improve documentation for `Fn*` traits
This PR is not yet a serious attempt at contribution. Rather, I'm opening this for discussion. I can think of a few things we may want to accomplish with the documentation of the `Fn`, `FnMut`, and `FnOnce` traits:
- the relationship between these traits and the closures that implement them
- examples of non-closure implementations
- the relationship between these traits and Rust's ownership semantics
show how iterating over `RangeTo` and `RangeToInclusive` fails
Feedback on PR #35701 seems to be positive, so this does the same thing for `RangeTo` and `RangeToInclusive`.
Doc: explain why Box/Rc/Arc methods do not take self
This can be confusing for newcomers, especially due to the argument name `this` that is used for Rc and Arc.
Batch up libsyntax breaking changes
Batch of the following syntax-[breaking-change] changes:
- #35591: Add a field `span: Span` to `ast::Generics`.
- #35618: Remove variant `Mod` of `ast::PathListItemKind` and refactor the remaining variant `ast::PathListKind::Ident` to a struct `ast::PathListKind_`.
- #35480: Change uses of `Constness` in the AST to `Spanned<Constness>`.
- c.f. `MethodSig`, `ItemKind`
- #35728: Refactor `cx.pat_enum()` into `cx.pat_tuple_struct()` and `cx.pat_path()`.
- #35850: Generalize the elements of lists in attributes from `MetaItem` to a new type `NestedMetaItem` that can represent a `MetaItem` or a literal.
- #35917: Remove traits `AttrMetaMethods`, `AttributeMethods`, and `AttrNestedMetaItemMethods`.
- Besides removing imports of these traits, this won't cause fallout.
- Add a variant `Union` to `ItemKind` to future proof for `union` (c.f. #36016).
- Remove inherent methods `attrs` and `fold_attrs` of `Annotatable`.
- Use methods `attrs` and `map_attrs` of `HasAttrs` instead.
r? @Manishearth
rustbuild: smarter `git submodule`-ing
With this commit, if one bootstraps rust against system llvm then the
src/llvm submodule is not updated/checked-out. This saves considerable
network bandwith when starting from a fresh clone of rust-lang/rust as
the llvm submodule is never cloned.
cc #30107
r? @alexcrichton
cc @petevine
~~We could also avoid updating the jemalloc submodule if --disable-jemalloc is used. It just hasn't been implemented.~~ Done
This probably doesn't handle "recursive" submodules correctly but I think we don't have any of those right now.
I'm still testing a bootstrap but already confirmed that the llvm submodule doesn't get updated when `--llvm-root` is passed to `configure`.
Improve Demangling of Rust Symbols
This turns `..` into `::`, handles some more escapes and gets rid of unwanted underscores at the beginning of path elements.
Fix lifetime rules for 'if' conditions
Fixes#12033.
Changes the temporary scope rules to make the condition of an if-then-else a terminating scope. This is a [breaking-change].
Steps towards reproducible builds
cc #34902
Running `make dist` twice will result in a rustc tarball where only `librustc_back.so`, `librustc_llvm.so` and `librustc_trans.so` differ. Building `libstd` and `libcore` twice with the same compiler and flags produces identical artifacts.
The third commit should close#24473
Refactor `PathListItem`s
This refactors away variant `Mod` of `ast::PathListItemKind` and refactors the remaining variant `Ident` to a struct `ast::PathListItem_`.
