We used to give witness thunks public linkage if the
conforming type and the protocol are public.
This is completely unnecessary. If the conformance is
fragile, the thunk should be [shared] [serialized],
allowing the thunk to be serialized into callers after
devirtualization.
Otherwise for private protocols or resilient modules,
witness thunks can just always be private.
This should reduce the size of compiled binaries.
There are two other mildly interesting consequences:
1) In the bridged cast tests, we now inline the witness
thunks from the bridgeable conformances, which removes
one level of indirection.
2) This uncovered a flaw in our accessibility checking
model. Usually, we reject a witness that is less
visible than the protocol; however, we fail to
reject it in the case that it comes from an
extension.
This is because members of an extension can be
declared 'public' even if the extended type is not
public, and it appears that in this case the 'public'
keyword has no effect.
I would prefer it if a) 'public' generated a warning
here, and b) the conformance also generated a warning.
In Swift 4 mode, we could then make this kind of
sillyness into an error. But for now, live with the
broken behavior, and add a test to exercise it to ensure
we don't crash.
There are other places where this "allow public but
ignore it, kinda, except respect it in some places"
behavior causes problems. I don't know if it was intentional
or just emergent behavior from general messiness in Sema.
3) In the TBD code, there is one less 'failure' because now
that witness thunks are no longer public, TBDGen does not
need to reason about them (except for the case #2 above,
which will probably require a similar workaround in TBDGen
as what I put into SILGen).
Use the generic type lowering algorithm described in
"docs/CallingConvention.rst#physical-lowering" to map from IRGen's explosion
type to the type expected by the ABI.
Change IRGen to use the swift calling convention (swiftcc) for native swift
functions.
Use the 'swiftself' attribute on self parameters and for closures contexts.
Use the 'swifterror' parameter for swift error parameters.
Change functions in the runtime that are called as native swift functions to use
the swift calling convention.
rdar://19978563
It now detects more opportunities for inlining, like some patters with RC instructions or loads/stores from/to stack locations in the caller.
On the other hand a new shortest path analysis limits inlining to those cases where it really gives a benefit.
As the inlining decision now depends on many parameters, the test-threshhold option is removed because it doe not make much sense anymore.
Instead the inliner test files are modified to model the "real" instruction costs.
