This PR, courtesy of @NagyZoltanPeter
(https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3522) adds the ability to track
memory allocations in a program suitable for use with
[heaptrack](https://github.com/KDE/heaptrack).
By passing `-d:heaptrack --debugger:native` to compilation, calls to
heaptrack will be injected when memory is being allocated and released -
unlike `-d:useMalloc` this strategy also works with `refc` and the
default memory pool.
See https://github.com/KDE/heaptrack for usage examples. The resulting
binary needs to be run with `heaptrack` and with the shared
`libheaptrack_preload.so` in the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
## Description
Fixed an inconsistency in the Nim manual's example for the `*+`
operator.
Previously, the example on line 4065 of `doc/manual.md` used variables
`a`, `b`, and `c`:
```nim
assert `*+`(3, 4, 6) == `+`(`*`(a, b), c)
```
This did not match the preceding call which directly used literals `3`,
`4`, `6`.
Updated the example to:
```nim
assert `*+`(3, 4, 6) == `+`(`*`(3, 4), 6)
```
This change makes the example consistent with the function call and
immediately understandable to readers without requiring prior variable
definitions.
## Rationale
* Improves clarity by avoiding undefined variables in a code snippet.
* Matches the example usage in the preceding line.
* Helps beginners understand the operator's behavior without additional
context.
## Changes
* **Edited**: `doc/manual.md` line 4065 — replaced variables `a`, `b`,
`c` with literals `3`, `4`, `6`.
## Issue
Closes#25084
* Add a new section to doc/tut2.md explaining interfaces.
* Provide a code example demonstrating how to simulate interfaces using
objects of closures.
* The example shows a basic IntFieldInterface with getter and setter
procedures.
This PR was inspired by the discussion in
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/13217
---------
Co-authored-by: Emre Şafak <esafak@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <araq4k@proton.me>
refs https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/559
Parses as an `nkIdentDefs` with an `nkEmpty` name. Pragma is allowed,
can remove this if necessary.
Fine to close and postpone for later
split from #24204, closes#7674
The `{.size.}` pragma no longer restricts the given size to 1, 2, 4 or 8
if it is used for an imported type. This is not tested very thoroughly
but there's no obvious reason to disallow it.
Yet another one of these. Multiple changes piled up in this one. I've
only minimally cleaned it for now (debug code is still here etc). Just
want to start putting this up so I might get feedback. I know this is a
lot and you all are busy with bigger things. As per my last PR, this
might just contain changes that are not ready.
### concept instantiation uniqueness
It has already been said that concepts like `ArrayLike[int]` is not
unique for each matching type of that concept. Likewise the compiler
needs to instantiate a new proc for each unique *bound* type not each
unique invocation of `ArrayLike`
### generic parameter bindings
Couple of things here. The code in sigmatch has to give it's bindings to
the code in concepts, else the information is lost in that step. The
code that prepares the generic variables bound in concepts was also
changed slightly. Net effect is that it works better.
I did choose to use the `LayedIdTable` instead of the `seq`s in
`concepts.nim`. This was mostly to avoid confusing myself. It also
avoids some unnecessary movings around. I wouldn't doubt this is
slightly less performant, but not much in the grand scheme of things and
I would prefer to keep things as easy to understand as possible for as
long as possible because this stuff can get confusing.
### various fixes in the matching logic
Certain forms of modifiers like `var` and generic types like
`tyGenericInst` and `tyGenericInvocation` have logic adjustments based
on my testing and usage
### signature matching method adjustment
This is the weird one, like my last PR. I thought a lot about the
feedback from my last attempt and this is what I came up with. Perhaps
unfortunately I am preoccupied with a slight grey area. consider the
follwing:
```nim
type
C1 = concept
proc p[T](s: Self; x: T)
C2[T] = concept
proc p(s: Self; x: T)
```
It would be temping to say that these are the same, but I don't think
they are. `C2` makes each invocation distinct, and this has important
implications in the type system. eg `C2[int]` is not the same type as
`C2[string]` and this means that signatures are meant to accept a type
that only matches `p` for a single type per unique binding. For `C1` all
are the same and the binding `p` accepts multiple types. There are
multiple variations of this type classes, `tyAnything` and the like.
The make things more complicated, an implementation might match:
```nim
type
A = object
C3 = concept
proc p(s: Self; x: A)
```
if the implementation defines:
```nim
proc p(x: Impl; y: object)
```
while a concept that fits `C2` may be satisfied by something like:
```nim
proc p(x: Impl; y: int)
proc spring[T](x: C2[T])
```
it just depends. None of this is really a problem, it just seems to
provoke some more logic in `concepts.nim` that makes all of this (appear
to?) work. The logic checks for both kinds of matches with a couple of
caveats. The fist is that some unbind-able arrangements may be matched
during overload resolution. I don't think this is avoidable and I
actually think this is a good way to get a failed compilation. So, first
note imo is that failing during binding is preferred to forcing the
programming to write annoying stub procs and putting insane gymnastics
in the compiler. Second thing is: I think this logic is way to accepting
for some parts of overload resolutions. Particularly in `checkGeneric`
when disambiguation is happening. Things get hard to understand for me
here. ~~I made it so the implicit bindings to not count during
disambiguation~~. I still need to test this more, but the thought is
that it would help curb excessive ambiguity errors.
Again, I'm sorry for this being so many changes. It's probably
inconvenient.
---------
Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
ref https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/error/exception/what
> Pointer to a null-terminated string with explanatory information. The
pointer is guaranteed to be valid at least until the exception object
from which it is obtained is destroyed, or until a non-const member
function on the exception object is called.
The pointer is only valid before `CStdException as e` is destroyed
Old examples are broken on macOS arm64
```
/Users/blue/Desktop/nimony/test4.nim(38) test4
/Users/blue/Desktop/nimony/test4.nim(26) fn
/Users/blue/.choosenim/toolchains/nim-#devel/lib/std/assertions.nim(41) failedAssertImpl
/Users/blue/.choosenim/toolchains/nim-#devel/lib/std/assertions.nim(36) raiseAssert
/Users/blue/.choosenim/toolchains/nim-#devel/lib/system/fatal.nim(53) sysFatal
Error: unhandled exception: /Users/blue/Desktop/nimony/test4.nim(26, 3) `$b == "foo2"` [AssertionDefect]
```
- `/` is now a hotkey to jump to the search
- Search results now are in line with the page (previously on small
screens it would be off centre)
- Jumping to a search result inside the page or via TOC will now hide
the search results (previously the results got in the way)
Example site here: https://tranquil-scone-c159b6.netlify.app/main.html
refs #24503
Infinite recursions currently are not tracked separately from infinite
loops, because they also increase the loop counter. However the max
infinite loop count is very high by default (10 million) and does not
reliably catch infinite recursions before consuming a lot of memory. So
to protect against infinite recursions, we separately track call depth,
and add a separate option for the maximum call depth, much lower than
the maximum iteration count by default (2000, the same as
`nimCallDepthLimit`).
---------
Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
closes https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/380, fixes#4773, fixes
#14729, fixes#16755, fixes#18150, fixes#22984, refs #11167 (only some
comments fixed), refs #12620 (needs tiny workaround)
The compiler gains a concept of root "nominal" types (i.e. objects,
enums, distincts, direct `Foo = ref object`s, generic versions of all of
these). Exported top-level routines in the same module as the nominal
types that their parameter types derive from (i.e. with
`var`/`sink`/`typedesc`/generic constraints) are considered attached to
the respective type, as the RFC states. This happens for every argument
regardless of placement.
When a call is overloaded and overload matching starts, for all
arguments in the call that already have a type, we add any operation
with the same name in the scope of the root nominal type of each
argument (if it exists) to the overload match. This also happens as
arguments gradually get typed after every overload match. This restricts
the considered overloads to ones attached to the given arguments, as
well as preventing `untyped` arguments from being forcefully typed due
to unrelated overloads. There are some caveats:
* If no overloads with a name are in scope, type bound ops are not
triggered, i.e. if `foo` is not declared, `foo(x)` will not consider a
type bound op for `x`.
* If overloads in scope do not have enough parameters up to the argument
which needs its type bound op considered, then type bound ops are also
not added. For example, if only `foo()` is in scope, `foo(x)` will not
consider a type bound op for `x`.
In the cases of "generic interfaces" like `hash`, `$`, `items` etc. this
is not really a problem since any code using it will have at least one
typed overload imported. For arbitrary versions of these though, as in
the test case for #12620, a workaround is to declare a temporary
"template" overload that never matches:
```nim
# neither have to be exported, just needed for any use of `foo`:
type Placeholder = object
proc foo(_: Placeholder) = discard
```
I don't know what a "proper" version of this could be, maybe something
to do with the new concepts.
Possible directions:
A limitation with the proposal is that parameters like `a: ref Foo` are
not attached to any type, even if `Foo` is nominal. Fixing this for just
`ptr`/`ref` would be a special case, parameters like `seq[Foo]` would
still not be attached to `Foo`. We could also skip any *structural* type
but this could produce more than one nominal type, i.e. `(Foo, Bar)`
(not that this is hard to implement, it just might be unexpected).
Converters do not use type bound ops, they still need to be in scope to
implicitly convert. But maybe they could also participate in the nominal
type consideration: if `Generic[T] = distinct T` has a converter to `T`,
both `Generic` and `T` can be considered as nominal roots.
The other restriction in the proposal, being in the same scope as the
nominal type, could maybe be worked around by explicitly attaching to
the type, i.e.: `proc foo(x: T) {.attach: T.}`, similar to class
extensions in newer OOP languages. The given type `T` needs to be
obtainable from the type of the given argument `x` however, i.e.
something like `proc foo(x: ref T) {.attach: T.}` doesn't work to fix
the `ref` issue since the compiler never obtains `T` from a given `ref
T` argument. Edit: Since the module is queried now, this is likely not
possible.
---------
Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
It seems exportcpp was implemented in v1.0 but there is no documentation
about it excepts changelog.
`noinline` is used in many procedures in Nim code but there is also no
documentation about it.
---------
Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
Followup to #24154, packages aren't ready for macos 14 (M1/ARM CPU) yet
and it seems to be preview on azure, so upgrade to macos 13 for now.
Macos 12 gives a warning:
```
You are using macOS 12.
We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version.
It is expected behaviour that some formulae will fail to build in this old version.
It is expected behaviour that Homebrew will be buggy and slow.
Do not create any issues about this on Homebrew's GitHub repositories.
Do not create any issues even if you think this message is unrelated.
Any opened issues will be immediately closed without response.
Do not ask for help from Homebrew or its maintainers on social media.
You may ask for help in Homebrew's discussions but are unlikely to receive a response.
Try to figure out the problem yourself and submit a fix as a pull request.
We will review it but may or may not accept it.
```
alternative to #24101#23892 changed the opensym experimental switch so that it has to be
enabled in the context of the generic/template declarations capturing
the symbols, not the context of the instantiation of the
generics/templates. This was to be in line with where the compiler gives
the warnings and changes behavior in a potentially breaking way.
However `results` [depends on the old
behavior](71d404b314/results.nim (L1428)),
so that the callers of the macros provided by results always take
advantage of the opensym behavior. To accomodate this, we change the
behavior of the old experimental option that `results` uses,
`genericsOpenSym`, so that ignores the information of whether or not
symbols are intentionally opened and always gives the opensym behavior
as long as it's enabled at instantiation time. This should keep
`results` working as is. However this differs from the normal opensym
switch in that it doesn't generate `nnkOpenSym`.
Before it was just a generics-only version of `openSym` along with
`templateOpenSym` which was only for templates. So `templateOpenSym` is
removed along with this change, but no one appears to have used it.
fixes#5395
Previously values of `const` statements used the same scope as the
`const` statement itself, meaning variables could be declared inside
them and referred to in other statements in the same block. Now each
`const` value opens its own scope, so any variable declared in the value
of a constant can only be accessed for that constant.
We could change this to open a new scope for the `const` *section*
rather than each constant, so the variables can be used in other
constants, but I'm not sure if this is sound.
Adds a few fixes for when using code blocks with lines numbered
- Use CSS variables for the colours so that it works in dark mode
- Don't turn on normal table effects like hover and smaller font when
its a line number table
- With dochack.nim, don't add a clipboard copy button for the line
numbers at the side
[Example page showing the
changes](https://66dcde6e4a655efb70771d9a--dazzling-kitten-6c3419.netlify.app/)
fixes#16376
The way the compiler handled generic proc instantiations in calls (like
`foo[int](...)`) up to this point was to instantiate `foo[int]`, create
a symbol for the instantiated proc (or a symchoice for multiple procs
excluding ones with mismatching generic param counts), then perform
overload resolution on this symbol/symchoice. The exception to this was
when the called symbol was already a symchoice node, in which case it
wasn't instantiated and overloading was called directly ([these
lines](b7b1313d21/compiler/semexprs.nim (L3366-L3371))).
This has several problems:
* Templates and macros can't create instantiated symbols, so they
couldn't participate in overloaded explicit generic instantiations,
causing the issue #16376.
* Every single proc that can be instantiated with the given generic
params is fully instantiated including the body. #9997 is about this but
isn't fixed here since the instantiation isn't in a call.
The way overload resolution handles explicit instantiations by itself is
also buggy:
* It doesn't check constraints.
* It allows only partially providing the generic parameters, which makes
sense for implicit generics, but can cause ambiguity in overloading.
Here is how this PR deals with these problems:
* Overload resolution now always handles explicit generic instantiations
in calls, in `initCandidate`, as long as the symbol resolves to a
routine symbol.
* Overload resolution now checks the generic params for constraints and
correct parameter count (ignoring implicit params). If these don't
match, the entire overload is considered as not matching and not
instantiated.
* Special error messages are added for mismatching/missing/extra generic
params. This is almost all of the diff in `semcall`.
* Procs with matching generic parameters now instantiate only the type
of the signature in overload resolution, not the proc itself, which also
works for templates and macros.
Unfortunately we can't entirely remove instantiations because overload
resolution can't handle some cases with uninstantiated types even though
it's resolved in the binding (see the last 2 blocks in
`texplicitgenerics`). There are also some instantiation issues with
default params that #24005 didn't fix but I didn't want this to become
the 3rd huge generics PR in a row so I didn't dive too deep into trying
to fix them. There is still a minor instantiation fix in `semtypinst`
though for subscripts in calls.
Additional changes:
* Overloading of `[]` wasn't documented properly, it somewhat is now
because we need to mention the limitation that it can't be done for
generic procs/types.
* Tests can now enable the new type mismatch errors with just
`-d:testsConciseTypeMismatch` in the command.
Package PRs:
- using fork for now:
[combparser](https://github.com/PMunch/combparser/pull/7) (partial
generic instantiation)
- merged: [cligen](https://github.com/c-blake/cligen/pull/233) (partial
generic instantiation but non-overloaded + template)
- merged: [neo](https://github.com/andreaferretti/neo/pull/56) (trying
to instantiate template with no generic param)
fixes#15314, fixes#24002
The OpenSym behavior first added to generics in #23091 now also applies
to templates, since templates can also capture symbols that are meant to
be replaced by local symbols if the context imports symbols with the
same name, as in the issue #24002. The experimental switch
`templateOpenSym` is added to enable this behavior for templates only,
and the experimental switch `openSym` is added to enable it for both
templates and generics, and the documentation now mainly mentions this
switch.
Additionally the logic for `nkOpenSymChoice` nodes that were previously
wrapped in `nkOpenSym` now apply to all `nkOpenSymChoice` nodes, and so
these nodes aren't wrapped in `nkOpenSym` anymore. This means
`nkOpenSym` can only have children of kind `nkSym` again, so it is more
in line with the structure of symchoice nodes. As for why they aren't
merged with `nkOpenSymChoice` nodes yet, we need some way to signal that
the node shouldn't become ambiguous if other options exist at
instantiation time, we already captured a symbol at the beginning and
another symbol can only replace it if it's closer in scope and
unambiguous.
refs https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/23873#discussion_r1687995060,
fixes#23386, fixes#23385, supersedes #23572
Turns the `nfOpenSym` node flag implemented in #23091 and extended in
#23102 and #23873, into a node kind `nkOpenSym` that forms a unary node
containing either `nkSym` or `nkOpenSymChoice`. Since this affects
macros working on generic proc AST, the node kind is now only generated
when the experimental switch `genericsOpenSym` is enabled, and a new
node flag `nfDisabledOpenSym` is set to the `nkSym` or `nkOpenSymChoice`
when the switch is not enabled so that we can give a warning.
Now that the experimental switch has more reasonable semantics, we
define `nimHasGenericsOpenSym2`.
fixes#23813, partially reverts #23392
Before #23392, if a `gensym` symbol was defined before a proc with the
same name in a template even with an `inject` annotation, the proc would
be `gensym`. After #23392 the proc was instead changed to be `inject` as
long as no `gensym` annotation was given. Now, to keep compatibility
with the old behavior, the behavior is changed back to infer the proc as
`gensym` when no `inject` annotation is given, however an explicit
`inject` annotation will still inject the proc. This is also documented
in the manual as the old behavior was undocumented and the new behavior
is slightly different.
I've been working on making some basic cuda examples work, both with
cuda (nvcc) and with AMD HIP (hipcc) https://github.com/monofuel/hippo
- hipcc is just a drop-in replacement for clang and works out of the box
with clang settings in Nim. hipcc is capable of compiling for AMD ROCm
or to CUDA, depending on how HIP_PLATFORM is set.
- nvcc is a little quirky. we can use `-x cu` to tell it to handle nim's
`.cpp` files as if they were `.cu` files. nvcc expects all backend
compiler flags to be wrapped with a special `-Xcompiler=""` flag when
compiling and also when linking.
I manually tested on a linux desktop with amd and a laptop with nvidia.
fixes#4695
ref https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/15818
Since `nkState` is only for the main loop state labels and `nkGotoState`
is used only for dispatching the `:state` (since
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/7770), it's feasible to rewrite the
loop body into a single case-based dispatcher, which enables support for
JS, VM backend. `nkState` Node is replaced by a label and Node pair and
`nkGotoState` is only used for intermediary processing. Backends only
need to implement `nkBreakState` and `closureIterSetupExc` to support
closure iterators.
pending https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/23484
<del> I also observed some performance boost for C backend in the
release mode (not in the danger mode though, I suppose the old
implementation is optimized into computed goto in the danger mode)
</del>
allPathsAsgnResult???
