Rename `<*{mut,const} T>::as_{const,mut}` to `cast_`
This renames the methods to use the `cast_` prefix instead of `as_` to
make it more readable and avoid confusion with `<*mut T>::as_mut()`
which is `unsafe` and returns a reference.
Sorry, didn't notice ACP process exists, opened https://github.com/rust-lang/libs-team/issues/51
See #92675
make vtable pointers entirely opaque
This implements the scheme discussed in https://github.com/rust-lang/unsafe-code-guidelines/issues/338: vtable pointers should be considered entirely opaque and not even readable by Rust code, similar to function pointers.
- We have a new kind of `GlobalAlloc` that symbolically refers to a vtable.
- Miri uses that kind of allocation when generating a vtable.
- The codegen backends, upon encountering such an allocation, call `vtable_allocation` to obtain an actually dataful allocation for this vtable.
- We need new intrinsics to obtain the size and align from a vtable (for some `ptr::metadata` APIs), since direct accesses are UB now.
I had to touch quite a bit of code that I am not very familiar with, so some of this might not make much sense...
r? `@oli-obk`
This renames the methods to use the `cast_` prefix instead of `as_` to
make it more readable and avoid confusion with `<*mut T>::as_mut()`
which is `unsafe` and returns a reference.
See #92675
Changed wording in sections on "Reflexivity":
replaced "that is there is" with "i.e. there would be" and removed comma
before "with"
Reason: "there is" somewhat contradicted the "would be" hypothetical.
A slightly redundant wording has now been chosen for better clarity.
The comma seemed to be superfluous.
Improve the function pointer docs
This is #97842 but for function pointers instead of tuples. The concept is basically the same.
* Reduce duplicate impls; show `fn (T₁, T₂, …, Tₙ)` and include a sentence saying that there exists up to twelve of them.
* Show `Copy` and `Clone`.
* Show auto traits like `Send` and `Sync`, and blanket impls like `Any`.
https://notriddle.com/notriddle-rustdoc-test/std/primitive.fn.html
* Reduce duplicate impls; show only the `fn (T)` and include a sentence
saying that there exists up to twelve of them.
* Show `Copy` and `Clone`.
* Show auto traits like `Send` and `Sync`, and blanket impls like `Any`.
core::any: replace some generic types with impl Trait
This gives a cleaner API since the caller only specifies the concrete type they usually want to.
r? `@yaahc`
- Explicitly mention that `AsRef` and `AsMut` do not auto-dereference
generally for all dereferencable types (but only if inner type is a
shared and/or mutable reference)
- Give advice to not use `AsRef` or `AsMut` for the sole purpose of
dereferencing
- Suggest providing a transitive `AsRef` or `AsMut` implementation for
types which implement `Deref`
- Add new section "Reflexivity" in documentation comments for `AsRef`
and `AsMut`
- Provide better example for `AsMut`
- Added heading "Relation to `Borrow`" in `AsRef`'s docs to improve
structure
Issue #45742 and a corresponding FIXME in the libcore suggest that
`AsRef` and `AsMut` should provide a blanket implementation over
`Deref`. As that is difficult to realize at the moment, this commit
updates the documentation to better describe the status-quo and to give
advice on how to use `AsRef` and `AsMut`.
Fix `Skip::next` for non-fused inner iterators
`iter.skip(n).next()` will currently call `nth` and `next` in succession on `iter`, without checking whether `nth` exhausts the iterator. Using `?` to propagate a `None` value returned by `nth` avoids this.
Use split_once in FromStr docs
Current implementation:
```rust
fn from_str(s: &str) -> Result<Self, Self::Err> {
let coords: Vec<&str> = s.trim_matches(|p| p == '(' || p == ')' )
.split(',')
.collect();
let x_fromstr = coords[0].parse::<i32>()?;
let y_fromstr = coords[1].parse::<i32>()?;
Ok(Point { x: x_fromstr, y: y_fromstr })
}
```
Creating the vector is not necessary, `split_once` does the job better.
Alternatively we could also remove `trim_matches` with `strip_prefix` and `strip_suffix`:
```rust
let (x, y) = s
.strip_prefix('(')
.and_then(|s| s.strip_suffix(')'))
.and_then(|s| s.split_once(','))
.unwrap();
```
The question is how much 'correctness' is too much and distracts from the example. In a real implementation you would also not unwrap (or originally access the vector without bounds checks), but implementing a custom Error and adding a `From<ParseIntError>` and implementing the `Error` trait adds a lot of code to the example which is not relevant to the `FromStr` trait.
Add assertion that `transmute_copy`'s U is not larger than T
This is called out as a safety requirement in the docs, but because knowing this can be done at compile time and constant folded (just like the `align_of` branch is removed), we can just panic here.
I've looked at the asm (using `cargo-asm`) of a function that both is correct and incorrect, and the panic is completely removed, or is unconditional, without needing build-std.
I don't expect this to cause much breakage in the wild. I scanned through https://miri.saethlin.dev/ub for issues that would look like this (error: Undefined Behavior: memory access failed: alloc1768 has size 1, so pointer to 8 bytes starting at offset 0 is out-of-bounds), but couldn't find any.
That doesn't rule out it happening in crates tested that fail earlier for some other reason, though, but it indicates that doing this is rare, if it happens at all. A crater run for this would need to be build and test, since this is a runtime thing.
Also added a few more transmute_copy tests.
Rearrange slice::split_mut to remove bounds check
Closes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/86313
Turns out that all we need to do here is reorder the bounds checks to convince LLVM that all the bounds checks can be removed. It seems like LLVM just fails to propagate the original length information past the first bounds check and into the second one. With this implementation it doesn't need to, each check can be proven inbounds based on the one immediately previous.
I've gradually convinced myself that this implementation is unambiguously better based on the above logic, but maybe this is still deserving of a codegen test?
Also the mentioned borrowck limitation no longer seems to exist.
Add a special case for align_offset /w stride != 1
This generalizes the previous `stride == 1` special case to apply to any
situation where the requested alignment is divisible by the stride. This
in turn allows the test case from #98809 produce ideal assembly, along
the lines of:
leaq 15(%rdi), %rax
andq $-16, %rax
This also produces pretty high quality code for situations where the
alignment of the input pointer isn’t known:
pub unsafe fn ptr_u32(slice: *const u32) -> *const u32 {
slice.offset(slice.align_offset(16) as isize)
}
// =>
movl %edi, %eax
andl $3, %eax
leaq 15(%rdi), %rcx
andq $-16, %rcx
subq %rdi, %rcx
shrq $2, %rcx
negq %rax
sbbq %rax, %rax
orq %rcx, %rax
leaq (%rdi,%rax,4), %rax
Here LLVM is smart enough to replace the `usize::MAX` special case with
a branch-less bitwise-OR approach, where the mask is constructed using
the neg and sbb instructions. This appears to work across various
architectures I’ve tried.
This change ends up introducing more branches and code in situations
where there is less knowledge of the arguments. For example when the
requested alignment is entirely unknown. This use-case was never really
a focus of this function, so I’m not particularly worried, especially
since llvm-mca is saying that the new code is still appreciably faster,
despite all the new branching.
Fixes#98809.
Sadly, this does not help with #72356.
This generalizes the previous `stride == 1` special case to apply to any
situation where the requested alignment is divisible by the stride. This
in turn allows the test case from #98809 produce ideal assembly, along
the lines of:
leaq 15(%rdi), %rax
andq $-16, %rax
This also produces pretty high quality code for situations where the
alignment of the input pointer isn’t known:
pub unsafe fn ptr_u32(slice: *const u32) -> *const u32 {
slice.offset(slice.align_offset(16) as isize)
}
// =>
movl %edi, %eax
andl $3, %eax
leaq 15(%rdi), %rcx
andq $-16, %rcx
subq %rdi, %rcx
shrq $2, %rcx
negq %rax
sbbq %rax, %rax
orq %rcx, %rax
leaq (%rdi,%rax,4), %rax
Here LLVM is smart enough to replace the `usize::MAX` special case with
a branch-less bitwise-OR approach, where the mask is constructed using
the neg and sbb instructions. This appears to work across various
architectures I’ve tried.
This change ends up introducing more branches and code in situations
where there is less knowledge of the arguments. For example when the
requested alignment is entirely unknown. This use-case was never really
a focus of this function, so I’m not particularly worried, especially
since llvm-mca is saying that the new code is still appreciably faster,
despite all the new branching.
Fixes#98809.
Sadly, this does not help with #72356.
