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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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parent217693a1f02ca6431a434926ff3417bdb6dbac2e (diff)
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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_hir/src')
-rw-r--r--compiler/rustc_hir/src/hir.rs6
-rw-r--r--compiler/rustc_hir/src/intravisit.rs2
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/rustc_hir/src/hir.rs b/compiler/rustc_hir/src/hir.rs
index 751c379b21a..08e37accb8a 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_hir/src/hir.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_hir/src/hir.rs
@@ -1516,6 +1516,7 @@ impl<'hir> Pat<'hir> {
 
         use PatKind::*;
         match self.kind {
+            Missing => unreachable!(),
             Wild | Never | Expr(_) | Range(..) | Binding(.., None) | Err(_) => true,
             Box(s) | Deref(s) | Ref(s, _) | Binding(.., Some(s)) | Guard(s, _) => s.walk_short_(it),
             Struct(_, fields, _) => fields.iter().all(|field| field.pat.walk_short_(it)),
@@ -1543,7 +1544,7 @@ impl<'hir> Pat<'hir> {
 
         use PatKind::*;
         match self.kind {
-            Wild | Never | Expr(_) | Range(..) | Binding(.., None) | Err(_) => {}
+            Missing | Wild | Never | Expr(_) | Range(..) | Binding(.., None) | Err(_) => {}
             Box(s) | Deref(s) | Ref(s, _) | Binding(.., Some(s)) | Guard(s, _) => s.walk_(it),
             Struct(_, fields, _) => fields.iter().for_each(|field| field.pat.walk_(it)),
             TupleStruct(_, s, _) | Tuple(s, _) | Or(s) => s.iter().for_each(|p| p.walk_(it)),
@@ -1681,6 +1682,9 @@ pub enum TyPatKind<'hir> {
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, HashStable_Generic)]
 pub enum PatKind<'hir> {
+    /// A missing pattern, e.g. for an anonymous param in a bare fn like `fn f(u32)`.
+    Missing,
+
     /// Represents a wildcard pattern (i.e., `_`).
     Wild,
 
diff --git a/compiler/rustc_hir/src/intravisit.rs b/compiler/rustc_hir/src/intravisit.rs
index 506358341b5..ea3f396761b 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_hir/src/intravisit.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_hir/src/intravisit.rs
@@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ pub fn walk_pat<'v, V: Visitor<'v>>(visitor: &mut V, pattern: &'v Pat<'v>) -> V:
             visit_opt!(visitor, visit_pat_expr, lower_bound);
             visit_opt!(visitor, visit_pat_expr, upper_bound);
         }
-        PatKind::Never | PatKind::Wild | PatKind::Err(_) => (),
+        PatKind::Missing | PatKind::Never | PatKind::Wild | PatKind::Err(_) => (),
         PatKind::Slice(prepatterns, ref slice_pattern, postpatterns) => {
             walk_list!(visitor, visit_pat, prepatterns);
             visit_opt!(visitor, visit_pat, slice_pattern);