diff --git a/TODO.org b/TODO.org
index 081c65c5..61cc6ec3 100644
--- a/TODO.org
+++ b/TODO.org
@@ -549,13 +549,10 @@ dispatch values. With single dispatch on literal values there is no specificity
question, and inheritance or multiple dispatch would create one. Unknown-slot
checking needs class-typed tracking the dyn side deliberately does not have.
-** NEXT update-instance-for-redefined-class, the user hook
-Decided 2026-09-25: build it after typed class slots land, shaped for the REPL — written and installed from a live session as a one-time "here is how to migrate this", without restarting. It receives the instance with the added and discarded slots and their old values, and runs at each instance's lazy migration. A hook that signals parks in the break buffer with a restart that falls back to name-matching migration.
-Left out of v1 because name matching is the half that makes redefinition usable
-and the hook is what makes it expressive. The obvious spelling is a generic riding
-the dispatch that exists, and the migration already computes both the added and
-the discarded lists. Rolling a failed migration back becomes a real question the
-day this lands.
+** DONE update-instance-for-redefined-class, the user hook
+CLOSED: [2026-09-25]
+Taking =migrate-by-name= keeps the name-matched instance, not SBCL's obsolete one,
+and retries nothing; a transfer from the method to a restart below it traps.
** DONE The module system stays directory-as-package
Several files in one directory are one module; a loose file is a module of one,
@@ -1367,7 +1364,7 @@ sibling".
** DONE A redefined defclass migrates its instances lazily
CLOSED: [2026-09-20]
-CLHS 4.3.6 minus the user hook. Nothing is enumerated and no heap is walked — the
+CLHS 4.3.6. Nothing is enumerated and no heap is walked — the
redefinition is constant time and each instance pays once, at its next touch.
Neither printer migrates, so a stale instance shows its old slots to the editor
until something touches it. The registry is advisory: a key the class never
@@ -1976,18 +1973,10 @@ specification's own branch — the flag is the command and the printed shape is
error pattern, so anyone who wants one has the four lines, and the manual carries
them.
-** NEXT defclass slots take types, checked on write
-Decided 2026-09-25: slots are name/type pairs checked on write; an untyped slot stays legal and holds any =dyn=. A migration keeps a stored value that no longer fits the new type, warns once, and the next write is checked. One lane with the =set= entry below.
-=(defclass State [pause bool step bool])= reads as four untyped slots and
-reports a duplicate =bool=. Wanted: the slot list is name/type pairs, as CLOS
-does it. The type is a declaration about the values and not a layout — an
-instance stays a map, so redefinition and lazy migration are unchanged. SBCL
-checks it on write (=src/pcl/slots.lisp:160=, the typecheck before the store),
-which is where the bad value is, so =put= is the site here.
-
-Open: what migration does with a stored value that no longer fits a changed
-slot type, and whether an untyped slot stays legal (it should — =dyn= is a type
-and writing nothing should mean it).
+** DONE defclass slots take types, checked on write
+CLOSED: [2026-09-25]
+The constructor's parameters stay dyn and every store checks at run time; no int
+converts into a float slot, nil does not fit a typed slot, and a class is no slot type.
** NEXT println takes up to a second to appear
Decided 2026-09-25: the daemon pushes program output on the editor's connection as it is written. Rules out a faster poll.
@@ -1997,15 +1986,10 @@ composed, so anything the program prints after that waits for the next tick.
Polling faster costs a request a second for nothing most of the time; the
daemon pushing on its own connection is the other shape. Decide which.
-** NEXT set writes a class slot; put is for maps
-Decided 2026-09-25: as written; one lane with typed slots.
-=put= exists because an absent map key has no location to store into, which is
-why =(get m k)= is refused as a place (=lib/parse.ml:1159=). A class instance is
-not in that situation: its slots are fixed by the =defclass=, so a declared slot
-always exists and =(set (get state :pause) true)= is a field store like
-=(set (.velocity g) 0.0)=. Make =set= take it, and leave =put= to maps, where
-insertion is real. Writing an undeclared slot through =set= is then a refusal
-naming the class.
+** DONE set writes a class slot; put is for maps
+CLOSED: [2026-09-25]
+=put= on an instance still checks a declared slot's type and still inserts an
+undeclared key; only =set= refuses one, since a slot it writes has to exist.
** NEXT update: change a place by applying a function to it
Decided 2026-09-25: every place evaluates each of its subexpressions once, C's compound-assignment rule, which also fixes =++= and =--=; =update= is built on that. Rules out refusing side effects in a place.
diff --git a/lib/classes.ml b/lib/classes.ml
index 15b9440a..8a109288 100644
--- a/lib/classes.ml
+++ b/lib/classes.ml
@@ -49,6 +49,45 @@ let dispatch_slot = "~dispatch"
the prelude; this is the only place that builds one. *)
let no_method = "NoMethod"
+(* CLHS's update-instance-for-redefined-class: what a redefined class does to
+ each of its instances, run once per instance at the first [get], [put] or
+ [set] that reaches it after the redefinition. By then the instance already
+ holds the new slots, each kept one with its old value and each gained one
+ nil; [added] is a vec of the gained slots' keywords and [discarded] a map
+ from each lost slot's keyword to the value it held. A method is written for
+ a class, from a live session, and is how a migration does more than match
+ slots by name:
+
+ (defmethod update-instance-for-redefined-class point [p added discarded]
+ (set (get p :radius) (get discarded :r))
+ nil)
+
+ A method that signals stops in the break loop with [migrate-by-name] on
+ offer, which keeps the instance as name-matching left it.
+
+ The generic and its :else method, which does nothing, are written here
+ rather than in the prelude, and only into a program that has a class or a
+ method of the generic: a program with neither would otherwise carry a dyn
+ function and pay for the collector it never uses. [Session] registers the
+ dispatcher's body with the runtime whenever a reload could have changed
+ it. *)
+let migrate_generic = "update-instance-for-redefined-class"
+
+let migrate_decls loc : Ast.decl list =
+ let p n = { Ast.fname = n; fty = dyn_at loc; floc = loc } in
+ let fn body =
+ { Ast.name = migrate_generic;
+ params = [ p "instance"; p "added"; p "discarded" ]; praw = None;
+ ret = Some (dyn_at loc); fwhere = []; fbody = body; nloc = loc;
+ fprivate = Ast.Exported }
+ in
+ [ { Ast.d = Ast.Defgeneric (fn []); dloc = loc };
+ { Ast.d =
+ Ast.Defmethod
+ { Ast.mgen = migrate_generic; mkey = Ast.Delse;
+ mfn = fn [ ex loc (Ast.Var "nil") ]; mkloc = loc };
+ dloc = loc } ]
+
(* ── Collecting ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── *)
type generic = {
@@ -348,6 +387,27 @@ let expand (decls : Ast.decl list) : Ast.decl list =
in
if not has then decls
else begin
+ let decls =
+ let wants =
+ List.find_opt
+ (fun (d : Ast.decl) ->
+ match d.Ast.d with
+ | Ast.Defclass _ -> true
+ | Ast.Defmethod m -> String.equal m.Ast.mgen migrate_generic
+ | _ -> false)
+ decls
+ and declared =
+ List.exists
+ (fun (d : Ast.decl) ->
+ match d.Ast.d with
+ | Ast.Defgeneric f -> String.equal f.Ast.name migrate_generic
+ | _ -> false)
+ decls
+ in
+ match wants with
+ | Some d when not declared -> decls @ migrate_decls d.Ast.dloc
+ | _ -> decls
+ in
let _classes, generics = collect decls in
List.filter_map
(fun (d : Ast.decl) ->
diff --git a/lib/emit.ml b/lib/emit.ml
index 13dc14fc..b7eb36a8 100644
--- a/lib/emit.ml
+++ b/lib/emit.ml
@@ -4376,6 +4376,7 @@ declare void @flan_dyn_slot_init(i64, i64, i64)
declare void @flan_dyn_map_put(i64, i64, i64, ptr, i64)
declare i64 @flan_dyn_class_of(i64)
declare void @flan_dyn_class_def(i64, ptr, i64)
+declare void @flan_dyn_class_hook(ptr)
declare i64 @flan_dyn_kw(ptr, i64)
declare i64 @flan_dyn_map_get(i64, i64)
declare void @flan_dyn_map_set(i64, i64, i64)
diff --git a/lib/session.ml b/lib/session.ml
index c682fad7..c5681ead 100644
--- a/lib/session.ml
+++ b/lib/session.ml
@@ -965,7 +965,25 @@ let eval ?(origin = "") ?pause t src : change =
definition the registry has never seen has to arrive somehow. *)
let class_body =
let str s : Tast.expr = { Tast.e = Tast.Str s; ty = Types.String; loc } in
- List.map
+ (* And the hook a migration calls, re-registered by every module that
+ could have changed what it should be: one carrying a class, since
+ that is what makes migrations happen, and one carrying a method of
+ the generic, since that is what changes the body. The address is the
+ cell's contents at the time the thunk runs — after this module's
+ bodies are published — so it is the body just installed. *)
+ let hook =
+ let n = Classes.migrate_generic in
+ if incoming_classes <> [] || List.mem n names then
+ let ty =
+ Types.CFn ([ Types.Dyn; Types.Dyn; Types.Dyn ], Types.Dyn)
+ in
+ [ { Tast.e =
+ Tast.Prim (Tast.Rt "flan_dyn_class_hook",
+ [ { Tast.e = Tast.FnAddr (Tast.Fnval n); ty; loc } ]);
+ ty = Types.Unit; loc } ]
+ else []
+ in
+ hook @ List.map
(fun (n, slots) : Tast.expr ->
let kw : Tast.expr =
{ Tast.e = Tast.Prim (Tast.Rt "flan_dyn_kw", [ str n ]);
diff --git a/runtime/flan_dyn.c b/runtime/flan_dyn.c
index d2849afe..99472218 100644
--- a/runtime/flan_dyn.c
+++ b/runtime/flan_dyn.c
@@ -1153,8 +1153,8 @@ flan_dyn flan_dyn_map_new(void) {
*
* The registry a redefined (defclass ...) updates, and the lazy migration
* that makes the instances built against the old definition answer the new
- * one. This is CLHS 4.3.6 — [update-instance-for-redefined-class] — with the
- * user hook left out; docs/SBCL-REDEFINITION-NOTES.md is where the protocol
+ * one. This is CLHS 4.3.6, [update-instance-for-redefined-class] included —
+ * see [class_hook]; docs/SBCL-REDEFINITION-NOTES.md is where the protocol
* was read off and candidate C is this.
*
* **Why a registry at all, when a class instance is already just a map.**
@@ -1427,6 +1427,101 @@ void flan_dyn_class_def(flan_dyn name, const uint8_t *slots, int64_t n) {
class_add(k, list, types, count);
}
+/* update-instance-for-redefined-class's dispatcher, as the last reload that
+ * installed a class or one of its methods left it; NULL until then. Set by a
+ * thunk and not found by name, because the name is a Flan symbol this file
+ * cannot spell and the body behind it moves with every method added. */
+static void *migrate_fn;
+
+void flan_dyn_class_hook(void *fn) { migrate_fn = fn; }
+
+extern int (*flan_dyn_migrate_hook)(void *fn, uint64_t instance,
+ uint64_t added, uint64_t discarded);
+
+/* Allocation and the map operations are further down, under their own
+ * headings; the hook's arguments are built with them. */
+flan_dyn flan_dyn_vec_new(void);
+flan_dyn flan_dyn_map_new(void);
+void flan_dyn_push(flan_dyn v, flan_dyn x, const uint8_t *loc, int64_t loclen);
+void flan_dyn_map_set(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k, flan_dyn v);
+
+/* The user hook, run on an instance the name-matching has just brought up to
+ * date. [inst], [added] and [gone] are rooted by the caller.
+ *
+ * Two things are kept for the length of the call, because the call is
+ * arbitrary Flan and may allocate as much as it likes:
+ *
+ * - the name-matched entries, rooted, so that taking the restart puts the
+ * instance back exactly as name-matching left it, whatever the method did
+ * to it before it signalled. That is the restart's whole meaning, and it
+ * is SBCL's choice of what a failed update leaves (std-class.lisp, the
+ * nlx-protect around the call) moved one step: SBCL restores the obsolete
+ * instance and retries at the next access, where here the name-matched
+ * one is kept and nothing is retried.
+ * - the temporaries ring, saved and put back. A migration starts inside
+ * [get] or [put], whose caller may be holding an object only the ring
+ * keeps alive — the result of the call beside it in the same expression.
+ * A method that allocates more than the ring holds would push it out and
+ * let the next collection free it, so the ring is rooted for the call and
+ * restored after it, and the caller sees the ring it left. */
+static void class_hook(flan_obj *o, flan_dyn inst, flan_dyn added,
+ flan_dyn gone, int64_t n) {
+ flan_dyn *snap = NULL;
+ flan_obj *ring_was[RING];
+ flan_dyn ring_rooted[RING];
+ unsigned ring_at_was = ring_at, k;
+ int64_t j, roots_at = roots_n;
+ int r;
+ if (n > 0) {
+ snap = (flan_dyn *)malloc((size_t)n * 2 * sizeof *snap);
+ if (snap == NULL) trap_oom(NULL, 0, n * 2 * (int64_t)sizeof *snap);
+ memcpy(snap, o->u.v.items, (size_t)n * 2 * sizeof *snap);
+ for (j = 0; j < n; j++) root_add(&snap[j * 2 + 1], NULL);
+ }
+ memcpy(ring_was, ring, sizeof ring);
+ for (k = 0; k < RING; k++) {
+ ring_rooted[k] = ring[k] == NULL
+ ? dyn_make(BOX_NIL, 0)
+ : dyn_make(BOX_OBJ, (uint64_t)(uintptr_t)ring[k]);
+ root_add(&ring_rooted[k], NULL);
+ }
+ r = flan_dyn_migrate_hook(migrate_fn, inst, added, gone);
+ memcpy(ring, ring_was, sizeof ring);
+ ring_at = ring_at_was;
+ /* Nothing below allocates on the collector's heap, so the roots into
+ [snap] and this frame can go before either does. */
+ roots_n = roots_at;
+ if (r == 1) {
+ /* The restart: the entries name-matching left, in a block of their own,
+ * whatever the method grew or shrank the instance to. */
+ flan_dyn *back = NULL;
+ if (n > 0) {
+ back = (flan_dyn *)malloc((size_t)n * 2 * sizeof *back);
+ if (back == NULL) trap_oom(NULL, 0, n * 2 * (int64_t)sizeof *back);
+ memcpy(back, snap, (size_t)n * 2 * sizeof *back);
+ }
+ gc_bytes += (n - o->u.v.cap) * 2 * (int64_t)sizeof(flan_dyn);
+ free(o->u.v.items);
+ o->u.v.items = back;
+ o->u.v.cap = n;
+ o->len = n;
+ }
+ free(snap);
+ if (r == 2) {
+ kw_entry *c = o->u.v.klass;
+ fflush(stdout);
+ fprintf(stderr,
+ "dyn migrate: update-instance-for-redefined-class, migrating an "
+ "instance of %.*s, was left for a restart established outside "
+ "it. A migration runs inside get, put or set, and cannot be "
+ "left for one of their callers; the instance is kept as its "
+ "slots matched by name. Take migrate-by-name, or handle the "
+ "condition inside the method\n",
+ (int)c->len, (const char *)(c + 1));
+ flan_trap((const uint8_t *)"DynMigrate", 10);
+ }
+}
+
/* The migration. [o] is left holding exactly the class's current slots, in
* the class's order, with the values it already had for the ones it still
* has and nil for the ones it has just gained — which is precisely the
@@ -1440,8 +1535,10 @@ void flan_dyn_class_def(flan_dyn name, const uint8_t *slots, int64_t n) {
* and count in insertion order and would have. One malloc per instance per
* redefinition is the price, and a migration happens once.
*
- * Nothing here allocates on the collector's heap, so no collection can run
- * part-way through and see an object whose [len] and [items] disagree.
+ * The name-matching allocates nothing on the collector's heap, so no
+ * collection can run part-way through it and see an object whose [len] and
+ * [items] disagree. The hook's arguments are built before it starts, while
+ * [o] still holds its old entries whole, and the hook runs after it ends.
*
* Nor can it free a block something above it is walking. The block it frees
* is [o]'s, and every caller syncs [o] before it starts walking [o] — so a
@@ -1453,9 +1550,48 @@ static void class_sync(flan_obj *o) {
class_entry *e;
flan_dyn *fresh = NULL;
int64_t i, j;
+ /* The hook's three arguments, rooted by address for as long as the hook
+ * may run: each is a collector object held nowhere else. */
+ flan_dyn inst, added, gone;
+ int64_t roots_at = roots_n;
+ int hook;
if (o->kind != OBJ_MAP || o->u.v.klass == NULL) return;
e = class_find(o->u.v.klass);
if (e == NULL || e->gen == o->gen) return;
+ /* CLHS 4.3.6: the method runs on every instance a redefinition reaches,
+ * whether or not the slot names moved — a changed type is a change a
+ * method may want to convert for. */
+ hook = migrate_fn != NULL && flan_dyn_migrate_hook != NULL;
+ inst = dyn_make(BOX_OBJ, (uint64_t)(uintptr_t)o);
+ added = gone = dyn_make(BOX_NIL, 0);
+ if (hook) {
+ root_add(&inst, NULL);
+ added = flan_dyn_vec_new();
+ root_add(&added, NULL);
+ gone = flan_dyn_map_new();
+ root_add(&gone, NULL);
+ for (j = 0; j < e->nslots; j++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < o->len; i++) {
+ flan_dyn key = o->u.v.items[i * 2];
+ if (flan_dyn_tag(key) == FLAN_DYN_TAG_KEYWORD
+ && dyn_kw(key) == e->slots[j]) break;
+ }
+ if (i == o->len)
+ flan_dyn_push(added,
+ dyn_make(BOX_KW, (uint64_t)(uintptr_t)e->slots[j]),
+ NULL, 0);
+ }
+ /* Every key the class no longer declares, a raw [put]'s included:
+ * CLHS's discarded slots and their property list, as one map. */
+ for (i = 0; i < o->len; i++) {
+ flan_dyn key = o->u.v.items[i * 2];
+ int kept = 0;
+ if (flan_dyn_tag(key) == FLAN_DYN_TAG_KEYWORD)
+ for (j = 0; j < e->nslots; j++)
+ if (dyn_kw(key) == e->slots[j]) { kept = 1; break; }
+ if (!kept) flan_dyn_map_set(gone, key, o->u.v.items[i * 2 + 1]);
+ }
+ }
if (e->nslots > 0) {
fresh = (flan_dyn *)malloc((size_t)e->nslots * 2 * sizeof *fresh);
if (fresh == NULL) trap_oom(NULL, 0, e->nslots * 2 * (int64_t)sizeof *fresh);
@@ -1506,7 +1642,11 @@ static void class_sync(flan_obj *o) {
o->u.v.items = fresh;
o->u.v.cap = e->nslots;
o->len = e->nslots;
+ /* Current before the hook runs, so a method that reads or writes the
+ * instance finds it migrated and does not start a second migration. */
o->gen = e->gen;
+ if (hook) class_hook(o, inst, added, gone, e->nslots);
+ roots_n = roots_at;
}
/* The same map with a shape tag on it: what a (defclass ...) constructor
diff --git a/runtime/flan_dyn.h b/runtime/flan_dyn.h
index 8b73adf6..df8020e5 100644
--- a/runtime/flan_dyn.h
+++ b/runtime/flan_dyn.h
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ flan_dyn flan_dyn_class_of(flan_dyn v);
* [len] or equality comparison: slots the class still has keep their values
* matched by name, slots it has gained appear as nil, and keys it no longer
* declares are dropped. The instance's identity is preserved throughout;
- * this is CLHS 4.3.6 without the user hook.
+ * this is CLHS 4.3.6, and [flan_dyn_class_hook] is its user hook.
*
* The drop is unconditional, which is the honest cost of a class instance
* being an open map: a key written by a raw [put] that the class never
@@ -128,6 +128,13 @@ flan_dyn flan_dyn_class_of(flan_dyn v);
* class's intention and does not enforce it. */
void flan_dyn_class_def(flan_dyn name, const uint8_t *slots, int64_t n);
+/* The body update-instance-for-redefined-class dispatches through, as a
+ * reload last saw it. Each migration after this calls it, through
+ * flan_rt.c's [flan_dyn_migrate_hook], with the instance already matched by
+ * name. A reload that installs a class or a method of that generic calls
+ * this again, so the body is never older than the last one installed. */
+void flan_dyn_class_hook(void *fn);
+
/* [sizeof(flan_obj)], for the one test that asserts it. The generation a
* class instance carries was fitted into the padding between [mark] and
* [len] precisely so that this number did not move; a field that pushed it
diff --git a/runtime/flan_rt.c b/runtime/flan_rt.c
index 51639a60..6edc6eb8 100644
--- a/runtime/flan_rt.c
+++ b/runtime/flan_rt.c
@@ -620,6 +620,26 @@ void (*flan_break_hook)(const uint8_t *name, int64_t namelen, void *condition,
* site printed just above carries the detail. */
void (*flan_trap_hook)(const uint8_t *name, int64_t namelen);
+/* The call a class migration makes to update-instance-for-redefined-class:
+ * [fn] is the method dispatcher's current body, and the three words are the
+ * instance, the vec of slots it gained and the map of the slots it lost to
+ * the values they held — dyn words, as [uint64_t] here because this file
+ * does not include flan_dyn.h.
+ *
+ * Here and not in flan_dyn.c because it is set by the agent, and the agent
+ * must link against a program with no collector in it; and not called from
+ * here because what makes it a hook is the restart it runs under, which is
+ * the agent's business — the floor a break inside it reads is the agent's.
+ * NULL, and no hook runs, outside a dev session: a class is redefined only
+ * by a reload, and a reload only arrives through the agent.
+ *
+ * The answer is 0 when the method returned, 1 when the restart the call
+ * established was taken, and 2 when some other transfer came back through
+ * it — one aimed at a restart below the call, which a C frame cannot carry
+ * on. */
+int (*flan_dyn_migrate_hook)(void *fn, uint64_t instance, uint64_t added,
+ uint64_t discarded);
+
static _Noreturn void rt_trap(const uint8_t *name, int64_t namelen) {
if (flan_trap_hook != NULL) flan_trap_hook(name, namelen);
rt_die();
diff --git a/test/programs/dev-hook.flan b/test/programs/dev-hook.flan
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d553b3fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/programs/dev-hook.flan
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+;;;; A class redefined under its instances, with update-instance-for-
+;;;; redefined-class written from the session to carry a lost slot's value
+;;;; into a gained one. dev-classes.flan is the name-matching half; this is
+;;;; the half a method adds, and the method that signals.
+;;;;
+;;;; The instances are pushed by the editor for dev-classes.flan's reason: a
+;;;; compiled caller of the constructor would pin its slot count.
+(import agent "vendor:agent")
+
+(defclass point [x y])
+
+(defstruct Refused [why i32])
+
+(defonce instances dyn)
+
+(defn main [] i32
+ (agent/start "/tmp/flan-dev-hook-fallback.sock")
+ (set instances (vec-new dyn))
+ (dotimes [i 4000]
+ (agent/wait 5))
+ 0)
diff --git a/test/test_dev.ml b/test/test_dev.ml
index 169a2eee..401bdc88 100644
--- a/test/test_dev.ml
+++ b/test/test_dev.ml
@@ -7481,6 +7481,162 @@ let () =
List.iter (fun f -> try Sys.remove f with Sys_error _ -> ())
[ lsock2; lout2 ];
+ (* ── update-instance-for-redefined-class, written from the session ──
+ The method is written and installed while the program runs, then the
+ class is redefined, and each instance runs the method at its first
+ touch after that. On both backends, because the method is Flan code
+ the C runtime calls from inside [get], and that call is the one piece
+ of this each backend's calling convention has to agree with.
+
+ Three claims, in order: a method carries a lost slot's value into a
+ gained one; a method that signals stops the program with
+ [migrate-by-name] on offer, and taking it leaves the instance as
+ name-matching made it, the method's own write included; and a kept
+ value that no longer fits its slot's new type stays, with a warning.
+ stdout and stderr go to one file, which is where the warning is read
+ from. *)
+ let hook_block ~llvm =
+ let what = if llvm then "llvm: " else "" in
+ let hsock = tmp (if llvm then "hook-llvm.sock" else "hook.sock")
+ and hout = tmp (if llvm then "hook-llvm.out" else "hook.out") in
+ (try Sys.remove hsock with Sys_error _ -> ());
+ let hfd =
+ Unix.openfile hout [ Unix.O_WRONLY; Unix.O_CREAT; Unix.O_TRUNC ] 0o600
+ in
+ let argv =
+ Array.append
+ [| flan; "dev"; "programs/dev-hook.flan"; "-s"; hsock |]
+ (if llvm then [| "--llvm" |] else [||])
+ in
+ let hpid = Unix.create_process flan argv Unix.stdin hfd hfd in
+ Unix.close hfd;
+ let output () = In_channel.with_open_bin hout In_channel.input_all in
+ if not (listening ~pid:hpid hsock) then begin
+ fail "%sthe hook daemon %s (%S)" what !listen_why (output ());
+ (try Unix.kill hpid Sys.sigkill with Unix.Unix_error _ -> ())
+ end
+ else begin
+ let c = connect hsock in
+ let said r = Option.value ~default:"" (Wire.string_field r "message") in
+ let value r = Option.value ~default:"" (Wire.string_field r "value") in
+ let file = " :file \"programs/dev-hook.flan\")" in
+ let ask code =
+ request c (Printf.sprintf "(:op \"eval-expr\" :code %S%s" code file)
+ in
+ let redefine code =
+ request c (Printf.sprintf "(:op \"eval\" :code %S%s" code file)
+ in
+ let holds claim code =
+ let r = ask code in
+ if status r <> "ok" then fail "%s%s: %s" what claim (said r)
+ else if value r <> "1" then
+ fail "%s%s answered %S (%s)" what claim (value r) code
+ in
+ let defined claim code =
+ let r = redefine code in
+ if status r <> "ok" then (fail "%s%s: %s" what claim (said r); false)
+ else true
+ in
+ let stopped r =
+ match Wire.field r "stopped" with
+ | Some { Form.v = Form.Sym "t"; _ } -> true
+ | _ -> false
+ in
+ let started () =
+ status (ask "(do (push instances (point 3 4)) 1)") = "ok"
+ in
+ if not (await started) then
+ fail "%sthe hook daemon never reached a frame boundary" what
+ else begin
+ holds "a second instance" "(do (push instances (point 5 6)) 1)";
+ (* ── A method that carries a value across ── *)
+ if defined "a method of the migration generic, from the session"
+ "(defmethod update-instance-for-redefined-class point \
+ [p added discarded] \
+ (set (get p :radius) (get discarded :y)) nil)"
+ && defined "a class redefined under a method"
+ "(defclass point [x radius])"
+ then begin
+ holds "the method moved the lost slot's value into the new one"
+ "(if (= (get (at instances 0) :radius) 4) 1 0)";
+ holds "a kept slot is untouched by the method"
+ "(if (= (get (at instances 0) :x) 3) 1 0)";
+ holds "the lost slot is gone"
+ "(if (= (length (at instances 0)) 2) 1 0)";
+ holds "each instance runs the method at its own first touch"
+ "(if (= (get (at instances 1) :radius) 6) 1 0)"
+ end;
+ (* ── A method that signals ── *)
+ if defined "a method that signals"
+ "(defmethod update-instance-for-redefined-class point \
+ [p added discarded] \
+ (set (get p :x) 99) (error (Refused {.why 1})) nil)"
+ && defined "a class redefined under a method that signals"
+ "(defclass point [x radius z])"
+ then begin
+ let r = ask "(get (at instances 0) :x)" in
+ if status r <> "error" then
+ fail "%sa migration whose method signals answered %s" what
+ (status r);
+ let r = request c "(:op \"break\")" in
+ let names =
+ match Wire.field r "restarts" with
+ | Some { Form.v = Form.List l; _ } ->
+ List.filter_map
+ (fun (n : Form.t) ->
+ match n.Form.v with Form.Str x -> Some x | _ -> None)
+ l
+ | _ -> []
+ in
+ (match names with
+ | "migrate-by-name" :: _ -> ()
+ | _ ->
+ fail "%sthe restarts at a signalling method: %s" what
+ (String.concat ", " names));
+ let r = request c "(:op \"restart\" :name \"migrate-by-name\")" in
+ if status r <> "ok" then
+ fail "%smigrate-by-name was refused: %s" what (said r);
+ if not
+ (await (fun () -> not (stopped (request c "(:op \"describe\")"))))
+ then fail "%sthe program did not run again after migrate-by-name" what
+ else begin
+ holds "migrate-by-name undoes the method's write"
+ "(if (= (get (at instances 0) :x) 3) 1 0)";
+ holds "and keeps what name-matching kept"
+ "(if (= (get (at instances 0) :radius) 4) 1 0)";
+ holds "and has the new definition's slots"
+ "(if (= (length (at instances 0)) 3) 1 0)"
+ end
+ end;
+ (* ── A type that no longer fits ── *)
+ if defined "a method that does nothing"
+ "(defmethod update-instance-for-redefined-class point \
+ [p added discarded] nil)"
+ && defined "a slot's type changed to one its value does not fit"
+ "(defclass point [x string radius z])"
+ then begin
+ holds "a value that no longer fits is kept"
+ "(if (= (get (at instances 0) :x) 3) 1 0)";
+ let warned () =
+ contains_sub (output ())
+ "warning: point was redefined, and its slot :x is now \
+ declared string"
+ in
+ if not (await warned) then
+ fail "%sno warning for a kept value that does not fit: %S" what
+ (output ())
+ end
+ end;
+ (try Unix.close c with Unix.Unix_error _ -> ());
+ (try Unix.kill hpid Sys.sigkill with Unix.Unix_error _ -> ());
+ (try ignore (Unix.waitpid [] hpid) with Unix.Unix_error _ -> ())
+ end;
+ List.iter (fun f -> try Sys.remove f with Sys_error _ -> ())
+ [ hsock; hout ]
+ in
+ hook_block ~llvm:false;
+ hook_block ~llvm:true;
+
List.iter (fun f -> try Sys.remove f with Sys_error _ -> ())
[ sock; out; bsock; bout ];
Test_support.report ~label:"dev" ()
diff --git a/test/test_session.ml b/test/test_session.ml
index 758cb23f..3a44b8e2 100644
--- a/test/test_session.ml
+++ b/test/test_session.ml
@@ -1384,6 +1384,25 @@ let () =
(String.concat " " c.Session.fns)
| exception Loc.Error { Loc.dmsg = m; _ } ->
fail "a class and its caller evaluated together: %s" m);
+ (* A method of update-instance-for-redefined-class, from the session. The
+ generic is written by [Classes.expand], not by the program, so this is
+ the case where the declaration being extended is nowhere in the
+ session's own list — and the method still has to install the generic's
+ dispatch, and the module has to hand the runtime the body it just
+ installed, or migrations go on calling the old one. *)
+ (let t, _ = Session.create ~file:"programs/dev-class.flan" () in
+ match
+ Session.eval t
+ "(defmethod update-instance-for-redefined-class point \
+ [p added discarded] nil)"
+ with
+ | c ->
+ if not (List.mem Classes.migrate_generic c.Session.fns) then
+ fail "a migration method installed %s" (String.concat " " c.Session.fns);
+ if not (has c.Session.ir "call void @flan_dyn_class_hook") then
+ fail "a migration method did not re-register the hook"
+ | exception Loc.Error { Loc.dmsg = m; _ } ->
+ fail "a migration method was refused: %s" m);
(* A slot's type changed and nothing else. Every constructor parameter is
dyn whatever the slot says, so the signature is the one it was and a
compiled caller is no reason to refuse — the type is checked where a
diff --git a/vendor/agent/flan_agent.c b/vendor/agent/flan_agent.c
index 2ca2aadb..4ab2090b 100644
--- a/vendor/agent/flan_agent.c
+++ b/vendor/agent/flan_agent.c
@@ -336,6 +336,8 @@ extern int64_t flan_break_site_len;
* shadow-stack frame's shape does: the struct is declared in one file. */
extern void *flan_restart_push_c(const uint8_t *name, int64_t namelen);
extern void flan_restart_pop_c(void *frame);
+extern int (*flan_dyn_migrate_hook)(void *fn, uint64_t instance,
+ uint64_t added, uint64_t discarded);
/* -- How far down a transfer can actually land ----------------------- */
@@ -402,6 +404,44 @@ static int32_t frame_floor = -1;
static void *eval_boundary;
static const uint8_t abandon_name[] = "abandon-evaluation";
+/* -- update-instance-for-redefined-class ------------------------------ */
+
+/* A class migration calls the method from inside [get], [put] or [set] —
+ * a C frame with no transfer channel of its own — so the call is made the
+ * way a thunk's is: behind a floor, with a channel of its own and a restart
+ * of its own above the floor. A break inside the method then offers
+ * [migrate-by-name] and nothing below the call, which it could not reach.
+ * Taking it leaves the instance as name-matching made it; flan_dyn.c's
+ * [class_hook] puts that back.
+ *
+ * [eval_boundary] is cleared for the call: an evaluation in progress
+ * underneath is below this floor, and offering to abandon it would be a
+ * choice nothing can carry out. Everything saved is restored, so a
+ * migration inside a thunk inside a break nests like the rest. */
+static const uint8_t migrate_name[] = "migrate-by-name";
+
+typedef uint64_t (*migrate_fn_t)(uint64_t, uint64_t, uint64_t, void *);
+
+static int migrate_call(void *fn, uint64_t instance, uint64_t added,
+ uint64_t discarded) {
+ int32_t outer = restart_floor;
+ int32_t oframe = frame_floor;
+ void *obound = eval_boundary;
+ void *xfer = NULL;
+ void *mine;
+ restart_floor = flan_restart_count();
+ frame_floor = flan_dev_frame_count();
+ eval_boundary = NULL;
+ mine = flan_restart_push_c(migrate_name, sizeof migrate_name - 1);
+ ((migrate_fn_t)fn)(instance, added, discarded, &xfer);
+ flan_restart_pop_c(mine);
+ eval_boundary = obound;
+ restart_floor = outer;
+ frame_floor = oframe;
+ if (xfer == NULL) return 0;
+ return (mine != NULL && xfer == mine) ? 1 : 2;
+}
+
/* The three of them, dropped between two runs of [main]. The counterpart of
* flan_rt.c's [flan_condition_stacks_reset] and flan_dev.c's
* [flan_dev_frames_reset], called from the same one place and for the same
@@ -864,6 +904,9 @@ static void break_loop_at(const uint8_t *name, int64_t namelen, void *condition,
!s->resumable ? " (cannot be taken from this trap)"
: i == s->boundary
? " (stop running the expression; the program carries on)"
+ : strcmp(s->names + s->off[i], (const char *)migrate_name) == 0
+ && s->reachable[i]
+ ? " (keep the instance as its slots matched by name)"
: s->reachable[i] ? ""
: " (below this break; cannot be taken)");
if (s->total > s->n)
@@ -2114,6 +2157,7 @@ static int32_t start_on(const char *path) {
* to do, and stopping forever is worse than the abort it replaces. */
flan_break_hook = break_loop;
flan_trap_hook = trap_stop;
+ flan_dyn_migrate_hook = migrate_call;
return 0;
failed:
diff --git a/web/index.html b/web/index.html
index 0805ca50..d40a211a 100644
--- a/web/index.html
+++ b/web/index.html
@@ -2220,7 +2220,14 @@ bumps a generation counter, which is O(1) and walks no heap; every live instance
migrates at its next touch. Slots matched by name keep their values, a gained slot
appears as nil, a dropped one goes, the object is the same object, and
class-of still answers the same tag, so every method still reaches it.
-That is CLHS 4.3.6's protocol without the user hook, which is not built.
+That is CLHS 4.3.6's protocol. Its user hook is
+update-instance-for-redefined-class: a method of it written for a
+class, from the running session, runs on each instance as it migrates, with a
+vec of the slots it gained and a map from each slot it lost to the value that slot
+held. A method that signals stops the program with migrate-by-name
+on offer, which keeps the instance as matching by name left it. A kept value that
+no longer fits its slot's new type is kept, with a warning, and the next write to
+the slot is checked.
C-c C-x rebuilds, relaunches and reconnects, and is the way out while the
above is true. It costs the program's state, which is why it is a key you press rather than