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.
Use ProtocolDescriptorRefs within the runtime representation of
existential type metadata (TargetExistentialTypeMetadata) instead of
bare protocol descriptor pointers. Start rolling out the use of
ProtocolDescriptorRef in a few places in the runtime that touch this
code. Note that we’re not yet establishing any strong invariants on
the TargetProtocolDescriptorRef instances.
While here, replace TargetExistentialTypeMetadata’s hand-rolled pointer
arithmetic with swift::ABI::TrailingObjects and centralize knowledge of
its layout better.
TargetProtocolDescriptorRef provides a reference to either a Swift or
an Objective-C protocol, using a spare bit to indicate which kind of
protocol it is. At present, the protocol descriptor also has this
information (so this is redundant), but that will change shortly.
There are no clients of TargetProtocolDescriptorRef yet.
Clang-importer-synthesized declarations get an extra tag character included in their mangling, which was not being preserved in type context descriptors. This caused runtime lookup for these synthesized types to fail. Fix this by adding the tag information to type context descriptors and teaching the runtime to match it up when fetching metadata by mangled name. Fixes rdar://problem/40878715.
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.
