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check.rs

1//! The pass: what walks the untyped tree and builds the typed one.
2//!
3//! Design: `spec/07-types-and-semantics.md`.
4//!
5//! The shape is the parser's, because the job is the same shape: a context of the things that do
6//! not change, a walk that holds the things that do, and one structure handed back at the end.
7//! What is different is that this walk has two trees, one it reads and one it writes, and the
8//! reason a node is copied across rather than annotated in place is that the two are not the
9//! same tree. A `p->x` is one node in the source and two here, an `int` meeting a `long` is
10//! three, and an array used as a pointer is a node that the source does not contain at all.
11//!
12//! # What is here so far
13//!
14//! Expressions, which is where the constraints of 6.5 live. The ones that name a type are in
15//! `check/expr/typeop.rs` and the rest are in `check/expr.rs`, which is a split by what the two
16//! do rather than by size: an operator that names a type asks the type builder a question first
17//! and most of them answer with a constant. The two that build an object rather than producing a
18//! value, which are the compound literal and GNU's cast to a union type, are in `check/init.rs`
19//! with the rest of initialization.
20//!
21//! Declarations, in `check/decl.rs`, which is what decides the linkage, the storage duration and
22//! the definition state of each name and what reconciles the declarations that share one. The
23//! type a declaration declares comes from `check/ty.rs`, through [`Checker::declared_type`] and
24//! [`Checker::type_name`], which fold a declarator onto the type a specifier list named.
25//!
26//! Statements, in `check/stmt.rs`, which is the one walk here that carries state: what encloses
27//! a statement is what decides whether it is allowed. The function definition is there too, since
28//! a body is the only thing a statement list is ever part of, and so is [`Checker::check_unit`],
29//! which walks a whole translation unit.
30//!
31//! Initialization, in `check/init.rs`, which turns the tree an initializer was parsed into
32//! into a flat list of what goes where. It is its own module because it is its own algorithm:
33//! a cursor over the object being initialized rather than a walk over the source, which is what
34//! makes brace elision, designation and a string literal filling an array all the same thing
35//! seen from different places. The compound literal is there too, since an unnamed object with
36//! an initializer is what it is.
37//!
38//! Folding is reachable from here through [`Checker::eval_constant`] and
39//! [`Checker::eval_integer`], and the checking asks for it in seven places: a narrowing
40//! conversion that changes the value, an `alignas`, a `static_assert`, the initializer of a
41//! `constexpr` object, a case label, the index of a designation, and each element of an
42//! initializer for an object that exists before the program runs.
43//!
44//! # Poisoning
45//!
46//! The rule is the parser's, in `spec/06-lexer-and-parser.md` section 6.8, and it is the same
47//! rule for the same reason. An expression that has been diagnosed becomes
48//! [`ExprKind::Error`](crate::ExprKind::Error), and an operator whose operand is poisoned is
49//! poisoned in turn without a word said about it. That is what keeps one undeclared name from
50//! producing an error for every operator it appears under, and it is why nothing below asks
51//! whether an error has already been reported: it asks whether the node in its hand is one.
52
53use rucc_ast::Ast;
54use rucc_base::{Interner, Symbol};
55use rucc_diag::{DEFAULT_ERROR_LIMIT, Diagnostic, Errors, Span};
56use rucc_session::Std;
57use rucc_target::TargetInfo;
58use rucc_types::{ArrayLen, IntKind, TypeId, TypeKind, Types, int_width};
59
60use crate::convert::Conv;
61use crate::decl::{Decl, DeclId, DeclKind, DeclList, Definition, Linkage, StorageDuration};
62use crate::eval::{Eval, NotConstant};
63use crate::expr::{Category, Expr, ExprId, ExprKind};
64use crate::scope::Scopes;
65use crate::tast::{Const, Tast};
66
67mod attr;
68mod builtin;
69mod decl;
70mod expr;
71mod init;
72mod stmt;
73mod ty;
74
75pub use crate::check::builtin::library_name;
76
77/// What the checking needs and does not change.
78#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
79pub struct Context<'a> {
80    /// The spellings, for the diagnostics that name an identifier.
81    pub names: &'a Interner,
82    /// What the target's types are, which every layout and every promotion is decided by.
83    pub target: &'a TargetInfo,
84    /// The dialect.
85    pub std: Std,
86    /// Whether the GNU extensions are on.
87    pub gnu: bool,
88    /// Whether `-pedantic` was given.
89    pub pedantic: bool,
90    /// How many errors to report before stopping, with zero meaning no limit.
91    pub error_limit: usize,
92}
93
94impl<'a> Context<'a> {
95    /// A context with the defaults, for a caller that has an interner and a target to hand.
96    #[must_use]
97    pub fn new(names: &'a Interner, target: &'a TargetInfo, std: Std) -> Context<'a> {
98        Context { names, target, std, gnu: true, pedantic: false, error_limit: DEFAULT_ERROR_LIMIT }
99    }
100}
101
102/// What one run of the checking produced.
103#[derive(Debug)]
104pub struct Checked {
105    /// The typed tree, which holds poisoned nodes where the source did not check.
106    pub tast: Tast,
107    /// The types, which the tree points into and which outlive it.
108    pub types: Types,
109    /// What went wrong, in the order it was found.
110    pub diagnostics: Vec<Diagnostic>,
111}
112
113impl Checked {
114    /// Whether anything was reported at an error severity.
115    #[must_use]
116    pub fn failed(&self) -> bool {
117        self.diagnostics.iter().any(|d| d.severity.is_fatal())
118    }
119}
120
121/// The checking pass.
122#[derive(Debug)]
123pub struct Checker<'a> {
124    pub(crate) ast: &'a Ast,
125    pub(crate) tast: Tast,
126    pub(crate) types: Types,
127    pub(crate) scopes: Scopes,
128    pub(crate) errors: Errors,
129    pub(crate) cx: Context<'a>,
130    /// What the type builder has already worked out, which is in `check/ty.rs` with the code
131    /// that fills it in.
132    pub(crate) built: ty::Built,
133    /// The function body being checked, absent everywhere else. What is in it is in
134    /// `check/stmt.rs`, which is the only code that reads it.
135    pub(in crate::check) body: Option<stmt::Body>,
136    /// The declarations whose initializers are being checked and whose types or values are not
137    /// known until that finishes, which is what C23 calls underspecified. A name is in scope
138    /// inside its own initializer, so this is what tells a reference to one from a use of the
139    /// object it will become. Nested, because a statement expression may declare another.
140    pub(in crate::check) underspecified: Vec<DeclId>,
141}
142
143impl<'a> Checker<'a> {
144    /// A checker over one untyped tree.
145    #[must_use]
146    pub fn new(ast: &'a Ast, cx: Context<'a>) -> Checker<'a> {
147        Checker {
148            ast,
149            tast: Tast::new(),
150            types: Types::new(),
151            scopes: Scopes::new(),
152            errors: Errors::new(cx.error_limit),
153            cx,
154            built: ty::Built::default(),
155            body: None,
156            underspecified: Vec::new(),
157        }
158    }
159
160    /// Checks a whole translation unit, which is what a compilation does.
161    ///
162    /// The declarations are checked in the order they were written, since that is the order the
163    /// scopes are built in and the order the diagnostics belong in.
164    pub fn check_unit(&mut self) {
165        // Copied out because it is a shared reference with the checker's own lifetime, so holding
166        // it does not borrow the checker that each declaration is checked through.
167        let ast = self.ast;
168        for &decl in ast.top_level() {
169            self.check_decl(decl);
170        }
171    }
172
173    /// Checks one expression and gives back the node it became.
174    ///
175    /// Always gives back a node. An expression that does not check is poisoned rather than
176    /// absent, so that the operators around it are still checked and the diagnostics they would
177    /// produce are still held back.
178    pub fn check_expr(&mut self, id: rucc_ast::ExprId) -> ExprId {
179        self.expr(id)
180    }
181
182    /// Folds a checked expression, reporting whatever the folding itself found wrong.
183    ///
184    /// # Errors
185    ///
186    /// [`NotConstant`] when the expression is not one. It is handed back rather than reported
187    /// because the message names the context: `case label does not reduce to an integer
188    /// constant` and `enumerator value for 'x' is not an integer constant` are two sentences
189    /// about the same failure, and only the caller knows which one to write.
190    pub fn eval_constant(&mut self, expr: ExprId) -> Result<Const, NotConstant> {
191        let mut eval = self.eval();
192        let value = eval.constant(expr);
193        self.absorb(eval.finish());
194        value
195    }
196
197    /// The same, for a context that needs an integer constant expression.
198    ///
199    /// # Errors
200    ///
201    /// [`NotConstant`] when the expression is not one, or is a constant of some other type.
202    pub fn eval_integer(&mut self, expr: ExprId) -> Result<i128, NotConstant> {
203        let mut eval = self.eval();
204        let value = eval.integer(expr);
205        self.absorb(eval.finish());
206        value
207    }
208
209    /// The tree, the types and the diagnostics.
210    #[must_use]
211    pub fn finish(self) -> Checked {
212        Checked { tast: self.tast, types: self.types, diagnostics: self.errors.finish() }
213    }
214
215    /// Declares an object in the current scope without a declaration to read it from.
216    ///
217    /// [`Checker::check_decl`] is what a translation unit goes through. This is for the caller
218    /// that wants to check one expression against names it has decided on itself, which is what
219    /// [`Checker::check_expr`] is for and what the tests here are built on.
220    pub fn declare_object(&mut self, name: Symbol, ty: TypeId, span: Span) -> DeclId {
221        let decl = self.object_decl(Some(name), ty, span);
222        self.scopes.declare(name, crate::scope::Binding::Decl(decl));
223        decl
224    }
225
226    /// An object with automatic storage that nothing can name.
227    ///
228    /// A parameter a definition left unnamed is the one of these there is, C23 6.7.7.4p1. The
229    /// object is there and the call passes it, and what it has no way of is being mentioned in
230    /// the body, so there is nothing to put in a scope and a declaration is all it is.
231    pub(crate) fn unnamed_object(&mut self, ty: TypeId, span: Span) -> DeclId {
232        self.object_decl(None, ty, span)
233    }
234
235    /// The declaration both of those are, which differ only in whether anything can say the name.
236    fn object_decl(&mut self, name: Option<Symbol>, ty: TypeId, span: Span) -> DeclId {
237        let kind = if rucc_types::is_function(&self.types, ty) {
238            DeclKind::Function
239        } else {
240            DeclKind::Object
241        };
242        self.tast.decl(
243            Decl {
244                name,
245                ty,
246                kind,
247                linkage: Linkage::None,
248                duration: StorageDuration::Automatic,
249                state: Definition::Defined,
250                alignment: None,
251                constant: false,
252                init: None,
253                params: DeclList::EMPTY,
254                body: None,
255            },
256            span,
257        )
258    }
259
260    /// The conversions, over this tree and these types.
261    pub(crate) fn conv(&mut self) -> Conv<'_> {
262        // The target is copied out first because it is a shared reference living as long as the
263        // context, so taking it does not borrow the checker the two mutable ones are taken from.
264        let target = self.cx.target;
265        Conv { tast: &mut self.tast, types: &mut self.types, target }
266    }
267
268    /// The constant folding, over this tree and these types.
269    pub(crate) fn eval(&self) -> Eval<'_> {
270        Eval::new(&self.tast, &self.types, self.cx.target, self.cx.names)
271    }
272
273    /// Reports a diagnostic.
274    pub(crate) fn report(&mut self, diagnostic: Diagnostic) {
275        self.errors.push(diagnostic);
276    }
277
278    /// Reports everything the folding found, which it collects rather than pushing itself
279    /// because it holds the tree while it runs and the error list is beside the tree.
280    pub(crate) fn absorb(&mut self, diagnostics: Vec<Diagnostic>) {
281        for diagnostic in diagnostics {
282            self.errors.push(diagnostic);
283        }
284    }
285
286    /// Whether a checked expression is one that was already the subject of a diagnostic.
287    pub(crate) fn is_poisoned(&self, id: ExprId) -> bool {
288        matches!(self.tast[id].kind, ExprKind::Error)
289    }
290
291    /// A poisoned expression, for the operand that did not check.
292    ///
293    /// Its type is `int` because every node has a type and there is no type meaning "no idea".
294    /// Nothing reads it, since every operator that meets a poisoned operand poisons itself
295    /// before it looks at what type the operand had.
296    pub(crate) fn poison(&mut self, span: Span) -> ExprId {
297        let int = self.types.int(IntKind::Int);
298        self.tast.expr(Expr::new(ExprKind::Error, int, Category::Rvalue), span)
299    }
300
301    /// How a type is written, for a diagnostic that names one.
302    pub(crate) fn spell(&self, ty: TypeId) -> String {
303        rucc_types::spell(&self.types, self.cx.names, ty)
304    }
305
306    /// What a name is spelled, for a diagnostic that quotes one.
307    pub(crate) fn text(&self, name: Symbol) -> &str {
308        self.cx.names.resolve(name)
309    }
310
311    /// `int`, which is the type of every comparison and of `!`.
312    pub(crate) fn int(&self) -> TypeId {
313        self.types.int(IntKind::Int)
314    }
315
316    /// The type `sizeof` and `alignof` answer in, and the one an offset is measured in.
317    ///
318    /// Derived the same way [`Checker::ptrdiff`] is and for the same reason, since `size_t` is
319    /// the unsigned type as wide as a pointer on every target this compiles for and asking the
320    /// widths keeps the two from disagreeing about which one that is.
321    pub(crate) fn size_type(&self) -> TypeId {
322        let width = self.cx.target.pointer_width;
323        for kind in [IntKind::UInt, IntKind::ULong, IntKind::ULongLong] {
324            if int_width(kind, self.cx.target) >= width {
325                return self.types.int(kind);
326            }
327        }
328        self.types.int(IntKind::ULongLong)
329    }
330
331    /// Whether a type's size is worked out where it is reached rather than here.
332    ///
333    /// True for an array whose length is an expression, however deep it is: `int a[n][3]` is one
334    /// and so is `int a[3][n]`. Shared between the operator that measures a type and the
335    /// declaration that has to decide whether the object can live anywhere but the stack.
336    pub(crate) fn is_variable_length(&self, ty: TypeId) -> bool {
337        match self.types.kind(self.types.canonical(ty)) {
338            TypeKind::Array { elem, len } => {
339                matches!(len, ArrayLen::Variable(_)) || self.is_variable_length(elem)
340            }
341            _ => false,
342        }
343    }
344
345    /// Whether a type is variably modified, which is a variable length array or anything built
346    /// out of one.
347    ///
348    /// `int a[n]` is one and so is `int (*p)[n]`, which is where this differs from
349    /// [`Checker::is_variable_length`]: the pointer has the size every pointer has, and the
350    /// thing it points at has a size the program worked out where the declaration was. That is
351    /// why C says a jump may not enter the scope of either of them.
352    pub(crate) fn is_variably_modified(&self, ty: TypeId) -> bool {
353        match self.types.kind(self.types.canonical(ty)) {
354            TypeKind::Array { elem, len } => {
355                matches!(len, ArrayLen::Variable(_)) || self.is_variably_modified(elem)
356            }
357            TypeKind::Pointer(pointee) => self.is_variably_modified(pointee),
358            _ => false,
359        }
360    }
361
362    /// The type of the difference between two pointers.
363    ///
364    /// Derived rather than stored, because `ptrdiff_t` is whatever signed type is as wide as a
365    /// pointer and that is `long` on every LP64 target and `long long` on Windows, which is the
366    /// same fact `long_width` already records. Asking the widths keeps the two from disagreeing.
367    pub(crate) fn ptrdiff(&self) -> TypeId {
368        let width = self.cx.target.pointer_width;
369        for kind in [IntKind::Int, IntKind::Long, IntKind::LongLong] {
370            if int_width(kind, self.cx.target) >= width {
371                return self.types.int(kind);
372            }
373        }
374        self.types.int(IntKind::LongLong)
375    }
376}