Remove `SymbolStr`
This was originally proposed in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/74554#discussion_r466203544. As well as removing the icky `SymbolStr` type, it allows the removal of a lot of `&` and `*` occurrences.
Best reviewed one commit at a time.
r? `@oli-obk`
`render/context` always runs after `run_global_context`, so it was always set to `true`.
This is a holdover from when rustdoc allowed configuring passes, but the `collapse-docs` pass was
removed ages ago, and the ability to configure passes is about to be removed.
I would like to rename it to `Type::Path`, but then it can't be
re-exported since the name would conflict with the `Path` struct.
Usually enum variants are referred to using their qualified names in
Rust (and parts of rustdoc already do that with `clean::Type`), so this
is also more consistent with the language.
Before, if `register_res` were called on an associated item or enum
variant, it would return the parent's `DefId`. Now, it returns the
actual `DefId`.
This change is a step toward removing `Type::ResolvedPath.did` and
potentially removing `kind_side_channel` in rustdoc. It also just
simplifies rustdoc's behavior.
It is only used in one place; `src` was about a third of `Crate`'s total
size; `Crate` is frequently moved by-value; and `src` can be easily
computed on-demand.
The change to `impl Clean<Path> for hir::TraitRef<'_>` was necessary to
fix a test failure for `src/test/rustdoc/trait-alias-mention.rs`.
Here's why:
The old code path was through `impl Clean<Type> for hir::TraitRef<'_>`,
which called `resolve_type`, which in turn called `register_res`. Now,
because `PolyTrait` uses a `Path` instead of a `Type`, the impl of
`Clean<Path>` was being run, which did not call `register_res`, causing
the trait alias to not be recorded in the `external_paths` cache.
It was only used for sugaring `Fn` trait bounds, and rustdoc already
checks that the `did` is for a `Fn` (or `FnMut`, `FnOnce`) lang item,
so it's not necessary to also check that the `did` belongs to a trait.
The order of the `where` bounds on auto trait impls changed because
rustdoc currently sorts auto trait `where` bounds based on the `Debug`
output for the bound. Now that the bounds have an actual `Res`, they are
being unintentionally sorted by their `DefId` rather than their path.
So, I had to update a test for the change in ordering of the rendered
bounds.
rustdoc: link to stable/beta docs consistently in documentation
This is an alternative to https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/84941 which fixes the problem consistently by linking to stable/beta for *all* items, not just for primitives.
## User-facing changes
- Intra-doc links to primitives that currently go to rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.x.html will start going to channel that rustdoc was built with. Nightly will continue going to /nightly; Beta will link to /beta; stable compilers will link to /1.52.1 (or whatever version they were built as).
- Cross-crate links from std to core currently go to /nightly unconditionally. They will start going to /1.52.0 on stable channels (but remain the same on nightly channels).
- Intra-crate links from std to std (or core to core) currently go to the same URL they are hosted at; they will continue to do so. Notably, this is different from everything else because it can preserve the distinction between /stable and /1.52.0 by using relative links.
Note that "links" includes both intra-doc links and rustdoc's own
automatically generated hyperlinks.
## Implementation changes
- Update the testsuite to allow linking to /beta and /1.52.1 in docs
- Use an html_root_url for the standard library that's dependent on the channel
This avoids linking to nightly docs on stable.
- Update rustdoc to use channel-dependent links for primitives from an
unknown crate
- Set DOC_RUST_LANG_ORG_CHANNEL from bootstrap to ensure it's in sync
- Include doc.rust-lang.org in the channel
cc Mark-Simulacrum - I know [you were dubious about this in the past](https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Rustdoc.20unconditionally.20links.20to.20nightly.20libstd.20docs/near/231223124), but I'm not quite sure why? I see this as "just a bugfix", I don't know why rustdoc should unconditionally link to nightly.
cc dtolnay who commented in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/30693:
> I would welcome a PR to solve this permanently if anyone has ideas for how. I don't believe we need an RFC.
Fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/30693 (note that issue is marked as feature-accepted, although I don't see where it was discussed).
Make match in `register_res` easier to read
- Don't duplicate DefKind -> ItemType handling; that's a good way to get bugs
- Use exhaustive match
- Add comments
This found that register_res is very wrong in at least one way: if it
registers a Res for `Variant`, it should also register one for `Field`.
But I don't know whether the one for Variant should be removed or Field
added. Maybe someone has ideas?
Found while reviewing https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/84176.
## User-facing changes
- Intra-doc links to primitives that currently go to rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.x.html will start going to channel that rustdoc was built with. Nightly will continue going to /nightly; Beta will link to /beta; stable compilers will link to /1.52.1 (or whatever version they were built as).
- Cross-crate links from std to core currently go to /nightly unconditionally. They will start going to /1.52.0 on stable channels (but remain the same on nightly channels).
- Intra-crate links from std to std (or core to core) currently go to the same URL they are hosted at; they will continue to do so. Notably, this is different from everything else because it can preserve the distinction between /stable and /1.52.0 by using relative links.
Note that "links" includes both intra-doc links and rustdoc's own
automatically generated hyperlinks.
## Implementation changes
- Update the testsuite to allow linking to /beta and /1.52.1 in docs
- Use an html_root_url for the standard library that's dependent on the channel
This avoids linking to nightly docs on stable.
- Update rustdoc to use channel-dependent links for primitives from an
unknown crate
- Set DOC_RUST_LANG_ORG_CHANNEL from bootstrap to ensure it's in sync
- Include doc.rust-lang.org in the channel
