These functions don't accept local variable heap memory, although the names make it sound like they work on anything. When you try, they mistakenly identify such things as ObjC objects, call through to the equivalent objc_* function, and crash confusingly. This adds Object to the name of each one to make it more clear what they accept.
rdar://problem/37285743
If we only emit an opaque reflection record for a struct or class, then we can't reflect its fields. We failed both to clear the "is reflectable" bit in the context descriptor for non-reflectable structs, and to check for the bit before trying to present a struct's fields as children in the runtime. rdar://problem/41274260
We want to be able to potentially introduce new metadata kinds in future Swift compilers, so a runtime ought to be able to degrade gracefully in the face of metadata kinds it doesn't know about. Remove attempts to exhaustively switch over metadata kinds and instead treat unknown metadata kinds as opaque.
Future Swifts may add new metadata kinds, so it isn't appropriate to crash when
we see one. In the case of reflection, we can fall back to opaque behavior.
rdar://34222540
Minimize the generic class metadata template by removing the
class header and base-class members. Add back the set of
information that's really required for instantiation.
Teach swift_allocateGenericClass how to allocate classes without
superclass metadata. Reorder generic initialization to establish
a stronger phase-ordering between allocation (the part that doesn't
really care about the generic arguments) and initialization (the
part that really does care about the generic arguments and therefore
might need to be delayed to handle metadata cycles).
A similar thing needs to happen for resilient class relocation.
Windows does not have `strndup` and `asprintf`. Provide equivalents in
terms of other available APIs. This enables us to build the standard
library for Windows again.
The old-style mirrors were the basis for non-custom, reflection based Mirrors. As part of removing old-style mirrors, reflection based Mirrors are reimplemented without them. Reflection.mm is deleted and replaced with ReflectionMirror.mm, which borrows a chunk of the old code but presents a simpler API to the Swift side. ReflectionMirror.swift then uses that API to implement a reflection-based Mirror init.
rdar://problem/20356017
