This makes sure that we catch all leftover instances of using SYB to do generic operations that we should be using Polyplate for instead. Most modules should only import Data, and possibly Typeable.
This may seem like an odd change, but it simplifies the logic a lot. I kept having problems with passes not operating on externals (e.g. functions-to-procs, adding array sizes, constant folding in array dimensions) and adding a special case every time to also process the externals was getting silly.
Putting the externals in the AST therefore made sense, but I didn't want to just add dummy bodies as this would cause them to throw up errors (e.g. in the type-checking for functions). So I turned the bodies into a Maybe type, and that has worked out well.
I also stopped storing the formals in csExternals (since they are now in csNames, and the tree), which streamlined that nicely, and stopped me having to keep them up to date.
All the passes now have their information (name, pre-requisites and post- properties) stored at the point where the pass is declared, which means the pass lists are just a simple list of pass functions.
The main consequence of this change was that the tests had to be changed. Now, instead of taking a "pass applied to data" item (type: PassM b), they take both the pass (type: Pass) and source data (type: b), and apply them later. This was the decision that involved the simplest changes to the existing tests (simply unbracketing the application of the pass to the source). I also had to include a few old-style versions though (testPass', testPassShouldFail') for where the functions were being used to test things that weren't actually passes (mainly StructureOccam).
Fixes#48
NameType is only really needed in the parser, so this takes it out of
NameDef, meaning that later passes defining names no longer need to
set an arbitrary NameType for them. The parser gets slightly more
complicated (because some productions now have to return a SpecType
and a NameType too), but lots of other code gets simpler.
The code that removed free names was the only thing outside the parser
using NameType, and it now makes a more sensible decision based on the
SpecType. Since unscoped names previously didn't have a SpecType at
all, I've added an Unscoped constructor to it and arranged matters
such that unscoped names now get a proper entry in csNames.
Fixes#61.
This changes the Traversal API to the one that I've been working on in
the Polyplate branch, but implemented in terms of Data. The
performance isn't as good as the Polyplate version, but the code is a
lot simpler because it doesn't need all the type constraints (and it
doesn't make GHC struggle).
This also reworks all the passes in Tock to use the new API, including
those that previously used makeGeneric (which I've now removed) or
everywhereM. Most of the passes are simpler because of this, and I
suspect it's fixed a few subtle bugs resulting from missing recursion
in makeGeneric code.
I haven't yet profiled this, but subjectively it seems about the same
as the old Traversal (and thus faster for all the passes that didn't
yet use it).
This patch hides all the old typeOfExpression, typeOfName, typeOfVariable, etc, and unifies them into a single type-class with an "astTypeOf" function. The type-class is currently named Typed, but that can easily be changed (it's only explicitly referred to in the Types module). The patch is essentially the type-class with a giant find-and-replace on the other modules.
It's redundant, since you can always compute them from the variable, and it
makes the code that deals with actuals rather cleaner.
On the other hand, it slightly complicates some of the tests, because any names
you use in an Actual need to be defined...
All it did was to make a list of the Procs generated by parsToProcs, so
parsToProcs may as well just do the same job itself.
The reason I'd made it a separate pass originally was that I wanted to
optimise out the wrapper when the child of a Par was already a ProcCall.
That optimisation isn't going to be possible any more with the new CCSP,
since wrappers have to fetch their arguments in a different way from
ordinary Procs.
Previously, assignments of records were directly flattened into assignment of each of the fields. Now, we instead generate a copy_<recordname> inline procedure for each record definition, and compile code that uses that (for C++, we could even make this an operator= implementation later on). This allows us to re-use the proc later in the C/C++ backends if needed.
This patch is actually an amalgam of multiple (already large) patches. Those patches conflicted (parameterised Structured vs. changes to usage checking and FlowGraph) and encountered a nasty bug in darcs 1 involving exponential time (see http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/ConflictsFAQ for more details). Reasoning that half an hour (of 100% CPU use) was too long to apply patches, I opted to re-record the parameterised Structured changes as this new large patch. Here are the commit messages originally used for the patches (which, as mentioned, were already large patches):
A gigantic patch switching all the non-test modules over to using parameterised A.Structured
Changed the FlowGraph module again to handle any sort of Structured you want to pass to it (mainly for testing)
A further gigantic patch changing all the tests to work with the new parameterised Structured
Fixed a nasty bug involving functions being named incorrectly inside transformInputCase
Added a hand-written instance of Data for Structured that allows us to use ext1M properly
Fixed a few warnings in the code
