The GC supported allocation for an array of objects where
the first one provides a tag, but at this point it was
used only in some corners. Change those corner and simplify
the GC by removing support for arrays of tagged objects.
The main corner to clean up is in the handling of a macro-expansion
observer and inferred names. Move those into the compile-time
environment. It's possible that name inference has been
broken by the changes, but in addition to passing the tests,
the generated bytecode for the base collections is exactly the
same as before the change.
First bug:
When the optimize converts
(let-values ([(X ...) (values M ...)])
....)
to
(let ([X M] ...)
....)
it incorrectly attached a virtual timestamp to each "[X M]" binding
that corresponds to the timestamp after the whole `(values M ...)`.
The solution is to approximate tracking the timestamp for invidual
expressions.
Second bug:
The compiler could reorder a continuation-capturing expression past
an allocation.
The solution is to track allocations with a new virtual clock.
Make `eval-syntax`, `compile-syntax`, and `expand-syntax` more
consistent (with intent and each other) by not installing a fallback
automatically. In particular, a fallback is not installed for a
`module` form, so that different ways of expanding a `module` form
produce consistent results (e.g., for ambiguous bindings).
Test added in 8ee717520f was broken, because it used
`(current-milliseconds)` instead of `(current-ienxact-milliseconds)`
to construct an argument to`alarm-evt`'
Refine the changes in 16c198805b so that `(define id ... id ... )` at
the top level compiles more consistently when `id` is an identifier
whose lexical context does not include `#%top`.
When `compile` is used on a top-level definition, do not
create a binding in the current namespace, but arrange for
a suitable binding to be in place for the target namespace.
Closes#1036
This repair adjusts the bug fix of commit 769ad3e98. That older commit
ensured that `sync/enable-break` doesn't both break and accept a
channel message or semaphore wait. But it effectively disables those
actions if the break is continued.
Instead of (partially!) ending the `sync` get out of semaphore
and channel queues so that no event can be selected during
the break, and then get back in line if the break is continued.
When a path is made relative for marshaling to bytecode, record
a list of byte strings in stead of a platform-specific relative
path.
For syntax-object source locations, convert any non-relative path to a
string that shows just the last couple of path elements preceded by
".../". This conversion avoids embedding absolute paths in bytecode,
but at the cost of some information. A more complete and consistent
solution would invove using a module-path index instead of a path, but
that would be a big change at several layers.
The `prop:expansion-contexts` property can control the expansion
of a rename transformer in much the same that conditionals on
`(syntax-local-context)` can control the expansion of other
transformers.
The `from` string argument is converted to a regexp and cached. When `from` is
a mutable string this can cause wrong results in the following calls
to string-replace. So the string is first converted to an immutable string to
be used as the key for the cache.
Progress toward making the bytecode compiler deterministic, so that a
fresh `make base` always produces exactly the same bytecode from the
same sources. Most changes involve avoiding hash-table order
dependencies and adjusting scope identity. The namespace used to load
a reader extension is also better defined. Plus many other little
changes.
The identity of a scope that is unmarshaled from a bytecode file now
incorporates the hash of the file, and the relative order of scopes is
preserved in a bytecode file. This combination allows compilation to
start with modules that loaded and compiled in different orders
(including delayed loading of bytecode fragments within one file).
Formerly, a reader extension triggered by `#lang` or `#reader` was
loaded in whatever namespace happens to be current. That's
unpredictable and can pollute a module build at the level of bytecode.
To help make builds deterministic, reader extensions are now loaded in
a root namespace of the current namespace.
Deterministic compilation in general relies on deterministic macros.
The two most common ways for a macro to be non-deterministic are by
using `gensym` (use `generate-temporaries`, instead) and by using an
unsorted hash-table traversal (don't do that).
At this point, bytecode generation is unlikely to be completely
deterministic, since I uncovered non-determinism mostly by iterating
attempts over the base collections. For now, the intent is not to
provide guarantees outside of the compilation of the base collections
--- but "more deterministic" is likely to be useful in the short run,
and we can improve further in the long run.
Nested splicing forms would lead to an "ambigious binding" error
when the nested forms bind the same name, such as in
(splicing-let ([a 1])
(splicing-let ([a 2])
(define x a)))
The problem is that splicing is implemented by adding a scope to
everything in the form's body, but removing it back off the
identifiers of a definition (so the `x` above ends up with no new
scopes). Meanwhile, a splicing form expands to a set of definitions,
where the locally bound identifier keeps the extra scope (unlike
definitions from the body). A local identifier for a nested splicing
form would then keep the inner scope but lose the outer scope, while
a local identifier from the outer splicing form would keep the outer
scope but no have the inner one --- leading to ambiguity.
The solution in this commit is to annotate a local identifier for a
splicing form with a property that says "intended to be local", so the
nested definition will keep the scope for the outer splicing form as
well as the inner one. It's not clear that this is the right approach,
but it's the best idea I have for now.
Although `eval-syntax` is not supposed to add the current namespace's
"outer edge" scope, it must add the "inner edge" scope to be consistent
with adding the inner edge to every intermediate expansion (as in
other definition contexts).
In addition, `eval`, `eval-syntax`, `expand`, and `expand-syntax`
did not cooperate properly with `local-expand` on the inner edge.
Genereating a use-site scope, instead of a macro-introduction scope,
prevents the scope's presense from triggering a #f result from
`syntax-original?`.
Formerly, compiling a definition in one namespace and evaluating it in
another would cause the definition to take place in the original
namespace --- unless the compiled code is marshaled to a byte string
and back. Adjust the "linking" process to redirect the variable
definition and any references to the new namespace. (This is a change
relative to the compiler with the old macro expander.)
Also, repair a compiled `require` form along similar lines. (This is
*not* a change relative to the compiler with the old macro expander;
the mismatch is part of the motivation for changing `define`
handling.)
