This fixes several cases of the Nim binding of nfds_t being inconsistent
with the target platform signedness and/or size.
Additionally, it fixes poll's third argument (timeout) being set to Nim
"int" when it should have been "cint".
The former is the same issue that #23045 had attempted to fix, but
failed because it only considered Linux. (Also, it was only applied to
version 2.0, so the two branches now have incompatible versions of the
same bug.)
Notes:
* SVR4's original "unsigned long" definition is cloned by Linux and
Haiku. Nim got this right for Haiku and Linux-amd64, but it was wrong on
non-amd64 Linux.
* Zephyr does not have nfds_t, but simply uses (signed) "int". This was
already correctly reflected by Nim.
* OpenBSD poll.h uses "unsigned int", and other BSD derivatives follow
suit. This being the most commonly copied definition, the fallback case
now returns cuint. (This also seems to be correct for the OS X headers I
could find on the web.)
* This changes Nintendo Switch nfds_t to cuint from culong. It is
purportedly a FreeBSD derivative, so I *think* this is correct, but I
can't tell because I don't have access to the Nintendo Switch headers.
I have also moved the platform-specific Tnfds to posix.nim so that we
can reuse the fallback logic on all platforms. (e.g. specifying the size
in posix_linux_amd64 only to then use when defined(linux) in posix_other
seems redundant.)
The only remaining explicit use of `typedef` in the codegen (from my
search) is in `addForwardStructFormat` which from what I understand
won't do anything in NIFC.
refs #6978, refs #6752, refs #21613, refs #24234
The `jsNoInt64`, `whenHasBigInt64`, `whenJsNoBigInt64` templates are
replaced with bool constants to use with `when`. Weird that I didn't do
this in the first place.
The `whenJsNoBigInt64` template was also slightly misleading. The first
branch was compiled for both no bigint64 on JS as well as on C/C++. It
seems only `trandom` depended on this by mistake.
The workaround for #6752 added in #6978 to `times` is also removed with
`--jsbigint64:on`, but #24233 was also encountered with this, so this PR
depends on #24234.
Running `ctags` on files with quoted symbols (e.g. `$`) would list \`
instead of the full ident. Issue was the result getting reassigned at
the end to a \` instead of appending
closes https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/554
Adds a symmetric difference operation to the language bitset type. This
maps to a simple `xor` operation on the backend and thus is likely
faster than the current alternatives, namely `(a - b) + (b - a)` or `a +
b - a * b`. The compiler VM implementation of bitsets already
implemented this via `symdiffSets` but it was never used.
The standalone binary operation is added to `setutils`, named
`symmetricDifference` in line with [hash
sets](https://nim-lang.org/docs/sets.html#symmetricDifference%2CHashSet%5BA%5D%2CHashSet%5BA%5D).
An operator version `-+-` and an in-place version like `toggle` as
described in the RFC are also added, implemented as trivial sugar.
refs #8064, refs #24010
Error messages for standalone explicit generic instantiations are
revamped. Failing standalone explicit generic instantiations now only
error after overloading has finished and resolved to the default `[]`
magic (this means `[]` can now be overloaded for procs but this isn't
necessarily intentional, in #24010 it was documented that it isn't
possible). The error messages for failed instantiations are also no
longer a simple `cannot instantiate: foo` message, instead they now give
the same type mismatch error message as overloads with mismatching
explicit generic parameters.
This is now possible due to the changes in #24010 that delegate all
explicit generic proc instantiations to overload resolution. Old code
that worked around this is now removed. `maybeInstantiateGeneric` could
maybe also be removed in favor of just `explicitGenericSym`, the `result
== n` case is due to `explicitGenericInstError` which is only for niche
cases.
Also, to cause "ambiguous identifier" error messages when the explicit
instantiation is a symchoice and the expression context doesn't allow
symchoices, we semcheck the sym/symchoice created by
`explicitGenericSym` with the given expression flags.
#8064 isn't entirely fixed because the error message is still misleading
for the original case which does `values[1]`, as a consequence of
#12664.
The remaining followup from #24259. A body for building the type doesn't
seem necessary here since the types with array fields are generally
atomic/already built from `getTypeDescAux`.
The first commit reverts the revert of #23787.
The second fixes lambdalifting in convolutedly nested
closures/closureiters. This is considered to be the reason of #24094,
though I can't tell for sure, as I was not able to reproduce #24094 for
complicated but irrelevant reasons. Therefore I ask @jmgomez, @metagn or
anyone who could reproduce it to try it again with this PR.
I would suggest this PR to not be squashed if possible, as the history
is already messy enough.
Some theory behind the lambdalifting fix:
- A closureiter that captures anything outside its body will always have
`:up` in its env. This property is now used as a trigger to lift any
proc that captures such a closureiter.
- Instantiating a closureiter involves filling out its `:up`, which was
previously done incorrectly. The fixed algorithm is to use "current" env
if it is the owner of the iter declaration, or traverse through `:up`s
of env param until the common ancestor is found.
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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.
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Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
fixes#24305, refs #23807
Since #23014 `nkHiddenAddr` is produced to fast assign array elements in
iterators. However the array access inside this `nkHiddenAddr` can get
folded at compile time, generating invalid code. In #23807, compile time
folding of regular `addr` expressions was changed to be prevented in
`transf` but `nkHiddenAddr` was not updated alongside it.
The method for preventing folding in `addr` in #23807 was also faulty,
it should only trigger on the immediate child node of the address rather
than all nodes nested inside it. This caused a regression as outlined in
[this
comment](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/24322#issuecomment-2419560182).
To fix both issues, `addr` and `nkHiddenAddr` now both shallowly prevent
constant folding for their immediate children.
fixes#24319
`byRefLoc` (`mapType`) requires the Loc `a` to have the right type.
Without `lfEnforceDeref`, it produces the wrong type for `deref (var
array)`, which may come from `mitems`.
fixes#18896fixes#20886
```nim
type
PFile {.importc: "FILE*", header: "<stdio.h>".} = distinct pointer
# import C's FILE* type; Nim will treat it as a new pointer type
```
This is an excerpt from the Nim manual. In the old Nim versions, it
produces a void pointer type instead of the `FILE*` type that should
have been generated. Because these C types tend to be opaque and adapt
to changes on different platforms. It might affect the portability of
Nim on various OS, i.e. `csource_v2` cannot build on the apline platform
because of `Time` relies on Nim types instead of the `time_t` type.
ref https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/18851
follows up #24259
This is the remaining missing use of `StructInitializer` in
`getDefaultValue` after #24259 and #24302. The only remaining direct C
code in getDefaultValue is [this
line](922f7dfd71/compiler/ccgexprs.nim (L3525))
which creates a global array variable, which isn't implemented yet. Next
steps would be all remaining variable and `typedef` declarations, then
hopefully we can move on to general statements and expressions.
follows up #24259
This was the only use of the `STRING_LITERAL` macro in `nimbase.h`, so
this macro is now removed. We don't have to remove it though, maybe
people use it.
`StructInitializer` is now used for most braced initializers in the C
generation, mostly in `genBracedInit`, `getNullValueAux`,
`getDefaultValue`. The exceptions are:
* the default case branch initializer for objects uses C99 designated
initializers with field names, which are not implemented for
`StructInitializer` yet (`siNamedStruct`)
* the uses in `ccgliterals` are untouched so all of ccgliterals can be
done separately and in 1 go
There is one case where `genBracedInit` does not use cbuilder, which is
the global literal variable for openarrays. The reason for this is
simply that variables with C array type are not implemented, which I
thought would be best to leave out of this PR.
For the simplicity of the implementation, code in `getNullValueAuxT`
that reset the initializer back to its initial state if the `Sup` field
did not have any fields itself, is now disabled. This was so the
compiler does not generate `{}` for the Sup field, i.e. `{{}}`, but
every call to `getNullValueAuxT` still generates `{}` if the struct
doesn't have any fields, so I don't know if it really breaks anything.
The case where the Sup field doesn't have any fields but the struct does
also would have generated `{{}, field}`.
Worst case, we can implement either the "resetting" or just disable the
generation of the `Sup` field if there are no fields total. But a better
fix might be to always generate `{0}` if the struct has no fields, in
line with the `char dummy` field that gets added for all objects with no
fields. This doesn't seem necessary for now but might be for the NIFC
output, in which case we can probably keep the logic contained inside
cbuilder (if no fields generated for `siOrderedStruct`/`siNamedStruct`,
we add a `0` for the `dummy` field). This would stipulate that all uses
of struct initializers are exhaustive for every field in structs.
fixes#24296fixes#24295
Templates use `expectedType` for type inference. It's justified that
when templates don't have an actual return type, i.e., `untyped` etc.
When the return type of templates is specified, we should not infer the
type
```nim
template g(): string = ""
let c: cstring = g()
```
In this example, it is not reasonable to annotate the templates
expression with the `cstring` type before the `fitNode` check with its
specified return type.
follows up #24279
`discard finishTest` was wrong if the test still had a `retries` option:
it would just ignore the result of the test. This is an unlikely mistake
but we safeguard against it by splitting `finishTest` into two, one that
completely ignores the retries option and `finishTestRetryable` which
has to be checked for a retry. This also makes the code look slightly
better.
Testament now retries a test by a specified amount if it fails in any
way other than an invalid spec. This is to deal with the flaky GC tests
on Windows CI that fail in many different ways, from the linker randomly
erroring, segfaults, etc.
Unfortunately I couldn't do this cleanly in testament's current code.
The proc `addResult`, which is the "final" proc called in a test run's
lifetime, is now wrapped in a proc `finishTest` that returns a bool
`true` if the test failed and has to be retried. This result is
propagated up from `cmpMsgs` and `compilerOutputTests` until it reaches
`testSpecHelper`, which handles these results by recursing if the test
has to be retried. Since calling `testSpecHelper` means "run this test
with one given configuration", this means every single matrix
option/target etc. receive an equal amount of retries each.
The result of `finishTest` is ignored in cases where it's known that it
won't be retried due to passing, being skipped, having an invalid spec
etc. It's also ignored in `testNimblePackages` because it's not
necessary for those specific tests yet and similar retry behavior is
already implemented for part of it.
This was a last resort for the flaky GC tests but they've been a problem
for years at this point, they give us more work to do and turn off
contributors. Ideally GC tests failing should mark as "needs review" in
the CI rather than "failed" but I don't know if Github supports
something like this.
fixes#24288, refs #23625
Since #23625 "cannot evaluate" errors during VM code generation are
"soft" errors with `nim check`, i.e. the code generation isn't halted
(except for the current proc which `return`s which can cause wrong
codegen) and the expression is still attempted to be evaluated. Now,
these errors signal to the VM that the current generated VM code cannot
be evaluated, and so instead of evaluating, an error node is returned.
This keeps the benefit of the "soft" errors without potentially crashing
the compiler on improperly generated VM code. Although maybe the
compiler might not be able to handle the generated error node in some
cases.
This fixes the chame example in #24288 but this is not tested in CI.
Presumably it or the compiler was doing something like `compiles()` on
code that can't run in the VM.
I would accept nicer ways of tracking non-evaluability than
`c.cannotEval = true` but I tried to keep it as harmless as possible.
fixes#24021
The field checking for case object branches at some point generates a
negated set `contains` check for the object discriminator. For enum
types, this tries to generate a complement set and convert to a
`contains` check in that instead. It obtains this type from the type of
the element node in the `contains` check.
`buildProperFieldCheck` creates the element node by changing a field
access expression like `foo.z` into `foo.kind`. In order to do this, it
copies the node `foo.z` and sets the field name in the node to the
symbol `kind`. But when copying the node, the type of the original
`foo.z` is retained. This means that the complement is performed on the
type of the accessed field rather than the type of the discriminator,
which causes problems when the accessed field is also an enum.
To fix this, we properly set the type of the copied node to the type of
the kind field. An alternative is just to make a new node instead.
A lot of text for a single line change, I know, but this part of the
codebase could use more explanation.
fixes#24087, refs https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/341, refs #14222, refs
#14221
The Nim compiler calls `cl` for linking as well as compilation. This
means that options to the linker have to be passed after a `/link`
argument. But the Nim compiler doesn't include this option normally,
because users may still want to pass non-linker options to `cl` at link
time.
To deal with this, a workaround is used: every single library link
option adds `/link` before it. The linker simply ignores extraneous
`/link` arguments and gives a warning instead, since it's an
unrecognized option to the linker. This is really hacky but otherwise we
need to separate linker arguments into arguments passed either to the
compiler or to the linker at link time, and this behavior wouldn't be
meaningful outside of MSVC.
I can't really test this manually but I did test that the linker ignores
`/link`. I also can't really do more than this, I don't really use MSVC
so I wouldn't know how to navigate it, or how people use it. Ideally
someone who knows more about/uses MSVC can give their input or take
over.
fixes#24269, refs #20095
Instead of checking the package of the *used sym* to determine whether a
stylecheck should trigger, we check the package of the lineinfo instead.
Before #20095 this checked for the current compilation context module
instead which caused issues with generic procs, but the lineinfo should
more closely match the AST.
I figured this might cause issues with includes etc but the foreign
package test specifically tests for an include and passes, so maybe the
package determining logic accounts for this already. This still might
not be the correct logic, I'm not too familiar with the package handling
in the compiler.
Package PRs, both merged:
- json_rpc: https://github.com/status-im/nim-json-rpc/pull/226
- json_serialization:
https://github.com/status-im/nim-json-serialization/pull/99
As said in the warning after #21659, a set of ints defaults to
`set[range[0..65535]]` which is very large. So in osproc, a `case`
statement is used instead of an int set to check for an int being one of
2 values.
Also tested all of CI with the warning from #21659 as an error, this
seems to be the only remaining case in CI.
fixes#24274
The code in the `if` branch replaces the current destination `d` with a
new one. But the location `d` can be an assignment location, in which
case the provided expression isn't generated. To fix this, don't trigger
this code for when the location already exists. An alternative would be
to call `putIntoDest` in this case as is done below.
This adds several new Status packages to the CIs:
- confutils
- eth
- metrics
- nat_traversal
- toml_serialization
Other packages mentioned in https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/24266
are currently not ready to test with `devel` for various reasons.
----
This also enables `criterion`, and removes other packages that had been
in the `allowFailure` category — even without them we have plenty of
packages (145) that we test, there's no point in spending CI time on
them just to see them fail every time.
If/when the authors of those packages make them work with Nim devel, we
can re-introduce them then.
I have added a new overload of `^` for float exponents.
Is two overloads for `float32` and `float64` better than just one
overload with `SomeFloat` type ?
I guess this would not work with `SomeFloat`, as `pow` is not defined
for `float`.
Another remark. Maybe we should catch exponents with 0.5 and call `sqrt`
instead ?
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Co-authored-by: Clay Sweetser <Varriount@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: metagn <metagngn@gmail.com>
fixes#24091, refs #24092
Any instantiations resolving to a generic body type now gives an error.
Due to #24092, this does not error in cases like matching against `type
M` in generics because generic body type symbols are just not
instantiated. But this prevents parameters with type `type M` from being
used, although there doesn't seem to be any code which does this. Just
in case such code exists, we still allow `typedesc` types resolving to
generic body types.
