Rollup merge of #64005 - ecstatic-morse:is-indirect, r=oli-obk

Add a `Place::is_indirect` method to determine whether a `Place` contains a `Deref` projection

Working on #63860 requires tracking some property about each local. This requires differentiating `Place`s like `x` and `x.field[index]` from ones like `*x` and `*x.field`, since the first two will always access the same region of memory as `x` while the latter two may access any region of memory. This functionality is duplicated in various places across the compiler. This PR adds a helper method to `Place` which determines whether that `Place` has a `Deref` projection at any point and changes some existing code to use the new method.

I've not converted `qualify_consts.rs` to use the new method, since it's not a trivial conversion and it will get replaced anyway by #63860. There may be other potential uses besides the two I change in this PR.

r? @oli-obk

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/librustc/mir/mod.rs b/src/librustc/mir/mod.rs
index 5ac99ba1470..8956cbb2bae 100644
--- a/src/librustc/mir/mod.rs
+++ b/src/librustc/mir/mod.rs
@@ -1808,6 +1808,23 @@ pub enum ProjectionElem<V, T> {
     Downcast(Option<Symbol>, VariantIdx),
 }
 
+impl<V, T> ProjectionElem<V, T> {
+    /// Returns `true` if the target of this projection may refer to a different region of memory
+    /// than the base.
+    fn is_indirect(&self) -> bool {
+        match self {
+            Self::Deref => true,
+
+            | Self::Field(_, _)
+            | Self::Index(_)
+            | Self::ConstantIndex { .. }
+            | Self::Subslice { .. }
+            | Self::Downcast(_, _)
+            => false
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Alias for projections as they appear in places, where the base is a place
 /// and the index is a local.
 pub type PlaceElem<'tcx> = ProjectionElem<Local, Ty<'tcx>>;
@@ -1869,6 +1886,14 @@ impl<'tcx> Place<'tcx> {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Returns `true` if this `Place` contains a `Deref` projection.
+    ///
+    /// If `Place::is_indirect` returns false, the caller knows that the `Place` refers to the
+    /// same region of memory as its base.
+    pub fn is_indirect(&self) -> bool {
+        self.iterate(|_, mut projections| projections.any(|proj| proj.elem.is_indirect()))
+    }
+
     /// Finds the innermost `Local` from this `Place`, *if* it is either a local itself or
     /// a single deref of a local.
     //