Remove helper-methods from Alloc trait and add associated Err type.

[lachlansneff]

This PR removes the alloc_one, dealloc_one, alloc_array, and dealloc_array methods from the Alloc trait (as discussed in wg-allocators/#18) and adds an associated Err type (as discussed in wg-allocators/#23).

The CollectionAllocErr enum is now generic on E, the error type.

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[01:23:37] command: "/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage2/bin/rustc" "/checkout/src/test/run-pass/allocator-alloc-one.rs" "-Zthreads=1" "--target=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" "--error-format" "json" "-Zui-testing" "-C" "prefer-dynamic" "-o" "/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/test/run-pass/allocator-alloc-one/a" "-Crpath" "-O" "-Zunstable-options" "-Lnative=/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/native/rust-test-helpers" "-L" "/checkout/obj/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/test/run-pass/allocator-alloc-one/auxiliary"
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[01:23:37] warning: unused import: `Alloc`
[01:23:37] --> /checkout/src/test/run-pass/allocator-alloc-one.rs:5:18
[01:23:37] |
[01:23:37] LL | use std::alloc::{Alloc, Global, Layout, handle_alloc_error};
[01:23:37] |
[01:23:37] = note: #[warn(unused_imports)] on by default
[01:23:37] [01:23:37] error[E0599]: no method named `alloc_one` found for type `std::alloc::Global` in the current scope
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[01:23:37] thread 'main' panicked at 'Some tests failed', src/tools/compiletest/src/main.rs:512:22
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[Dylan-DPC-zz]

ping from triage @aidanhs waiting for your review on this @lachlansneff you have failing tests to resolve.

[jonas-schievink]

Ping from triage again! Same status as last time, I believe. @lachlansneff can you address the test failure?

[Dylan-DPC-zz]

ping from triage
r? @SimonSapin

[SimonSapin]

I don’t believe there is consensus so far for adding this associated type. (Or that the Allocators WG really has a way to reach it at all, yet. See rust-lang/wg-allocators#20.) So implementing that change doesn’t seem appropriate to me at this time.

As already argued in other threads, I personally don’t feel that having implementations of the Alloc trait return Result<_, !> is ever desirable. Instead, I would prefer that calling handle_alloc_error is the responsibility of separate APIs that wrap a generic A: Alloc handle, or take it as a parameter.

As to a non-zero-size inhabited error type, as far as I know we have yet to see a concrete use case for an allocator implementation to provide more information about a failure. This feels like a theoretical exercise is making a maximally general API.

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Removing default methods on the other hand sounds fine to me. They would be easy to restore later if we decide to.

[Dylan-DPC-zz]

thanks. marking this as "waiting on team" till there is some consensus on the associated type

[bors]

☔ The latest upstream changes (presumably #60340) made this pull request unmergeable. Please resolve the merge conflicts.