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+use rustc_infer::infer::type_variable::{TypeVariableOrigin, TypeVariableOriginKind};
+use rustc_middle::ty::{self, Ty};
+use rustc_span::{self, Span};
+
+use super::Expectation::*;
+use super::FnCtxt;
+
+/// When type-checking an expression, we propagate downward
+/// whatever type hint we are able in the form of an `Expectation`.
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug)]
+pub enum Expectation<'tcx> {
+    /// We know nothing about what type this expression should have.
+    NoExpectation,
+
+    /// This expression should have the type given (or some subtype).
+    ExpectHasType(Ty<'tcx>),
+
+    /// This expression will be cast to the `Ty`.
+    ExpectCastableToType(Ty<'tcx>),
+
+    /// This rvalue expression will be wrapped in `&` or `Box` and coerced
+    /// to `&Ty` or `Box<Ty>`, respectively. `Ty` is `[A]` or `Trait`.
+    ExpectRvalueLikeUnsized(Ty<'tcx>),
+
+    IsLast(Span),
+}
+
+impl<'a, 'tcx> Expectation<'tcx> {
+    // Disregard "castable to" expectations because they
+    // can lead us astray. Consider for example `if cond
+    // {22} else {c} as u8` -- if we propagate the
+    // "castable to u8" constraint to 22, it will pick the
+    // type 22u8, which is overly constrained (c might not
+    // be a u8). In effect, the problem is that the
+    // "castable to" expectation is not the tightest thing
+    // we can say, so we want to drop it in this case.
+    // The tightest thing we can say is "must unify with
+    // else branch". Note that in the case of a "has type"
+    // constraint, this limitation does not hold.
+
+    // If the expected type is just a type variable, then don't use
+    // an expected type. Otherwise, we might write parts of the type
+    // when checking the 'then' block which are incompatible with the
+    // 'else' branch.
+    pub(super) fn adjust_for_branches(&self, fcx: &FnCtxt<'a, 'tcx>) -> Expectation<'tcx> {
+        match *self {
+            ExpectHasType(ety) => {
+                let ety = fcx.shallow_resolve(ety);
+                if !ety.is_ty_var() { ExpectHasType(ety) } else { NoExpectation }
+            }
+            ExpectRvalueLikeUnsized(ety) => ExpectRvalueLikeUnsized(ety),
+            _ => NoExpectation,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Provides an expectation for an rvalue expression given an *optional*
+    /// hint, which is not required for type safety (the resulting type might
+    /// be checked higher up, as is the case with `&expr` and `box expr`), but
+    /// is useful in determining the concrete type.
+    ///
+    /// The primary use case is where the expected type is a fat pointer,
+    /// like `&[isize]`. For example, consider the following statement:
+    ///
+    ///    let x: &[isize] = &[1, 2, 3];
+    ///
+    /// In this case, the expected type for the `&[1, 2, 3]` expression is
+    /// `&[isize]`. If however we were to say that `[1, 2, 3]` has the
+    /// expectation `ExpectHasType([isize])`, that would be too strong --
+    /// `[1, 2, 3]` does not have the type `[isize]` but rather `[isize; 3]`.
+    /// It is only the `&[1, 2, 3]` expression as a whole that can be coerced
+    /// to the type `&[isize]`. Therefore, we propagate this more limited hint,
+    /// which still is useful, because it informs integer literals and the like.
+    /// See the test case `test/ui/coerce-expect-unsized.rs` and #20169
+    /// for examples of where this comes up,.
+    pub(super) fn rvalue_hint(fcx: &FnCtxt<'a, 'tcx>, ty: Ty<'tcx>) -> Expectation<'tcx> {
+        match fcx.tcx.struct_tail_without_normalization(ty).kind() {
+            ty::Slice(_) | ty::Str | ty::Dynamic(..) => ExpectRvalueLikeUnsized(ty),
+            _ => ExpectHasType(ty),
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Resolves `expected` by a single level if it is a variable. If
+    // there is no expected type or resolution is not possible (e.g.,
+    // no constraints yet present), just returns `self`.
+    fn resolve(self, fcx: &FnCtxt<'a, 'tcx>) -> Expectation<'tcx> {
+        match self {
+            NoExpectation => NoExpectation,
+            ExpectCastableToType(t) => ExpectCastableToType(fcx.resolve_vars_if_possible(t)),
+            ExpectHasType(t) => ExpectHasType(fcx.resolve_vars_if_possible(t)),
+            ExpectRvalueLikeUnsized(t) => ExpectRvalueLikeUnsized(fcx.resolve_vars_if_possible(t)),
+            IsLast(sp) => IsLast(sp),
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub(super) fn to_option(self, fcx: &FnCtxt<'a, 'tcx>) -> Option<Ty<'tcx>> {
+        match self.resolve(fcx) {
+            NoExpectation | IsLast(_) => None,
+            ExpectCastableToType(ty) | ExpectHasType(ty) | ExpectRvalueLikeUnsized(ty) => Some(ty),
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// It sometimes happens that we want to turn an expectation into
+    /// a **hard constraint** (i.e., something that must be satisfied
+    /// for the program to type-check). `only_has_type` will return
+    /// such a constraint, if it exists.
+    pub(super) fn only_has_type(self, fcx: &FnCtxt<'a, 'tcx>) -> Option<Ty<'tcx>> {
+        match self {
+            ExpectHasType(ty) => Some(fcx.resolve_vars_if_possible(ty)),
+            NoExpectation | ExpectCastableToType(_) | ExpectRvalueLikeUnsized(_) | IsLast(_) => {
+                None
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Like `only_has_type`, but instead of returning `None` if no
+    /// hard constraint exists, creates a fresh type variable.
+    pub(super) fn coercion_target_type(self, fcx: &FnCtxt<'a, 'tcx>, span: Span) -> Ty<'tcx> {
+        self.only_has_type(fcx).unwrap_or_else(|| {
+            fcx.next_ty_var(TypeVariableOrigin { kind: TypeVariableOriginKind::MiscVariable, span })
+        })
+    }
+}