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2015-07-23Rewrite the improper_ctypes lint.Eli Friedman-1/+1
Makes the lint a bit more accurate, and improves the quality of the diagnostic messages by explicitly returning an error message. The new lint is also a little more aggressive: specifically, it now rejects tuples, and it recurses into function pointers.
2015-07-21trans: Move rust_try into the compilerAlex Crichton-2/+4
This commit moves the IR files in the distribution, rust_try.ll, rust_try_msvc_64.ll, and rust_try_msvc_32.ll into the compiler from the main distribution. There's a few reasons for this change: * LLVM changes its IR syntax from time to time, so it's very difficult to have these files build across many LLVM versions simultaneously. We'll likely want to retain this ability for quite some time into the future. * The implementation of these files is closely tied to the compiler and runtime itself, so it makes sense to fold it into a location which can do more platform-specific checks for various implementation details (such as MSVC 32 vs 64-bit). * This removes LLVM as a build-time dependency of the standard library. This may end up becoming very useful if we move towards building the standard library with Cargo. In the immediate future, however, this commit should restore compatibility with LLVM 3.5 and 3.6.
2015-07-16trans: Clean up handling the LLVM data layoutAlex Crichton-0/+4
Turns out for OSX our data layout was subtly wrong and the LLVM update must have exposed this. Instead of fixing this I've removed all data layouts from the compiler to just use the defaults that LLVM provides for all targets. All data layouts (and a number of dead modules) are removed from the compiler here. Custom target specifications can still provide a custom data layout, but it is now an optional key as the default will be used if one isn't specified.
2015-07-16trans: Add kind to writeArchiveAlex Crichton-1/+14
Updates our LLVM bindings to be able to write out multiple kinds of archives. This commit also enables using LLVM instead of the system ar on all current targets.
2015-07-16rustc_trans: Update LLVMBuildLandingPad signatureAlex Crichton-6/+7
The C API of this function changed so it no longer takes a personality function. A shim was introduced to call the right LLVM function (depending on which version we're compiled against) to set the personality function on the outer function. The compiler only ever sets one personality function for all generated functions, so this should be equivalent.
2015-07-10trans: Use LLVM's writeArchive to modify archivesAlex Crichton-28/+53
We have previously always relied upon an external tool, `ar`, to modify archives that the compiler produces (staticlibs, rlibs, etc). This approach, however, has a number of downsides: * Spawning a process is relatively expensive for small compilations * Encoding arguments across process boundaries often incurs unnecessary overhead or lossiness. For example `ar` has a tough time dealing with files that have the same name in archives, and the compiler copies many files around to ensure they can be passed to `ar` in a reasonable fashion. * Most `ar` programs found do **not** have the ability to target arbitrary platforms, so this is an extra tool which needs to be found/specified when cross compiling. The LLVM project has had a tool called `llvm-ar` for quite some time now, but it wasn't available in the standard LLVM libraries (it was just a standalone program). Recently, however, in LLVM 3.7, this functionality has been moved to a library and is now accessible by consumers of LLVM via the `writeArchive` function. This commit migrates our archive bindings to no longer invoke `ar` by default but instead make a library call to LLVM to do various operations. This solves all of the downsides listed above: * Archive management is now much faster, for example creating a "hello world" staticlib is now 6x faster (50ms => 8ms). Linking dynamic libraries also recently started requiring modification of rlibs, and linking a hello world dynamic library is now 2x faster. * The compiler is now one step closer to "hassle free" cross compilation because no external tool is needed for managing archives, LLVM does the right thing! This commit does not remove support for calling a system `ar` utility currently. We will continue to maintain compatibility with LLVM 3.5 and 3.6 looking forward (so the system LLVM can be used wherever possible), and in these cases we must shell out to a system utility. All nightly builds of Rust, however, will stop needing a system `ar`.
2015-06-20Simplify argument forwarding in the various shim generatorsBjörn Steinbrink-0/+12
2015-06-18Auto merge of #26192 - alexcrichton:features-clean, r=aturonbors-1/+1
This commit shards the all-encompassing `core`, `std_misc`, `collections`, and `alloc` features into finer-grained components that are much more easily opted into and tracked. This reflects the effort to push forward current unstable APIs to either stabilization or removal. Keeping track of unstable features on a much more fine-grained basis will enable the library subteam to quickly analyze a feature and help prioritize internally about what APIs should be stabilized. A few assorted APIs were deprecated along the way, but otherwise this change is just changing the feature name associated with each API. Soon we will have a dashboard for keeping track of all the unstable APIs in the standard library, and I'll also start making issues for each unstable API after performing a first-pass for stabilization.
2015-06-18remove unused functions from trans and llvmOliver Schneider-12/+0
2015-06-17collections: Split the `collections` featureAlex Crichton-1/+1
This commit also deprecates the `as_string` and `as_slice` free functions in the `string` and `vec` modules.
2015-06-16rustc: Update LLVMAlex Crichton-1/+16
This commit updates the LLVM submodule in use to the current HEAD of the LLVM repository. This is primarily being done to start picking up unwinding support for MSVC, which is currently unimplemented in the revision of LLVM we are using. Along the way a few changes had to be made: * As usual, lots of C++ debuginfo bindings in LLVM changed, so there were some significant changes to our RustWrapper.cpp * As usual, some pass management changed in LLVM, so clang was re-scrutinized to ensure that we're doing the same thing as clang. * Some optimization options are now passed directly into the `PassManagerBuilder` instead of through CLI switches to LLVM. * The `NoFramePointerElim` option was removed from LLVM, favoring instead the `no-frame-pointer-elim` function attribute instead. Additionally, LLVM has picked up some new optimizations which required fixing an existing soundness hole in the IR we generate. It appears that the current LLVM we use does not expose this hole. When an enum is moved, the previous slot in memory is overwritten with a bit pattern corresponding to "dropped". When the drop glue for this slot is run, however, the switch on the discriminant can often start executing the `unreachable` block of the switch due to the discriminant now being outside the normal range. This was patched over locally for now by having the `unreachable` block just change to a `ret void`.
2015-06-09Auto merge of #25627 - murarth:execution-engine-fix, r=nrcbors-7/+1
* Removes `RustJITMemoryManager` from public API. This was really sort of an implementation detail to begin with. * `__morestack` is linked to C++ wrapper code and this pointer is used when resolving the symbol for `ExecutionEngine` code. * `__morestack_addr` is also resolved for `ExecutionEngine` code. This function is sometimes referenced in LLVM-generated code, but was not able to be resolved on Mac OS systems. * Added Windows support to `ExecutionEngine` API. * Added a test for basic `ExecutionEngine` functionality.
2015-06-08Changes to LLVM `ExecutionEngine` wrapperMurarth-7/+1
* Removes `RustJITMemoryManager` from public API. This was really sort of an implementation detail to begin with. * `__morestack` is linked to C++ wrapper code and this pointer is used when resolving the symbol for `ExecutionEngine` code. * `__morestack_addr` is also resolved for `ExecutionEngine` code. This function is sometimes referenced in LLVM-generated code, but was not able to be resolved on Mac OS systems. * Added Windows support to `ExecutionEngine` API. * Added a test for basic `ExecutionEngine` functionality.
2015-06-07rustc_trans: don't hardcode llvm version for conditional intrinsicsLuca Bruno-0/+2
This commit introduce a third parameter for compatible_ifn!, as new intrinsics are being added in recent LLVM releases and there is no need to hardcode a specific case. Signed-off-by: Luca Bruno <lucab@debian.org>
2015-05-20Auto merge of #25350 - alexcrichton:msvc, r=brsonbors-2/+19
Special thanks to @retep998 for the [excellent writeup](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1061) of tasks to be done and @ricky26 for initially blazing the trail here! # MSVC Support This goal of this series of commits is to add MSVC support to the Rust compiler and build system, allowing it more easily interoperate with Visual Studio installations and native libraries compiled outside of MinGW. The tl;dr; of this change is that there is a new target of the compiler, `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc`, which will not interact with the MinGW toolchain at all and will instead use `link.exe` to assemble output artifacts. ## Why try to use MSVC? With today's Rust distribution, when you install a compiler on Windows you also install `gcc.exe` and a number of supporting libraries by default (this can be opted out of). This allows installations to remain independent of MinGW installations, but it still generally requires native code to be linked with MinGW instead of MSVC. Some more background can also be found in #1768 about the incompatibilities between MinGW and MSVC. Overall the current installation strategy is quite nice so long as you don't interact with native code, but once you do the usage of a MinGW-based `gcc.exe` starts to get quite painful. Relying on a nonstandard Windows toolchain has also been a long-standing "code smell" of Rust and has been slated for remedy for quite some time now. Using a standard toolchain is a great motivational factor for improving the interoperability of Rust code with the native system. ## What does it mean to use MSVC? "Using MSVC" can be a bit of a nebulous concept, but this PR defines it as: * The build system for Rust will build as much code as possible with the MSVC compiler, `cl.exe`. * The build system will use native MSVC tools for managing archives. * The compiler will link all output with `link.exe` instead of `gcc.exe`. None of these are currently implemented today, but all are required for the compiler to fluently interoperate with MSVC. ## How does this all work? At the highest level, this PR adds a new target triple to the Rust compiler: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc All logic for using MSVC or not is scoped within this triple and code can conditionally build for MSVC or MinGW via: #[cfg(target_env = "msvc")] It is expected that auto builders will be set up for MSVC-based compiles in addition to the existing MinGW-based compiles, and we will likely soon start shipping MSVC nightlies where `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc` is the host target triple of the compiler. # Summary of changes Here I'll explain at a high level what many of the changes made were targeted at, but many more details can be found in the commits themselves. Many thanks to @retep998 for the excellent writeup in rust-lang/rfcs#1061 and @rick26 for a lot of the initial proof-of-concept work! ## Build system changes As is probably expected, a large chunk of this PR is changes to Rust's build system to build with MSVC. At a high level **it is an explicit non goal** to enable building outside of a MinGW shell, instead all Makefile infrastructure we have today is retrofitted with support to use MSVC instead of the standard MSVC toolchain. Some of the high-level changes are: * The configure script now detects when MSVC is being targeted and adds a number of additional requirements about the build environment: * The `--msvc-root` option must be specified or `cl.exe` must be in PATH to discover where MSVC is installed. The compiler in use is also required to target x86_64. * Once the MSVC root is known, the INCLUDE/LIB environment variables are scraped so they can be reexported by the build system. * CMake is required to build LLVM with MSVC (and LLVM is also configured with CMake instead of the normal configure script). * jemalloc is currently unconditionally disabled for MSVC targets as jemalloc isn't a hard requirement and I don't know how to build it with MSVC. * Invocations of a C and/or C++ compiler are now abstracted behind macros to appropriately call the underlying compiler with the correct format of arguments, for example there is now a macro for "assemble an archive from objects" instead of hard-coded invocations of `$(AR) crus liboutput.a ...` * The output filenames for standard libraries such as morestack/compiler-rt are now "more correct" on windows as they are shipped as `foo.lib` instead of `libfoo.a`. * Rust targets can now depend on native tools provided by LLVM, and as you'll see in the commits the entire MSVC target depends on `llvm-ar.exe`. * Support for custom arbitrary makefile dependencies of Rust targets has been added. The MSVC target for `rustc_llvm` currently requires a custom `.DEF` file to be passed to the linker to get further linkages to complete. ## Compiler changes The modifications made to the compiler have so far largely been minor tweaks here and there, mostly just adding a layer of abstraction over whether MSVC or a GNU-like linker is being used. At a high-level these changes are: * The section name for metadata storage in dynamic libraries is called `.rustc` for MSVC-based platorms as section names cannot contain more than 8 characters. * The implementation of `rustc_back::Archive` was refactored, but the functionality has remained the same. * Targets can now specify the default `ar` utility to use, and for MSVC this defaults to `llvm-ar.exe` * The building of the linker command in `rustc_trans::back::link` has been abstracted behind a trait for the same code path to be used between GNU and MSVC linkers. ## Standard library changes Only a few small changes were required to the stadnard library itself, and only for minor differences between the C runtime of msvcrt.dll and MinGW's libc.a * Some function names for floating point functions have leading underscores, and some are not present at all. * Linkage to the `advapi32` library for crypto-related functions is now explicit. * Some small bits of C code here and there were fixed for compatibility with MSVC's cl.exe compiler. # Future Work This commit is not yet a 100% complete port to using MSVC as there are still some key components missing as well as some unimplemented optimizations. This PR is already getting large enough that I wanted to draw the line here, but here's a list of what is not implemented in this PR, on purpose: ## Unwinding The revision of our LLVM submodule [does not seem to implement][llvm] does not support lowering SEH exception handling on the Windows MSVC targets, so unwinding support is not currently implemented for the standard library (it's lowered to an abort). [llvm]: https://github.com/rust-lang/llvm/blob/rust-llvm-2015-02-19/lib/CodeGen/Passes.cpp#L454-L461 It looks like, however, that upstream LLVM has quite a bit more support for SEH unwinding and landing pads than the current revision we have, so adding support will likely just involve updating LLVM and then adding some shims of our own here and there. ## dllimport and dllexport An interesting part of Windows which MSVC forces our hand on (and apparently MinGW didn't) is the usage of `dllimport` and `dllexport` attributes in LLVM IR as well as native dependencies (in C these correspond to `__declspec(dllimport)`). Whenever a dynamic library is built by MSVC it must have its public interface specified by functions tagged with `dllexport` or otherwise they're not available to be linked against. This poses a few problems for the compiler, some of which are somewhat fundamental, but this commit alters the compiler to attach the `dllexport` attribute to all LLVM functions that are reachable (e.g. they're already tagged with external linkage). This is suboptimal for a few reasons: * If an object file will never be included in a dynamic library, there's no need to attach the dllexport attribute. Most object files in Rust are not destined to become part of a dll as binaries are statically linked by default. * If the compiler is emitting both an rlib and a dylib, the same source object file is currently used but with MSVC this may be less feasible. The compiler may be able to get around this, but it may involve some invasive changes to deal with this. The flipside of this situation is that whenever you link to a dll and you import a function from it, the import should be tagged with `dllimport`. At this time, however, the compiler does not emit `dllimport` for any declarations other than constants (where it is required), which is again suboptimal for even more reasons! * Calling a function imported from another dll without using `dllimport` causes the linker/compiler to have extra overhead (one `jmp` instruction on x86) when calling the function. * The same object file may be used in different circumstances, so a function may be imported from a dll if the object is linked into a dll, but it may be just linked against if linked into an rlib. * The compiler has no knowledge about whether native functions should be tagged dllimport or not. For now the compiler takes the perf hit (I do not have any numbers to this effect) by marking very little as `dllimport` and praying the linker will take care of everything. Fixing this problem will likely require adding a few attributes to Rust itself (feature gated at the start) and then strongly recommending static linkage on Windows! This may also involve shipping a statically linked compiler on Windows instead of a dynamically linked compiler, but these sorts of changes are pretty invasive and aren't part of this PR. ## CI integration Thankfully we don't need to set up a new snapshot bot for the changes made here as our snapshots are freestanding already, we should be able to use the same snapshot to bootstrap both MinGW and MSVC compilers (once a new snapshot is made from these changes). I plan on setting up a new suite of auto bots which are testing MSVC configurations for now as well, for now they'll just be bootstrapping and not running tests, but once unwinding is implemented they'll start running all tests as well and we'll eventually start gating on them as well. --- I'd love as many eyes on this as we've got as this was one of my first interactions with MSVC and Visual Studio, so there may be glaring holes that I'm missing here and there! cc @retep998, @ricky26, @vadimcn, @klutzy r? @brson
2015-05-19rustc_llvm: Don't export constants across dllsAlex Crichton-1/+1
For imports of constants across DLLs to work on Windows it *requires* that the import be marked with `dllimport` (unlike functions where the marker is optional, but strongly recommended). This currently isn't working for importing FFI constants across boundaries, however, so the one constant exported from `rustc_llvm.dll` is now a function to be called instead.
2015-05-15libs: Move favicon URLs to HTTPSAlex Crichton-1/+1
Helps prevent mixed content warnings if accessing docs over HTTPS. Closes #25459
2015-05-12rustc_llvm: Expose setting more DLL storage classesAlex Crichton-1/+18
Currently only `dllexport` is used, but more integration will require using `dllimport` as well.
2015-05-12Scale back changes madeAlex Crichton-14/+0
2015-05-12Very hacky MSVC hacks.Ricky Taylor-0/+14
Conflicts: mk/platform.mk src/librustc/session/config.rs src/librustc_back/target/aarch64_apple_ios.rs src/librustc_back/target/aarch64_linux_android.rs src/librustc_back/target/arm_linux_androideabi.rs src/librustc_back/target/arm_unknown_linux_gnueabi.rs src/librustc_back/target/arm_unknown_linux_gnueabihf.rs src/librustc_back/target/armv7_apple_ios.rs src/librustc_back/target/armv7s_apple_ios.rs src/librustc_back/target/i386_apple_ios.rs src/librustc_back/target/i686_apple_darwin.rs src/librustc_back/target/i686_pc_windows_gnu.rs src/librustc_back/target/i686_unknown_dragonfly.rs src/librustc_back/target/i686_unknown_linux_gnu.rs src/librustc_back/target/mips_unknown_linux_gnu.rs src/librustc_back/target/mipsel_unknown_linux_gnu.rs src/librustc_back/target/mod.rs src/librustc_back/target/powerpc_unknown_linux_gnu.rs src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_apple_darwin.rs src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_apple_ios.rs src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_pc_windows_gnu.rs src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_unknown_dragonfly.rs src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_unknown_freebsd.rs src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu.rs src/librustc_back/target/x86_64_unknown_openbsd.rs src/librustc_llvm/lib.rs src/librustc_trans/back/link.rs src/librustc_trans/trans/base.rs src/libstd/os.rs src/rustllvm/RustWrapper.cpp
2015-05-05Don't repeat `Attribute` in the const namesTamir Duberstein-26/+26
2015-04-29rollup merge of #24921: tamird/bitflags-associated-constAlex Crichton-23/+24
Conflicts: src/librustc/lib.rs
2015-04-29rollup merge of #24833: tari/rfc888Alex Crichton-1/+11
Closes #24118, implementing RFC 888.
2015-04-29FalloutTamir Duberstein-23/+24
2015-04-28Register new snapshotsTamir Duberstein-2/+0
2015-04-25Add singlethreaded fence intrinsics.Peter Marheine-1/+11
These new intrinsics are comparable to `atomic_signal_fence` in C++, ensuring the compiler will not reorder memory accesses across the barrier, nor will it emit any machine instructions for it. Closes #24118, implementing RFC 888.
2015-04-21rollup merge of #24635: tamird/llvm-3.5Alex Crichton-2/+0
r? @alexcrichton
2015-04-21rustc: Handle duplicate names merging archivesAlex Crichton-18/+71
When linking an archive statically to an rlib, the compiler will extract all contents of the archive and add them all to the rlib being generated. The current method of extraction is to run `ar x`, dumping all files into a temporary directory. Object archives, however, are allowed to have multiple entries with the same file name, so there is no method for them to extract their contents into a directory in a lossless fashion. This commit adds iterator support to the `ArchiveRO` structure which hooks into LLVM's support for reading object archives. This iterator is then used to inspect each object in turn and extract it to a unique location for later assembly.
2015-04-21LLVM < 3.5 is unsupported since bb18a3cTamir Duberstein-2/+0
2015-04-03Implement LLVMGetOrInsertGlobal wrapperSimonas Kazlauskas-0/+1
2015-04-03Extract attribute handling code into a moduleSimonas Kazlauskas-1/+2
This commit causes no change in trans semantics, it just moves some functions around and deduplicates them.
2015-04-03Wrap LLVM’s Module::getNamedValueSimonas Kazlauskas-0/+1
2015-04-01Fallout out rustcNiko Matsakis-25/+24
2015-03-31rollup merge of #23863: pnkfelix/arith-oflo-const-evalAlex Crichton-0/+1
const_eval : add overflow-checking for {`+`, `-`, `*`, `/`, `<<`, `>>`}. One tricky detail here: There is some duplication of labor between `rustc::middle::const_eval` and `rustc_trans::trans::consts`. It might be good to explore ways to try to factor out the common structure to the two passes (by abstracting over the particular value-representation used in the compile-time interpreter). ---- Update: Rebased atop #23841 Fix #22531 Fix #23030 Fix #23221 Fix #23235
2015-04-01rust_llvm: Add way to reflectively ask if a ValueRef is a known constant int.Felix S. Klock II-0/+1
Add option-returning variants to `const_to_int`/`const_to_uint` that never assert fail. (These will be used for overflow checking from rustc_trans::trans::consts.)
2015-03-31Test fixes and rebase conflicts, round 2Alex Crichton-1/+0
2015-03-31std: Clean out #[deprecated] APIsAlex Crichton-3/+4
This commit cleans out a large amount of deprecated APIs from the standard library and some of the facade crates as well, updating all users in the compiler and in tests as it goes along.
2015-03-27rollup merge of #23741: alexcrichton/remove-int-uintAlex Crichton-9/+8
Conflicts: src/librustc/middle/ty.rs src/librustc_trans/trans/adt.rs src/librustc_typeck/check/mod.rs src/libserialize/json.rs src/test/run-pass/spawn-fn.rs
2015-03-27Change the trivial cast lints to allow by defaultNick Cameron-1/+0
2015-03-26Mass rename uint/int to usize/isizeAlex Crichton-9/+8
Now that support has been removed, all lingering use cases are renamed.
2015-03-25Change lint names to pluralsNick Cameron-2/+2
2015-03-25Add trivial cast lints.Nick Cameron-0/+2
This permits all coercions to be performed in casts, but adds lints to warn in those cases. Part of this patch moves cast checking to a later stage of type checking. We acquire obligations to check casts as part of type checking where we previously checked them. Once we have type checked a function or module, then we check any cast obligations which have been acquired. That means we have more type information available to check casts (this was crucial to making coercions work properly in place of some casts), but it means that casts cannot feed input into type inference. [breaking change] * Adds two new lints for trivial casts and trivial numeric casts, these are warn by default, but can cause errors if you build with warnings as errors. Previously, trivial numeric casts and casts to trait objects were allowed. * The unused casts lint has gone. * Interactions between casting and type inference have changed in subtle ways. Two ways this might manifest are: - You may need to 'direct' casts more with extra type information, for example, in some cases where `foo as _ as T` succeeded, you may now need to specify the type for `_` - Casts do not influence inference of integer types. E.g., the following used to type check: ``` let x = 42; let y = &x as *const u32; ``` Because the cast would inform inference that `x` must have type `u32`. This no longer applies and the compiler will fallback to `i32` for `x` and thus there will be a type error in the cast. The solution is to add more type information: ``` let x: u32 = 42; let y = &x as *const u32; ```
2015-03-14Auto merge of #23333 - oli-obk:slice_from_raw_parts, r=alexcrichtonbors-12/+4
at least that's what the docs say: http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/slice/fn.from_raw_parts.html A few situations got prettier. In some situations the mutability of the resulting and source pointers differed (and was cast away by transmute), the mutability matches now.
2015-03-13slice::from_raw_parts is preferred over transmuting a fresh raw::SliceOliver Schneider-12/+4
2015-03-12Stabilize std::pathAaron Turon-1/+0
This commit stabilizes essentially all of the new `std::path` API. The API itself is changed in a couple of ways (which brings it in closer alignment with the RFC): * `.` components are now normalized away, unless they appear at the start of a path. This in turn effects the semantics of e.g. asking for the file name of `foo/` or `foo/.`, both of which yield `Some("foo")` now. This semantics is what the original RFC specified, and is also desirable given early experience rolling out the new API. * The `parent` function now succeeds if, and only if, the path has at least one non-root/prefix component. This change affects `pop` as well. * The `Prefix` component now involves a separate `PrefixComponent` struct, to better allow for keeping both parsed and unparsed prefix data. In addition, the `old_path` module is now deprecated. Closes #23264 [breaking-change]
2015-03-06Test fixes and rebase conflictsAlex Crichton-1/+1
2015-03-06Rollup merge of #23056 - awlnx:master, r=nrcManish Goregaokar-0/+2
2015-03-05fix for new attributes failing. issue #22964awlnx-0/+2
2015-03-04std: Deprecate std::old_io::fsAlex Crichton-3/+15
This commit deprecates the majority of std::old_io::fs in favor of std::fs and its new functionality. Some functions remain non-deprecated but are now behind a feature gate called `old_fs`. These functions will be deprecated once suitable replacements have been implemented. The compiler has been migrated to new `std::fs` and `std::path` APIs where appropriate as part of this change.
2015-02-18rollup merge of #22482: alexcrichton/cstr-changesAlex Crichton-3/+3
This commit is an implementation of [RFC 592][r592] and [RFC 840][r840]. These two RFCs tweak the behavior of `CString` and add a new `CStr` unsized slice type to the module. [r592]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0592-c-str-deref.md [r840]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0840-no-panic-in-c-string.md The new `CStr` type is only constructable via two methods: 1. By `deref`'ing from a `CString` 2. Unsafely via `CStr::from_ptr` The purpose of `CStr` is to be an unsized type which is a thin pointer to a `libc::c_char` (currently it is a fat pointer slice due to implementation limitations). Strings from C can be safely represented with a `CStr` and an appropriate lifetime as well. Consumers of `&CString` should now consume `&CStr` instead to allow producers to pass in C-originating strings instead of just Rust-allocated strings. A new constructor was added to `CString`, `new`, which takes `T: IntoBytes` instead of separate `from_slice` and `from_vec` methods (both have been deprecated in favor of `new`). The `new` method returns a `Result` instead of panicking. The error variant contains the relevant information about where the error happened and bytes (if present). Conversions are provided to the `io::Error` and `old_io::IoError` types via the `FromError` trait which translate to `InvalidInput`. This is a breaking change due to the modification of existing `#[unstable]` APIs and new deprecation, and more detailed information can be found in the two RFCs. Notable breakage includes: * All construction of `CString` now needs to use `new` and handle the outgoing `Result`. * Usage of `CString` as a byte slice now explicitly needs a `.as_bytes()` call. * The `as_slice*` methods have been removed in favor of just having the `as_bytes*` methods. Closes #22469 Closes #22470 [breaking-change]