John McCall c57dac63ae Use the first element of structs and tuples as a source ...

for extra inhabitants.

For structs in particular, this eliminates a major source
of abstraction penatlies.  For example, an optional struct
containing an object pointer is now represented the same
way as an optional object pointer, which is critical for
correctly importing CF types as Unmanaged<T>!.

In time, we should generalize this to consider all elements
as sources for extra inhabitants, as well as exploiting
spare bits in the representation, but getting the
single-element case right really provides the bulk of the
benefit.

This commit restores r17242 and r17243 with a fix to use
value witnesses that actually forward the right type metadata
down.  We were already generating these value witnesses in
the dependent struct VWT pattern, but I was being too clever
and trying to use the underlying value witness directly.

Swift SVN r17267

2014-05-02 20:17:14 +00:00

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