GCC Rust Weekly Status Report 28

Milestone Progress

Now that we have pushed through the core of Trait Resolution, we need to move on to more control flow work, including pattern matching, closures and finishing off operator overloading. We also have a goal test case in mind for the end of this milestone https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3/blob/master/reference_impl/reference_impl.rs which with some work, we can remove the dependencies on rustc standard libs by compiling with no_core and no_sts; thanks to Mark Wielaard for finding this nice example which does not rely on macro/cfg expansions. The goal here is to find bugs with actual rust projects; if anyone knows of code that does not rely on the standard library much and has no expansions, we will be interested in testing our compiler against it.

Overall, work on traits went well, even though I went over my initial estimate. It was valuable to stick with it to close out the remaining work. There are gaps here, such as the auto-traits and where constraints and operator overloading, but I found that these concepts need to be done as part of more control flow work since they deeply affect things like pattern matching and generic closures. Since I went over my initial estimate of September for core traits, I may need to rethink my initial target date for control flow two of the end of November this week as well.

Linux Plumbers 2021

I will be giving a talk about GCC Rust on the 20th September 2021 at 0900 (us-pacific-time). Find more information over on https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/contributions/911/

Thanks to Miguel Ojeda for reaching out to let me know about the Rust toolchain within the Kernel micro conference: https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/contributions/970:

You can view my talk here:

Detailed changelog

Autodref for the dot operator

This example looks similar to stuff we have been able to compile for a while, but we have added in support for the autoderef system such that we can compile this method if we have a reference or we don’t, so the compiler will inject the correct adjustments for the method call for the self argument to be correct. For more information please read: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nomicon/dot-operator.html

extern "C" {
    fn printf(s: *const i8, ...);
}

struct Foo(i32);
impl Foo {
    fn bar(&self, i: i32) {
        unsafe {
            let a = "%i\n\0";
            let b = a as *const str;
            let c = b as *const i8;

            printf(c, self.0 + i);
        }
    }
}

fn main() {
    let a = Foo(123);
    a.bar(1);

    let b = &Foo(456);
    b.bar(2);
}

https://godbolt.org/z/1heerndbs

Allow GCC to inline

When the Rust for Linux project posted a compiler explorer example comparing compilers it was noticed GCC Rust was missing a case for optimization, see the bug: https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/issues/547. This was due to all functions in GCC Rust being marked wrongly with DECL_UNINLINEABLE which stops GCC from performing all optimizations required. This is a useful flag, and will likely be used for the main-shim in rust, this ensures on stack unwinding there is frame information left on the stack. See https://godbolt.org/z/4fcf1sv7z

Dynamic Dispatch

We have added initial support for dynamic dispatch which adds code generation for coercion sites such as assignments to generate the vtable and trait object. https://godbolt.org/z/bvxE95rzY

extern "C" {
    fn printf(s: *const i8, ...);
}

struct Foo(i32);
trait Bar {
    fn baz(&self);
}

impl Bar for Foo {
    fn baz(&self) {
        unsafe {
            let a = "%i\n\0";
            let b = a as *const str;
            let c = b as *const i8;

            printf(c, self.0);
        }
    }
}

fn static_dispatch<T: Bar>(t: &T) {
    t.baz();
}

fn dynamic_dispatch(t: &dyn Bar) {
    t.baz();
}

fn main() {
    let a = &Foo(123);
    static_dispatch(a);

    let b: &dyn Bar = a;
    dynamic_dispatch(b);
}

Object Safety checks

As part of doing dynamic dispatch rust enforces rules on what type of traits are deemed object safe for example see:

struct Foo(i32);

trait Bar {
    const A: i32 = 123;
    fn B();
    fn C(&self);
}

pub fn main() {
    let a;
    a = Foo(123);

    let b: &dyn Bar = &a;
}

Here the trait Bar contains two trait items which are not object safe and this results in this error:

<source>:13:13: error: trait bound is not object safe
    4 |     const A: i32 = 123;
      |     ~        
    5 |     fn B();
      |     ~        
......
   13 |     let b: &dyn Bar = &a;
      |             ^

Here the trait B is object safe but its super-trait A is not so we result in an error such as:

struct Foo(i32);

trait A {
    const A: i32 = 123;
    fn B();
    fn C(&self);
}

trait B: A {
    fn test(&self);
}

pub fn main() {
    let a;
    a = Foo(123);

    let b: &dyn B = &a;
}
<source>:17:13: error: trait bound is not object safe
    3 | trait A {
      | ~            
......
   17 |     let b: &dyn B = &a;
      |             ^

Completed Activities

  • TraitObject Support PR684 PR680
  • Autoderef PR672 PR671
  • Fix bug with calling methods via type-bound PR679
  • Allow GCC to decide to inline PR673
  • Building blocks for V0 mangling support PR685
  • Fix bug with generics and unit-types PR674

Contributors this week

Excluding merges, 2 authors have pushed 18 commits to master and 18 commits to all branches. On master, 49 files have changed and there have been 1,811 additions and 172 deletions.

Overall Task Status

CategoryLast WeekThis WeekDelta
TODO8990+1
In Progress66
Completed186197+7
GitHub Issues

Test Cases

CategoryLast WeekThis WeekDelta
Passing43094425+116
XFAIL2121
make check-rust

Bugs

CategoryLast WeekThis WeekDelta
TODO1922+3
In Progress33
Completed6567+2
GitHub Bugs

Milestone Progress

MilestoneLast WeekThis WeekDeltaStart DateCompletion DateTarget
Data Structures 1 – Core100%100%30th Nov 202027th Jan 202129th Jan 2021
Control Flow 1 – Core100%100%28th Jan 202110th Feb 202126th Feb 2021
Data Structures 2 – Generics100%100%11th Feb 202114th May 202128th May 2021
Data Structures 3 – Traits95%100%+5%20th May 202117th Sept 202127th Aug 2021
Control Flow 2 – Pattern Matching0%0%20th Sept 202129th Nov 2021
Imports and Visibility0%0%TBD
Macros and cfg expansion0%0%TBD
Const Generics0%0%TBD
Intrinsics0%0%TBD
GitHub Milestones

Planned Activities

  • Give talk at LPC 2021
  • Plan out control flow 2
  • Begin work on closures

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