Consider a class hierarchy like the following:
class Base {
func m1() {}
func m2() {}
}
class Derived : Base {
override func m2() {}
func m3() {}
}
The SIL vtable for 'Derived' now records that the entry for m1
is inherited, the entry for m2 is an override, and the entry
for m3 is a new entry:
sil_vtable Derived {
#Base.m1!1: (Base) -> () -> () : _T01a4BaseC2m1yyF [inherited]
#Base.m2!1: (Base) -> () -> () : _T01a7DerivedC2m2yyF [override]
#Derived.m3!1: (Derived) -> () -> () : _T01a7DerivedC2m3yyF
}
This additional information will allow IRGen to emit the vtable
for Derived resiliently, without referencing the symbol for
the inherited method m1() directly.
For this we need to store the linkage of the “original” method implementation in the vtable.
Otherwise DeadFunctionElimination thinks that the method implementation is not public but private (which is the linkage of the thunk).
The big part of this change is to extend SILVTable to store the linkage (+ serialization, printing, etc.).
fixes rdar://problem/29841635
If vtable or witness methods are never called, e.g. because they are completely devirtualized,
then they are removed from the tables and eliminated.
Another improvement of the new algorithm is that it is able to eliminate dead function cycles
(e.g. A() calls B() and vice versa).
Swift SVN r22969
When we walk a ClassDecl, generate its vtable, first pulling in decls from its ancestor classes, then overlaying overridden or new decls as we discover them.
Swift SVN r8947
These will provide a SIL-level representation of class_method dispatch, mapping from dynamically-dispatched SILDeclRefs to SILFunctions so that devirtualization passes will be able to promote a class_method for a statically-known type to a function_ref without going all the way back to the AST.
Swift SVN r8943
