Crossover mutators currently don't work with nested MappingMutators

[riesentoaster]

One may want to use two (or more) nested MappingMutators, one to map from a complex input type to a primitive that can be mutated by built-in mutators such as havoc_mutations, and one to map from a composite input type (such as a list of the complex input type, which would e.g. be a list of network packets) to the complex input type.

This limitation is because one can only pass a single mapper to the mutator which extracts the data to be injected from the corpus. In the future, this mapping should be done in MappingMutator as well (maybe an alternate crossover version). However, for crossover the dependency between the different stages of MappingMutators is the reverse to the mapping of the current input. This makes it somewhat tricky.

I have at some point toyed around with an implementation which would create a new CrossoverMutator trait, which has a default Mutator implementation and just maps the current input and the crossover input and passes those two to the default impl for the actual mutation. With this approach, for the crossover mapping, one needs to create closures at each level of mapping, each owning the next-lower crossover mapper. I've not managed to get past lifetime limitations because the default impl needs to receive both a mut reference to state (because certain mutators need a source of randomness), and a reference to the input, which depends on state as well, so the borrow checker complained.

I may give it another go at some point, for now I just wanted to document this limitation. If anyone wants to work on this though, please do!