Link to docs and address some review comments
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* Drop code (the `Drop::drop` function is not called directly)
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* Drop implementations of types without an explicit `Drop` implementation
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The lowering is triggered by calling the `mir_built` query. The entire lowering
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code lives in `src/librustc_mir/build`. There is an intermediate representation
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between [HIR] and [MIR] called the `HAIR` that is only used during the lowering.
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The `HAIR` has datatypes that mirror the [HIR] datatypes, but instead of e.g. `-x`
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being a `hair::ExprKind::Neg(hair::Expr)` it is a `hair::ExprKind::Neg(hir::Expr)`.
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The lowering is triggered by calling the [`mir_built`] query.
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There is an intermediate representation
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between [HIR] and [MIR] called the [HAIR] that is only used during the lowering.
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The [HAIR]'s most important feature is that the various adjustments that happen
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without explicit syntax (coercion, autoderef, autoref, ...) have become explicit
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casts, deref operations or reference expressions.
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The [HAIR] has datatypes that mirror the [HIR] datatypes, but instead of e.g. `-x`
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being a `hair::ExprKind::Neg(hair::Expr)` it is a `hair::ExprKind::Neg(hir::Expr)`.
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This shallowness enables the `HAIR` to represent all datatypes that [HIR] has, but
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without having to create an in-memory copy of the entire [HIR]. The `HAIR` also
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without having to create an in-memory copy of the entire [HIR]. The [HAIR] also
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does a few simplifications, e.g. method calls and function calls have been merged
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into a single variant.
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into a single variant. [MIR] lowering will first convert the topmost expression from
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[HIR] to [HAIR] (in
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[https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/rustc_mir/hair/cx/expr/index.html])
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and then process the [HAIR] expressions recursively.
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The lowering creates local variables for every argument as specified in the signature.
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Next it creates local variables for every binding specified (e.g. `(a, b): (i32, String)`)
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@ -35,7 +41,7 @@ writes the result into the `RETURN_PLACE`.
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## `unpack!` all the things
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One important thing of note is the `unpack!` macro, which accompanies all recursive
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calls. The macro ensures, that you get the result of the recursive call while updating
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calls. The macro ensures that you get the result of the recursive call while updating
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the basic block that you are now in. As an example: lowering `a + b` will need to do
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three somewhat independent things:
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@ -108,4 +114,6 @@ statement per aggregate field plus an assignment to the discriminant in the
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case of `enum`s.
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[MIR]: ./index.html
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[HIR]: ../hir.html
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[HIR]: ../hir.html
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[HAIR]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/rustc_mir/hair/index.html
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[`mir_built`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/rustc_mir/transform/fn.mir_built.html
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