Within the (single) implementation of abs(_:), dynamically check whether
the numeric type and its `Magnitude` are of the same type and, if so,
return the result of `magnitude`. This ensures that we do the right thing
with respect to (e.g.) floating point values like -0.0, without resorting
to overloading of abs(_:).
The standard library has two versions of the `abs(_:)` function:
```
func abs<T : SignedNumeric>(_ x: T) -> T where T.Magnitude == T
func abs<T : SignedNumeric & Comparable>(_ x: T) -> T
```
The first is more specialized than the second because `T.Magnitude` is
known to conform to `Comparable`. Indeed, it’s a more specialized
implementation that returns `magnitude`.
However, this overload behaves oddly: in the expression `abs(-8)`, the type
checker will pick the first overload because it is more specialized. That’s
a general guiding principle for overloading: pick the most specialized
overload that works.
However, to select that overload, it needs to pick a type for the literal
“8” for which that overload works, and it chooses `Double`. The “obvious”
answer, `Int`, doesn’t work because `Int.Magnitude == UInt`.
There is a conflict between the two rules, here: we prefer more-specialized
overloads (but we’ll fall back to less-specialized if those don’t work) and we prefer to use `Int` for integer literals (but we’ll fall back to `Double` if it doesn’t work). We have a few options from a type-checker
perspective:
1. Consider the more-specialized-function rule to be more important
2. Consider the integer-literals-prefer-`Int` rule to be more important
3. Call the result ambiguous and make the user annotate it
The type checker currently does #1, although at some point in the past it
did #2. Moving forward, #1 is a better choice because it prunes the number
of overloads that need to be considered: if the more-specialized overload
succeeds its type-check, the others need not be considered. It’s also
easier to reason about than the literal-scoring approach, because there can
be a direct definition for “more specialized than” that can be reasoned
about.
I think we should dodge the issue by removing the more-specialized version
of `abs(_:)`. Its use of `magnitude` seems unlikely to provide a
significant performance benefit, and the presence of overloading either
forces us to consider both overloads always (which is bad for type checker
performance) or accept the regression that `abs(-8)` is `Double`. Better
to eliminate the overloading and, if needed in the future, find a better
way to introduce the more-specialized implementation without it being a
separate signature.
Fixes rdar://problem/42345366.
Implements SE-0229.
Also updates simd module types in the Apple SDKs to use the new types, and updates a couple tests to work with the new types and protocols.
_dynamicCastToAnyHashable assumed that _swift_convertToAnyHashableIndirect takes its argument at +1, but that is no longer the case.
rdar://problem/44686587
When a (file)private entity occurs inside a generic context, we still need
information about the genericity of the enclosing context to demangle
to metadata. Emit complete context descriptors for parents of anonymous
contexts.
Fixes rdar://problem/46109026.
Since FileCheck does not know anything about the `#if` blocks in the
code, it tries to match the expected string against the output that is
simply never produced.
Solving this by giving it an expected string even on the architectures
that don't provide Float80.
Fixes <rdar://problem/45654446>
The patched +[NSBundle bundleForClass:] crashes on Nil, while the original Foundation implementation returns the main bundle. Avoid the crash and pass Nil through to Foundation. This also ensures that Nil is passed through to class_getImageName rather than crashing.
SR-9188 rdar://problem/45849924
Android differs in subtle ways from Linux. For example sem_open is
completely unimplemented, and always returns ENOSYS. None of the
test using sem_open were going to work.
Additionally the l_len field of the flock struct is typed as
__kernel_off_t, which doesn't have the same size as off_t.
Finally, the current working directory is always /, so creating
relative files will fail. We have to find the executable directory
and create the file there.
* Refactor out RRC implementation into dedicated file.
* Change our `_invariantCheck` pattern to generate efficient code in
asserts builds and make the optimizer job's easier.
* Drop a few Bidi shims we no longer need.
* Restore View decls to String, workaround no longer needed
* Cleaner unicode helper facilities
