These changes make the following improvements to how we generate diagnostics for expression typecheck failure:
- Customizing a diagnostic for a specific expression kind is as easy as adding a new method to the FailureDiagnosis class,
and does not require intimate knowledge of the constraint solver’s inner workings.
- As part of this patch, I’ve introduced specialized diagnostics for call, binop, unop, subscript, assignment and inout
expressions, but we can go pretty far with this.
- This also opens up the possibility to customize diagnostics not just for the expression kind, but for the specific types
involved as well.
- For the purpose of presenting accurate type info, partially-specialized subexpressions are individually re-typechecked
free of any contextual types. This allows us to:
- Properly surface subexpression errors.
- Almost completely avoid any type variables in our diagnostics. In cases where they could not be eliminated, we now
substitute in "_".
- More accurately indicate the sources of errors.
- We do a much better job of diagnosing disjunction failures. (So no more nonsensical ‘UInt8’ error messages.)
- We now present reasonable error messages for overload resolution failures, informing the user of partially-matching
parameter lists when possible.
At the very least, these changes address the following bugs:
<rdar://problem/15863738> More information needed in type-checking error messages
<rdar://problem/16306600> QoI: passing a 'let' value as an inout results in an unfriendly diagnostic
<rdar://problem/16449805> Wrong error for struct-to-protocol downcast
<rdar://problem/16699932> improve type checker diagnostic when passing Double to function taking a Float
<rdar://problem/16707914> fatal error: Can't unwrap Optional.None…Optional.swift, line 75 running Master-Detail Swift app built from template
<rdar://problem/16785829> Inout parameter fixit
<rdar://problem/16900438> We shouldn't leak the internal type placeholder
<rdar://problem/16909379> confusing type check diagnostics
<rdar://problem/16951521> Extra arguments to functions result in an unhelpful error
<rdar://problem/16971025> Two Terrible Diagnostics
<rdar://problem/17007804> $T2 in compiler error string
<rdar://problem/17027483> Terrible diagnostic
<rdar://problem/17083239> Mysterious error using find() with Foundation types
<rdar://problem/17149771> Diagnostic for closure with no inferred return value leaks type variables
<rdar://problem/17212371> Swift poorly-worded error message when overload resolution fails on return type
<rdar://problem/17236976> QoI: Swift error for incorrectly typed parameter is confusing/misleading
<rdar://problem/17304200> Wrong error for non-self-conforming protocols
<rdar://problem/17321369> better error message for inout protocols
<rdar://problem/17539380> Swift error seems wrong
<rdar://problem/17559593> Bogus locationless "treating a forced downcast to 'NSData' as optional will never produce 'nil'" warning
<rdar://problem/17567973> 32-bit error message is really far from the mark: error: missing argument for parameter 'withFont' in call
<rdar://problem/17671058> Wrong error message: "Missing argument for parameter 'completion' in call"
<rdar://problem/17704609> Float is not convertible to UInt8
<rdar://problem/17705424> Poor error reporting for passing Doubles to NSColor: extra argument 'red' in call
<rdar://problem/17743603> Swift compiler gives misleading error message in "NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("x", options: 123, metrics: nil, views: views)"
<rdar://problem/17784167> application of operator to generic type results in odd diagnostic
<rdar://problem/17801696> Awful diagnostic trying to construct an Int when .Int is around
<rdar://problem/17863882> cannot convert the expression's type '()' to type 'Seq'
<rdar://problem/17865869> "has different argument names" diagnostic when parameter defaulted-ness differs
<rdar://problem/17937593> Unclear error message for empty array literal without type context
<rdar://problem/17943023> QoI: compiler displays wrong error when a float is provided to a Int16 parameter in init method
<rdar://problem/17951148> Improve error messages for expressions inside if statements by pre-evaluating outside the 'if'
<rdar://problem/18057815> Unhelpful Swift error message
<rdar://problem/18077468> Incorrect argument label for insertSubview(...)
<rdar://problem/18079213> 'T1' is not identical to 'T2' lacks directionality
<rdar://problem/18086470> Confusing Swift error message: error: 'T' is not convertible to 'MirrorDisposition'
<rdar://problem/18098995> QoI: Unhelpful compiler error when leaving off an & on an inout parameter
<rdar://problem/18104379> Terrible error message
<rdar://problem/18121897> unexpected low-level error on assignment to immutable value through array writeback
<rdar://problem/18123596> unexpected error on self. capture inside class method
<rdar://problem/18152074> QoI: Improve diagnostic for type mismatch in dictionary subscripting
<rdar://problem/18242160> There could be a better error message when using [] instead of [:]
<rdar://problem/18242812> 6A1021a : Type variable leaked
<rdar://problem/18331819> Unclear error message when trying to set an element of an array constant (Swift)
<rdar://problem/18414834> Bad diagnostics example
<rdar://problem/18422468> Calculation of constant value yields unexplainable error
<rdar://problem/18427217> Misleading error message makes debugging difficult
<rdar://problem/18439742> Misleading error: "cannot invoke" mentions completely unrelated types as arguments
<rdar://problem/18535804> Wrong compiler error from swift compiler
<rdar://problem/18567914> Xcode 6.1. GM, Swift, assignment from Int64 to NSNumber. Warning shown as problem with UInt8
<rdar://problem/18784027> Negating Int? Yields Float
<rdar://problem/17691565> attempt to modify a 'let' variable with ++ results in typecheck error about @lvalue Float
<rdar://problem/17164001> "++" on let value could give a better error message
Swift SVN r23782
Doing so is safe even though we have mock SDK. The include paths for
modules with the same name in the real and mock SDKs are different, and
the module files will be distinct (because they will have a different
hash).
This reduces test runtime on OS X by 30% and brings it under a minute on
a 16-core machine.
This also uncovered some problems with some tests -- even when run for
iOS configurations, some tests would still run with macosx triple. I
fixed the tests where I noticed this issue.
rdar://problem/19125022
Swift SVN r23683
Add all compiler crash tests to the validation-test/compiler_crashers
subdirectory. Add a RUN: line to each test case according to the current
behavior of the Swift compiler.
Swift SVN r23418
The archetype builder is responsible for figuring out what should go
into a generic signature anyway, so move the generic signature
creation there. This will also allow us to eliminate some code
duplication across Sema and AST.
Fixes compiler crasher 033.
Swift SVN r23030
Fixes crasher #003 (rdar://problem/18232605). This time, also increase the buffer size for the necessary bindings so we don't clobber memory.
Swift SVN r22118
(If any other associated type member has a dependency on the invalid one, we won't be able to substitute and the compiler will crash.)
This addresses crash suite scenario 035. (rdar://problem/18233020)
Swift SVN r22116
You'll notice that we already had tests that made it appear that such declarations could work,
but they were only avoiding crashes because downstream errors were already marking the
enclosing functions as invalid. (If the errors were fixed, they would also crash the compiler.)
This addresses crash suite scenario 018. (rdar://problem/18299547)
Swift SVN r22109
There's no real use for declaring a property or global variable without binding it to anything, and closure context mangling relies on having a name to associate with closures. Fixes crash suite #006 (rdar://problem/18232699).
Swift SVN r22105
Doing so prevents another common source of stack overflows in the validator, and addresses crash suite scenarios 002 and 004.
(rdar://problem/18232499, rdar://problem/18232668)
Swift SVN r22104
This can only occur when validating mutually recursive existentials in type reference expressions, so it's "safe" to avoid validating member value decls in this case. There are still potential holes in our mechanism for checking for unsupported existentials, but at least this will eliminate another common crasher. (Crash suite scenario 010.)
Swift SVN r22035
Now that we rely on type lowering to catch recursive value types, this optimization is no longer valid. Fixes rdar://problem/18232757 (crash suite #015).
Swift SVN r21967
- A spot fix in SILGen for reabstracting the result of a downcast, which fixes checked casts to function types.
- Associate the layout information in type metadata records with the most abstract representation of the type. This is the correct thing to do in cases where we need the metadata as a tag for an opaque value--if we store a value in an Any, or pass it as an unconstrained generic parameter, we must maximally reabstract it. This fixes the value semantics of existentials containing trivial metatypes.
- To ensure that we get runtime layout of structs and enums correct when they contain reabstractable types, introduce a "metadata for layout" concept, which doesn't need to describe the canonical metadata for the type, but only needs to describe a type with equivalent layout and value semantics. This is a correctness fix that allows us to correctly lay out generic types containing dependent tuples and functions, and although we don't really take advantage of it here, it's also a potential runtime performance win down the road, because we could potentially produce direct metadata for a primitive type that's layout-equivalent with a runtime-instantiated type. To aid in type safety here, push SILType deeper into IRGen in places where we potentially care about specific representations of types.
- Finally, fix an inconsistency between the runtime and IRGen's concept of what spare bits unmanaged references and thick metatypes have.
Together, these fixes address rdar://problem/16406907, rdar://problem/17822208, rdar://problem/18189508, and likely many other related issues, and also fixes crash suite cases 012 and 024.
Swift SVN r21963
You'll notice that emitting this diagnostic will make some already noisy closure-related errors slightly more so. This is unfortunate, but for the time-being it's better than crashing.
Swift SVN r21817
We're going to crash anyway, we'll fix it when we fix the main issue, and
the main issue isn't memory-error-related. Should unblock the ASan bot.
Swift SVN r21814
