Introduce ExprKind::IncludedBytes

compiler/rustc_ast/src/ast.rs

@@ -1208,7 +1208,7 @@ impl Expr {
             ExprKind::Tup(_) => ExprPrecedence::Tup,
             ExprKind::Binary(op, ..) => ExprPrecedence::Binary(op.node),
             ExprKind::Unary(..) => ExprPrecedence::Unary,
-            ExprKind::Lit(_) => ExprPrecedence::Lit,
+            ExprKind::Lit(_) | ExprKind::IncludedBytes(..) => ExprPrecedence::Lit,
             ExprKind::Type(..) | ExprKind::Cast(..) => ExprPrecedence::Cast,
             ExprKind::Let(..) => ExprPrecedence::Let,
             ExprKind::If(..) => ExprPrecedence::If,
@@ -1446,6 +1446,12 @@ pub enum ExprKind {
     /// with an optional value to be returned.
     Yeet(Option<P<Expr>>),
 
+    /// Bytes included via `include_bytes!`
+    /// Added for optimization purposes to avoid the need to escape
+    /// large binary blobs - should always behave like [`ExprKind::Lit`]
+    /// with a `ByteStr` literal.
+    IncludedBytes(Lrc<[u8]>),
+
     /// Placeholder for an expression that wasn't syntactically well formed in some way.
     Err,
 }

compiler/rustc_ast/src/mut_visit.rs

@@ -1428,7 +1428,7 @@ pub fn noop_visit_expr<T: MutVisitor>(
         }
         ExprKind::Try(expr) => vis.visit_expr(expr),
         ExprKind::TryBlock(body) => vis.visit_block(body),
-        ExprKind::Lit(_) | ExprKind::Err => {}
+        ExprKind::Lit(_) | ExprKind::IncludedBytes(..) | ExprKind::Err => {}
     }
     vis.visit_id(id);
     vis.visit_span(span);

compiler/rustc_ast/src/util/literal.rs

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 use crate::ast::{self, Lit, LitKind};
 use crate::token::{self, Token};
+use rustc_data_structures::sync::Lrc;
 use rustc_lexer::unescape::{byte_from_char, unescape_byte, unescape_char, unescape_literal, Mode};
 use rustc_span::symbol::{kw, sym, Symbol};
 use rustc_span::Span;
@@ -231,6 +232,13 @@ impl Lit {
         Lit { token_lit: kind.to_token_lit(), kind, span }
     }
 
+    /// Recovers an AST literal from a string of bytes produced by `include_bytes!`.
+    /// This requires ASCII-escaping the string, which can result in poor performance
+    /// for very large strings of bytes.
+    pub fn from_included_bytes(bytes: &Lrc<[u8]>, span: Span) -> Lit {
+        Self::from_lit_kind(LitKind::ByteStr(bytes.clone()), span)
+    }
+
     /// Losslessly convert an AST literal into a token.
     pub fn to_token(&self) -> Token {
         let kind = match self.token_lit.kind {

compiler/rustc_ast/src/visit.rs

@@ -901,7 +901,7 @@ pub fn walk_expr<'a, V: Visitor<'a>>(visitor: &mut V, expression: &'a Expr) {
         }
         ExprKind::Try(ref subexpression) => visitor.visit_expr(subexpression),
         ExprKind::TryBlock(ref body) => visitor.visit_block(body),
-        ExprKind::Lit(_) | ExprKind::Err => {}
+        ExprKind::Lit(_) | ExprKind::IncludedBytes(..) | ExprKind::Err => {}
     }
 
     visitor.visit_expr_post(expression)