Auto merge of rust-lang#68122 - Centril:stabilize-transparent-enums, r=petrochenkov

Stabilize `#[repr(transparent)]` on `enum`s in Rust 1.42.0

# Stabilization report

The following is the stabilization report for `#![feature(transparent_enums)]`.

Tracking issue: rust-lang#60405
[Version target](https://forge.rust-lang.org/#current-release-versions): 1.42 (2020-01-30 => beta, 2020-03-12 => stable).

## User guide

A `struct` with only a single non-ZST field (let's call it `foo`) can be marked as `#[repr(transparent)]`. Such a `struct` has the same layout and ABI as `foo`. Here, we also extend this ability to `enum`s with only one variant, subject to the same restrictions as for the equivalent `struct`. That is, you can now write:

```rust
#[repr(transparent)]
enum Foo { Bar(u8) }
```

which, in terms of layout and ABI, is equivalent to:

```rust
#[repr(transparent)]
struct Foo(u8);
```

## Motivation

This is not a major feature that will unlock new and important use-cases. The utility of `repr(transparent)` `enum`s is indeed limited. However, there is still some value in it:

1. It provides conceptual simplification of the language in terms of treating univariant `enum`s and `struct`s the same, as both are product types. Indeed, languages like Haskell only have `data` as the only way to construct user-defined ADTs in the language.

2. In rare occasions, it might be that the user started out with a univariant `enum` for whatever reason (e.g. they thought they might extend it later). Now they want to make this `enum` `transparent` without breaking users by turning it into a `struct`. By lifting the restriction here, now they can.

## Technical specification

The reference specifies [`repr(transparent)` on a `struct`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/reference/type-layout.html#the-transparent-representation) as:

> ### The transparent Representation
>
>  The `transparent` representation can only be used on `struct`s that have:
>  - a single field with non-zero size, and
>  - any number of fields with size 0 and alignment 1 (e.g. `PhantomData<T>`).
>
> Structs with this representation have the same layout and ABI as the single non-zero sized field.
>
> This is different than the `C` representation because a struct with the `C` representation will always have the ABI of a `C` `struct` while, for example, a struct with the `transparent` representation with a primitive field will have the ABI of the primitive field.
>
> Because this representation delegates type layout to another type, it cannot be used with any other representation.

Here, we amend this to include univariant `enum`s as well with the same static restrictions and the same effects on dynamic semantics.

## Tests

All the relevant tests are adjusted in the PR diff but are recounted here:

- `src/test/ui/repr/repr-transparent.rs` checks that `repr(transparent)` on an `enum` must be univariant, rather than having zero or more than one variant. Restrictions on the fields inside the only variants, like for those on `struct`s, are also checked here.

- A number of codegen tests are provided as well:
    - `src/test/codegen/repr-transparent.rs` (the canonical test)
    - `src/test/codegen/repr-transparent-aggregates-1.rs`
    - `src/test/codegen/repr-transparent-aggregates-2.rs`
    - `src/test/codegen/repr-transparent-aggregates-3.rs`

- `src/test/ui/lint/lint-ctypes-enum.rs` tests the interactions with the `improper_ctypes` lint.

## History

- 2019-04-30, RFC rust-lang/rfcs#2645
  Author: @mjbshaw
  Reviewers: The Language Team

  This is the RFC that proposes allowing `#[repr(transparent)]` on `enum`s and `union`.

- 2019-06-11, PR rust-lang#60463
  Author: @mjbshaw
  Reviewers: @varkor and @rkruppe

  The PR implements the RFC aforementioned in full.

- 2019, PR rust-lang#67323
  Author: @Centril
  Reviewers: @davidtwco

  The PR reorganizes the static checks taking advantage of the fact that `struct`s and `union`s are internally represented as ADTs with a single variant.

- This PR stabilizes `transparent_enums`.

## Related / possible future work

The remaining work here is to figure out the semantics of `#[repr(transparent)]` on `union`s and stabilize those. This work continues to be tracked in rust-lang#60405.

Author: bors

src/doc/unstable-book/src/language-features/transparent-enums.md

@@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ declare_features! (
     /// Allows relaxing the coherence rules such that
     /// `impl<T> ForeignTrait<LocalType> for ForeignType<T>` is permitted.
     (accepted, re_rebalance_coherence, "1.41.0", Some(55437), None),
+    /// Allows #[repr(transparent)] on univariant enums (RFC 2645).
+    (accepted, transparent_enums, "1.42.0", Some(60405), None),
     /// Allows using subslice patterns, `[a, .., b]` and `[a, xs @ .., b]`.
     (accepted, slice_patterns, "1.42.0", Some(62254), None),
 

src/librustc_feature/accepted.rs

@@ -468,9 +468,6 @@ declare_features! (
     /// Allows `if/while p && let q = r && ...` chains.
     (active, let_chains, "1.37.0", Some(53667), None),
 
-    /// Allows #[repr(transparent)] on enums (RFC 2645).
-    (active, transparent_enums, "1.37.0", Some(60405), None),
-
     /// Allows #[repr(transparent)] on unions (RFC 2645).
     (active, transparent_unions, "1.37.0", Some(60405), None),
 

src/librustc_feature/active.rs

@@ -2434,16 +2434,6 @@ fn check_transparent(tcx: TyCtxt<'_>, sp: Span, def_id: DefId) {
     }
     let sp = tcx.sess.source_map().def_span(sp);
 
-    if adt.is_enum() && !tcx.features().transparent_enums {
-        feature_err(
-            &tcx.sess.parse_sess,
-            sym::transparent_enums,
-            sp,
-            "transparent enums are unstable",
-        )
-        .emit();
-    }
-
     if adt.is_union() && !tcx.features().transparent_unions {
         feature_err(
             &tcx.sess.parse_sess,

src/librustc_typeck/check/mod.rs

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 // ignore-windows
 // See repr-transparent.rs
 
-#![feature(transparent_enums, transparent_unions)]
+#![feature(transparent_unions)]
 
 #![crate_type="lib"]
 

src/test/codegen/repr-transparent-aggregates-1.rs

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 // ignore-x86_64
 // See repr-transparent.rs
 
-#![feature(transparent_enums, transparent_unions)]
+#![feature(transparent_unions)]
 
 #![crate_type="lib"]
 

src/test/codegen/repr-transparent-aggregates-2.rs

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // only-mips64
 // See repr-transparent.rs
 
-#![feature(transparent_enums, transparent_unions)]
+#![feature(transparent_unions)]
 
 #![crate_type="lib"]
 

src/test/codegen/repr-transparent-aggregates-3.rs

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // compile-flags: -C no-prepopulate-passes
 
 #![crate_type="lib"]
-#![feature(repr_simd, transparent_enums, transparent_unions)]
+#![feature(repr_simd, transparent_unions)]
 
 use std::marker::PhantomData;