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Tyson Dowd
9e3a8eae9c During the writing of the RTTI paper, we decided that type_ctor_info
Estimated hours taken: 8

During the writing of the RTTI paper, we decided that type_ctor_info
was a much better name than base_type_info.

Rename base_type* as type_ctor*, except we don't rename the modules
base_type_info and base_type_layout just yet.

Most of these changes were made using the following sed patterns:

s/base_type_info/type_ctor_info/g
s/base_type_layout/type_ctor_layout/g
s/base_type_functors/type_ctor_functors/g
s/BASETYPE_INFO/TYPE_CTOR_INFO/g
s/TYPEFUNCTORS/TYPE_CTOR_FUNCTORS/g
s/TYPELAYOUT/TYPE_CTOR_LAYOUT/g
s/BASE_TYPEINFO/TYPE_CTOR_INFO/g
s/BASE_TYPE_INFO/TYPE_CTOR_INFO/g
s/BaseTypeInfo/TypeCtorInfo/g
s/BaseTypeLayout/TypeCtorLayout/g
s/base_type(/type_ctor(/g
s/:- module type_ctor_info/:- module base_type_info/g
s/:- module type_ctor_layout/:- module base_type_layout/g
s/type_ctor_info__/base_type_info__/g
s/type_ctor_layout__/base_type_layout__/g
/import_module/s/type_ctor_info/base_type_info/g
/import_module/s/type_ctor_layout/base_type_layout/g

compiler/*.m:
library/*.m:
runtime/*.{c,h}:
profiler/demangle.m:
util/mdemangle.c:
	Applied the above sed commands.

runtime/mercury_bootstrap.h:
	Add bootstrapping #defines so the type_ctor_* substitutions in
	the library don't cause link problems.

	Delete some redundant bootstrapping definitions.
1999-03-22 08:09:52 +00:00
Simon Taylor
d38f9f8bee Change the bit shift functions to perform checking to avoid
Estimated hours taken: 1

Change the bit shift functions to perform checking to avoid
implementation defined behaviour.

library/int.m:
	Add checking to `int:<<' and `int:>>'.
	Add `int:unchecked_left_shift' and `int:unchecked_right_shift'
	which do not perform any checking.

compiler/code_util.m:
	Replace `int:<<' and `int:>>' with `int:unchecked_left_shift' and
	`int:unchecked_right_shift' in the builtin table.

NEWS:
	Mention the changes to int.m.

tests/hard_coded/Mmakefile:
tests/hard_coded/shift_test.m:
tests/hard_coded/shift_test.exp:
	Test the shift functions.
1999-03-22 00:33:54 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
27f024b2e9 Reorganize the handling of global data structures, and expose the table
Estimated hours taken: 16

Reorganize the handling of global data structures, and expose the table
pointers for tabled predicates to allow the tables to be reset to empty
by hand-written C code for benchmarking purposes.

compiler/hlds_module.m:
	Introduce a new submodule for dealing with global data.
	At the moment it deals with (a) layout structures and (b)
	tabling pointers.

compiler/continuation_info.m:
	Remove the data structures and predicates whose equivalents are now
	in hlds_module.

compiler/llds.m:
	Introduce a new kind of item, that of compiler-generated variables
	whose value is not defined by rvals. At the moment, the only such
	item is a tabling pointer variable.

compiler/mercury_compile.m:
	Include the new kind of item in the generated LLDS.

compiler/table_gen.m:
	Use the new kind of item instead of a static variable declaration
	in pragma C code to hold the tabling pointer.

	Remove lots of spaces at ends of lines, since many of these screw up
	paragraph commands in vi.

compiler/base_type_layout.m:
compiler/bytecode_gen.m:
compiler/code_gen.m:
compiler/code_util.m:
compiler/dependency_graph.m:
compiler/hlds_out.m:
compiler/llds_out.m:
compiler/mercury_to_mercury.m:
compiler/switch_gen.m:
compiler/transform_llds.m:
compiler/unify_gen.m:
	Handle the changes in the data structures.

library/private_builtin.m:
	Remove the predicate get_table, which is no longer used after the
	changes to table_gen.m.
1998-11-24 03:57:47 +00:00
Thomas Conway
5c955626f2 These changes make var' and term' polymorphic.
Estimated hours taken: 20

These changes make `var' and `term' polymorphic. This allows us to make
variables and terms representing types of a different type to those
representing program terms and those representing insts.

These changes do not *fix* any existing problems (for instance
there was a messy conflation of program variables and inst variables,
and where necessary I've just called varset__init(InstVarSet) with
an XXX comment).

NEWS:
	Mention the changes to the standard library.

library/term.m:
	Make term, var and var_supply polymorphic.
	Add new predicates:
		term__generic_term/1
		term__coerce/2
		term__coerce_var/2
		term__coerce_var_supply/2

library/varset.m:
	Make varset polymorphic.
	Add the new predicate:
		varset__coerce/2

compiler/prog_data.m:
	Introduce type equivalences for the different kinds of
	vars, terms, and varsets that we use (tvar and tvarset
	were already there but have been changed to use the
	polymorphic var and term).

	Also change the various kinds of items to use the appropriate
	kinds of var/varset.

compiler/*.m:
	Thousands of boring changes to make the compiler type correct
	with the different types for type, program and inst vars and
	varsets.
1998-11-20 04:10:36 +00:00
Fergus Henderson
ecb6edb717 Fix a bug with intermodule optimization of nested modules.
Estimated hours taken: 20

Fix a bug with intermodule optimization of nested modules.

Previously, the compiler used to just label any
predicates defined in a module containing sub-modules
as `exported', since they may be needed by the separately-compiled
sub-modules.  However, this is a little bit of a lie,
and it turns out that it doesn't work.  The fix is
to use a new status `exported_to_submodules' for this case.

compiler/prog_data.m:
	Add a new pseudo-declaration ":- private_interface",
	used to mark items in an ":- implementation" section
	that will be exported to submodules.

compiler/modules.m:
	Put declarations from modules containing sub-modules into
	`private_interface' sections rather than into `interface' sections.

compiler/hlds_pred.m:
	Add a new alternative `exported_to_submodules' to the
	`import_status' data type.  Add several new procedures
	for testing particular aspects of this type.

compiler/module_qual.m:
	Set the import_status of items in a `private_interface'
	section to `exported_to_submodules'.

compiler/intermod.m:
	Handle procedures with status `exported_to_submodules'
	specially.  Also reorganize the code here a bit to make
	it more maintainable.

compiler/base_type_info.m:
compiler/base_type_info.m:
compiler/base_typeclass_info.m:
compiler/code_util.m:
compiler/dead_proc_elim.m:
compiler/hlds_out.m:
compiler/make_hlds.m:
compiler/termination.m:
compiler/unused_args.m:
	Minor changes to reflect the above changes to data-structures;
	in particular, use the new procedures defined in hlds_pred.m
	instead of hard-coded tests.  In termination.m, the changes
	included deleting some error-checking code that didn't make
	much sense anymore when using the new procedures rather than
	using hard-coded tests.

tests/hard_coded/Mmakefile:
tests/hard_coded/nested_intermod.m:
tests/hard_coded/nested_intermod_main.m:
tests/hard_coded/nested_intermod_main.exp:
	Add a regression test for the bug mentioned above.
1998-11-02 09:49:17 +00:00
Simon Taylor
3e244090d7 Rework the handling of types in higher_order.m.
Estimated hours taken: 50

Rework the handling of types in higher_order.m.
- Fix bugs in higher_order.m that stopped it working with --typeinfo-liveness.
- Perform type and typeclass specialisation.

compiler/polymorphism.m:
	Previously the type of typeclass_infos variables did not contain
	any information about the constraint about which the variable contains
	information. Now the type of a typeclass_info is
	`private_builtin:typeclass_info(
		private_builtin:constraint([ClassName, ConstrainedTypes]))'.
	This allows predicates such as type_list_subsumes to check that
	the class constraints match.
	Note that `private_builtin:constraint' has no declaration, so
	a lookup in the type definition map will fail. That's OK, because
	type_to_type_id will fail on it, so it will be treated as a type
	variable by any code which doesn't manipulate types directly.
	Added polymorphism__typeclass_info_class_constraint to get the
	class_constraint from a typeclass_info's type. This isn't used yet.

	Also, fix a bug in extract_type_info: an entry in the typeinfo_var_map
	was being overwritten using an entry from a dummy typevarset. Actually
	the optimization to overwrite the location of the type_info after
	extracting it from a typeclass_info was wrong because the type_info
	won't be in that location in other branches.

compiler/higher_order.m:
	Rework the handling of type substitutions. Now the types of the
	called procedure are `inlined' into the calling procedure, rather
	than building up the types of the specialised version using the
	higher-order arguments. The advantage of this is that the code is
	a bit simpler and handles extra type_infos properly. The disadvantage
	is that the argument types for specialised versions may be more
	specific than they need to be, so in some cases more specialised
	versions will be created than before.
	Also, don't actually rebuild the higher-order terms in the specialised
	versions - just pass the terms through in case they are needed.
	Handle the extra typeinfos required for --typeinfo-liveness.
	Specialize calls to unify/2, index/2 and compare/3.
	Specialize class_method_calls.
	Specialize calls to the predicates in private_builtin.m which
	manipulate typeclass_infos.

compiler/type_util.m:
	type_to_type_id now fails on the dummy `constraint' type.
	Remove typeinfos for non-variable types from the typeinfo_varmap
	after inlining and higher-order specialisation.

compiler/inlining.m:
	Factor out some common code to handle type substitutions
	for use by higher_order.m.

compiler/hlds_pred.m:
	Return the list of extra type_info variables added to the
	argument list.

compiler/goal_util.m:
	Take a set of non-locals as an argument to
	goal_util__extra_nonlocal_typeinfos rather than extracting
	them from a goal.

compiler/special_pred.m:
	Handle unmangled unify/compare/index in special_pred_get_type.

compiler/base_type_layout.m:
	Don't generate references to the typeinfo for
	`private_builtin:constraint' - it doesn't exist.

compiler/unused_args.m:
	Don't barf on specialised unification predicate names.

compiler/options.m:
	Added options:
	`--type-specialization' (default off).
	`--higher-order-size-limit' - restrict the size of specialized
		versions produced by higher_order.m.
	`--disable-opt-for-trace' (default on) - where possible don't
		change the options to make the trace match the source code.

compiler/handle_options.m:
	Don't disable higher_order.m when --typeinfo-liveness is set.
	Handle `--disable-opt-for-trace'.

compiler/hlds_data.m:
compiler/*.m:
	Add the instance number to `base_typeclass_info_const' cons_ids,
	so that higher_order.m can easily index into the list of instances
	for a class to find the methods.

compiler/hlds_out.m:
	Use the correct varset when printing out the constraint proofs.
	Write the typeclass_info_varmap for each procedure.

compiler/mercury_to_mercury.m:
	Print type variables with variable numbers.

library/private_builtin.m:
	Add the argument to the typeclass_info type to hold the representation
	of the constraint.

runtime/mercury_ho_call.c:
	Semidet and nondet class_method_calls where
	(0 < num_arg_typeclass_infos < 4) were aborting at runtime
	because arguments were being placed starting at r1 rather
	than at r(1 + num_arg_typeclass_infos).

doc/user_guide.texi
	Document the new options.

compiler/notes/compiler_design.html:
	Update the role of higher_order.m.

tests/hard_coded/typeclasses/extra_typeinfo.m:
	Test case for the mercury_ho_call.c bug and the polymorphism.m
	extract_typeinfo bug and for updating the typeclass_info_varmap
	for specialised versions.
1998-09-10 06:56:14 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
d1855187e5 Implement new methods of handling failures and the end points of branched
Estimated hours taken: 260

Implement new methods of handling failures and the end points of branched
control structures.

compiler/notes/failure.html:
	Fix an omission about the handling of resume_is_known in if-then-elses.
	(This omission lead to a bug in the implementation.)

	Optimize cuts across multi goals when curfr is known to be equal
	to maxfr.

	Clarify the wording in several places.

compiler/code_info.m:
	Completely rewrite the methods for handling failure.

	Separate the fields of code_info into three classes: those which
	do not change after initialization, those which record state that
	depends on where in the HLDS goal we are, and those which contain
	persistent data such as label and cell counters.

	Rename grab_code_info and slap_code_info as remember_position
	and reset_to_position, and add a wrapper around the remembered
	code_info to make it harder to make mistakes in its use.
	(Only the location-dependent fields of the remembered code_info
	are used, but putting only them into a separate data structure would
	result in more, not less, memory being allocated.)

	Gather the predicates that deal with handling branched control
	structures into a submodule.

	Reorder the declarations and definitions of access predicates
	to conform to the new order of fields.

	Reorder the declarations and definitions of the failure handling
	submodule to better reflect the separation of higher-level and
	lower-level predicates.

compiler/code_gen.m:
	Replace code_gen__generate_{det,semi,non}_goal_2 with a single
	predicate, since for most HLDS constructs the code here is the same
	anyway (the called preds check the code model when needed).

	Move classification of the various kinds of unifications to unify_gen,
	since that is where it belongs.

	Move responsibility for initializing the code generator's trace
	info to code_info.

	Move the generation of code for negations to ite_gen, since the
	handling of negations is a cut-down version of the handling of
	negations. This should make the required double maintenance easier,
	and more likely to happen.

compiler/disj_gen.m:
compiler/ite_gen.m:
	These are the two modules that handle most failures; they have
	undergone a significant rewrite. As part of this rewrite, factor
	out the remaining common code between model_non and model_{det,semi}
	goals.

compiler/unify_gen.m:
	Move classification of the various kinds of unifications here from
	code_gen. This allows us to keep several previously exported
	predicates private.

compiler/call_gen.m:
	Factor out some code that was common to ordinary calls, higher order
	calls and method calls. Move the common code that checks whether
	we are doing tracing to trace.m.

	Replace call_gen__generate_{det,semi,nondet}_builtin with a single
	predicate.

	Delete the commented out call_gen__generate_complicated_unify,
	since it will never be needed and in any case suffered from
	significant code rot.

compiler/llds.m:
	Change the mkframe instruction so that depending on one of its
	arguments, it can create either ordinary frames, or the cut-down
	frames used by the new failure handling algorithm (they have only
	three fixed fields: prevfr, redoip and redofr).

compiler/llds_out.m:
	Emit a #define MR_USE_REDOFR before including mercury_imp.h, to
	tell the runtime we are using the new failure handling scheme.
	This effectively changes the grade of the compiled module.

	Emit MR_stackvar and MR_framevar instead of detstackvar and framevar.
	This is a step towards cleaning up the name-space, and a step towards
	making both start numbering at 0. For the time being, the compiler
	internally still starts counting framevars at 0; the code in llds_out.m
	adds a +1 offset.

compiler/trace.m:
	Change the way trace info is initialized to fit in with the new
	requirements of code_info.m.

	Move the "are we tracing" check from the callers to the implementation
	of trace__prepare_for_call.

compiler/*.m:
	Minor changes in accordance with the major ones above.

compiler/options.m:
	Introduce a new option, allow_hijacks, which is set to "yes" by
	default. It is not used yet, but the idea is that when it is set to no,
	the code generator will not generate code that hijacks the nondet
	stack frame of another procedure invocation; instead, it will create
	a new temporary nondet stack frame. If the current procedure is
	model_non, it will have three fields: prevfr, redoip and redofr.
	If the current procedure is model_det or model_semi, it will have
	a fourth field that is set to the value of MR_sp. The idea is that
	the runtime system, which will be able to distinguish between
	ordinary frames (whose size is at least 5 words), 3-word and 4-word
	temporary frames, will now be able to use the redofr slots of
	all three kinds of frames and the fourth slot values of 4-word
	temporary frames as the addresses relative to which framevars
	and detstackvars respectively ought to be offset in stack layouts.

compiler/handle_options.m:
	Turn off allow_hijacks if the gc method is accurate.

runtime/mercury_stacks.h:
	Change the definitions for the nondet stack handling macros
	to accommodate the new nondet stack handling discipline.
	Define a new macro for creating temp nondet frames.

	Define MR_based_stackvar and MR_based_framevar (both of which start
	numbering slots at 1), and express other references, including
	MR_stackvar and MR_framevar and backward compatible definitions of
	detstackvar and framevar for hand-written C code, in terms of those
	two.

runtime/mercury_stack_trace.[ch]:
	Add a new function to print a dump of the fixed elements nondet stack,
	for debugging my changes. (The dump does not include variable values.)

runtime/mercury_trace_internal.c:
	Add a new undocumented command "D" for dumping the nondet stack
	(users should not know about this command, since the output is
	intelligible only to implementors).

	Add a new command "toggle_echo" that can cause the debugger to echo
	all commands. When the input to the debugger is redirected, this
	echo causes the output of the session to be much more readable.

runtime/mercury_wrapper.c:
	Save the address of the artificial bottom nondet stack frame,
	so that the new function in mercury_stack_trace.c can find out
	where to stop.

runtime/mercury_engine.c:
runtime/mercury_wrapper.c:
	Put MR_STACK_TRACE_THIS_MODULE at the tops of these modules, so that
	the labels they define (e.g. do_fail and global_success) are registered
	in the label table when their module initialization functions are
	called. This is necessary for a meaningful nondet stack dump.

runtime/mercury_grade.h:
	Add a new component to the grade string that specifies whether
	the code was compiled with the old or the new method of handling
	the nondet stack. This is important, because modules compiled
	with different nondet stack handling disciplines are not compatible.
	This component depends on whether MR_USE_REDOFR is defined or not.

runtime/mercury_imp.h:
	If MR_DISABLE_REDOFR is defined, undefine off MR_USE_REDOFR before
	including mercury_grade.h. This is to allow people to continue
	working on un-updated workspaces after this change is installed;
	they should put "EXTRA_CFLAGS = -DMR_DISABLE_REDOFR" into
	Mmake.stage.params. (This way their stage1 will use the new method
	of handling failure, while their stage2 2&3 will use the old one.)

	This change should be undone once all our workspaces have switched
	over to the new failure handling method.

tests/hard_coded/cut_test.{m,exp}:
	A new test case to tickle the various ways of handling cuts in the
	new code generator.

tests/hard_coded/Mmakefile:
	Enable the new test case.
1998-07-20 10:04:02 +00:00
Fergus Henderson
6455e041cb Merge in the changes from the existential types branch,
Estimated hours taken: 6
	(plus another 80 or so already recorded for
	my commits on the existential_types branch)

Merge in the changes from the existential types branch,
and make some modifications to address dgj's code review comments.

These changes add support for existentially quantified type variables
and type class constraints on functions and predicates.
(Existential data types, however, are not supported -- see below.)

Existentially quantified type variables are introduced with
an explicit `some [T]', e.g. `:- some [T] pred foo(T)'.
Existentially quantified type class constraints are introduced
with `&' instead of `<=', e.g. `:- some [T] (pred foo(T) & ord(T))'.

There's still several limitations:

0.  XXX It's not yet documented in the language reference manual.

1.  XXX It doesn't do any mode checking or mode reordering.
    If you write code that uses existentially typed procedures in the
    wrong order, then you'll get an internal error in polymorphism.m
    or in the code generator.  (Cases where a type_info has no
    producer at all are caught by the check for unbound type
    variables in post_typecheck.m.)

    To support this, we need to change things so that polymorphism.m
    gets invoked before mode checking.

2.  Using `in' modes on arguments of existential type won't work.
    If you try, you will get a compile error.

    It would be nice to extend things to allow this kind of
    "implied mode" for type_infos, where an existential type
    becomes a universal type if some value of that type is
    input.  Supporting this would require first fixing
    limitation 1 (described above) and then

3.  There's no support for `pragma c_code' for procedures
    with existential type class constraints.
    (In fact, there's not really any support for `pragma c_code'
    for procedures with universal type class constraints either --
    the C code has no way of getting access to the type class info.)

4.  XXX Taking the address of something which is existentially typed
    should be illegal, but we don't check this.

In addition, these changes in this batch make a start towards allowing
existentially typed data types.  The compiler now accepts existential
quantifiers and type class constraints on type definitions, and type
checks them accordingly (assuming all functor occurrences are
deconstructors, not constructors -- see limitation 2 above).  But
there's no special handling for them in polymorphism.m, so if you try
to use them, it will abort with an internal error.

The changes also includes fixes for a couple of bugs in typechecking
and polymorphism that I discovered while making the above changes,
and an improvement to the error reporting from typecheck.m in one case.
Those changes are listed separately below.

compiler/prog_data.m:
	Add a new type `class_constraints', which holds two different
	lists of constraints, namely the existentially quantified constraints
	and the universally quantified ones.
	Add a new field to the parse tree representation of pred and
	func declarations to hold a list of the existentially quantified
	type variables, and change the `list(class_constraint)' into
	`class_constraints' so that we can store existential constraints too.
	Add new fields to the `constructor' data type (formerly just a pair)
	to hold the existentially quantified type variables and
	type class constraints.

compiler/hlds_pred.m:
	Add several new fields to the pred_info:
	  - a list of the existentially quantified type variables;
	  - a list of the "HeadTypeParams": type variables which
	    cannot be bound by this predicate (i.e. those whose type_infos
	    come from this pred's caller or are returned from
	    other preds called by this one);
	  - and a list of unsatisfied type class constraints.
	Add a predicate pred_info_get_univ_quant_tvars to compute the
	universally quantified type variables.
	Change the pred constraints field from `list(class_constraint)'
	to `class_constraints' so that it can hold existential constraints too.

compiler/hlds_data.m:
	Add new fields to hlds_cons_defn to hold the existentially
	quantified type variables and type class constraints.

compiler/*.m:
	Minor changes to reflect the above-mentioned data structure
	changes in prog_data.m, hlds_pred.m, and hlds_data.m.

compiler/prog_io.m:
	Add code to parse the new constructs.

	Also rewrite the code for parsing purity specifiers,
	type quantifiers and type class constraints, using basically
	the method suggested by Peter Schachte: treat these as
	"declaration attributes", and have parse_decl strip off
	all the declaration attributes into a seperate list and
	then pass that list to process_decl, which for each different
	kind of declaration processes the attributes which are
	appropriate for that declaration and then calls check_no_attributes
	to ensure that there were no inappropriate attributes.

	The purpose of this rewrite was to allow it to handle the new
	constructs properly, and to avoid unnecessary code duplication.

compiler/mercury_to_mercury.m:
	Add code to pretty-print the new constructs.

compiler/make_hlds.m:
	Copy the new fields in the parse tree into the
	corresponding new fields in the pred_info.
	Add code to check for various misuses of quantifiers.

compiler/hlds_out.m:
	Print out the new fields in the pred_info (except the
	unsatisfied type class constraints -- if these are non-empty,
	post_typecheck.m will print them out in the error message).
	When printing out types, pass the AppendVarNums parameter down,
	so that HLDS dumps will distinguish between different type
	variables that have the same name.
	Delete hlds_out__write_constructor, since it was doing exactly
	the same thing as mercury__output_ctor.

compiler/typecheck.m:
	Lots of changes to handle existential types and existential
	type class constraints.

compiler/post_typecheck.m:
	When checking for unbound type variables,
	use the value of HeadTypeParams from the pred_info.

compiler/type_util.m:
	Delete `type_and_constraint_list_matches_exactly', since it was not
	used.  Add various `apply_variable_renaming_to_*' predicates for
	renaming constraints.

compiler/polymorphism.m:
	Lots of changes to handle existential types and existential
	type class constraints.
	Also some changes to make the code more maintainable:

compiler/prog_data.m:
compiler/hlds_goal.m:
compiler/mercury_to_mercury.m:
	Put curly braces around the definitions of 'some'/2 and '&'/2 functors
	in `:- type' definitions, to avoid them being misinterpreted as
	existential type constraints.

compiler/goal_util.m:
compiler/polymorphism.m:
compiler/hlds_pred.m:
compiler/lambda.m:
	Include type_infos for existentially quantified type variables
	and type_class_infos for existential constraints
	in the set of extra variables computed by
	goal_util__extra_type_info_vars.

compiler/inlining.m:
	Change inlining__do_goal to handle inlining of calls to
	existentially typed predicates -- for them, instead of not
	binding any type variables at all in the caller, it allows the
	call to bind any type variables in the caller except for those
	that are universally quantified.

compiler/inlining.m:
compiler/deforest.m:
	Call pred_info_get_univ_quant_tvars and pass the
	result to inlining__do_inline_goal.

tests/hard_coded/Mmakefile:
tests/hard_coded/existential_types_test.{m,exp}:
tests/hard_coded/typeclasses/Mmakefile:
tests/hard_coded/typeclasses/existential_type_classes.{m,exp}:
	Test cases for the use of existential types and
	existential type class constraints.

----------

Improve an error message.

compiler/typecheck.m:
	Improve error reporting by checking type class constraints for
	satisfiability as we go and thus reporting unsatisfiable constraints
	as soon as possible, rather than only at the end of the clause.
	Previously we already did that for the case of ground constraints,
	but they are not the only unsatsfiable constraints: constraints
	on head type params (type variables which cannot be bound) are
	also unsatisfiable if they can't be eliminated straight away
	by context reduction.

tests/invalid/Mmakefile:
tests/invalid/typeclass_test_7.{m,err_exp}:
	Regression test for the above change.

----------

Avoid problems where type inference was reporting some
spurious errors for predicates using type classes,
because the check for unsatisfied type class constraints
was being done before the final pass of type inference
had finished.

compiler/hlds_pred.m:
	Add new field to the pred_info containing the unproven
	type class constraints.

compiler/typecheck.m:
	When inferring type class constraints, make sure that before
	we save the results back in the pred_info, we restrict the
	constraints to the head type variables.  Constraints
	on other type variables should be treated as
	unsatisfied constraints.

	Don't check for unsatisfied type class constraints at the
	end of each pass; instead, just save the unproven type class
	constraints in the pred_info.

compiler/post_typecheck.m:
	Check for unsatisfied type class constraints, using
	the new field in the pred_info.

tests/hard_coded/typeclasses/Mmakefile:
tests/hard_coded/typeclasses/inference_test_2.{m,exp}:
tests/invalid/Mmakefile:
tests/invalid/typeclass_test_8.{m,err_exp}:
	Add regression tests for this change.

----------

Fix a bug with the computation of the non-locals for
predicates with more than one constraint on the same type variable --
it was only including one of the type-class-infos, rather than all of them.

compiler/goal_util.m:
	Change `goal_util__extra_nonlocal_typeinfos' so that it gets
	passed the TypeClassInfoVarMap and uses this to include all
	the appropriate typeclass infos in the extra nonlocals.

compiler/hlds_pred.m:
compiler/lambda.m:
compiler/polymorphism.m:
	Pass the TypeClassInfoVarMap to `goal_util__extra_nonlocal_typeinfos'.

tests/hard_coded/typeclasses/Mmakefile:
tests/hard_coded/typeclasses/lambda_multi_constraint_same_tvar.{m,exp}:
	Regression test for the above-mentioned bug.
1998-07-08 20:59:50 +00:00
Thomas Conway
a70b59e83c Add a test to find the number of words needed to represent a
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
1998-06-09 02:16:31 +00:00
Fergus Henderson
247b1c24b9 Fix various invasions of the user's namespace by `mercury_builtin.m',
Estimated hours taken: 6

Fix various invasions of the user's namespace by `mercury_builtin.m',
by splitting mercury_builtin.m into two modules, called builtin.m and
private_builtin.m, and ensuring that the latter is imported as if
by `:- use_module' rather than `:- import_module'.

library/builtin.m:
library/private_builtin.m:
	Split mercury_builtin.m into two modules, builtin.m,
	which contains stuff intended to be public,
	and private_builtin.m, which contains implementation
	details that are not supposed to be public.

library/mercury_builtin.m:
	Add a comment saying that this module is no longer used, and
	should eventually be removed.  I have not removed it yet, since
	that would prevent bootstrapping with the current compiler.  It
	will be removed as a seperate change later, once all the
	changes have propagated.

compiler/prog_util.m:
	Change the definition of mercury_private_builtin_module/1 and
	mercury_public_builtin_module so that instead of automatically
	importing mercury_builtin.m as if by `import_module', the
	copiler will now automatically import builtin.m as if by
	`import_module' and private_builtin.m as if by `use_module'.

compiler/polymorphism.m:
	Change a call to mercury_private_builtin_module/1 for
	unsafe_promise_unique to instead call mercury_public_builtin_module/1.

compiler/unify_proc.m:
	Avoid hard-coding "mercury_builtin" by instead
	calling one of  mercury_{private,public}_builtin_module/1.

runtime/mercury_type_info.[ch]:
library/term.m:
library/std_util.m:
compiler/code_util.m:
	Change a few hard-coded instances of "mercury_builtin"
	to "builtin" or "private_builtin" as appropriate.

runtime/mercury_trace_util.c:
runtime/mercury_trace_internal.c:
library/prolog.m:
compiler/*.m:
	Update comments that refer to "mercury_builtin" to instead
	refer to either "builtin" or "private_builtin".

doc/Mmakefile:
	Don't include the interface to private_builtin.m in the
	library reference manual.

tools/bootcheck:
	Add `-p'/`--copy-profiler' option.  This is needed to get
	the above changes to bootstrap.

tools/test_mercury:
	Pass `-p' to tools/bootcheck.

tests/term/*.trans_opt_exp:
	s/mercury_builtin/builtin/g
1998-05-25 21:55:28 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
67d8308260 Same as previous message. 1998-04-08 11:36:13 +00:00
Fergus Henderson
11d8161692 Add support for nested modules.
Estimated hours taken: 50

Add support for nested modules.

- module names may themselves be module-qualified
- modules may contain `:- include_module' declarations
  which name sub-modules
- a sub-module has access to all the declarations in the
  parent module (including its implementation section).

This support is not yet complete; see the BUGS and LIMITATIONS below.

LIMITATIONS
- source file names must match module names
	(just as they did previously)
- mmc doesn't allow path names on the command line any more
	(e.g. `mmc --make-int ../library/foo.m').
- import_module declarations must use the fully-qualified module name
- module qualifiers must use the fully-qualified module name
- no support for root-qualified module names
	(e.g. `:parent:child' instead of `parent:child').
- modules may not be physically nested (only logical nesting, via
  `include_module').

BUGS
- doesn't check that the parent module is imported/used before allowing
	import/use of its sub-modules.
- doesn't check that there is an include_module declaration in the
	parent for each module claiming to be a child of that parent
- privacy of private modules is not enforced

-------------------

NEWS:
	Mention that we support nested modules.

library/ops.m:
library/nc_builtin.nl:
library/sp_builtin.nl:
compiler/mercury_to_mercury.m:
	Add `include_module' as a new prefix operator.
	Change the associativity of `:' from xfy to yfx
	(since this made parsing module qualifiers slightly easier).

compiler/prog_data.m:
	Add new `include_module' declaration.
	Change the `module_name' and `module_specifier' types
	from strings to sym_names, so that module names can
	themselves be module qualified.

compiler/modules.m:
	Add predicates module_name_to_file_name/2 and
	file_name_to_module_name/2.
	Lots of changes to handle parent module dependencies,
	to create parent interface (`.int0') files, to read them in,
	to output correct dependencies information for them to the
	`.d' and `.dep' files, etc.
	Rewrite a lot of the code to improve the readability
	(add comments, use subroutines, better variable names).
	Also fix a couple of bugs:
	- generate_dependencies was using the transitive implementation
	  dependencies rather than the transitive interface dependencies
	  to compute the `.int3' dependencies when writing `.d' files
	  (this bug was introduced during crs's changes to support
	  `.trans_opt' files)
	- when creating the `.int' file, it was reading in the
	  interfaces for modules imported in the implementation section,
	  not just those in the interface section.
	  This meant that the compiler missed a lot of errors.

library/graph.m:
library/lexer.m:
library/term.m:
library/term_io.m:
library/varset.m:
compiler/*.m:
	Add `:- import_module' declarations to the interface needed
	by declarations in the interface.  (The previous version
	of the compiler did not detect these missing interface imports,
	due to the above-mentioned bug in modules.m.)

compiler/mercury_compile.m:
compiler/intermod.m:
	Change mercury_compile__maybe_grab_optfiles and
	intermod__grab_optfiles so that they grab the opt files for
	parent modules as well as the ones for imported modules.

compiler/mercury_compile.m:
	Minor changes to handle parent module dependencies.
	(Also improve the wording of the warning about trans-opt
	dependencies.)

compiler/make_hlds.m:
compiler/module_qual.m:
	Ignore `:- include_module' declarations.

compiler/module_qual.m:
	A couple of small changes to handle nested module names.

compiler/prog_out.m:
compiler/prog_util.m:
	Add new predicates string_to_sym_name/3 (prog_util.m) and
	sym_name_to_string/{2,3} (prog_out.m).

compiler/*.m:
	Replace many occurrences of `string' with `module_name'.
	Change code that prints out module names or converts
	them to strings or filenames to handle the fact that
	module names are now sym_names intead of strings.
	Also change a few places (e.g. in intermod.m, hlds_module.m)
	where the code assumed that any qualified symbol was
	fully-qualified.

compiler/prog_io.m:
compiler/prog_io_goal.m:
	Move sym_name_and_args/3, parse_qualified_term/4 and
	parse_qualified_term/5 preds from prog_io_goal.m to prog_io.m,
	since they are very similar to the parse_symbol_name/2 predicate
	already in prog_io.m.  Rewrite these predicates, both
	to improve maintainability, and to handle the newly
	allowed syntax (module-qualified module names).
	Rename parse_qualified_term/5 as `parse_implicit_qualified_term'.

compiler/prog_io.m:
	Rewrite the handling of `:- module' and `:- end_module'
	declarations, so that it can handle nested modules.
	Add code to parse `include_module' declarations.

compiler/prog_util.m:
compiler/*.m:
	Add new predicates mercury_public_builtin_module/1 and
	mercury_private_builtin_module/1 in prog_util.m.
	Change most of the hard-coded occurrences of "mercury_builtin"
	to call mercury_private_builtin_module/1 or
	mercury_public_builtin_module/1 or both.

compiler/llds_out.m:
	Add llds_out__sym_name_mangle/2, for mangling module names.

compiler/special_pred.m:
compiler/mode_util.m:
compiler/clause_to_proc.m:
compiler/prog_io_goal.m:
compiler/lambda.m:
compiler/polymorphism.m:
	Move the predicates in_mode/1, out_mode/1, and uo_mode/1
	from special_pred.m to mode_util.m, and change various
	hard-coded definitions to instead call these predicates.

compiler/polymorphism.m:
	Ensure that the type names `type_info' and `typeclass_info' are
	module-qualified in the generated code.  This avoids a problem
	where the code generated by polymorphism.m was not considered
	type-correct, due to the type `type_info' not matching
	`mercury_builtin:type_info'.

compiler/check_typeclass.m:
	Simplify the code for check_instance_pred and
	get_matching_instance_pred_ids.

compiler/mercury_compile.m:
compiler/modules.m:
	Disallow directory names in command-line arguments.

compiler/options.m:
compiler/handle_options.m:
compiler/mercury_compile.m:
compiler/modules.m:
	Add a `--make-private-interface' option.
	The private interface file `<module>.int0' contains
	all the declarations in the module; it is used for
	compiling sub-modules.

scripts/Mmake.rules:
scripts/Mmake.vars.in:
	Add support for creating `.int0' and `.date0' files
	by invoking mmc with `--make-private-interface'.

doc/user_guide.texi:
	Document `--make-private-interface' and the `.int0'
	and `.date0' file extensions.

doc/reference_manual.texi:
	Document nested modules.

util/mdemangle.c:
profiler/demangle.m:
	Demangle names with multiple module qualifiers.

tests/general/Mmakefile:
tests/general/string_format_test.m:
tests/general/string_format_test.exp:
tests/general/string__format_test.m:
tests/general/string__format_test.exp:
tests/general/.cvsignore:
	Change the `:- module string__format_test' declaration in
	`string__format_test.m' to `:- module string_format_test',
	because with the original declaration the `__' was taken
	as a module qualifier, which lead to an error message.
	Hence rename the file accordingly, to avoid the warning
	about file name not matching module name.

tests/invalid/Mmakefile:
tests/invalid/missing_interface_import.m:
tests/invalid/missing_interface_import.err_exp:
	Regression test to check that the compiler reports
	errors for missing `import_module' in the interface section.

tests/invalid/*.err_exp:
tests/warnings/unused_args_test.exp:
tests/warnings/unused_import.exp:
	Update the expected diagnostics output for the test cases to
	reflect a few minor changes to the warning messages.

tests/hard_coded/Mmakefile:
tests/hard_coded/parent.m:
tests/hard_coded/parent.child.m:
tests/hard_coded/parent.exp:
tests/hard_coded/parent2.m:
tests/hard_coded/parent2.child.m:
tests/hard_coded/parent2.exp:
	Two simple tests case for the use of nested modules with
	separate compilation.
1998-03-03 17:48:14 +00:00
Simon Taylor
4ab55e32a5 Fix a bug in the optimization where polymorphism.m passes a
Estimated hours taken: 5

Fix a bug in the optimization where polymorphism.m passes a
base_type_info in place of a type_info for non-polymorphic types.
The type of the variable was `base_type_info' not `type_info'.
This caused inlining.m to be unable to compute a type substitution,
and code_util__cons_id_to_tag aborted on an unsubstituted type
variable.

compiler/mercury_builtin.m
compiler/code_util.m
	Add a new builtin, unsafe_type_cast/2, used by common.m
	to preserve type correctness.
	Make unsafe_promise_unique/2 a builtin, since it is basically
	the same as unsafe_type_cast/2.

compiler/polymorphism.m
	Set the type of a `base_type_info' passed where a `type_info'
	is expected to `type_info'.
	Don't add the type_info argument for unsafe_type_cast, since it is
	not needed and would make the code in common.m more complicated.

compiler/common.m
	Generate a call to unsafe_type_cast rather than an assignment
	unification when the assignment would not be type correct.

tests/valid/inlining_bug.m
	Regression test.

tests/general/common_type_cast.m
tests/general/common_type_cast.exp
	Test of type casts.
1998-02-25 00:12:16 +00:00
Fergus Henderson
968b084fbe Delete all the obsolete code using magic numbers (e.g. 10000)
Estimated hours taken: 0.75

compiler/bytecode.m:
compiler/code_util.m:
compiler/const_prop.m:
compiler/hlds_out.m:
compiler/intermod.m:
compiler/llds_out.m:
compiler/make_hlds.m:
compiler/mercury_to_c.m:
compiler/modes.m:
compiler/special_pred.m:
compiler/term_errors.m:
compiler/trace.m:
	Delete all the obsolete code using magic numbers (e.g. 10000)
	for proc_ids.  This old hack, whereby make_hlds.m assigned
	mode numbers based on the priority given to the determinism of
	each mode, is not needed anymore.  It is no longer needed
	because modecheck_call.m now chooses the mode that is the best
	fit (based on a variety of factors) rather than just picking
	the first allowable mode.

tests/invalid/duplicate_modes.err_exp:
	The output for this test changed, in insignificant ways:
	the order in which it reported the duplicates modes changed,
	because the mode numbers had changed.
1998-01-24 05:44:33 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
5013dd9c76 Implement nondet pragma C codes.
Estimated hours taken: 40

Implement nondet pragma C codes.

runtime/mercury_stacks.h:
	Define a new macro, mkpragmaframe, for use in the implementation
	of nondet pragma C codes. This new macro includes space for a
	struct with a given sruct tag in the nondet stack frame being created.

compiler/{prog_data.m,hlds_goal.m}:
	Revise the representation of pragma C codes, both as the item and
	in the HLDS.

compiler/prog_io_pragma.m:
	Parse nondet pragma C declarations.

	Fix the indentation in some places.

compiler/llds.m:
	Include an extra argument in mkframe instructions. This extra argument
	gives the details of the C structure (if any) to be included in the
	nondet stack frame to be created.

	Generalize the LLDS representation of pragma C codes. Instead of a
	fixed sequence of <assign from inputs, user c code, assign to outputs>,
	let the sequence contain these elements, as well as arbitrary
	compiler-generated C code, in any order and possibly with repetitions.
	This flexibility is needed for nondet pragma C codes.

	Add a field to pragma C codes to say whether they can call Mercury.
	Some optimizations can do a better job if they know that a pragma C
	code cannot call Mercury.

	Add another field to pragma C codes to give the name of the label
	they refer to (if any). This is needed to prevent labelopt from
	incorrectly optimizing away the label definition.

	Add a new alternative to the type pragma_c_decl, to describe the
	declaration of the local variable that points to the save struct.

compiler/llds_out.m:
	Output mkframe instructions that specify a struct as invoking the new
	mkpragmaframe macro, and make sure that the struct is declared just
	before the procedure that uses it.

	Other minor changes to keep up with the changes to the representation
	of pragma C code in the LLDS, and to make the output look a bit nicer.

compiler/pragma_c_gen.m:
	Add code to generate code for nondet pragma C codes. Revise the utility
	predicates and their data structures a bit to make this possible.

compiler/code_gen.m:
	Add code for the necessary special handling of prologs and epilogs
	of procedures defined by nondet pragma C codes. The prologs need
	to be modified to include a programmer-defined C structure in the
	nondet stack frame and to communicate the location of this structure
	to the pragma C code, whereas the functionality of the epilog is
	taken care of by the pragma C code itself.

compiler/make_hlds.m:
	When creating a proc_info for a procedure defined by a pragma C code,
	we used to insert unifications between the headvars and the vars of
	the pragma C code into the body goal. We now perform substitutions
	instead. This removes a factor that would complicate the generation
	of code for nondet pragma C codes.

	Pass a moduleinfo down the procedures that warn about singletons
	(and other basic scope errors). When checking whether to warn about
	an argument of a pragma C code not being mentioned in the C code
	fragment, we need to know whether the argument is input or output,
	since input variables should appear in some code fragments in a
	nondet pragma C code and must not appear in others. The
	mode_is_{in,out}put checks need the moduleinfo.

	(We do not need to check for any variables being mentioned where
	they shouldn't be. The C compiler will fail in the presence of any
	errors of that type, and since those variables could be referred
	to via macros whose definitions we do not see, we couldn't implement
	a reliable test anyway.)

compiler/opt_util.m:
	Recognize that some sorts of pragma_c codes cannot affect the data
	structures that control backtracking. This allows peepholing to
	do a better job on code sequences produced for nondet pragma C codes.

	Recognize that the C code strings inside some pragma_c codes refer to
	other labels in the procedure. This prevents labelopt from incorrectly
	optimizing away these labels.

compiler/dupelim.m:
	If a label is referred to from within a C code string, then do not
	attempt to optimize it away.

compiler/det_analysis.m:
	Remove a now incorrect part of an error message.

compiler/*.m:
	Minor changes to conform to changes to the HLDS and LLDS data
	structures.
1998-01-13 10:14:23 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
bb4442ddc1 Update copyright dates for 1998.
Estimated hours taken: 0.5

compiler/*.m:
	Update copyright dates for 1998.
1998-01-13 10:06:08 +00:00
David Jeffery
7406335105 This change implements typeclasses. Included are the necessary changes to
Estimated hours taken: 500 or so

This change implements typeclasses. Included are the necessary changes to
the compiler, runtime and library.

compiler/typecheck.m:
	Typecheck the constraints on a pred by adding constraints for each
	call to a pred/func with constraints, and eliminating constraints
	by applying context reduction.

	While reducing the constraints, keep track of the proofs so that
	polymorphism can produce the tyepclass_infos for eliminated
	constraints.

compiler/polymorphism.m:
	Perform the source-to-source transformation which turns code with
	typeclass constraints into code without constraints, but with extra
	"typeclass_info", or "dictionary" parameters.

	Also, rather than always having a type_info directly for each type
	variable, sometimes the type_info is hidden inside a typeclass_info.

compiler/bytecode*.m:
	Insert some code to abort if bytecode generation is used when
	typeclasses are used.
compiler/call_gen.m:
	Generate code for a class_method_call, which forms the body of a class
	method (by selecting the appropriate proc from the typeclass_info).
compiler/dead_proc_elim.m:
	Don't eliminate class methods if they are potentially used outside
	the module
compiler/hlds_data.m:
	Define data types to store:
		- the typeclass definitions
		- the instances of a class
		- "constraint_proof". ie. the proofs of redundancy of a
		  constraint. This info is used by polymorphism to construct the
		  typeclass_infos for a constraint.
		- the "base_tyepclass_info_constant", which is analagous the
		  the base_type_info_constant
compiler/hlds_data.m:
	Define the class_method_call goal. This goal is inserted into the
	body of class method procs, and is responsible for selecting the
	appropriate part of the typeclass_info to call.
compiler/hlds_data.m:
	Add the class table and instance table to the module_info.
compiler/hlds_out.m:
	Output info about base_typeclass_infos and class_method_calls
compiler/hlds_pred.m:
	Change the representation of the locations of type_infos from "var"
	to type_info_locn, which is either a var, or part of a typeclass_info,
	since now the typeclass_infos contain the type_infos for the type that
	they constrain.

	Add constraints to the pred_info.

	Add constraint_proofs to the pred_info (so that typeclass.m can
	annotate the pred_info with the reasons that constraints were
	eliminated, so that polymorphism.m can in turn generate the
	typeclass_infos for the constraints).

	Add the "class_method" marker.

compiler/lambda.m:
	A feable attempt at adding class ontexts to lambda expressions,
	untested and almost certainly not working.
compiler/llds_out.m:
	Output the code addresses for do_*det_class_method, and output
	appropriately mangled symbol names for base_typeclass_infos.
compiler/make_hlds.m:
	Add constraints to the types on pred and func decls, and add
	class and instance declarations to the class_table and instance_table
	respectively.
compiler/mercury_compile.m:
	Add the check_typeclass pass.
compiler/mercury_to_mercury.m:
	Output constraints of pred and funcs, and output typeclass and instance
	declarations.
compiler/module_qual.m:
	Module qualify typeclass names in pred class contexts, and qualify the
	typeclass and instance decls themselves.
compiler/modules.m:
	Output typeclass declarations in the short interface too.
compiler/prog_data.m:
	Add the "typeclass" and "instance" items. Define the types to store
	information about the declarations, including class contexts on pred
	and func decls.
compiler/prog_io.m:
	Parse constraints on pred and func declarations.
compiler/prod_out.m:
	Output class contexts on pred and func decls.
compiler/type_util.m:
	Add preds to apply a substitution to a class_constraint, and to
	a list of class constraints. Add type_list_matches_exactly/2. Also
	add typeclass_info and base_typeclass_info as types which should not
	be optimised as no_tag types (seeing that we cheat a bit about their
	representation).
compiler/notes/compiler_design.html:
	Add notes on module qualification of class contexts. Needs expansion
	to include more stuff on typeclasses.
compiler/*.m:
	Various minor changes.

New Files:
compiler/base_typeclass_info.m:
	Produce one base_typeclass_info for each instance declaration.
compiler/prog_io_typeclass.m:
	Parse typeclass and instance declarations.
compiler/check_typeclass.m:
	Check the conformance of an instance declaration to the typeclass
	declaration, including building up a proof of how superclass
	constraints are satisfied so that polymorphism.m is able to construct
	the typeclass_info, including the superclass typeclass_infos.

library/mercury_builtin.m:
	Implement that base_typeclass_info and typeclass_info types, as
	well as the predicates type_info_from_typeclass_info/3 to extract
	a type_info from a typeclass_info, and superclass_from_typeclass_info/3
	for extracting superclasses.
library/ops.m:
	Add "typeclass" and "instance" as operators.
library/string.m:
	Add a (in, uo) mode for string__length/3.

runtime/mercury_ho_call.c:
	Implement do_call_*det_class_method, which are the pieces of code
	responsible for extracting the correct code address from the
	typeclass_info, setting up the arguments correctly, then executing
	the code.
runtime/mercury_type_info.h:
	Macros for accessing the typeclass_info structure.
1997-12-19 03:10:47 +00:00
Fergus Henderson
5976f769f7 Fix a bug for the case of a higher-order function call in code
Estimated hours taken: 1

Fix a bug for the case of a higher-order function call in code
with common sub-expression; mercury 0.7 failed this test, reporting
"Software Error: modecheck fails when repeated", due to confusion
between h.o. _function_ call and h.o. _predicate_ call.

compiler/hlds_goal.m:
	Add `pred_or_func' field to HLDS higher_order_calls.

compiler/modes.m:
compiler/modecheck_call.m:
compiler/hlds_out.m:
compiler/*.m:
	Add code to handle new field for higher_order_call goals.

tests/valid/Mmake:
tests/valid/ho_func_call.m:
	Regression test for the above-mentioned bug.
1997-09-01 14:05:44 +00:00
Fergus Henderson
99184d3578 Implement support for types with user-defined equality predicates.
Estimated hours taken: 30

Implement support for types with user-defined equality predicates.

Types with user-defined equality predicates are called "non-canonical types";
they may have more than one representation for the same abstract value.
That means that any attempt to deconstruct a value of a non-canonical
type, i.e. any attempt to peek at the representation, must be cc_multi.

This also implies that conceptually speaking, non-canonical types are not
members of the type classes `comparable' (compare/3) or `deconstructible'
(index/2, argument/3, functor/3, deconstruct/5).  Since we don't support
type classes yet, that just means that the type-class checking is done
at runtime, i.e. any call to one of those functions for a non-canonical
type will call error/1 or fatal_error().

To make non-canonical types useful, we really need type classes,
so that the user can provide instance definitions for `comparable'
and `deconstructible' for such types.  It might also be a good idea
to have a type-class `canonicalizable' which provides a function
to convert its argument to some canonical type (that would
require existential types to do nicely, but alternatively we could
just use `univ').

Note that currently the only mechanism for promising that things are
unique is via the C interface.

compiler/det_analysis.m:
	Add code to check unifications that examine the
	representation of a type with a user-defined equality predicate.
	Any such unification must occur in a single-solution context and
	must not be able to fail.  Such unifications determinism have
	determinism cc_multi.

compiler/det_report.m:
	Add code to report errors for misuse of types with user-defined
	equality predicates.  (Also some other stylistic improvements:
	split up a complicated predicate into subroutines, and
	avoid some unnecessary code duplication.)

compiler/prog_data.m:
compiler/hlds_data.m:
	Add a new `maybe(sym_name)' field to the du_type/3 constructor
	to hold the name of the user-defined equality pred for the
	type, if any.

compiler/prog_io.m:
	Add code to parse the new `... where equality is <name>.' syntax.
	Delete the old support for `... where <condition>'.

compiler/hlds_out.m:
compiler/mercury_to_mercury.m:
compiler/mercury_to_goedel.m:
	Print out the new field.

compiler/base_type_layout.m:
compiler/code_util.m:
compiler/dense_switch.m:
compiler/equiv_type.m:
compiler/intermod.m:
compiler/make_hlds.m:
compiler/mode_util.m:
compiler/module_qual.m:
compiler/modules.m:
compiler/switch_detection.m:
compiler/tag_switch.m:
compiler/type_util.m:
compiler/typecheck.m:
compiler/unify_gen.m:
	Trivial changes to ignore (or leave unchanged)
	the new field in `du_type'.

compiler/modecheck_unify.m:
	Pass the term__context to unify_proc__request_unify.

compiler/typecheck.m:
	Typecheck the compiler-generated unify predicates for types
	with user-defined equality preds.

compiler/unify_proc.m:
	For d.u. types, if the type has a user-defined equality predicate
	then generate code for the compiler-generated unify predicate
	that just calls the specified predicate, and generate
	code for the compiler-generated compare and index predicates
	that just calls some procedures in mercury_builtin.m that
	report appropriate error messages.
	Ensure that the automatically-generated predicates
	have appropriate term__contexts everywhere, so that if
	the user-defined equality predicate name is ambiguous,
	non-existent, or has the wrong type, mode, or determinism,
	then the error messages from type checking, mode checking,
	or determinism checking refer to the type declaration.

library/mercury_builtin.m:
	Add predicates builtin_index_non_canonical_type/2
	and builtin_compare_non_canonical_type/2, used by
	the code generated by compiler/unify_proc.m.

doc/reference_manual.texi:
	Document the support for user-defined equality predicates.

library/std_util.m:
	Change ML_expand() to return an indication of whether or not
	the type is a non-canonical type (one with a user-defined
	equality predicate).  Change argument/2, functor/2, and
	deconstruct/4 to abort if called for a non-canonical type.
1997-08-22 13:57:43 +00:00
Fergus Henderson
04b720630b Update the copyright messages so that (a) they contain the correct years
and (b) they say "Copyright (C) ... _The_ University of Melbourne".
1997-07-27 15:09:59 +00:00
Tyson Dowd
327a5131e2 Remove support for term_to_type and type_to_term implemented as special
Estimated hours taken: 5

Remove support for term_to_type and type_to_term implemented as special
preds.  Remove support for one-cell and one-or-two-cell type_infos (now
shared-one-or-two-cell type_infos). Move definitions that were in
mercury_builtin.m back to where they belong.

This code has been removed because it is no longer used, and was no
longer being maintained but was still quite complex.

compiler/globals.m:
compiler/handle_options.m:
compiler/mercury_compile.m:
compiler/options.m:
	Remove one_cell and one_or_two_cell from type_info methods.

compiler/polymorphism.m:
	Remove term_to_type and type_to_term support.
	Remove one_cell and one_or_two_cell from type_info methods.
	Fix documentation to reflect the new situation.

compiler/special_pred.m:
compiler/unify_proc.m:
	Remove term_to_type and type_to_term support.

library/list.m:
	Put the definition of `list' back into list.m

library/mercury_builtin.m:
	Take the definitions of `list', `term', `var', `var__supply',
	etc, out of this module.
	Remove type_to_term, term_to_type, det_term_to_type,
	term__init_var_supply, term__create_var, term__var_to_int
	and term__context_init.
	Remove references to USE_TYPE_TO_TERM and #ifdefs around
	SHARED_ONE_OR_TWO_CELL_TYPE_INFO.

library/std_util.m:
	Remove references ONE_OR_TWO_CELL_TYPE_INFO, and code that
	handles one-cell typeinfo comparisons.

library/term.m:
	Add type_to_term, term_to_type, det_term_to_type,
	term__init_var_supply, term__create_var, term__var_to_int
	and term__context_init back to term.m.
	Add new implementation of type_to_term/2.

library/uniq_array.m:
	Fix a typo in a comment - term_to_type/3 instead of term_to_type/2.

runtime/call.mod:
	Remove special case code for unify, compare, index for
	one-cell typeinfos.
	Remove code for type_to_term/2.

runtime/type_info.h:
	Remove references to ONE_CELL_TYPE_INFO or ONE_OR_TWO_CELL_TYPE_INFO.
	Make sure only SHARED_ONE_OR_TWO_CELL_TYPE_INFO.
	Remove references to USE_TYPE_TO_TERM.

compiler/base_type_layout.m:
compiler/bytecode_gen.m:
compiler/code_util.m:
compiler/delay_slot.m:
compiler/det_util.m:
compiler/fact_table.m:
compiler/hlds_data.m:
compiler/hlds_goal.m:
compiler/mode_debug.m:
compiler/tree.m:
library/bag.m:
library/queue.m:
	Import module `list' or `term' (or both).
1997-05-20 01:52:55 +00:00
Fergus Henderson
e3471f333f Fix a bug in inlining of polymorphic pragma c_code procedures.
Estimated hours taken: 3

Fix a bug in inlining of polymorphic pragma c_code procedures.

The bug was that if the actual argument type has a specific type
of say `float', then the C variable for the corresponding formal
parameter will be declared to have type `Float', whereas without
inlining the argument type would have been polymorphic and so
the C variable would have been declared to have type `Word'.
Hence we need to keep track of the original argument types,
before any inlining or specialization has occurred, and use
these original argument types to determine how to declare
the C variables, rather than using the actual argument types
for this particular specialization.

compiler/hlds_goal.m:
	Add a new field to pragma_c_code goals, holding the
	original argument types (before any inlining or specialization)
	of the pragma_c_code procedure.

compiler/make_hlds.m:
	Initialize this field with the declared argument types for
	the pragma c_code procedure.

compiler/polymorphism.m:
	Update this field to account for the inserted type_info variables.

compiler/code_gen.m:
	Pass this field to pragma_c_gen.m.

compiler/pragma_c_gen.m:
	Use the original argument types field for the pragma variable
	declarations, rather than looking up the actual types of the
	arguments.

compiler/*.m:
	Trivial changes to handle new field.

compiler/live_vars.m:
	Comment out some code to avoid a warning about `fail'
	in the condition of an if-then-else.
1997-05-05 11:17:40 +00:00
Fergus Henderson
270b744039 Clean up the handlng of integer division and remainder.
Estimated hours taken: 8

Clean up the handlng of integer division and remainder.

library/int.m:
	Add a new function `div'.  The idea is that `div' is the same
	as `//', except that `div' will round toward minus infinity, whereas
	`//' will round toward zero.  `div' is more well-behaved, `//'
	is more efficient.

	Change the behaviour of `mod' so that it is remainder after `div'
	rather than remainder after `//'.  This makes it more well-behaved,
	but less efficient.

	Add a new function `rem', which is the new name for what `mod'
	used to do (i.e. remainder after `//').

compiler/llds.m:
	Add some comments about the `/' and `mod' llds operators.
	(The `mod' llds operator should probably be renamed `rem',
	but I haven't done that yet.)

compiler/code_util.m:
	Recognize `int:rem', rather than `int:mod', as the llds `mod'
	operator.

tests/hard_coded/division_test.m:
	Add some test cases for `div', `mod', `//', and `rem' on
	negative numbers.
1997-03-21 10:25:41 +00:00
Fergus Henderson
9fae8f01d9 Fix a bug reported by Renaud Paquay from Mission Critical.
Estimated hours taken: 0.5

Fix a bug reported by Renaud Paquay from Mission Critical.

compiler/code_util.m:
	Handle empty disjunctions in code_util__count_recursive_calls_disj:
	don't call error/1, because empty disjunctions are perfectly valid
	(they just mean `fail').
1997-03-18 13:49:59 +00:00
Andrew Bromage
d7319104f9 Making the types pred_id and proc_id (almost) abstract.
Estimated hours taken: 7

Making the types pred_id and proc_id (almost) abstract.

compiler/code_util.m:
        Changed the type of several predicates:
                code_util__make_uni_label/4 (arg 3 was int, now proc_id)
                code_util__inline_builtin/4 (arg 3 was proc_id, now int)
        Added predicate code_util__translate_builtin_2/6.

compiler/hlds_module.m:
        Moved invalid_pred_id/1 to hlds_pred.m

compiler/hlds_pred.m:
        Types pred_id/0 and proc_id are now abstract.
        Added predicates:
                hlds_pred__initial_pred_id/1, hlds_pred__initial_proc_id/1,
                hlds_pred__next_pred_id/2, hlds_pred__next_proc_id/2,
                pred_id_to_int/2, proc_id_to_int/2,
                hlds_pred__in_in_unification_proc_id/1
        Moved predicate invalid_pred_id/1 (from hlds_module.m).

compiler/*.m:
        Miscellaneous minor changes to cast pred/proc_ids to ints
        where appropriate.
1997-03-06 05:09:54 +00:00
Fergus Henderson
3ec8a17ffc Enable the code to treat `__' as an alternative syntax for module
Estimated hours taken: 8

Enable the code to treat `__' as an alternative syntax for module
qualification, after fixing various places in the compiler where
we use `__' in ways that are incompatible with this.

compiler/prog_io.m:
compiler/prog_io_goal.m:
	Uncomment the code to handle `__' as module qualification.

compiler/intermod.m:
compiler/hlds_module.m:
compiler/modecheck_unify.m:
	Fix bugs in the handling of module qualified higher-order terms.

compiler/*.m:
	s/hlds__/hlds_/g

compiler/passes_aux.m:
	s/process__/process_/g

compiler/pragma_c_gen.m:
compiler/code_gen.m:
	s/code_gen__/pragma_c_gen__/ for the predicates defined in
	pragma_c_gen.m (this ought to have been done when the code
	was first moved from code_gen.m to pragma_c_gen.m).

compiler/llds.m:
	s/llds__proc_id/llds_proc_id/g
	The reason for this was to avoid ambiguity between proc_id
	in hlds_pred.m and llds__proc_id in llds.m.

compiler/quantification.m:
compiler/make_hlds.m:
compiler/mercury_to_c.m:
	s/goal_vars/quantification__goal_vars/g
	The reason for this was to avoid ambiguity between goal_vars
	in quantification.m and goal_util__goal_vars in goal_util.m.

compiler/dupelim.m:
compiler/optimize.m:
	s/dupelim__main/dupelim_main/g
	The reason for this change is that a program can only
	have one main/2 predicate.

compiler/prog_io_dcg.m:
	Remove the old "temporary hack" to strip off and ignore
	io__gc_call/1, since the new handling of `__' broke it.
	It was only useful for optimizing NU-Prolog performance,
	which we don't care about anymore.

compiler/mercury_compile.m:
compiler/modules.m:
compiler/intermod.m:
compiler/prog_io.m:
	Remove occurrences of io__gc_call.

compiler/llds_out.m:
compiler/base_type_info.m:
	Ensure that we properly handle the special hacks in mercury_builtin
	where predicates from other modules (e.g. term__context_init)
	are defined in mercury_builtin because they are needed for
	type_to_term and term_to_type.  llds_out.m: don't put
	`mercury_builtin' in the mangled names for those symbols.
	base_type_info.m: handle types whose status is "imported"
	in their own module.
1997-02-23 06:08:34 +00:00
Christopher Rodd Speirs
89d00fc12d The first argument of code_util__predinfo_is_builtin/2 was unused, so it has
Estimated hours taken: 0.5

The first argument of code_util__predinfo_is_builtin/2 was unused, so it has
been replaced by code_util__predinfo_is_builtin/1

compiler/code_util.m:
	changed code_util__predinfo_is_builtin(_ModuleInfo, PredInfo)
	to      code_util__predinfo_is_builtin(PredInfo).

compiler/unused_args.m:
compiler/typecheck.m:
compiler/make_hlds.m:
compiler/intermod.m:
	Fixed each usage of code_util__predinfo_is_builtin.
1997-02-20 03:04:24 +00:00
Simon Taylor
1839ebb663 Module qualification of constructors.
Estimated hours taken: 15

Module qualification of constructors.

compiler/modes.m
compiler/unique_modes.m
compiler/modecheck_unify.m
compiler/modecheck_call.m
	Enable propagate_type_info_into_modes.
	Use type information to module qualify cons_ids.

compiler/mode_util.m
	Use propagate_type_information_into_modes to module qualify cons_ids
	in bound insts.
	typed_ground/2 and free/1 insts are not yet generated, since they
	are not yet used anywhere.
	Avoid expanding insts when propagating type information, since
	that is not yet useful.
	I still need to fix the handling of
		inst_matches_{initial, final, binding}(
			ground(_, _), bound(_, [all_functors_in_the_type]))

compiler/typecheck.m
	Don't assume a module qualified cons_id is a function call
	or higher-order pred constant.

compiler/modes.m
compiler/unique_modes.m
compiler/modecheck_unify.m
compiler/instmap.m
compiler/inst_match.m
	Remove some unnecessary conversion between cons_ids and consts.

compiler/typecheck.m
compiler/mode_errors.m
	Strip builtin qualifiers from cons_ids.

compiler/mercury_to_mercury.m
	Output module qualified cons_ids.

compiler/prog_io.m
compiler/prog_io_util.m
	Module qualify constructors in type definitions.
	Parse qualified cons_ids in bound insts.

compiler/hlds_data.m
	Remove cons_id_to_const/3, since it doesn't make much sense any more.
	Add cons_id_arity/2 and cons_id_and_args_to_term/3.

compiler/make_hlds.m
	Add both qualified and unqualified versions of each cons_id to
	the cons_table.

compiler/det_util.m
	Handle module qualified cons_ids in det_util__interpret_unify.

compiler/code_util.m
	Remove some dead code in code_util__cons_id_to_tag to do with
	tags for higher-order terms. Don't assume module qualified
	cons_ids are higher-order pred constants.

compiler/polymorphism.m
	Module qualify type_info cons_ids.
1997-02-17 01:27:10 +00:00
Simon Taylor
857ce0c472 Cleaned up the handling of labels for specialized versions of predicates
Estimated hours taken: 3

Cleaned up the handling of labels for specialized versions of predicates
from other modules.

compiler/llds.m:
        Changed the representation of proc_label slightly.
        Each proc_label now contains the name of the module producing the
        code for a predicate as well as the module containing the declaration
        for the predicate.

compiler/code_util.m:
compiler/llds_out.m:
        Fixed a bug in my last change that resulted in duplicate label
        names for specialized versions of predicates.
        The name of the module producing the code for the predicate
        is added as an extra qualifier in the label for specialised
        versions of predicates from other modules.

compiler/base_type_info.m:
compiler/opt_util.m:
compiler/opt_debug.m:
compiler/shapes.m:
        Fixed uses of proc_label.
1997-01-29 00:48:13 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
91c4330db7 The first half of a change to introduce nondet pragma C goals.
Estimated hours taken: 12

The first half of a change to introduce nondet pragma C goals.
This half makes the necessary modifications to the HLDS; the next
half will modify the LLDS and emit it.

prog_data:
	Add a new pragma type for nondet pragma c_codes; these specify
	the names of a a bunch of variables to save across backtracking,
	and a list of label names to which backtracking may take place.

	Rename is_recursive to may_call_mercury, since this is a more
	direct expression of the meaning.

prog_io:
	Move much of the functionality to new files.

prog_io_dcg, prog_io_goal, prog_io_pragma, prog_io_util:
	New files, made up of pieces of prog_io.

hlds_goal:
	Add an extra argument to the pragma_c_goals to store the extra
	information present in the new type of pragma c_codes.

det_analysis:
	Take into account that the new type of pragma_c goal may have
	more than one solution.

goal_util:
	Rename variables in the new field of pragma_cs.

live_vars:
	Allocate stack slots to the saved variables in the new type of pragma_c
	goals.

make_hlds:
	Handle the new type of pragma_c goals.

mercury_output, hlds_out:
	Output the new type of pragma_c goals.

garbage_out:
	Rename type "det" to "frame_type".

others:
	Ignore one more arg of pragma_c goals or import prog_io_util.
1997-01-27 07:45:40 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
035f4b98d6 Complete the code for generating bytecodes.
Estimated hours taken: 2

Complete the code for generating bytecodes. We now handle complex construction
unifications (those that create partially instantiated data structures or
closures), noop-type builtins (e.g. unary plus), the output of floats,
and procedures with unused variables.

We can now generate bytecode for every module in the library and the compiler.

bytecode, bytecode_gen:
	Implement the above.

code_util:
	Fix a comment.

mercury_compile:
	Fix a spelling error in a progress message. Write the .bytedebug file
	before the .bytecode file. Because the .bytecode file is not text,
	it has a higher than usual chance of breaking the I/O system.
1997-01-22 08:59:21 +00:00
Simon Taylor
bb2b816787 * Inter-module unused argument removal.
Estimated hours taken: 100

* Inter-module unused argument removal.

* Allow the user to specify which directories should be searched
for .opt files.

* Enhancements to simplify.m and common.m which will be useful for
partial deduction.

compiler/options.m
	Added and documented options:
	--intermod-unused-args to enable inter-module unused argument removal.
	--intermod-directory <dir>, same as --search-directory except used
		to locate .opt files.
	--use-search-directories-for-intermod - use the search directories
		for .opt files as well.
	--warn-simple-code - a flag to control the warnings produced by
		simplify.m so that they respect --inhibit-warnings.

compiler/unused_args.m
	Use the unused argument info from the .opt file.
	Clobber the dependency_info if any new preds were added.

compiler/hlds_module.m
	Added a field to the module_info to store unused argument
	information from .opt files.

compiler/prog_data.m
	Add :- pragma unused_args to hold unused argument information.
	This should only be used in .opt files.

compiler/make_hlds.m
	Build the unused_arg_info field in the module_info.
	Check that pragma unused_args only appears in .opt files.
	Fill in the non-locals field in the goal_info for the builtin
	stubs so that mode analysis computes the correct instmap delta.

compiler/intermod.m
	Read in the unused argument information for the current module when
	compiling to C. This is used to ensure that clauses are produced with
	the correct number of removed arguments (it may be possible to remove
	more arguments with the information from other modules).
	Fix a bug in the handling of module qualified function calls and
	higher-order predicate constants.

compiler/handle_options.m
	Handle --intermod-unused-args and
	--use-search-directories-for-intermod.

compiler/mercury_compile.m
	Run the entire front end and polymorphism (not just up to
	typechecking) when building the .opt file with
	--intermod-unused-args.
	Use the new interface to simplify.m, remove calls to excess.m
	and common.m.

compiler/code_util.m
compiler/llds_out.m
	When generating local code for a specialized version of a predicate
	from another module, put this module's name on the label to avoid
	link errors.

compiler/higher_order.m
	Don't add the originating module name to the name of the specialized
	version, since that is now done in code_util.m.
	Clobber the dependency graph so that inlining will work on the
	specialized versions in profiling grades (this will cause slightly
	slower compilation in profiling grades, something I need to fix).

compiler/simplify.m
	Merge a branching goal and an adjacent switch where the branches
	of the first goal contain extra information about the switched
	on variable of the second goal.
	Merge the excess assignments and common subexpression elimination
	passes into simplify.m.

compiler/excess.m
	The functionality of this module is now in simplify.m, but I'll
	leave it here for now.

compiler/instmap.m
	Added predicates instmap__bind_var_to_functor and
	instmap_delta_bind_var_functor to which take a var, cons_id
	and an instmap and adjust the inst of the var. This is used to
	update the instmap at the beginning of each case in a switch.
	Fix a bug in merge_instmap_delta where variables whose inst had
	information added in one branch of a switch, disj, or ite had that
	changed inst included in the instmap_delta for the entire
	branched goal.

compiler/mode_util.m
	Use instmap_delta_bind_var_to_functor in recompute_instmap_delta.
	Added predicate bind_inst_to_functor which takes a ground or bound
	inst and a cons_id and adjusts the top level of the inst to be bound
	to that cons_id. Other types of inst are left unchanged.
	Change recompute_instmap_delta so that the switched on variable of
	a switch is bound to the functor in each case even if the binding
	unification has been removed. Added a boolean argument to request
	recomputation of instmap_deltas for atomic goals.

compiler/modes.m
compiler/unique_modes.m
	Make sure that the instmap_delta for each branch of a switch
	includes the extra information added by the functor test.

compiler/common.m
	Removed the goal traversal. Leave preds to be called by simplify.m
	to optimise common unifications and calls.
	Warn about and eliminate multiple calls to a predicate with the same
	input arguments.
	Replace deconstructions of known terms with assignments to the output
	variables where this would not make more variables live at stack
	flushes.

compiler/follow_code.m
	Exported move_follow_code_select.
	Don't move follow code into erroneous branches.

library/string.nu.nl
	Added string__contains_char/2.

compiler/base_type_layout.m
compiler/special_pred.m
compiler/vn_order.m
library/mercury_builtin.m
	Removed duplicate calls.

doc/user_guide.texi
	Documented options.

tests/warnings/duplicate_call.m
tests/warnings/duplicate_call.exp
	Test duplicate call warning.
1997-01-20 03:27:59 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
d709ef4d25 Some changes recommended by Fergus.
Estimated hours taken: 0.2

Some changes recommended by Fergus.

code_util:
	Call int_min/max instead of expanding them inline.

hlds_goal:
	Fix an obsolete comment.

liveness:
	Clarify a comment.
1997-01-08 02:47:41 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
54bb1c4a67 Move the code that generates code for pragma_c_codes to a new module.
Estimated hours taken: 3

code_gen, pragma_c_code:
	Move the code that generates code for pragma_c_codes to a new module.

llds:
	Change the representation of reg and temp lvals, in order to create
	the concept of a "register type" and to reduce memory requirements.

	Also add a comment indicating a possible future extension dealing with
	model_non pragma_c_codes.

code_exprn, code_info:
	Add the ability to request registers of a given type, or a specific
	register, when acquiring registers.

bytecode, bytecode_gen, call_gen, dupelim, exprn_aux, follow_vars, frameopt,
garbage_out, jumpopt, llds_out, middle_rec, opt_debug, opt_util, store_alloc,
string_switch, tag_switch, unify_gen, vn_block, vn_cost, vn_filter, vn_flush,
vn_order, vn_temploc, vn_type, vn_util, vn_verify:
	Small changes to accommodate the new register representation.

hlds_goal:
	Add a comment indicating a possible future extension dealing with
	model_non pragma_c_codes.

inlining:
	Add a comment indicating a how to deal with a possible future extension
	dealing with model_non pragma_c_codes.
1996-12-31 09:58:59 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
bc97676d98 Change the definition of is_builtin to use less space.
Estimated hours taken: 2

hlds_goal:
	Change the definition of is_builtin to use less space.

bytecode_gen, code_aux, code_gen, code_util, dependency_graph, follow_code,
higher_order, inlining, live_vars, make_hlds, modecheck_unify, modes,
polymorphism, stratify, unused_args:
	Fixes to accommodate the change to is_builtin.
1996-12-24 02:42:21 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
21825a4236 Add a predicate for counting the maximum and minimum number of
Estimated hours taken: 1.5

code_util:
	Add a predicate for counting the maximum and minimum number of
	recursive calls that may be encoutered in the execution of a goal.

switch_gen:
	Use this predicate to replace our earlier heuristic for reordering
	switches with two arms. The new heuristic is better because in
	estimating which arm will be executed more frequently it looks
	at only recursive calls, and not at irrelevancies such as the
	presence of other calls in either arm.

	This change also removes the special handling of the test for
	two-arm switches, since unify_gen__generate_tag_test is now
	smart enough to use reverse tests if these are cheaper (e.g.
	test for not nil instead of testing for cons).

unify_gen:
	Minor formatting change.
1996-12-24 00:28:33 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
21a6cafa40 Restructure into several submodules to give the module logical
Estimated hours taken: 3

code_info:
	Restructure into several submodules to give the module logical
	structure. Make very slight alterations in the interface.

call_gen, code_gen:
	Use the new interface of code_info.

code_aux:
	Add comments.

code_util:
	Fix a bug caught by Fergus' review.

disj_gen, ite_gen, liveness:
	Fix some comments.
1996-12-20 08:11:00 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
08a5f48e2c Take the code generator a big step closer to notes/ALLOCATION.
Estimated hours taken: _____

Take the code generator a big step closer to notes/ALLOCATION.
The new code generator emits code that is smaller and faster than
the code we used to emit.

Nondet liveness is no longer used; nondet live sets are always empty.
In code that was being modified anyway, remove its handling. Other
uses will be removed later (this keeps this change from being far too big;
as it is it is merely too big). Similarly for cont-lives.

In several places, clarify the code that gathers several code pieces together.

call_gen:
	Unset the failure continuation and flush the resume vars to
	their stack slots before nondet calls.

	Move the code that decides whether a nondet call can be a tailcall
	to code_info.

code_aux:
	Remove the code to handle resume points, since these are now
	handled in the specific constructs that need them. Replace it
	with a sanity check.

code_exprn:
	Add a predicate to place multiple vars.

code_gen:
	Remove the predicate code_gen__generate_forced_goal, since it
	packaged together some operations that should be executed at different
	times.

	Don't unset the failure continuation after every nondet goal;
	this is now done in the constructs that need it.

	Modify the handling of negation to use resume point info
	according to notes/ALLOCATION.

	Remove the predicate code_gen__ensure_vars_are_saved which was
	use to save all lives variables to the stack before nondet
	disjunctions and if-then-elses; we don't do that anymore.

code_info:
	Significantly simplify and document the handling of failure
	continuations, and make the types involved abstract types.

	Factor out common code in the handling of det and semi commits.

	Keep track of "zombies", variables that are dead wrt forward
	execution but whose values we need because they may be needed
	at a resume point we can reach.

	Remove several now unneeded predicates, and introduce new
	predicates to help other modules.

code_util:
	Add a couple of predicates to check whether ia goal cannot fail before
	flushing all variables to the stack, and whether a goal cannot flush
	any variables to the stack. These are used in liveness to decide
	which entry labels will be needed at resume points.

disj_gen:
	Unify the handling of det and semi disjunctions. Model the code
	handling of nondet disjunctions on the code handling pruned
	disjunctions. It is possible that the handling of nondet and pruned
	disjunctions can also be unified; the new code should make this
	significantly easier.

	Make the code conform to notes/ALLOCATION. This means saving
	only the variables mentioned in the resume_point field, not
	flushing all live variables to the stack at the start of a
	nondet disjunction, handling zombies, and using the new method
	of flushing variables at the ends of branched structures.

ite_gen:
	Unify the handling of det and semi if-then-elses. Model the code
	handling of nondet if-then-elses on the code handling det/semi
	if-then-elses. It is possible that the handling of nondet and pruned
	if-then-elses can also be unified; the new code should make this
	significantly easier.

	Make the code conform to notes/ALLOCATION. This means saving
	only the variables mentioned in the resume_point field, not
	flushing all live variables to the stack at the start of a
	nondet if-then-else, handling zombies, and using the new method
	of flushing variables at the ends of branched structures.

	Apply the new rules about liveness in if-then-elses, which say that
	the else part is parallel not to the then part but to the conjunction
	of the condition and the then part.

dense_switch, lookup_switch, string_switch, switch_gen, tag_switch, middle_rec:
	Use the new method of flushing variables at the ends of branched
	structures. Don't call remake_with_store map; switch_gen will do so.

	Fix an old bug in lookup_switch.

	The code in switch_gen which looked for the special case of a two-way
	switch used to use a heuristic to decide which one was recursive and
	which one was a base case. We now check the codes of the cases.

hlds_goal:
	Adjust the structure of the resume_point field to make it easier
	to use. Add a more convenient access predicate.

hlds_out:
	Don't print the nondet liveness and cont live fields, since they are
	not used anymore. Comment out the printing of the context field,
	which is rarely useful. Modify the printing of the resume_point field
	to conform to its new definition.

live_vars:
	Use the resume_point field, not the nondetlives field, to decide
	which variables may be needed on backward execution. Remove some
	code copied from liveness.m.

liveness:
	Put the several pieces of information we thread through the traversal
	predicates into a single tuple.

	Don't put variables which are local to one branch of a branched
	structure into the post-birth sets of other branches.

	Apply the new rules about liveness in if-then-elses, which say that
	the else part is parallel not to the then part but to the conjunction
	of the condition and the then part. Variables that are needed in the
	else part but not in the condition or the then part now die in at the
	start of the condition (they will be protected by the resume point on
	the condition).

	We now treat pruned and non-pruned disjunctions the same way
	wrt deadness; the old way was too conservative (it had to be).

	We still mishandle branches which produce some variables but
	can't succeed.

mercury_compile:
	Liveness now prints its own progress message with -V; support this.

store_alloc:
	When figuring out what variables need to be saved across calls,
	make sure that we put in interference arcs between those variables
	and those that are required by enclosing resume points.

	Don't compute cont-lives, since they are not used anymore.

livemap:
	Fix the starting comment.
1996-12-18 08:56:10 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
5d64b759db The main changes are
Estimated hours taken: 12

The main changes are

1	associating a name with the arguments of constructors

2	removing the follow_vars field from calls, higher-order calls
	and complicated unifications, since they are not used

3	merging the follow_vars and store_alloc passes, since they logically
	belong together

4	add a new module, lco, for detecting opportunities for last
	call optimization modulo constructor application; it won't
	actually apply the optimization until the mode system becomes
	expressive enough to handle it (this module detects 529 opportunities
	in the compiler and library)

5	make "-O3 --optimize-value-number" do the right thing; previously,
	it used not to apply value numbering because the vnrepeat option
	defaulted to zero

6	don't refer to .err2 files anymore; use .err instead.

prog_data:
	The list associated with each value of type "constructor" now
	contains not only the types of the arguments but their names as well.

equiv_type, hlds_data, hlds_out, make_hlds, mercury_to_{goedel,mercury},
mode_util, module_qual, shapes, type_util, unify_proc:
	Modify the traversal of type definitions to account for the names
	in the lists inside values of type "constructor".

prog_io:
	Parse argument names. An unrelated change is that we now
	check whether :- pred declarations give modes to some of their
	arguments but not to all, in which case we return an error.

hlds_goal:
	Remove the follow_vars field from calls, higher-order calls
	and complicated unifications.

*.m:
	Handle the new arities of calls, higher order calls and complicated
	unifications.

mercury_compile:
	Don't call follow_vars directly anymore, but do call lco if its option
	is set. Also flush the main output before a call to maybe_report_stats
	to prevent ugly output.

store_alloc:
	Call follow_vars directly.

follow_vars:
	Expose the initialization and traversal predicates for store_alloc.

lco:
	Find opportunities for last call optimization modulo constructor
	application.

passes_aux:
	Add a HLDS traversal type for lco.

optimize:
	Consider the vnrepeat count to be zero unless value numbering is on.

options:
	Set the default value of vnrepeat to 1.

modules:
	Don't refer to .err2 files.
1996-11-04 06:26:51 +00:00
Fergus Henderson
c9887d16ea Mangle function names differently, so that we don't get
Estimated hours taken: 2.5

Mangle function names differently, so that we don't get
symbol name clashes between a function of arity N and
a predicate of arity N+1.  (This fixes a bug which resulted
in error messages from the assembler.)

compiler/llds.m:
	Add a new pred_or_func field to the proc/4 functor in
	the proc_label type.
compiler/code_util.m:
	Initialize this new field.
compiler/llds.m:
	Use this new field when printing out labels.
compiler/{opt_debug.m,opt_util.m}:
	Ignore this new field.
1996-10-24 06:07:23 +00:00
Simon Taylor
9205a7e445 Module qualification of function calls and higher-order predicate constants.
Estimated hours taken: 6

Module qualification of function calls and higher-order predicate constants.

compiler/hlds_data.m
	Changed the cons(string, arity) constructor of cons_id to
	cons(sym_name, arity). A module qualified cons_id is assumed to
	be a function or higher-order pred constant, since we don't
	yet support module qualification of constructors (Explicit
	type qualification is much more useful anyway, but that doesn't
	work yet either).

compiler/hlds_goal.m
	Changed the functor(const, list(var)) constructor of unify_rhs
	to functor(cons_id, list(var)) to allow the storing of a module
	qualifier.

compiler/make_hlds.m
	Parse qualified function calls and higher-order pred constants.

compiler/modes.m
compiler/intermod.m
	Take module qualifiers into account when resolving function
	overloading.

compiler/*.m
	Updated unify_rhs's and cons_id's everywhere.
1996-10-02 06:08:07 +00:00
Simon Taylor
5d3fc10571 - Inter-module optimization.
Estimated hours taken: 50

- Inter-module optimization.
Allows inlining and higher-order specialization across module boundaries.
Gives ~10% speed-up on the compiler compiling to C.

- The code to handle explicit type qualification.
The test to recognise a type qualification is semidet_fail'ed
until we work out which operator to use.

- Improved data structures in module_qual.m.
Also, module qualification of the modes of lambda expressions is now
done in make_hlds.m, since it is more convenient now that type
qualifications are module qualified there also.

* Type qualification and module qualifiers on higher-order predicate
constants and function calls still need to be implemented before this
will work on all programs.

* To create a version of a program using this optimization method,
add --intermodule-optimization to MCFLAGS, mmake change_clean,
mmake depend, then make as normal.

* mmake change_clean removes the executable, the .dep file and all
.cs and .os.

compiler/intermod.m
	Handle input and output of .opt files.

compiler/modules.m
	Added some new dependencies in the .d files for
	the .c and .opt files if inter-module optimization
	is being used.
	Also added .opt and .optdate to the list of things for
	mmake realclean to remove.
	Added a target, change_clean, which removes only those files
	necessary to force a rebuild using --intermodule-optimization.
	These are <module>, <module>.dep and all the .c, .o and .s files.

compiler/options.m
	Added options:
		--make-optimization-interface - make the .opt file.
		--intermodule-optimization - puts extra dependencies
			into .d files and turns on input of .opt files.

compiler/make_hlds.m
	Changes to give items from .opt files the correct import_status.
	Also, when matching pragma_c_code clauses to the declared modes
	of the predicates, expand and match on the initial and final insts
	of the argument modes, not the modes themselves, since items in
	.opt files have the modes expanded.
	Module qualify the modes of lambda expressions in unravel_unification
	rather than during mode analysis.
	Parse explicit type qualifications, and add these to the vartypes.
	At the moment this is disabled.

compiler/typecheck.m
	Get the head type params from the tvarset, not from the arg types,
	so that tvars in type qualifications are included.
	Added checks to prevent matching of predicates, functions and
	constructors which should not be visible to a clause.

compiler/module_qual.m
	Module qualify explicit type qualifications.
	More efficient data structures.

compiler/mercury_to_mercury.m
	Export some predicates. Make sure C code strings are properly
	quoted in the .opt files.

compiler/hlds_out.m
	Output function calls correctly. Alter hlds_out__write_goal to write
	out type qualifications on all functors if writing a .opt file.

compiler/hlds_pred.m
	Added a new import_status opt_imported for clauses and declarations
	read from a .opt file. Pred and func declarations read from a .opt
	file get an `opt_decl' import_status so that the compiler doesn't
	expect clauses for them and local preds can't use them.
	Also added import_status abstract_imported and abstract_exported
	to describe types which have only an abstract definition imported
	or exported.
	Added a field to clauses_info to store the map(var, type) from
	explicit type qualifications.
	Renamed pred_info_set_status/3 to pred_info_set_import_status/3 to
	be consistent with pred_info_import_status/2.

compiler/hlds_data.m
	Added an import_status field to the hlds__mode_defn and
	hlds__inst_defn so that intermod.m knows what has already
	been exported.

compiler/equiv_type.m
	Pass out the equiv_map and export a predicate used to
	expand type qualifications.

compiler/dead_proc_elim.m
	Remove non-optimized versions of opt_imported preds. All
	optimizations must give the optimized version an import_status
	of local.

compiler/code_util.m
	Changed code_util__make_local_entry_label so that `localcall's
	are used for recursive calls in exported predicates.

compiler/code_aux.m
	Changed code_aux__contains_only_builtins_2 so that it doesn't
	check for complicated unifies, since any time this is called,
	complicated unifies have either not been created (when called
	when writing the .opt files) or have been converted to calls
	(when called during inlining).

compiler/higher_order.m
	Make sure that the specialized versions get unique names.

compiler/mercury_compile.pp
	Add calls to intermod.m predicates.

compiler/bytecode_gen.m
	Bracketed some '->'/2 insts so that they can be parsed by SICStus.

compiler/peephole.m
	Replace computed_gotos where all the targets are the same with
	an unconditional goto.

compiler/notes/COMPILER_DESIGN
	Documented intermod.m.

library/list.m
	Added list__all_same/1, which is true if all elements of a list are
	identical. Also added list__last/2, which returns the final element
	of a list, failing on the empty list.

library/io.m
	Change the format specifier for io__write_float so that the decimal
	point is always output. Without this, the result may not be a valid
	Mercury floating point constant.

library/varset.m
	Add predicate varset__create_name_var_map/2 to create a mapping
	from variable name to variable id given a varset. This is used
	in processing type qualifications.

scripts/Mmake.rules
scripts/Mmake.vars.in
	Add suffixes, rules and options for .opt and .optdate.

scripts/mercury_update_interface.in
	Work-around for a problem with parallel gmake. mc --make-interface
	was being run twice in a row on the same module. The first call
	mercury_update_interface moves module.int.tmp to module.int,
	then the second can't find module.int.tmp. The work-around is to
	ignore the exit status of the mv.

Some cleaning up:

compiler/*.m
	Fixed some out of date comments about the handling of
	complicated_unify. Also commented some dead code to do
	with generation of code for complicated_unify.

compiler/modes.m
compiler/mode_info.m
	Moved code to module qualify modes of lambda expressions into
	make_hlds.
	Moved predicates resolve_pred_overloading and find_matching_pred_id
	into typecheck, renaming with a typecheck__ prefix, so that these
	can be called from intermod.m.

compiler/undef_modes.m
compiler/undef_types.m
	Removed - their functionality is now in module_qual.m, except
	for checking for looping equivalence types.

compiler/no_builtin.m
compiler/nit_builtin.m
	Removed - they were made useless (if they weren't already) by
	the removal of the --builtin-module option.

compiler/notes/AUTHORS
	Updated student email addresses.
1996-09-11 08:56:25 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
8bd1aaa9de Rename address_const to code_addr_const, and add base_type_info_const
Estimated hours taken: 15

hlds_data:
	Rename address_const to code_addr_const, and add base_type_info_const
	as a new alternative in cons_id, and make corresponding changes
	to cons_tag.

	Make hlds_type__defn an abstract type.

llds:
	Rename address_const to code_addr_const, and add data_addr_const
	as a new alternative in rval_const.

	Change type "label" to have four alternatives, not three:
	local/2 (for internal labels),  c_local (local to a C module),
	local/1 (local a Mercury module but not necessarily to a C module,
	and exported.

llds_out:
	Keep track of the things declared previously, and don't declare them
	again unnecessarily. Associate indentation with the following item
	rather than the previous item (the influence of 244); this results
	in braces being put in different places than previously, but should be
	easier to maintain. Handle the new forms of addresses and labels.
	Refer to c_local labels as STATIC when not using --split-c-files.

code_info:
	Use a presently junk field to store a cell counter, which is used
	to allocate distinguishing numbers to create'd cells. Previously
	we used the label counter, which meant that label numbers changed
	when we optimized away some creates. Handle the new forms of
	addresses and labels.

exprn_aux:
	Handle the new forms of addresses and labels. We are now more
	precise in figuring out what label address forms will be considered
	constants by the C compilers.

others:
	Changes to handle the new forms of addresses and labels, and/or to
	access hlds_type__defn as an abstract type.
1996-08-05 12:05:14 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
a15c032df7 Flesh out the code already here for traversing module_infos,
Estimated hours taken: 4

passes_aux:
	Flesh out the code already here for traversing module_infos,
	making it suitable to handle all the passes of the back end.

mercury_compile:
	Use the traversal code in passes_aux to invoke the back end passes
	over each procvedure in turn. Print a one-line message for each
	predicate if -v is given (this fixes a long-standing bug).

excess.m, follow_code.m, follow_vars.m, live_vars.m, lveness.m, store_alloc.m:
	Remove the code to traverse module_infos, since it is now unnecessary.

export.m:
	Remove an unused argument from export__produce_header_file_2.

others:
	Move imports from interfaces to implementations, or in some cases
	remove them altogether.
1996-08-03 12:06:26 +00:00
Simon Taylor
5d9e4158f7 Module qualification of types, insts and modes.
Estimated hours taken: 45

Module qualification of types, insts and modes.

Added a new interface file - <module>.int3. This contains the
short interface qualified as much as possible given the information
in the current module.

When producing the .int and .int2 files for a module, the compiler uses
the information in the .int3 files of modules imported in the interface
to fully module qualify all items. The .int2 file is just a fully
qualified version of the .int3 file. The .int3 file cannot be overwritten
by the fully qualified version in the .int2 file because then mmake would
not be able to tell when the interface files that depend on that .int3
file really need updating.

The --warn-interface-imports option can be used to check whether
a module imported in the interface really needs to be imported in
the interface.


compiler/module_qual.m
Module qualify all types, insts and modes. Also checks for modules
imported in the interface of a module that do not need to be.

compiler/modules.m
The .int file for a module now depends on the .int3 files of imported
modules. Added code to generate the make rule for the .int file in the
.d file. There is now a file .date2 which records the last time the
.int2 file was updated.
The .int3 files are made using the --make-short-interface option
introduced a few weeks ago.

compiler/options.m
Added option --warn-interface-imports to enable warning about interface
imports which need not be in the interface. This is off by default
because a lot of modules in the library import list.m when they only
need the type list, which is defined in mercury_builtin.m.
Removed option --builtin-module, since the mercury_builtin name is wired
into the compiler in a large number of places.

compiler/prog_util.m
Added a predicates construct_qualified_term/3 and construct_qualfied_term/4
which take a sym_name, a list of argument term and a context for the /4
version and give a :/2 term.

compiler/type_util.m
Modified type_to_type_id to handle qualified types. Also added predicates
construct_type/3 and construct_type/4 which take a sym_name and a list of
types and return a type by calling prog_util:construct_qualified_term.

compiler/modes.m
On the first iteration of mode analysis, module qualify the modes of
lambda expressions.

compiler/mode_info.m
Added field to mode_info used to decide whether or not to module qualify
lambda expressions.

compiler/mode_errors.m
Added dummy mode error for when module qualification fails so that mode
analysis will stop.
Added code to strip mercury_builtin qualifiers from error messages to
improve readability.

compiler/typecheck.m
Strip builtin qualifiers from error messages.

compiler/llds.m
compiler/llds_out.m
compiler/opt_util.m
compiler/opt_debug.m
Change the format of labels produced for the predicates to use the
qualified version of the type name.

compiler/mercury_compile.pp
Call module_qual__module_qualify_items and make_short_interface.
Remove references to undef_modes.m and undef_types.m

compiler/undef_modes.m
compiler/undef_types.m
Removed, since their functionality is now in module_qual.m.

compiler/prog_io.m
Changed to qualify the subjects of type, mode and inst declarations.

compiler/*.m
Changes to stop various parts of the compiler from throwing away
module qualifiers.
Qualified various mercury_builtin builtins, e.g. in, out, term etc.
where they are wired in to the compiler.

compiler/hlds_data.m
The mode_table and user_inst_table are now abstract types each
storing the {mode | inst}_id to hlds__{mode | inst}_defn maps
and a list of mode_ids or inst_ids. This was done to improve the
efficiency of module qualifying the modes of lambda expressions
during mode analysis.
module_info_optimize/2 now sorts the lists of ids.
The hlds_module interface to the mode and inst tables has not changed.

compiler/hlds_module.m
Added yet another predicate to search the predicate table.
predicate_table_search_pf_sym_arity searches for predicates or
functions matching the given sym_name, arity and pred_or_func.

compiler/higher_order.m
Changed calls to solutions/2 to list__filter/3. Eliminated unnecessary
requantification of goals.

compiler/unused_args.m
Improved abstraction slightly.
1996-06-11 06:30:10 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
cb41c485ef Update a comment.
Estimated hours taken: 2

code_util:
	Update a comment.

dead_proc_elim:
	Fix a progress message.

hlds_out:
	Put a comment sign before each switch arm's "X has functor f"
	output, since this is not proper Prolog or Mercury syntax.

make_hlds:
	Temporarily allow the definition of builtins, to permit bootchecking
	while unary builtins are added.

prog_io:
	Improve the handling of DCG variables in if-then-elses the same way
	I recently improved disjunctions. Also factor out a bit of common
	code.
1996-05-31 01:16:43 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
cac7d6a246 Fix allocation to work properly for --args compact.
Estimated hours taken: 30+

arg_info:
	Fix allocation to work properly for --args compact.

bytecode*:
	Handle complex deconstruction unifications. Not really tested because
	I can't find a test case.

bytecode_gen, call_gen, code_util:
	Use the new method to handle builtin predicates/functions. We now
	handle reverse mode arithmetic and unary plus/minus as builtins.

code_gen, code_init, follow_vars, hlds_pred:
	Put back the initial follow_vars field of the proc_info, since this
	may allow the code generator to emit better code at the starts of
	of predicates.

inlining:
	Don't inline recursive predicates.

goals_util:
	Add a predicate to find out if a goal calls a particular predicate.
	Used in inlining to find out if a predicate is recursive.

unused_args:
	Remove code that used to set the mode of unused args to free->free.
	Since this changes the arg from top_in to top_unused *without* code
	in other modules being aware of the change, this screws up --args
	compact.

llds, llds_out, garbage_out:
	Prepare for the move to the new type_info structure by adding a new
	"module" type for defining structures holding type_infos. Not
	currently generated or output.

llds, opt_debug, opt_util, vn_type, vn_cost, vn_temploc:
	Change the argument of temp to be a reg, not an int, allowing
	floating point temporaries.

vn_type:
	Add information about the number of floating point registers and
	temporaries to the parameter structure (these are currently unused).

llds, dupelim, frameopt, livemap, middle_rec, value_number, vn_filter,
vn_verify:
	Add an extra field to blocks giving the number of float temporaries.

options:
	Add parameters to configure the number of floating point registers
	and temporaries.

mercury_compile:
	Add an extra excess assign phase at the start of the middle pass.
	This should reduce the size of the code manipulated by the other
	phases, and gives more accurate size information to inlining.
	(The excess assign phase before code generation is I think still
	needed since optimizations can introduce such assignments.)

value_number:
	Optimize code sequences before and after assignments to curfr
	separately, since such assignments change the meaning of framevars.
	This fixes the bug that caused singleton variable warnings to contain
	garbage.

vn_block, vn_flush, vn_order, vn_util:
	Add special handling of assignments to curfr. This is probably
	unnecessary after my change to value_number, and will be removed
	again shortly :-(

vn_flush:
	Improve the code generated by value numbering (1) by computing values
	into the place that needs them in some special circumstances, and
	(2) by fixing a bug that did not consider special registers to be
	as fast as r1 etc.

vn_util:
	Improve the code generated by value numbering by removing duplicates
	from the list of uses of a value before trying to find out if there
	is more than one use.

simplify:
	Avoid overzealous optimization of main --> { ..., error(...) }.

handle_options:
	Fix an error message.

code_aux:
	Break an excessive long line.
1996-05-29 10:56:45 +00:00
Fergus Henderson
eec4fa68e5 Fixup the way we handle the symbol table for predicates and functions
Estimated hours taken: 6

Fixup the way we handle the symbol table for predicates and functions
so that the compiler doesn't confuse the two, so that you can now define
a function of arity N and a predicate of arity N+1 in the same module
without giving the compiler heartburn.

hlds_module.m:
	In the predicate_table, split the three maps used to index on name,
	name/arity, and module:name/arity into two sets of three, one
	for predicates and one for functions.  Make sure that only predicates
	get inserted into the pred indices and only functions get inserted
	into the function indices.  Add lots of new access predicates
	for searching for just predicates or functions.

code_util.m, make_hlds.m, typecheck.m, modes.m, polymorphism.m:
	Change the calls to predicate_table_search_* to make sure we
	don't confuse functions with predicates.

code_util.m:
	Change some error messages that said "pred" to say "pred or func".

make_hlds.m:
	Change some warnings for bogus `pragma(export)' declarations
	into errors, and clean up the code a little.  Do a small part
	of the work necessary to get `pragma(export)' to work for
	functions.

typecheck.m:
	Print a helpful error message in the case when a goal
	contains a function call rather than a predicate call.

polymorphism.m:
	Make sure that when it looks up `unify/2' and `builtin_*'
	in the symbol table, it only for them in module mercury_builtin.

make_hlds.m, modes.m:
	Call hlds_out__pred_or_func_to_str rather than converting
	a pred_or_func to the string "pred" or "func" manually.

hlds_out.m:
	Add new predicate pred_or_func_to_str.
1996-05-20 14:29:43 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
23ea5df346 First working versions.
Estimated hours taken: 8

bytecode*.m:
	First working versions.

code_info:
	Move the translation of cons_ids to tags to code_util, since it is
	now needed in bytecode_gen, which doesn't have a code_info structure.

code_util:
	Change the way we handle builtins in order to eventually allow
	unary plus/minus operators to be builtins, and to allow the arithmetic
	operators to be run backwards. (The changes aren't yet enabled since
	they are not trivial to bootstrap check.)

call_gen:
	Use new way of handling builtins.

mercury_compile:
	Fix formatting.
1996-05-15 07:22:01 +00:00
Fergus Henderson
9a7da88ce0 Treat higher-order predicate calls as a new sort of goal,
Estimated hours taken: 24

Treat higher-order predicate calls as a new sort of goal,
rather than as calls to the special predicate call/N, in order to
remove the fixed limit on the number of arguments and on the modes
for call/N.

Also, remove the restriction on output arguments preceding input arguments
in lambda expressions.

hlds_goal.m:
	Add new functor higher_order_call/6 to the hlds__goal type.

*.m:
	Handle new functor higher_order_call/6.

arg_info.m:
	Abstract things a bit more: the argument passing convention
	for a procedure may be affected by that procedure's types,
	modes, and code_model, as well as the arg_method.

follow_vars.m:
	Pass down the args_method, since it is now needed for figuring
	out the arg_info for unifications and higher-order calls.

follow_code.m:
	Treat complicated unifications in the same way as calls.

lambda.m:
	When creating lambda predicates, permute the arguments so
	that all input arguments come before all output arguments.

call_gen.m:
	When generating higher-order predicate calls, don't abort
	if outputs precede inputs; instead, generate code assuming
	that the called predicate's args have been permuted so that
	the inputs to come before all the outputs.
1996-05-02 22:44:50 +00:00