In debug configurations, fatal error messages include file & line number information. This update presents this information in a format matching the diagnostic conventions used by the compiler, which can be a slight productivity boost.
Code compiled with optimizations enabled (which is most production code) does not output this information, so it isn’t affected by this change.
Original format:
Fatal error: A suffusion of yellow: file calc.swift, line 5
New format:
calc.swift:5: Fatal error: A suffusion of yellow
Resolves rdar://68484891
Optimize the unconditional_checked_cast_addr in this pattern:
%box = alloc_existential_box $Error, $ConcreteError
%a = project_existential_box $ConcreteError in %b : $Error
store %value to %a : $*ConcreteError
%err = alloc_stack $Error
store %box to %err : $*Error
%dest = alloc_stack $ConcreteError
unconditional_checked_cast_addr Error in %err : $*Error to ConcreteError in %dest : $*ConcreteError
to:
...
retain_value %value : $ConcreteError
destroy_addr %err : $*Error
store %value to %dest $*ConcreteError
This lets the alloc_existential_box become dead and it can be removed in following optimizations.
The same optimization is also done for conditional_checked_cast_addr.
There is also an implication for debugging:
Each "throw" in the code calls the runtime function swift_willThrow. The function is used by the debugger to set a breakpoint and also add hooks.
This optimization can completely eliminate a "throw", including the runtime call.
So, with optimized code, the user might not see the program to break at a throw, whereas in the source code it is actually throwing.
On the other hand, eliminating the existential box is a significant performance win and we don't guarantee any debugging behavior for optimized code anyway. So I think this is a reasonable trade-off.
I added an option "-Xllvm -keep-will-throw-call" to keep the runtime call which can be used if someone want's to reliably break on "throw" in optimized builds.
rdar://problem/66055678
This adjusts the standard library test suite to mostly pass on Windows.
The remaining failures are due to various cases:
- memory corruption (`_swift_stdlib_free` in swiftDemangle)
- heap corruption (canGrowUsingRealloc)
- withVAList failure (unresolved)
- unicode handling on the command line
When working with Error types with unsigned raw values, numeric-cast into
a UInt and then map the bits over to an Int so we preserve values not
representable in an Int without wrapping.
Thanks to @jrose-apple for pointing this out!
From the Swift documentation:
"If you define an optional variable without providing a default value,
the variable is automatically set to nil for you."
