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Auto merge of rust-lang#54183 - qnighy:by-value-object-safety, r=oli-obk
Implement by-value object safety
This PR implements **by-value object safety**, which is part of unsized rvalues rust-lang#48055. That means, with `#![feature(unsized_locals)]`, you can call a method `fn foo(self, ...)` on trait objects. One aim of this is to enable `Box<FnOnce>` in the near future.
The difficulty here is this: when constructing a vtable for a trait `Foo`, we can't just put the function `<T as Foo>::foo` into the table. If `T` is no larger than `usize`, `self` is usually passed directly. However, as the caller of the vtable doesn't know the concrete `Self` type, we want a variant of `<T as Foo>::foo` where `self` is always passed by reference.
Therefore, when the compiler encounters such a method to be generated as a vtable entry, it produces a newly introduced instance called `InstanceDef::VtableShim(def_id)` (that wraps the original instance). the shim just derefs the receiver and calls the original method. We give different symbol names for the shims by appending `::{{vtable-shim}}` to the symbol path (and also adding vtable-shimness as an ingredient to the symbol hash).
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