flan/test/test_repl.ml
Joseph Ferano 7ce1d09900 C-x C-e: an expression, evaluated inside the running program
A different primitive from redefining a name. There is no name to install a
body into, so the expression is wrapped in a function with nowhere to be called
from; the module exports flan_reload_call to say "run this once", and the agent
calls it after the install - on the game thread, at a frame boundary, so an
expression that reads the program's state sees a point the program agrees is
consistent.

Nothing is marshalled back because nothing could be. A Flan value carries no
header, so no code at run time can say what it is; the compiler knows the type
and renders it there, in the thunk. That is the layout decision's bill, and it
is why the printer set is the scalars rather than everything.

The rendering does not go through stdout. Stdout belongs to the program, it is
in the hot path for anything that prints, and a dev-only feature must not put a
branch in it - so flan_rt.c is untouched and the value goes to flan_dev_result,
read back over the agent's socket. Safe without a handshake because the
generation counter is bumped last: the daemon waits for it to move rather than
assuming the program has reached a frame boundary.

u64 refuses by name, because i64->bytes is signed and anything past 2^63 would
come back negative. Everything without a derived printer refuses the same way.
A number that is quietly wrong is the failure this whole thing exists to
prevent.

An evaluation is not a declaration: the thunk is built against the program and
never spliced into it, so describe does not fill up with an eval/N for every
expression ever typed.

The test that matters is the same expression twice. The fixture increments
ticks every frame, so two evaluations must disagree - a value computed in the
compiler, or read from a copy of the program's state, would not.
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(* C-x C-e: evaluating an expression inside a program that is running.
A different primitive from redefining a name, and the difference is the
whole test: there is no name to install a body into, so the expression is
compiled into a thunk with nowhere to be called from, the module says "run
this once", and the agent does — at a frame boundary, on the game thread.
Nothing is marshalled back. A Flan value carries no header, so nothing at
run time could say what it is; the compiler knows the type and renders it
there. That is the layout decision's bill, and it is why only the scalars
work so far.
The case that matters most is the same expression evaluated twice with
different answers: that is what says it read the live process's state rather
than a copy of it. *)
open Flan
let failures = ref 0
let fail fmt = Printf.ksprintf (fun s -> incr failures; print_endline ("FAIL " ^ s)) fmt
let scratch = Filename.get_temp_dir_name ()
let tmp n = Filename.concat scratch ("flan-repl-" ^ n)
let rec await ?(ms = 8000) f =
if f () then true
else if ms <= 0 then false
else begin ignore (Unix.select [] [] [] 0.005); await ~ms:(ms - 5) f end
let rec connect ?(ms = 8000) path =
let s = Unix.socket Unix.PF_UNIX Unix.SOCK_STREAM 0 in
match Unix.connect s (Unix.ADDR_UNIX path) with
| () -> s
| exception Unix.Unix_error _ when ms > 0 ->
Unix.close s;
ignore (Unix.select [] [] [] 0.005);
connect ~ms:(ms - 5) path
let request fd sexp = Wire.send fd sexp; Wire.parse (Wire.recv fd)
let field r k = Wire.string_field r k
let status r = match field r "status" with Some s -> s | None -> "<none>"
let quote s =
let b = Buffer.create (String.length s + 8) in
Buffer.add_char b '"';
String.iter
(fun c ->
if c = '"' || c = '\\' then Buffer.add_char b '\\';
Buffer.add_char b c)
s;
Buffer.add_char b '"';
Buffer.contents b
let () =
match Sys.command "command -v clang > /dev/null 2>&1 && command -v llc > /dev/null 2>&1" with
| 0 ->
let sock = tmp "dev.sock" and out = tmp "prog.out" in
List.iter (fun f -> try Sys.remove f with Sys_error _ -> ()) [ sock; out ];
let fd = Unix.openfile out [ Unix.O_WRONLY; Unix.O_CREAT; Unix.O_TRUNC ] 0o600 in
let flan = "../bin/main.exe" in
let pid =
Unix.create_process flan
[| flan; "dev"; "programs/dev-repl.flan"; "-s"; sock |]
Unix.stdin fd Unix.stderr
in
Unix.close fd;
if not (await (fun () -> Sys.file_exists sock)) then fail "the daemon never listened"
else begin
let c = connect sock in
let evals code =
request c
(Printf.sprintf "(:op \"eval-expr\" :code %s :file \"/tmp/buf.flan\")"
(quote code))
in
let value name code expected =
let r = evals code in
match field r "value" with
| Some v when v = expected -> ()
| Some v -> fail "%s\n got: %S\n wanted: %S" name v expected
| None ->
fail "%s: %s" name (Option.value ~default:(status r) (field r "message"))
in
value "arithmetic" "(+ 1 2)" "3";
value "a comparison" "(< 1 2)" "true";
value "a string" "\"hi\"" "hi";
(* A defconst: its value is in the program's rodata and this reads it. *)
value "a constant" "step-by" "3";
(* The one that proves it ran inside the process: the program increments
[ticks] every frame, so two evaluations of it must disagree. A copy
of the program's state, or a value computed here, would not. *)
let read () =
match field (evals "ticks") "value" with
| Some v -> int_of_string_opt v
| None -> None
in
(match (read (), read ()) with
| Some a, Some b when b > a -> ()
| Some a, Some b ->
fail "ticks read %d then %d — the expression did not see the live \
program advancing" a b
| _ -> fail "ticks did not evaluate");
(* Types with no printer derived yet refuse by name rather than render
something plausible and wrong. u64 is its own case: i64->bytes is
signed, so anything past 2^63 would come back negative. *)
let refuses name code reason =
let r = evals code in
match field r "message" with
| Some m when
(let n = String.length reason and h = String.length m in
let rec go i = i + n <= h && (String.sub m i n = reason || go (i + 1)) in
go 0) -> ()
| Some m -> fail "%s said %S, wanted it to mention %S" name m reason
| None -> fail "%s was accepted" name
in
refuses "u64" "rand-state" "no printer for u64";
refuses "a declaration" "(defvar nope i64)" "";
refuses "an unknown name" "no-such-name" "unknown name";
(* And the session is untouched by all of it: an evaluation is not a
declaration, so nothing named eval/N accumulates in the program. *)
let r = request c "(:op \"describe\")" in
if status r <> "ok" then fail "describe after evaluating: %s" (status r);
ignore (request c "(:op \"close\")");
Unix.close c
end;
(try Unix.kill pid Sys.sigterm with Unix.Unix_error _ -> ());
(try ignore (Unix.waitpid [] pid) with Unix.Unix_error _ -> ());
List.iter (fun f -> try Sys.remove f with Sys_error _ -> ()) [ sock; out ];
if !failures = 0 then print_endline "repl: all tests passed"
else begin
Printf.printf "\n%d failure(s)\n" !failures;
exit 1
end
| _ -> print_endline "repl: skipped (no clang or llc on PATH)"