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+//! Candidate selection. See the [rustc dev guide] for more information on how this works.
+//!
+//! [rustc dev guide]: https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/traits/resolution.html#selection
+
+use self::EvaluationResult::*;
+
+use super::{SelectionError, SelectionResult};
+
+use crate::ty;
+
+use rustc_hir::def_id::DefId;
+use rustc_query_system::cache::Cache;
+
+pub type SelectionCache<'tcx> = Cache<
+    ty::ParamEnvAnd<'tcx, ty::TraitRef<'tcx>>,
+    SelectionResult<'tcx, SelectionCandidate<'tcx>>,
+>;
+
+pub type EvaluationCache<'tcx> =
+    Cache<ty::ParamEnvAnd<'tcx, ty::PolyTraitRef<'tcx>>, EvaluationResult>;
+
+/// The selection process begins by considering all impls, where
+/// clauses, and so forth that might resolve an obligation. Sometimes
+/// we'll be able to say definitively that (e.g.) an impl does not
+/// apply to the obligation: perhaps it is defined for `usize` but the
+/// obligation is for `i32`. In that case, we drop the impl out of the
+/// list. But the other cases are considered *candidates*.
+///
+/// For selection to succeed, there must be exactly one matching
+/// candidate. If the obligation is fully known, this is guaranteed
+/// by coherence. However, if the obligation contains type parameters
+/// or variables, there may be multiple such impls.
+///
+/// It is not a real problem if multiple matching impls exist because
+/// of type variables - it just means the obligation isn't sufficiently
+/// elaborated. In that case we report an ambiguity, and the caller can
+/// try again after more type information has been gathered or report a
+/// "type annotations needed" error.
+///
+/// However, with type parameters, this can be a real problem - type
+/// parameters don't unify with regular types, but they *can* unify
+/// with variables from blanket impls, and (unless we know its bounds
+/// will always be satisfied) picking the blanket impl will be wrong
+/// for at least *some* substitutions. To make this concrete, if we have
+///
+/// ```rust, ignore
+/// trait AsDebug { type Out: fmt::Debug; fn debug(self) -> Self::Out; }
+/// impl<T: fmt::Debug> AsDebug for T {
+///     type Out = T;
+///     fn debug(self) -> fmt::Debug { self }
+/// }
+/// fn foo<T: AsDebug>(t: T) { println!("{:?}", <T as AsDebug>::debug(t)); }
+/// ```
+///
+/// we can't just use the impl to resolve the `<T as AsDebug>` obligation
+/// -- a type from another crate (that doesn't implement `fmt::Debug`) could
+/// implement `AsDebug`.
+///
+/// Because where-clauses match the type exactly, multiple clauses can
+/// only match if there are unresolved variables, and we can mostly just
+/// report this ambiguity in that case. This is still a problem - we can't
+/// *do anything* with ambiguities that involve only regions. This is issue
+/// #21974.
+///
+/// If a single where-clause matches and there are no inference
+/// variables left, then it definitely matches and we can just select
+/// it.
+///
+/// In fact, we even select the where-clause when the obligation contains
+/// inference variables. The can lead to inference making "leaps of logic",
+/// for example in this situation:
+///
+/// ```rust, ignore
+/// pub trait Foo<T> { fn foo(&self) -> T; }
+/// impl<T> Foo<()> for T { fn foo(&self) { } }
+/// impl Foo<bool> for bool { fn foo(&self) -> bool { *self } }
+///
+/// pub fn foo<T>(t: T) where T: Foo<bool> {
+///     println!("{:?}", <T as Foo<_>>::foo(&t));
+/// }
+/// fn main() { foo(false); }
+/// ```
+///
+/// Here the obligation `<T as Foo<$0>>` can be matched by both the blanket
+/// impl and the where-clause. We select the where-clause and unify `$0=bool`,
+/// so the program prints "false". However, if the where-clause is omitted,
+/// the blanket impl is selected, we unify `$0=()`, and the program prints
+/// "()".
+///
+/// Exactly the same issues apply to projection and object candidates, except
+/// that we can have both a projection candidate and a where-clause candidate
+/// for the same obligation. In that case either would do (except that
+/// different "leaps of logic" would occur if inference variables are
+/// present), and we just pick the where-clause. This is, for example,
+/// required for associated types to work in default impls, as the bounds
+/// are visible both as projection bounds and as where-clauses from the
+/// parameter environment.
+#[derive(PartialEq, Eq, Debug, Clone, TypeFoldable)]
+pub enum SelectionCandidate<'tcx> {
+    BuiltinCandidate {
+        /// `false` if there are no *further* obligations.
+        has_nested: bool,
+    },
+    ParamCandidate(ty::ConstnessAnd<ty::PolyTraitRef<'tcx>>),
+    ImplCandidate(DefId),
+    AutoImplCandidate(DefId),
+
+    /// This is a trait matching with a projected type as `Self`, and we found
+    /// an applicable bound in the trait definition. The `usize` is an index
+    /// into the list returned by `tcx.item_bounds`.
+    ProjectionCandidate(usize),
+
+    /// Implementation of a `Fn`-family trait by one of the anonymous types
+    /// generated for a `||` expression.
+    ClosureCandidate,
+
+    /// Implementation of a `Generator` trait by one of the anonymous types
+    /// generated for a generator.
+    GeneratorCandidate,
+
+    /// Implementation of a `Fn`-family trait by one of the anonymous
+    /// types generated for a fn pointer type (e.g., `fn(int) -> int`)
+    FnPointerCandidate,
+
+    /// Builtin implementation of `DiscriminantKind`.
+    DiscriminantKindCandidate,
+
+    /// Builtin implementation of `Pointee`.
+    PointeeCandidate,
+
+    TraitAliasCandidate(DefId),
+
+    /// Matching `dyn Trait` with a supertrait of `Trait`. The index is the
+    /// position in the iterator returned by
+    /// `rustc_infer::traits::util::supertraits`.
+    ObjectCandidate(usize),
+
+    BuiltinObjectCandidate,
+
+    BuiltinUnsizeCandidate,
+}
+
+/// The result of trait evaluation. The order is important
+/// here as the evaluation of a list is the maximum of the
+/// evaluations.
+///
+/// The evaluation results are ordered:
+///     - `EvaluatedToOk` implies `EvaluatedToOkModuloRegions`
+///       implies `EvaluatedToAmbig` implies `EvaluatedToUnknown`
+///     - `EvaluatedToErr` implies `EvaluatedToRecur`
+///     - the "union" of evaluation results is equal to their maximum -
+///     all the "potential success" candidates can potentially succeed,
+///     so they are noops when unioned with a definite error, and within
+///     the categories it's easy to see that the unions are correct.
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, PartialOrd, Ord, PartialEq, Eq, HashStable)]
+pub enum EvaluationResult {
+    /// Evaluation successful.
+    EvaluatedToOk,
+    /// Evaluation successful, but there were unevaluated region obligations.
+    EvaluatedToOkModuloRegions,
+    /// Evaluation is known to be ambiguous -- it *might* hold for some
+    /// assignment of inference variables, but it might not.
+    ///
+    /// While this has the same meaning as `EvaluatedToUnknown` -- we can't
+    /// know whether this obligation holds or not -- it is the result we
+    /// would get with an empty stack, and therefore is cacheable.
+    EvaluatedToAmbig,
+    /// Evaluation failed because of recursion involving inference
+    /// variables. We are somewhat imprecise there, so we don't actually
+    /// know the real result.
+    ///
+    /// This can't be trivially cached for the same reason as `EvaluatedToRecur`.
+    EvaluatedToUnknown,
+    /// Evaluation failed because we encountered an obligation we are already
+    /// trying to prove on this branch.
+    ///
+    /// We know this branch can't be a part of a minimal proof-tree for
+    /// the "root" of our cycle, because then we could cut out the recursion
+    /// and maintain a valid proof tree. However, this does not mean
+    /// that all the obligations on this branch do not hold -- it's possible
+    /// that we entered this branch "speculatively", and that there
+    /// might be some other way to prove this obligation that does not
+    /// go through this cycle -- so we can't cache this as a failure.
+    ///
+    /// For example, suppose we have this:
+    ///
+    /// ```rust,ignore (pseudo-Rust)
+    /// pub trait Trait { fn xyz(); }
+    /// // This impl is "useless", but we can still have
+    /// // an `impl Trait for SomeUnsizedType` somewhere.
+    /// impl<T: Trait + Sized> Trait for T { fn xyz() {} }
+    ///
+    /// pub fn foo<T: Trait + ?Sized>() {
+    ///     <T as Trait>::xyz();
+    /// }
+    /// ```
+    ///
+    /// When checking `foo`, we have to prove `T: Trait`. This basically
+    /// translates into this:
+    ///
+    /// ```plain,ignore
+    /// (T: Trait + Sized →_\impl T: Trait), T: Trait ⊢ T: Trait
+    /// ```
+    ///
+    /// When we try to prove it, we first go the first option, which
+    /// recurses. This shows us that the impl is "useless" -- it won't
+    /// tell us that `T: Trait` unless it already implemented `Trait`
+    /// by some other means. However, that does not prevent `T: Trait`
+    /// does not hold, because of the bound (which can indeed be satisfied
+    /// by `SomeUnsizedType` from another crate).
+    //
+    // FIXME: when an `EvaluatedToRecur` goes past its parent root, we
+    // ought to convert it to an `EvaluatedToErr`, because we know
+    // there definitely isn't a proof tree for that obligation. Not
+    // doing so is still sound -- there isn't any proof tree, so the
+    // branch still can't be a part of a minimal one -- but does not re-enable caching.
+    EvaluatedToRecur,
+    /// Evaluation failed.
+    EvaluatedToErr,
+}
+
+impl EvaluationResult {
+    /// Returns `true` if this evaluation result is known to apply, even
+    /// considering outlives constraints.
+    pub fn must_apply_considering_regions(self) -> bool {
+        self == EvaluatedToOk
+    }
+
+    /// Returns `true` if this evaluation result is known to apply, ignoring
+    /// outlives constraints.
+    pub fn must_apply_modulo_regions(self) -> bool {
+        self <= EvaluatedToOkModuloRegions
+    }
+
+    pub fn may_apply(self) -> bool {
+        match self {
+            EvaluatedToOk | EvaluatedToOkModuloRegions | EvaluatedToAmbig | EvaluatedToUnknown => {
+                true
+            }
+
+            EvaluatedToErr | EvaluatedToRecur => false,
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn is_stack_dependent(self) -> bool {
+        match self {
+            EvaluatedToUnknown | EvaluatedToRecur => true,
+
+            EvaluatedToOk | EvaluatedToOkModuloRegions | EvaluatedToAmbig | EvaluatedToErr => false,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Indicates that trait evaluation caused overflow.
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, HashStable)]
+pub struct OverflowError;
+
+impl<'tcx> From<OverflowError> for SelectionError<'tcx> {
+    fn from(OverflowError: OverflowError) -> SelectionError<'tcx> {
+        SelectionError::Overflow
+    }
+}