Set up a separate libSwiftStubs.a archive for C++ stub functionality that's needed by the standard library but not part of the core runtime interface. Seed it with the Stubs.cpp and LibcShims.cpp files, which consist only of stubs, though a few stubs are still strewn across the runtime code base.
The swift_unknown* entry points are not available on the Linux port.
Previously we would still attempt to use them in a couple of cases:
1) Foreign classes
2) Existentials and archetypes
3) Optionals of boxed existentials
Note that this patch changes IRGen to never emit the
swift_errorRelease/Retain entry points on Linux. We would like to
use them in the future if we ever adopt a tagged-pointer representation
for small errors. In this case, they can be brought back, and the
TypeInfo for optionals will need to be generalized to propagate the
reference counting of the payload type, instead of defaulting to
unknown if the payload type is not natively reference counted.
A similar change will need to be made to support blocks, if we ever
want to use the blocks runtime on Linux.
Fixes <rdar://problem/23335318>, <rdar://problem/23335537>,
<rdar://problem/23335453>.
This will let us eventually do tagged pointer optimization for small error values. We don't take advantage of this in IRGen yet, but we can take advantage of it in the dynamic cast code in a few places, so it gets exercised, and doing this now will let us backward-deploy the optimization when we do implement it in the future.
After this commit, swift_retain will return no reference and LLVMARCContract pass is modified NOT to rewrite
swift_retain_noresult to old swift_retain which forwarded the reference.
Swift SVN r32075
I asked that the patches were split up so I could do post commit review.
This reverts commit r32059.
This reverts commit r32058.
This reverts commit r32056.
This reverts commit r32055.
Swift SVN r32060
Implement these backstops in the stdlib instead of the runtime, where we can at least interpolate the error value and give a slightly more informative error. Could still be improved by handing the source location down from the point of the crash instead of using the location from the stdlib source. Somewhat addresses rdar://problem/20807523.
Swift SVN r29401