Auto merge of #25888 - steveklabnik:rollup, r=steveklabnik

- Successful merges: #25788, #25861, #25864, #25865, #25866, #25873, #25876, #25883, #25886
- Failed merges:

src/doc/style/features/functions-and-methods/README.md

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ for any operation that is clearly associated with a particular
 type.
 
 Methods have numerous advantages over functions:
+
 * They do not need to be imported or qualified to be used: all you
   need is a value of the appropriate type.
 * Their invocation performs autoborrowing (including mutable borrows).

src/doc/style/features/functions-and-methods/input.md

@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ fn foo(a: u8) { ... }
 Note that
 [`ascii::Ascii`](http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/std/ascii/struct.Ascii.html)
 is a _wrapper_ around `u8` that guarantees the highest bit is zero; see
-[newtype patterns]() for more details on creating typesafe wrappers.
+[newtype patterns](../types/newtype.md) for more details on creating typesafe wrappers.
 
 Static enforcement usually comes at little run-time cost: it pushes the
 costs to the boundaries (e.g. when a `u8` is first converted into an

src/doc/style/features/let.md

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Prefer
 
 ```rust
 let foo = match bar {
-    Baz  => 0,
+    Baz => 0,
     Quux => 1
 };
 ```
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ over
 ```rust
 let foo;
 match bar {
-    Baz  => {
+    Baz => {
         foo = 0;
     }
     Quux => {
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ conditional expression.
 Prefer
 
 ```rust
-s.iter().map(|x| x * 2)
-        .collect::<Vec<_>>()
+let v = s.iter().map(|x| x * 2)
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>();
 ```
 
 over

src/doc/style/ownership/builders.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ If `T` is such a data structure, consider introducing a `T` _builder_:
    value. When possible, choose a better name: e.g. `Command` is the builder for
    `Process`.
 2. The builder constructor should take as parameters only the data _required_ to
-   to make a `T`.
+   make a `T`.
 3. The builder should offer a suite of convenient methods for configuration,
    including setting up compound inputs (like slices) incrementally.
    These methods should return `self` to allow chaining.

src/doc/trpl/README.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ language would.
 
 [rust]: http://rust-lang.org
 
-“The Rust Programming Language” is split into seven sections. This introduction
+“The Rust Programming Language” is split into eight sections. This introduction
 is the first. After this:
 
 * [Getting started][gs] - Set up your computer for Rust development.

src/doc/trpl/glossary.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ In the example above `x` and `y` have arity 2. `z` has arity 3.
 
 When a compiler is compiling your program, it does a number of different
 things. One of the things that it does is turn the text of your program into an
-‘abstract syntax tree’, or‘AST’. This tree is a representation of the
+‘abstract syntax tree’, or ‘AST’. This tree is a representation of the
 structure of your program. For example, `2 + 3` can be turned into a tree:
 
 ```text

src/doc/trpl/lifetimes.md

@@ -134,8 +134,29 @@ x: &'a i32,
 # }
 ```
 
-uses it. So why do we need a lifetime here? We need to ensure that any
-reference to the contained `i32` does not outlive the containing `Foo`.
+uses it. So why do we need a lifetime here? We need to ensure that any reference
+to a `Foo` cannot outlive the reference to an `i32` it contains.
+
+If you have multiple references, you can use the same lifetime multiple times:
+
+```rust
+fn x_or_y<'a>(x: &'a str, y: &'a str) -> &'a str {
+#    x
+# }
+```
+
+This says that `x` and `y` both are alive for the same scope, and that the
+return value is also alive for that scope. If you wanted `x` and `y` to have
+different lifetimes, you can use multiple lifetime parameters:
+
+```rust
+fn x_or_y<'a, 'b>(x: &'a str, y: &'b str) -> &'a str {
+#    x
+# }
+```
+
+In this example, `x` and `y` have different valid scopes, but the return value
+has the same lifetime as `x`.
 
 ## Thinking in scopes
 

src/doc/trpl/method-syntax.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Functions are great, but if you want to call a bunch of them on some data, it
 can be awkward. Consider this code:
 
 ```rust,ignore
-baz(bar(foo)));
+baz(bar(foo));
 ```
 
 We would read this left-to right, and so we see ‘baz bar foo’. But this isn’t the

src/doc/trpl/traits.md

@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ fn bar<T, K>(x: T, y: K) where T: Clone, K: Clone + Debug {
 
 fn main() {
     foo("Hello", "world");
-    bar("Hello", "workd");
+    bar("Hello", "world");
 }
 ```
 

src/libcore/mem.rs

@@ -52,20 +52,61 @@
 /// * `mpsc::{Sender, Receiver}` cycles (they use `Arc` internally)
 /// * Panicking destructors are likely to leak local resources
 ///
+/// # When To Use
+///
+/// There's only a few reasons to use this function. They mainly come
+/// up in unsafe code or FFI code.
+///
+/// * You have an uninitialized value, perhaps for performance reasons, and
+///   need to prevent the destructor from running on it.
+/// * You have two copies of a value (like `std::mem::swap`), but need the
+///   destructor to only run once to prevent a double free.
+/// * Transferring resources across FFI boundries.
+///
 /// # Example
 ///
+/// Leak some heap memory by never deallocating it.
+///
+/// ```rust
+/// use std::mem;
+///
+/// let heap_memory = Box::new(3);
+/// mem::forget(heap_memory);
+/// ```
+///
+/// Leak an I/O object, never closing the file.
+///
 /// ```rust,no_run
 /// use std::mem;
 /// use std::fs::File;
 ///
-/// // Leak some heap memory by never deallocating it
-/// let heap_memory = Box::new(3);
-/// mem::forget(heap_memory);
-///
-/// // Leak an I/O object, never closing the file
 /// let file = File::open("foo.txt").unwrap();
 /// mem::forget(file);
 /// ```
+///
+/// The swap function uses forget to good effect.
+///
+/// ```rust
+/// use std::mem;
+/// use std::ptr;
+///
+/// fn swap<T>(x: &mut T, y: &mut T) {
+///     unsafe {
+///         // Give ourselves some scratch space to work with
+///         let mut t: T = mem::uninitialized();
+///
+///         // Perform the swap, `&mut` pointers never alias
+///         ptr::copy_nonoverlapping(&*x, &mut t, 1);
+///         ptr::copy_nonoverlapping(&*y, x, 1);
+///         ptr::copy_nonoverlapping(&t, y, 1);
+///
+///         // y and t now point to the same thing, but we need to completely
+///         // forget `t` because we do not want to run the destructor for `T`
+///         // on its value, which is still owned somewhere outside this function.
+///         mem::forget(t);
+///     }
+/// }
+/// ```
 #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
 pub fn forget<T>(t: T) {
     unsafe { intrinsics::forget(t) }
@@ -267,8 +308,9 @@ pub fn swap<T>(x: &mut T, y: &mut T) {
         ptr::copy_nonoverlapping(&*y, x, 1);
         ptr::copy_nonoverlapping(&t, y, 1);
 
-        // y and t now point to the same thing, but we need to completely forget `t`
-        // because it's no longer relevant.
+        // y and t now point to the same thing, but we need to completely
+        // forget `t` because we do not want to run the destructor for `T`
+        // on its value, which is still owned somewhere outside this function.
         forget(t);
     }
 }

src/librustc/diagnostics.rs

@@ -196,9 +196,13 @@ struct X { x: (), }
 "##,
 
 E0015: r##"
-The only function calls allowed in static or constant expressions are enum
-variant constructors or struct constructors (for unit or tuple structs). This
-is because Rust currently does not support compile-time function execution.
+The only functions that can be called in static or constant expressions are
+`const` functions. Rust currently does not support more general compile-time
+function execution.
+
+See [RFC 911] for more details on the design of `const fn`s.
+
+[RFC 911]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0911-const-fn.md
 "##,
 
 E0018: r##"
@@ -842,6 +846,53 @@ struct Foo<T: 'static> {
     foo: &'static T
 }
 ```
+"##,
+
+E0378: r##"
+Method calls that aren't calls to inherent `const` methods are disallowed
+in statics, constants, and constant functions.
+
+For example:
+
+```
+const BAZ: i32 = Foo(25).bar(); // error, `bar` isn't `const`
+
+struct Foo(i32);
+
+impl Foo {
+    const fn foo(&self) -> i32 {
+        self.bar() // error, `bar` isn't `const`
+    }
+
+    fn bar(&self) -> i32 { self.0 }
+}
+```
+
+For more information about `const fn`'s, see [RFC 911].
+
+[RFC 911]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0911-const-fn.md
+"##,
+
+E0394: r##"
+From [RFC 246]:
+
+ > It is illegal for a static to reference another static by value. It is
+ > required that all references be borrowed.
+
+[RFC 246]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/246
+"##,
+
+E0397: r##"
+It is not allowed for a mutable static to allocate or have destructors. For
+example:
+
+```
+// error: mutable statics are not allowed to have boxes
+static mut FOO: Option<Box<usize>> = None;
+
+// error: mutable statics are not allowed to have destructors
+static mut BAR: Option<Vec<i32>> = None;
+```
 "##
 
 }
@@ -891,9 +942,6 @@ struct Foo<T: 'static> {
     E0315, // cannot invoke closure outside of its lifetime
     E0316, // nested quantification of lifetimes
     E0370, // discriminant overflow
-    E0378, // method calls limited to constant inherent methods
-    E0394, // cannot refer to other statics by value, use the address-of
-           // operator or a constant instead
     E0395, // pointer comparison in const-expr
     E0396  // pointer dereference in const-expr
 }

src/librustc/middle/check_const.rs

@@ -273,13 +273,13 @@ fn check_static_mut_type(&self, e: &ast::Expr) {
         let suffix = if tcontents.has_dtor() {
             "destructors"
         } else if tcontents.owns_owned() {
-            "owned pointers"
+            "boxes"
         } else {
             return
         };
 
-        self.tcx.sess.span_err(e.span, &format!("mutable statics are not allowed \
-                                                 to have {}", suffix));
+        span_err!(self.tcx.sess, e.span, E0397,
+                 "mutable statics are not allowed to have {}", suffix);
     }
 
     fn check_static_type(&self, e: &ast::Expr) {

src/librustc_typeck/diagnostics.rs

@@ -170,6 +170,31 @@ struct Dog {
 http://doc.rust-lang.org/reference.html#trait-objects
 "##,
 
+E0040: r##"
+It is not allowed to manually call destructors in Rust. It is also not
+necessary to do this since `drop` is called automatically whenever a value goes
+out of scope.
+
+Here's an example of this error:
+
+```
+struct Foo {
+    x: i32,
+}
+
+impl Drop for Foo {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        println!("kaboom");
+    }
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let mut x = Foo { x: -7 };
+    x.drop(); // error: explicit use of destructor method
+}
+```
+"##,
+
 E0046: r##"
 When trying to make some type implement a trait `Foo`, you must, at minimum,
 provide implementations for all of `Foo`'s required methods (meaning the
@@ -241,7 +266,7 @@ impl Foo for Bar {
     fn foo(x: i16) { }
 
     // error, values differ in mutability
-    fn foo(&mut self) { }
+    fn bar(&mut self) { }
 }
 ```
 "##,
@@ -542,6 +567,21 @@ enum Empty {}
 ```
 "##,
 
+E0087: r##"
+Too many type parameters were supplied for a function. For example:
+
+```
+fn foo<T>() {}
+
+fn main() {
+    foo::<f64, bool>(); // error, expected 1 parameter, found 2 parameters
+}
+```
+
+The number of supplied parameters much exactly match the number of defined type
+parameters.
+"##,
+
 E0089: r##"
 Not enough type parameters were supplied for a function. For example:
 
@@ -1098,6 +1138,13 @@ impl Baz for Bar { } // Note: This is OK
 [RFC 255]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/255
 "##,
 
+E0379: r##"
+Trait methods cannot be declared `const` by design. For more information, see
+[RFC 911].
+
+[RFC 911]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/911
+"##,
+
 E0380: r##"
 Default impls are only allowed for traits with no methods or associated items.
 For more information see the [opt-in builtin traits RFC](https://github.com/rust
@@ -1113,7 +1160,6 @@ impl Baz for Bar { } // Note: This is OK
     E0034, // multiple applicable methods in scope
     E0035, // does not take type parameters
     E0036, // incorrect number of type parameters given for this method
-    E0040, // explicit use of destructor method
     E0044, // foreign items may not have type parameters
     E0045, // variadic function must have C calling convention
     E0057, // method has an incompatible type for trait
@@ -1128,7 +1174,6 @@ impl Baz for Bar { } // Note: This is OK
     E0077,
     E0085,
     E0086,
-    E0087,
     E0088,
     E0090,
     E0091,
@@ -1235,7 +1280,6 @@ impl Baz for Bar { } // Note: This is OK
            // between structures
     E0377, // the trait `CoerceUnsized` may only be implemented for a coercion
            // between structures with the same definition
-    E0379,  // trait fns cannot be const
     E0390, // only a single inherent implementation marked with
            // `#[lang = \"{}\"]` is allowed for the `{}` primitive
     E0391, // unsupported cyclic reference between types/traits detected

src/test/compile-fail/static-mut-not-constant.rs

@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@
 
 static mut a: Box<isize> = box 3;
 //~^ ERROR allocations are not allowed in statics
-//~^^ ERROR mutable statics are not allowed to have owned pointers
+//~^^ ERROR mutable statics are not allowed to have boxes
 
 fn main() {}

src/test/run-pass/method-mut-self-modifies-mut-slice-lvalue.rs

@@ -17,14 +17,12 @@
 
 use std::slice;
 
-pub type IoResult<T> = Result<T, ()>;
-
 trait MyWriter {
-    fn my_write(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> IoResult<()>;
+    fn my_write(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> Result<(), ()>;
 }
 
 impl<'a> MyWriter for &'a mut [u8] {
-    fn my_write(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> IoResult<()> {
+    fn my_write(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> Result<(), ()> {
         slice::bytes::copy_memory(buf, *self);
 
         let write_len = buf.len();