- SILPackType carries whether the elements are stored directly
in the pack, which we're not currently using in the lowering,
but it's probably something we'll want in the final ABI.
Having this also makes it clear that we're doing the right
thing with substitution and element lowering. I also toyed
with making this a scalar type, which made it necessary in
various places, although eventually I pulled back to the
design where we always use packs as addresses.
- Pack boundaries are a core ABI concept, so the lowering has
to wrap parameter pack expansions up as packs. There are huge
unimplemented holes here where the abstraction pattern will
need to tell us how many elements to gather into the pack,
but a naive approach is good enough to get things off the
ground.
- Pack conventions are related to the existing parameter and
result conventions, but they're different on enough grounds
that they deserve to be separated.
These will never appear in the source language, but can arise
after substitution when the original type is a tuple type with
a pack expansion type.
Two examples:
- original type: (Int, T...), substitution T := {}
- original type: (T...), substitution T := {Int}
We need to model these correctly to maintain invariants.
Callers that previously used to rely on TupleType::get()
returning a ParenType now explicitly check for the one-element
case instead.
IRGen only implements box lowering for single-field boxes at the moment.
We can represent closure contexts that don't capture type info as just
capturing a tuple of the values, so let's do that for now to allow
for initial end-to-end testing of the pass.
- Add a `[reflection]` bit to `alloc_box` instructions, to indicate that a box
should be allocated with reflection metadata attached.
- Add a `@captures_generics` attribute to SILLayouts, to indicate a type layout
that captures the generic arguments it's substituted with, meaning it can
recreate the generic environment without additional ABI-level arguments, like
a generic partial application can.
This will turn `partial_apply` instructions into explicit box construction and
extraction code sequences. To begin with, recognize when a private function
is only used in partial applications and directly modify the function to be
usable as a closure invocation function. This simplifies the lowering in IRGen
and avoids generating a "partial application forwarder" thunk.
