While `a.push.apply(a, b)` is better for performance than the previous
`a = a.concat(b)` due to the fact that it doesn't create a new array,
there is a pretty big problem with it: depending on the JS engine, if
the second array is too long, it can [cause a
crash](https://tanaikech.github.io/2020/04/20/limitation-of-array.prototype.push.apply-under-v8-for-google-apps-script/)
due to the function `push` taking too many arguments. This has
unfortunately been what the codegen produces since 1.4.0 (commit
707367e1ca).
So string addition is now moved to a compilerproc that just uses a `for`
loop. From what I can tell this is the most compatible and the fastest.
Only potential problem compared to `concat` etc is with aliasing, i.e.
adding an array to itself, but I'm guessing it's enough that the length
from before the iteration is used, since it can only grow. The test
checks for aliased nim strings but I don't know if there's an extra
protection for them.
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`.
fixes#24998
Basically it retraces back to the situation before
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/18366 and
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/18362, i.e.
```nim
import fuzz/a
import fuzz/a
```
```nim
import fuzz/a
from buzz/a
```
```nim
import fuzz/a except nil
from fuzz/a import addInt
```
All of these cases are now flagged as invalid and triggers a
redefinition error, i.e., each module name importing is treated as
consistent as the symbol definition
kinda annoying for importing/exporting with `when conditions` though
ref https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/18762https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/20907
```nim
from std/strutils import toLower
when not defined(js):
from std/strutils import toUpper
```
Inside a signal handler, you cannot allocate memory because the signal
handler, being implemented with a C
[`signal`](https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/program/signal) call, can be
called _during_ a memory allocation - when that happens, the CTRL-C
handler causes a segfault and/or other inconsistent state.
Similarly, the call can happen from a non-nim thread or inside a C
library function call etc, most of which do not support reentrancy and
therefore cannot be called _from_ a signal handler.
The stack trace facility used in the default handler is unfortunately
beyond fixing without more significant refactoring since it uses
garbage-collected types in its API and implementation.
As an alternative to https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/25110, this PR
removes the most problematic signal handler, namely the one for SIGINT
(ctrl-c) - SIGINT is special because it's meant to cause a regular
shutdown of the application and crashes during SIGINT handling are both
confusing and, if turned into SIGSEGV, have downstream effects like core
dumps and OS crash reports.
The signal handlers for the various crash scenarios remain as-is - they
may too cause their own crashes but we're already going down in a bad
way, so the harm is more limited - in particular, crashing during a
crash handler corrupts `core`/crash dumps. Users wanting to keep their
core files pristine should continue to use `-d:noSignalHandler` - this
is usually the better option for production applications since they
carry more detail than the Nim stack trace that gets printed.
Finally, the example of a ctrl-c handler performs the same mistake of
calling `echo` which is not well-defined - replace it with an example
that is mostly correct (except maybe for the lack of `volatile` for the
`stop` variable).
Raising exceptions halfway through a memory allocation is undefined
behavior since exceptions themselves require multiple allocations and
the allocator functions are not reentrant.
It is of course also expensive performance-wise to introduce lots of
exception-raising code everywhere since it breaks many optimisations and
bloats the code.
Finally, performing pointer arithmetic with signed integers is incorrect
for example on on a 32-bit systems that allows up to 3gb of address
space for applications (large address extensions) and unnecessary
elsewhere - broadly, stuff inside the memory allocator is generated by
the compiler or controlled by the standard library meaning that
applications should not be forced to pay this price.
If we wanted to check for overflow, the right way would be in the
initial allocation location where both the size and count of objects is
known.
The code is updated to use the same arithmetic operator style as for
refc with unchecked operations rather than disabling overflow checking
wholesale in the allocator module - there are reasons for both, but
going with the existing flow seems like an easier place to start.
fixes#25007
```nim
proc setLengthSeqUninit(s: PGenericSeq, typ: PNimType, newLen: int, isTrivial: bool): PGenericSeq {.
compilerRtl.} =
```
In this added function, only the line `zeroMem(dataPointer(result,
elemAlign, elemSize, newLen), (result.len-%newLen) *% elemSize)` is
removed from `proc setLengthSeqV2` when enlarging a sequence.
JS and VM versions simply use `setLen`.
Reworked closureiter transformation.
- Convolutedly nested finallies should cause no problems now.
- CurrentException state now follows nim runtime rules (pushes and pops
appropriately), and mimics normal code, which is somewhat buggy, see
#25031
- Previously state optimization (removing empty states or extra jumps)
missed some opportunities, I've reimplemented it to do everything
possible to optimize the states. At this point any extra states or jumps
should be considered a bug.
The resulting codegen (compiled binaries) is also slightly smaller.
**BUT:**
- I had to change C++ reraising logic, see expt.nim. Because with
closure iters `currentException` is not always in sync with C++'s notion
of current exception. From my tests and understanding of C++ runtime
there should not be any problems, but I'm only 99% sure :)
- I've reused `nfNoRewrite` flag in one specific case during the
transformation. This flag is also used in term-rewriting logic. Again,
99% sure, these 2 scenarios will never intersect.
Docs are routinely compiled on a different OS so often don't reflect
reality of CT-conditionals.
I bet there's a few of other places like this in the stdlib.
implements https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/557
It inserts defect handing into a bare except branch
```nim
try:
raiseAssert "test"
except:
echo "nope"
```
=>
```nim
try:
raiseAssert "test"
except:
# New behaviov, now well-defined: **never** catches the assert, regardless of panic mode
raiseDefect()
echo "nope"
```
In this way, `except` still catches foreign exceptions, but panics on
`Defect`. Probably when Nim has `except {.foreign.}`, we can extend
`raiseDefect` to foreign exceptions as well. That's supposed to be a
small use case anyway.
`--legacy:noPanicOnExcept` is provided for a transition period.
Follow up https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/19512
ref https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/24794
Otherwise, `/Users/blue/Desktop/Nim/lib/system/mm/malloc.nim(4, 1)
Error: redefinition of 'allocImpl'; previous declaration here:
/Users/blue/Desktop/Nim/lib/system/memalloc.nim(51, 8)`
In `proc allocImpl*(size: Natural): pointer {.noconv, rtl, tags: [],
benign, raises: [].}`, `rtl` means it is an `importc` function instead
of a proc forward decl.
fixes#24664
```nim
proc main() =
for i in 0..1:
var s = "12345"
s.add s
echo s
main()
```
In the given example, `add` contains two steps: `prepareAdd` and
`appendString`. In the first step, a new buffer is created in order to
store the final doubled string. But it doesn't copy the null terminator,
neither zeromem the left unused spaces. It causes a problem because
`appendString` will copy itself which doesn't end with `\0` properly so
contaminated memory is copied instead.
```
var s = 12345\0
prepareAdd:
var s = 12345xxxxx\0
appendString:
var s = 1234512345x
```
ref https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/24686
With this PR
```nim
import std/streams
proc foo() =
var name = newStringStream("2r2")
raise newException(ValueError, "sh")
try:
foo()
except:
discard
echo 123
```
this example no longer leaks
---------
Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
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.
updated version of #22193
After #22029 and the followups #23983 and #24005 which fixed issues with
it, `tyFromExpr` no longer match any proc params in generic type bodies
but delay all non-matching calls until the type is instantiated.
Previously the mechanism `fauxMatch` was used to pretend that any
failing match against `tyFromExpr` actually matched, but prevented the
instantiation of the type until later.
Since this mechanism is not needed anymore for `tyFromExpr`, it is now
only used for `tyError` to prevent cascading errors and changed to a
bool field for simplicity. A change in `semtypes` was also needed to
prevent calling `fitNode` on default param values resolving to type
`tyFromExpr` in generic procs for params with non-generic types, as this
would try to coerce the expression into a concrete type when it can't be
instantiated yet.
The aliases `tyProxy` and `tyUnknown` for `tyError` and `tyFromExpr` are
also removed for uniformity.
Lets single threaded applications benefit from tracking foreign cells as
well.
After this, `SmallChunk` technically doesn't need to act as a linked
list anymore I think, gotta investigate that more though.
The likelihood of overflowing `chunk.free` also rises, so to work around
that it might make sense to check `foreignCells` instead of adjusting
free space or replace free with a counter for the local capacity.
For Nim compile I can observe a ~10mb reduction, and smaller ones for
other projects.
Ref: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/23788
There was a small leak in the above issue even after fixing the
segfault. The sizes of `free` and `acc` were changed to 32bit because
adding the `foreignCells` field will drastically increase the memory
usage for programs that hold onto memory for a long time if they stay as
64bit.
fixes#23742
Before my PR, `setLen(0)` doesn't free buffer if `s != nil`, but it
allocated unnecessary memory for `strs`. This PR rectifies this
behavior. `setLen(0)` no longer allocates memory for uninitialized
strs/seqs
