Description
The NLL code currently contains code to renumber all regions into fresh region variables, but it contains no map storing the value of those region variables.
We should define a struct Region
that will store the value of a non-lexical region. This struct would resemble Region
from the NLL prototype and basically play the same role. I think it can initially look something like this:
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, Hash, PartialEq, Eq)]
struct Region {
points: FxHashSet<Location>,
}
The Location
struct is defined in librustc/mir
and it is basically a "point" -- basic block + statement index.
Then we should add to the NLLVisitor
struct a field like region_values: Vec<Region>
. Each time that we create a new region variable, we will also push a Region::default()
onto the vector to serve as its (initially empty) value.
Eventually, this struct will also want to contain free regions. but I figure we can start without them, while we debate how best to represent free regions here. (Probably ty::Region<'tcx>
for now, but I think we can ignore it for now and just target "intra-function" cases.)