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2014-08-20dialyzer: fix a -Wunderspecs bugHans Bolinder
Sometimes bogus warnings were generated for parametrized types. Thanks to Krzesimir Sarnecki for pointing the bug out. Also corrected warnings where the structure of opaque types were exposed (thanks to Kostis for pointing the bug out).
2014-05-13hipe: fix a bug concerning typed record fieldsHans Bolinder
When checking typed record fields Dialyzer failed to handle types containing remote types. Thanks to Erik Søe Sørensen for reporting this bug.
2014-03-21dialyzer: generalize guard constraints in a new wayHans Bolinder
Guard constraints used to be limited to a certain depth, which handled mutually depending constraints safely, but also sometimes introduced unnecessary generalizations. This patch puts no explicit limit upon guard constraints (other than those that already exist in erl_types), but breaks cycles by replacing variables with the any() type. In some cases the old method resulted in more warnings, but since the limit was quite arbitrary and mutually depending guard constraints are (very) rare, the new method should been seen as an improvement since it handles cases that used to make Dialyzer loop or miss warnings.
2014-02-23Deprecate pre-defined built-in typesHans Bolinder
The types array(), dict(), digraph(), gb_set(), gb_tree(), queue(), set(), and tid() have been deprecated. They will be removed in OTP 18.0. Instead the types array:array(), dict:dict(), digraph:graph(), gb_set:set(), gb_tree:tree(), queue:queue(), sets:set(), and ets:tid() can be used. (Note: it has always been necessary to use ets:tid().) It is allowed in OTP 17.0 to locally re-define the types array(), dict(), and so on. New types array:array/1, dict:dict/2, gb_sets:set/1, gb_trees:tree/2, queue:queue/1, and sets:set/1 have been added.
2014-02-22Introduce parameterized opaque typesHans Bolinder
Handle immediate opaque types as aliases: A declaration of dict/0 -opaque dict() :: dict(_, _). -opaque dict(Key, Value) :: ... is handled as an alias, that is, when using dict() it is immediately replaced by dict(_, _). This is a means to avoid having to handle equivalent opaque types later. To be changed if it doesn't work well.
2014-01-21[dialyzer] Re-work the handling of opaque typesHans Bolinder
It is now OK to inspect and modify the internals of opaque types within the scope of the module. The contracts are used for decorating types with opaqueness when it is harmless to do so. The opaqueness is propagated by the typesig module and also by the dataflow module. A lot of details have been fixed or updated. In particular the modules erl_types and erl_bif_types have been modified extensively. The version in vsn.mk has been updated to 2.7. The reason is a modification of #opaque{} in erl_types. Dialyzer seems to be about five percent slower than it used to be.
2013-06-12Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2013-03-06Include module, function and arity in Dialyzer's "overlapping domain" warningsMagnus Henoch
The function name can give information that the line number doesn't, for example when using a parse transform that creates new functions.
2012-12-20Report spec discrepancy on mismatching listsStavros Aronis
This patch enables Dialyzer to detect cases where a function has a specification for a return type containing some list with elements different than the ones Dialyzer's own algorithm can infer e.g. a function specified to return [atom()] when actually [[atom()]] is returned. Previously Dialyzer remained silent, under normal operation, seeing that these two types have the empty list as a common element, so they were not 'completely irrelevant'.
2012-08-31Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2012-04-24Correct handling of type names in contractsStavros Aronis
Variables in contracts can either be true type variables or simply names for types thet are defined in the 'when' clauses. Consider the following example: -spec foo(X, Options) -> {ok, X} | error when Options :: [{atom(), boolean()}]. Here X is a true variable whereas Options is a name for a type that is defined in the when clause. 'when' clauses may further use names on the right side. These were not treated properly by Dialyzer and could be generalized to the term() type. This patch fixes this issue. A further issue is the treatment of true type variables, but this is left for another patch.
2011-12-09Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2011-11-30Add file/line info in a particular Dialyzer crashStavros Aronis
2011-11-30No warnings for underspecs with remote typesStavros Aronis
2011-11-18Store callbacks in codeserver and PLTStavros Aronis
2011-10-14Change category of 'might also return' warningsStavros Aronis
Dialyzer emits warnings like the following "The specification for _ states that the function might also return _ but the inferred return is _", which are actually underspecifications and not wrong type specifications. This patch makes sure that they are filed under the appropriate category.
2010-11-09dialyzer: Speed up analysis of nested list comprehensionsKostis Sagonas
Nested list comprehensions are translated into strongly connected funs but dialyzer ignored this. This meant that self-recursive analysis was normally executed for each fun and the whole fixpoint took some time to calculate. This patch adds every fun found in constraint generation to the SCC that is under analysis and then solves the SCC as a whole. Possible issues: - The returned dict contains more entries than usual. This triggered a bug in contract checking that is dealt with is this patch as well (dialyzer_contracts.erl). - As it's not easy to tell apart real fun SCCs from simple funs it performance might be hampered in the simple funs case. While doing these changes, also added and strengthened some specs. In addition, incorporated a modified patch by Ahmed Omar that fixes a bug in dialyzer_analysis_callgraph module that kept the files of only one selected directory in dialyzer's GUI.
2010-06-08Various changes to dialyzer-related files for R14.Kostis Sagonas
Bumped version number and wrote RELEASE_NOTES. Included all changes described in release notes. Some spec-related changes to some files in lib/hipe/cerl.
2010-06-03Support -export_type() in dialyzer and erl_typesKostis Sagonas
2010-02-17Merge branch 'ks/hipe' into ccase/r13b04_devErlang/OTP
* ks/hipe: dialyzer: Fix system_limit exception in race analysis syntax_tools: Add types and specs for most exported functions syntax_tools: Support the --enable-native-libs configure option syntax_tools: Remove $Id$ annotations dialyzer: New version for the R13B04 release hipe: Miscellaneous additions typer: New version for the R13B04 release Fix a HiPE compiler bug evaluating an expression that throws system_limit OTP-8460 ks/hipe
2010-02-14dialyzer: New version for the R13B04 releaseKostis Sagonas
2009-11-20The R13B03 release.OTP_R13B03Erlang/OTP