The Great Generics Generalisation: HIR Edition
This is essentially a followup to https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/45930, consolidating the use of separate lifetime and type vectors into single kinds vectors wherever possible. This is intended to provide more of the groundwork for const generics (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44580).
r? @eddyb
cc @yodaldevoid
Switch to bootstrapping from 1.27
It's possible the Float trait could be removed from core, but I couldn't tell whether it was intended to be removed or not. @SimonSapin may be able to comment more here; we can presumably also do that in a follow up PR as this one is already quite large.
rustdoc: deprecate `#![doc(passes, plugins, no_default_passes)]`
Closes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/48164
Blocked on https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/50541 - this includes those changes, which were necessary to create the UI test
cc https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44136
Turns out, there were special attributes to mess with rustdoc passes and plugins! Who knew! Since we deprecated the CLI flags for this functionality, it makes sense that we do the same for the attributes.
This PR also introduces a `#![doc(document_private_items)]` attribute, to match the `--document-private-items` flag introduced in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/44138 when the passes/plugins flags were deprecated.
I haven't done a search to see whether these attributes are being used at all, but if the flags were any indication, i don't expect to see any users of these.
rustdoc: replace most (e)println! statements with structured warnings/errors
Turns out, the rustc diagnostic handler doesn't need a whole lot of setup that we weren't already doing. For errors that occur outside a "dealing with source code" context, we can just use the format/color config we were already parsing and make up a `Handler` that we can emit structured warnings/errors from. So i did that. This will make it way easier to test things with `rustdoc-ui` tests, since those require the JSON error output. (In fact, this PR is a yak shave for a different one where i was trying to do just that. `>_>`)
Prevent broken pipes causing ICEs
As the private `std::io::print_to` panics if there is an I/O error, which is used by `println!`, the compiler would ICE if one attempted to use a broken pipe (e.g. `rustc --help | false`). This introduces a new (private) macro `try_println!` which allows us to avoid this.
As a side note, it seems this macro might be useful publicly (and actually there seems to be [a crate specifically for this purpose](https://crates.io/crates/try_print/)), though that can probably be left for a future discussion.
One slight alternative approach would be to simply early exit without an error (i.e. exit code `0`), which [this comment](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/34376#issuecomment-377822526) suggests is the usual approach. I've opted not to take that approach initially, because I think it's more helpful to know when there is a broken pipe.
Fixes#34376.
rustdoc: port the -C option from rustc
Blocked on https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/49864. The included test won't work without those changes, so this PR includes those commits as well.
When documenting items that require certain target features, it helps to be able to force those target features into existence. Rather than include a flag just to parse those features, i instead decided to port the `-C` flag from rustc in its entirety. It takes the same parameters, because it runs through the same parsing function. This has the added benefit of being able to control the codegen of doctests as well.
One concern i have with the flag is that i set it to stable here. My rationale is that it is a direct port of functionality on rustc that is currently stable, used only in mechanisms that it is originally used for. If needed, i can set it back to be unstable.
Merge the std_unicode crate into the core crate
[The standard library facade](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/27783) has historically contained a number of crates with different roles, but that number has decreased over time. `rand` and `libc` have moved to crates.io, and [`collections` was merged into `alloc`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/42648). Today we have `core` that applies everywhere, `std` that expects a full operating system, and `alloc` in-between that only requires a memory allocator (which can be provided by users)… and `std_unicode`, which doesn’t really have a reason to be separate anymore. It contains functionality based on Unicode data tables that can be large, but as long as relevant functions are not called the tables should be removed from binaries by linkers.
This deprecates the unstable `std_unicode` crate and moves all of its contents into `core`, replacing them with `pub use` reexports. The crate can be removed later. This also removes the `CharExt` trait (replaced with inherent methods in libcore) and `UnicodeStr` trait (merged into `StrExt`). There traits were both unstable and not intended to be used or named directly.
A number of new items are newly-available in libcore and instantly stable there, but only if they were already stable in libstd.
Fixes#49319.
Use sort_by_cached_key where appropriate
A follow-up to https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/48639, converting various slice sorting calls to `sort_by_cached_key` when the key functions are more expensive.
rustdoc: add an --edition flag to compile docs/doctests with a certain edition
To correspond with the 2018 edition, this adds a (currently unstable) `--edition` flag to rustdoc that makes it compile crates and doctests with the given edition. Once this lands, Cargo should be updated to pass this flag when the edition configuration option is given.
It looks like this cuts down on the number of dependencies in env_logger and
notably cuts out a difference between a shared dependency of rls/cargo. My goal
here is to ensure that when we compile the RLS/Cargo on CI we only compile Cargo
once, and this is one step towards that!
