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authorNicholas Nethercote <n.nethercote@gmail.com>2025-03-27 09:33:02 +1100
committerNicholas Nethercote <n.nethercote@gmail.com>2025-03-28 09:18:57 +1100
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Add `{ast,hir,thir}::PatKind::Missing` variants.
"Missing" patterns are possible in bare fn types (`fn f(u32)`) and
similar places. Currently these are represented in the AST with
`ast::PatKind::Ident` with no `by_ref`, no `mut`, an empty ident, and no
sub-pattern. This flows through to `{hir,thir}::PatKind::Binding` for
HIR and THIR.

This is a bit nasty. It's very non-obvious, and easy to forget to check
for the exceptional empty identifier case.

This commit adds a new variant, `PatKind::Missing`, to do it properly.

The process I followed:
- Add a `Missing` variant to `{ast,hir,thir}::PatKind`.
- Chang `parse_param_general` to produce `ast::PatKind::Missing`
  instead of `ast::PatKind::Missing`.
- Look through `kw::Empty` occurrences to find functions where an
  existing empty ident check needs replacing with a `PatKind::Missing`
  check: `print_param`, `check_trait_item`, `is_named_param`.
- Add a `PatKind::Missing => unreachable!(),` arm to every exhaustive
  match identified by the compiler.
- Find which arms are actually reachable by running the test suite,
  changing them to something appropriate, usually by looking at what
  would happen to a `PatKind::Ident`/`PatKind::Binding` with no ref, no
  `mut`, an empty ident, and no subpattern.

Quite a few of the `unreachable!()` arms were never reached. This makes
sense because `PatKind::Missing` can't happen in every pattern, only
in places like bare fn tys and trait fn decls.

I also tried an alternative approach: modifying `ast::Param::pat` to
hold an `Option<P<Pat>>` instead of a `P<Pat>`, but that quickly turned
into a very large and painful change. Adding `PatKind::Missing` is much
easier.
Diffstat (limited to 'compiler/rustc_ast_passes')
-rw-r--r--compiler/rustc_ast_passes/src/ast_validation.rs2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/rustc_ast_passes/src/ast_validation.rs b/compiler/rustc_ast_passes/src/ast_validation.rs
index a1487ca74be..ab6d4644f7e 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_ast_passes/src/ast_validation.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_ast_passes/src/ast_validation.rs
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ impl<'a> AstValidator<'a> {
     fn check_decl_no_pat(decl: &FnDecl, mut report_err: impl FnMut(Span, Option<Ident>, bool)) {
         for Param { pat, .. } in &decl.inputs {
             match pat.kind {
-                PatKind::Ident(BindingMode::NONE, _, None) | PatKind::Wild => {}
+                PatKind::Missing | PatKind::Ident(BindingMode::NONE, _, None) | PatKind::Wild => {}
                 PatKind::Ident(BindingMode::MUT, ident, None) => {
                     report_err(pat.span, Some(ident), true)
                 }