Crate rustc_middle

The “main crate” of the Rust compiler. This crate contains common type definitions that are used by the other crates in the rustc “family”. Some prominent examples (note that each of these modules has their own README with further details).

• HIR. The “high-level (H) intermediate representation (IR)” is defined in the hir module.
• MIR. The “mid-level (M) intermediate representation (IR)” is defined in the mir module. This module contains only the definition of the MIR; the passes that transform and operate on MIR are found in rustc_const_eval crate.
• Types. The internal representation of types used in rustc is defined in the ty module. This includes the type context (or tcx), which is the central context during most of compilation, containing the interners and other things.

For more information about how rustc works, see the rustc dev guide.

Note

This API is completely unstable and subject to change.

Modules

• arena
• dep_graph
• error
• hir
  HIR datatypes. See the rustc dev guide for more info.
• hooks
  “Hooks” provide a way for tcx functionality to be provided by some downstream crate without everything in rustc having to depend on that crate. This is somewhat similar to queries, but queries come with a lot of machinery for caching and incremental compilation, whereas hooks are just plain function pointers without any of the query magic.
• infer
• lint
• macros 🔒
• metadata
• middle
• mir
  MIR datatypes and passes. See the rustc dev guide for more info.
• query
  Defines the various compiler queries.
• thir
  THIR datatypes and definitions. See the rustc dev guide for more info.
• traits
  Trait Resolution. See the rustc dev guide for more information on how this works.
• ty
  Defines how the compiler represents types internally.
• util
• values 🔒

Macros

• TrivialLiftImpls
• TrivialTypeTraversalAndLiftImpls
• TrivialTypeTraversalImpls
  Used for types that are Copy and which do not care arena allocated data (i.e., don’t need to be folded).
• __impl_decoder_methods
• arena_types
  This higher-order macro declares a list of types which can be allocated by Arena.
• bug
  A macro for triggering an ICE. Calling bug instead of panicking will result in a nicer error message and should therefore be preferred over panic/unreachable or others.
• err_exhaust
• err_inval
• err_machine_stop
• err_ub
• err_ub_custom
• err_ub_format
• err_unsup
• err_unsup_format
• implement_ty_decoder
• make_dep_kind_array
• parameterized_over_tcx
• rustc_query_append
• span_bug
  A macro for triggering an ICE with a span. Calling span_bug! instead of panicking will result in a nicer error message and point at the code the compiler was compiling when it ICEd. This is the preferred way to trigger ICEs.
• throw_exhaust
• throw_inval
• throw_machine_stop
• throw_ub
• throw_ub_custom
• throw_ub_format
• throw_unsup
• throw_unsup_format
• trivially_parameterized_over_tcx

Statics

• DEFAULT_LOCALE_RESOURCE
  Raw content of Fluent resource for this crate, generated by fluent_messages macro, imported by rustc_driver to include all crates’ resources in one bundle.