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Fix a bunch of test cases that are failing in the debug or minimal model
grades either because of my recent change to the standard library or Zoltan's
recent change to the code generator.
tests/debugger/breakpoints.exp2:
tests/debugger/loopcheck2.exp2:
tests/debugger/queens.exp2:
Update the expected outputs for these test cases. (These are the
versions for the debug grades - the non-debug grade versions have
already been updated.)
tests/general/string_format/string_format_lib.m:
tests/hard_coded/one_member.m:
tests/tabling/consumer_in_solutions.m:
tests/tabling/rotate2.m:
tests/tabling/sg.m:
Conform to the recent break up of std_util.
Estimated hours taken: 32
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Fix a bunch of problems with tabling that I identified in Uppsala. These fall
into two categories.
First, the tabling transformations we were using were dividing work up
too finely. This had three bad effects. First, it caused too much time to be
spent on transmitting data to and from library predicates. Second, it made the
transformations hard to document and hard to explain in a paper. Third, it
caused us to misidentify just what the various forms of tabling have in common,
and what forms of tabling work for what determinisms. To fix this problem,
this diff reorients table_builtin.m and table_gen.m from being divided
primarily by determinism to being divided by evaluation method.
Second, we weren't being careful in separating out the parts of the tabling
data structures that are needed only for debugging the tabling system itself.
The fix for this is to introduce a new grade flag, MR_MINIMAL_MODEL_DEBUG,
intended for use by implementors only, to govern whether the tabling data
structures include debug-only components. (If this flag weren't a grade flag,
the sizes of data structures created in files with different values of this
flag could be inconsistent, which is something you don't want when debugging
the complex code of the tabling infrastructure.)
compiler/table_gen.m:
Reorganize the simple (loopcheck and memo) tabling transformations
completely. Instead of separate transformations for model_det and
model_semi predicates, have separate transformations for loopcheck
and memo predicates, since this makes it easier to see (and to ensure)
that the transformation follows the required scheme. Instead of
generating nested if-then-elses, generate switches when possible.
For model_semi loopcheck and memo predicates, generate Mercury code
that obeys our scope rules by not binding output variables in the
condition of the one remaining if-then-else.
Finetune the minimal model tabling transformation by combining some
operations where this improves clarity and performance.
Order the transformation predicates logically, and move the
documentation of each form of tabling next to the code implementing
that form of tabling.
Attach call_table_gen markers to the setup goals that now all
loopcheck, memo and minimal model tabled predicates have,
to avoid having to special case the last lookup goal, and to avoid
having to have separate code for lookups in call tables versus answer
tables.
Generate unique and more meaningful variable names. Change some
predicate names to be more meaningful, both here and in the
transformed code.
Factor out some common code, e.g. for generating lookup goals,
for generating instmap_deltas and for attaching hide_debug_event
markers to goals.
Report errors in cases where the arguments of a tabled predicate
aren't completely input or output.
compiler/hlds_pred.m:
Be more strict about the determinisms of tabled predicates; permit
only the determinisms we really support in all cases, and do not
permit the ones that may happen to work in some cases.
Conform to the change of the name of a builtin.
compiler/det_report.m:
Improve the error message for cases when the determinism is
incompatible with the selected tabling mechanism.
compiler/compile_target_code.m:
compiler/handle_options.m:
compiler/options.m:
Handle the new grade component.
library/private_builtin.m:
Provide a semipure analog of the imp predicate, a call to which makes
predicates semipure rather than impure, for use in table_builtin.m.
library/table_builtin.m:
runtime/mercury_tabling_preds.h:
Change the tabling primitives in the ways required by the changes to
the tabling transformations.
Group the primitives by the tabling methods they support, and change
their names to reflect this.
Change the implementation of each of the affected predicates to be
nothing more than the invocation of a macro defined in the new header
file runtime/mercury_tabling_preds.h. The objective of this change
is to make it possible for table_gen.m to replace sequences of calls
to predicates in table_builtin.m with a single extended foreign_proc
goal whose body just invokes the corresponding macros in sequence.
That change should improve performance by allowing the variables
that flow from one tabling primitive to another to stay in x86
registers, instead of being copied to and from Mercury abstract
machines registers, which on the x86 aren't real machine registers.
Benchmarking in Uppsala verified that this is a major cost.
Mark the foreign types used for tabling as can_pass_as_mercury_type;
this was the intended use of that assertion. Make them private to the
module, since the rest of the compiler can now handle this.
Delete the implementations of the predicates for duplicate checking
and for returning answers for completed subgoals. Profiling with gprof
has shown their performance to be critical to the performance of
minimal model tabling overall, and even with our recent changes,
the compiler still can't create optimal C code for them. They are
now implemented with handwritten code in mercury_minimal_model.c.
library/term.m:
Add two utility predicates for use by table_gen.m.
library/Mmakefile:
Since much of the implementation of table_builtin.m is now in
runtime/mercury_tabling_preds.h, make its object files depend
on that header file.
runtime/mercury_conf_params.h:
runtime/mercury_grade.h:
Include MR_MINIMAL_MODEL_DEBUG when computing the grade.
runtime/mercury_minimal_model.[ch]:
Add handwritten code to implement the predicates declared as external
in table_builtin.m.
Conform to the new names of the suspension and completion predicates.
Conform to the presence of debugging fields in tabling data structures
only if MR_MINIMAL_MODEL_DEBUG is defined.
Collect a lot more statistics than before.
Reorder some functions.
Instead of saving the whole generator stack each time, which the new
statistics showed to have O(n^2) behavior on some benchmarks, save only
the segment we need to save.
runtime/mercury_tabling.h:
Conform to the fact that loopcheck and memo predicates now have
separate sets of status values, and import mercury_tabling_preds.h.
runtime/mercury_tabling.c:
runtime/mercury_hash_lookup_or_add_body.h:
Move a huge macro out of mercury_tabling.c to the new file
mercury_hash_lookup_or_add_body.h for ease of editing, and modify it to
gather more statistics.
Make the statistics report easier to read.
runtime/Mmakefile:
Mention mercury_tabling_preds.h and mercury_hash_lookup_or_add_body.h.
runtime/mercury_wrapper.h:
Provide a mechanism (--tabling-statistics in MERCURY_OPTIONS)
that causes the runtime to print tabling statistics at the ends of
executions, for use in benchmarking.
doc/user_guide.texi:
Document --tabling-statistics. (Minimal model tabling is not yet
stable enough to be documented, which is why .dmm isn't documented
either.)
scripts/canonical_grade.sh-subr:
scripts/init_grade_options.sh-subr:
scripts/parse_grade_options.sh-subr:
scripts/mgnuc.in:
Implement the new grade component.
trace/mercury_trace.c:
trace/mercury_trace_internal.c:
Conform to changes in the runtime.
tests/debugger/*.m:
Avoid now invalid combinations of determinism and evaluation method.
tests/debugger/*.exp:
Conform to new goal paths in procedures transformed by tabling.
tests/tabling/*.m:
For tests which had predicate whose determinisms isn't compatible
with the evaluation method, change the determinism if possible,
and the evaluation method otherwise, if either is possible.
Bring these tests up to date with our coding guidelines, since they
may now appear in papers.
tests/tabling/Mmakefile:
Disable the tests whose combination of determinism and evaluation
method is no longer supported, and in which neither one can be changed.
tests/tabling/loopcheck_no_loop.{m,exp}:
Make this test case tougher.
tests/tabling/test_tabling:
Make this script more robust in the face of different kinds of
test case failures.
tests/invalid/loopcheck.{m,err_exp}:
tests/invalid/Mmakefile:
Test that we get the expected error message for an invalid combination
of determinism and evaluation method. The new test invalid/loopcheck.m
is the old test tabling/loopcheck.m.
tests/valid/Mmakefile:
Use a more general pattern to test for minimal model grades,
now that we also use .dmm as a grade component.
Estimated hours taken: 14
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Change the compiler and tools so that `.' and not `:' is now used as the
module separator in all output.
Infix `.' now has associativity yfx and priority 10.
NEWS:
Report the change.
configure.in:
Amend the test for an up-to-date Mercury compiler to check whether
it recognises `.' as a module qualifier.
compiler/code_gen.m:
compiler/error_util.m:
compiler/hlds_out.m:
compiler/prog_out.m:
compiler/prog_util.m:
compiler/rl_exprn.m:
compiler/rl_gen.m:
compiler/source_file_map.m:
compiler/unused_args.m:
library/io.m:
library/rtti_implementation.m:
library/type_desc.m:
runtime/mercury_debug.c:
runtime/mercury_deconstruct.c:
runtime/mercury_stack_trace.c:
Change `:' to `.' as module separator for output.
compiler/mercury_to_mercury.m:
compiler/prog_io_typeclass.m:
As above.
Fixed a bug where `.' was not being recognised as a module separator.
doc/reference_manual.texi:
Report the change.
library/term_io.m:
Ensure that infix `.' is written without surrounding spaces.
tests/hard_coded/dot_separator.m:
tests/hard_coded/dot_separator.exp:
tests/hard_coded/Mmakefile:
Test case added.
Estimated hours taken: 2
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Fix (most of) the expected outputs of the debugger test cases after my recent
changes. In some cases, this involved modifying the input scripts to make tests
less dependent on event numbers.
tests/debugger/Mmakefile:
Use MDB_STD instead of MDB for more test cases than before.
Disable the output_term_dep test case, since it doesn't actually test
anything that the other test cases don't test, and it prints so many
events that its .exp files depend on event numbers far too much.
tests/debugger/*.exp*:
tests/debugger/*.inp:
Update expected outputs, and in some cases, the inputs.
Estimated hours taken: 0.1
I forgot to update the `.exp2' files in tests/debugger when I updated
the `.exp' files for my changes to tabling.
tests/debugger/loopcheck.exp2:
tests/debugger/retry.exp2:
Adjust the expected output. The change to ensure that
`call_table_gen' goal features can't be removed alters
the goal paths slightly.
Estimated hours taken: 0.5
tests/debugger/Mmakefile:
tests/debugger/declarative/Mmakefile:
Strip away goal paths from exception events in the test cases that
generate them, because different optimization levels cause different
goals paths to be associated with exceptions.
tests/debugger/*.exp{,2}:
tests/debugger/declarative/*.exp{,2}:
Strip away goal paths from exception events in the expected outputs
of those test cases.
Estimated hours taken: 0.2
tests/debugger/*.exp2:
tests/debugger/declarative/*.exp2:
Update the expected output for these test cases in debug grades,
after Zoltan's recent change to `retry'.
Estimated hours taken: 0.1
tests/debugger/loopcheck.exp2:
Update the expected output to reflect Zoltan's recent
addition of an "echo on" command to loopcheck.inp.
Estimated hours taken: 4
Add meaningful contexts to the goals inserted into predicates by tabling,
for use by the debugger.
compiler/table_gen.m:
Pass the context of the procedure body through the code, and create
new goals with this context.
To make this simpler, switch to consistently using combined predmode
definitions. In a couple of places, switch to a more reasonable
argument ordering.
tests/debugger/loopcheck.*
Copy this test case here from the tabling directory, and execute it
under mdb, as a regression test.
The exp2 test case is not final yet.
tests/debugger/Mmakefile:
Enable the regression test.
