Discover test content stored in the test content section of loaded im…

…ages.

This PR implements discovery, _but not emission_, of test content that has been
added to a loaded image's test content metadata section at compile time.

Loading this data from a dedicated section has several benefits over our current
model, which involves walking Swift's type metadata table looking for types that
conform to a protocol:

1. We don't need to define that protocol as public API in Swift Testing,
1. We don't need to emit type metadata (much larger than what we really need)
   for every test function,
1. We don't need to duplicate a large chunk of the Swift ABI sources in order to
   walk the type metadata table correctly, and
1. Almost all the new code is written in Swift, whereas the code it is intended
   to replace could not be fully represented in Swift and needed to be written
   in C++.

The change also opens up the possibility of supporting generic types in the
future because we can emit metadata without needing to emit a nested type (which
is not always valid in a generic context.) That's a "future direction" and not
covered by this PR specifically.

I've defined a layout for entries in the new `swift5_tests` section that should
be flexible enough for us in the short-to-medium term and which lets us define
additional arbitrary test content record types. The layout of this section is
covered in depth in the new [TestContent.md](Documentation/ABI/TestContent.md)
article.

This PR does **not** include the code necessary to _emit_ test content records
into images at compile time. That part of the change is covered by #880 and
requires a new language feature to control which section data is emitted to. An
experimental version of that language feature is currently available under the
`"SymbolLinkageMarkers"` label.

Because there is no test content in the test content section yet, this PR does
not remove the "legacy" codepaths that discover tests in the type metadata
section.

> [!NOTE]
> This change is experimental.

 ## See Also

#880
#735
swiftlang/swift#76698
swiftlang/swift#78411

Documentation/ABI/TestContent.md

@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+# Runtime-discoverable test content
+
+<!--
+This source file is part of the Swift.org open source project
+
+Copyright (c) 2024 Apple Inc. and the Swift project authors
+Licensed under Apache License v2.0 with Runtime Library Exception
+
+See https://swift.org/LICENSE.txt for license information
+See https://swift.org/CONTRIBUTORS.txt for Swift project authors
+-->
+
+This document describes the format and location of test content that the testing
+library emits at compile time and can discover at runtime.
+
+> [!WARNING]
+> The content of this document is subject to change pending efforts to define a
+> Swift-wide standard mechanism for runtime metadata emission and discovery.
+> Treat the information in this document as experimental.
+
+## Basic format
+
+Swift Testing stores test content records in a dedicated platform-specific
+section in built test products:
+
+| Platform | Binary Format | Section Name |
+|-|:-:|-|
+| macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS | Mach-O | `__DATA_CONST,__swift5_tests` |
+| Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Android | ELF | `swift5_tests` |
+| WASI | WebAssembly | `swift5_tests` |
+| Windows | PE/COFF | `.sw5test`[^windowsPadding] |
+
+[^windowsPadding]: On Windows, the Swift compiler [emits](https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/blob/main/stdlib/public/runtime/SwiftRT-COFF.cpp)
+  leading and trailing padding into this section, both zeroed and of size
+  `MemoryLayout<UInt>.stride`. Code that walks this section must skip over this
+  padding.
+
+### Record layout
+
+Regardless of platform, all test content records created and discoverable by the
+testing library have the following layout:
+
+```swift
+typealias TestContentRecord = (
+  kind: UInt32,
+  reserved1: UInt32,
+  accessor: (@convention(c) (_ outValue: UnsafeMutableRawPointer, _ hint: UnsafeRawPointer?) -> CBool)?,
+  context: UInt,
+  reserved2: UInt
+)
+```
+
+This type has natural size, stride, and alignment. Its fields are native-endian.
+If needed, this type can be represented in C as a structure:
+
+```c
+struct SWTTestContentRecord {
+  uint32_t kind;
+  uint32_t reserved1;
+  bool (* _Nullable accessor)(void *outValue, const void *_Null_unspecified hint);
+  uintptr_t context;
+  uintptr_t reserved2;
+};
+```
+
+### Record content
+
+#### The kind field
+
+Each record's _kind_ determines how the record will be interpreted at runtime. A
+record's kind is a 32-bit unsigned value. The following kinds are defined:
+
+| As Hexadecimal | As [FourCC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FourCC) | Interpretation |
+|-:|:-:|-|
+| `0x00000000` | &ndash; | Reserved (**do not use**) |
+| `0x74657374` | `'test'` | Test or suite declaration |
+| `0x65786974` | `'exit'` | Exit test |
+
+<!-- When adding cases to this enumeration, be sure to also update the
+corresponding enumeration in TestContentGeneration.swift. -->
+
+#### The accessor field
+
+The function `accessor` is a C function. When called, it initializes the memory
+at its argument `outValue` to an instance of some Swift type and returns `true`,
+or returns `false` if it could not generate the relevant content. On successful
+return, the caller is responsible for deinitializing the memory at `outValue`
+when done with it.
+
+If `accessor` is `nil`, the test content record is ignored. The testing library
+may, in the future, define record kinds that do not provide an accessor function
+(that is, they represent pure compile-time information only.)
+
+The second argument to this function, `hint`, is an optional input that can be
+passed to help the accessor function determine if its corresponding test content
+record matches what the caller is looking for. If the caller passes `nil` as the
+`hint` argument, the accessor behaves as if it matched (that is, no additional
+filtering is performed.)
+
+The concrete Swift type of the value written to `outValue` and the value pointed
+to by `hint` depend on the kind of record:
+
+- For test or suite declarations (kind `0x74657374`), the accessor produces an
+  asynchronous Swift function that returns an instance of `Test`:
+
+  ```swift
+  @Sendable () async -> Test
+  ```
+
+  This signature is not the signature of `accessor`, but of the Swift function
+  reference it writes to `outValue`. This level of indirection is necessary
+  because loading a test or suite declaration is an asynchronous operation, but
+  C functions cannot be `async`.
+
+  Test content records of this kind do not specify a type for `hint`. Always
+  pass `nil`.
+
+- For exit test declarations (kind `0x65786974`), the accessor produces a
+  structure describing the exit test (of type `__ExitTest`.)
+
+  Test content records of this kind accept a `hint` of type `SourceLocation`.
+  They only produce a result if they represent an exit test declared at the same
+  source location (or if the hint is `nil`.)
+
+#### The context field
+
+This field can be used by test content to store additional context for a test
+content record that needs to be made available before the accessor is called:
+
+- For test or suite declarations (kind `0x74657374`), this field contains a bit
+  mask with the following flags currently defined:
+
+  | Bit | Value | Description |
+  |-:|-:|-|
+  | `1 << 0` | `1` | This record contains a suite declaration |
+  | `1 << 1` | `2` | This record contains a parameterized test function declaration |
+
+  Other bits are reserved for future use and must be set to `0`.
+
+- For exit test declarations (kind `0x65786974`), this field is reserved for
+  future use and must be set to `0`.
+
+#### The reserved1 and reserved2 fields
+
+These fields are reserved for future use. Always set them to `0`.
+
+## Third-party test content
+
+Testing tools may make use of the same storage and discovery mechanisms by
+emitting their own test content records into the test record content section.
+
+Third-party test content should set the `kind` field to a unique value only used
+by that tool, or used by that tool in collaboration with other compatible tools.
+At runtime, Swift Testing ignores test content records with unrecognized `kind`
+values. To reserve a new unique `kind` value, open a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-testing/issues/new/choose)
+against Swift Testing.
+
+The layout of third-party test content records must be compatible with that of
+`TestContentRecord` as specified above. Third-party tools are ultimately
+responsible for ensuring the values they emit into the test content section are
+correctly aligned and have sufficient padding; failure to do so may render
+downstream test code unusable.
+
+<!--
+TODO: elaborate further, give examples
+TODO: standardize a mechanism for third parties to produce `Test` instances
+      since we don't have a public initializer for the `Test` type.
+-->

Sources/Testing/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -81,10 +81,13 @@ add_library(Testing
   Support/Locked.swift
   Support/SystemError.swift
   Support/Versions.swift
+  Discovery.swift
+  Discovery+Platform.swift
   Test.ID.Selection.swift
   Test.ID.swift
   Test.swift
   Test+Discovery.swift
+  Test+Discovery+Legacy.swift
   Test+Macro.swift
   Traits/Bug.swift
   Traits/Comment.swift