These changes make the following improvements to how we generate diagnostics for expression typecheck failure:
- Customizing a diagnostic for a specific expression kind is as easy as adding a new method to the FailureDiagnosis class,
and does not require intimate knowledge of the constraint solver’s inner workings.
- As part of this patch, I’ve introduced specialized diagnostics for call, binop, unop, subscript, assignment and inout
expressions, but we can go pretty far with this.
- This also opens up the possibility to customize diagnostics not just for the expression kind, but for the specific types
involved as well.
- For the purpose of presenting accurate type info, partially-specialized subexpressions are individually re-typechecked
free of any contextual types. This allows us to:
- Properly surface subexpression errors.
- Almost completely avoid any type variables in our diagnostics. In cases where they could not be eliminated, we now
substitute in "_".
- More accurately indicate the sources of errors.
- We do a much better job of diagnosing disjunction failures. (So no more nonsensical ‘UInt8’ error messages.)
- We now present reasonable error messages for overload resolution failures, informing the user of partially-matching
parameter lists when possible.
At the very least, these changes address the following bugs:
<rdar://problem/15863738> More information needed in type-checking error messages
<rdar://problem/16306600> QoI: passing a 'let' value as an inout results in an unfriendly diagnostic
<rdar://problem/16449805> Wrong error for struct-to-protocol downcast
<rdar://problem/16699932> improve type checker diagnostic when passing Double to function taking a Float
<rdar://problem/16707914> fatal error: Can't unwrap Optional.None…Optional.swift, line 75 running Master-Detail Swift app built from template
<rdar://problem/16785829> Inout parameter fixit
<rdar://problem/16900438> We shouldn't leak the internal type placeholder
<rdar://problem/16909379> confusing type check diagnostics
<rdar://problem/16951521> Extra arguments to functions result in an unhelpful error
<rdar://problem/16971025> Two Terrible Diagnostics
<rdar://problem/17007804> $T2 in compiler error string
<rdar://problem/17027483> Terrible diagnostic
<rdar://problem/17083239> Mysterious error using find() with Foundation types
<rdar://problem/17149771> Diagnostic for closure with no inferred return value leaks type variables
<rdar://problem/17212371> Swift poorly-worded error message when overload resolution fails on return type
<rdar://problem/17236976> QoI: Swift error for incorrectly typed parameter is confusing/misleading
<rdar://problem/17304200> Wrong error for non-self-conforming protocols
<rdar://problem/17321369> better error message for inout protocols
<rdar://problem/17539380> Swift error seems wrong
<rdar://problem/17559593> Bogus locationless "treating a forced downcast to 'NSData' as optional will never produce 'nil'" warning
<rdar://problem/17567973> 32-bit error message is really far from the mark: error: missing argument for parameter 'withFont' in call
<rdar://problem/17671058> Wrong error message: "Missing argument for parameter 'completion' in call"
<rdar://problem/17704609> Float is not convertible to UInt8
<rdar://problem/17705424> Poor error reporting for passing Doubles to NSColor: extra argument 'red' in call
<rdar://problem/17743603> Swift compiler gives misleading error message in "NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("x", options: 123, metrics: nil, views: views)"
<rdar://problem/17784167> application of operator to generic type results in odd diagnostic
<rdar://problem/17801696> Awful diagnostic trying to construct an Int when .Int is around
<rdar://problem/17863882> cannot convert the expression's type '()' to type 'Seq'
<rdar://problem/17865869> "has different argument names" diagnostic when parameter defaulted-ness differs
<rdar://problem/17937593> Unclear error message for empty array literal without type context
<rdar://problem/17943023> QoI: compiler displays wrong error when a float is provided to a Int16 parameter in init method
<rdar://problem/17951148> Improve error messages for expressions inside if statements by pre-evaluating outside the 'if'
<rdar://problem/18057815> Unhelpful Swift error message
<rdar://problem/18077468> Incorrect argument label for insertSubview(...)
<rdar://problem/18079213> 'T1' is not identical to 'T2' lacks directionality
<rdar://problem/18086470> Confusing Swift error message: error: 'T' is not convertible to 'MirrorDisposition'
<rdar://problem/18098995> QoI: Unhelpful compiler error when leaving off an & on an inout parameter
<rdar://problem/18104379> Terrible error message
<rdar://problem/18121897> unexpected low-level error on assignment to immutable value through array writeback
<rdar://problem/18123596> unexpected error on self. capture inside class method
<rdar://problem/18152074> QoI: Improve diagnostic for type mismatch in dictionary subscripting
<rdar://problem/18242160> There could be a better error message when using [] instead of [:]
<rdar://problem/18242812> 6A1021a : Type variable leaked
<rdar://problem/18331819> Unclear error message when trying to set an element of an array constant (Swift)
<rdar://problem/18414834> Bad diagnostics example
<rdar://problem/18422468> Calculation of constant value yields unexplainable error
<rdar://problem/18427217> Misleading error message makes debugging difficult
<rdar://problem/18439742> Misleading error: "cannot invoke" mentions completely unrelated types as arguments
<rdar://problem/18535804> Wrong compiler error from swift compiler
<rdar://problem/18567914> Xcode 6.1. GM, Swift, assignment from Int64 to NSNumber. Warning shown as problem with UInt8
<rdar://problem/18784027> Negating Int? Yields Float
<rdar://problem/17691565> attempt to modify a 'let' variable with ++ results in typecheck error about @lvalue Float
<rdar://problem/17164001> "++" on let value could give a better error message
Swift SVN r23782
Add the following functionality to the Swift compiler:
* covariant subtyping of Set
* upcasting, downcasting of Set
* automatic bridging between Set and NSSet, including
* NSSet params/return values in ObjC are imported as Set<NSObject>
* Set params/return values in Swift are visible to ObjC as NSSet
<rdar://problem/18853078> Implement Set<T> up and downcasting
Swift SVN r23751
This makes sure we get the same checking for initializer delegation in
structs/enums as we do for classes, fixing rdar://problem/18458622.
Swift SVN r23128
llvm::Optional lives in "llvm/ADT/Optional.h". Like Clang, we can get
Optional in the 'swift' namespace by including "swift/Basic/LLVM.h".
We're now fully switched over to llvm::Optional!
Swift SVN r22477
This commit adds tracking of the reason a declaration reference is potentially
unavailable to the UnavailableToOptionalExpr AST node and to OverloadChoice. We
will use this reason during SILGen to emit the appropriate run-time check and
during typechecking to provide more helpful diagnostics.
To keep OverloadChoice as small as possible, we encode the reason as an index
into a vector of reasons stored in a given instance of ConstraintSystem (this is
the same approach that Fix takes).
This commit adds Sema/OverloadChoice.cpp (for the parts of OverloadChoice that
now rely on ConstraintSystem) and AST/Availability.h (to bring in
availability-related structures without TypeRefinementContext).
Swift SVN r22377
This patch adds the ability (-enable-experimental-unavailable-as-optional) to
treat potentially unavailable declarations as if they had optional types. For
the moment, this is only implemented for global variables.
The high-level approach is to (1) record the potential unavailability of a
declaration reference in the overload choice during constraint generation; (2)
treat the declaration as if it had an optional type during overload resolution
(this is similar to how optional protocol members are treated); and (3) add an
implicit conversion (UnavailableToOptionalExpr) during constraint application
to represent the run-time availability check and optional injection.
This patch does not implement SILGen for UnavailableToOptionalExpr.
Swift SVN r22245
When performing name lookup for a declaration that is being called,
use the argument labels at the call site to filter out those
declarations with incompatible argument labels.
Swift SVN r22176
We don't properly open up the existential to make this work, which
leads to an IRGen crash. Reject the uses of generics that would cause
such a crash rdar://problem/17491663.
Swift SVN r21946
t2.swift:3:1: error: argument for generic parameter 'U' could not be
inferred
f(i)
^
t2.swift:2:6: note: in call to function 'f'
func f<T, U>(t: T) -> U? { return nil }
^
Our lack of decent locator information means that we don't get notes
in all of the cases we want them. I'll look at that separately.
Swift SVN r21921
Locators that refer to opened type parameters now carry information
about the source location where we needed to open the type, so that
(for example) we can trace an opened type parameter back to the
location it was opened. As part of this, eliminate the "rootExpr"
fallback, because we're threading constraint locators everywhere.
This is infrastructural, and should be NFC.
Swift SVN r21919
This is another instance where we choose a favored constraint that
only type checks because we're bridging through NSNumber, causing
awful problems. Fixes rdar://problem/17962491.
Swift SVN r21445
This allows UnicodeScalars to be constructed from an integer, rather
then from a string. Not only this avoids an unnecessary memory
allocation (!) when creating a UnicodeScalar, this also allows the
compiler to statically check that the string contains a single scalar
value (in the same way the compiler checks that Character contains only
a single extended grapheme cluster).
rdar://17966622
Swift SVN r21198
This is the semantic change we need to eliminate ambiguities when
introducing the new ?? overload. There is a minor regression here with
curried method references, which is covered by <rdar://problem/18006008>.
Swift SVN r21173
While we work out the remaining performance improvements in the type checker, we can improve the user experience for some "runaway solver" bugs by setting a limit on the amount of temporary memory allocated for type variables when solving over a single expression.
Exponential behavior usually manifests itself while recursively attempting bindings over opened type variables in an expression. Each one of these bindings may result in one or more fresh type variables being created. On average, memory consumption by type variables is fairly light, but in some exponential cases it can quickly grow to many hundreds of megabytes or even gigabytes. (This memory is managed by a distinct arena in the AST context, so it's easy to track.) This problem is the source of many of the "freezing" compiler and SourceKit bugs we've been seeing.
These changes set a limit on the amount of memory that can be allocated for type variables while solving for a single expression. If the memory threshold is exceeded, we can surface a type error and suggest that the user decompose the expression into distinct, less-complex sub-expressions.
I've set the current threshold to 15MB which, experimentally, avoids false positives but doesn't let things carry on so long that the user feels compelled to kill the process before they can see an error message. (As a point of comparison, the largest allocation of type variable data while solving for a single expression in the standard library is 592,472 bytes.) I've also added a new hidden front-end flag, "solver-memory-threshold", that will allow users to set their own limit, in bytes.
Swift SVN r20986
Rather than just saying "'Foo' is not constructible with '()'", say
"'Foo' cannot be constructed because it has no accessible initializers",
which would help framework authors realize what they did wrong.
<rdar://problem/17717714>
Swift SVN r20232
Create a new "OptionalObject" constraint kind in the solver that relates an optional type to its payload type, preserving lvalue-ness, and use it to model ForceValueExpr under the optional-lvalues regime.
Swift SVN r20140
Introduce the new BooleanLiteralConvertible protocol for Boolean
literals. Take "true" and "false" as real keywords (which is most of the
reason for the testsuite churn). Make Bool BooleanLiteralConvertible
and the default Boolean literal type, and ObjCBool
BooleanLiteralConvertible. Fixes <rdar://problem/17405310> and the
recent regression that made ObjCBool not work with true/false.
Swift SVN r19728
When we see a '.member' expression in optional context, look for the member in the optional's object type if it isn't found in Optional itself. <rdar://problem/16125392>
Swift SVN r19469
We need to admit a potential inout-to-pointer conversion even if the inout references an array, because we can have pointers to arrays. Add a short-circuit so that array-to-pointer conversions always beat inout-to-pointer conversions; both solutions could otherwise be considered valid for an UnsafePointer<Void>, and passing a pointer to the array reference rather than to the array data would be very bad.
Swift SVN r19270
Add primitive type-checker rules for pointer arguments. An UnsafePointer argument accepts:
- an UnsafePointer value of matching element type, or of any type if the argument is UnsafePointer<Void>,
- an inout parameter of matching element type, or of any type if the argument is UnsafePointer<Void>, or
- an inout Array parameter of matching element type, or of any type if the argument is UnsafePointer<Void>.
A ConstUnsafePointer argument accepts:
- an UnsafePointer, ConstUnsafePointer, or AutoreleasingUnsafePointer value of matching element type, or of any type if the argument is ConstUnsafePointer<Void>,
- an inout parameter of matching element type, or of any type if the argument is ConstUnsafePointer<Void>, or
- an inout or non-inout Array parameter of matching element type, or of any type if the argument is ConstUnsafePointer<Void>.
An AutoreleasingUnsafePointer argument accepts:
- an AutoreleasingUnsafePointer value of matching element type, or
- an inout parameter of matching element type.
This disrupts some error messages in unrelated tests, which is tracked by <rdar://problem/17380520>.
Swift SVN r19008
Tweak the AST representation and type-checking of default arguments to preserve a full ConcreteDeclRef with substitutions to the owner of the default arguments. In SILGen, emit default argument generators with the same genericity as the original function.
Swift SVN r18760
One difficulty in generating reasonable diagnostic data for type check failures has been the fact that many constraints had been synthesized without regard for where they were rooted in the program source. The result of this was that even though we would store failure information for specific constraints, we wouldn't emit it for lack of a source location. By making location data a non-optional component of constraints, we can begin diagnosing type check errors closer to their point of failure.
Swift SVN r18751
We removed this feature when we changed casting syntax, but left it in
the type checker to help migrate code via a Fix-It. We no longer need
it.
Swift SVN r18729
There's a bit of a reshuffle of the ExplicitCastExpr subclasses:
- The existing ConditionalCheckedCastExpr expression node now represents
"as?".
- A new ForcedCheckedCastExpr node represents "as" when it is a
downcast.
- CoerceExpr represents "as" when it is a coercion.
- A new UnresolvedCheckedCastExpr node describes "as" before it has
been type-checked down to ForcedCheckedCastExpr or CoerceExpr. This
wasn't a strictly necessary change, but it helps us detangle what's
going on.
There are a few new diagnostics to help users avoid getting bitten by
as/as? mistakes:
- Custom errors when a forced downcast (as) is used as the operand
of postfix '!' or '?', with Fix-Its to remove the '!' or make the
downcast conditional (with as?), respectively.
- A warning when a forced downcast is injected into an optional,
with a suggestion to use a conditional downcast.
- A new error when the postfix '!' is used for a contextual
downcast, with a Fix-It to replace it with "as T" with the
contextual type T.
Lots of test updates, none of which felt like regressions. The new
tests are in test/expr/cast/optionals.swift.
Addresses <rdar://problem/17000058>
Swift SVN r18556
upcasts."
Reinstate "Restrict the array-bridged conversion to non-verbatim
bridging."
Reinstate "[stdlib] Fix T[].bridgeFromObjectiveC"
Reinstate "[stdlib] Fix T[].bridgeFromObjectiveC"
Reinstate "[stdlib] Move _arrayBridgedDownCast to Foundation"
Reinstate "Replace "can" with "cannot" in a message."
Reinstate "Implement support for non-verbatim T[] -> AnyObject[]
upcasts."
This reinstates commit r18291.
This reinstates commit r18290.
This reinstates commit r18288.
This reinstates commit r18287.
This reinstates commit r18286.
This reinstates commit r18293.
This reinstates commit r18283.
John fixed the issue in r18294.
Swift SVN r18299
Revert "Restrict the array-bridged conversion to non-verbatim bridging."
Revert "[stdlib] Fix T[].bridgeFromObjectiveC"
Revert "[stdlib] Fix T[].bridgeFromObjectiveC"
Revert "[stdlib] Move _arrayBridgedDownCast to Foundation"
Revert "Replace "can" with "cannot" in a message."
Revert "Implement support for non-verbatim T[] -> AnyObject[] upcasts."
This reverts commit r18291.
This reverts commit r18290.
This reverts commit r18288.
This reverts commit r18287.
This reverts commit r18286.
This reverts commit r18293.
This reverts commit r18283.
Sorry for the number of reverts, but I needed to do this many to get a clean
revert to r18283.
Swift SVN r18296
Previously, we were relying on overly-general subtyping to determine
when we could perform an array upcast, which pushed some non-verbatim
bridging through that path. Instead, restrict array upcasts to classes
and ObjC existentials, and use bridging casts for the other cases.
Swift SVN r18291
- Continue adding support for checked downcasts of array types (rdar://problem/16535104)
- Fix non-bridged array conversions post-r17868
- Fix rdar://problem/16773693
- Add tests for NSArray coercions to and from Array<T>
Swift SVN r17957
This is fairly ugly, because we're halfway between a-function-type-takes-a-tuple and a-function-type-takes-a-set-of-parameters. However, it's another step toward -strict-keyword-arguments.
Swift SVN r17727
Introduce a new locator kind for argument/parameter comparisons that
tracks both the argument and the parameter, which we will eventually
use in diagnostics more regularly. For now, this helps us smooth over
scalar-to-tuple/tuple-to-tuple/tuple-to-scalar nonsense when dealing
with calls.
Fix a pile of fallout from this change.
Swift SVN r17648
