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brson opened this issue Jan 6, 2015 · 2 comments · Fixed by #21713
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Fix detection of feature gate use inside of println! #20661

brson opened this issue Jan 6, 2015 · 2 comments · Fixed by #21713
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brson commented Jan 6, 2015

I'm going to submit a patch that breaks feature gate detection inside of the arguments to println! in order to get feature staging turned on.

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emberian commented Jan 6, 2015

nominating for 1.0, this allows one to subvert feature gates

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brson added a commit to brson/rust that referenced this issue Jan 7, 2015
This partially implements the feature staging described in the
[release channel RFC][rc]. It does not yet fully conform to the RFC as
written, but does accomplish its goals sufficiently for the 1.0 alpha
release.

It has three primary user-visible effects:

* On the nightly channel, use of unstable APIs generates a warning.
* On the beta channel, use of unstable APIs generates a warning.
* On the beta channel, use of feature gates generates a warning.

Code that does not trigger these warnings is considered 'stable',
modulo pre-1.0 bugs.

Disabling the warnings for unstable APIs continues to be done in the
existing (i.e. old) style, via `#[allow(...)]`, not that specified in
the RFC. I deem this marginally acceptable since any code that must do
this is not using the stable dialect of Rust.

Use of feature gates is itself gated with the new 'unstable_features'
lint, on nightly set to 'allow', and on beta 'warn'.

The attribute scheme used here corresponds to an older version of the
RFC, with the `#[staged_api]` crate attribute toggling the staging
behavior of the stability attributes, but the user impact is only
in-tree so I'm not concerned about having to make design changes later
(and I may ultimately prefer the scheme here after all, with the
`#[staged_api]` crate attribute).

Since the Rust codebase itself makes use of unstable features the
compiler and build system to a midly elaborate dance to allow it to
bootstrap while disobeying these lints (which would otherwise be
errors because Rust builds with `-D warnings`).

This patch includes one significant hack that causes a
regression. Because the `format_args!` macro emits calls to unstable
APIs it would trigger the lint.  I added a hack to the lint to make it
not trigger, but this in turn causes arguments to `println!` not to be
checked for feature gates. I don't presently understand macro
expansion well enough to fix. This is bug rust-lang#20661.

Closes rust-lang#16678

[rc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0507-release-channels.md
alexcrichton added a commit to alexcrichton/rust that referenced this issue Jan 8, 2015
This partially implements the feature staging described in the
[release channel RFC][rc]. It does not yet fully conform to the RFC as
written, but does accomplish its goals sufficiently for the 1.0 alpha
release.

It has three primary user-visible effects:

* On the nightly channel, use of unstable APIs generates a warning.
* On the beta channel, use of unstable APIs generates a warning.
* On the beta channel, use of feature gates generates a warning.

Code that does not trigger these warnings is considered 'stable',
modulo pre-1.0 bugs.

Disabling the warnings for unstable APIs continues to be done in the
existing (i.e. old) style, via `#[allow(...)]`, not that specified in
the RFC. I deem this marginally acceptable since any code that must do
this is not using the stable dialect of Rust.

Use of feature gates is itself gated with the new 'unstable_features'
lint, on nightly set to 'allow', and on beta 'warn'.

The attribute scheme used here corresponds to an older version of the
RFC, with the `#[staged_api]` crate attribute toggling the staging
behavior of the stability attributes, but the user impact is only
in-tree so I'm not concerned about having to make design changes later
(and I may ultimately prefer the scheme here after all, with the
`#[staged_api]` crate attribute).

Since the Rust codebase itself makes use of unstable features the
compiler and build system do a midly elaborate dance to allow it to
bootstrap while disobeying these lints (which would otherwise be
errors because Rust builds with `-D warnings`).

This patch includes one significant hack that causes a
regression. Because the `format_args!` macro emits calls to unstable
APIs it would trigger the lint.  I added a hack to the lint to make it
not trigger, but this in turn causes arguments to `println!` not to be
checked for feature gates. I don't presently understand macro
expansion well enough to fix. This is bug rust-lang#20661.

Closes rust-lang#16678

[rc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0507-release-channels.md

Next steps are to disable the existing out-of-tree behavior for stability attributes, and convert the remaining system to be feature-based per the RFC. During the first beta cycle we will set these lints to 'forbid'.
alexcrichton added a commit to alexcrichton/rust that referenced this issue Jan 14, 2015
This commit performs a final stabilization pass over the std::fmt module,
marking all necessary APIs as stable. One of the more interesting aspects of
this module is that it exposes a good deal of its runtime representation to the
outside world in order for `format_args!` to be able to construct the format
strings. Instead of hacking the compiler to assume that these items are stable,
this commit instead lays out a story for the stabilization and evolution of
these APIs.

There are three primary details used by the `format_args!` macro:

1. `Arguments` - an opaque package of a "compiled format string". This structure
   is passed around and the `write` function is the source of truth for
   transforming a compiled format string into a string at runtime. This must be
   able to be constructed in stable code.

2. `Argument` - an opaque structure representing an argument to a format string.
   This is *almost* a trait object as it's just a pointer/function pair, but due
   to the function originating from one of many traits, it's not actually a
   trait object. Like `Arguments`, this must be constructed from stable code.

3. `fmt::rt` - this module contains the runtime type definitions primarily for
   the `rt::Argument` structure. Whenever an argument is formatted with
   nonstandard flags, a corresponding `rt::Argument` is generated describing how
   the argument is being formatted. This can be used to construct an
   `Arguments`.

The primary interface to `std::fmt` is the `Arguments` structure, and as such
this type name is stabilize as-is today. It is expected for libraries to pass
around an `Arguments` structure to represent a pending formatted computation.

The remaining portions are largely "cruft" which would rather not be stabilized,
but due to the stability checks they must be. As a result, almost all pieces
have been renamed to represent that they are "version 1" of the formatting
representation. The theory is that at a later date if we change the
representation of these types we can add new definitions called "version 2" and
corresponding constructors for `Arguments`.

One of the other remaining large questions about the fmt module were how the
pending I/O reform would affect the signatures of methods in the module. Due to
[RFC 526][rfc], however, the writers of fmt are now incompatible with the
writers of io, so this question has largely been solved. As a result the
interfaces are largely stabilized as-is today.

[rfc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0526-fmt-text-writer.md

Specifically, the following changes were made:

* The contents of `fmt::rt` were all moved under `fmt::rt::v1`
* `fmt::rt` is stable
* `fmt::rt::v1` is stable
* `Error` is stable
* `Writer` is stable
* `Writer::write_str` is stable
* `Writer::write_fmt` is stable
* `Formatter` is stable
* `Argument` has been renamed to `ArgumentV1` and is stable
* `ArgumentV1::new` is stable
* `ArgumentV1::from_uint` is stable
* `Arguments::new_v1` is stable (renamed from `new`)
* `Arguments::new_v1_formatted` is stable (renamed from `with_placeholders`)
* All formatting traits are now stable, as well as the `fmt` method.
* `fmt::write` is stable
* `fmt::format` is stable
* `Formatter::pad_integral` is stable
* `Formatter::pad` is stable
* `Formatter::write_str` is stable
* `Formatter::write_fmt` is stable
* Some assorted top level items which were only used by `format_args!` were
  removed in favor of static functions on `ArgumentV1` as well.
* The formatting-flag-accessing methods remain unstable

Within the contents of the `fmt::rt::v1` module, the following actions were
taken:

* Reexports of all enum variants were removed
* All prefixes on enum variants were removed
* A few miscellaneous enum variants were renamed
* Otherwise all structs, fields, and variants were marked stable.

In addition to these actions in the `std::fmt` module, many implementations of
`Show` and `String` were stabilized as well.

In some other modules:

* `ToString` is now stable
* `ToString::to_string` is now stable
* `Vec` no longer implements `fmt::Writer` (this has moved to `String`)

While stabilize the formatting traits, the following change was also made to the
`result` module:

* `Result::unwrap` now requires `String` instead of `Show`
* `Result::unwrap_err` now requires `String` instead of `Show`

This is a breaking change due to all of the changes to the `fmt::rt` module, but
this likely will not have much impact on existing programs. It is also a
breaking change due to the usage of `String` for `unwrap()` on `Result` instead
of `Show`. Error types should implement `String` for human readable errors and
`Show` for inspecting their representation.

Closes rust-lang#20661
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I've fixed this in #21125

@brson brson removed the I-nominated label Jan 15, 2015
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@brson brson added the P-medium Medium priority label Jan 15, 2015
alexcrichton added a commit to alexcrichton/rust that referenced this issue Jan 30, 2015
This commit performs a final stabilization pass over the std::fmt module,
marking all necessary APIs as stable. One of the more interesting aspects of
this module is that it exposes a good deal of its runtime representation to the
outside world in order for `format_args!` to be able to construct the format
strings. Instead of hacking the compiler to assume that these items are stable,
this commit instead lays out a story for the stabilization and evolution of
these APIs.

There are three primary details used by the `format_args!` macro:

1. `Arguments` - an opaque package of a "compiled format string". This structure
   is passed around and the `write` function is the source of truth for
   transforming a compiled format string into a string at runtime. This must be
   able to be constructed in stable code.

2. `Argument` - an opaque structure representing an argument to a format string.
   This is *almost* a trait object as it's just a pointer/function pair, but due
   to the function originating from one of many traits, it's not actually a
   trait object. Like `Arguments`, this must be constructed from stable code.

3. `fmt::rt` - this module contains the runtime type definitions primarily for
   the `rt::Argument` structure. Whenever an argument is formatted with
   nonstandard flags, a corresponding `rt::Argument` is generated describing how
   the argument is being formatted. This can be used to construct an
   `Arguments`.

The primary interface to `std::fmt` is the `Arguments` structure, and as such
this type name is stabilize as-is today. It is expected for libraries to pass
around an `Arguments` structure to represent a pending formatted computation.

The remaining portions are largely "cruft" which would rather not be stabilized,
but due to the stability checks they must be. As a result, almost all pieces
have been renamed to represent that they are "version 1" of the formatting
representation. The theory is that at a later date if we change the
representation of these types we can add new definitions called "version 2" and
corresponding constructors for `Arguments`.

One of the other remaining large questions about the fmt module were how the
pending I/O reform would affect the signatures of methods in the module. Due to
[RFC 526][rfc], however, the writers of fmt are now incompatible with the
writers of io, so this question has largely been solved. As a result the
interfaces are largely stabilized as-is today.

[rfc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0526-fmt-text-writer.md

Specifically, the following changes were made:

* The contents of `fmt::rt` were all moved under `fmt::rt::v1`
* `fmt::rt` is stable
* `fmt::rt::v1` is stable
* `Error` is stable
* `Writer` is stable
* `Writer::write_str` is stable
* `Writer::write_fmt` is stable
* `Formatter` is stable
* `Argument` has been renamed to `ArgumentV1` and is stable
* `ArgumentV1::new` is stable
* `ArgumentV1::from_uint` is stable
* `Arguments::new_v1` is stable (renamed from `new`)
* `Arguments::new_v1_formatted` is stable (renamed from `with_placeholders`)
* All formatting traits are now stable, as well as the `fmt` method.
* `fmt::write` is stable
* `fmt::format` is stable
* `Formatter::pad_integral` is stable
* `Formatter::pad` is stable
* `Formatter::write_str` is stable
* `Formatter::write_fmt` is stable
* Some assorted top level items which were only used by `format_args!` were
  removed in favor of static functions on `ArgumentV1` as well.
* The formatting-flag-accessing methods remain unstable

Within the contents of the `fmt::rt::v1` module, the following actions were
taken:

* Reexports of all enum variants were removed
* All prefixes on enum variants were removed
* A few miscellaneous enum variants were renamed
* Otherwise all structs, fields, and variants were marked stable.

In addition to these actions in the `std::fmt` module, many implementations of
`Show` and `String` were stabilized as well.

In some other modules:

* `ToString` is now stable
* `ToString::to_string` is now stable
* `Vec` no longer implements `fmt::Writer` (this has moved to `String`)

This is a breaking change due to all of the changes to the `fmt::rt` module, but
this likely will not have much impact on existing programs.

Closes rust-lang#20661
[breaking-change]
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