`PtrMetadata` doesn't care about `*const`/`*mut`/`&`/`&mut`, so GVN away those casts in its argument.
This includes updating MIR to allow calling PtrMetadata on references too, not just raw pointers. That means that `[T]::len` can be just `_0 = PtrMetadata(_1)`, for example.
# Conflicts:
# tests/mir-opt/pre-codegen/slice_index.slice_get_unchecked_mut_range.PreCodegen.after.panic-abort.mir
# tests/mir-opt/pre-codegen/slice_index.slice_get_unchecked_mut_range.PreCodegen.after.panic-unwind.mir
Apparently MIR borrowck cares about at least one of these for checking variance.
In runtime MIR, though, there's no need for them as `PtrToPtr` does the same thing.
(Banning them simplifies passes like GVN that no longer need to handle multiple cast possibilities.)
Add an intrinsic for `ptr::metadata`
The follow-up to #123840, so we can remove `PtrComponents` and `PtrRepr` from libcore entirely (well, after a bootstrap update).
As discussed in <435637808>, this introduces `UnOp::PtrMetadata` taking a raw pointer and returning the associated metadata value.
By no longer going through a `union`, this should also help future PRs better optimize pointer operations.
r? ``@oli-obk``
It's reasonable to want to, but in the current implementation this
causes multiple problems.
- All the `rmake.rs` files are formatted every time even when they
haven't changed. This is because they get whitelisted unconditionally
in the `OverrideBuilder`, before the changed files get added.
- The way `OverrideBuilder` works, if any files gets whitelisted then no
unmentioned files will get traversed. This is surprising, and means
that the `rmake.rs` entries broke the use of explicit paths to `x
fmt`, and also broke `GITHUB_ACTIONS=true git check --fmt`.
The commit removes the `rmake.rs` entries, fixes the formatting of a
couple of files that were misformatted (not previously caught due to the
`GITHUB_ACTIONS` breakage), and bans `!`-prefixed entries in
`rustfmt.toml` because they cause all these problems.
