Auto merge of #118420 - compiler-errors:async-gen, r=eholk

Introduce support for `async gen` blocks

I'm delighted to demonstrate that `async gen` block are not very difficult to support. They're simply coroutines that yield `Poll<Option<T>>` and return `()`.

**This PR is WIP and in draft mode for now** -- I'm mostly putting it up to show folks that it's possible. This PR needs a lang-team experiment associated with it or possible an RFC, since I don't think it falls under the jurisdiction of the `gen` RFC that was recently authored by oli (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3513, https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/117078).

### Technical note on the pre-generator-transform yield type:

The reason that the underlying coroutines yield `Poll<Option<T>>` and not `Poll<T>` (which would make more sense, IMO, for the pre-transformed coroutine), is because the `TransformVisitor` that is used to turn coroutines into built-in state machine functions would have to destructure and reconstruct the latter into the former, which requires at least inserting a new basic block (for a `switchInt` terminator, to match on the `Poll` discriminant).

This does mean that the desugaring (at the `rustc_ast_lowering` level) of `async gen` blocks is a bit more involved. However, since we already need to intercept both `.await` and `yield` operators, I don't consider it much of a technical burden.

r? `@ghost`

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/rustc_expand/src/build.rs b/compiler/rustc_expand/src/build.rs
index 853554b2dcd..86f555fa08b 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_expand/src/build.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_expand/src/build.rs
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ impl<'a> ExtCtxt<'a> {
                 binder: ast::ClosureBinder::NotPresent,
                 capture_clause: ast::CaptureBy::Ref,
                 constness: ast::Const::No,
-                coro_kind: None,
+                coroutine_kind: None,
                 movability: ast::Movability::Movable,
                 fn_decl,
                 body,