@objc actors implicitly inherit from the new, hidden
`SwiftNativeNSObject` class that inherits from `NSObject` yet provides
Swift-native reference counting, which is important for the actor
runtime's handling of zombies. However, `SwiftNativeNSObject` is only
available in the Swift runtime in newer OS versions (e.g., macOS
12.0/iOS 15.0), and is available in the back-deployed _Concurrency
library, but there is no stable place to link against for
back-deployed code. Tricky, tricky.
When back-deploying @objc actors, record `NSObject` as the superclass
in the metadata in the binary, because we cannot reference
`SwiftNativeNSObject`. Then, emit a static initializer to
dynamically look up `SwiftNativeNSObject` by name (which will find it
in either the back-deployment library, on older systems, or in the
runtime for newer systems), then swizzle that in as the superclass of
the @objc actor.
Fixes rdar://83919973.
Allow an actor to be exposed to Objective-C via `@objc` without
inheriting from `NSObject`, and remove the loophole that allowed
actors to inherit from `NSObject`.
Fixes rdar://78333614
The backs out of some early decisions we made about actor layout
that we don't need. Custom actors will use a different approach.
This should suffice for the remainder of rdar://70146827.
This patch updates the `actor class` spelling to `actor` in almost all
of the tests. There are places where I verify that we sanely handle
`actor` as an attribute though. These include:
- test/decl/class/actor/basic.swift
- test/decl/protocol/special/Actor.swift
- test/SourceKit/CursorInfo/cursor_info_concurrency.swift
- test/attr/attr_objc_async.swift
- test/ModuleInterface/actor_protocol.swift
Since these types have an implicit stored property, this requires
adding an abstraction over fields to IRGen, at least throughout
the class code. In some ways I think this significantly improves
the code, especially in how we approach missing members.
Fixes rdar://72202671.
It would be more abstractly correct if this got DI support so
that we destroy the member if the constructor terminates
abnormally, but we can get to that later.
of adding a property.
This better matches what the actual implementation expects,
and it avoids some possibilities of weird mismatches. However,
it also requires special-case initialization, destruction, and
dynamic-layout support, none of which I've added yet.
In order to get NSObject default actor subclasses to use Swift
refcounting (and thus avoid the need for the default actor runtime
to generally use ObjC refcounting), I've had to introduce a
SwiftNativeNSObject which we substitute as the superclass when
inheriting directly from NSObject. This is something we could
do in all NSObject subclasses; for now, I'm just doing it in
actors, although it's all actors and not just default actors.
We are not yet taking advantage of our special knowledge of this
class anywhere except the reference-counting code.
I went around in circles exploring a number of alternatives for
doing this; at one point I basically had a completely parallel
"ForImplementation" superclass query. That proved to be a lot
of added complexity and created more problems than it solved.
We also don't *really* get any benefit from this subclassing
because there still wouldn't be a consistent superclass for all
actors. So instead it's very ad-hoc.
