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Rollup merge of #98814 - fmease:minimal-fix-for-issue-97933, r=GuillaumeGomez
rustdoc: Censor certain complex unevaluated const exprs
Fixes#97933.
This is more of a hotfix for the aforementioned issue. By that, I mean that my proposed patch is
not the best solution but one that does not change as much existing code.
It treats symptoms rather than the root cause.
This PR “censors” certain complex unevaluated constant expressions like `match`es, blocks, function calls, struct literals etc. by pretty-printing them as `_` / `{ _ }` (number and string literals, paths and `()` are still printed as one would expect).
Resorting to this placeholder is preferable to printing the full expression verbatim since
they can be quite large and verbose resulting in an unreadable mess in the generated documentation.
Further, mindlessly printing the const would leak private and `doc(hidden)` struct fields (#97933), at least in the current
stable & nightly implementations which rely on `span_to_snippet` (!) and `rustc_hir_pretty::id_to_string`.
The censoring of _verbose_ expressions is probably going to stay longer term.
However, in regards to private and `doc(hidden)` struct fields, I have a more proper fix in mind
which I have already partially implemented locally and for which I am going to open a separate PR sometime soon.
For that, I was already in contact with `@GuillaumeGomez.`
The proper fix involves rustdoc not falling back on pretty-printing unevaluated consts so easily (what this PR is concerned about)
and instead preferring to print evaluated consts which contain more information allowing it to selectively hide private and `doc(hidden)` fields, create hyperlinks etc. generally making the output more granular and precise (compared to the brutal `_` placeholder).
Unfortunately, I was a bit too late and the issue just hit stable (1.62).
Should this be backported to beta or even a potential 1.62.1?
r? `@GuillaumeGomez`
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