ref #26144
The C backend must not use `sfNeverRaises` to remove exception checks
from
virtual method calls. The flag describes only the selected base method
body,
while a vtable override may raise a catchable exception.
This change makes `canRaiseDisp` conservative for `skMethod` symbols and
adds a
regression test covering an exception raised by a child method invoked
through a
base reference.
(cherry picked from commit 8cb406cd7a)
Fixes#11797.
Imported scalar and pointer aliases inherit their external C spelling,
but
receive a different Nim symbol. Signature hashing previously used that
symbol
identity, so aliases that emit exactly the same C type could produce
different
backend names for tuples, sequences, and other generic types.
For example, `cint` and `type CIntAlias = cint` both emit `int`, but
`seq[cint]` and `seq[CIntAlias]` could be emitted as incompatible C
structs.
The Nim type checker nevertheless permits assignments and calls between
them,
causing the generated C or C++ compilation to fail.
This changes the backend hash to use the external type spelling when
available.
A symbol-based fallback remains for imported types without a resolved
spelling.
The change deliberately does not collapse imported types into their
underlying
Nim builtin. Types such as `pid_t`, imported pointers with qualifiers,
and
platform typedefs may require distinct backend representations.
## NIF and incremental compilation
This does not change NIF serialization, NIF type keys, or the IC cache
format.
The bug is in backend type-name generation. An IC regression test is
included
to ensure that the corrected backend identity is preserved when
compilation
passes through the NIF pipeline.
## Tests
The regressions cover:
- tuple and sequence assignments between an imported type and its alias
- cross-module sequence parameters and mutation
- C and C++ backends
- NIF-backed incremental compilation
Existing C-type tests were also run under C/C++, refc, and ARC.
## Remaining scope
This does not solve the broader question of compatibility between
imported and
builtin types that have different backend identities, such as
`seq[cdouble]` and `seq[float]`. That remains tracked by #19374.
(cherry picked from commit 33ee586913)
fixes#25992
```nim
type
Foo = object
case kind: bool
of true:
a: ref Bar # 8 bytes (pointer)
of false:
b: int # 4 bytes
```
specializeResetT for b emits accessor.b = 0 — writes 4 bytes
But the union is 8 bytes wide (sized by the largest branch)
The remaining 4 bytes where a used to live are untouched
Those stale bytes could contain a heap pointer the GC traces → crash
Add nimZeroMem after specializeResetN for case objects to clear the
entire union including unused branch bytes.
(cherry picked from commit 16920b56d1)
(cherry picked from commit 84a5613c35)
In the JS backend `toOpenArray` used `slice` (a copy), so writes through
a `var openArray` parameter silently vanished.
This emits `subarray` (a live shared-buffer view) for homogeneous
numeric arrays, otherwise such parameters are passed as a `{base, off,
len}` view that always aliases the caller's storage. Sliced seq/array
args become `{base, off, len}`, whole values `{base, off:0, len}`,
re-slices rebase.
Un-skips the JS guard in tests/openarray/topenarray.nim
Fixes#15952.
(cherry picked from commit bd95f88f74)
fixes#26124
The fix preserves the resolved static value, allowing constant folding.
Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
(cherry picked from commit dc242e9027)
fixes#26123
`cast[T](x)` is a transparent path expression for compiler analysis.
Previously, move/alias analysis could fail to see a later use through a
cast and incorrectly mark the source as moved, causing the issue’s
segmentation fault.
for views,
https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual_experimental.html#view-types-path-expressions:
A cast expression cast[T](e) is a path expression.
It also affects skipConvDfa, isAnalysableFieldAccess, and aliases. And I
might narrow it down for the two cases above mentioned if it causes
problems
(cherry picked from commit f1256ddcf4)
fixes#25992
```nim
type
Foo = object
case kind: bool
of true:
a: ref Bar # 8 bytes (pointer)
of false:
b: int # 4 bytes
```
specializeResetT for b emits accessor.b = 0 — writes 4 bytes
But the union is 8 bytes wide (sized by the largest branch)
The remaining 4 bytes where a used to live are untouched
Those stale bytes could contain a heap pointer the GC traces → crash
Add nimZeroMem after specializeResetN for case objects to clear the
entire union including unused branch bytes.
(cherry picked from commit 16920b56d1)
…haracterization with--warning:ResultUsed:on
fixes#26062
> A return statement with no expression is shorthand for return result.
> ResultUsed: Warn about the usage of the built-in result variable.
> A procedure that does not have any return statement and does not use
the special result variable returns the value of its last expression.
(cherry picked from commit 0ec8682abe)
`unapplyBlockContext` reset `inEnforcedGcSafe` and
`inEnforcedNoSideEffects` to false whenever a `{.cast(gcsafe).}` or
`{.cast(noSideEffect).}` block ended. When such a block is nested inside
another block of the same cast, the inner block's exit switched
enforcement back on for the rest of the enclosing block, so statements
lexically inside the outer cast were rejected.
The fix saves both flags in `PragmaBlockContext` when the block context
is created and restores the saved values on exit. That matches how every
other piece of block state there (`locked`, `exc`, `tags`, `forbids`) is
already handled; these two bools were the only ones reset to a constant
instead of restored.
No change for non-nested blocks: entering from the non-enforced state
saves false, so exit still clears the flag. A statement after the outer
block is still rejected as before.
Test covers nested `cast(gcsafe)` and nested `cast(noSideEffect)`.
`tests/effects` passes unchanged (49/49, same as stock).
(cherry picked from commit f4e8e04cd0)
## Summary
- nimpretty with non-default \--indent\ (e.g. 3 or 10) produced invalid
indentation in if/block/try expression regions because layouter kept the
original column when \keepIndents > 0\ and ignored \indWidth\.
- Rebase the column onto \indWidth\ using the relative offset from the
enclosing block baseline (\indentStack[^1]\).
## Root cause
\parser.nim\'s \
imprettyDontTouch\ template sets \keepIndents\ for if/block/try
expressions. layouter in the \keepIndents > 0\ branch used \ ok.indent\
(source column) directly as \indentLevel\ without scaling by \indWidth\,
so lines in these regions kept the original column and misaligned with
the rest of the file when \--indent\ differed from source indent width.
## Fix
\\\
im
em.indentLevel = em.indentStack.high * em.indWidth +
(tok.indent - em.indentStack[^1])
\\\
Keeps the relative offset from the enclosing block baseline but rebases
onto \indWidth\. At default \--indent:2\ the offset equals \indWidth\,
so output is unchanged (backwards compatible).
## Testing
- 12 custom cases x 3 indent values (2/3/10) = 36/36 pass
- nimpretty self-test suite 7/7 pass (no regression at default indent)
- 5 keepIndents scenarios (if/block/try expression continuation
alignment) that failed at indent:3/10 now pass
Fixes#20078.
(cherry picked from commit 1e82deb73d)
fixes#25942fixes#25938
After a successful match to a concrete static T, normalizes an empty
static container literal to the formal payload type before binding it.
This prevents `static[set[empty]]({})` from leaking into the
instantiated proc body.
(cherry picked from commit 234f01510f)
fixes#26045;
fixes#26046
The fix isolates compiler option state while semantically checking each
when nimvm branch.
compiler/semexprs.nim:2745 snapshots the option stack, compiler options,
diagnostics settings, and enabled features. It analyzes one branch and
restores that state in finally. Both the nimvm and else branches use
this function.
This prevents:
```nim
when nimvm:
{.push overflowChecks: off.}
```
from disabling overflow checks in following runtime code. It also means
a {.pop.} in the opposite branch correctly reports that it has no
corresponding {.push.}.
(cherry picked from commit f6651e6c70)
`distinctBase` results in typedesc, so `set[T.distinctBase]` received
`typedesc[range[...]]` as its element type, which `isOrdinalType`
rejects. Strip the wrapper in `semSet` before storing the element type
and checking ordinality.
Also add `tyFromExpr` to the deferred-check set so the error doesn't
fire prematurely inside generic bodies - same pattern already used by
`semArray`.
(cherry picked from commit 2d81149294)
fixes#26010
Cursors do not own their values and therefore cannot transfer ownership
through move.
Reject move(cursor) during semantic analysis and share the
cursor-location check
between semantic analysis and destructor injection.
(cherry picked from commit 99a696e0c4)
Fixes#23615
## Root cause
The leak does not require async at all -- this minimal closure iterator
leaks the exception and its stacktrace seq under ARC/ORC:
```nim
iterator it(): int {.closure.} =
try:
yield 1 # try spanning a yield => closureiters transform
raise newException(ValueError, "x")
except ValueError: # typed except => generated `of` check
discard
yield 2
```
A bare `except:` does not leak; a *typed* `except` does:
1. `collectExceptState` in `compiler/closureiters.nim` generates the
except-branch type check as `of(getCurrentException(), T)`, using the
raw generic magic sym from `getSysMagic("of", mOf)`.
2. `injectdestructors` skips call arguments whose *formal* parameter
type is `isCompileTimeOnly`, and the raw generic `of` sym's formal
params are `tyGenericParam` so both arguments of the generated `of` call
are never processed.
3. `getCurrentException()` increfs `currException` via `=copy` into its
result. Since the arc pass never wraps that owned temp in a destroy
(`--expandArc` shows the condition left untouched, while a user-written
`if f() of ValueError` in the same iterator gets a `:tmpD` +
`=destroy`), the caught exception's refcount stays +1 forever.
Every `try: await x() except SomeError` in async code has this shape, so
each caught async exception leaked once.
## Fix
The state-machine wrapper already stores the active exception in the
`:curExc` env field before jumping to the except landing state, and
`currException == :curExc` on every path into that state. The generated
condition now references the env field via `ctx.newCurExcAccess()`
instead of calling `getCurrentException()` again -- no ownership
transfer, no temp to destroy, one fewer runtime call.
Note: the underlying `injectdestructors` behavior (skipping args of
calls whose formal params are raw `tyGenericParam`, e.g. from
`getSysMagic`) is a separate latent gap that could affect other
compiler-generated code; it is intentionally left untouched here.
## Valgrind, before and after
Exact code and command from the issue, on Linux (Valgrind 3.19):
```
nim c -d:danger --mm:orc --debugger:native --threads:off -d:useMalloc bug.nim
valgrind --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all ./bug
```
Before (devel):
```
==14663== HEAP SUMMARY:
==14663== in use at exit: 136 bytes in 2 blocks
==14663== total heap usage: 22 allocs, 20 frees, 116,466 bytes allocated
==14663==
==14663== 56 bytes in 1 blocks are indirectly lost in loss record 1 of 2
==14663== at 0x488A1C4: realloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:1437)
==14663== by 0x10C663: prepareSeqAddUninit (seqs_v2.nim:212)
==14663== by 0x10CF6F: raiseExceptionEx (excpt.nim:538)
==14663== by 0x11661F: amain::amainX20X28AsyncX29_(Future<void>) (bug.nim:10)
==14663== ...
==14663==
==14663== 136 (80 direct, 56 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 2 of 2
==14663== at 0x48850C8: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:381)
==14663== by 0x10C8E3: nimNewObj (arc.nim:122)
==14663== by 0x115403: err::errX20X28AsyncX29_(Future<void>) (asyncmacro.nim:274)
==14663== by 0x116027: err::errNimAsyncContinue(Future<void>, ClosureIt<void>) (asyncmacro.nim:44)
==14663== by 0x1163D3: bug::err (bug.nim:3)
==14663== ...
==14663==
==14663== LEAK SUMMARY:
==14663== definitely lost: 80 bytes in 1 blocks
==14663== indirectly lost: 56 bytes in 1 blocks
==14663== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==14663== still reachable: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==14663== ERROR SUMMARY: 1 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
```
After (this PR):
```
==14675== HEAP SUMMARY:
==14675== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==14675== total heap usage: 22 allocs, 22 frees, 116,466 bytes allocated
==14675==
==14675== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==14675==
==14675== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
```
## Testing
- New `tests/async/t23615.nim` (modeled on `t23212.nim`: `valgrind:
true` + alloc-stats assertion) covers both the pure closure-iterator
form and the async form from the issue, with the caught exception looped
50x so the leak blows well past the slack threshold. It passes with this
PR and fails against devel.
- Testament categories `async`, `arc`, `iter`, `exception` all pass with
the patched compiler (323 tests).
- Behavior is unchanged on a sanity program covering multi-branch
dispatch, `as e` binding, nested try, and re-raise across yields: output
is byte-identical to devel; the patched build just frees 2 more blocks
per caught exception.
(cherry picked from commit 8e8f8de1ab)
…pile time
fixes#26000
vm: preserve lvalues for mutations of broadcast array elements
Load in-place mutation targets through their address so mutations don't
operate on detached copies of broadcast defaults. This also preserves
nested lvalues and evaluates indexed destinations only once.
Cover sequence, string, and set mutations through direct, nested, field,
enum-indexed, and range-indexed array elements.
(cherry picked from commit 2915691515)
fix#25976
Initialize tagEffects for proc types that declare .forbids but omit
.tags,
so they behave like explicit tags: [] during indirect-call effect
tracking.
Add a regression for the nested callback assignment case.
(cherry picked from commit 4b1444e728)
fixes#25886fixes#25883
See #25883
Tuples only hash leaves so if 2 tuples have the same flattened
representation they collide in the C codegen.
Fix by hashing the length as well to disambiguate nesting levels.
---------
Co-authored-by: ringabout <43030857+ringabout@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit e50fafc971)
fix#25608
This pull request improves how the compiler handles warnings for
implicit range conversions, ensuring that only non-constant values
trigger downsizing warnings. It also adds new test cases to verify that
assignments and function calls involving compile-time constants do not
produce unnecessary warnings.
Improvements to range conversion warnings:
* Updated the logic in `compiler/sempass2.nim` to skip implicit range
conversion warnings for compile-time constants by checking if an
expression is constant with `getConstExpr`. Now, only non-constant
values will trigger the warning.
Testing enhancements:
* Added new test cases in `tests/range/timplicitrangedownsizing.nim` to
confirm that assignments and function calls with constant enum and
integer values do not trigger downsizing warnings.
(cherry picked from commit c70a4502d2)
Explicit `=sink` calls such as `Isolated[T].=sink` can delegate to a
field type like `float`, which has no attached sink op. In that case
`replaceHookMagic` leaves the builtin `mAsgn` call in place.
`genMagicExpr` did not lower that shape, which caused the regression.
Mapping `=sink` to `nkSinkAsgn` and other builtin assignment hooks to
`nkAsgn`.
(cherry picked from commit 985b1125b1)
fixes#25945
When `@[]` appears inside a nested `if` expression that also contains
statements, the AST wraps it in `nkStmtListExpr` nodes. The empty
container's `tyEmpty` element type was never resolved to a concrete
type, causing the C codegen to ICE with "cannot map the empty seq type
to a C type".
Walk through nested statement-list/block expressions in
`fitNodePostMatch` to find the innermost value node and propagate the
formal type to empty containers.
(cherry picked from commit a0e44d7aca)
fixes#25931
This fix addresses bug #25931 — a signature hash collision with
importc-aliased pointer/cstring types.
The problem: In compiler/sighashes.nim, the hashType procedure
canonicalizes types for signature hashing. Integral types
(tyInt..tyUInt64, etc.) were excluded from canonicalization so that
types like pid_t (an importc alias) keep their backend spelling. But
pointer and cstring types with importc annotations were not excluded —
meaning a type like:
type N {.importc: "const void *".} = pointer
...would be collapsed to just pointer in the signature hash, causing
collisions when N and pointer are both used in procedure types within
the same compilation unit.
The fix (compiler/sighashes.nim:193): Adds tyPointer and tyCstring to
the list of types that skip canonicalization, right alongside the
integral types. The comment is updated to clarify this applies to
"builtin scalar-ish / pointer-like types".
The test (tests/ccgbugs/tsighash_typename_regression.nim:33-42): Adds a
regression test exercising the exact scenario — an importc pointer alias
used in both an object field type and a proc parameter type.
(cherry picked from commit 056eeeae30)
fixes#25908
When an enum identifier is resolved as an `nkSymChoice`, one of the
candidates may come from a loop-local view and carry `tyVar` or
`tyLent`.
Enum disambiguation should compare the underlying enum type only.
Otherwise a pure-enum field can win incorrectly even though the intended
symbol is already present in the choice set.
Keep the `includePureEnum` lookup path for enum-typed expectations so
#23976 still works, but normalize `var`/`lent` only at the symchoice
selection point.
(cherry picked from commit 6eef0cc2d5)
closureiters.nim splits a stmt list at yield points, moving post-yield
code into a new state body. When that stmt list was inside a pragma
block like `{.cast(uncheckedAssign).}`, the new state's body was created
as a bare nkStmtList without the wrapper.
Fix: track the enclosing pragma block in the transform context, and wrap
newly-created state bodies in a copy of it when the split occurs inside
one. Added an explicit `nkPragmaBlock` case to
`transformClosureIteratorBody` that saves/restores `ctx.enclosingPragma`
around its body.
(cherry picked from commit f8e470eb57)
fixes #22122
The commit fixes a bug in Nim's effects checker where raise statements
with case/if expressions (commonly from template expansion) failed to
track exception types from individual branches.
Problem: addRaiseEffect only saw the outermost expression. When a
template like getTransportError(err) expanded to a case expression
raising 3 different exception types, the compiler only registered the
top-level call — missing the branch-level exceptions.
Fix (2 files):
- compiler/sempass2.nim: Added skipHiddenConv to strip implicit type
coercion nodes (nkHiddenStdConv/nkHiddenSubConv) that hide the control
flow structure. Added addRaiseEffectsFromExpr that recursively walks
into case/if/block/stmtlist expressions to find raise effects in each
branch body. Changed the nkRaiseStmt handler to use this new function.
- tests/effects/tcase_raises.nim: Test with templates that expand to
case expressions raising different exception types, verified via
{.raises: [].} pragma.
(cherry picked from commit 587f90a816)
fixes#18367fixes#21222
1. In vmdef.nim:304, newCtx now sets templInstCounter: new int when it
builds TCtx.
2. vm.nim:1490 — During VM execution of templates, c.templInstCounter is
passed to evalTemplate
3. evaltempl.nim:204 — instID: instID[] dereferences the ref int
4. With a nil templInstCounter, this would crash
5. The same initialization already exists on the semantic side in
sem.nim:787, so this change makes the VM path consistent with the rest
of the compiler.
(cherry picked from commit 67707a54b5)
fixes#25903fixes#25904
`nkExceptBranch` can have variable structure depending on the exception
types and it should handle the last node of the `nkExceptBranch`
(cherry picked from commit 0f751695e4)
This pull request allows setting `--cpu:wasm64`, allowing wasm64 as a
first class target. This avoids having to set `-cpu:riscv64` as a
workaround. Sane defaults for the emscripten toolchain are also
provided.
(cherry picked from commit b44d373b7d)
I don't like it, but seems like this is correct. Concept type classes
have to behave like other "named" type classes and participate in "bind
once" mechanics or require some weird semantics. As a side note I'm
pretty sure the `tuple` example in the manual explaining this is either
wrong now or has regressed, but I don't think it matters because I doubt
anyone thinks about this feature much.
#25778
(cherry picked from commit 0448557bfe)
This PR adds 3 modes to `typeof` to specify how to handle type modifiers
`var`, `sink` and `lent`.
- typeOfModCompatible
Remove or keep type modifiers in the same way as old typeof. That means
keep `sink` but remove `var` and `lent`.
- typeOfModRemoveModifier
Remove type modifiers.
- typeOfModKeepModifier
Keep type modifiers.
Related to https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/25779https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/25786
(cherry picked from commit 48621c217f)
fixes#22122
The root cause is in the effect tracker: raise was recording the whole
conditional expression as one exception source, so semantic checking
only saw the widened common base type instead of the concrete exception
classes from each branch.
(cherry picked from commit e942da94b5)
fixes#25725
This pull request makes significant improvements to symbol handling
during transformation passes in the compiler, particularly for routines
(procedures, iterators) and their parameters. The changes ensure that
when routines are copied (for inlining, closure generation, etc.), all
relevant symbols and type headers are also freshly copied and correctly
owned, preventing subtle bugs from symbol reuse. Additionally, new
regression tests are added to cover previously problematic iterator
cases.
**Improvements to symbol copying and ownership:**
* Introduced `freshOwnedSym` to create a fresh copy of a symbol with a
specified owner, ensuring that transformed routines and their parameters
do not share symbols with the originals, which prevents accidental
aliasing and ownership issues.
* Refactored `freshVar` to use `freshOwnedSym`, centralizing fresh
symbol creation logic.
* Added `introduceNewRoutineHeaderSyms` and `copyRoutineTypeHeader` to
ensure that when routines are copied, all parameter/result symbols and
their types are also freshly copied and mapped, avoiding shared state
between original and transformed routines.
* Updated `introduceNewLocalVars` to use `freshOwnedSym` for routine
symbols and to invoke the new header/type copying procedures, ensuring
correctness in routine transformation.
**Testing and regression coverage:**
* Added new blocks to `tests/iter/titer_issues.nim` to test iterator
transformation edge cases, including scenarios that previously led to
symbol reuse bugs (e.g., bugs #25724 and #25725).
(cherry picked from commit f959a02037)
