Polished documentation, removed not-so-useful-anymore traces, and added some doc comments in mir/transform/const_prop.rs

src/librustc_mir/transform/const_prop.rs

@@ -446,6 +446,7 @@ impl<'mir, 'tcx> ConstPropagator<'mir, 'tcx> {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Returns the value, if any, of evaluating `c`.
     fn eval_constant(&mut self, c: &Constant<'tcx>, source_info: SourceInfo) -> Option<OpTy<'tcx>> {
         // FIXME we need to revisit this for #67176
         if c.needs_subst() {
@@ -486,11 +487,14 @@ impl<'mir, 'tcx> ConstPropagator<'mir, 'tcx> {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Returns the value, if any, of evaluating `place`.
     fn eval_place(&mut self, place: Place<'tcx>) -> Option<OpTy<'tcx>> {
         trace!("eval_place(place={:?})", place);
         self.use_ecx(|this| this.ecx.eval_place_to_op(place, None))
     }
 
+    /// Returns the value, if any, of evaluating `op`. Calls upon `eval_constant`
+    /// or `eval_place`, depending on the variant of `Operand` used.
     fn eval_operand(&mut self, op: &Operand<'tcx>, source_info: SourceInfo) -> Option<OpTy<'tcx>> {
         match *op {
             Operand::Constant(ref c) => self.eval_constant(c, source_info),
@@ -649,6 +653,7 @@ impl<'mir, 'tcx> ConstPropagator<'mir, 'tcx> {
         })
     }
 
+    /// Creates a new `Operand::Constant` from a `Scalar` value
     fn operand_from_scalar(&self, scalar: Scalar, ty: Ty<'tcx>, span: Span) -> Operand<'tcx> {
         Operand::Constant(Box::new(Constant {
             span,
@@ -694,6 +699,7 @@ impl<'mir, 'tcx> ConstPropagator<'mir, 'tcx> {
                     // Found a value represented as a pair. For now only do cont-prop if type of
                     // Rvalue is also a pair with two scalars. The more general case is more
                     // complicated to implement so we'll do it later.
+                    // FIXME: implement the general case stated above ^.
                     let ty = &value.layout.ty.kind;
                     // Only do it for tuples
                     if let ty::Tuple(substs) = ty {
@@ -730,6 +736,7 @@ impl<'mir, 'tcx> ConstPropagator<'mir, 'tcx> {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Returns `true` if and only if this `op` should be const-propagated into.
     fn should_const_prop(&mut self, op: OpTy<'tcx>) -> bool {
         let mir_opt_level = self.tcx.sess.opts.debugging_opts.mir_opt_level;
 
@@ -771,14 +778,14 @@ enum ConstPropMode {
 
 struct CanConstProp {
     can_const_prop: IndexVec<Local, ConstPropMode>,
-    // false at the beginning, once set, there are not allowed to be any more assignments
+    // False at the beginning. Once set, no more assignments are allowed to that local.
     found_assignment: BitSet<Local>,
     // Cache of locals' information
     local_kinds: IndexVec<Local, LocalKind>,
 }
 
 impl CanConstProp {
-    /// returns true if `local` can be propagated
+    /// Returns true if `local` can be propagated
     fn check(body: &Body<'_>) -> IndexVec<Local, ConstPropMode> {
         let mut cpv = CanConstProp {
             can_const_prop: IndexVec::from_elem(ConstPropMode::FullConstProp, &body.local_decls),
@@ -789,8 +796,8 @@ impl CanConstProp {
             ),
         };
         for (local, val) in cpv.can_const_prop.iter_enumerated_mut() {
-            // cannot use args at all
+            // Cannot use args at all
-            // cannot use locals because if x < y { y - x } else { x - y } would
+            // Cannot use locals because if x < y { y - x } else { x - y } would
             //        lint for x != y
             // FIXME(oli-obk): lint variables until they are used in a condition
             // FIXME(oli-obk): lint if return value is constant
@@ -936,7 +943,7 @@ impl<'mir, 'tcx> MutVisitor<'tcx> for ConstPropagator<'mir, 'tcx> {
                     let expected = ScalarMaybeUndef::from(Scalar::from_bool(*expected));
                     let value_const = self.ecx.read_scalar(value).unwrap();
                     if expected != value_const {
-                        // poison all places this operand references so that further code
+                        // Poison all places this operand references so that further code
                         // doesn't use the invalid value
                         match cond {
                             Operand::Move(ref place) | Operand::Copy(ref place) => {
@@ -1002,7 +1009,7 @@ impl<'mir, 'tcx> MutVisitor<'tcx> for ConstPropagator<'mir, 'tcx> {
                     }
                 }
             }
-            //none of these have Operands to const-propagate
+            // None of these have Operands to const-propagate
             TerminatorKind::Goto { .. }
             | TerminatorKind::Resume
             | TerminatorKind::Abort