This is a bit of a hodge-podge of related changes that I decided
weren't quite worth teasing apart:
First, rename the weak{Retain,Release} entrypoints to
unowned{Retain,Release} to better reflect their actual use
from generated code.
Second, standardize the names of the rest of the entrypoints around
unowned{operation}.
Third, standardize IRGen's internal naming scheme and API for
reference-counting so that (1) there are generic functions for
emitting operations using a given reference-counting style and
(2) all operations explicitly call out the kind and style of
reference counting.
Finally, implement a number of new entrypoints for unknown unowned
reference-counting. These entrypoints use a completely different
and incompatible scheme for working with ObjC references. The
primary difference is that the new scheme abandons the flawed idea
(which I take responsibility for) that we can simulate an unowned
reference count for ObjC references, and instead moves towards an
address-only scheme when the reference might store an ObjC reference.
(The current implementation is still trivially takable, but that is
not something we should be relying on.) These will be tested in a
follow-up commit. For now, we still rely on the bad assumption of
reference-countability.
For example, if a @_fixed_layout struct A contains a resilient struct B
from the same module M, then inside M, A can have a fixed size, but
outside, A has a dynamic size because B is opaque. In this case, A is
not "universally fixed-size". This impacts multi-payload enums, because
if A is placed inside a multi-payload enum E which is lowered inside X,
we would get a fixed layout with spare bits, but lowering E outside of
X would yield a dynamic layout. This is incorrect.
Fix this by plumbing through a new predicate IsAlwaysFixedSize, which
is similar to IsPOD and IsBitwiseTakable, where a compound type inherits
the property if all leaf types exhibit it, and only use spare bits if
the original and substituted types have this property.
Replace isSingle{Unknown,Swift}ReferenceCountedObject() with a single
entry point that also returns the reference counting style. Use this
in GenEnum to emit more specific entry points than native and unknown.
This will give a slight performance boost on Darwin, and enable use of
the blocks runtime on Linux.
Progress on <rdar://problem/23315750>.
The swift_unknown* entry points are not available on the Linux port.
Previously we would still attempt to use them in a couple of cases:
1) Foreign classes
2) Existentials and archetypes
3) Optionals of boxed existentials
Note that this patch changes IRGen to never emit the
swift_errorRelease/Retain entry points on Linux. We would like to
use them in the future if we ever adopt a tagged-pointer representation
for small errors. In this case, they can be brought back, and the
TypeInfo for optionals will need to be generalized to propagate the
reference counting of the payload type, instead of defaulting to
unknown if the payload type is not natively reference counted.
A similar change will need to be made to support blocks, if we ever
want to use the blocks runtime on Linux.
Fixes <rdar://problem/23335318>, <rdar://problem/23335537>,
<rdar://problem/23335453>.
This will let us eventually do tagged pointer optimization for small error values. We don't take advantage of this in IRGen yet, but we can take advantage of it in the dynamic cast code in a few places, so it gets exercised, and doing this now will let us backward-deploy the optimization when we do implement it in the future.
- GenProto.cpp for protocols and protocol conformances
- GenExistential.cpp for existential type layout and operations
- GenArchetype.cpp for archetype type layout and operations
Swift SVN r32493
