;;;; Bounds checks, NEXT.md item 2. One program, one case per argument, so a ;;;; trap is observable: the checked build exits 134 with the source location ;;;; on stderr, the unchecked one runs off the end and is not asserted on. ;;;; ;;;; The selector is also the index wherever it can be, which is what keeps the ;;;; index dynamic — a literal would let the checker reject it outright one day ;;;; (that is a separate job) and lets LLVM fold the branch away here. (defvar arr [3 i32]) (defn main [args [string]] i32 (let [n (i32 (bytes->i64 (bytes (at args 1)))) s (bytes "hello")] ; len 5 (cond ;; In bounds, including both edges: the last index, and a slice that ;; ends exactly at len. Neither may trap. (= n 0) (do (print (at arr 2)) (print (slice s 1 5)) (print (slice s 5 5)) ; empty at len is legal (println "")) (= n 3) (print (at arr n)) ; past the end of a fixed array (= n -1) (print (at arr n)) ; negative index (= n 9) (print (at s n)) ; past the end of a slice ;; The write path lowers through place/Pindex rather than through At, so ;; it is checked separately even though the message is the same. (= n 7) (set (at arr n) 1) ; write past the end (= n 4) (print (slice s n 9)) ; hi past the end (= n 2) (print (slice s n 1)) ; reversed range ;; (slice-from-ptr p n) has nothing to check n against — the caller's ;; number is the only length there is — so what it checks is that the ;; number is not absurd. Signed, deliberately: the comparisons the other ;; two checks use are unsigned, and a negative i32 sign-extended to i64 ;; is a huge unsigned value that sails straight through them. (= n -2) (print (len (slice-from-ptr (addr (at arr 0)) n))) :else (println "?")) 0))