Sugared GenericTypeParamTypes point to GenericTypeParamDecls,
allowing the name of the parameter as written by the user to be
recovered. Canonical GenericTypeParamTypes on the other hand
only store a depth and index, without referencing the original
declaration.
When printing SIL, we wish to output the original generic parameter
names, even though SIL only uses canonical types. Previously,
we used to accomplish this by mapping the generic parameter to an
archetype and printing the name of the archetype. This was not
adequate if multiple generic parameters mapped to the same
archetype, or if a generic parameter was mapped to a concrete type.
The new approach preserves the original sugared types in the
GenericEnvironment, adding a new GenericEnvironment::getSugaredType()
method.
There are also some other assorted simplifications made possible
by this.
Unfortunately this makes GenericEnvironments use a bit more memory,
however I have more improvements coming that will offset the gains,
in addition to making substitution lists smaller also.
There's a bit of a hack to deal with generic typealiases, but
overall this makes things more logical.
This is the last big refactoring before we can allow constrained
extensions to make generic parameters concrete. All that remains
is a small set of changes to SIL type lowering, and retooling
some diagnostics in Sema.
This patch is rather large, since it was hard to make this change
incrementally, but most of the changes are mechanical.
Now that we have a lighter-weight data structure in the AST for mapping
interface types to archetypes and vice versa, use that in SIL instead of
a GenericParamList.
This means that when serializing a SILFunction body, we no longer need to
serialize references to archetypes from other modules.
Several methods used for forming substitutions can now be moved from
GenericParamList to GenericEnvironment.
Also, GenericParamList::cloneWithOuterParameters() and
GenericParamList::getEmpty() can now go away, since they were only used
when SILGen-ing witness thunks.
Finally, when printing generic parameters with identical names, the
SIL printer used to number them from highest depth to lowest, by
walking generic parameter lists starting with the innermost one.
Now, ambiguous generic parameters are numbered from lowest depth
to highest, by walking the generic signature, which means test
output in one of the SILGen tests has changed.
A GenericEnvironment stores the mapping between GenericTypeParamTypes
and context archetypes (or eventually, concrete types, once we allow
extensions to constrain a generic parameter to a concrete type).
The goals here are two-fold:
- Eliminate the GenericTypeParamDecl::getArchetype() method, and
always use mapTypeIntoContext() instead
- Replace SILFunction::ContextGenericParams with a GenericEnvironment
This patch adds the new data type as well as serializer and AST
verifier support. but nothing else uses it yet.
Note that GenericSignature::get() now asserts if there are no
generic parameters, instead of returning null. This requires a
few tweaks here and there.
