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metagn 2d678fa45c better errors for standalone explicit generic instantiations (#24276)
refs #8064, refs #24010

Error messages for standalone explicit generic instantiations are
revamped. Failing standalone explicit generic instantiations now only
error after overloading has finished and resolved to the default `[]`
magic (this means `[]` can now be overloaded for procs but this isn't
necessarily intentional, in #24010 it was documented that it isn't
possible). The error messages for failed instantiations are also no
longer a simple `cannot instantiate: foo` message, instead they now give
the same type mismatch error message as overloads with mismatching
explicit generic parameters.

This is now possible due to the changes in #24010 that delegate all
explicit generic proc instantiations to overload resolution. Old code
that worked around this is now removed. `maybeInstantiateGeneric` could
maybe also be removed in favor of just `explicitGenericSym`, the `result
== n` case is due to `explicitGenericInstError` which is only for niche
cases.

Also, to cause "ambiguous identifier" error messages when the explicit
instantiation is a symchoice and the expression context doesn't allow
symchoices, we semcheck the sym/symchoice created by
`explicitGenericSym` with the given expression flags.

#8064 isn't entirely fixed because the error message is still misleading
for the original case which does `values[1]`, as a consequence of
#12664.

(cherry picked from commit 0a058a6b8f)
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This directory contains the test cases.

Each test must have a filename of the form: t*.nim

Note: Testament is only aware of tests under a directory (eg tests/foo/) and will ignore top-level tests like tests/tbar.nim.

Specs

Each test can contain a spec in a discard """ ... """ block.

Check out the parseSpec procedure in the specs module for a full and reliable reference

action

Specifies what action this test should take.

Default: run

Options:

  • compile - compiles the module and fails the test if compilations fails.
  • run - compiles and runs the module, fails the test if compilation or execution of test code fails.
  • reject - compiles the module and fails the test if compilation succeeds.

There are certain spec keys that imply run, including output and outputsub.

Categories

Each folder under this directory represents a test category, which can be tested by running koch tests pcat <category> (or cat to avoid parallel testing, which is slower).

The folder dll contains simple DLL tests.

The folder realtimeGC contains a test for validating that the realtime GC can run properly without linking against the nimrtl.dll/so.