A keypath component for a stored property can take one of several forms:
- The property offset is known to be constant at compile-time.
This is used in the simplest cases for classes and structs.
- The property offset is not constant, but can be loaded from a global.
This is used for classes that require runtime resilient layout, but where
the offsets do not depend on the generic context.
- The property offset is not constant, and must be loaded from metadata.
This is the case where the offset depends on the generic context. Here,
we were only set up to load it from a fixed offset in the metadata.
This works for generic structs, or generic classes where the superclass
chain does not cross a resilience boundary.
However, if a resilience boundary is crossed, the offset of the field
offset in the metadata must itself be obtained at runtime by adding a
constant to a value loaded from a global. This case is not supported by
the current keypath ABI due to an oversight.
I filed <rdar://problem/59777983> to track extending the ABI to handle
this more elegantly in the future.
Fixes <rdar://problem/59617119>.
