When opaque values are enabled, TypeConverter associates to an
address-only type an OpaqueValueTypeLowering. That lowering stores a
single lowered SIL type, and its value category is "object". So long as
the module has not yet been address-lowered, that type has the
appropriate value category. After the module has been address-lowered,
however, that type has the wrong value category: the type is
address-only, and in an address-lowered module, its lowered type's value
category must be "address".
Code that obtains a lowered type expects the value category to reflect
the state of the module. So somewhere, it's necessary to fixup that
single lowered type's value category.
One option would be to update all code that uses lowered types. That
would require many changes across the codebase and all new code that
used lowered types would need to account for this.
Another option would be to update some popular conveniences that call
through to TypeConverter, for example those on SILFunction, and ensure
that all code used those conveniences. Even if this were done
completely, it would be easy enough for new code to be added which
didn't use the conveniences.
A third option would be to update TypeLowering::getLoweredType to take
in the context necessary to determine whether the stored SILType should
be fixed up. That would require each callsite to be changed and
potentially to carry around more context than it already had in order to
be able to pass it along.
A fourth option would be to make TypeConverter aware of the
address-loweredness, and to update its state at the end of
AddressLowering.
Updating TypeConverter's state would entail updating all cached
OpaqueValueTypeLowering instances at the end of the AddressLowering
pass. Additionally, when TypeConverter produces new
OpaqueValueTypeLowerings, they would need to have the "address" value
category from creation.
Of all the options, the last is least invasive and least error-prone, so
it is taken here.
The changes for https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/59787 introduced a circular depenendcy between the SIL library and the SILGen library. I have undone this in the cheapest way possible as I don't have bandwidth to look into a more correct fix at the moment.
non-throwing functions.
Activating swift-functions-errors tests
Inserting macros and additional parameters in C and C++ functions following the pattern to lowering to LLVM IR.
This change extends the clang header printer to start emitting C++ classes for Swift struct types with the correct struct layout in them (size + alignment)
