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.
They were, already, but remove the isConstant parameter to
getAddrOfTypeMetadataPattern(), and just assert that its true for
patterns in defineTypeMetadata() instead.
Also, metadata patterns are i8*, not i8**. In fact they don't contain any
absolute pointers at all.
Should be NFC other than the LLVM type change.
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.
These functions don't accept local variable heap memory, although the names make it sound like they work on anything. When you try, they mistakenly identify such things as ObjC objects, call through to the equivalent objc_* function, and crash confusingly. This adds Object to the name of each one to make it more clear what they accept.
rdar://problem/37285743
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.
The prefab'ed value witness tables for reference storage types are a
premature optimization. Not all scenarios are covered, and those that
are "look suspect" according to John McCall.
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.
<rdar://problem/41546568>
Switch one entry point in the runtime (swift_getExistentialTypeMetadata)
to use ProtocolDescriptorRef rather than a protocol descriptor. Update
IRGen to produce ProtocolDescriptorRef instances for its calls, setting
the discriminator bit appropriately.
Within the runtime, verify that all instances of ProtocolDescriptorRef have
the right layout, i.e., the discriminator bit is set for @objc protocols
but not Swift protocols.
The runtime doesn't really need Compiler.h. It just needs some
visibility macros which can be inlined here instead of pulling
the whole heavyweight header (including its transitive closure,
llvm-config.h). This is becoming more important now that Compiler.h
includes C++ headers (namely, <new>), and swift/Runtime/Config.h
can be included from C or Objective-C files (causing build failures).
<rdar://problem/35860874>
Runtime/Metadata.h collected a large number of metadata data
structures that are actually part of the ABI. Move those data
structures into a new header, ABI/Metadata.h, and keep the in-process,
runtime-specific bits in Runtime/Metadata.h.
We want to be able to potentially introduce new metadata kinds in future Swift compilers, so a runtime ought to be able to degrade gracefully in the face of metadata kinds it doesn't know about. Remove attempts to exhaustively switch over metadata kinds and instead treat unknown metadata kinds as opaque.
- Add swift_getForeignWitnessTable to unique non-unique foreign type
witness tables
- IRGen: Call the foreign witness uniquing runtime function
rdar://24958043
