Joe Groff 5c404acbde SIL: More robust substituted function type lowering. ...

This change separates out the formation of the generic signature and
substitutions for a SIL substituted function type as a pre-pass
before doing the actual function type lowering. The only input we
really need to form this signature is the original abstraction pattern
that a type is being lowered against, and pre-computing it should make
the code less side-effecty and confusing. It also allows us to handle
generic nominal types in a more robust way; we transfer over all of
the nominal type requirements to the generalized generic signature,
then when recursively visiting the bindings, we same-type-constrain
the generic parameters used in those requirements to the newly-generalized
generic arguments. This ensures that the minimized signature preserves
any non-trivial requirements imposed by the nominal type, such as
conditional conformances on its type arguments, same-type constraints
among associated types, etc.

This approach does lead to less-than-optimal generalized generic
signatures getting generated, since nominal type generic arguments
get same-type-bound either to other generic arguments or fixed to
concrete types almost always. It would be useful to do a minimization
pass on the final generic signature to eliminate these unnecessary
generic arguments, but that can be done in a follow-up PR.

2021-11-10 12:45:34 -08:00

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