Encode default associated type witnesses using a sentinel prefix byte
(0xFF) in the mangled name rather than as a second low bit on the
reference. Align all of the mangled names used for type references to
2 bytes (so we get that low bit regardless) and separate the symbol
names for default associated type witnesses vs. other kinds of
metadata or reflection metadata.
Indicate whether a particular associated type witness is a default (whose
mangled name is relative to the protocol) vs. being supplied as part of the
conformance (whose mangled name is relative to the conforming type). The
use of pointer identity to distinguish these cases can fail due to the
coalescing of these linker symbols.
Associated type witnesses in a witness table are cache entries, which are
updated by the runtime when the associated types are first accessed. The
presence of an associated type witness that involves type parameters requires
the runtime to instantiate the witness table; account for that in the runtime.
The presence of any associated type witness makes the witness table
non-constant.
Rather than storing associated type metadata access functions in
witness tables, initially store a pointer to a mangled type name.
On first access, demangle that type name and replace the witness
table entry with the resulting type metadata.
This reduces the code size of protocol conformances, because we no
longer need to create associated type metadata access functions for
every associated type, and the mangled names are much smaller (and
sharable). The same code size improvements apply to defaulted
associated types for resilient protocols, although those are more
rare. Witness tables themselves are slightly smaller, because we
don’t need separate private entries in them to act as caches.
On the caller side, associated type metadata is always produced via
a call to swift_getAssociatedTypeWitness(), which handles the demangling
and caching behavior.
In all, this reduces the size of the standard library by ~70k. There
are additional code-size wins that are possible with follow-on work:
* We can stop emitting type metadata access functions for non-resilient
types that have constant metadata (like `Int`), because they’re only
currently used as associated type metadata access functions.
* We can stop emitting separate associated type reflection metadata,
because the reflection infrastructure can use these mangled names
directly.
Like we did for structs, make it so that tuple types can also get extra inhabitants from whichever element with the most, not only the first. This lets us move all of the extra inhabitant handling functionality between structs and tuples in IRGen up to the common RecordTypeInfo CRTP base.
Generic parameter references, which occur in generic requirement
metadata, were hardcoding associated type indices. Instead, use
relative references to associated type descriptors and perform the
index calculation at runtime.
Associated types can now be reordered resiliently (without relying on
sorting), which is the first main step toward rdar://problem/44167982.
Most of this patch is just removing special cases for materializeForSet
or other fairly mechanical replacements. Unfortunately, the rest is
still a fairly big change, and not one that can be easily split apart
because of the quite reasonable reliance on metaprogramming throughout
the compiler. And, of course, there are a bunch of test updates that
have to be sync'ed with the actual change to code-generation.
This is SR-7134.
Previously we would emit class metadata for classes with resilient
ancestry, and relocate it at runtime once the correct size was known.
However most of the fields were blank, so it makes more sense to
construct the metadata from scratch, and store the few bits that we
do need in a true-const pattern where we can use relative pointers.
Similar to the non-resilient case, except we also emit a 'relocation
function'. The class descriptor now contains this relocation function
if the class has resilient ancestry, and the relocation function
calls the runtime's swift_relocateClassMetadata() entry point.
The metadata completion function calls swift_initClassMetadata() and
does layout, just like the non-resilient case.
Fixes <rdar://problem/40810002>.
If a class has generic ancestry or resiliently-sized fields, but is
itself not generic and does not have resilient ancestry, we must
perform runtime metadata initialization, but we can initialize
the metadata in-place.
As with generic classes or classes with resilient ancestry, we
copy generic requirements and field offset vectors from the
superclass. We also calculate the layout of the class's direct
fields at runtime.
Unlike the fully resilient case, we don't copy vtable entries
from the superclass, or install the direct class's vtable
entries from the type context descriptor. Instead, we statically
emit the vtable as with fixed-size class metadata.
Both the in-place and resilient case call the same runtime
entry point to initialize class metadata; the new HasStaticVTable
flag in ClassLayoutFlags is used to select between the two
behaviors concerning the vtable.
If we know a key path component can be accessed as a stored property, then we should also know whether it's a `let` or not, so it should be safe to encode this in the key path pattern. Stage this change in by changing the number of bits used to store in-line offsets, fixing up the parts of the key path implementation that assumed that it took up the entire payload bitfield.
This saves us some expensive cross-referencing and caching in the runtime, and lets us reclaim the `isReflectable` bit from the context descriptor flags (since a null field descriptor is a suitable and more accurate indicator of whether a type is reflectable).
- Instead of keeping multiple flags in the type descriptor flags,
just keep a single flag indicating the presence of additional
import information after the name.
- That import information consists of a sequence of null-terminated
C strings, terminated by an empty string (i.e. by a double null
terminator), each prefixed with a character describing its purpose.
- In addition to the symbol namespace and related entity name,
include the ABI name if it differs from the user-facing name of the
type, and make the name the user-facing Swift name.
There's a remaining issue here that isn't great: we don't correctly
represent the parent relationship between error types and their codes,
and instead we just use the Clang module as the parent. But I'll
leave that for a later commit.
- `swift_getForeignTypeMetadata` is now a request/response function.
- The initialization function is now a completion function, and the
pointer to it has moved into the type descriptor.
- The cache variable is no longer part of the ABI; it's an
implementation detail of the access function.
- The two points above mean that there is no special header on foreign
type metadata and therefore that they can be marked constant when
there isn't something about them that needs to be initialized.
The only foreign-metadata initialization we actually do right now is
of the superclass field of a foreign class, and since that relationship
is a proper DAG, it's not actually possible to have recursive
initialization problems. But this is the right long-term thing to do,
and it removes one of the last two clients of once-based initialization.
As part of this, rename TypeMetadataRecordKind to TypeReferenceKind
and consistently give it three bits of storage.
The better modelling of these type references appears to have been
sufficient to make dynamic conformance checks succeed, which is good
but unexpected.
From what I see the only fields are DATA_VALUE_WITNESS which
all have type size_t. I converted them to use the target-dependent
`StoredSize`. While I was around I fixed also isValueInline()
to do the right thing (it was using ValueBuffer instead of
TargetValueBuffer) and all the getters for the data value witnesses.
<rdar://problem/41546568>
Protocols are never generic, so don't inherit from
TrailingGenericContextObjects. Instead, directly use
swift::ABI::TrailingObjects. Since protocols are never generic, this
doesn't actually affect layout at all; it's cleanup.
These were used to encode the “inherited protocols” for Objective-C
Protocol structures. These are no longer a part of either Swift protocol
descriptors or the part of Objective-C Protocol structures that the
Swift runtime inspects.
Reimplement protocol descriptors for Swift protocols as a kind of
context descriptor, dropping the Objective-C protocol compatibility
layout. The new protocol descriptors have several advantages over the
current implementation:
* They drop all of the unused fields required for layout-compatibility
with Objective-C protocols.
* They encode the full requirement signature of the protocol. This
maintains more information about the protocol itself, including
(e.g.) correctly encoding superclass requirements.
* They fit within the general scheme of context descriptors, rather than
being their own thing, which allows us to share more code with
nominal type descriptors.
* They only use relative pointers, so they’re smaller and can be placed
in read-only memory
Implements rdar://problem/38815359.
When reading the protocol metadata from existential type metadata,
check the “isObjC” bit and handle the reading of the Objective-C
protocol name (using TargetObjCProtocolPrefix) separately from the reading the name of a Swift protocol (using TargetProtocolDescriptor).
More preparation for separating the layout of these two entities.
Introduce TargetObjCProtocolPrefix, which describes just enough of the
Objective-C runtime’s Protocol structure to extract the name without
having to call Objective-C’s protocol_getName().
In a generic requirement, distinguish between Swift and
Objective-C protocols using a spare bit within the relative
(indirectable) reference to the protocol.
Switch one entry point in the runtime (swift_getExistentialTypeMetadata)
to use ProtocolDescriptorRef rather than a protocol descriptor. Update
IRGen to produce ProtocolDescriptorRef instances for its calls, setting
the discriminator bit appropriately.
Within the runtime, verify that all instances of ProtocolDescriptorRef have
the right layout, i.e., the discriminator bit is set for @objc protocols
but not Swift protocols.
Use ProtocolDescriptorRefs within the runtime representation of
existential type metadata (TargetExistentialTypeMetadata) instead of
bare protocol descriptor pointers. Start rolling out the use of
ProtocolDescriptorRef in a few places in the runtime that touch this
code. Note that we’re not yet establishing any strong invariants on
the TargetProtocolDescriptorRef instances.
While here, replace TargetExistentialTypeMetadata’s hand-rolled pointer
arithmetic with swift::ABI::TrailingObjects and centralize knowledge of
its layout better.
In our ABI, we’re using some C++ ABI tricks to simplify the
implementation of the runtime. One of them, in FullMetadata, requires
that we inherit from classes that we would also like to make use
TrailingObjects. Remove the “final” assertion from TrailingObjects
so we can do so.
We promise to be careful.
