Many, many, many types in the Swift compiler are intended to only be allocated in the ASTContext. We have previously implemented this by writing several `operator new` and `operator delete` implementations into these types. Factor those out into a new base class instead.
<rdar://problem/46548531> Extend @available to support PackageDescription
This introduces a new private availability kind "_PackageDescription" to
allow availability testing by an arbitary version that can be passed
using a new command-line flag "-swiftpm-manifest-version". The semantics
are exactly same as Swift version specific availability. In longer term,
it maybe possible to remove this enhancement once there is
a language-level availability support for 3rd party libraries.
Motivation:
Swift packages are configured using a Package.swift manifest file. The
manifest file uses a library called PackageDescription, which contains
various settings that can be configured for a package. The new additions
in the PackageDescription APIs are gated behind a "tools version" that
every manifest must declare. This means, packages don't automatically
get access to the new APIs. They need to update their declared tools
version in order to use the new API. This is basically similar to the
minimum deployment target version we have for our OSes.
This gating is important for allowing packages to maintain backwards
compatibility. SwiftPM currently checks for API usages at runtime in
order to implement this gating. This works reasonably well but can lead
to a poor experience with features like code-completion and module
interface generation in IDEs and editors (that use sourcekit-lsp) as
SwiftPM has no control over these features.
Change the syntax of availability queries from #available(iOS >= 8.0, OSX >= 10.10, *) to
This change reflects the fact that now that we spell the query '#available()' rather than
'#os()', the specification is about availability of the APIs introduced in a particular OS
release rather than an explicit range of OS versions on which the developer expects the
code to run.
There is a Fix-It to remove '>=' to ease adopting the new syntax.
Swift SVN r28025
On platforms that are not explicitly mentioned in the #os() guard, this new '*'
availability check generates a version comparison against the minimum deployment target.
This construct, based on feedback from API review, is designed to ease porting
to new platforms. Because new platforms typically branch from
existing platforms, the wildcard allows an API availability check to do the "right"
thing (executing the guarded branch accessing newer APIs) on the new platform without
requiring a modification to every availability guard in the program.
So, if the programmer writes:
if #os(OSX >= 10.10, *) {
. . .
}
and then ports the code to iOS, the body will execute.
We still do compile-time availability checking with '*', so the compiler will
emit errors for references to potentially unavailable symbols in the body when compiled
for iOS.
We require a '*' clause on all #os() guards to force developers to
"future proof" their availability checks against the introduction of new a platform.
Swift SVN r26988
This commit adds a new expression (AvailabilityQueryExpr) and a single kind of
specification for when a block of code or function is available
(VersionConstraintAvailabilitySpec). We may add more kinds of specifications
in the future. At the moment, the AvailabilityQueryExpr allows only a
single platform to be queried; I will add support for multiple platforms
in a later commit.
This commit contains just the added AST nodes; no parsing, type checking, etc.
I’ve added assert(false && “Unimplemented”) for places where support for
AvailabilityQueryExpr will need to be added later.
Swift SVN r21760
