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Andreas Rumpf c87926dadf IC: more bugfixes (#26141)
Grinding a small figdraw-based program under `nim ic` and diffing its
output against the classic backend surfaced eight bugs, four of which
silently produced a wrong binary rather than an error.

Frontend / build graph (`deps.nim`):

* Dead `when`-guarded imports were compiled anyway. `when someStrdefine
== "x": import y` is `cvUnknown` to the scanner, which conservatively
keeps the edge — right for an edge, but it also gave `y` its own `nim m`
rule, so a build died on a package the user never installed because they
never selected that backend. Track which edges are speculative and drop
a speculative subtree that cannot compile; if the guard was in fact
live, the discovery fixpoint puts the node back with the honest `cannot
open file`.
* Deleting a still-imported module went unnoticed: no mtime moves, so
nothing re-fires and `nim ic` relinked a stale binary while `nim c`
reported `cannot open file`. Report an unresolvable import from a
non-speculatively reached module during the graph scan.
* Macro-generated imports were discovered once and then forgotten.
Discovery only ran after a failure and the graph is re-derived
statically every run, so on a warm build the discovered module had no
rules at all and editing it changed nothing. Seed the graph from the
`.s.deps` sidecars up front.
* Config changes invalidated nothing. nifmake decides staleness from
file mtimes and never looks at a rule's command line, so `-d:foo=bar` /
`--mm:` / `--threads:` regenerated the build file with the new switches
and re-fired zero rules. Reify the configuration as a file and make it
an input of every rule.
* Command-line switches never reached the children: they replay the
project's config files, never the driver's argv, so `nim ic --opt:speed`
produced a byte-identical debug binary (likewise `--panics`,
`--experimental`, `--passC`). Forward the driver's switches, minus the
ones that must differ per child.

Artifacts and codegen:

* A failed `nim m` still wrote its `.s.bif` and cookies, so nifmake saw
the rule as satisfied on the next run: `nim ic` then reported success
for a program that does not compile, and generated code from
error-bearing AST (or hit an internal error in `ccgexprs`). Never
persist an artifact when `errorCounter > 0`.
* Top-level destructors were never injected. `sfInjectDestructors` lives
on the module symbol, which `moduleFromNifFile` rebuilds from scratch,
so `genTopLevelStmt` skipped `injectDestructorCalls` entirely: a
module-level `block: let h = openHandle()` never ran `=destroy`. Persist
the flag as a `(modflags)` record. `injectdestructors` also has to
tolerate the `nkReplayAction` entries the loader prepends to `topLevel`.
* `nfFirstWrite` / `nfLastRead` were dropped by the serializer. A sym
node is written as a bare NIF `SymUse` token, which has nowhere to put
node flags, so the frontend's move analysis never reached the backend:
EVERY first assignment to a destructor-bearing local compiled as
`=sink`, i.e. `=destroy` on still-zeroed memory followed by a copy, and
no read was ever a move. Wrap a sym use in `(nflags ...)` when it
carries persistent node flags.
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This directory contains the test cases.

Each test must have a filename of the form: t*.nim

Note: Testament is only aware of tests under a directory (eg tests/foo/) and will ignore top-level tests like tests/tbar.nim.

Specs

Each test can contain a spec in a discard """ ... """ block.

Check out the parseSpec procedure in the specs module for a full and reliable reference

action

Specifies what action this test should take.

Default: run

Options:

  • compile - compiles the module and fails the test if compilations fails.
  • run - compiles and runs the module, fails the test if compilation or execution of test code fails.
  • reject - compiles the module and fails the test if compilation succeeds.

There are certain spec keys that imply run, including output and outputsub.

Categories

Each folder under this directory represents a test category, which can be tested by running koch tests pcat <category> (or cat to avoid parallel testing, which is slower).

The folder dll contains simple DLL tests.

The folder realtimeGC contains a test for validating that the realtime GC can run properly without linking against the nimrtl.dll/so.