Because it's only used in `rustc_mir_transform`. (Presumably it is
currently in `rustc_middle` because lots of other MIR-related stuff is,
but that's not a hard requirement.) And because `rustc_middle` is huge
and it's always good to make it smaller.
`rustc_mir_dataflow/src/elaborate_drops.rs` contains some infrastructure
used by a few MIR passes: the `elaborate_drop` function, the
`DropElaborator` trait, etc.
`rustc_mir_transform/src/elaborate_drops.rs` (same file name, different
crate) contains the `ElaborateDrops` pass. It relies on a lot of the
infrastructure from `rustc_mir_dataflow/src/elaborate_drops.rs`.
It turns out that the drop infrastructure is only used in
`rustc_mir_transform`, so this commit moves it there. (The only
exception is the small `DropFlagState` type, which is moved to the
existing `rustc_mir_dataflow/src/drop_flag_effects.rs`.) The file is
renamed from `rustc_mir_dataflow/src/elaborate_drops.rs` to
`rustc_mir_transform/src/elaborate_drop.rs` (with no trailing `s`)
because (a) the `elaborate_drop` function is the most important export,
and (b) `rustc_mir_transform/src/elaborate_drops.rs` already exists.
All the infrastructure pieces that used to be `pub` are now
`pub(crate)`, because they are now only used within
`rustc_mir_transform`.