Estimated hours taken: 0.5
Fix a bug reported by Renaud Paquay <rpa@miscrit.be>.
compiler/modules.m:
scripts/Mmake.rules:
When invoking Mmake recursively, pass down the values of
MC and ALL_MCFLAGS, in case their values were overridden
on the command line.
Estimated hours taken: 0.75
Change the default setting of RM_C so that by default Mmake
no longer removes intermediate C files. The reason for this
fix is two-fold: to fix performance problems on Windows
and elsewhere, and to avoid some race conditions that
occur with parallel makes caused by invoking make recursively,
as is necessary if the intermediate files are removed.
(The race condition occurs where you attempt to make foo.c
and bar.c in parallel, invoking two recursive makes;
if foo.c and bar.c both depend on baz.int, then you may
attempt to make baz.int twice simultaneously, which can
have unfortunate consequences.)
configure.in:
Set DEFAULT_RM_C to `:', and put some comments there explaining why.
scripts/Mmake.vars.in:
Initialize RM_C to the autoconf variable DEFAULT_RM_C.
doc/reference_manual.texi:
Update the list of bugs and limitations in the nested modules chapter:
using parallel makes is no longer a problem. I also added some
other entries to the list, corresponding to outstanding bug reports.
Estimated hours taken: 3
Port Mercury to egcs-1.1 on sparc-sun-solaris2.6.
configure.in:
When using non-local gotos and egcs on sparc,
include `-fno-function-cse -fno-gcse' in cflags.
scripts/mgnuc.in:
Work-around some gcc internal errors for egcs-1.1 on sparc.
Estimated hours taken: 0.25
Fix a bug reported by Warwick Harvey <wharvey@cs.monash.edu.au>.
scripts/Mmakefile:
Make sure we delete the installed `mmake' file, if any,
before (re)installing it, to avoid problems that can occur
if we overwrite the script while it is still running.
Estimated hours taken: 60
Changes required to get the samples directory to compile using lcc in
the grade `none.gc'.
compiler/llds_out.m:
Add a pass to make sure that the constants are all declared (with
a complete type) before they are initialised. We can't just
forward declare each constant immediately before it is used in an
initializer, as was done previously, because at that point we don't
know the type of the constant, and ANSI C doesn't allow forward
declarations of static variables with incomplete types.
Also change data_ptr to type (Word *). This is because (Word *) is
a superset of (const Word *) and it is a non-trivial task to get the
consts output in the correct places. Hopefully consts will be
output when I get the compiler to bootstrap using lcc.
scripts/mgnuc.in:
Don't warn about casts which remove the const. ie (const char *) to
(char *)
runtime/mercury_string.h:
Get rid of a cast.
runtime/mercury_tags.h:
Get rid of some of the const casts.
util/mkinit.c:
Make mkinit compile using lcc.
Estimated hours taken: 240
This checkin has several major purposes, set out in the sections below,
all connected with the implementation of the new debugger command set.
DOCUMENT NEW DEBUG COMMAND SET
doc/user_guide.texi:
Add a new section on the debugger. The description of the commands
is complete, but some of the background sections, and the section
about how to build debuggable executables, are not yet done.
Update the documentation of the tracing options.
doc/generate_mdb_doc:
A new shell script that automatically converts some of the new
sections of the user guide into the online documentation of the
debugger.
doc/mdb_categories:
The fixed initial part of the online documentation.
doc/Mmakefile:
Add rules for creating mdb_doc, the file that is the online
documentation of the debugger, and for installing it together
with mdbrc.
Mmake.common.in:
Define INSTALL_DOC_DIR for doc/Mmakefile.
scripts/mdbrc.in:
A debugger command script that reads in the online documentation
and then defines some standard aliases.
configure.in:
Define the variable that scripts/mdb.in and scripts/mdbrc.in use
to find the right files, and get configure to perform the
substitutions.
configure.in:
scripts/mdb:
scripts/mdb.in:
Replace mdb with mdb.in. Mdb is now created during configuration
from mdb.in, filling in the name of the file that contains the default
debugger initialization commands.
util/info_to_mdb.c:
A program that does most of the work involved in automatically
converting user guide sections into online documentation.
(This couldn't easily be written in sh, because sh's read
command has no notion of pushback.)
util/Mmakefile:
Add info_to_mdb to the list of targets.
tools/bootcheck:
Make sure that the tests in tests/debugger are executed with an
initialization setup that is equivalent to what users will see
by default.
REORGANIZE TRACING OPTIONS
compiler/globals.m:
compiler/handle_options.m:
compiler/options.m:
compiler/trace.m:
Reorganize the handling of trace levels around the new options
--trace-internal, --trace-redo, and --trace-return.
compiler/*.m:
Use the new ways of getting at trace levels.
tests/hard_coded/typeclasses/Mmakefile:
s/--trace all/--trace deep/
SUPPORT RETRY
compiler/trace.m:
After every call to MR_trace(), emit code that checks whether it
should jump away, and if yes, performs the jump. This is used to
implement retry. (The debugger cannot execute the jump itself
because it is in the wrong C stack frame.)
compiler/llds.m:
compiler/continuation_info.m:
compiler/stack_layout.m:
Modify the data structures that record information about live
value at program points, to record the identity of each variable.
This is necessary for the implementation of the restart command,
since we do not want to confuse two distinct variables just because
they have the same name. For example, a variable whose name is X
and number is 5 is now recorded in the name array as "5:X".
Clean up the data structure a bit, so that we don't have to store
dummy names for values that are not variables.
compiler/*.m:
Minor changes to conform to the data structure changes.
runtime/mercury_stack_layout.h:
Redefine an existing macro to strip away the initial number: prefix
from the "name" of a variable (keeping its original function on
changed data), and add a new one to access the raw unstripped data.
runtime/mercury_init.h:
runtime/mercury_wrapper.h:
Update the prototype of MR_trace_{fake,real}, and the type of the
global that points to them.
runtime/mercury_layout_util.h:
Add an extra function, MR_get_register_number, for use by retry.
USE FIXED STACK SLOTS FOR TRACE INFO
compiler/code_gen.m:
compiler/code_info.m:
compiler/live_vars.m:
compiler/trace.m:
If execution tracing is enabled, reserve the first few stack slots
to hold the event number of the call event, the call number, the
call depth, the redo layout structure address (if generating redo
events) and the from_full flag at the time of call (if we are doing
shallow tracing). By allocating the first four of these to fixed stack
slots, the debugger knows where to look for them without having
to be told. It finds out the location of the fifth, if needed,
from a new slot in the proc layout structure. (It is not possible
to allocate all five to fixed stack slots without wasting stack space
in some cases.)
compiler/trace.m:
Remove from the call to MR_trace the parameters that are now in fixed
stack slots, since MR_trace can now look them up itself.
compiler/continuation_info.m:
compiler/stack_layout.m:
Add an extra field to the proc_layout_info. If the module is shallow
traced, this field says which stack slot holds the saved value of
MR_from_full. If it is not shallow traced, this field says that
there is no such stack slot.
runtime/mercury_stack_layout.h:
Add macros for accessing the fixed stack slots holding the event
number of the call event, the call number, the call depth, and,
at a redo event, the redo layout structure address.
Support the new field in proc layouts that gives the location of the
from-full flag (if any).
runtime/mercury_trace_base.[ch]:
trace/mercury_trace.[ch]:
Remove the call number and call depth arguments from MR_trace
and its avatars, since this info is now in fixed stack slots
in every procedure that can call MR_trace. This should reduce
the size of the executable significantly, since there are lots
of calls to MR_trace.
runtime/mercury_init.h:
runtime/mercury_wrapper.h:
Update the prototype of MR_trace_{fake,real}, and the type of the
global that points to them.
START NUMBERING FRAMEVARS FROM ONE
compiler/code_info.m:
compiler/live_vars.m:
compiler/llds_out.m:
compiler/trace.m:
Start numbering framevars from 1 internally to the compiler;
the runtime already starts from 1. This simplifies several tasks.
ADD REDO EVENTS
compiler/trace.m:
compiler/code_gen.m:
Before the code that executes "succeed()", emit code to push a
a temp nondet frame whose redoip points to a label in the runtime
that calls MR_trace for a REDO event and then fails, provided
--trace-redo is set.
compiler/llds.m:
Add a new code address constant, do_trace_redo_fail, which stands
for the address in the trace system to which calls MR_trace for
the redo event and then fails.
compiler/trace.m:
compiler/llds_out.m:
Provided we are doing redo tracing, fill in the slot that holds
the layout information for the REDO event.
compiler/*.m:
Minor changes to conform to handle the new code address constant.
browser/debugger_interface.m:
Add redo to trace_port_type.
runtime/mercury_trace_base.[ch]:
Add a C module containing the code that calls MR_trace for REDO
events.
ENSURE THAT INPUT ARGUMENTS ARE ALWAYS VISIBLE
compiler/trace.m:
When generating the set of live variables at internal ports,
the variables that are in the pre-death set of the goal into which
we are entering may not be available. However, the variables in the
pre-death set that are also in the resume vars set will be available,
so now include info about them in the layout structure for the event.
Since with tracing the non-clobbered input args are in all resume vars
sets, this ensures that these input args will be available from all
internal events.
compiler/code_info.m:
Export a previously internal predicate (current_resume_point_vars)
to make this possible.
BUG FIX: WANT RETURN LAYOUTS
compiler/globals.m:
compiler/call_gen.m:
compiler/code_info.m:
compiler/mercury_compile.m:
Add a new pred globals__want_return_layouts, which says whether the
compiler should generate layout structures for call returns. This pred
centralizes the several previous copies of the test. One of those
copies (the one in call_gen) was faulty, leading to a bug: in the
presence of execution tracing but the absence of accurate gc,
information about the variables that are live at the call return
wasn't being gathered properly.
BUG FIX: #include mercury_trace_base.h
compiler/llds_out.m:
#include mercury_trace_base.h, not mercury_trace.h, since now
mercury_trace_base.h defines everything directly accessible from
modules compiled with tracing.
RECAST MERCURY_TRACE_UTIL AS MERCURY_LAYOUT_UTIL
runtime/mercury_trace_util.[ch]:
runtime/mercury_layout_util.[ch]:
Rename this module from trace_util to layout_util, since it is also
used by the native garbage collector. Remove "trace" from the names
of functions.
Get rid of the global variable MR_saved_regs, and instead thread
a pointer to this data structure through the relevant functions
as an extra argument.
Add a lot more documentation in the header file.
runtime/Mmakefile:
Reflect the module rename.
runtime/*.c:
Refer to the new module.
DELETE EASY-TO-MISUSE MACROS
runtime/mercury_stacks.h:
Delete the based_framevar and based_detstackvar macros, since their
continued use can lead to off-by-one errors, and the saved_framevar
and saved_detstackvar macros, since they are no longer used.
runtime/*.c
Update any references to any macros removed from mercury_stacks.h.
MISC RUNTIME CHANGES
runtime/mercury_trace_base.[ch]:
trace/mercury_trace*.[ch]:
Make typedef'd names conform to the naming convention.
Make MR_trace_call_{seqno,depth} consistently Unsigned, rather than
sometimes Word and sometimes Unsigned.
FIX BUG: MAKE THE DEBUGGER PRINT TO STDOUT, NOT THE CURRENT STREAM
library/io.m:
Export to C code the predicates that return the identities and types
of stdin, stdout and stderr, as well as io__print/[34].
library/std_util.m:
Export to C code a predicate that returns the type_info for the
type stdutil:type_info. This type_info is required if C code
wants to invoke make_permanent on any type_info structure,
as the debugger does.
runtime/mercury_init.h:
Add extern declarations for the C functions now exported from io.m.
runtime/mercury_wrapper.[ch]:
Add new global variables to hold the addresses of these C functions.
runtime/mercury_layout_util.c:
Use indirect calls through these global variables to print Mercury
values, instead of lower-level code.
util/mkinit.c:
Assign the addresses of the functions exported from io.m to the
global variables defined in mercury_wrapper.h.
BUG FIX: STACK TRACE FUNCTIONS DEPEND ON THE LABEL TABLE
runtime/mercury_stack_trace.c:
On entry to any of the functions exported from this module,
ensure that the label table is loaded by calling do_init_modules.
Without a filled-in label table, the stack trace will not be able to
find any stack layout info.
BUG FIX: REMOVE BROWSER/*.C
configure.in:
When removing .c files generated by the C compiler, remove those
in the browser directory as well as the compiler, library and
profiler directories.
IMPLEMENT NEW DEBUGGER COMMAND SET
runtime/mercury_stack_trace.[ch]:
Factor out the code that prints the id of a procedure into a function
of its own, so that it can also be used from the debugger, ensuring
appearance commonality.
Add more documentation in the header file.
trace/mercury_trace_internal.c:
Implement the proposed command set. Command names are now words,
and several commands now have options allowing the user to override
the default print level or strictness of the command, or the
invocation conditions or action of a break point. Allows control
over command echoing and the scrolling of sequences of event reports.
Supports aliases, command file sourcing etc. Implements the retry
command, using the info in the fixed stack slots.
trace/mercury_trace.[ch]:
Extend the trace controls to support the new functionalities
required by the new debugger language, which are print levels,
variable-strictness commands, a more flexible finish command,
and the retry command.
Pass the command structure to MR_trace_event_report, since
the user can now forcibly terminate the scrolling of reports.
trace/mercury_trace_alias.[ch]:
New module to manage aliases for the debugger.
trace/mercury_trace_help.[ch]:
New module to interface to browser/help.m.
trace/mercury_trace_spy.[ch]:
New module to manage break points. The test of whether an event
matches a break point is now much more efficient than before.
The new module also allows several breakpoints with different
actions and different invocation conditions (e.g. all ports,
entry port, interface ports or specific (possibly internal) port)
to be defined on the same procedure.
trace/mercury_trace_tables.[ch]:
New module to manage a table of the debuggable modules, in which
each such module is linked to the list of the layouts of all the
procedures defined in that module. This information allows the
debugger to turn the name of a predicate/function (possibly together
with its arity and mode number) into the procedure layout structure
required by the spy point module. Eventually it may also be useful
in supplying lists of identifiers for command line completion.
Modules for which no stack layout information is available will
not be included in the table, since do_init_modules will not
register any labels for them in the label table.
trace/Mmakefile:
Mention the new files.
runtime/mercury_array_macros.h:
A new file holding macros that can be useful in more than one module.
runtime/Mmakefile:
Mention the new file.
runtime/mercury_conf.h.in:
Mention a new configuration macro, MR_CANNOT_USE_STRUCTURE_ASSIGNMENT,
used by runtime/mercury_array_macros.h.
configure.in:
Find out whether we need to define MR_CANNOT_USE_STRUCTURE_ASSIGNMENT.
ADD TRACE DEPTH HISTOGRAMS
runtime/mercury_conf_param.h:
Document MR_TRACE_HISTOGRAM.
runtime/mercury_trace_base.[ch]:
Define the data structures for the histogram, and print the histogram
when a traced program exits if MR_TRACE_HISTOGRAM is set.
trace/mercury_trace.[ch]:
If MR_TRACE_HISTOGRAM is defined, record a count of the number of
events at each depth. This information can help us evaluate space-time
tradeoffs.
FACTOR OUT SHELL CODE HANDLING GRADE IMPLICATIONS
scripts/final_grade_options.sh-subr:
A new file to contain any code that implements implications between
grade flags; currently implements the implication debug -> use trail.
scripts/mgnuc.in:
scripts/ml.in:
Replace the code that is now in final_grade_options.sh-subr with
an inclusion of final_grade_options.sh-subr.
configure.in:
Handle final_grade_options.sh-subr as {init,parse}_grade_options.sh-subr
are handled.
SIMPLIFY THE MAINTAINANCE OF CONSISTENCY BETWEEN DEBUGGER CODE AND DOCUMENTATION
doc/Mmakefile:
Add rules for creating mdb_command_list, a C code fragment
that can included manually in trace/mercury_trace_internal.c
to supply the list of valid commands, and mdb_command_test.inp,
which is a list of invalid invocations of debugger commands,
which tests whether the help message for such invocations
can be located as expected.
doc/generate_mdb_command_list:
doc/generate_mdb_command_test:
Awk scripts to create mdb_command_list and mdb_command_test.inp
respectively from mdb_doc.
tools/bootcheck:
Copy mdb_command_test.inp from doc to tests/debugger.
tests/debugger/Mmakefile:
Add a new test that checks whether we get an internal error, unable
to locate the right help node, for each invalid command invocation in
mdb_command_test.inp.
UPDATE TEST CASES
tests/debugger/Mmakefile:
Reenable queens. Conform to the new set of options.
tests/debugger/*.inp:
tests/debugger/*.exp:
Update the inputs and expected outputs of the debugger test cases
to use the new command set and output formats.
Estimated hours taken: 240
This checkin has several major purposes, set out in the sections below,
all connected with the implementation of the new debugger command set.
DOCUMENT NEW DEBUG COMMAND SET
doc/user_guide.texi:
Add a new section on the debugger. The description of the commands
is complete, but some of the background sections, and the section
about how to build debuggable executables, are not yet done.
Update the documentation of the tracing options.
doc/generate_mdb_doc:
A new shell script that automatically converts some of the new
sections of the user guide into the online documentation of the
debugger.
doc/mdb_categories:
The fixed initial part of the online documentation.
doc/Mmakefile:
Add rules for creating mdb_doc, the file that is the online
documentation of the debugger, and for installing it together
with mdbrc.
Mmake.common.in:
Define INSTALL_DOC_DIR for doc/Mmakefile.
scripts/mdbrc.in:
A debugger command script that reads in the online documentation
and then defines some standard aliases.
configure.in:
Define the variable that scripts/mdb.in and scripts/mdbrc.in use
to find the right files, and get configure to perform the
substitutions.
configure.in:
scripts/mdb:
scripts/mdb.in:
Replace mdb with mdb.in. Mdb is now created during configuration
from mdb.in, filling in the name of the file that contains the default
debugger initialization commands.
util/info_to_mdb.c:
A program that does most of the work involved in automatically
converting user guide sections into online documentation.
(This couldn't easily be written in sh, because sh's read
command has no notion of pushback.)
util/Mmakefile:
Add info_to_mdb to the list of targets.
tools/bootcheck:
Make sure that the tests in tests/debugger are executed with an
initialization setup that is equivalent to what users will see
by default.
REORGANIZE TRACING OPTIONS
compiler/globals.m:
compiler/handle_options.m:
compiler/options.m:
compiler/trace.m:
Reorganize the handling of trace levels around the new options
--trace-internal, --trace-redo, and --trace-return.
compiler/*.m:
Use the new ways of getting at trace levels.
tests/hard_coded/typeclasses/Mmakefile:
s/--trace all/--trace deep/
SUPPORT RETRY
compiler/trace.m:
After every call to MR_trace(), emit code that checks whether it
should jump away, and if yes, performs the jump. This is used to
implement retry. (The debugger cannot execute the jump itself
because it is in the wrong C stack frame.)
compiler/llds.m:
compiler/continuation_info.m:
compiler/stack_layout.m:
Modify the data structures that record information about live
value at program points, to record the identity of each variable.
This is necessary for the implementation of the restart command,
since we do not want to confuse two distinct variables just because
they have the same name. For example, a variable whose name is X
and number is 5 is now recorded in the name array as "5:X".
Clean up the data structure a bit, so that we don't have to store
dummy names for values that are not variables.
compiler/*.m:
Minor changes to conform to the data structure changes.
runtime/mercury_stack_layout.h:
Redefine an existing macro to strip away the initial number: prefix
from the "name" of a variable (keeping its original function on
changed data), and add a new one to access the raw unstripped data.
runtime/mercury_init.h:
runtime/mercury_wrapper.h:
Update the prototype of MR_trace_{fake,real}, and the type of the
global that points to them.
runtime/mercury_layout_util.h:
Add an extra function, MR_get_register_number, for use by retry.
USE FIXED STACK SLOTS FOR TRACE INFO
compiler/code_gen.m:
compiler/code_info.m:
compiler/live_vars.m:
compiler/trace.m:
If execution tracing is enabled, reserve the first few stack slots
to hold the event number of the call event, the call number, the
call depth, the redo layout structure address (if generating redo
events) and the from_full flag at the time of call (if we are doing
shallow tracing). By allocating the first four of these to fixed stack
slots, the debugger knows where to look for them without having
to be told. It finds out the location of the fifth, if needed,
from a new slot in the proc layout structure. (It is not possible
to allocate all five to fixed stack slots without wasting stack space
in some cases.)
compiler/trace.m:
Remove from the call to MR_trace the parameters that are now in fixed
stack slots, since MR_trace can now look them up itself.
compiler/continuation_info.m:
compiler/stack_layout.m:
Add an extra field to the proc_layout_info. If the module is shallow
traced, this field says which stack slot holds the saved value of
MR_from_full. If it is not shallow traced, this field says that
there is no such stack slot.
runtime/mercury_stack_layout.h:
Add macros for accessing the fixed stack slots holding the event
number of the call event, the call number, the call depth, and,
at a redo event, the redo layout structure address.
Support the new field in proc layouts that gives the location of the
from-full flag (if any).
runtime/mercury_trace_base.[ch]:
trace/mercury_trace.[ch]:
Remove the call number and call depth arguments from MR_trace
and its avatars, since this info is now in fixed stack slots
in every procedure that can call MR_trace. This should reduce
the size of the executable significantly, since there are lots
of calls to MR_trace.
runtime/mercury_init.h:
runtime/mercury_wrapper.h:
Update the prototype of MR_trace_{fake,real}, and the type of the
global that points to them.
START NUMBERING FRAMEVARS FROM ONE
compiler/code_info.m:
compiler/live_vars.m:
compiler/llds_out.m:
compiler/trace.m:
Start numbering framevars from 1 internally to the compiler;
the runtime already starts from 1. This simplifies several tasks.
ADD REDO EVENTS
compiler/trace.m:
compiler/code_gen.m:
Before the code that executes "succeed()", emit code to push a
a temp nondet frame whose redoip points to a label in the runtime
that calls MR_trace for a REDO event and then fails, provided
--trace-redo is set.
compiler/llds.m:
Add a new code address constant, do_trace_redo_fail, which stands
for the address in the trace system to which calls MR_trace for
the redo event and then fails.
compiler/trace.m:
compiler/llds_out.m:
Provided we are doing redo tracing, fill in the slot that holds
the layout information for the REDO event.
compiler/*.m:
Minor changes to conform to handle the new code address constant.
browser/debugger_interface.m:
Add redo to trace_port_type.
runtime/mercury_trace_base.[ch]:
Add a C module containing the code that calls MR_trace for REDO
events.
ENSURE THAT INPUT ARGUMENTS ARE ALWAYS VISIBLE
compiler/trace.m:
When generating the set of live variables at internal ports,
the variables that are in the pre-death set of the goal into which
we are entering may not be available. However, the variables in the
pre-death set that are also in the resume vars set will be available,
so now include info about them in the layout structure for the event.
Since with tracing the non-clobbered input args are in all resume vars
sets, this ensures that these input args will be available from all
internal events.
compiler/code_info.m:
Export a previously internal predicate (current_resume_point_vars)
to make this possible.
BUG FIX: WANT RETURN LAYOUTS
compiler/globals.m:
compiler/call_gen.m:
compiler/code_info.m:
compiler/mercury_compile.m:
Add a new pred globals__want_return_layouts, which says whether the
compiler should generate layout structures for call returns. This pred
centralizes the several previous copies of the test. One of those
copies (the one in call_gen) was faulty, leading to a bug: in the
presence of execution tracing but the absence of accurate gc,
information about the variables that are live at the call return
wasn't being gathered properly.
BUG FIX: #include mercury_trace_base.h
compiler/llds_out.m:
#include mercury_trace_base.h, not mercury_trace.h, since now
mercury_trace_base.h defines everything directly accessible from
modules compiled with tracing.
RECAST MERCURY_TRACE_UTIL AS MERCURY_LAYOUT_UTIL
runtime/mercury_trace_util.[ch]:
runtime/mercury_layout_util.[ch]:
Rename this module from trace_util to layout_util, since it is also
used by the native garbage collector. Remove "trace" from the names
of functions.
Get rid of the global variable MR_saved_regs, and instead thread
a pointer to this data structure through the relevant functions
as an extra argument.
Add a lot more documentation in the header file.
runtime/Mmakefile:
Reflect the module rename.
runtime/*.c:
Refer to the new module.
DELETE EASY-TO-MISUSE MACROS
runtime/mercury_stacks.h:
Delete the based_framevar and based_detstackvar macros, since their
continued use can lead to off-by-one errors, and the saved_framevar
and saved_detstackvar macros, since they are no longer used.
runtime/*.c
Update any references to any macros removed from mercury_stacks.h.
MISC RUNTIME CHANGES
runtime/mercury_trace_base.[ch]:
trace/mercury_trace*.[ch]:
Make typedef'd names conform to the naming convention.
Make MR_trace_call_{seqno,depth} consistently Unsigned, rather than
sometimes Word and sometimes Unsigned.
FIX BUG: MAKE THE DEBUGGER PRINT TO STDOUT, NOT THE CURRENT STREAM
library/io.m:
Export to C code the predicates that return the identities and types
of stdin, stdout and stderr, as well as io__print/[34].
library/std_util.m:
Export to C code a predicate that returns the type_info for the
type stdutil:type_info. This type_info is required if C code
wants to invoke make_permanent on any type_info structure,
as the debugger does.
runtime/mercury_init.h:
Add extern declarations for the C functions now exported from io.m.
runtime/mercury_wrapper.[ch]:
Add new global variables to hold the addresses of these C functions.
runtime/mercury_layout_util.c:
Use indirect calls through these global variables to print Mercury
values, instead of lower-level code.
util/mkinit.c:
Assign the addresses of the functions exported from io.m to the
global variables defined in mercury_wrapper.h.
BUG FIX: STACK TRACE FUNCTIONS DEPEND ON THE LABEL TABLE
runtime/mercury_stack_trace.c:
On entry to any of the functions exported from this module,
ensure that the label table is loaded by calling do_init_modules.
Without a filled-in label table, the stack trace will not be able to
find any stack layout info.
BUG FIX: REMOVE BROWSER/*.C
configure.in:
When removing .c files generated by the C compiler, remove those
in the browser directory as well as the compiler, library and
profiler directories.
IMPLEMENT NEW DEBUGGER COMMAND SET
runtime/mercury_stack_trace.[ch]:
Factor out the code that prints the id of a procedure into a function
of its own, so that it can also be used from the debugger, ensuring
appearance commonality.
Add more documentation in the header file.
trace/mercury_trace_internal.c:
Implement the proposed command set. Command names are now words,
and several commands now have options allowing the user to override
the default print level or strictness of the command, or the
invocation conditions or action of a break point. Allows control
over command echoing and the scrolling of sequences of event reports.
Supports aliases, command file sourcing etc. Implements the retry
command, using the info in the fixed stack slots.
trace/mercury_trace.[ch]:
Extend the trace controls to support the new functionalities
required by the new debugger language, which are print levels,
variable-strictness commands, a more flexible finish command,
and the retry command.
Pass the command structure to MR_trace_event_report, since
the user can now forcibly terminate the scrolling of reports.
trace/mercury_trace_alias.[ch]:
New module to manage aliases for the debugger.
trace/mercury_trace_help.[ch]:
New module to interface to browser/help.m.
trace/mercury_trace_spy.[ch]:
New module to manage break points. The test of whether an event
matches a break point is now much more efficient than before.
The new module also allows several breakpoints with different
actions and different invocation conditions (e.g. all ports,
entry port, interface ports or specific (possibly internal) port)
to be defined on the same procedure.
trace/mercury_trace_tables.[ch]:
New module to manage a table of the debuggable modules, in which
each such module is linked to the list of the layouts of all the
procedures defined in that module. This information allows the
debugger to turn the name of a predicate/function (possibly together
with its arity and mode number) into the procedure layout structure
required by the spy point module. Eventually it may also be useful
in supplying lists of identifiers for command line completion.
Modules for which no stack layout information is available will
not be included in the table, since do_init_modules will not
register any labels for them in the label table.
trace/Mmakefile:
Mention the new files.
runtime/mercury_array_macros.h:
A new file holding macros that can be useful in more than one module.
runtime/Mmakefile:
Mention the new file.
runtime/mercury_conf.h.in:
Mention a new configuration macro, MR_CANNOT_USE_STRUCTURE_ASSIGNMENT,
used by runtime/mercury_array_macros.h.
configure.in:
Find out whether we need to define MR_CANNOT_USE_STRUCTURE_ASSIGNMENT.
ADD TRACE DEPTH HISTOGRAMS
runtime/mercury_conf_param.h:
Document MR_TRACE_HISTOGRAM.
runtime/mercury_trace_base.[ch]:
Define the data structures for the histogram, and print the histogram
when a traced program exits if MR_TRACE_HISTOGRAM is set.
trace/mercury_trace.[ch]:
If MR_TRACE_HISTOGRAM is defined, record a count of the number of
events at each depth. This information can help us evaluate space-time
tradeoffs.
FACTOR OUT SHELL CODE HANDLING GRADE IMPLICATIONS
scripts/final_grade_options.sh-subr:
A new file to contain any code that implements implications between
grade flags; currently implements the implication debug -> use trail.
scripts/mgnuc.in:
scripts/ml.in:
Replace the code that is now in final_grade_options.sh-subr with
an inclusion of final_grade_options.sh-subr.
configure.in:
Handle final_grade_options.sh-subr as {init,parse}_grade_options.sh-subr
are handled.
SIMPLIFY THE MAINTAINANCE OF CONSISTENCY BETWEEN DEBUGGER CODE AND DOCUMENTATION
doc/Mmakefile:
Add rules for creating mdb_command_list, a C code fragment
that can included manually in trace/mercury_trace_internal.c
to supply the list of valid commands, and mdb_command_test.inp,
which is a list of invalid invocations of debugger commands,
which tests whether the help message for such invocations
can be located as expected.
doc/generate_mdb_command_list:
doc/generate_mdb_command_test:
Awk scripts to create mdb_command_list and mdb_command_test.inp
respectively from mdb_doc.
tools/bootcheck:
Copy mdb_command_test.inp from doc to tests/debugger.
tests/debugger/Mmakefile:
Add a new test that checks whether we get an internal error, unable
to locate the right help node, for each invalid command invocation in
mdb_command_test.inp.
UPDATE TEST CASES
tests/debugger/Mmakefile:
Reenable queens. Conform to the new set of options.
tests/debugger/*.inp:
tests/debugger/*.exp:
Update the inputs and expected outputs of the debugger test cases
to use the new command set and output formats.
Estimated hours taken: 0.5
Fix some scripts in the tools directory to work with the new
directories and library names.
tools/binary:
tools/binary_step:
tools/linear:
Update these scripts to work properly with the new browser and
trace directories and the renamed libraries.
Mmake.common.in:
scripts/c2init.in:
scripts/ml.in:
Add tools/binary, tools/binary_step and tools/linear to the
list of files that know about library names.
Estimated hours taken: 0.2
Remove mint since it isn't very useful anymore, is buggy, and
has been surplanted by the library reference manual.
scripts/mint.in:
removed.
mercury/configure.in:
bindist/bindist.Mmakefile.in:
bindist/bindist.configure.in:
scripts/Mmakefile:
remove references to `mint' and `mint.in'.
Estimated hours taken: 0.2
Mmake.common.in:
scripts/ml.in:
tools/bootcheck:
Update the comments about the other locations that know the names of
the libraries, now that c2init knows them too.
scripts/c2init.in:
Add a comment about the other locations.
Estimated hours taken: 0.5
Fix a bug introduced in zs's change to add two new directories.
scripts/c2init.in:
Update the list of `.init' files to match the new names
and to include the init file for the `browser' library.
Estimated hours taken: 10
Introduce two new directories, trace and browser, containing libraries
holding the C and Mercury code of the debugger respectively. (Although
the browser directory does not have a browser in it yet, the browser
should soon become its biggest component.) Take the opportunity to
rename the existing libraries, for consistency.
After this change, the linking order becomes:
the object of the auto-generated init file
program object files
trace library (libmer_trace.a)
browser library (libmer_browser.a)
standard library (libmer_std.a)
runtime library (libmer_rt.a)
Boehm collector (libgc.a)
To avoid circularities, libraries cannot contain direct calls to
any routines that are defined in libraries (or object files) that
occur earlier in the above list. Any such calls must be made into
indirect calls via function pointers.
In particular, there was a circularity caused by the library calling
MR_trace() which invokes the tracer which in turn invokes the
library. This circularity was broken by having MR_trace(),
which is defined in the runtime, call the tracer indirectly via
a global variable named MR_trace_func_ptr. This global variable
is initialized by the auto-generated *_init.c file.
To avoid linking in the tracer even when it is not being used,
this global variable is only set to point to MR_trace_real()
if you're using a debugging grade or if c2init was invoked
with the `-t' flag. Otherwise it is set to MR_trace_fake()
which just prints an error message telling the user to
rebuild the executable with debugging enabled.
Makefile.DLLs:
Reserve random locations for the two new libraries. Whether they work
will be decided by testing on Windows.
Mmake.common.in:
Add variables naming the new directories, and create variables
naming the libraries.
Mmakefile:
Add targets for the new directories, and modify existing rules
as appropriate.
browser/Mmakefile:
Mmakefile for the new directory, modelled on library/Mmakefile.
browser/browser_library.m:
Umbrella file for the new directory, modelled on library/library.m.
{browser,library}/debugger_interface.m:
Moved this file from library to browser without change.
browser/help.m:
A new module for the help system of the debugger. Not yet used.
compiler/Mmakefile:
Update to refer to the new directories and libraries where
appropriate.
compiler/mercury_compile.m:
If we are doing tracing, then pass -t instead of -i to c2init.
compiler/modules.m:
When generating the .dep file, get the grade flags passed to c2init.
doc/Mmakefile:
Remove the special treatment of library/debugger_interface.m.
library/Mmakefile:
Update to refer to the new directories and libraries where
appropriate, and to conform to the new name of the library.
library/library.m:
Do not import debugger_interface.
profiler/Mmakefile:
Update to refer to the new directories and libraries where
appropriate.
runtime/Mmakefile:
Update to refer to the new directories and libraries where
appropriate, and to conform to the new name of the library.
Remove references to files being moved to the trace directory.
runtime/mercury_init.h:
Refer to the automatically generated dll header file by its new name
(renamed because the runtime library is renamed).
Add declarations to support the new global variable MR_trace_func_ptr.
runtime/mercury_memory_handlers.c:
runtime/mercury_memory_zones.c:
runtime/mercury_misc.c:
Remove inappropriate #includes of "mercury_trace.h", and substitute
a #include of "mercury_trace_base.h" if necessary.
{runtime,trace}/mercury_trace.[ch]:
{runtime,trace}/mercury_trace_external.[ch]:
{runtime,trace}/mercury_trace_internal.[ch]:
Move these files from the runtime to the trace directory.
The only changes are the removal from mercury_trace.h of declarations
added to runtime/mercury_trace_base.h, and the change from MR_trace
to MR_trace_real.
runtime/mercury_trace_base.[ch]:
Define MR_trace(), which does an indirect call through
MR_trace_func_ptr if the event should be traced.
Define MR_trace_fake, which just prints an error message.
Its address will be assigned to MR_trace_func_ptr if tracing
is not enabled.
Define the types needed by the signature of MR_trace.
Fix an old bug: s/MERCURY_TRACE_PERMANENT_H/MERCURY_TRACE_BASE_H/.
runtime/mercury_wrapper.[ch]:
Add the new global variable MR_trace_func_ptr.
scripts/c2init.in:
Add a new option, -t/--trace, which enables tracing by causing the
address of MR_trace_real to be assigned to MR_trace_func_ptr.
Have this option be implied by the grade. Also have the old option
-i (need initialization code) be implied by the grade, as well as by
-t.
scripts/ml.in:
Include the new libraries in the link command.
tests/debugger/Mmakefile:
Include -t instead of -i in the list of c2init options. (-t implies
-i.)
tools/bootcheck:
Copy and build the new directories as appropriate. The trace directory
is treated like the runtime, the browser directory is treated like the
library.
trace/Mmakefile:
Mmakefile for the new directory, modelled on runtime/Mmakefile.
util/mkinit.c:
Add the new option -t, as discussed above.
Mmakefile for the new directory, modelled on runtime/Mmakefile.
util/Mmakefile:
Specify -O0, since with the default optimization level, gcc on
cyclone ignores the assignment of TRUE to need_tracing when -t is
given (!!!).
Estimated time taken: 1
sripts/parse_grade_options.sh-subr:
When parsing a --grade option, set all the grade options to the
appropriate `off' value. As a result the last --grade option overides
all earlier ones.
compiler/handle_options.m:
Add a table for the `off' values for grade options, and reset the
grade options to those values when processing a --grade option.
Estimated hours taken: 0.25
A bug fix from Warwick Harvey.
scripts/parse_grade_options.sh-subr:
If a grade is specified, the GC method should default
to `none' rather than `conservative'.
Estimated hours taken: 0.25
When using target specific MCFLAGS they should occur on the command line
last so that they override any previous settings, including those set by
EXTRA_MCFLAGS.
scripts/Mmake.vars.in:
Switch all occurences of EXTRA_* and TARGET_* so that TARGET_* comes
last.
Estimated hours taken: 15
Fix several bugs in the runtime engine to do with thread-safe execution.
Add a new flag to pragma c_code/import to allow programmers to specify
whether or not the C code is thread-safe or not, and modify code generation
to put a lock around C code that isn't thread_safe.
runtime/mercury_thread.{c,h}:
Add a global lock.
Change the handling of thread creation. create_thread now takes
a "closure" (a C struct with a fn pointer and an argument to pass
the function) which it calls in the new thread. (The same mechanism
is used in the Boehm collector), or NULL which causes the thread
to wait for work to appear in the Mercury runqueue.
runtime/mercury_context.c:
initialize the global lock.
runtime/mercury_engine.{c,h}:
Add a new field to the MercuryEngine structre which is used to
store a list of saved thread ids. These were being saved in a
local variable in call_engine_inner which was a bug because
call_engine_inner's (C) stack frame gets scribbled on by Mercury
execution. For more detail see the comments in mercury_engine.h
runtime/mercury_wrapper.c:
Use the new interface to create_thread.
compiler/prog_io_pragma.m:
Parse either a single attribute or a list of attributes instead
of just 'may_call_mercury' in pragma c code and pragma import.
These are stored in an abstract type 'pragma_c_code_attributes'
that uses a bit array (aka int) to store the attributes.
compiler/pragma_c_gen.m:
Get the code generator to emit c code to obtain and release the
global lock for pragma c code that isn't thread_safe.
compiler/<various>.m:
Change may_call_mercury to pragma_c_code_attributes.
doc/reference_manual.m:
Document the change to pragma c code.
scripts/mgnuc.in:
Pass some extra C flags for thread-safe compilation for Linux.
Estimated hours taken: 3
Add Mmake support for target-specific MCFLAGS flags (MCFLAGS-foo, etc.)
using some tricky GNU Make hackery that avoids warning about undefined
variables.
Also define ALL_MCFLAGS = $(MCFLAGS) $(TARGET_MCFLAGS) $(EXTRA_MCFLAGS)
and use $(ALL_MCFLAGS) instead of $(MCFLAGS). This allows user Mmakefiles
to override MCFLAGS without suppressing the use of the TARGET_MCFLAGS
and EXTRA_MCFLAGS.
Similarly for the other *FLAGS variables.
scripts/Mmake.vars.in:
Define ALL_*FLAGS and TARGET_*FLAGS.
scripts/Mmake.rules:
Use ALL_*FLAGS instead of *FLAGS.
scripts/mmake.in:
Re-enable the warnings about undefined variables,
since we won't get too many spurious warnings now.
Mmake.common.in:
Delete `$(MCFLAGS-$*)' from the definition of `MCFLAGS', since this
is now done automatically by Mmake.
tests/Mmake.common:
Delete the definitions of MCFLAGS and GRADEFLAGS, since this stuff
is now done automatically by Mmake.
doc/user_guide.texi:
NEWS:
Document these changes.
Estimated hours taken: 4
This change makes the parsing of GRADE/--grade strings more flexible.
The GRADE string can now have its components given in any order. The
only places that depend on the order are those that use the grade as
part of a pathname: ml and install_grades. There is also a new option
to the compiler `--output-grade-string' which prints the grade string
for the set of options given to mmc/mmake.
NEWS:
mention the changes.
compiler/handle_options.m:
Reimplement convert_grade_option to accept a grade string with
its components in any order. The conversion is now table-driven,
which should make it easier to add new dimensions to the grade
and new values to existing ones.
Reimplement compute_grade to use the same table as
convert_grade_option.
compiler/mercury_compile.m:
If --output-grade-string option was given, just compute the
grade string and print it.
compiler/options.m:
Add the --output-grade-string option.
library/list.m:
Add an extra mode to list__foldl2 (gee, it would be nice to be
able to make higher order predicates polymorphic in their
determinism).
scripts/ml.in:
Include .par in the grade string. (bugfix)
scripts/parse_grade_options.sh-subr:
split the grade string into . separated pieces and process them
in a loop, setting the appropriate options.
doc/user_guide.texi:
Add documentation on --output-grade-string.
Change the description of how grades are handled to match
the implementation. Add a some missing bits.
Estimated hours taken: 5
Enhance the mtags script to produce tags for typeclasses and to
support some new features of Vim and Elvis.
scripts/mtags:
Add support for producing tags for typeclass, instance and
method declarations.
Current limitation: assumes each method declaration starts on a
new line.
Add new options `--elvis', `--ext' and `--keep-duplicates'
which support the extended tags features of Vim 5.0 and Elvis 2.1.
Add new option `--help'. (Do `mtags --help' for a description
of all options.)
doc/Mmakefile:
Add mtags to the list of manpages.
Estimated hours taken: 25
Reorganize the label table to better fit the needs of accurate gc
and the tracer, and reduce the size of executables.
With these changes, the size of hello world, compiled with static
Mercury libraries but dynamic C libraries, goes from 150+ Kb to
138+ Kb, much of which is beyond our control (e.g. Boehm gc).
runtime/mercury_label.[ch]:
The old label table contained both entry labels and internal labels,
even though they had different kinds of layouts associated with them
(proc layouts and label layouts respectively). The two kinds of labels
have different usage patterns. Internal labels are needed for stack
walking, which requires random access by exact label address. Entry
labels are needed for finding which procedure a program counter is in
for accurate GC, which requires lower-bound inexact search.
The module now has two separate data structures for the two
different kinds of labels. Internal labels are in a hash table,
as before. Entry labels are in an array (resized on demand),
which is sorted for binary search. The entry label array and
its associated functions are present only if they are needed.
runtime/mercury_goto.h:
Call the new functions in mercury_label.c from the
init_{local,label,entry}{,_sl} macros.
runtime/mercury_misc.[ch]
Use the new functions in mercury_label. Fix some software rot,
so that the code now compiles with MR_DEBUG_GOTOS. (It still does not
compile with MR_LOWLEVEL_DEBUG, but the fix for that would conflict
with Tom's planned change to zone handling, so that fix should be
done after Tom is done.)
Note that mercury_misc.c still defines newmem() and oldmem()
although they are declared in mercury_std.h.
runtime/mercury_stack_trace.c:
Use the new functions in mercury_label. As a result, we also need
to make a few more pointers const.
runtime/mercury_table.[ch]:
Add a new traversal predicate to support a new function in
mercury_label.c. (That function is not used yet, but will be soon.)
runtime/mercury_trace.[ch]:
runtime/mercury_trace_base.[ch]:
Split the old mercury_trace module into two. The functions and
variables that will always be linked in (because they are referenced
from modules such as mercury_wrapper which are always needed) are
now in mercury_trace_base; the other functions and variables
stay in mercury_trace. This way, mercury_trace.o will be linked in
only if some module was compiled with execution tracing. Since
mercury_trace.o drags in mercury_trace_internal.o which drags in
everything needed for printing arbitrary terms (which is a lot),
this can be a significant win.
runtime/Mmakefile:
Include the new module in the library.
runtime/mercury_wrapper.c:
runtime/mercury_conf_param.h:
Remove some obsolete MERCURY_OPTIONS options, which would be
difficult to support with the new label table.
Move the #ifdefs around the -P option, so that programs not
compiled with MR_THREAD_SAFE will accept but ignore the option,
instead of aborting with the usage message.
Replace the long usage message for malformed MERCURY_OPTIONS
environment variables with a pointer to the user's guide.
This saves about 1 Kb on every executable.
runtime/mercury_conf_param.h:
Document MR_STACK_TRACE_THIS_MODULE.
util/mkinit.c:
Add a new flag, -i. If this flag is given, include the initialization
code regardless of grade. If it is not given, include the init code
only if the grade requires it.
The -i should be given if you want the executable to support stack
tracing, or uplevel printing in execution tracing, at the cost of
making the executable link in the init functions of all the modules
in the library.
Put the option handling code in alphabetical order.
Fix the wrong default name of the entry point. (It only worked because
c2init was always overriding the default.)
scripts/c2init.in:
Pass through the -i flag to mkinit.
Put the option handling code in alphabetical order.
compiler/mercury_compile.m:
If the trace level specifies any kind of tracing, pass -i to c2init.
tests/debugger/Mmakefile:
Add -i to the c2init flags.
tests/debugger/*
Update the other half the test cases (those which assume a traced
library) to conform to the changes in the debugger interface.
The first half were updated earlier.
doc/user_guide.texi:
In the environment variable section, modify the entry for
MERCURY_OPTIONS to document all the options it makes sense
for non-developers to use.
Slight changes to two other parts of the guide to reduce duplication
with the new material.
Estimated hours taken: 2
Various changes to make the `--debug' option work.
compiler/options.m:
Fix an omission in a previous change of mine:
add a special_handler for the `--debug' option.
compiler/handle_options.m:
scripts/mgnuc.in:
scripts/ml.in:
Make the .debug grade imply --use-trail. The reason for this is
to avoid unnecessary proliferation in the number of different grades.
If you're using .debug, you've already taken a major performance
hit, so you should be able to afford the performance hit caused
by --use-trail.
configure.in:
Include a `.tr.debug' grade in LIBGRADES, which holds the set of
library grades that get installed.
scripts/mdb:
NEWS:
Update some obsolete documentation referring to the old
`--generate-trace' option.
NEWS:
Update some more obsolete documentation listing the commands
supported by the debugger and describing how to build programs
with debugging enabled.
Estimated hours taken: 0.5
scripts/mmake.in:
scripts/ml.in:
Ensure that the scripts clean up properly if interrupted --
avoid a small timing window during which an interrupt signal
could cause the scripts to leave temporary directories lying
around in /tmp.
Estimated hours taken: 0.25
scripts/Mmake.rules:
Fix a bug or two introduced in my previous change:
it turns out that making `%.depend' depend on `%.dep'
doesn't work, because (a) GNU Make deletes the
"intermediate" .dep file after making it and
(b) it won't remaking the `.dep' file if it already exists.
So I when back to the old solution of code duplication,
just adding a comment to warn about the duplication.
Estimated hours taken: 0.5
Fix a problem where the dependency files were being remade unnecessarily.
The problem was caused by the following change:
> Instead of deleting the `_init.c' file every time we recreate
> the `.dep' file, just tell make that the `_init.c' file depends on
> the `.dep' file, so that make will remake it if the `.dep' file
> changes. (I don't know why I didn't do it that way in the
> first place.)
The reason we didn't want the `_init.c' file to define on the `.dep'
file is that the `.dep' file is listed as depending on the top-level
`.m' file. The fix is to change things so that the `.dep' file
is not listed as depending on the `.m' file.
scripts/Mmake.rules:
Fix some code duplication (and subsequent code rot, caused by
changes in one place but not the other) in the rules for `.dep'
and `.depend'.
Delete the `.m' file from the dependencies for the `.dep' file.
Estimated hours taken: 1
A couple of bugfixes.
boehm_gc/gc.h:
ansi-fy a prototype
boehm_gc/linux_threads.c:
remove a stray 'extern'
scripts/mgnuc.in:
make the flags for thread safe compilation achitecture dependent
runtime/mercury_regorder.h:
fix a cut-and-paste bug in the rN macros for thread safe execution.
configure.in:
Add a test to find the number of words needed to represent a
synchronization term.
boehm_gc/gc.h:
fix a declaration by replacing the args () with (void).
boehm_gc/solaris_pthreads.c:
add a missing include
check the return values of pthread calls.
compiler/*.m:
Add handling for the new HLDS goal type par_conj.
Add handling for the four new LLDS instructions:
init_sync_term
fork
join_and_terminate
join_and_continue
compiler/code_info.m:
add a new alternative for slot_contents - sync_term.
compiler/handle_options.m:
add .par as part of the grade
compiler/hlds_goal.m:
add the new goal type par_conj.
compiler/instmap.m:
add instmap__unify which takes a list of instmaps
and abstractly unifies them.
add unify_instmap_delta which tajes two instmap deltas
and abstractly unifies them.
compiler/llds.m:
add the new llds instructions.
compiler/mode_info.m:
add par_conj as a lock reason.
library/Makefile:
work around a bug in the solaris version pthread.h
library/benchmarking.m:
reference the stack zones from the engine structure
rather than from global variables.
library/{nc,sp}_builtin.nl:
add an op declaration for &.
library/std_util.m:
change references to global variables to references inside
the engine structure.
runtime/Mmakefile:
add mercury_thread.{c,h}
add THREADLIBS to the libraries
runtime/*.{c,h}
Remove some old junk from the previous processes/shrd-mem
changes that found their way into the repository.
Add MR_ prefixes to lots of names.
runtime/mercury_context.c:
Add init_thread_stuff for creating and initializing a
context structure for the current thread.
runtime/mercury_context.h:
add a field to the mercury context which stores the thread id
of the thread where this context originated.
add various macros for implementing the new llds instructions.
runtime/mercury_engine.c:
initialize the engine structure, rather than a bunch of globals.
runtime/mercury_engine.h:
declare the mercury_engine structure.
runtime/mercury_regorder.h:
if MR_THREAD_SAFE, and there is at least one global register
then use mr0 as a pointer to the mercury engine structure.
scripts/init_grade_options.sh-subr
add thread_safe
scripts/mgnuc.in
add THREAD_OPTS
scripts/ml.in:
add THREAD_LIBS
Estimated hours taken: 3
Another --use-subdirs bug fix when using sicstus.
scripts/msl.in:
Detect the special case file 'sp_lib.ql' even when the file name has
leading directory info.
Also update the copyright notice.
Estimated hours taken: 1
Fix a bug which caused link errors in some grades for some test cases
where the module name wasn't the same as the file name, and which
probably would have caused runtime errors in some grades for test
cases using nested modules.
compiler/modules.m:
Call $(C2INIT) with $(foo.cs) instead of $(foo.ms).
This is necessary now that a single .m file can get compiled
to multiple .c files, if it contains nested modules,
or to a .c file whose name reflects the module name rather
than the source file name.
util/mkinit.c:
scripts/c2init.in:
For efficiency, change c2init and mkinit so that when c2init's
arguments are `.c' files, it computes the init function based
on the filename (like it used to do with `.m' files), rather
than by reading the file contents and searching for "** INIT"
comments. Add a new option `-x' (`--extra-inits') which keeps
the old behaviour.
compiler/modules.m:
scripts/Mmake.rules:
Instead of deleting the `_init.c' file every time we recreate
the `.dep' file, just tell make that the `_init.c' file depends on
the `.dep' file, so that make will remake it if the `.dep' file
changes. (I don't know why I didn't do it that way in the
first place.)
Estimated hours taken: 0.25
scripts/Mmake.rules:
Update the GNU make bug work-around so that it creates the `date3s'
directory as well as the other `*date*' directories when doing
`mmake depend'. Previously, the *.int3 files never depended on
anything else (they were always the first thing created), so this
wasn't necessary. However, with nested modules, the `.int3'
files for sub-modules depends on the `.int3' file for the parent
module, so we now need to create the `date3s' directory too.
Estimated hours taken: 0.1
scripts/parse_grade_options.sh-subr:
Fix a cut-and-paste error in the handling of `debug' grade.
(Thanks to Warwick Harvey for reporting this bug.)
Estimated hours taken: 6
Add Mmake support for nested sub-modules.
compiler/mercury_compile.m:
compiler/modules.m:
compiler/intermod.m:
Pass down the source file name to various places.
Store the source file name in the module_imports data structure.
In various places, use this source file name instead of assuming
that the source file name can be obtained from the module name.
compiler/modules.m:
Change the generated .d and .dep files to use the source file names.
Add hard-coded rules in the .d files if the source file name does not
match the form expected by the pattern rules in scripts/Mmake.rules.
XXX unfortunately the rules don't work right for parallel makes of
nested modules
scripts/Mmake.rules:
Add a comment saying that any changes here might need to
be duplicated in compiler/modules.m.
tests/hard_coded/Mmakefile:
tests/hard_coded/nested.m:
tests/hard_coded/nested2.m:
tests/hard_coded/nested.exp:
tests/hard_coded/nested2.exp:
Add a couple of test cases for nested modules (XXX not enabled,
due to the above-mentioned problem with parallel makes).
doc/reference_manual.texi:
Update the "implementation bugs and limitations" section.
NEWS:
Update the news about nested modules.
Estimated hours taken: 0.5
scripts/Mmake.rules:
When invoking make recursively, pass $(MFLAGS) rather than
$(MAKEOVERRIDES). This avoids a warning, and is probably the
right thing to do anyway (I'm not sure why I used MAKEOVERRIDES
in the first place). Previously I made exactly the same change
in one place, but missed another occurrence of
$(MAKEOVERRIDES). This change fixes that other occurrence.
Also when invoking make recursively, pass down the value of
$(GRADEFLAGS). Newer versions of GNU Make (e.g. 3.75) do
this automatically, but older versions (e.g. 3.70) don't.
This should fix a bug reported by Warwick Harvey where
`mmake install_grades' at the top-level caused `.m' files in
the library to be compiled with the wrong grades.
Estimated hours taken: 6
Add a `--debug' option for Mercury-level debugging
using the trace-based debugger.
scripts/init_grade_options.sh-subr:
scripts/parse_grade_options.sh-subr:
scripts/mgnuc.in:
scripts/ml.in:
compiler/options.m:
compiler/handle_options.m:
compiler/mercury_compile.m:
Split the old `--debug' option into `--low-level-debug'
(formerly the absence of -DSPEED, now handle by -DLOWLEVEL_DEBUG)
and `--c-debug' (passes -g to C compiler).
Delete the old `debug' grade.
Add support for new options `--require-tracing'
(makes --trace minimum equivalent to --trace interfaces,
and passes -DMR_REQUIRE_TRACING to C compiler)
`--stack-trace' (passes -DMR_STACK_TRACE to C compiler;
actually this one was already supported)
and `--debug' (implies previous two),
with corresponding grade modifiers `.trace', `.strce', and `.debug'.
Actually I think there's little point in specifying just one
of `--require-tracing' and `--stack-trace' so for the moment
I'm just providing `--debug': the code for the more fine-grained
options and grade modifiers has been added but commented out.
runtime/mercury_conf_param.h:
Document the new configuration parameter MR_REQUIRE_TRACING
and the existing but undocumented parameter MR_STACK_TRACE.
runtime/mercury_grade.h:
Include MR_REQUIRE_TRACING in the mangled grade identifier.
compiler/globals.m:
compiler/handle_options.m:
compiler/options.m:
Allow new tracing type `--trace default', and make it the default.
This gets replaced with `full' if require_tracing is yes
or `minimal' if require_tracing is no.
Also `--trace minimum' gets replaced with `interface' if
require_tracing is yes.
doc/user_guide.texi:
Document the new `--debug', `--low-level-debug', and `--c-debug'
options.
scripts/mgnuc.in:
compiler/mercury_compile.m:
doc/user_guide.texi:
Change things so that `--c-debug' does not imply `--no-c-optimize'.
configure.in:
Add `-fomit-frame-pointer' to CFLAGS_FOR_GOTOS on alpha-*.
Empirically, this seems to be needed, otherwise lots of
the test cases fail when compiled with `--no-c-optimize'.
(It might also be needed for other architectures, I don't know.)
Estimated hours taken: 0.5
Make another small fix to mmake.in and add more empty definitions for various
Mmake variables to avoid spurious warnings.
scripts/mmake.in:
Add `*clean*' to the patterns for which we do not
pass `--warn-undefined-variables'.
scripts/Mmake.rules:
When invoking make recursively, pass $(MFLAGS) rather than
$(MAKEOVERRIDES). This avoids a warning, and is probably the
right thing to do anyway (I'm not sure why I used MAKEOVERRIDES
in the first place).
boehm_gc/Mmakefile:
tests/hard_coded/Mmakefile:
Add empty definition for `MMAKEFLAGS'.
Estimated hours taken: 1
Fix some Mmakefile errors that were diagnosed by `--warn-undefined-variables'.
Also, make a small fix to mmake.in and add empty definitions for various
Mmake variables to avoid spurious warnings.
scripts/mmake.in:
Add ` dep*' to the patterns for which we do not
pass `--warn-undefined-variables'; previously it
matched "$@" against `dep*', which did not catch the
case of `mmake -k depend'.
^^^
scripts/Mmake.vars.in:
Add definition for `ds_subdir'.
Define `MLLIBS' as `$(EXTRA_MLLIBS)' rather than empty,
and add empty definition for `EXTRA_MLLIBS'.
Add empty definition for `MAIN_TARGET'.
Mmakefile:
Fix misspelling: `deps_subdir' not `dep_subdir'.
Add empty definitions for `PREINSTALL_HACK', `POSTINSTALL_HACK',
and `MMAKEFLAGS'.
boehm_gc/Mmakefile:
Add empty definition for `PROF'.
runtime/Mmakefile:
Add empty definition for `DLL_CFLAGS'.
library/Mmakefile:
Add empty definition for `CHECK_TERM_OPTS'.
compiler/Mmakefile:
Add empty definition for `MTAGSFLAGS'.
Estimated hours taken: 0.05
scripts/mmake.in:
Bugfix for previous change, mmake wasn't working on murlibobo.
"if ! mkdir... " seems to be a bash-ism. Use mkdir ...., then
check $? instead.
Estimated hours taken: 1
Fix two security holes in the way temporary files in /tmp are handled.
configure.in:
Look for mktemp.
scripts/ml.in:
Previously, if a file /tmp/ml$$ existed, linker errors would
be missed (or fake linker errors could be provided).
Use
mkdir /tmp/ml.$$ || exit 1
approach to create a directory, then use a file in that
directory as the fifo for linker errors.
scripts/mmake.in:
Previously, if a file /tmp/mmake.$$ existed, it would stop
the generation of a mmake file, and the system would invoke
gmake on the existing file (possibly executing arbitrary
commands).
Use mktemp (if available) to create the file, and exit if
it is not possible to create the file.
If mktemp is not available, use mkdir || exit 1 technique.
