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John McCall committed bf75beeb7a3
Begin formal accesses on l-value arguments immediately before the call instead of during the formal evaluation of the argument. This is the last major chunk of the semantic changes proposed in the accessors document. It has two purposes, both related to the fact that it shortens the duration of the formal access. First, the change isolates later evaluations (as long as they precede the call) from the formal access, preventing them from spuriously seeing unspecified behavior. For example:: foo(&array[0], bar(array)) Here the value passed to bar is a proper copy of 'array', and if bar() decides to stash it aside, any modifications to 'array[0]' made by foo() will not spontaneously appear in the copy. (In contrast, if something caused a copy of 'array' during foo()'s execution, that copy would violate our formal access rules and would therefore be allowed to have an arbitrary value at index 0.) Second, when a mutating access uses a pinning addressor, the change limits the amount of arbitrary code that falls between the pin and unpin. For example:: array[0] += countNodes(subtree) Previously, we would begin the access to array[0] before the call to countNodes(). To eliminate the pin and unpin, the optimizer would have needed to prove that countNodes didn't access the same array. With this change, the call is evaluated first, and the access instead begins immediately before the call to +=. Since that operator is easily inlined, it becomes straightforward to eliminate the pin/unpin. A number of other changes got bundled up with this in ways that are hard to tease apart. In particular: - RValueSource is now ArgumentSource and can now store LValues. - It is now illegal to use emitRValue to emit an l-value. - Call argument emission is now smart enough to emit tuple shuffles itself, applying abstraction patterns in reverse through the shuffle. It also evaluates varargs elements directly into the array. - AllowPlusZero has been split in two. AllowImmediatePlusZero is useful when you are going to immediately consume the value; this is good enough to avoid copies/retains when reading a 'var'. AllowGuaranteedPlusZero is useful when you need a stronger guarantee, e.g. when arbitrary code might intervene between evaluation and use; it's still good enough to avoid copies from a 'let'. The upshot is that we're now a lot smarter about generally avoiding retains on lets, but we've also gotten properly paranoid about calling non-mutating methods on vars. (Note that you can't necessarily avoid a copy when passing something in a var to an @in_guaranteed parameter! You first have to prove that nothing can assign to the var during the call. That should be easy as long as the var hasn't escaped, but that does need to be proven first, so we can't do it in SILGen.) Swift SVN r24709