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Zoltan Somogyi
45fd0daf5a Implement some of Mark's wish list for making user events more useful.
Estimated hours taken: 20
Branches: main

Implement some of Mark's wish list for making user events more useful.

1. When executing "print *" in mdb, we used to print both the values of all
   attributes and the values of all live variables. Since some attributes'
   values were given directly by live variables, this lead to some things being
   printed twice. This diff eliminates this duplication.

2. At user events, we now print the name of the event. Whether we print the
   other stuff we also print at events (the predicate containing the event,
   and its source location) is now controlled by a new mdb command,
   "user_event_context".

3. We would like different solvers to be compilable independently of one
   another. This means that neither solver's event set should depend on the
   existence of the events needed by the other solvers. This diff therefore
   eliminates the requirement that all modules of the program be compiled with
   the same event set specification. Instead, a program may contain modules
   that were compiled with different event sets. Each event set is named;
   the new requirement is that different named event sets may coexist in the
   program (each being used to compile some modules), but two event sets with
   the same name must be identical in all other respects as well (we need this
   requirement to prevent inconsistencies arising between different versions of
   the same event set).

4. We now generate user events even from modules compiled with --trace shallow.
   The problem here is that user events can occur in procedures that do not
   get caller events and whose ancestors may not get caller events either.
   Yet these procedures must still pass on debugger information such as call
   sequence numbers and the call depth to the predicate with the user event.
   This diff therefore decouples the generation of code for this basic debugger
   infrastructure information from the generation of call events by inventing
   two new trace levels, settable by the compiler only (i.e. not from the
   command line). The trace level "basic_user" is for procedures containing a
   user event whose trace level (in a shallow traced module) would otherwise be
   "none". The trace level "basic" is for procedures not containing a user
   event but which nevertheless may need to transmit information (e.g. depth)
   to a user event. For the foreseeable future, this means that shallow traced
   modules containing user events will have some debugging overhead compiled
   into *all* their procedures.

runtime/mercury_stack_layout.h:
	Add a new field to MR_UserEvent structures, giving the HLDS number of
	the variable representing each attribute.

	Add a new field to module layout structures, giving the name of the
	event set (if any) the module was compiled with.

	Add the new trace levels to the MR_TraceLevel type.

	Update the current layout structure version number.

runtime/mercury_stack_trace.[ch]:
	Allow the printing of the containing predicate's name and/or the
	filename/linenumber context to be turned off when printing contexts.
	Factor out some of the code involved in this printing.

	Give a bunch of variables better names.

	Rename a type to get rid of unnecessary underscores.

compiler/prog_data.m:
compiler/prog_event.m:
	Include the event set name in the information we have about the event
	set.

compiler/simplify.m:
	Mark each procedure and each module that contains user events
	as containing user events.

	Use the same technique to mark each procedure that contains parallel
	conjunctions as containing parallel conjunctions, instead of marking
	the predicate containing the procedure. (Switch detection may eliminate
	arbitrary goals, including parallel conjunctions, from switch arms
	that are unreachable due to initial insts, and in any case we want to
	handle the procedures of a predicate independently from each other
	after mode analysis.)

	Also, change the code handling generic calls to switch on the generic
	call kind, and factor out some common code.

compiler/hlds_module.m:
compiler/hlds_pred.m:
	Provide slots in the proc_info and the module_info for the information
	gathered by simplify.

compiler/trace_params.m:
	Implement the new trace levels described above. This required changing
	the signature of some of the predicates of this module.

compiler/code_info.m:
	Record whether the compiler generated any trace events. We need to know
	this, because if it did, then we must generate a proc layout structure
	for it.

compiler/proc_gen.m:
	Act on the information recorded by code_info.m.

	Factor out the code for generating the call event and its layout
	structure, since the conditions for generating this event have changed.

compiler/continuation_info.m:
compiler/call_gen.m:
	For each user event, record the id of the variables corresponding to
	each argument of a user event.

compiler/layout.m:
compiler/layout_out.m:
compiler/stack_layout.m:
	Generate the new field (giving the HLDS variable number of each
	attribute) in user event structures, and the new field (event set name)
	in module layout structures.

	Allow the call event's layout structure to be missing. This is needed
	for user events in shallow traced modules.

compiler/options.m:
compiler/handle_options.m:
compiler/mercury_compiler.m:
	Rename the option for specifying event sets from --event-spec-file-name
	to --event-set-file-name, since it specifies only one event set, not
	all events.

compiler/jumpopt.m:
	Give some predicates better names.

compiler/dep_par_conj.m:
compiler/deforest.m:
compiler/granularity.m:
compiler/hlds_out.m:
compiler/inlining.m:
compiler/intermod.m:
compiler/lambda.m:
compiler/liveness.m:
compiler/modes.m:
compiler/opt_debug.m:
compiler/optimize.m:
compiler/size_proc.m:
compiler/stack_alloc.m:
compiler/store_alloc.m:
compiler/table_gen.m:
compiler/trace_gen.m:
compiler/typecheck.m:
	Conform to the changes above.

doc/mdb_categories:
	Mention the new mdb command.

doc/user_guide.texi:
	Update the documentation of user events to account for the changes
	above.

trace/mercury_event_parser.y:
trace/mercury_event_scanner.l:
	Modify the grammar for event set specifications to a name for the
	event set.

trace/mercury_event_spec.[ch]:
	Instead of recording information about event sets internally
	in this module, return a representation of each event set read in
	to the callers, for them to do with as they please.

	Include the event set name when we print the Mercury term for
	compiler/prog_event.m.

trace/mercury_trace.c:
	Do not assume that every procedure that contains an event contains a
	call event (and hence a call event layout structure), since that
	is not true anymore.

trace/mercury_trace_cmd_parameter.[ch]:
	Implement the new mdb command "user_event_context".

trace/mercury_trace_cmd_internal.[ch]:
	Include "user_event_context" in the list of mdb commands.

	Print the user event name at user events. Let the current setting
	of the user_event_context mdb command determine what else to print
	at such events.

	Instead of reading in one event set on initialization, read in
	all event sets that occur in the program.

trace/mercury_trace_tables.[ch]:
	Allow the gathering of information for more than one event set
	from the modules of the program.

trace/mercury_trace_vars.[ch]:
	For each attribute value of a user event, record what the HLDS variable
	number of the attribute is. When printing all variables at an event,
	mark the variable numbers of printed attributes as being printed
	already, causing the variable with the same number not to be printed.

	Include the name of the variable (if it has one) in the description
	of an attribute. Without this, users may wonder why the value of the
	variable wasn't printed.

trace/mercury_trace_cmd_browsing.[ch]:
	Pass the current setting of the user_event_context mdb command to
	runtime/mercury_stack_trace.c when printing the context of an event.

tests/debugger/user_event_shallow.{m,inp,exp}:
	New test case to test the new functionality. This test case is the same
	as the user_event test case, but it is compiled with shallow tracing,
	and its mdb input exercises the user_event_context mdb command.

tests/debugger/user_event_spec:
tests/invalid/invalid_event_spec:
	Update these event set spec files by adding an event set name.

tests/debugger/Mmakefile:
tests/debugger/Mercury.options:
	Enable the new test case.

tests/debugger/user_event.exp:
	Update the expected output of the old user event test case, which now
	prints event names, but doesn't print attribute values twice.

tests/debugger/completion.exp:
	Expect the new "user_event_context" mdb command in the command list.

tests/debugger/mdb_command_test.inp:
	Test the existence of the documentation for the new mdb command.

tests/invalid/Mercury.options:
	Conform to the name change of the --event-spec-file-name option.
2006-12-05 03:51:22 +00:00
Zoltan Somogyi
9ec86d6a6d The objective of this diff is to switch from a table of solver events built
Estimated hours taken: 32
Branches: main

The objective of this diff is to switch from a table of solver events built
into the compiler (and eventually the debugger) into a table of events
defined by a file provided by the user to the compiler, which the compiler
then records in the executable for use by the debugger.

The current design, for speed of implementation, uses temporary files parsed
by a bison-generated parser. Since the compiler needs to be able to invoke
the parser even if it is compiled in a non-debug grade, the parser is in
a new library, the eventspec library, that is always linked into the Mercury
compiler and is always linked into any Mercury program with debugging enabled
(but is of course linked only once into a Mercury compiler which has debugging
enabled).

Modify the debugger to give it the ability to print the attributes of
user-defined events (for now, only the non-synthesized attributes).
Implement a new debugger command, "user", which goes to the next user-defined
event.

configure.in:
	Require flex and and bison to be available.

doc/user_guide.texi:
	Document user defined events and the new debugger capabilities.

doc/mdb_categories:
	Include "user" in the list of forward movement commands.

	Fix some earlier omissions in that list.

runtime/mercury_stack_layout.h:
	Include an event number in the user-defined event structure.

	Include a string representing an event set specification in module
	layout structures.

runtime/mercury_stack_layout.h:
runtime/mercury_trace_base.[ch]:
runtime/mercury_types.h
	Switch from solver events to user events in names.

runtime/mercury_trace_term.[ch]:
	Provide a representation of flat terms, for use in representing
	the calls that generate synthesized attributes.

	Ensure that exported field names have an MR_ prefix.

browser/cterm.m:
	Conform to the change to runtime/mercury_trace_term.h.

scripts/c2init.in:
scripts/ml.in:
	Include the eventspec library in programs compiled with debugging
	enabled.

compiler/Mmakefile:
	Include the eventspec library in the compiler.

compiler/options.m:
	Add a new option, --event-spec-file-name, that allows the user to
	specify the set of user-defined events the program may use.

compiler/handle_options.m:
	Set this optimization from an environment variable (which may be
	set by the mmc script) if the new option is not explicitly given.

compiler/prog_data.m:
	Define the data structures for the compiler's representation of the
	event set specification.

	Move some definitions around to group them more logically.

compiler/hlds_module.m:
	Include the event set specification as a new field in the module_info.

compiler/prog_event.m:
	Add the code for invoking the parser in the eventspec library,
	and for converting the simple term output by the parser to the
	compiler own representation, which contains more information
	(to wit, the types of the function attributes) and which has had
	a whole bunch of semantic checks done on it (e.g. whether synthesized
	attributes depend on themselves or on nonexistent attributes).

	Provide a function to generate a canonicalized version of the event
	specification file.

compiler/module_qual.m:
compiler/equiv_type.m:
	Process event spec specifications as well as items, to module qualify
	the names of the types of event arguments, and expanding out
	equivalence types.

	In equiv_type.m, rename some variables to make clear what kind of info
	they represent.

compiler/mercury_compile.m:
	Process the event set specification file if one has been selected:
	read it in, module qualify it, expand its equivalence types, and add
	to the module_info.

compiler/compile_target_code.m:
	Include the event_spec library when linking debuggable executables.

compiler/call_gen.m:
compiler/continuation_info.m:
compiler/trace_gen.m:
compiler/trace_params.m:
mdbcomp/prim_data.m:
mdbcomp/trace_counts.m:
runtime/mercury_goto.h:
	Generate user-defined events instead of solver events.

compiler/layout.m:
compiler/layout_out.m:
compiler/stack_layout.m:
	Include a canonicalized version of the event specification file
	in the module layout if the module has any user-defined events.

compiler/code_info.m:
compiler/llds_out.m:
compiler/modes.m:
compiler/modules.m:
compiler/opt_debug.m:
compiler/typecheck.m:
	Conform to the changes above.

compiler/passes_aux.m:
	Rename a predicate to avoid an ambiguity.

trace/Mmakefile:
	Add the definition and rules required to build the eventspec library.

trace/mercury_event_scanner.l:
trace/mercury_event_parser.y:
	A scanner and a parser for reading in event spec specifications.

trace/mercury_event_spec_missing.h:
	Provide the declarations that should be (but aren't) provided by
	flex and bison.

trace/mercury_event_spec.[ch]:
	The main module of the eventspec library. Provides functions to read
	in event set specifications from a file, and to write them out as a
	Mercury term in the form needed by the compiler.

trace/mercury_trace_tables.c:
	If the module layouts being registered include event set
	specifications, then check their consistency. Make the specification
	and the consistency indication available to other modules.

trace/mercury_trace_internal.c:
	During initialization, if the modules contain a consistent set of event
	set specifications, then read that specification into the debugger.
	(We don't yet make use of this information.)

	Add an extra mdb command, "user", which goes forward to the next
	user-defined event.

trace/mercury_trace.[ch]:
trace/mercury_trace_cmd_forward.[ch]:
	Implement the new mdb command.

trace/mercury_trace_vars.[ch]:
	For user-defined events, include the attributes' values among the
	values that can be printed or browsed.

trace/mercury_trace_cmd_browsing.c:
trace/mercury_trace_declarative.c:
	Minor changes.

scripts/scripts/prepare_tmp_dir_grade_part:
	Copy the .y and .l files to the tmp dir we use for installs.

tools/bootcheck:
	Copy the .y and .l files of the trace directory to stage 2.

tools/lmc.in:
	Include the eventspec library when linking debuggable executables.

tests/debugger/user_event.{m,inp,exp}:
tests/debugger/user_event_spec:
	New test case to test the new functionality.

tests/debugger/Mercury.options:
tests/debugger/Mmakefile:
	Enable the new test case.

tests/debugger/completion.exp:
	Expect the new "user" mdb command in the completion output.
2006-11-24 03:48:30 +00:00