Module rustc_middle::ty

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Defines how the compiler represents types internally.

Two important entities in this module are:

For more information, see “The ty module: representing types” in the rustc-dev-guide.

Re-exports

pub use self::fold::FallibleTypeFolder;
pub use self::fold::TypeFoldable;
pub use self::fold::TypeFolder;
pub use self::fold::TypeSuperFoldable;
pub use self::visit::TypeSuperVisitable;
pub use self::visit::TypeVisitable;
pub use self::visit::TypeVisitor;
pub use self::binding::BindingMode;
pub use self::trait_def::TraitDef;
pub use self::AssocItemContainer::*;
pub use self::BorrowKind::*;
pub use self::IntVarValue::*;
pub use self::Variance::*;
pub use self::AssocItemContainer::*;
pub use subst::*;
pub use vtable::*;
pub use rustc_type_ir::DynKind::*;
pub use rustc_type_ir::InferTy::*;
pub use rustc_type_ir::RegionKind::*;
pub use rustc_type_ir::TyKind::*;
pub use self::binding::BindingMode::*;
pub use self::sty::BoundRegionKind::*;

Modules

A subset of a mir body used for const evaluatability checking.
adt 🔒
assoc 🔒
closure 🔒
This module contains some shared code for encoding and decoding various things from the ty module, and in particular implements support for “shorthands” which allow to have pointers back into the already encoded stream instead of re-encoding the same thing twice.
consts 🔒
context 🔒
Type context book-keeping.
Diagnostics related methods for Ty.
A folding traversal mechanism for complex data structures that contain type information.
generics 🔒
impls_ty 🔒
This module contains HashStable implementations for various data types from rustc_middle::ty in no particular order.
instance 🔒
list 🔒
Methods for normalizing when you don’t care about regions (and aren’t doing type inference). If either of those things don’t apply to you, use infcx.normalize(...).
Generalized type relating mechanism.
This module contains implements of the Lift and TypeFoldable traits for various types in the Rust compiler. Most are written by hand, though we’ve recently added some macros and proc-macros to help with the tedium.
sty 🔒
This module contains TyKind and its major components.
Miscellaneous type-system utilities that are too small to deserve their own modules.
A visiting traversal mechanism for complex data structures that contain type information.
An iterator over the type substructure. WARNING: this does not keep track of the region depth.

Structs

The definition of a user-defined type, e.g., a struct, enum, or union.
Information about an associated item
A list of ty::AssocItems in definition order that allows for efficient lookup by name.
Binder is a binder for higher-ranked lifetimes or types. It is part of the compiler’s representation for things like for<'a> Fn(&'a isize) (which would be represented by the type PolyTraitRef == Binder<'tcx, TraitRef>). Note that when we instantiate, erase, or otherwise “discharge” these bound vars, we change the type from Binder<'tcx, T> to just T (see e.g., liberate_late_bound_regions).
Part of MinCaptureInformationMap; describes the capture kind (&, &mut, move) for a particular capture as well as identifying the part of the source code that triggered this capture to occur.
A composite describing a Place that is captured by a closure.
A closure can be modeled as a struct that looks like:
Struct returned by split().
Encodes that we have to coerce from the a type to the b type.
Use this rather than ConstS, whenever possible.
A type for representing any integer. Only used for printing.
Typed constant value.
A const variable ID.
A map for the local crate mapping each type to a vector of its inherent impls. This is not meant to be used outside of coherence; rather, you should request the vector for a specific type via tcx.inherent_impls(def_id) so as to minimize your dependencies (constructing this map requires touching the entire crate).
The crate outlives map is computed during typeck and contains the outlives of every item in the local crate. You should not use it directly, because to do so will make your pass dependent on the HIR of every item in the local crate. Instead, use tcx.inferred_outlives_of() to get the outlives for a particular item.
The crate variances map is computed during typeck and contains the variance of every item in the local crate. You should not use it directly, because to do so will make your pass dependent on the HIR of every item in the local crate. Instead, use tcx.variances_of() to get the variance for a particular item.
A De Bruijn index is a standard means of representing regions (and perhaps later types) in a higher-ranked setting. In particular, imagine a type like this:
A type that is not publicly constructable. This prevents people from making TyKind::Errors except through the error-reporting functions on a tcx.
The constituent parts of a type level constant of kind ADT or array.
A ProjectionPredicate for an ExistentialTraitRef.
An existential reference to a trait, where Self is erased. For example, the trait object Trait<'a, 'b, X, Y> is:
An floating-point (f32 or f64) type variable ID.
Signature of a function type, which we have arbitrarily decided to use to refer to the input/output types.
A “free” region fr can be interpreted as “some region at least as big as the scope fr.scope”.
Whenever a value may be live across a generator yield, the type of that value winds up in the GeneratorInteriorTypeCause struct. This struct adds additional information about such captured types that can be useful for diagnostics. In particular, it stores the span that caused a given type to be recorded, along with the scope that enclosed the value (which can be used to find the await that the value is live across).
Similar to ClosureSubsts; see the above documentation for more.
Bounds on generics.
Information about the formal type/lifetime parameters associated with an item or method. Analogous to hir::Generics.
The “header” of an impl is everything outside the body: a Self type, a trait ref (in the case of a trait impl), and a set of predicates (from the bounds / where-clauses).
An inline const is modeled like
Struct returned by split().
A monomorphized InstanceDef.
Represents the bounds declared on a particular set of type parameters. Should eventually be generalized into a flag list of where-clauses. You can obtain an InstantiatedPredicates list from a GenericPredicates by using the instantiate method. Note that this method reflects an important semantic invariant of InstantiatedPredicates: while the GenericPredicates are expressed in terms of the bound type parameters of the impl/trait/whatever, an InstantiatedPredicates instance represented a set of bounds for some particular instantiation, meaning that the generic parameters have been substituted with their values.
An integral (u32, i32, usize, etc.) type variable ID.
List<T> is a bit like &[T], but with some critical differences.
When type checking, we use the ParamEnv to track details about the set of where-clauses that are in scope at this particular point.
ParamTag 🔒
The “placeholder index” fully defines a placeholder region, type, or const. Placeholders are identified by both a universe, as well as a name residing within that universe. Distinct bound regions/types/consts within the same universe simply have an unknown relationship to one another.
Use this rather than PredicateS, whenever possible.
PredicateS 🔒
Represents a predicate.
This kind of predicate has no direct correspondent in the syntax, but it roughly corresponds to the syntactic forms:
Represents the projection of an associated type. In explicit UFCS form this would be written <T as Trait<..>>::N.
Use this rather than RegionKind, whenever possible.
A region (lifetime) variable ID.
Represents the repr options provided by the user,
Resolutions that should only be used for lowering. This struct is meant to be consumed by lowering.
RvalueScopes is a mapping from sub-expressions to extended lifetime as determined by rules laid out in rustc_typeck::check::rvalue_scopes.
The raw bytes of a simple value.
Collect al types that have an implicit 'static obligation that we could suggest '_ for.
Encodes that a must be a subtype of b. The a_is_expected flag indicates whether the a type is the type that we should label as “expected” when presenting user diagnostics.
Collect al types that have an implicit 'static obligation that we could suggest '_ for.
A complete reference to a trait. These take numerous guises in syntax, but perhaps the most recognizable form is in a where-clause:
Use this rather than TyS, whenever possible.
The central data structure of the compiler. It stores references to the various arenas and also houses the results of the various compiler queries that have been performed. See the rustc dev guide for more details.
TyS 🔒
Represents a type.
A type variable ID.
Flags that we track on types. These flags are propagated upwards through the type during type construction, so that we can quickly check whether the type has various kinds of types in it without recursing over the type itself.
An unevaluated, potentially generic, constant.
“Universes” are used during type- and trait-checking in the presence of for<..> binders to control what sets of names are visible. Universes are arranged into a tree: the root universe contains names that are always visible. Each child then adds a new set of names that are visible, in addition to those of its parent. We say that the child universe “extends” the parent universe with new names.
Upvars do not get their own NodeId. Instead, we use the pair of the original var ID (that is, the root variable that is referenced by the upvar) and the ID of the closure expression.
Definition of a variant – a struct’s fields or an enum variant.
A DefId which, in case it is a const argument, is potentially bundled with the DefId of the generic parameter it instantiates.

Enums

Represents the various closure traits in the language. This will determine the type of the environment (self, in the desugaring) argument that the closure expects.
Represents a constant in Rust.
Specifies how a trait object is represented.
An inference variable for a const, for use in const generics.
A placeholder for a type that hasn’t been inferred yet.
Representation of regions. Note that the NLL checker uses a distinct representation of regions. For this reason, it internally replaces all the regions with inference variables – the index of the variable is then used to index into internal NLL data structures. See rustc_const_eval::borrow_check module for more information.
Defines the kinds of types used by the type system.
Information describing the capture of an upvar. This is computed during typeck, specifically by regionck.
A user-given type annotation attached to a constant. These arise from constants that are named via paths, like Foo::<A>::new and so forth.
This datastructure is used to represent the value of constants used in the type system.
Extra information about why we ended up with a particular variance. This is only used to add more information to error messages, and has no effect on soundness. While choosing the ‘wrong’ VarianceDiagInfo may lead to confusing notes in error messages, it will never cause a miscompilation or unsoundness.

Constants

CONST_TAG 🔒
The shorthand encoding uses an enum’s variant index usize and is offset by this value so it never matches a real variant. This offset is also chosen so that the first byte is never < 0x80.
TAG_MASK 🔒
TYPE_TAG 🔒

Traits

Needed so we can use #[derive(HashStable_Generic)]
A trait implemented for all X<'a> types that can be safely and efficiently converted to X<'tcx> as long as they are part of the provided TyCtxt<'tcx>. This can be done, for example, for Ty<'tcx> or SubstsRef<'tcx> by looking them up in their respective interners.
Trait for decoding to a reference.

Functions

Return true if the proj_possible_ancestor represents an ancestor path to proj_capture or proj_possible_ancestor is same as proj_capture, assuming they both start off of the same root variable.
Yields the parent function’s LocalDefId if def_id is an impl Trait definition.
Suggest restricting a type param with a new bound.
Suggest restricting a type param with a new bound.

Type Definitions

Canonicalized user type annotation.
Mapping of type annotation indices to canonical user type annotations.
Given the closure DefId this map provides a map of root variables to minimum set of CapturedPlaces that need to be tracked to support all captures of that closure.
Part of MinCaptureInformationMap; List of CapturePlaces.
Part of MinCaptureInformationMap; Maps a root variable to the list of CapturedPlace. Used to track the minimum set of Places that need to be captured to support all Places captured by the closure starting at a given root variable.