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In rustpkg, expose the ability to clone a git repository #6409

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catamorphism opened this issue May 10, 2013 · 3 comments
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In rustpkg, expose the ability to clone a git repository #6409

catamorphism opened this issue May 10, 2013 · 3 comments
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Sub-bug of #5677

Package scripts should be able to call a librustpkg function to clone a git repository, given a URL and a branch. Right now this function just shells out to call git, but libgit2 bindings would be good (I'll make a separate bug).

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See also: #6410

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#9732 will close this.

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#9732 fixed this. It's in rustpkg::api

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Jarcho pushed a commit to Jarcho/rust that referenced this issue Aug 31, 2022
Initial implementation `result_large_err`

This is a shot at rust-lang#6560, rust-lang#4652, and rust-lang#3884. The lint checks for `Result` being returned from functions/methods where the `Err` variant is larger than a configurable threshold (the default of which is 128 bytes). There has been some discussion around this, which I'll try to quickly summarize:

* A large `Err`-variant may force an equally large `Result` if `Err` is actually bigger than `Ok`.
* There is a cost involved in large `Result`, as LLVM may choose to `memcpy` them around above a certain size.
* We usually expect the `Err` variant to be seldomly used, but pay the cost every time.
* `Result` returned from library code has a high chance of bubbling up the call stack, getting stuffed into `MyLibError { IoError(std::io::Error), ParseError(parselib::Error), ...}`, exacerbating the problem.

This PR deliberately does not take into account comparing the `Ok` to the `Err` variant (e.g. a ratio, or one being larger than the other). Rather we choose an absolute threshold for `Err`'s size, above which we warn. The reason for this is that `Err`s probably get `map_err`'ed further up the call stack, and we can't draw conclusions from the ratio at the point where the `Result` is returned. A relative threshold would also be less predictable, while not accounting for the cost of LLVM being forced to generate less efficient code if the `Err`-variant is _large_ in absolute terms.

We lint private functions as well as public functions, as the perf-cost applies to in-crate code as well.

In order to account for type-parameters, I conjured up `fn approx_ty_size`. The function relies on `LateContext::layout_of` to compute the actual size, and in case of failure (e.g. due to generics) tries to come up with an "at least size". In the latter case, the size of obviously wrong, but the inspected size certainly can't be smaller than that. Please give the approach a heavy dose of review, as I'm not actually familiar with the type-system at all (read: I have no idea what I'm doing).

The approach does, however flimsy it is, allow us to successfully lint situations like

```rust
pub union UnionError<T: Copy> {
    _maybe: T,
    _or_perhaps_even: (T, [u8; 512]),
}

// We know `UnionError<T>` will be at least 512 bytes, no matter what `T` is
pub fn param_large_union<T: Copy>() -> Result<(), UnionError<T>> {
    Ok(())
}
```

I've given some refactoring to `functions/result_unit_err.rs` to re-use some bits. This is also the groundwork for rust-lang#6409

The default threshold is 128 because of rust-lang/rust-clippy#4652 (comment)

`lintcheck` does not trigger this lint for a threshold of 128. It does warn for 64, though.

The suggestion currently is the following, which is just a placeholder for discussion to be had. I did have the computed size in a `span_label`. However, that might cause both ui-tests here and lints elsewhere to become flaky wrt to their output (as the size is platform dependent).

```
error: the `Err`-variant returned via this `Result` is very large
  --> $DIR/result_large_err.rs:36:34
   |
LL | pub fn param_large_error<R>() -> Result<(), (u128, R, FullyDefinedLargeError)> {
   |                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The `Err` variant is unusually large, at least 128 bytes
```

changelog: Add [`result_large_err`] lint
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