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Waiting messages for a process may be stored in a queue
outside of any heap or heap fragment belonging to the process.
This is an optimization added in a recent major release to
avoid garbage collection messages again and again if there
is a long message queue.
Until such message has been matched and accepted by
the remove_message/0 instruction, the message must not be
included in the root set for a garbage collection, as that
would corrupt the message. The loop_rec/2 instruction explicitly
turns off garbage collection of the process as long messages
are being matched.
However, if the compiler were to put references to a message
outside of the heap in an Y register (on the stack) and there
happened to be a GC when the process had been scheduled out,
the message would be corrupted and the runtime system would
crash sooner or later.
To ensure that doesn't happen, teach beam_validator to check
for references on the stack to messages outside of the heap.
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Every catch or try/catch must use a lower Y register number than any
enclosing catch or try/catch. That will ensure that when the stack
is scanned when an exception occurs, the innermost try/catch tag is
found first.
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Make sure that there is the correct number of put/1 instructions
following put_tuple/2. Also make it illegal to reference the
register for the tuple being built in a put/1 instruction.
That is, beam_validator will now issue a diagnostice for the the
following code:
{put_tuple,1,{x,0}}.
{put,{x,0}}.
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In 45f469ca0890, the BEAM loader started to use x(1023) as scratch
register for some instructions. Therefore we should not allow
x(1023) to be used in code emitted by the compiler.
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The run-time system stopped paying attention the 'aligned' flag in bit
syntax construction and matching when bitstrings were introduced in
language.
The beam_asm compiler pass will crash if the 'aligned' flag is given
in bit syntax instructions.
beam_validator still validates the 'aligned' flag. Before
912fea0b712a (which removed the possibility to validate existing
BEAM files), the 'aligned' flag could actually be encountered
when validating a BEAM file.
Since the validation of 'aligned' no longer serves any useful
purpose, remove the validation code.
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set_type_y/3 is far too complicated. Note that we don't need to check
the #st.numy field, because we will detect the error anyway because
the information for the y register will be missing in the #st.y
gb_tree.
There is also a clause that would never match because of a spelling
error (the first "n" was missing in "uninitialized"). That clause
is not needed because the default clause will do fine.
Furthermore, we can break out the special case for handling catch_end
and similar instructions into a new function.
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The fault/1,2 BIF was removed a long time ago.
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The BEAM loader will now sort keys for maps during loading, so
beam_validator should not require the keys to be ordered any order.
However, we must still ensure that literals keys are unique (which
was implicitly guaranteed by the strict ordering requirement).
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* bjorn/compiler/beam_validator:
beam_validator: Exit immediately on crashes
beam_validator: Remove the file/1 and files/1 functions
beam_validator: Remove support for all other unsupported instructions
beam_validator: Remove support for unsupported bit syntax instructions
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Before the beam_validator was added as compiler pass, it was a
standalone module that could analyse existing .beam files and .S
files.
Even though beam_validator has been part of the compiler for many
releases, it still supports the analysis of .beam and .S files.
To reduce the code bloat and to improve coverage of beam_validator,
remove the file/1 and files/1 functions and all associated help
functions. We'll need to update the test suite, since some of the
checked in .S files have errors that beam_validator ignores, but
that will not be accepted when running them throught the compiler
using the 'from_asm' option. In particular, we will need to export
all functions that should be validated (since the beam_clean pass
will remove any function that is not possible to call).
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The assert_strict_literal_termorder/1 function is used to validate the
get_map_elements and has_map_fields instructions. In neither case is
it useful to allow an empty lists of fields, so we should no longer
allow an empty list.
The mmap/2 function is cute, but it is used in only one place, so it
is much simpler to write a special-purpose function to extract the
keys from the list of map pairs.
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The compiler_bug/1 test case succeeded for the wrong reason. The
'asm' option is no longer supported (was ignored) and the compiler
looked for a .erl file.
Make sure that we don't fall for this trick again by making sure
that the error is reported from beam_validator.
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If a match context is returned from a function without being converted
back to a plain old binary, the whole VM will crash.
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