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Remove the need to have a Store for an InstancePre #5683

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This commit relaxes a requirement of the InstancePre API, notably its construction via Linker::instantiate_pre. Previously this function required a Store<T> to be present to be able to perform type-checking on the contents of the linker, and now this requirement has been removed.

Items stored within a linker are either a HostFunc, which has type information inside of it, or an Extern, which doesn't have type information inside of it. Due to the usage of Extern this is why a Store was required during the InstancePre construction process, it's used to extract the type of an Extern. This commit implements a solution where the type information of an Extern is stored alongside the Extern itself, meaning that the InstancePre construction process no longer requires a Store<T>.

One caveat of this implementation is that some items, such as tables and memories, technically have a "dynamic type" where during type checking their current size is consulted to match against the minimum size required of an import. This no longer works when using Linker::instantiate_pre as the current size used is the one when it was inserted into the linker rather than the one available at instantiation time. It's hoped, however, that this is a relatively esoteric use case that doesn't impact many real-world users.

Additionally note that this is an API-breaking change. Not only is the Store argument removed from Linker::instantiate_pre, but some other methods such as Linker::define grew a Store argument as the type needs to be extracted when an item is inserted into a linker.

Closes #5675

This commit relaxes a requirement of the `InstancePre` API, notably its
construction via `Linker::instantiate_pre`. Previously this function
required a `Store<T>` to be present to be able to perform type-checking
on the contents of the linker, and now this requirement has been
removed.

Items stored within a linker are either a `HostFunc`, which has type
information inside of it, or an `Extern`, which doesn't have type
information inside of it. Due to the usage of `Extern` this is why a
`Store` was required during the `InstancePre` construction process, it's
used to extract the type of an `Extern`. This commit implements a
solution where the type information of an `Extern` is stored alongside
the `Extern` itself, meaning that the `InstancePre` construction process
no longer requires a `Store<T>`.

One caveat of this implementation is that some items, such as tables and
memories, technically have a "dynamic type" where during type checking
their current size is consulted to match against the minimum size
required of an import. This no longer works when using
`Linker::instantiate_pre` as the current size used is the one when it
was inserted into the linker rather than the one available at
instantiation time. It's hoped, however, that this is a relatively
esoteric use case that doesn't impact many real-world users.

Additionally note that this is an API-breaking change. Not only is the
`Store` argument removed from `Linker::instantiate_pre`, but some other
methods such as `Linker::define` grew a `Store` argument as the type
needs to be extracted when an item is inserted into a linker.

Closes bytecodealliance#5675
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Awesome! Requiring a store to Linker::define any externs makes sense, and I don't expect it will break any users.

@alexcrichton alexcrichton merged commit 63d80fc into bytecodealliance:main Feb 2, 2023
@alexcrichton alexcrichton deleted the remove-store-from-instance-pre branch February 2, 2023 17:54
jbourassa added a commit to bytecodealliance/wasmtime-rb that referenced this pull request Feb 24, 2023
This includes a breaking change, following bytecodealliance/wasmtime#5683.
`Wasmtime::Linker#define` now takes a store as a first argument.
jbourassa added a commit to bytecodealliance/wasmtime-rb that referenced this pull request Feb 24, 2023
This includes a breaking change, following bytecodealliance/wasmtime#5683.
`Wasmtime::Linker#define` now takes a store as a first argument.
lann added a commit to lann/wasmtime that referenced this pull request Mar 17, 2023
alexcrichton pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 17, 2023
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