rustdoc: Create anchor pages for primitive types

This commit adds support in rustdoc to recognize the `#[doc(primitive = "foo")]`
attribute. This attribute indicates that the current module is the "owner" of
the primitive type `foo`. For rustdoc, this means that the doc-comment for the
module is the doc-comment for the primitive type, plus a signal to all
downstream crates that hyperlinks for primitive types will be directed at the
crate containing the `#[doc]` directive.

Additionally, rustdoc will favor crates closest to the one being documented
which "implements the primitive type". For example, documentation of libcore
links to libcore for primitive types, but documentation for libstd and beyond
all links to libstd for primitive types.

This change involves no compiler modifications, it is purely a rustdoc change.
The landing pages for the primitive types primarily serve to show a list of
implemented traits for the primitive type itself.

The primitive types documented includes both strings and slices in a semi-ad-hoc
way, but in a way that should provide at least somewhat meaningful
documentation.

Closes rust-lang#14474

Author: alexcrichton

src/libcore/bool.rs

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 //!
 //! A `to_bit` conversion function.
 
+#![doc(primitive = "bool")]
+
 use num::{Int, one, zero};
 
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

src/libcore/char.rs

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 //! and, as such, should be performed via the `from_u32` function..
 
 #![allow(non_snake_case_functions)]
+#![doc(primitive = "char")]
 
 use mem::transmute;
 use option::{None, Option, Some};

src/libcore/num/f32.rs

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 
 //! Operations and constants for 32-bits floats (`f32` type)
 
+#![doc(primitive = "f32")]
+
 use intrinsics;
 use mem;
 use num::{FPNormal, FPCategory, FPZero, FPSubnormal, FPInfinite, FPNaN};

src/libcore/num/f64.rs

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 
 //! Operations and constants for 64-bits floats (`f64` type)
 
+#![doc(primitive = "f64")]
+
 use intrinsics;
 use mem;
 use num::{FPNormal, FPCategory, FPZero, FPSubnormal, FPInfinite, FPNaN};

src/libcore/num/i16.rs

@@ -10,5 +10,7 @@
 
 //! Operations and constants for signed 16-bits integers (`i16` type)
 
+#![doc(primitive = "i16")]
+
 int_module!(i16, 16)
 

src/libcore/num/i32.rs

@@ -10,5 +10,7 @@
 
 //! Operations and constants for signed 32-bits integers (`i32` type)
 
+#![doc(primitive = "i32")]
+
 int_module!(i32, 32)
 

src/libcore/num/i64.rs

@@ -10,5 +10,7 @@
 
 //! Operations and constants for signed 64-bits integers (`i64` type)
 
+#![doc(primitive = "i64")]
+
 int_module!(i64, 64)
 

src/libcore/num/i8.rs

@@ -10,5 +10,7 @@
 
 //! Operations and constants for signed 8-bits integers (`i8` type)
 
+#![doc(primitive = "i8")]
+
 int_module!(i8, 8)
 

src/libcore/num/int.rs

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 
 //! Operations and constants for architecture-sized signed integers (`int` type)
 
+#![doc(primitive = "int")]
+
 #[cfg(target_word_size = "32")] int_module!(int, 32)
 #[cfg(target_word_size = "64")] int_module!(int, 64)
 

src/libcore/num/u16.rs

@@ -10,4 +10,6 @@
 
 //! Operations and constants for unsigned 16-bits integers (`u16` type)
 
+#![doc(primitive = "u16")]
+
 uint_module!(u16, i16, 16)

src/libcore/num/u32.rs

@@ -10,5 +10,7 @@
 
 //! Operations and constants for unsigned 32-bits integers (`u32` type)
 
+#![doc(primitive = "u32")]
+
 uint_module!(u32, i32, 32)
 

src/libcore/num/u64.rs

@@ -10,5 +10,7 @@
 
 //! Operations and constants for unsigned 64-bits integer (`u64` type)
 
+#![doc(primitive = "u64")]
+
 uint_module!(u64, i64, 64)
 

src/libcore/num/u8.rs

@@ -10,5 +10,7 @@
 
 //! Operations and constants for unsigned 8-bits integers (`u8` type)
 
+#![doc(primitive = "u8")]
+
 uint_module!(u8, i8, 8)
 

src/libcore/num/uint.rs

@@ -10,5 +10,7 @@
 
 //! Operations and constants for architecture-sized unsigned integers (`uint` type)
 
+#![doc(primitive = "uint")]
+
 uint_module!(uint, int, ::int::BITS)
 

src/libcore/slice.rs

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 //!
 //! For more details `std::slice`.
 
+#![doc(primitive = "slice")]
+
 use mem::transmute;
 use clone::Clone;
 use container::Container;

src/libcore/str.rs

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 //!
 //! For more details, see std::str
 
+#![doc(primitive = "str")]
+
 use mem;
 use char;
 use clone::Clone;

src/libcore/tuple.rs

@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@
 //! assert_eq!(d, (0u32, 0.0f32));
 //! ```
 
+#![doc(primitive = "tuple")]
+
 use clone::Clone;
 #[cfg(not(test))] use cmp::*;
 #[cfg(not(test))] use default::Default;