initialization in-place on demand. Initialize parent metadata
references correctly on struct and enum metadata.
Also includes several minor improvements related to relative
pointers that I was using before deciding to simply switch the
parent reference to an absolute reference to get better access
patterns.
Includes a fix since the earlier commit to make enum metadata
writable if they have an unfilled payload size. This didn't show
up on Darwin because "constant" is currently unenforced there in
global data containing relocations.
This patch requires an associated LLDB change which is being
submitted in parallel.
initialization in-place on demand. Initialize parent metadata
references correctly on struct and enum metadata.
Also includes several minor improvements related to relative
pointers that I was using before deciding to simply switch the
parent reference to an absolute reference to get better access
patterns.
This turns on the remote reflection metadata by default for swift
invocations and the standard library. The size delta for all of the
sections is:
Section __swift3_typeref: 20176
Section __swift3_reflstr: 2556
Section __swift3_fieldmd: 8172
Section __swift3_assocty: 18112
Recognizing that this is a nontrivial increase in binary size, we can
reduce this with a few methods:
- Trie for strings (typerefs and field names are both strings) but would
need an implementation
- Compress the entire sections: this would need an implementation
available on all platforms where we support the functionality.
- Don't use the AST mangler but a custom mangling, which may be slightly
more compact because it can specialize by need and maybe not include
some mangle nodes that typerefs don't need.
- Implement emission of type references for nominal type field
reflection, using a small custom encoder resulting in packed
structs, not strings. This will let us embed 7-bit encoded
32-bit relative offsets directly in the structure (not yet
hooked in).
- Use the AST Mangler for encoding type references
Archetypes and internal references were complicating this before, so we
can take the opportunity to reuse this machinery and avoid unique code
and new ABI.
Next up: Tests for reading the reflection sections and converting the
demangle tree into a tree of type references.
Todo: For concrete types, serialize the types for associated types of
their conformances to bootstrap the typeref substitution process.
rdar://problem/15617914
