Merge branch 'lukas/stdlib/native_escript/OTP-9076' into dev

* lukas/stdlib/native_escript/OTP-9076:
  Update escrips to allow the -n or -compile(native) flag, which compiles the code within the escript with the +native flag. You need an HiPE enabled emulator for this to work.

2 files changed, 22 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/erts/doc/src/escript.xml b/erts/doc/src/escript.xml
index 44c9a5ac68..588508aae6 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/escript.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/escript.xml
@@ -153,7 +153,10 @@ halt(1).</pre>
         <p>Execution of interpreted code is slower than compiled code.
           If much of the execution takes place in interpreted code it
           may be worthwhile to compile it, even though the compilation
-          itself will take a little while.</p>
+          itself will take a little while. It is also possible to supply
+	  <c>native</c> instead of compile, this will compile the script 
+	  using the native flag, again depending on the characteristics 
+	  of the escript this could or could not be worth while.</p>
 
         <p>As mentioned earlier, it is possible to have a script which
           contains precompiled <c>beam</c> code. In a precompiled
@@ -397,6 +400,9 @@ ok
        Warnings and errors (if any) are written to the standard output, but
        the script will not be run. The exit status will be 0 if there were
        no errors, and 127 otherwise.</item>
+
+       <tag>-n</tag>
+      <item>Compile the escript using the +native flag.</item>
     </taglist>
   </section>
 </comref>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/src/escript.erl b/lib/stdlib/src/escript.erl
index 7cb02afb11..0d2d23180a 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/src/escript.erl
+++ b/lib/stdlib/src/escript.erl
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 
 %%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
--type mode()   :: 'compile' | 'debug' | 'interpret' | 'run'.
+-type mode()   :: 'native' | 'compile' | 'debug' | 'interpret' | 'run'.
 -type source() :: 'archive' | 'beam' | 'text'.
 
 -record(state, {file         :: file:filename(),
@@ -304,7 +304,11 @@ parse_and_run(File, Args, Options) ->
 		    false ->
 			case lists:member("i", Options) of
 			    true  -> interpret;
-			    false -> Mode
+			    false -> 
+				case lists:member("n", Options) of
+				    true -> native;
+				    false -> Mode
+				end
 			end
 		end
         end,
@@ -321,6 +325,14 @@ parse_and_run(File, Args, Options) ->
                         _Other ->
                             fatal("There were compilation errors.")
                     end;
+		native ->
+                    case compile:forms(FormsOrBin, [report,native]) of
+                        {ok, Module, BeamBin} ->
+                            {module, Module} = code:load_binary(Module, File, BeamBin),
+                            run(Module, Args);
+                        _Other ->
+                            fatal("There were compilation errors.")
+                    end;
                 debug ->
                     case compile:forms(FormsOrBin, [report, debug_info]) of
                         {ok,Module,BeamBin} ->
@@ -664,7 +676,7 @@ epp_parse_file2(Epp, S, Forms, Parsed) ->
                 {attribute,Ln,mode,NewMode} ->
                     S2 = S#state{mode = NewMode},
                     if
-                        NewMode =:= compile; NewMode =:= interpret; NewMode =:= debug ->
+                        NewMode =:= compile; NewMode =:= interpret; NewMode =:= debug; NewMode =:= native ->
                             epp_parse_file(Epp, S2, [Form | Forms]);
                         true ->
                             Args = lists:flatten(io_lib:format("illegal mode attribute: ~p", [NewMode])),