When producing an associated type witness from a mangled name, adjust the
conforming type metadata to find the original conforming type, which may
be a superclass of the conforming type given.
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.
If a class has a backward deployment layout:
- We still want to emit it using the FixedClassMetadataBuilder.
- We still want it to appear in the objc_classes section, and get an
OBJC_CLASS_$_ symbol if its @objc.
- However, we want to use the singleton metadata initialization pattern
in the metadata accessor.
- We want to emit metadata for all field types, and call the
swift_updateClassMetadata() function to initialize the class
metadata.
For now, this function just performs the idempotent initialization of
invoking a static method on the class, causing it to be realized with
the Objective-C runtime.
- Rename _swift_initializeSuperclass() to copySuperclassMetadataToSubclass(),
- Factor out initClassFieldOffsetVector()
- Factor out initClassVTable()
- Factor out initGenericObjCClass()
Otherwise, we emitted a static reference to its metaclass, so there's
no need to overwrite it here. This doesn't really improve anything,
it was just something I noticed while auditing this code in
preparation for a refactoring, so may as well fix it.
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.
The witness table for an empty, resilient protocol might need to be
instantiated, if a newer version of the protocol contains defaulted
associated type requirements. In such cases, we would either fail to
instantiate or assert in the runtime. Replace the assertion with a
proper check (to require instantiation in such cases) and cope with
filling in defaults even when the provided generic witness table has
no resilient witnesses.
Replace the quadratic algorithm (currently O(m*n) where m is the number of requirements and n is the number of witnesses) with an O(m+n) algorithm.
Harden the algorithm a against bad and unexpected inputs:
* Fail if the requirement descriptor is out-of-bounds for the protocol
* Skip the witness if the requirement descriptor is null; this can happen
when the witness table was compiled against a newer version of the
protocol, but is deployed to a library containing an older version of the
protocol. It is expected.
* In debug builds of the runtime, complain if an entry is initialized twice
* In debug builds of the runtime, complain if an entry is NULL
Fixes rdar://problem/44434793, which covers the second bullet (backward
deployment).
For a resilient conformance, emit the associated conformance accessor
functions into the resilient witness table (keyed on the associated
conformance descriptor) rather than in the fixed part of the witness
table. This is another part of resilience for associated conformances,
and a step toward defaults for associated conformances.
Emit associated type witnesses into resilient conformance tables, so they
can be re-ordered within the protocol without breaking clients. This will
(eventually) permit adding new, defaulted associated types to protocols
resiliently.
We can use the extra inhabitants of the type metadata field as extra inhabitants of the entire
existential container, allowing `Any?` and similar types to be the same size as non-optional
existentials.
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>.
Now that we don't need the superclass before calling
swift_relocateClassMetadata(), it seems simpler to set it
here instead of doing it in various places in IRGen.
Using the superclass metadata here no longer makes sense with two-phase
init, in case the superclass metadata depends on the class being
instantiated.
It would also be nice to rework the resilient class metadata 'pattern'
to be its own data structure that's true const, instead of just the
prefix of a real class metadata, but for now let's keep the existing
crappy design.
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.
This allows us to layout-optimize Optional<T> when T is a struct with an
extra-inhabitant-bearing field anywhere in its definition, not only at
the beginning. rdar://problem/43019427
By design, we don't want private or function-nested types to be accessible by mangled name, since they don't have stable identities, and they could inadvertently become ABI if someone serialized a mangled string and expected to deserialize it into a type. Fixes rdar://problem/39826794 .
- 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.
Previously, when a tuple type had non-fixed layout, we would compute
a layout by building the metadata for that tuple type and then
extracting the layout from the VWT. This can be quite expensive
because it involves constructing the exact metadata for types like
arrays and functions despite those types being fixed-layout across
all instantiations. It also tends to cause unnecessary recursive-type
issues, especially with enums where tuples are currently used to model
cases with mutliple payloads. Since we just need a layout, computing
it directly from element layouts instead of constructing metadata for
the formal type lets us take advantage of all the other fast paths for
layout construction, e.g. for fixed types and single-field aggregates.
This is a good improvement overall, but it also serves to alleviate
some of the problems of rdar://40810002 / SR-7876 in a way that
might be suitable for integration to 4.2.
- `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.
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