According to @estebank, def_span scans forward on the line until it finds a {,
and if it can't find one, fallse back to the span for the whole item. This
was apparently written before the identifier span was explicitly tracked on
each node.
This means that if an unused function signature spans multiple lines, the
entire function (potentially hundreds of lines) gets flagged as dead code.
This could, for example, cause IDEs to add error squiggly's to the whole
function.
By using the span from the ident instead, we narrow the scope of this in
most cases. In a wider sense, it's probably safe to use ident.span
instead of def_span in most locations throughout the whole code base,
but since this is my first contribution, I kept it small.
Some interesting points that came up while I was working on this:
- I reorganized the tests a bit to bring some of the dead code ones all
into the same location
- A few tests were for things unrelated to dead code (like the
path-lookahead for parens), so I added #![allow(dead_code)] and
cleaned up the stderr file to reduce noise in the future
- The same fix doesn't apply to const and static declarations. I tried
adding these cases to the match expression, but that created a much
wider change to tests and error messages, so I left it off until I
could get some code review to validate the approach.
In preparation for incremental compilation this commit refactors the lint
handling infrastructure in the compiler to be more "eager" and overall more
incremental-friendly. Many passes of the compiler can emit lints at various
points but before this commit all lints were buffered in a table to be emitted
at the very end of compilation. This commit changes these lints to be emitted
immediately during compilation using pre-calculated lint level-related data
structures.
Linting today is split into two phases, one set of "early" lints run on the
`syntax::ast` and a "late" set of lints run on the HIR. This commit moves the
"early" lints to running as late as possible in compilation, just before HIR
lowering. This notably means that we're catching resolve-related lints just
before HIR lowering. The early linting remains a pass very similar to how it was
before, maintaining context of the current lint level as it walks the tree.
Post-HIR, however, linting is structured as a method on the `TyCtxt` which
transitively executes a query to calculate lint levels. Each request to lint on
a `TyCtxt` will query the entire crate's 'lint level data structure' and then go
from there about whether the lint should be emitted or not.
The query depends on the entire HIR crate but should be very quick to calculate
(just a quick walk of the HIR) and the red-green system should notice that the
lint level data structure rarely changes, and should hopefully preserve
incrementality.
Overall this resulted in a pretty big change to the test suite now that lints
are emitted much earlier in compilation (on-demand vs only at the end). This in
turn necessitated the addition of many `#![allow(warnings)]` directives
throughout the compile-fail test suite and a number of updates to the UI test
suite.
The 'run-pass' header cause a 'ui' test to execute the result. It is used
to test the lint output, at the same time ensure those lints won't cause
the source code to become compile-fail.
12 run-pass/run-pass-fulldeps tests gained the header and are moved to
ui/ui-fulldeps. After this move, no run-pass/run-pass-fulldeps tests should
rely on the compiler's JSON message. This allows us to stop passing
`--error-format json` in run-pass tests, thus fixing #36516.
2017-06-02 23:28:22 +08:00
Renamed from src/test/run-pass/path-lookahead.rs (Browse further)
