When method prototypes were involved (e.g. forward declarations
for mutual recursion), calls were sometimes dispatched to the
wrong method implementation. One of the reasons was that method
dispatchers were then not always attached to method ASTs in
the correct place.
When creating a method dispatcher, the location of the underlying
method was copied. Under some circumstances, the name of the
location (loc.r) was already initialized, in which case the
method dispatcher shared a name with one of the methods, leading
to a C compiler error. By setting loc.r to nil when copying
the dispatcher information from the original method, we ensure
that the dispatcher C function gets its proper name.
Exception handling for the C backend used setjmp()/longjmp()
unconditionally. However, on POSIX systems, these functions save and
restore the signal mask, adding considerable overhead to exception
handling, even where no exceptions are involved. The compiler and
library now try to use either _setjmp()/_longjmp() or
sigsetjmp()/siglongjmp() where possible, marked by the defines
"nimRawSetjmp" and "nimSigSetjmp", respectively. The define
"nimStdSetjmp" can be used to revert to setjmp()/longjmp() instead.
When a C variable or macro is imported via an {.importc.} var or
let statement, but no definition is needed and the variable does
not have an initializer part, then there is also no need to generate
an #include for the associated header until and unless the variable
is actually used. The header is already generated upon use, but
unnecessarily also when the variable is defined.
This is an issue with the posix module in particular, where a lot
of unnecessary header files are being included because relevant
constants are defined via importc vars, and those header files
may not even be available on a given system.
This patch omits the generation of the #include directive for those
definitions where they aren't needed.
A staticExec() invocation that generated more than the internal
buffer size worth of output blocked because the compiler waited
for the process to terminate before reading the output.
