Use Cow in {D,Subd}iagnosticMessage.

Each of `{D,Subd}iagnosticMessage::{Str,Eager}` has a comment:
```
// FIXME(davidtwco): can a `Cow<'static, str>` be used here?
```
This commit answers that question in the affirmative. It's not the most
compelling change ever, but it might be worth merging.

This requires changing the `impl<'a> From<&'a str>` impls to `impl
From<&'static str>`, which involves a bunch of knock-on changes that
require/result in call sites being a little more precise about exactly
what kind of string they use to create errors, and not just `&str`. This
will result in fewer unnecessary allocations, though this will not have
any notable perf effects given that these are error paths.

Note that I was lazy within Clippy, using `to_string` in a few places to
preserve the existing string imprecision. I could have used `impl
Into<{D,Subd}iagnosticMessage>` in various places as is done in the
compiler, but that would have required changes to *many* call sites
(mostly changing `&format("...")` to `format!("...")`) which didn't seem
worthwhile.

Author: nnethercote

compiler/rustc_builtin_macros/src/compile_error.rs

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ pub fn expand_compile_error<'cx>(
         reason = "diagnostic message is specified by user"
     )]
     #[expect(rustc::untranslatable_diagnostic, reason = "diagnostic message is specified by user")]
-    cx.span_err(sp, var.as_str());
+    cx.span_err(sp, var.to_string());
 
     DummyResult::any(sp)
 }

compiler/rustc_builtin_macros/src/errors.rs

@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ impl<'a, G: EmissionGuarantee> IntoDiagnostic<'a, G> for EnvNotDefined {
                 rustc::untranslatable_diagnostic,
                 reason = "cannot translate user-provided messages"
             )]
-            handler.struct_diagnostic(msg.as_str())
+            handler.struct_diagnostic(msg.to_string())
         } else {
             handler.struct_diagnostic(crate::fluent_generated::builtin_macros_env_not_defined)
         };

compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs

@@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ fn link_natively<'a>(
                     linker_path: &linker_path,
                     exit_status: prog.status,
                     command: &cmd,
-                    escaped_output: &escaped_output,
+                    escaped_output,
                 };
                 sess.diagnostic().emit_err(err);
                 // If MSVC's `link.exe` was expected but the return code

compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/write.rs

@@ -1800,7 +1800,7 @@ impl SharedEmitterMain {
                     handler.emit_diagnostic(&mut d);
                 }
                 Ok(SharedEmitterMessage::InlineAsmError(cookie, msg, level, source)) => {
-                    let msg = msg.strip_prefix("error: ").unwrap_or(&msg);
+                    let msg = msg.strip_prefix("error: ").unwrap_or(&msg).to_string();
 
                     let mut err = match level {
                         Level::Error { lint: false } => sess.struct_err(msg).forget_guarantee(),

compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/errors.rs

@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ pub struct LinkingFailed<'a> {
     pub linker_path: &'a PathBuf,
     pub exit_status: ExitStatus,
     pub command: &'a Command,
-    pub escaped_output: &'a str,
+    pub escaped_output: String,
 }
 
 impl IntoDiagnostic<'_> for LinkingFailed<'_> {
@@ -345,11 +345,13 @@ impl IntoDiagnostic<'_> for LinkingFailed<'_> {
         diag.set_arg("linker_path", format!("{}", self.linker_path.display()));
         diag.set_arg("exit_status", format!("{}", self.exit_status));
 
-        diag.note(format!("{:?}", self.command)).note(self.escaped_output);
+        let contains_undefined_ref = self.escaped_output.contains("undefined reference to");
+
+        diag.note(format!("{:?}", self.command)).note(self.escaped_output.to_string());
 
         // Trying to match an error from OS linkers
         // which by now we have no way to translate.
-        if self.escaped_output.contains("undefined reference to") {
+        if contains_undefined_ref {
             diag.note(fluent::codegen_ssa_extern_funcs_not_found)
                 .note(fluent::codegen_ssa_specify_libraries_to_link)
                 .note(fluent::codegen_ssa_use_cargo_directive);

compiler/rustc_driver_impl/src/lib.rs

@@ -1258,7 +1258,7 @@ pub fn install_ice_hook(bug_report_url: &'static str, extra_info: fn(&Handler))
         if let Some(msg) = info.payload().downcast_ref::<String>() {
             if msg.starts_with("failed printing to stdout: ") && msg.ends_with("(os error 232)") {
                 // the error code is already going to be reported when the panic unwinds up the stack
-                let _ = early_error_no_abort(ErrorOutputType::default(), msg.as_str());
+                let _ = early_error_no_abort(ErrorOutputType::default(), msg.clone());
                 return;
             }
         };

compiler/rustc_error_messages/src/lib.rs

@@ -263,8 +263,7 @@ type FluentId = Cow<'static, str>;
 #[rustc_diagnostic_item = "SubdiagnosticMessage"]
 pub enum SubdiagnosticMessage {
     /// Non-translatable diagnostic message.
-    // FIXME(davidtwco): can a `Cow<'static, str>` be used here?
-    Str(String),
+    Str(Cow<'static, str>),
     /// Translatable message which has already been translated eagerly.
     ///
     /// Some diagnostics have repeated subdiagnostics where the same interpolated variables would
@@ -275,8 +274,7 @@ pub enum SubdiagnosticMessage {
     /// incorrect diagnostics. Eager translation results in translation for a subdiagnostic
     /// happening immediately after the subdiagnostic derive's logic has been run. This variant
     /// stores messages which have been translated eagerly.
-    // FIXME(#100717): can a `Cow<'static, str>` be used here?
-    Eager(String),
+    Eager(Cow<'static, str>),
     /// Identifier of a Fluent message. Instances of this variant are generated by the
     /// `Subdiagnostic` derive.
     FluentIdentifier(FluentId),
@@ -290,17 +288,17 @@ pub enum SubdiagnosticMessage {
 
 impl From<String> for SubdiagnosticMessage {
     fn from(s: String) -> Self {
-        SubdiagnosticMessage::Str(s)
+        SubdiagnosticMessage::Str(Cow::Owned(s))
     }
 }
-impl<'a> From<&'a str> for SubdiagnosticMessage {
-    fn from(s: &'a str) -> Self {
-        SubdiagnosticMessage::Str(s.to_string())
+impl From<&'static str> for SubdiagnosticMessage {
+    fn from(s: &'static str) -> Self {
+        SubdiagnosticMessage::Str(Cow::Borrowed(s))
     }
 }
 impl From<Cow<'static, str>> for SubdiagnosticMessage {
     fn from(s: Cow<'static, str>) -> Self {
-        SubdiagnosticMessage::Str(s.to_string())
+        SubdiagnosticMessage::Str(s)
     }
 }
 
@@ -312,8 +310,7 @@ impl From<Cow<'static, str>> for SubdiagnosticMessage {
 #[rustc_diagnostic_item = "DiagnosticMessage"]
 pub enum DiagnosticMessage {
     /// Non-translatable diagnostic message.
-    // FIXME(#100717): can a `Cow<'static, str>` be used here?
-    Str(String),
+    Str(Cow<'static, str>),
     /// Translatable message which has already been translated eagerly.
     ///
     /// Some diagnostics have repeated subdiagnostics where the same interpolated variables would
@@ -324,8 +321,7 @@ pub enum DiagnosticMessage {
     /// incorrect diagnostics. Eager translation results in translation for a subdiagnostic
     /// happening immediately after the subdiagnostic derive's logic has been run. This variant
     /// stores messages which have been translated eagerly.
-    // FIXME(#100717): can a `Cow<'static, str>` be used here?
-    Eager(String),
+    Eager(Cow<'static, str>),
     /// Identifier for a Fluent message (with optional attribute) corresponding to the diagnostic
     /// message.
     ///
@@ -363,17 +359,17 @@ impl DiagnosticMessage {
 
 impl From<String> for DiagnosticMessage {
     fn from(s: String) -> Self {
-        DiagnosticMessage::Str(s)
+        DiagnosticMessage::Str(Cow::Owned(s))
     }
 }
-impl<'a> From<&'a str> for DiagnosticMessage {
-    fn from(s: &'a str) -> Self {
-        DiagnosticMessage::Str(s.to_string())
+impl From<&'static str> for DiagnosticMessage {
+    fn from(s: &'static str) -> Self {
+        DiagnosticMessage::Str(Cow::Borrowed(s))
     }
 }
 impl From<Cow<'static, str>> for DiagnosticMessage {
     fn from(s: Cow<'static, str>) -> Self {
-        DiagnosticMessage::Str(s.to_string())
+        DiagnosticMessage::Str(s)
     }
 }
 

compiler/rustc_errors/src/diagnostic.rs

@@ -352,14 +352,9 @@ impl Diagnostic {
 
     /// Labels all the given spans with the provided label.
     /// See [`Self::span_label()`] for more information.
-    pub fn span_labels(
-        &mut self,
-        spans: impl IntoIterator<Item = Span>,
-        label: impl AsRef<str>,
-    ) -> &mut Self {
-        let label = label.as_ref();
+    pub fn span_labels(&mut self, spans: impl IntoIterator<Item = Span>, label: &str) -> &mut Self {
         for span in spans {
-            self.span_label(span, label);
+            self.span_label(span, label.to_string());
         }
         self
     }
@@ -394,17 +389,18 @@ impl Diagnostic {
         expected: DiagnosticStyledString,
         found: DiagnosticStyledString,
     ) -> &mut Self {
-        let mut msg: Vec<_> = vec![("required when trying to coerce from type `", Style::NoStyle)];
+        let mut msg: Vec<_> =
+            vec![(Cow::from("required when trying to coerce from type `"), Style::NoStyle)];
         msg.extend(expected.0.iter().map(|x| match *x {
-            StringPart::Normal(ref s) => (s.as_str(), Style::NoStyle),
-            StringPart::Highlighted(ref s) => (s.as_str(), Style::Highlight),
+            StringPart::Normal(ref s) => (Cow::from(s.clone()), Style::NoStyle),
+            StringPart::Highlighted(ref s) => (Cow::from(s.clone()), Style::Highlight),
         }));
-        msg.push(("` to type '", Style::NoStyle));
+        msg.push((Cow::from("` to type '"), Style::NoStyle));
         msg.extend(found.0.iter().map(|x| match *x {
-            StringPart::Normal(ref s) => (s.as_str(), Style::NoStyle),
-            StringPart::Highlighted(ref s) => (s.as_str(), Style::Highlight),
+            StringPart::Normal(ref s) => (Cow::from(s.clone()), Style::NoStyle),
+            StringPart::Highlighted(ref s) => (Cow::from(s.clone()), Style::Highlight),
         }));
-        msg.push(("`", Style::NoStyle));
+        msg.push((Cow::from("`"), Style::NoStyle));
 
         // For now, just attach these as notes
         self.highlighted_note(msg);

compiler/rustc_errors/src/diagnostic_builder.rs

@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ impl<'a, G: EmissionGuarantee> DiagnosticBuilder<'a, G> {
         }
 
         // Take the `Diagnostic` by replacing it with a dummy.
-        let dummy = Diagnostic::new(Level::Allow, DiagnosticMessage::Str("".to_string()));
+        let dummy = Diagnostic::new(Level::Allow, DiagnosticMessage::from(""));
         let diagnostic = std::mem::replace(&mut *self.inner.diagnostic, dummy);
 
         // Disable the ICE on `Drop`.
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ impl<'a, G: EmissionGuarantee> DiagnosticBuilder<'a, G> {
     pub fn span_labels(
         &mut self,
         spans: impl IntoIterator<Item = Span>,
-        label: impl AsRef<str>,
+        label: &str,
     ) -> &mut Self);
 
     forward!(pub fn note_expected_found(
@@ -781,8 +781,8 @@ impl Drop for DiagnosticBuilderInner<'_> {
                 if !panicking() {
                     handler.emit_diagnostic(&mut Diagnostic::new(
                         Level::Bug,
-                        DiagnosticMessage::Str(
-                            "the following error was constructed but not emitted".to_string(),
+                        DiagnosticMessage::from(
+                            "the following error was constructed but not emitted",
                         ),
                     ));
                     handler.emit_diagnostic(&mut self.diagnostic);

compiler/rustc_errors/src/emitter.rs

@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ pub trait Emitter: Translate {
 
                 children.push(SubDiagnostic {
                     level: Level::Note,
-                    message: vec![(DiagnosticMessage::Str(msg), Style::NoStyle)],
+                    message: vec![(DiagnosticMessage::from(msg), Style::NoStyle)],
                     span: MultiSpan::new(),
                     render_span: None,
                 });

compiler/rustc_errors/src/lib.rs

@@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ impl Handler {
         message: DiagnosticMessage,
         args: impl Iterator<Item = DiagnosticArg<'a, 'static>>,
     ) -> SubdiagnosticMessage {
-        SubdiagnosticMessage::Eager(self.eagerly_translate_to_string(message, args))
+        SubdiagnosticMessage::Eager(Cow::from(self.eagerly_translate_to_string(message, args)))
     }
 
     /// Translate `message` eagerly with `args` to `String`.
@@ -1450,14 +1450,14 @@ impl HandlerInner {
         self.emit_stashed_diagnostics();
 
         let warnings = match self.deduplicated_warn_count {
-            0 => String::new(),
-            1 => "1 warning emitted".to_string(),
-            count => format!("{count} warnings emitted"),
+            0 => Cow::from(""),
+            1 => Cow::from("1 warning emitted"),
+            count => Cow::from(format!("{count} warnings emitted")),
         };
         let errors = match self.deduplicated_err_count {
-            0 => String::new(),
-            1 => "aborting due to previous error".to_string(),
-            count => format!("aborting due to {count} previous errors"),
+            0 => Cow::from(""),
+            1 => Cow::from("aborting due to previous error"),
+            count => Cow::from(format!("aborting due to {count} previous errors")),
         };
         if self.treat_err_as_bug() {
             return;

compiler/rustc_expand/src/base.rs

@@ -1154,7 +1154,7 @@ impl<'a> ExtCtxt<'a> {
         // Fixme: does this result in errors?
         self.expansions.clear();
     }
-    pub fn bug(&self, msg: &str) -> ! {
+    pub fn bug(&self, msg: &'static str) -> ! {
         self.sess.parse_sess.span_diagnostic.bug(msg);
     }
     pub fn trace_macros(&self) -> bool {
@@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ pub fn resolve_path(
 pub fn expr_to_spanned_string<'a>(
     cx: &'a mut ExtCtxt<'_>,
     expr: P<ast::Expr>,
-    err_msg: &str,
+    err_msg: &'static str,
 ) -> Result<(Symbol, ast::StrStyle, Span), Option<(DiagnosticBuilder<'a, ErrorGuaranteed>, bool)>> {
     // Perform eager expansion on the expression.
     // We want to be able to handle e.g., `concat!("foo", "bar")`.
@@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@ pub fn expr_to_spanned_string<'a>(
 pub fn expr_to_string(
     cx: &mut ExtCtxt<'_>,
     expr: P<ast::Expr>,
-    err_msg: &str,
+    err_msg: &'static str,
 ) -> Option<(Symbol, ast::StrStyle)> {
     expr_to_spanned_string(cx, expr, err_msg)
         .map_err(|err| {

compiler/rustc_expand/src/mbe/diagnostics.rs

@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ impl<'a, 'cx, 'matcher> Tracker<'matcher> for CollectTrackerAndEmitter<'a, 'cx,
             }
             Error(err_sp, msg) => {
                 let span = err_sp.substitute_dummy(self.root_span);
-                self.cx.struct_span_err(span, msg.as_str()).emit();
+                self.cx.struct_span_err(span, msg.clone()).emit();
                 self.result = Some(DummyResult::any(span));
             }
             ErrorReported(_) => self.result = Some(DummyResult::any(self.root_span)),
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ pub(super) fn emit_frag_parse_err(
     {
         let msg = &e.message[0];
         e.message[0] = (
-            DiagnosticMessage::Str(format!(
+            DiagnosticMessage::from(format!(
                 "macro expansion ends with an incomplete expression: {}",
                 message.replace(", found `<eof>`", ""),
             )),
@@ -313,9 +313,9 @@ pub(super) fn annotate_doc_comment(err: &mut Diagnostic, sm: &SourceMap, span: S
 
 /// Generates an appropriate parsing failure message. For EOF, this is "unexpected end...". For
 /// other tokens, this is "unexpected token...".
-pub(super) fn parse_failure_msg(tok: &Token) -> String {
+pub(super) fn parse_failure_msg(tok: &Token) -> Cow<'static, str> {
     match tok.kind {
-        token::Eof => "unexpected end of macro invocation".to_string(),
-        _ => format!("no rules expected the token `{}`", pprust::token_to_string(tok),),
+        token::Eof => Cow::from("unexpected end of macro invocation"),
+        _ => Cow::from(format!("no rules expected the token `{}`", pprust::token_to_string(tok))),
     }
 }

compiler/rustc_hir_analysis/src/check/compare_impl_item.rs

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ use rustc_trait_selection::traits::outlives_bounds::InferCtxtExt as _;
 use rustc_trait_selection::traits::{
     self, ObligationCause, ObligationCauseCode, ObligationCtxt, Reveal,
 };
+use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::iter;
 
 /// Checks that a method from an impl conforms to the signature of
@@ -684,7 +685,7 @@ pub(super) fn collect_return_position_impl_trait_in_trait_tys<'tcx>(
                 &cause,
                 hir.get_if_local(impl_m.def_id)
                     .and_then(|node| node.fn_decl())
-                    .map(|decl| (decl.output.span(), "return type in trait".to_owned())),
+                    .map(|decl| (decl.output.span(), Cow::from("return type in trait"))),
                 Some(infer::ValuePairs::Terms(ExpectedFound {
                     expected: trait_return_ty.into(),
                     found: impl_return_ty.into(),
@@ -963,7 +964,7 @@ fn report_trait_method_mismatch<'tcx>(
     infcx.err_ctxt().note_type_err(
         &mut diag,
         &cause,
-        trait_err_span.map(|sp| (sp, "type in trait".to_owned())),
+        trait_err_span.map(|sp| (sp, Cow::from("type in trait"))),
         Some(infer::ValuePairs::Sigs(ExpectedFound { expected: trait_sig, found: impl_sig })),
         terr,
         false,
@@ -1731,7 +1732,7 @@ pub(super) fn compare_impl_const_raw(
         infcx.err_ctxt().note_type_err(
             &mut diag,
             &cause,
-            trait_c_span.map(|span| (span, "type in trait".to_owned())),
+            trait_c_span.map(|span| (span, Cow::from("type in trait"))),
             Some(infer::ValuePairs::Terms(ExpectedFound {
                 expected: trait_ty.into(),
                 found: impl_ty.into(),

compiler/rustc_hir_analysis/src/check/intrinsic.rs

@@ -121,10 +121,11 @@ pub fn intrinsic_operation_unsafety(tcx: TyCtxt<'_>, intrinsic_id: DefId) -> hir
     if has_safe_attr != is_in_list {
         tcx.sess.struct_span_err(
             tcx.def_span(intrinsic_id),
-            DiagnosticMessage::Str(format!(
-                    "intrinsic safety mismatch between list of intrinsics within the compiler and core library intrinsics for intrinsic `{}`",
-                    tcx.item_name(intrinsic_id)
-        ))).emit();
+            DiagnosticMessage::from(format!(
+                "intrinsic safety mismatch between list of intrinsics within the compiler and core library intrinsics for intrinsic `{}`",
+                tcx.item_name(intrinsic_id)
+            )
+        )).emit();
     }
 
     is_in_list

compiler/rustc_hir_typeck/src/generator_interior/mod.rs

@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> InteriorVisitor<'a, 'tcx> {
 
                     self.fcx
                         .need_type_info_err_in_generator(self.kind, span, unresolved_term)
-                        .span_note(yield_data.span, &*note)
+                        .span_note(yield_data.span, note)
                         .emit();
                 }
             } else {
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ fn check_must_not_suspend_def(
                 // Add optional reason note
                 if let Some(note) = attr.value_str() {
                     // FIXME(guswynn): consider formatting this better
-                    lint.span_note(data.source_span, note.as_str());
+                    lint.span_note(data.source_span, note.to_string());
                 }
 
                 // Add some quick suggestions on what to do