This reduces the time taken to run
`rustc -Zparse-only rustc-benchmarks/issue-32278-big-array-of-strings`
from 0.18s to 0.15s on my machine, and reduces the number of
instructions (as measured by Cachegrind) from 1.34B to 1.01B.
With the change applied, the time to fully compile that benchmark is
1.96s, so this is a 1.5% improvement.
Refactor `PathListItem`s
This refactors away variant `Mod` of `ast::PathListItemKind` and refactors the remaining variant `Ident` to a struct `ast::PathListItem_`.
We want to catch this error:
```
if (foo)
bar;
```
as it's valid syntax in other languages, and say how to fix it.
Unfortunately it didn't care if the suggestion made sense and just
highlighted the unexpected token.
Now it attempts to parse a statement, and if it succeeds, it shows the
help message.
Fixes#35907
Specific error message for missplaced doc comments
Identify when documetation comments have been missplaced in the following places:
* After a struct element:
```rust
// file.rs:
struct X {
a: u8 /** document a */,
}
```
```bash
$ rustc file.rs
file.rs:2:11: 2:28 error: found documentation comment that doesn't
document anything
file.rs:2 a: u8 /** document a */,
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
file.rs:2:11: 2:28 help: doc comments must come before what they document,
maybe a comment was intended with `//`?
```
* As the last line of a struct:
```rust
// file.rs:
struct X {
a: u8,
/// incorrect documentation
}
```
```bash
$ rustc file.rs
file.rs:3:5: 3:27 error: found a documentation comment that doesn't
document anything
file.rs:3 /// incorrect documentation
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
file.rs:3:5: 3:27 help: doc comments must come before what they document,
maybe a comment was intended with `//`?
```
* As the last line of a `fn`:
```rust
// file.rs:
fn main() {
let x = 1;
/// incorrect documentation
}
```
```bash
$ rustc file.rs
file.rs:3:5: 3:27 error: found a documentation comment that doesn't
document anything
file.rs:3 /// incorrect documentation
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
file.rs:3:5: 3:27 help: doc comments must come before what they document,
maybe a comment was intended with `//`?
```
Fix#27429, #30322
Implement the `!` type
This implements the never type (`!`) and hides it behind the feature gate `#[feature(never_type)]`. With the feature gate off, things should build as normal (although some error messages may be different). With the gate on, `!` is usable as a type and diverging type variables (ie. types that are unconstrained by anything in the code) will default to `!` instead of `()`.
macros: fix bug in `stmt` matchers
Today, `stmt` matchers stop too early when parsing expression statements that begin with non-braced macro invocations. For example,
```rust
fn main() {
macro_rules! m { ($s:stmt;) => { $s } }
id!(vec![].push(0););
//^ Before this PR, the `stmt` matcher only consumes "vec![]", so this is an error.
//| After this PR, the `stmt` matcher consumes "vec![].push(0)", so this compiles.
}
```
This change is backwards compatible due to the follow set for `stmt`.
r? @eddyb
Added tokenstream parser procedure
A tiny PR that simply adds a procedure for parsing `TokenStream`s to the parser in `src/libsyntax`. This is to ease using `TokenStream`s with the current (old) procedural macro system.
Simplify librustc_errors
This is part 2 of the error crate refactor, starting with #34403.
In this refactor, I focused on slimming down the error crate to fewer moving parts. As such, I've removed quite a few parts and replaced the with simpler, straight-line code. Specifically, this PR:
* Removes BasicEmitter
* Remove emit from emitter, leaving emit_struct
* Renames emit_struct to emit
* Removes CoreEmitter and focuses on a single Emitter
* Implements the latest changes to error format RFC (#1644)
* Removes (now-unused) code in emitter.rs and snippet.rs
* Moves more tests to the UI tester, removing some duplicate tests in the process
There is probably more that could be done with some additional refactoring, but this felt like it was getting to a good state.
r? @alexcrichton cc: @Manishearth (as there may be breaking changes in stuff I removed/changed)
Better error message for inner attribute following doc comment
Before it was always just "an inner attribute is not permitted in this context", whereas now we add a special case for when an inner attr follows an outer attr. If the outer attr is a doc comment, then the error is "an inner attr is not permitted following a doc comment", and otherwise it's "an inner attr is not permitted following an outer attribute". In all other cases it's still "an inner attribute is not permitted in this context".
Note that the public API and behaviour of `parse_attribute` is unchanged. Also, all new names are very open to bikeshedding -- they're arguably clunky.
Fixes#34516. cc @brson
Simplify the macro hygiene algorithm
This PR removes renaming from the hygiene algorithm and treats differently marked identifiers as unequal.
This change makes the scope of identifiers in `macro_rules!` items empty. That is, identifiers in `macro_rules!` definitions do not inherit any semantics from the `macro_rules!`'s scope.
Since `macro_rules!` macros are items, the scope of their identifiers "should" be the same as that of other items; in particular, the scope should contain only items. Since all items are unhygienic today, this would mean the scope should be empty.
However, the scope of an identifier in a `macro_rules!` statement today is the scope that the identifier would have if it replaced the `macro_rules!` (excluding anything unhygienic, i.e. locals only).
To continue to support this, this PR tracks the scope of each `macro_rules!` and uses it in `resolve` to ensure that an identifier expanded from a `macro_rules!` gets a chance to resolve to the locals in the `macro_rules!`'s scope.
This PR is a pure refactoring. After this PR,
- `syntax::ext::expand` is much simpler.
- We can expand macros in any order without causing problems for hygiene (needed for macro modularization).
- We can deprecate or remove today's `macro_rules!` scope easily.
- Expansion performance improves by 25%, post-expansion memory usage decreases by ~5%.
- Expanding a block is no longer quadratic in the number of `let` statements (fixes#10607).
r? @nrc
Tim Neumann