flan/lib/tast.ml
Joseph Ferano af8d291154 (Vec T) over a type-erased runtime, with StorageExhausted going in beside it
Two element types, one runtime, and the element type appears nowhere below
the call site: size_of and align_of are produced where the concrete type is
known, which without generics is simply the concrete call site. That is
Odin's arrangement and it is what spec-memory.md specifies. `at` and `len`
were already the names for a fixed array and a slice, so a Vec extends them
rather than adding a parallel pair — the asymmetry `nth` was removed for —
and the value form and the place form go through one helper so they cannot
drift apart.

StorageExhausted lands with step 2 rather than after it, because the
signatures depend on it: `push` and `reserve` are Unit, `clone` is the
container, and nothing grows a Result. It is built out of nodes that already
existed — a while, a restart-case and an error — so the backend learned
nothing about allocation. The restart is established at the failing
allocation, which spec-memory.md names as the exception to "restarts go at
the resync point, once", and the element a push was given is bound to a slot
before the loop so a retry re-attempts the allocation and not the expression.

Move-only is a dead set on the checker context, and it is flow-sensitive at
an `if`: both arms start from the same set and the union survives the join,
so `(if c (free v) (free v))` is legal and a one-armed free still kills the
binding. The case a dead set cannot answer is a move inside a loop — merged
once at the end of the body it counts one move, not two — so that is a rule,
refused with its reason.

Four decisions the spec did not settle:

The Vec header is six words in every build, not four in release. A layout
that changes with a build flag can disagree across the reload boundary
silently: a redefinition module is built by llc and ld against a host built
separately, and nothing makes the two agree on a struct size. The 32-byte
release layout is deferred on that.

A zeroed Vec has a null allocator, and the first operation needing storage
adopts the context allocator. Odin's behaviour. The alternative was refusing a
Vec-typed struct field until drop lands; shipping the null was a null deref on
the first push.

A Vec's length and index are i32, like every other length here. Widening
indices is one change across all the containers, not a Vec question.

`let` has no type annotation, so a local Vec has nowhere to say what it holds
and the element type is written at the call: `(vec-new i32)`. This is not the
explicit instantiation syntax the generics section rules out — nothing here is
generic and the name resolves as an ordinary type. Where the context says, it
may be left out.

The allocator grew a budget: a ceiling on live bytes, 0 for none. The retry
restart is only answerable by a handler that can make the *same* request
succeed, and for a fixed backing store the handler that works is the one that
raises the ceiling — releasing the region a container lives in invalidates
the container, which is what the epoch check catches. The spec's "grows the
arena and then invokes retry" needed something to grow.

The generation word is bumped on every reallocation and read by nothing. The
stale-slice trap it is for needs a slice that can carry the Vec's identity,
and a slice is ptr+len. Said plainly rather than implied by the word's
presence.
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(** The typed IR: what the checker produces and what every backend consumes.
Three backends share this — the tree-walking interpreter, dev redefinition
and the release AOT build (plan.org, Compilation) — so everything a backend
would otherwise have to re-derive is resolved here and nowhere else:
- names are gone. A local is a slot index into the frame, a global is a
name, and a call names its callee directly. No environment lookup.
- field access is an index, not a string, and any auto-deref the source
relied on is an explicit [Deref] node.
- literals have a machine type. There is no untyped 1 past this point.
- a struct literal lists every field in declaration order, with the omitted
ones filled in as [Zero] — ZII is settled here rather than at runtime.
- sugar is already gone from the AST; what is left is the small set below. *)
type prim =
(* arithmetic and comparison, per machine type — the operands carry their own
kind at runtime, so one constructor covers every width *)
| Add | Sub | Mul | Div | Rem
| Eq | Ne | Lt | Le | Gt | Ge
| Not
(* bitwise, integers only. [Shr] is arithmetic on a signed type and logical
on an unsigned one, which is what the operand's own kind already says. *)
| BitAnd | BitOr | BitXor | Shl | Shr
(* containers: fixed arrays and slices only at milestone 2 *)
| Len | At | Slice
(* the milestone-2 host primitives, plan.org. The four conversions are
*text*: bytes->f64 parses "12.5", f64->bytes renders it — that is what
calc-me's tokenizer and the prelude's printers each need. *)
| Bytes | BytesToF64 | BytesToI64 | F64ToBytes | I64ToBytes
(* (string b): the other direction of [Bytes], and the same non-instruction.
See check.ml's "string" case for why it is unchecked. *)
| StrOfBytes
(* No surface name: the structural printer is the only thing that builds
these. U64ToBytes because u64 is not i64 with a flag, EscapeBytes for a
string nested inside a printed structure. *)
| U64ToBytes | EscapeBytes
| WriteStdout | Exit | Argv
(* A call into the runtime's C, named by symbol. The argument and result
LLVM types come off the expression nodes themselves, so one constructor
covers every entry point the allocator and container runtime has and the
backend grows one arm rather than one per operation — which matters
because spec-memory.md's runtime is type-erased and therefore *is* a list
of C entry points. A string or slice argument crosses as ptr+len, the
same rule as every other shim here. No transfer guard follows one: a
transfer cannot cross a C frame. *)
| Rt of string
(* spec-memory.md, "Alignment": a property of the type, computed at the call
site, passed as a parameter to the type-erased allocator — all three, and
they are not alternatives. The checker builds these at the site where the
concrete element type is known and the backend fills in the number from
the same layout calculator DWARF uses. *)
| SizeOf of Types.t
| AlignOf of Types.t
(* The address of any expression, not only of a place: the element a [push]
copies may be a computed value, and the runtime takes it by pointer
because it is type-erased. The backend already spills a non-place to a
temporary for exactly this. *)
| AddrOf
| Cast of Types.t
type expr = { e : expr_kind; ty : Types.t; loc : Loc.t }
and expr_kind =
| Int of int64 * Types.ikind
| Float of float * Types.fkind
| Bool of bool
| Str of string
| Unit
| Zero of Types.t (* ZII: all-bytes-zero of this type *)
| Uninit of Types.t (* the explicit opt-out *)
| Local of int (* slot index into the frame *)
| Global of string
| Prim of prim * expr list
| Call of string * expr list (* direct call; no first-class fns yet *)
| Do of expr list
| Let of (int * expr) list * expr list
| If of expr * expr * expr
| While of expr * expr list
| Return of expr option
| Set of place * expr
| Field of expr * int (* target is already a struct value *)
| Addr of place
| Deref of expr
| Make of string * expr list (* struct literal, every field, in order *)
| Arr of expr list (* fixed-array literal *)
| Some_ of expr
| None_
| Match of expr * arm list
(* (some x): unwrap Some, else early-return None from the enclosing function.
An early return, not an expression that can fail — hence its own node. *)
| UnwrapSome of expr
(* Conditions, spec-conditions.md. [Signal] walks the handler stack and
returns Unit whatever it finds — with nothing matching it is a no-op, so
nothing here alters control flow. [HandlerBind] pushes one frame per
clause, runs its body, and pops them; each clause was lifted into its own
function by the checker, so what is left is the frame and the call. *)
| Signal of sigkind * int * expr (* how, the type id, the condition *)
| Handled of hframe list * expr list
(* The transfer, spec-conditions.md §3§6. [RestartCase] pushes one frame per
clause, runs its body, and pops them; if a transfer arrives naming one of
*its* frames it runs that clause instead, and the whole form yields either
way. [InvokeRestart] looks the name up on the restart stack, writes the
frame it found into the transfer channel and leaves — it has type Never,
so nothing follows it. *)
| RestartCase of rclause list * expr
(* (with-allocator A BODY...) — spec-memory.md. It rebinds the current
allocator for its dynamic extent and releases nothing. Its own node
because the restore has to happen on the *transfer* path too: a body that
errors, or a restart taken from inside it, must not leave the context
allocator pointing at a region the handler knows nothing about. *)
| WithAlloc of expr * expr list
| InvokeRestart of int * string * Loc.t (* name id, name, where *)
(* [Serror] is §2's diverging variant: the same lookup, type Never, and with
nothing transferring the program stops rather than carrying on. *)
and sigkind = Ssignal | Serror
and place =
| Plocal of int
| Pglobal of string
| Pfield of expr * int
| Pindex of expr * expr list
| Pderef of expr
(* A pushed handler: which condition type it matches, and the lifted function
that runs when one is signalled. *)
and hframe = { htype : int; hfn : string }
(* A restart clause. [rname_id] is what [invoke-restart] matches by name; the
body is a branch in the function that wrote it, because unlike a handler a
clause runs at the restart-case, which is where it was written. *)
and rclause = { rname_id : int; rname : string; rbody : expr list }
(* [binds] are the slots the pattern's fields are bound to, in field order. *)
and arm = { acase : string option; binds : int list; abody : expr list }
type field = { fname : string; fty : Types.t }
type structure = { sname : string; fields : field list }
type variant = { vname : string; vfields : field list }
type union = { uname : string; cases : variant list }
type fn = {
name : string;
params : Types.t list; (* bound to slots 0 .. n-1, in order *)
slots : Types.t array; (* the frame: one entry per slot *)
(* What the source called each slot, parallel to [slots]. [None] is a slot
the compiler made up and no one wrote a name for -- [dotimes]'s hidden
bound, the pair (min) and (max) evaluate their operands into, the slot a
tail expression goes through. Names are otherwise gone from this IR (see
the header); this is the one exception, and it exists so a debug build can
emit a [!DILocalVariable] that says [lo] where the source said [lo]. A
backend is free to ignore it entirely -- nothing is *resolved* through it,
and a slot is still only ever referred to by index. *)
snames : string option array;
ret : Types.t;
body : expr list;
(* The defers again, innermost first. [body] already has them spliced onto
the normal exit path; this is the same list for the *transfer* exit path,
which leaves through a landing block the backend builds and no form in
[body] can reach. spec-conditions.md §5: they run, and errdefer does not. *)
fdefers : expr list;
(* Set on a function the checker made up rather than one anyone wrote: a
handler-bind clause, lifted out of the function named here. It is reached
by address from that function's body and from nowhere else, so it needs no
cell and no registry slot, and a redefinition of the parent carries its
own copy. *)
fparent : string option;
floc : Loc.t;
}
(* [gfolded] is the difference between a constant whose value the *checker*
consumed — an array length, decided before any type resolves — and one that
is only ever read at run time. The first is in the program's shape and can
never be reloaded; the second is just bytes in memory and can. Nothing else
can tell them apart afterwards, so it is recorded here. *)
type global = {
gname : string;
gty : Types.t;
ginit : expr;
gconst : bool;
gfolded : bool;
}
(* A foreign function: no body, and [esym] is the symbol the linker sees. The
aggregate calling convention is not modelled here — a C shim flattens every
struct that crosses the boundary, so clang classifies it per target and
nothing in the backend has to know x86-64 from arm64 from wasm32. *)
type extern = {
ename : string; (* the Flan name, e.g. rl/init-window *)
esym : string; (* the C symbol *)
eparams : Types.t list;
eret : Types.t;
}
type program = {
structs : structure list;
unions : union list;
globals : global list; (* in declaration order *)
externs : extern list;
fns : fn list;
(* The C the program's own (declare-c ...) forms generated, if any: one
translation unit, compiled into the build like a package's hand-written
.c file. It is on the program rather than beside it so that every driver
— the CLI, the REPL, the acceptance table — carries it without knowing
it exists. See [Shim]. *)
(* The generated FFI shim, in parts keyed by the declaration each serves,
with "" for the shared preamble. Parts rather than one string so that
[Reach.link] can drop a wrapper whose binding nothing reachable calls. *)
cshim : (string * string) list;
}
let field_index (s : structure) name =
let rec go i = function
| [] -> None
| f :: rest -> if String.equal f.fname name then Some i else go (i + 1) rest
in
go 0 s.fields