Crate rustc_typeck

typeck

The type checker is responsible for:

1. Determining the type of each expression.
2. Resolving methods and traits.
3. Guaranteeing that most type rules are met. (“Most?”, you say, “why most?” Well, dear reader, read on.)

The main entry point is check_crate(). Type checking operates in several major phases:

1. The collect phase first passes over all items and determines their type, without examining their “innards”.

2. Variance inference then runs to compute the variance of each parameter.

3. Coherence checks for overlapping or orphaned impls.

4. Finally, the check phase then checks function bodies and so forth. Within the check phase, we check each function body one at a time (bodies of function expressions are checked as part of the containing function). Inference is used to supply types wherever they are unknown. The actual checking of a function itself has several phases (check, regionck, writeback), as discussed in the documentation for the check module.

The type checker is defined into various submodules which are documented independently:

• astconv: converts the AST representation of types into the ty representation.

• collect: computes the types of each top-level item and enters them into the tcx.types table for later use.

• coherence: enforces coherence rules, builds some tables.

• variance: variance inference

• outlives: outlives inference

• check: walks over function bodies and type checks them, inferring types for local variables, type parameters, etc as necessary.

• infer: finds the types to use for each type variable such that all subtyping and assignment constraints are met. In essence, the check module specifies the constraints, and the infer module solves them.

Note

This API is completely unstable and subject to change.

Modules

astconv 🔒

Conversion from AST representation of types to the ty.rs representation. The main routine here is ast_ty_to_ty(); each use is parameterized by an instance of AstConv.

bounds 🔒

Bounds are restrictions applied to some types after they’ve been converted into the ty form from the HIR.

check

typeck: check phase

check_unused 🔒

coherence 🔒

collect 🔒

“Collection” is the process of determining the type and other external details of each item in Rust. Collection is specifically concerned with inter-procedural things – for example, for a function definition, collection will figure out the type and signature of the function, but it will not visit the body of the function in any way, nor examine type annotations on local variables (that’s the job of type checking).

constrained_generic_params 🔒

errors 🔒

Errors emitted by typeck.

expr_use_visitor

A different sort of visitor for walking fn bodies. Unlike the normal visitor, which just walks the entire body in one shot, the ExprUseVisitor determines how expressions are being used.

hir_wf_check

impl_wf_check 🔒

This pass enforces various “well-formedness constraints” on impls. Logically, it is part of wfcheck – but we do it early so that we can stop compilation afterwards, since part of the trait matching infrastructure gets very grumpy if these conditions don’t hold. In particular, if there are type parameters that are not part of the impl, then coherence will report strange inference ambiguity errors; if impls have duplicate items, we get misleading specialization errors. These things can (and probably should) be fixed, but for the moment it’s easier to do these checks early.

mem_categorization 🔒

Categorization

outlives 🔒

structured_errors 🔒

variance 🔒

Module for inferring the variance of type and lifetime parameters. See the rustc dev guide chapter for more info.

Macros

type_error_struct

Functions

check_crate

check_for_entry_fn 🔒

check_main_fn_ty 🔒

check_start_fn_ty 🔒

hir_trait_to_predicates

hir_ty_to_ty

A quasi-deprecated helper used in rustdoc and clippy to get the type from a HIR node.

provide

require_c_abi_if_c_variadic 🔒

require_same_types 🔒