Move metadata/diagnostics to associated types (#2358)

* #include an absolute path didn't work - because paths were taken to always be relative.

* WIP with hierarchical enums.

* Some small fixes and improvements around artifact desc related types.

* Improvements around hierarchical enum.

* Fixes to get Artifact types refactor to be able to execute tests.

* Attempt to better categorize PTX.

* Work around for potentially unused function warning.

* Typo fix.

* Simplify Artifact header.

* Small improvements around Artifact kind/payload/style.

* Added IDestroyable/ICastable

* Add IArtifactList.

* First impl of IArtifactUtil.

* Use the ICastable interface for IArtifactRepresentation.

* Added IArtifactRepresentation & IArtifactAssociated.

* Add SLANG_OVERRIDE to avoid gcc/clang warning.

* Fix calling convention issue on win32.

* Fix missing SLANG_OVERRIDE.

* First attempt at file abstraction around Artifact.

* Added creation of lock file.

* Move functionality for determining file paths to the IArtifactUtil.
Add casting to ICastable.

* Added some casting/finding mechanisms.

* Simplify IArtifact interface, and use Items for file reps.

* Fix problem with libraries on DXIL.

* Split out ArtifactRepresentation.

* Move ArtifactDesc functionality to ArtifactDescUtil. ArtifactInfoUtil becomes ArtifactDescUtil.

* Split implementations from the interfaces for Artifact.

* Use TypeTextUtil for target name outputting.

* Add artifact impls.

* Add ICastableList

* Added UnknownCastableAdapter

* Make ISlangSharedLibrary derive from ICastable, and remain backwards compatible with slang-llvm.

* Refactor Representation on Artifact.

* Make our ISlangBlobs also derive from ICastable.
Make ISlangBlob atomic ref counted.

* Split out CastableList and related types, and placed in core.

* Small fixes around IArtifact.
Improve IArtifact docs.
First impl of getChildren for IArtifact.

* Documentation improvements for Artifact related types.

* Fix typo.

* Special case adding a ICastableList to a LazyCastableList.

* Small simplification of LazyCastableList, by adding State member.

* Removed the ILockFile interface because IFileArtifactRepresentation can be used.

* Implement DiagnosticsArtifactRepresentation.

* Added PostEmitMetadataArtifactRepresentation

* Add searching by predicate.
Added handling of accessing Artifact as ISharedLibrary

* Fix typo.

* Add find to IArtifacgtList.
Fix some missing SLANG_NO_THROW.

* Small improvements around ArtifactDesc types.

* Another small change around ArtifactKind.

* Some more shuffling of ArtifactDesc.

* Make IArtifact castable
Remove IArtifactList
Made IArtifactContainer derive from IArtifact
Made ModuleLibrary atomic ref counted/given IModuleLibrary interface.

* Must call _requireChildren before any children access.

* Fix missing SLANG_MCALL on castAs.

* Fix missing SLANG_OVERRIDE.

* Added IArtifactHandler

* Use ICastable for basis of scope/lookup.

* WIP first attempt to remove CompileResult.

* Fix support for for downstream compiler shared library adapter.

* Fix issues found when replacing CompileResult.

* Fix typo.

* Fix getting items form 'significant' member of an Artifact.

* Split out ArtifactUtil & ArtifactHandler.

* Work around for problem on Visual studio.

* Improve searching.

* Add missing files.

* Split out Artifact associated types.
Don't produce a container by default - use associated for 'metadata'.

* Remove no longer used ArtifactPayload type.

* Generalized converting representations.
Small improvements to artifacts.

* Fix intermediate dumping issue.

* Removed #if 0 out CompileResult.
Remove DownstreamCompileResult maybeDumpIntermediate.

* Pull out functionality for dumping artifact output into ArtifactOutputUtil
Fixed a bug in naming files based on ArtifactDesc.

* std::atomic issue.

* Fix outputting as text bug.
Some small improvements.

* Add fix around prefix for dumping.
Improved how handling for extensions work form ArtifactDesc.

* Dump assembly if available.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/source/core/slang-castable-list-impl.cpp b/source/core/slang-castable-list-impl.cpp
index 56f8c7cae..dcc58e37b 100644
--- a/source/core/slang-castable-list-impl.cpp
+++ b/source/core/slang-castable-list-impl.cpp
@@ -3,7 +3,24 @@
 
 namespace Slang {
 
-    /* !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UnknownCastableAdapter !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! */
+/* !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CastableUtil !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! */
+
+/* static */ComPtr<ICastable> CastableUtil::getCastable(ISlangUnknown* unk)
+{
+    SLANG_ASSERT(unk);
+    ComPtr<ICastable> castable;
+    if (SLANG_SUCCEEDED(unk->queryInterface(ICastable::getTypeGuid(), (void**)castable.writeRef())))
+    {
+        SLANG_ASSERT(castable);
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        castable = new UnknownCastableAdapter(unk);
+    }
+    return castable;
+}
+
+/* !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UnknownCastableAdapter !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! */
 
 void* UnknownCastableAdapter::castAs(const Guid& guid)
 {