Close#22826
I am not sure why this code skips generic insts, so letting CI tell me.
Update: It has told me nothing. Maybe someone knows during review.
Issue itself seems to be that the generic instance is skipped thus it
ends up being just `float` which makes it use the wrong generic instance
of the proc because it matches the one in cache
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Co-authored-by: SirOlaf <>
Theoretical Benefits / Plans:
- Typed assembler-like language.
- Allows for a CPS transformation.
- Can replace the existing C backend by a new C backend.
- Can replace the VM.
- Can do more effective "not nil" checking and static array bounds
checking.
- Can be used instead of the DFA.
- Easily translatable to LLVM.
- Reasonably easy to produce native code from.
- Tiny memory consumption. No pointers, no cry.
**In very early stages of development.**
Todo:
- [x] Map Nim types to IR types.
- [ ] Map Nim AST to IR instructions:
- [x] Map bitsets to bitops.
- [ ] Implement string cases.
- [ ] Implement range and index checks.
- [x] Implement `default(T)` builtin.
- [x] Implement multi string concat.
- [ ] Write some analysis passes.
- [ ] Write a backend.
- [x] Integrate into the compilation pipeline.
in `std/nre`
```nim
proc initRegex(pattern: string, flags: int, study = true): Regex =
new(result, destroyRegex)
```
gives incorrect warnings like
```
C:\Users\blue\Documents\Nim\lib\impure\nre.nim(252, 6) Error: A custom '=destroy' hook which takes a 'var T' parameter is deprecated; it should take a 'T' parameter [Deprecated
```
Since they are integer types, by mean of allowing cast integer to enums
in VM, we can suppress some enum warnings in the stdlib in the unified
form, namely using a cast expression.
fixes#22753
## Future work
We should turn all the error nodes into nodes of a nkError kind, which
could be a industrious task. But perhaps we can add a special treatment
for error nodes to make the transition smooth.
The goal of this PR is to make `typeRel` accurate to it's definition for
generics:
```
# 3) When used with two type classes, it will check whether the types
# matching the first type class (aOrig) are a strict subset of the types matching
# the other (f). This allows us to compare the signatures of generic procs in
# order to give preferrence to the most specific one:
```
I don't want this PR to break any code, and I want to preserve all of
Nims current behaviors. I think that making this more accurate will help
serve as ground work for the future. It may not be possible to not break
anything but this is my attempt.
So that it is understood, this code was part of another PR (#22143) but
that problem statement only needed this change by extension. It's more
organized to split two problems into two PRs and this issue, being
non-breaking, should be a more immediate improvement.
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Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
refs #22605
Sym choice nodes are now only allowed to pass through semchecking if
contexts ask for them to (with `efAllowSymChoice`). Otherwise they are
resolved or treated as ambiguous. The contexts that can receive
symchoices in this PR are:
* Call operands and addresses and emulations of such, which will subject
them to overload resolution which will resolve them or fail.
* Type conversion operands only for routine symchoices for type
disambiguation syntax (like `(proc (x: int): int)(foo)`), which will
resolve them or fail.
* Proc parameter default values both at the declaration and during
generic instantiation, which undergo type narrowing and so will resolve
them or fail.
This means unless these contexts mess up sym choice nodes should never
leave the semchecking stage. This serves as a blueprint for future
improvements to intermediate symbol resolution.
Some tangential changes are also in this PR:
1. The `AmbiguousEnum` hint is removed, it was always disabled by
default and since #22606 it only started getting emitted after the
symchoice was soundly resolved.
2. Proc setter syntax (`a.b = c` becoming `` `b=`(a, c) ``) used to
fully type check the RHS before passing the transformed call node to
proc overloading. Now it just passes the original node directly so proc
overloading can deal with its typechecking.
`semtempl` is refactored to combine the uses of `getIdentNode`,
`onlyReplaceParams`, `isTemplParam` and most of `replaceIdentBySym` into
a single `getIdentReplaceParams` proc. This might fix possible problems
with injections of `nkAccQuoted`.
Some special word comparison in `ast` and `semtempl` are also made more
efficient.
follow up https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/10806
Eventually we need a new option to print high level IR. It's confusing
when I'm debugging the compiler without showing `return result = 1`
using the expandArc option.
For
```nim
proc foo: int =
return 2
```
It now outputs when expanding ARC IR
```nim
proc foo: int =
return result = 2
```
fixes#22676
If csource or CI forbids it, we can always fall back to adding it to the
nonPragmaWords list. I doubt it was used outside of the system since it
was used to implement & or something for magics.
Attempts to move the generic instantiation to the module that uses it.
This should decrease re-compilation times as the source module where the
generic lives doesnt need to be recompiled
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Co-authored-by: ringabout <43030857+ringabout@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
Close#21742
Checking if there's any side-effects and if just changing typeRel is
adequate for this issue before trying to look into related ones.
`skipBoth` is also not that great, it can lead to code that works
sometimes but fails when the proc is instantiated with branching
aliases. This is mostly an issue with error clarity though.
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Co-authored-by: SirOlaf <unknown>
Co-authored-by: SirOlaf <>
Close#17509
Current knowledge:
- delaying cache fixes the issue
- changing return of `if inst.len < key.len:` in `searchInstTypes` to
`continue` fixes the issue. With return the broken types are also cached
over and over
Related issues are completely unaffected as of now, so there must be
something deeper.
I am also still trying to find the true cause, so feel free to ignore
for now
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Co-authored-by: SirOlaf <>
