Analysis

This part discusses the many analyses that the compiler uses to check various properties of the code and to inform later stages. Typically, this is what people mean when they talk about "Rust's type system". This includes the representation, inference, and checking of types, the trait system, and the borrow checker. These analyses do not happen as one big pass or set of contiguous passes. Rather, they are spread out throughout various parts of the compilation process and use different intermediate representations. For example, type checking happens on the HIR, while borrow checking happens on the MIR. Nonetheless, for the sake of presentation, we will discuss all of these analyses in this part of the guide.