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Auto merge of #74489 - jyn514:assoc-items, r=manishearth,petrochenkov
Fix intra-doc links for associated items
@Manishearth and I found that links of the following sort are broken:
```rust
$ cat str_from.rs
/// [`String::from`]
pub fn foo() {}
$ rustdoc str_from.rs
warning: `[String::from]` cannot be resolved, ignoring it.
--> str_from.rs:4:6
|
4 | /// [`String::from`]
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ cannot be resolved, ignoring
```
It turns out this is because the current implementation only looks at inherent impls (`impl Bar {}`) and traits _for the item being documented_. Note that this is not the same as the item being _linked_ to. So this code would work:
```rust
pub trait T1 {
fn method();
}
pub struct S;
impl T1 for S {
/// [S::method] on method
fn method() {}
}
```
but putting the documentation on `trait T1` would not.
~~I realized that writing it up that my fix is only partially correct: It removes the inherent impls code when it should instead remove the `trait_item` code.~~ Fixed.
Additionally, I discovered while writing this there is some ambiguity: you could have multiple methods with the same name, but for different traits:
```rust
pub trait T1 {
fn method();
}
pub trait T2 {
fn method();
}
/// See [S::method]
pub struct S;
```
Rustdoc should give an ambiguity error here, but since there is currently no way to disambiguate the traits (#74563) it does not (#74489 (comment)).
There is a _third_ ambiguity that pops up: What if the trait is generic and is implemented multiple times with different generic parameters? In this case, my fix does not do very well: it thinks there is only one trait instantiated and links to that trait:
```
/// [`String::from`] -- this resolves to https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/alloc/string/struct.String.html#method.from
pub fn foo() {}
```
However, every `From` implementation has a method called `from`! So the browser picks a random one. This is not the desired behavior, but it's not clear how to avoid it.
To be consistent with the rest of intra-doc links, this only resolves associated items from traits that are in scope. This required changes to rustc_resolve to work cross-crate; the relevant commits are prefixed with `resolve: `. As a bonus, considering only traits in scope is slightly faster. To avoid re-calculating the traits over and over, rustdoc uses a cache to store the traits in scope for a given module.
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