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Satisfy a request by Peter Ross: give mdb users the ability to specify
exactly which events inside a procedure they want to put breakpoints on.
Amongst other things, this can make checking postconditions easier:
you can now put a conditional breakpoint on only the exit event.
runtime/mercury_stack_layout.h:
Add to the exec trace part of proc layouts fields describing an array
of the label layouts describing the events of the procedure. This is
the most direct way to implement the new functionality. (In theory,
we could search the data structures that map file names and line
numbers to label layouts, but that would be complex, inefficient,
and *error prone*.)
To make room for the new fields, and to prepare for making the
procedure body available to the deep profiler as well (which could
use it to map execution frequencies of calls back to their location
in the procedure body, and thus to things like the frequencies with
which various switch arms are selected), move the procedure body
of the execution-trace-specific part of the proc layout, and to
where the deep profiler could in the future also get at it.
runtime/mercury_goto.h:
Add macros for declaring more than one label layout structure at a
time.
compiler/layout.m:
Implement the changes in mercury_stack_layout.h in the compiler's
data structures as well.
compiler/stack_layout.m:
Conform to the changes in mercury_stack_layout.h.
Turn some tuples into named types.
compiler/layout_out.m:
Conform to the changes in mercury_stack_layout.h.
Add a mechanism to declare the label layouts in the new array before
referring to them, by generalizing some existing code. Make this code
require that the label layouts we refer to via the macros in
mercury_goto.h match the declarations generated by those macros,
i.e. that they have information about variables (if debugging is
enabled, they will).
compiler/opt_debug.m:
Conform to the change to layout.m.
compiler/prog_rep.m:
Make a predicate name more expressive.
trace/mercury_trace_cmd_breakpoint.c:
Implement the new way of using the "break" command, which is
to add a port name after the procedure specification.
Register procedures at the start of the function implementing
the "break" command, instead of "on demand", since all alternatives
eventually do demand it.
Write ambiguity reports wholly to mdb's stdout, instead of partially to
stderr and partially to stdout.
trace/mercury_trace_spy.c:
Print the port and the goal path for breakpoints on specific events.
Make the invocation conditions left-aligned, not right-aligned.
doc/user_guide.texi:
Document the new way of using the "break" command.
NEWS:
Announce the new capability.
tests/queens.{inp,exp,exp2}:
Add tests of the new capability.
tests/breakpoints.{exp,exp}:
tests/lval_desc_array.{exp,exp2}:
Expect the new alignment of invocation conditions.
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Add an option `--no-inline-builtins', which causes builtins to
be generated as calls to out-of-line procedures. This is done
by default when debugging, as without this option the execution
of builtins is not traced.
On earth, a compiler built in grade asm_fast.gc.tr.debug
takes 36.8s to run `mmc -C -I ../analysis/ hlds.make_hlds'.
When the compiler is built with `--no-inline-builtins',
this is increased to 38.6s.
The size of the compiler built in grade asm_fast.gc.tr.debug
increases from 45.0MB to 46.6MB.
compiler/options.m:
Add the option.
compiler/code_util.m:
Work out whether builtins should be generated inline.
compiler/handle_options.m:
Disable inlining of builtins when debugging.
compiler/simplify.m:
compiler/higher_order.m:
compiler/modes.m:
code_util__builtin_state now needs to know where the
builtin is being called from to know whether a particular
call should be treated as an inline builtin. The "recursive"
calls from the automatically generated procedures for each
builtin should always be generated inline, or else we would
generate an infinite loop.
NEWS:
doc/user_guide.texi:
compiler/notes/todo.html:
Document the change.
tests/debugger/Mmakefile:
tests/debugger/no_inline_builtins.{m,exp,inp}:
Test case.
tests/debugger/*.{inp,exp,exp2}:
tests/debugger/declarative/*.{inp,exp,exp2}:
Update due to changed event numbers.
tests/debugger/lval_desc_array.inp:
Use a less brittle method for stepping to the point in
the program where the test needs to display variables.
tests/debugger/declarative/library_forwarding.m:
tests/debugger/declarative/*.m:
Add forwarding predicates for some library predicates
and functions so that the declarative debugger doesn't
ask different questions depending on whether or not
the library was compiled with debugging enabled.
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: 6
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Fix a bug that caused a core dump if the debugger attempted to look at stack
frames with more than 64 live variables on the stack.
runtime/mercury_stack_layout.h:
Fix a bug. The array of lval descriptors in a label layout structures
has two components: the long descriptors and the short descriptors.
The bug was that we were using an index with respect to the start
of the first subarray to index into the second subarray. The fix is
to subtract the length of the first subarray from the index first.
(This problem rarely bit before because the first subarray's length
is almost always zero.)
runtime/mercury_layout_util.c:
Improve existing debugging code, but make its compilation conditional.
The difference this makes in runtime is not significant for the
debugger, but would be significant for native gc.
runtime/mercury_conf_param.h:
Document the macro the debugging code is conditional on.
trace/mercury_trace_vars.c:
Set unused fields of Var_Spec structures to explicitly invalid values,
to avoid possible misinterpretation when using gdb.
tests/debugger/lval_desc_array.{m,inp,exp,exp2}:
A regression test to check for the presence of the bug.
tests/debugger/Mmakefile:
Enable the new test case.
