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The BEAM disassembler used the atom 'none' to signify the absence
of a compile_info chunk in a .beam file. This clashes with the type
declaration of the compile_info field of a #beam_file{} record as
containing a list. Use [] to signify the absence of this chunk.
This simplifies the code and avoids a dialyzer warning.
For fixing a similar problem and for consistency, changed also the
return type of the attributes field of the #beam_file{} record.
This required a change in the beam_disasm test suite.
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In the following code excerpt, the instruction marked below was
incorrectly removed:
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{'try',{y,2},{f,TryCaseLabel}}.
{bif,get,{f,0},[{x,0}],{x,0}}.
{move,{x,1},{y,0}}.
{move,{x,3},{y,1}}. <======= Incorrectly removed
{jump,{f,TryEndLabel}}.
{label,TryEndLabel}.
{try_end,{y,2}}.
{deallocate,3}.
return.
{label,TryCaseLabel}.
{try_case,{y,2}}.
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beam_utils indicated that {y,1} was not used at TryEndLabel,
which by itself is correct. But it is still not safe to remove
the instruction, because {y,1} might be used at TryCaseLabel
if an exception occurs.
Noticed-by: Eric Merritt
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Also correct the comment in bsm_ensure_no_partition_2/5, and while at
it correct typos in the comment for bsm_nonempty/2.
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In order to save space, rewrite suitable calls to erlang:error/{1,2}
to special BEAM instructions.
This code is probably longer than the code taken out of v3_life and
v3_codegen in the previous commit, but it is much easier to
understand and maintain since the BEAM assembler format is better
understood than the v3_life format.
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In the v3_life pass, it is assumed that a 'match_fail' primop
only occur at the top-level and at the end of a function.
But this code:
do_split_cases(A) ->
case A of
x ->
Z = dummy1;
_ ->
Z = dummy2,
a=b
end,
Z.
will be optimized by sys_core_fold to the following code:
'split_cases'/1 =
fun (_cor0) ->
let <_cor7,Z> =
case _cor0 of
<'x'> when 'true' ->
< 'dummy1','dummy1' >
<_cor6> when 'true' ->
%% Here follows a 'match_fail' primop inside
%% multiple return values:
< primop 'match_fail'({'badmatch','b'}),'dummy2' >
end
in
Z
moving the 'match_fail' primop into a "values" construction.
In the future, we would like to get rid of the v3_life pass (it is
there for historical reasons), so in the mean-time we prefer to not
add more code to it by generalizing the handling of 'match_fail'.
Since the 'match_fail' primop can be simulated by erlang:error/{1,2},
the simplest solution is to translate 'match_fail' to a call to
erlang:error/{1,2} in v3_kernel and remove the handling of
'match_fail' in v3_life and v3_codegen.
It is tempting to get rid of 'match_fail' also in the Core Erlang
format, but there are two issues:
- Removing the support for 'match_fail' completely may break tools
that generate Core Erlang code. We should not do that in a minor
release.
- There is no easy way to generate a 'function_clause' exception
that will remain correct if it will be inlined into another
function. (Calling "erlang:error(function_clause, Args)" is
fine only if it is not inlined into another function.) A good
solution probably involves introducing new instructions, which
is better done in a major release.
Noticed-by: Håkan Matsson
Minimized-test-case-by: Erik Søe Sørensen
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A bs_start_match2/5 instruction will never fail (take the branch) if
given a match state or a binary. Therefore, the type at the failure
label should be 'term', not match state or binary. Without this
correction, the beam_validator will reject safe programs.
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To facilitate debugging of compiler bugs, teach the compiler the
'no_dead' option. Since the beam_dead pass used to do the necessary
splitting of basic blocks to expose all labels, we must move that
splitting into a separate pass that is always run.
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Mark math:pi/0 as pure, informing the compiler that the value
can be calculated at compile time.
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* bjorn/compiler/options/OTP-9752:
filename documentation: Recommend against using filename:find_src/1,2
Teach filename:find_src/1,2 to handle slim or stripped BEAM files
filename: Eliminate failing call to Mod:module_info(source_file)
filename.erl:filter_options/1: Remove handling of dead options
compiler: Don't include {cwd,_} in module_info(compile)
compiler: Don't include source code options in module_info(compile)
hipe: Teach hipe to handle slim or stripped BEAM files
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* bjorn/major-release-cleanups:
observer tests: Test compatibility with R13, not R12
emulator tests: Test compatibility with R13, not R12
Teach the compiler the 'r14' option
erl_lint: The types introduced in R12B-5 are no longer "newly introduced"
otp_internal: Stop warning for functions removed in R12 or earlier
Conflicts:
lib/stdlib/src/otp_internal.erl
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The {cwd,Dir} option is always included if the module has been
compiled by erlc. Since its presence cannot be relied upon and it
wastes memory, get rid of it.
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As far as I know, the purpose of the compiler options included in
Mod:module_info(compile) has never been documented.
An educated guess is that they are there in case you want to
re-compile the module with the same options, and also to aid in
debugging when you need to know how a module was compiled.
In neither case is there any need to include options given in the
source itself in options included in Mod:module_info(compile).
Including those options will only waste memory.
Therefore, only include in the BEAM file the options that were
given to compile:file/2.
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Starting in ff432e262e65243cbc983fcb002527f8fae8c78b, sys_pre_expand
passes external funs through to the downstream passes. It used to
translate external funs to a call to erlang:make_fun/3. Therefore, we
will now need to handle external funs in sys_expand_pmod.
Noticed-by: Stavros Aronis
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* bjorn/line-numbers/OTP-9468:
beam_type: Improve FP optimizations in the presence of line numbers
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* bjorn/fun-improvements/OTP-9667:
sys_pre_expand: Remove incorrect comment
compiler: Eliminate use of deprecated erlang:hash/2
beam_asm: Fix broken NewIndex in fun entries
beam_asm: Strenghten the calculation of Uniq for funs
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sys_pre_expand does not keep track of used or new variables (and have
not done since about the time Core Erlang was introduced).
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Now that beam_asm computes the Index and Uniq values for funs, there
is no need to compute those values in the sys_pre_expand and v3_kernel
modules, thus eliminating the calls to the deprecated erlang:hash/2
function.
It would be tempting to stop generating the name for the fun in
sys_pre_expand so that we did not have to add the Info field to a tuple.
But:
* The debugger depends on the name being there. (Simple solution:
Let the debugger generate the name itself.)
* When a fun has been inlined into another function, the fun name in
'id' annotation will be used to notice the inlining and change the
final clause of the top-level case from generating a 'function_clause'
exception to a case_clause exception. (Possible workaround: Have the
inliner set an inlined attribute on functions that have been inlined, or
have the inliner rewrite 'function_clause' exceptions itself.)
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The calculation of the NewIndex field in fun entries is broken: the
sys_pre_expand and v3_kernel modules keep separate index counters
starting at zero; thus there is no guarantee that each fun within a
module will have its own unique NewIndex.
We don't really need the NewIndex any more (see below), but since
we do need the NewUniq field, we should fix NewIndex for cleanliness
sake. The simplest way is to assign NewIndex as late as possible,
namely in beam_asm, and to set it to the same value as Index.
Historical Note: Why NewIndex Was Introduced
There was once an idea that the debugger should be able to interpret
only a single function in a module (for speed). To make sure that
interpreted funs could be called from BEAM code and vice versa,
the fun identification must be visible in the abstract code.
Therefore a NewIndex field was introduced in each fun in the abstract
code.
However, it turned out that interpreting single functions does not
play well with aggressive code optimization. For example, in this
code:
f() ->
X = 1,
fun() -> X+2 end.
the variable X will seem to be free in the fun, but an aggressive
optimizer will replace X with 1 in the fun; thus the fun will no
longer have any free variables. Therefore, the debugger will always
interpret entire modules.
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Funs are identified by a triple, <Module,Uniq,Index>, where Module is
the module name, Uniq is a 27 bit hash value of some intermediate
representation of the code for the fun, and index is a small integer.
When a fun is loaded, the triple for the fun will be compared to
previously loaded funs. If all elements in the triple in the newly
loaded fun are the same, the newly loaded fun will replace the previous
fun. The idea is that if Uniq are the same, the code for the fun is also
the same.
The problem is that Uniq is only based on the intermediate representation
of the fun itself. If the fun calls local functions in the same module,
Uniq may remain the same even if the behavior of the fun has been changed.
See
http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-bugs/2007-June/000368.htlm
for an example.
As a long-term plan to fix this problem, the NewIndex and NewUniq
fields was added to each fun in the R8 release (where NewUniq is the
MD5 of the BEAM code for the module). Unfortunately, it turns
out that the compiler does not assign unique value to NewIndex (if it
isn't tested, it doesn't work), so we cannot use the
<Module,NewUniq,NewIndex> triple as identification.
It would be possible to use <Module,NewUniq,Index>, but that seems
ugly. Therefore, fix the problem by making Uniq more unique by
taking 27 bits from the MD5 for the BEAM code. That only requires
a change to the compiler.
Also update a test case for cover, which now fails because of the
stronger Uniq calculation. (The comment in test case about why the
Pid2 process survived is not correct.)
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Currently, the external fun syntax "fun M:F/A" only supports
literals. That is, "fun lists:reverse/1" is allowed but not
"fun M:F/A".
In many real-life situations, some or all of M, F, A are
not known until run-time, and one is forced to either use
the undocumented erlang:make_fun/3 BIF or to use a
"tuple fun" (which is deprecated).
EEP-23 suggests that the parser (erl_parse) should immediately
transform "fun M:F/A" to "erlang:make_fun(M, F, A)". We have
not followed that approach in this implementation, because we
want the abstract code to mirror the source code as closely
as possible, and we also consider erlang:make_fun/3 to
be an implementation detail that we might want to remove in
the future.
Instead, we will change the abstract format for "fun M:F/A" (in a way
that is not backwards compatible), and while we are at it, we will
move the translation from "fun M:F/A" to "erlang:make_fun(M, F, A)"
from sys_pre_expand down to the v3_core pass. We will also update
the debugger and xref to use the new format.
We did consider making the abstract format backward compatible if
no variables were used in the fun, but decided against it. Keeping
it backward compatible would mean that there would be different
abstract formats for the no-variable and variable case, and tools
would have to handle both formats, probably forever.
Reference: http://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0023.html
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Allow line/1 instructions to be part of a sequence of floating point
instructions to avoid outputting fclearerror / fcheckerror around
every floating point instruction.
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'behaviour_info(callbacks)' is a special function that is defined in a module
which describes a behaviour and returns a list of its callbacks.
This function is now automatically generated using the '-callback' specs. An
error is returned by lint if user defines both '-callback' attributes and the
behaviour_info/1 function. If no type info is needed for a callback use a
generic spec for it.
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Behaviours may define specs for their callbacks using the familiar spec syntax,
replacing the '-spec' keyword with '-callback'. Simple lint checks are performed
to ensure that no callbacks are defined twice and all types referred are
declared.
These attributes can be then used by tools to provide documentation to the
behaviour or find discrepancies in the callback definitions in the callback
module.
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* dev:
Update copyright years
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* hl/beam_disasm-no_attri_chunk:
beam_disasm: Handle stripped BEAM files
OTP-9571
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beam_disasm:file/1 would crash if asked to disassemble a stripped
BEAM file without an "Attr" chunk.
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* dev:
sys_pre_expand: Don't duplicate options given in the source code
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* bjorn/compiler-options/OTP-9534:
sys_pre_expand: Don't duplicate options given in the source code
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Any compiler options given with a -compile() attribute in source file
would be included both at the beginning and the end of the option list
for the compiler. Including the options twice is harmless during
compilation, but since the options will also be available in
Mod:module_info(compile), including them twice will waste memory.
Include the options from the source first in the list so that they
override options given on the command line.
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Conflicts:
lib/asn1/doc/src/asn1ct.xml
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Also update the r12 and r13 options so that they imply no_line_info.
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In the location information tables in the run-time system, source
filenames that are the same as the module name plus ".erl" extension
are not stored explicitly, thus saving memory.
To take advantage of that optimization, avoid complicating the names of
files in the current working directory; specifically, make sure that
"./" is not prepended to the name.
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Introduce the line/1 instruction in the compiler and the BEAM
virtual machine. It will not yet be generated by the compiler and
will not actually carry any information.
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'eval_bits' is a common utility module used for evaluting binary
construction and matching. The functions that do matching
(match_bits/{6,7} and bin_gen/6) are supposed to treat the bindings as
an abstract data type, but they assume that the bindings have the same
representation as in the erl_eval module. That may cause binary
matching to fail in the debugger, because the debugger represents the
bindings as an unordered list of two-tuples, while the erl_eval
modules uses an ordered list of two-tuple (an ordset).
One way to fix the problem would be to let the debugger to use ordered
lists to represent the bindings. Unfortunately, that would also change
how the bindings are presented in the user interface. Currently, the
variable have most been recently assigned is shown first, which is
convenient.
Fix the matching problem by mending the leaky abstraction in
eval_bits. The matching functions needs to be passed two additional
operations: one for looking up a variable in the bindings and one for
adding a binding. Those operations could be passed as two more funs
(in addition to the evaluation and match fun already passed), but the
functions already have too many arguments. Therefore, change the
meaning of the match fun, so that the first argument is the operation
to perform ('match', 'binding', or 'add_binding') and second argument
is a tuple with arguments for the operation.
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concat_binary/1 was deprecated in R13B04, but already in
the R10B-2 release, the documentation recommends using
list_to_binary/1 instead.
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In warning_translate_label/2, gb_trees:lookup/2 is called
to translate from the entry label for a function to its name.
Since the gb_tree has an entry for all functions in the module,
there is no way that the lookup can fail unless there is a
serious bug.
Therefore, use gb_trees:get/2 so that an exception and an
internal compiler error will be generated if the lookup would
ever fail.
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There is never any empty blocks when beam_dead is invoked.
Even if there were, they will be removed a little bit later in
forward/4.
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In the optimization of binary matching, it seems that two clauses
cannot never be reached. Removing the clauses is safe, since that
would only mean that an opportunity for an optimization is lost
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