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Rollup merge of rust-lang#72497 - RalfJung:tag-term, r=oli-obk
tag/niche terminology cleanup The term "discriminant" was used in two ways throughout the compiler: * every enum variant has a corresponding discriminant, that can be given explicitly with `Variant = N`. * that discriminant is then encoded in memory to store which variant is active -- but this encoded form of the discriminant was also often called "discriminant", even though it is conceptually quite different (e.g., it can be smaller in size, or even use niche-filling). After discussion with @eddyb, this renames the second term to "tag". The way the tag is encoded can be either `TagEncoding::Direct` (formerly `DiscriminantKind::Tag`) or `TagEncoding::Niche` (formerly `DiscrimianntKind::Niche`). This finally resolves some long-standing confusion I had about the handling of variant indices and discriminants, which surfaced in rust-lang#72419. (There is also a `DiscriminantKind` type in libcore, it remains unaffected. I think this corresponds to the discriminant, not the tag, so that seems all right.) r? @eddyb
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