* Wasmtime: Finish support for the typed function references proposal
While we supported the function references proposal inside Wasm, we didn't
support it on the "outside" in the Wasmtime embedder APIs. So much of the work
here is exposing typed function references, and their type system updates, in
the embedder API. These changes include:
* `ValType::FuncRef` and `ValType::ExternRef` are gone, replaced with the
introduction of the `RefType` and `HeapType` types and a
`ValType::Ref(RefType)` variant.
* `ValType` and `FuncType` no longer implement `Eq` and `PartialEq`. Instead
there are `ValType::matches` and `FuncType::matches` methods which check
directional subtyping. I also added `ValType::eq` and `FuncType::eq` static
methods for the rare case where someone needs to check precise equality, but
that is almost never actually the case, 99.99% of the time you want to check
subtyping.
* There are also public `Val::matches_ty` predicates for checking if a value is
an instance of a type, as well as internal helpers like
`Val::ensure_matches_ty` that return a formatted error if the value does not
match the given type. These helpers are used throughout Wasmtime internals
now.
* There is now a dedicated `wasmtime::Ref` type that represents reference
values. Table operations have been updated to take and return `Ref`s rather
than `Val`s.
Furthermore, this commit also includes type registry changes to correctly manage
lifetimes of types that reference other types. This wasn't previously an issue
because the only thing that could reference types that reference other types was
a Wasm module that added all the types that could reference each other at the
same time and removed them all at the same time. But now that the previously
discussed work to expose these things in the embedder API is done, type lifetime
management in the registry becomes a little trickier because the embedder might
grab a reference to a type that references another type, and then unload the
Wasm module that originally defined that type, but then the user should still be
able use that type and the other types it transtively references. Before, we
were refcounting individual registry entries. Now, we still are refcounting
individual entries, but now we are also accounting for type-to-type references
and adding a new type to the registry will increment the refcounts of each of
the types that it references, and removing a type from the registry will
decrement the refcounts of each of the types it references, and then recursively
(logically, not literally) remove any types whose refcount has now reached zero.
Additionally, this PR adds support for subtyping to `Func::typed`- and
`Func::wrap`-style APIs. For result types, you can always use a supertype of the
WebAssembly function's actual declared return type in `Func::typed`. And for
param types, you can always use a subtype of the Wasm function's actual declared
param type. Doing these things essentially erases information but is always
correct. But additionally, for functions which take a reference to a concrete
type as a parameter, you can also use the concrete type's supertype. Consider a
WebAssembly function that takes a reference to a function with a concrete type:
`(ref null <func type index>)`. In this scenario, there is no static
`wasmtime::Foo` Rust type that corresponds to that particular Wasm-defined
concrete reference type because Wasm modules are loaded dynamically at
runtime. You *could* do `f.typed::<Option<NoFunc>, ()>()`, and while that is
correctly typed and valid, it is often overly restrictive. The only value you
could call the resulting typed function with is the null function reference, but
we'd like to call it with non-null function references that happen to be of the
correct type. Therefore, `f.typed<Option<Func>, ()>()` is also allowed in this
case, even though `Option<Func>` represents `(ref null func)` which is the
supertype, not subtype, of `(ref null <func type index>)`. This does imply some
minimal dynamic type checks in this case, but it is supported for better
ergonomics, to enable passing non-null references into the function.
We can investigate whether it is possible to use generic type parameters and
combinators to define Rust types that precisely match concrete reference types
in future, follow-up pull requests. But for now, we've made things usable, at
least.
Finally, this also takes the first baby step towards adding support for the Wasm
GC proposal. Right now the only thing that is supported is `nofunc` references,
and this was mainly to make testing function reference subtyping easier. But
that does mean that supporting `nofunc` references entailed also adding a
`wasmtime::NoFunc` type as well as the `Config::wasm_gc(enabled)` knob. So we
officially have an in-progress implementation of Wasm GC in Wasmtime after this
PR lands!
Fixes https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/6455
* Fix WAT in test to be valid
* Check that dependent features are enabled for function-references and GC
* Remove unnecessary engine parameters from a few methods
Ever since `FuncType`'s internal `RegisteredType` holds onto its own `Engine`,
we don't need these anymore.
Still useful to keep the `Engine` parameter around for the `ensure_matches`
methods because that can be used to check correct store/engine usage for
embedders.
* Add missing dependent feature enabling for some tests
* Remove copy-paste bit from test
* match self to show it is uninhabited
* Add a missing `is_v128` method
* Short circuit a few func type comparisons
* Turn comment into part of doc comment
* Add test for `Global::new` and subtyping
* Add tests for embedder API, tables, and subtyping
* Add an embedder API test for setting globals and subtyping
* Construct realloc's type from its index, rather than from scratch
* Help LLVM better optimize our dynamic type checks in `TypedFunc::call_raw`
* Fix call benchmark compilation
* Change `WasmParams::into_abi` to take the whole func type instead of iter of params
* Fix doc links
prtest:full
* Fix size assertion on s390x
This directory contains a number of examples of using the wasmtime API from
different languages. Currently examples are all in Rust and C using the
wasmtime crate or the wasmtime embedding API.
Each example is available in both C and in Rust. Examples are accompanied with a
*.wat file which is the wasm input, or a Rust project in a wasm folder which
is the source code for the original wasm file.
Rust examples can be executed with cargo run --example $name. C examples can
be built with mkdir build && cd build && cmake ... You can run
cmake --build . to build all examples or
cmake --build . --target wasmtime-$name, replacing the name as you wish. They
can also be built manually.
Nick Fitzgerald
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