Without this change, SILGen will crash when compiling a use of the
derived protocol's requirement: it will instead attempt to use
the base protocol's requirement, but the code will have been
type-checked incorrectly for that.
This has a potential for source-compatibility impact if anyone's
using explicit override checking for their protocol requirements:
reasonable idioms like overriding a mutating requirement with a
non-mutating one will no longer count as an override. However,
this is arguably a bug-fix, because the current designed intent
of protocol override checking is to not allow any differences in
type, even "covariant" changes like making a mutating requirement
non-mutating. Moreover, we believe explicit override checking in
protocols is quite uncommon, so the overall compatibility impact
will be low.
This also has a potential for ABI impact whenever something that
was once an override becomes a non-override and thus requires a
new entry. It might require a contrived test case to demonstrate
that while using the derived entry, but it's quite possible to
imagine a situation where the derived entry is not used directly
but nonetheless has ABI impact.
Furthermore, as part of developing this patch (earlier versions of
which used stricter rules in places), I discovered a number of
places where the standard library was unintentionally introducing
a new requirement in a derived protocol when it intended only to
guide associated type deduction. Fixing that (as I have in this
patch) *definitely* has ABI impact.
