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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/rust-version
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<div class="warning">

`LooseTypes` is often helpful to get rid of Enzyme errors stating `Can not deduce type of <X>` and to be able to run some code. But please keep in mind that this flag absolutely has the chance to cause incorrect gradients. Even worse, the gradients might be correct for certain input values, but not for others. So please create issues about such bugs and only use this flag temporarily while you wait for your bug to be fixed.

</div>

### Benchmark flags
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# Async closures/"coroutine-closures"

<!-- toc -->

Please read [RFC 3668](https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3668-async-closures.html) to understand the general motivation of the feature. This is a very technical and somewhat "vertical" chapter; ideally we'd split this and sprinkle it across all the relevant chapters, but for the purposes of understanding async closures *holistically*, I've put this together all here in one chapter.

# Coroutine-closures -- a technical deep dive
## Coroutine-closures -- a technical deep dive

Coroutine-closures are a generalization of async closures, being special syntax for closure expressions which return a coroutine, notably one that is allowed to capture from the closure's upvars.

For now, the only usable kind of coroutine-closure is the async closure, and supporting async closures is the extent of this PR. We may eventually support `gen || {}`, etc., and most of the problems and curiosities described in this document apply to all coroutine-closures in general.

As a consequence of the code being somewhat general, this document may flip between calling them "async closures" and "coroutine-closures". The future that is returned by the async closure will generally be called the "coroutine" or the "child coroutine".

## HIR
### HIR

Async closures (and in the future, other coroutine flavors such as `gen`) are represented in HIR as a `hir::Closure` whose closure-kind is `ClosureKind::CoroutineClosure(_)`[^k1], which wraps an async block, which is also represented in HIR as a `hir::Closure`) and whose closure-kind is `ClosureKind::Closure(CoroutineKind::Desugared(_, CoroutineSource::Closure))`[^k2].
Async closures (and in the future, other coroutine flavors such as `gen`) are represented in HIR as a `hir::Closure`.
The closure-kind of the `hir::Closure` is `ClosureKind::CoroutineClosure(_)`[^k1], which wraps an async block, which is also represented in HIR as a `hir::Closure`.
The closure-kind of the async block is `ClosureKind::Closure(CoroutineKind::Desugared(_, CoroutineSource::Closure))`[^k2].

[^k1]: <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5ca0e9fa9b2f92b463a0a2b0b34315e09c0b7236/compiler/rustc_ast_lowering/src/expr.rs#L1147>

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[^l3]: <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5ca0e9fa9b2f92b463a0a2b0b34315e09c0b7236/compiler/rustc_hir_typeck/src/upvar.rs#L250-L256>

## `rustc_middle::ty` Representation
### `rustc_middle::ty` Representation

For the purposes of keeping the implementation mostly future-compatible (i.e. with gen `|| {}` and `async gen || {}`), most of this section calls async closures "coroutine-closures".

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Most of the args to that function will be components that you can get out of the `CoroutineArgs`, except for the `goal_kind: ClosureKind` which controls which flavor of coroutine to return based off of the `ClosureKind` passed in -- i.e. it will prepare the by-ref coroutine if `ClosureKind::Fn | ClosureKind::FnMut`, and the by-move coroutine if `ClosureKind::FnOnce`.

## Trait Hierarchy
### Trait Hierarchy

We introduce a parallel hierarchy of `Fn*` traits that are implemented for . The motivation for the introduction was covered in a blog post: [Async Closures](https://hackmd.io/@compiler-errors/async-closures).

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See the "follow-up: when do..." section below for an elaborated answer. The full answer describes a pretty interesting and hopefully thorough heuristic that is used to ensure that most async closures "just work".

## Tale of two bodies...
### Tale of two bodies...

When async closures are called with `AsyncFn`/`AsyncFnMut`, they return a coroutine that borrows from the closure. However, when they are called via `AsyncFnOnce`, we consume that closure, and cannot return a coroutine that borrows from data that is now dropped.

To work around around this limitation, we synthesize a separate by-move MIR body for calling `AsyncFnOnce::call_once` on a coroutine-closure that can be called by-ref.
To work around this limitation, we synthesize a separate by-move MIR body for calling `AsyncFnOnce::call_once` on a coroutine-closure that can be called by-ref.

This body operates identically to the "normal" coroutine returned from calling the coroutine-closure, except for the fact that it has a different set of upvars, since we must *move* the captures from the parent coroutine-closure into the child coroutine.

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[^b3]: <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5ca0e9fa9b2f92b463a0a2b0b34315e09c0b7236/compiler/rustc_mir_transform/src/lib.rs#L339-L342>

## Closure signature inference
### Closure signature inference

The closure signature inference algorithm for async closures is a bit more complicated than the inference algorithm for "traditional" closures. Like closures, we iterate through all of the clauses that may be relevant (for the expectation type passed in)[^deduce1].

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So *instead*, we use this alias (in this case, a projection: `AsyncFnKindHelper::Upvars<'env, ...>`) to delay the computation of the *tupled upvars* and give us something to put in its place, while still allowing us to return a `TyKind::Coroutine` (which is a rigid type) and we may successfully confirm the built-in traits we need (in our case, `Future`), since the `Future` implementation doesn't depend on the upvars at all.

## Upvar analysis
### Upvar analysis

By and large, the upvar analysis for coroutine-closures and their child coroutines proceeds like normal upvar analysis. However, there are several interesting bits that happen to account for async closures' special natures:

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If either of these cases apply, then we should capture the borrow with the lifetime of the parent coroutine-closure's env. Luckily, if this function is not correct, then the program is not unsound, since we still borrowck and validate the choices made from this function -- the only side-effect is that the user may receive unnecessary borrowck errors.

## Instance resolution
### Instance resolution

If a coroutine-closure has a closure-kind of `FnOnce`, then its `AsyncFnOnce::call_once` and `FnOnce::call_once` implementations resolve to the coroutine-closure's body[^res1], and the `Future::poll` of the coroutine that gets returned resolves to the body of the child closure.

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[^i3]: <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/07cbbdd69363da97075650e9be24b78af0bcdd23/compiler/rustc_middle/src/ty/instance.rs#L841>

## Borrow-checking
### Borrow-checking

It turns out that borrow-checking async closures is pretty straightforward. After adding a new `DefiningTy::CoroutineClosure`[^bck1] variant, and teaching borrowck how to generate the signature of the coroutine-closure[^bck2], borrowck proceeds totally fine.

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Given a type such as `for<'a> fn(<?x as Trait<'a>::Assoc>)`, it is not possible to correctly handle this with the old solver's approach to normalization.

If we were to normalize it to `for<'a> fn(?y)` and register a goal to normalize `for<'a> <?x as Trait<'a>>::Assoc -> ?y`, this would result in errors in cases where `<?x as Trait<'a>>::Assoc` normalized to `&'a u32`. The inference variable `?y` would be in a lower [universe][universes] than the placeholders made when instantiating the `for<'a>` binder.
If we were to normalize it to `for<'a> fn(?y)` and register a goal to normalize `for<'a> <?x as Trait<'a>>::Assoc -> ?y`, this would result in errors in cases where `<?x as Trait<'a>>::Assoc` normalized to `&'a u32`. The inference variable `?y` would be in a lower [universe] than the placeholders made when instantiating the `for<'a>` binder.

Leaving the alias unnormalized would also be wrong as the old solver expects all aliases to be rigid. This was a soundness bug before the new solver was stabilized in coherence: [relating projection substs is unsound during coherence](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/102048).

Ultimately this means that it is not always possible to ensure all aliases inside of a value are rigid.

[universes]: https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/borrow_check/region_inference/placeholders_and_universes.html#what-is-a-universe
[universe]: borrow_check/region_inference/placeholders_and_universes.md#what-is-a-universe
[deeply_normalize]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/rustc_trait_selection/traits/normalize/trait.NormalizeExt.html#tymethod.deeply_normalize

## Handling uses of diverging aliases
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Multiple try builds can execute concurrently across different PRs.

<div class="warning">
bors identify try jobs by commit hash. This means that if you have two PRs

Bors identifies try jobs by commit hash. This means that if you have two PRs
containing the same (latest) commits, running `@bors try` will result in the
*same* try job and it really confuses `bors`. Please refrain from doing so.

</div>

[rustc-perf]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc-perf
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with these contents:

<div class="warning">

Be careful not to add this `Cargo.toml` or its `Cargo.lock` to your actual PR!

</div>

```toml
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| `no-prefer-dynamic` | Don't use `-C prefer-dynamic`, don't build as a dylib via a `--crate-type=dylib` preset flag | `ui`, `crashes` | N/A |

<div class="warning">

Tests (outside of `run-make`) that want to use incremental tests not in the
incremental test-suite must not pass `-C incremental` via `compile-flags`, and
must instead use the `//@ incremental` directive.

Consider writing the test as a proper incremental test instead.

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### Rustdoc
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build for cross-compiled targets but do not need/want to run.

<div class="warning">

Please note that [`minicore`] is only intended for `core` items, and explicitly
**not** `std` or `alloc` items because `core` items are applicable to a wider
range of tests.

</div>

A test can use [`minicore`] by specifying the `//@ add-core-stubs` directive.
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subsection after on how to run a subset of tests.

<div class="warning">

Running plain `./x test` will build the stage 1 compiler and then run the whole
test suite. This not only include `tests/`, but also `library/`, `compiler/`,
`src/tools/` package tests and more.
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of tests than that) which you expect will exercise your changes. PR CI exercises
a subset of test collections, and merge queue CI will exercise all of the test
collection.

</div>

```text
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you avoid having to run tests for components you did not change at all.

<div class="warning">

Note that bors only runs the tests with the full stage 2 build; therefore, while
the tests **usually** work fine with stage 1, there are some limitations.

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### Run all tests using a stage 2 compiler
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