked at runtime.
Since this is extending the language (we're allowing the `const` keyword
in a new context), I believe that this will need an FCP. However, it's a
very minor change, so I didn't think that filing an RFC was necessary.
This will allow libc (and other FFI crates) to make many functions
`const`, without having to give up on making them `extern` as well.
syntax: cleanup param, method, and misc parsing
Do some misc cleanup of the parser:
- Method and parameter parsing is refactored.
- A parser for `const | mut` is introduced that https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/64588 can reuse.
- Some other misc parsing.
Next up in a different PR:
- ~Implementing https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/64252.~ -- maybe some other time...
- Heavily restructuring up `item.rs` which is a mess (hopefully, no promises ^^).
r? @petrochenkov
A small amount of tidying-up factored out from PR #64648
As requested by @Mark-Simulacrum, I put this in a separate commit to make it easier to review. (As far as I can tell, no violations of the policy here, and they are simply in a separate PR because they're not directly related to the import of that PR.)
r? @Mark-Simulacrum
syntax: recover trailing `|` in or-patterns
Fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/64879.
For example (this also shows that we are sensitive to the typo `||`):
```
error: a trailing `|` is not allowed in an or-pattern
--> $DIR/remove-leading-vert.rs:33:11
|
LL | A || => {}
| - ^^ help: remove the `||`
| |
| while parsing this or-pattern starting here
|
= note: alternatives in or-patterns are separated with `|`, not `||`
```
r? @estebank
syntax: Support modern attribute syntax in the `meta` matcher
Where "modern" means https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/57367:
```
PATH
PATH `(` TOKEN_STREAM `)`
PATH `[` TOKEN_STREAM `]`
PATH `{` TOKEN_STREAM `}`
```
Unfortunately, `meta` wasn't future-proofed using the `FOLLOW` token set like other matchers (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/34011), so code like `$meta:meta {` or `$meta:meta [` may break, and we need a crater run to find out how often this happens in practice.
Closes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/49629 (by fully supporting `meta` rather than removing it.)
Mazdak Farrokhzad