(BaseT, @inout @unowned(unsafe) T) -> @guaranteed T
The reason for the weird signature is that currently the Builtin infrastructure
does not handle results well. Also, note that we are not actually performing a
call here. We are SILGening directly so we can create a guaranteed result.
The intended semantics is that one passes in a base value that guarantees the
lifetime of the unowned(unsafe) value. The builtin then:
1. Borrows the base.
2. Loads the trivial unowned (unsafe), converts that value to a guaranteed ref
after unsafely unwrapping the optional.
3. Uses mark dependence to tie the lifetimes of the guaranteed base to the
guaranteed ref.
I also updated my small UnsafeValue.swift test to make sure we get the codegen
we expect.
The signature is:
(T, @inout @unowned(unsafe) Optional<T>) -> ()
The reason for the weird signature is that currently the Builtin infrastructure
does not handle results well.
The semantics of this builtin is that it enables one to store the first argument
into an unowned unsafe address without any reference counting operations. It
does this just by SILGening the relevant code. The optimizer chews through this
code well, so we get the expected behavior.
I also included a small proof of concept to validate that this builtin works as
expected.
