flan/lib/session.ml
Joseph Ferano ff2c949361 The tagged sum is defdata, and the old spelling is an error by name
Flan's tagged sum has been spelled defunion since it landed, which was
accurate right up until the language wanted C's untagged union as well.
Both cannot be called the same thing, and the tagged one is the one with
an alternative name that says what it is: a case, its fields, and a tag
that steers which case is live is a data type, not a union.

So the form is defdata everywhere -- the parser, the AST, the checker,
both backends, the prelude's Form, the editor's font-locking and imenu,
the docs and every .flan file in the tree. The internal vocabulary moves
with it: Tast.union is Tast.data, uname is dname, the tables the checker
and the emitter keep are datas. Leaving them would have inverted the
words permanently, with surface defunion meaning one thing and
env.unions meaning the other, which is exactly the kind of drift the
comments in those files exist to prevent. What did not move is case,
variant and vfields: a tagged sum still has cases, and it still has one
live at a time.

defunion is not kept as an alias. An alias would compile the day the
untagged form lands and mean the opposite of what it used to -- the same
silent misparse that made defn's return type mandatory, and worse,
because the reader would have no reason to look. The old spelling is a
named refusal instead, parse/defunion-renamed, which says what it is now
called and that the name is reserved for something else. It fires on the
head alone, so (defunion U [A B]) -- which would otherwise have parsed
cleanly as one field A of type B -- is refused with the rest.
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(** A live program: the declarations a running process was built from, plus
every change accepted since.
This is what makes an editor possible. [Check.program] builds a fresh
environment from a declaration list on every call, which is exactly the
property a session needs and the reason there is no scratch-environment
machinery here: a form that fails to check leaves nothing behind, because
nothing was mutated. The list is only replaced once the check has
succeeded. Re-checking the whole program each time costs the whole frontend,
which is under 10ms — less than the [llc] that follows it.
Two things the session knows that no single evaluation could:
- **which names the running process was built with.** A name it has is a
symbol the loaded module binds to; a name it lacks goes through the
by-name registry in runtime/flan_dev.c. Getting this wrong is silent:
treating [rand-seed] as new gives it a registry cell nobody publishes,
and the first call jumps to null. It has to come from the *checked*
program, because [Check.program] prepends the prelude and no accumulated
AST contains it.
- **what the memory of that process looks like.** A cell is a bare pointer
and carries no signature, so a redefined function whose parameters
changed is called by every existing call site with the old ones — no link
error, no trap, a wrong number. Struct fields and global types are the
same class. Those are refused here, with the reason, rather than loaded.
Not here, and deliberately: evaluating an expression. That is a separate
primitive — synthesize a function around the form, call it, render the
value — and it is not what redefining a name is. *)
type t = {
file : string; (* resolves an import's relative path *)
mutable decls : Ast.decl list; (* post-Load: flat, one namespace *)
mutable program : Tast.program; (* the last thing that checked *)
mutable env : Check.env; (* the same, as the checker sees it *)
host : Tast.program; (* what the process was built from *)
pkgs : Load.pkg list; (* alias, directory, names owned *)
(* Every [defmacro] this session can expand a call to: the imports', under
their aliases, and the buffer's own, under the names the buffer writes.
Held rather than re-derived because an evaluation parses one form with no
import and no [defmacro] in sight, and a macro that works on the first
build and not on the reload is worse than one that never existed.
It is exactly this record's own rule applied to macros — what the program
was built from, plus every change accepted since. The file's own set is
seeded in [create] from the forms [Load] was handed, which is the same
read that produced [decls]; nothing here ever goes back to disk, so a
macro cannot arrive from a version of the file the session was never
told about. *)
mutable macros : Form.t list;
mutable thunks : int; (* expression evaluations so far *)
(* Whether the modules this session emits carry DWARF. It belongs to the
session rather than to each call because it has to match the process the
modules are loaded into: a redefinition with debug info, dlopened into a
host built without it, gives a debugger a second module to resolve names
against and nothing to line up the host's own frames with. Both ends are
set from one flag — see [Dev.start]. *)
debug : bool;
(* Which backend compiles the modules this session emits, and it belongs to
the session for exactly the reason [debug] does: it has to match the
process they are loaded into. The two backends agree on every scalar and
disagree on every aggregate, so a module from one dlopened into a host
from the other is correct until the first redefined function takes or
returns a struct. Both ends are set from one flag -- see [Dev.start] --
and [flan.abi.x86] is the backstop if they ever come apart. *)
x86 : bool;
}
let fail = Loc.fail
(* Structural, and conservative: anything this does not recognise counts as
changed. Comparing emitted text instead would be wrong — [Emit.const] on a
string allocates a name off a per-module counter, so two different strings
in two throwaway modules both come out as [@".str.0"] and compare equal. *)
let rec same_const (a : Tast.expr) (b : Tast.expr) =
match (a.Tast.e, b.Tast.e) with
| Tast.Int (x, k), Tast.Int (y, l) -> Int64.equal x y && k = l
| Tast.Float (x, k), Tast.Float (y, l) -> Float.equal x y && k = l
| Tast.Bool x, Tast.Bool y -> x = y
| Tast.Str x, Tast.Str y -> String.equal x y
| Tast.Unit, Tast.Unit -> true
| Tast.Zero x, Tast.Zero y -> Types.equal x y
| Tast.Arr xs, Tast.Arr ys ->
List.length xs = List.length ys && List.for_all2 same_const xs ys
| Tast.Make (x, xs), Tast.Make (y, ys) ->
String.equal x y && List.length xs = List.length ys
&& List.for_all2 same_const xs ys
| _ -> false
(* The [defmacro]s among a set of top-level forms, as [t.macros] has to hold
them.
[Expand.quasiquote] is not decoration. [Parse.parse_forms] desugars every
form it is handed before the expander sees it, and [Load.qualify_macro]
desugars a package's macro on its way out for the same reason — but
[Parse.imported_macros] is read by [Macro.program] directly, past that map.
An undesugared body still has its quasiquote in it, which makes a
quasiquoted call look like a real one: the false ring docs/BUILT.md records the
first cycle test walking into.
Unqualified, and that is the point: a buffer writes its own macro's bare
name, so that is the name the session has to answer to. A file inside a
package that the program also imports has both — the bare one from here and
[alias/name] from [Load] — which is what the two call sites each need. *)
let own_macros (forms : Form.t list) : Form.t list =
List.filter_map
(fun f ->
match f.Form.v with
| Form.List ({ Form.v = Form.Sym "defmacro"; _ } :: _) ->
Some (Expand.quasiquote f)
| _ -> None)
forms
let create ?(debug = false) ?(x86 = false) ~file () =
let forms = Reader.read_file file in
let l = Load.program ~file forms in
let p, env = Check.program_with_env l.Load.decls in
({ file; decls = l.Load.decls; program = p; env; host = p; pkgs = l.Load.pkgs;
(* The file's own first, so that if the file being edited is itself a
package the program imports, the bare name wins for a form typed into
that buffer. [macro_union] keeps the left. *)
macros = Load.macro_union (own_macros forms) l.Load.macros;
thunks = 0; debug; x86 }, l)
(* Which package a file being edited belongs to, if any.
A form typed into vendor/agent/agent.flan declares [poll], but the running
program only ever knew it as [agent/poll]: the alias is chosen by whatever
imported the directory, and is written nowhere in the file itself. Without
this the form splices as a brand-new unrelated name, the evaluation reports
success, and nothing changes — the exact failure this whole design is meant
to make impossible.
Derived from the path rather than sent by the editor for that same reason:
the editor cannot know an alias the file does not mention. *)
let package_of t origin =
match origin with
| "" -> None
| origin ->
let here =
try Unix.realpath origin with Unix.Unix_error _ -> origin
in
let dir = Filename.dirname here in
(* A package is a directory, or a single .flan file named outright — so the
file being edited belongs to it if the package *is* that file, or if it
sits in the package's directory. Comparing only the directory would miss
the file case entirely and answer [None], which is the silent failure
above rather than a loud one: the form splices unqualified and the
running program keeps calling the name it already had. *)
let same p =
let d =
try Unix.realpath p.Load.dir with Unix.Unix_error _ -> p.Load.dir
in
String.equal d here || String.equal d dir
in
(match List.filter same t.pkgs with
| [] -> None
| [ p ] -> Some p
(* One directory under two aliases: both are live in the program and a
form cannot mean both. Say so rather than picking one. *)
| ps ->
Loc.fail Loc.unknown
"%s is imported under more than one alias (%s); a form here would \
have to mean all of them"
dir
(String.concat ", " (List.map (fun p -> p.Load.alias) ps)))
(* A name the running process exports. Everything else is looked up by name at
install time — see [Emit.redefinition]'s [known]. *)
let known t n =
List.exists (fun (f : Tast.fn) -> String.equal f.Tast.name n) t.host.Tast.fns
|| List.exists
(fun (g : Tast.global) -> String.equal g.Tast.gname n)
t.host.Tast.globals
(* ── What a running process cannot be told ─────────────────────────── *)
(* Everything here is a change that would load cleanly and then be wrong. The
house rule (NEXT.md, Watch for) says recognise it and refuse with the
reason, so each one names what it would have broken. *)
let compatible ?(origin = fun _ -> None) ~loc (old_ : Tast.program)
(new_ : Tast.program) =
let find_fn p n =
List.find_opt (fun (f : Tast.fn) -> String.equal f.Tast.name n) p.Tast.fns
in
List.iter
(fun (f : Tast.fn) ->
match find_fn old_ f.Tast.name with
| None -> ()
| Some g ->
let same =
List.length f.Tast.params = List.length g.Tast.params
&& List.for_all2 Types.equal f.Tast.params g.Tast.params
&& Types.equal f.Tast.ret g.Tast.ret
in
(* A cell holds a bare pointer. Every call site compiled before this
change still passes the old arguments through it.
This refusal is correct for what is built and is *not* the design
plan.org now describes: a signature change should make a new
internal function version with its own trampoline, leave existing
callers and stored [Fn] values safely on the old one, and warn at
each tracked stale caller site. That needs versions, trampolines
and caller tracking, none of which exist — so this stays a refusal
until they do, rather than becoming a silent mismatch. See
plan.org, Hot reload, and open decision #6. *)
if not same then
(* ── When the name is not one the programmer wrote ──────────────
A generic's instantiations are named [sort!-i32], [sort!-f32]
and so on, and the mangling carries only the *type variables*
— so editing the generic's other parameters changes every copy's
signature at once, under the same names. The refusal then
arrives about [sort!-i32], which appears nowhere in the file
being edited, for a reason invisible at the edited line.
So the refusal says where the name came from: which generic, at
which types, and that every copy changed together. The
programmer's next move is a restart either way — the point is
that they can tell *why* without going looking for a function
that does not exist in the source.
Note what does *not* come through here: adding or removing a
[where] clause changes no signature at all. It changes which
call sites are legal, and those refusals land at the call sites,
in the checker, before this is ever reached. *)
let what, note =
match origin f.Tast.name with
| None -> f.Tast.name, ""
| Some (gname, tys) ->
( Printf.sprintf "%s, the copy of the generic %s at %s"
f.Tast.name gname
(String.concat ", " (List.map Types.to_string tys)),
Printf.sprintf
" Editing %s changed every copy of it at once, so this \
refusal is about a function the source does not name."
gname )
in
fail loc
"%s changes signature, from (Fn [%s] %s) to (Fn [%s] %s); \
the calls already compiled into the running program pass the old \
one.%s Restart to change it."
what
(String.concat " " (List.map Types.to_string g.Tast.params))
(Types.to_string g.Tast.ret)
(String.concat " " (List.map Types.to_string f.Tast.params))
(Types.to_string f.Tast.ret)
note)
new_.Tast.fns;
List.iter
(fun (g : Tast.global) ->
match
List.find_opt
(fun (h : Tast.global) -> String.equal h.Tast.gname g.Tast.gname)
old_.Tast.globals
with
(* A [defconst] is folded into its call sites — into an array length, at
worst, which is decided before any type resolves — so its value is in
the running program's code and not only in its storage. A [defvar]'s
initial value is the opposite case and must *not* be refused: the
storage holds live state the program has long since moved past, which
is the whole of "edit the code, keep the sand". Same record, opposite
answers, told apart by [gconst]. *)
(* Only a constant the *checker* consumed. Its value is in the shape of
the running program — [(defconst rows (/ h c))] decides the type of
[grid] before anything else resolves — so no store can reach it. A
constant that is only ever read at run time is just bytes in memory:
a dev build emits it as a mutable global and a redefinition stores
the new value, which is how a colour table is tuned live. *)
| Some h
when h.Tast.gconst && g.Tast.gconst && h.Tast.gfolded
&& Types.equal g.Tast.gty h.Tast.gty
&& not (same_const g.Tast.ginit h.Tast.ginit) ->
fail loc
"%s is used at compile time — an array length or a type — so the \
running program has its old value in its shape, where a reload \
cannot reach it. Restart to change it."
g.Tast.gname
| Some h when not (Types.equal g.Tast.gty h.Tast.gty) ->
(* The storage exists and has a shape. Reusing it for another one
reads fields at the wrong offsets; allocating fresh storage would
silently discard the state the reload exists to preserve. *)
fail loc
"%s changes type, from %s to %s; the running program already laid \
that storage out. Restart to change it."
g.Tast.gname (Types.to_string h.Tast.gty) (Types.to_string g.Tast.gty)
| _ -> ())
new_.Tast.globals;
List.iter
(fun (s : Tast.structure) ->
match
List.find_opt
(fun (r : Tast.structure) -> String.equal r.Tast.sname s.Tast.sname)
old_.Tast.structs
with
| Some r ->
let fields (x : Tast.structure) =
List.map (fun (f : Tast.field) -> (f.Tast.fname, f.Tast.fty))
x.Tast.fields
in
let same =
List.length s.Tast.fields = List.length r.Tast.fields
&& List.for_all2
(fun (an, at) (bn, bt) -> String.equal an bn && Types.equal at bt)
(fields s) (fields r)
in
(* Every value of this type in the running program has the old layout,
including ones held in globals that the reload is preserving. *)
if not same then
fail loc
"%s changes layout; the values the running program is holding have \
the old one. Restart to change it."
s.Tast.sname
| None -> ())
new_.Tast.structs
(* An enum member is erased to an [i32] literal in the caller — [:space] at a
call site resolves to a number and is folded there — so changing one cannot
reach code that is already compiled, exactly like a [defconst]. It has to be
compared over declarations rather than over [Tast.program], which carries no
enums at all for that same reason. *)
let compatible_enums ~loc old_ new_ =
let members (ds : Ast.decl list) =
List.filter_map
(fun (d : Ast.decl) ->
match d.Ast.d with Ast.Defenum (n, ms) -> Some (n, ms) | _ -> None)
ds
in
let before = members old_ in
List.iter
(fun (n, ms) ->
match List.assoc_opt n before with
| Some old_ms when old_ms <> ms ->
fail loc
"%s changes its members; the running program folded the old values \
into every call site that names one. Restart to change it."
n
| _ -> ())
(members new_)
(* ── Accepting a change ────────────────────────────────────────────── *)
(* The redefinition unit is a list of top-level forms, so this is one path for
both editor commands: C-c C-c sends one form, C-c C-k sends a file. *)
type change = {
ir : string; (* the module to build and send *)
(* Which backend wrote [ir], and therefore which builder and which file
extension it wants: LLVM IR through [Build.shared], or x86-64 assembly
through [Build.shared_x86]. It rides on the change rather than being
looked up again at the build, so the text and the choice of builder can
never come from two different answers to the same question. *)
x86 : bool;
names : string list; (* everything the forms declared *)
fns : string list; (* the subset that has a body to install *)
(* False when the module would define nothing: no body to publish and no
storage to allocate. Building and delivering one anyway reports success
for a change that cannot have had an effect, and costs the program a
frame's worth of reload it did not need. *)
installs : bool;
}
(* [pause] is [C-u C-c C-c]: the position, in the source just sent, of the form
the program should stop at — docs/DISCUSS.md §9. It arrives as a separate field
rather than spliced into [src], because splicing text would move every
location after it, and it is applied below to the *declarations*, once
parsing has attached those locations and [Load] has qualified the names.
Nothing here makes it stick and nothing has to: the marked declaration is
what goes into [t.decls], so it stays marked until an evaluation replaces
it — which is an ordinary [C-c C-c] over the same form, with no [:pause].
That is §9's settled behaviour, and it is the same one statement that
accepts every other change. *)
(* The one place the backend choice is made, so that the six callers below
cannot disagree about it and the refusal has one home.
There is no fallback and there must not be one. If [X86.redefinition]
refuses a form, the daemon reports the refusal; quietly building an LLVM
module instead would hand an [--x86] host a module from the other backend,
which is the crossed pair [flan.abi.x86] exists to refuse at [dlopen]. A
refusal a user can read is the right answer; a segfault three frames later
is not. *)
let redefinition (t : t) ?retains ?call ?(consts = []) program ~fns =
if not t.x86 then
Emit.redefinition ~dev:true ~debug:t.debug ~known:(known t) ?retains
~consts ?call program ~fns
else
match
X86.redefinition ~checks:true ~dev:true ~known:(known t) ?retains ~consts
?call program ~fns
with
| asm -> asm
(* The dev backend covers a subset of the IR and refuses the rest by name,
which is what makes a build that succeeds one it really compiled. A
refusal has to reach the editor as a diagnostic like every other, so it
is re-raised at the form it is about -- the first name being redefined,
which is where a reader would look. Every caller already handles
[Loc.Error]; none of them handles [X86.Unsupported], and a session that
died on the first unsupported form would be worse than one that says so
and stays up. *)
| exception X86.Unsupported m ->
let loc =
match
List.find_opt
(fun (f : Tast.fn) -> List.mem f.Tast.name fns)
program.Tast.fns
with
| Some f -> f.Tast.floc
| None -> Loc.unknown
in
fail loc "the x86 dev backend cannot compile this: %s" m
let eval ?(origin = "<eval>") ?pause t src : change =
let forms = Reader.read_all ~file:origin src in
Parse.with_imported t.macros @@ fun () ->
(* Through [Load] like any other source, so an evaluated (import ...) means
what it means in a file. Its expansion is what gets spliced, which is also
why the accumulated list is the post-Load one: re-evaluating a file that
imports something would otherwise append a second copy of the import and
the duplicate-name pass would reject it. *)
let macros = ref t.macros in
let incoming =
let l = Load.program ~file:t.file forms in
(* An evaluated import *adds* to the session's set, so a macro brought in
by C-c C-k is there for the C-c C-c after it. A union and not an
assignment: [Load.program] answers the macros of the imports it was
handed, and the one form C-c C-c sends has no import in it, so
replacing would empty the set on the first re-evaluation of a defn —
the macro would work on the build and be an unknown name on the
reload.
The incoming set comes first because [macro_union] keeps the left on a
name collision, and what [Load] just read off disk is newer than what
the session has been holding: editing a macro in a package and
reloading the file that imports it has to expand the new body. The
other order would keep the stale one and say nothing.
Held here and committed at the bottom with everything else, rather than
assigned on the spot: this is above the checker, and the session's rule
is that a form which does not check leaves it exactly as it was —
macros included. Nothing between here and there reads [t.macros]:
[Load.program] puts the imported set in front of the parse it drives
itself, and the checker below is handed declarations that are already
parsed.
And the forms just sent come in front of both, which is the half that
makes a [defmacro] typed at the editor mean anything. A [defmacro] is
an ordinary declaration on this path already — it parses to a [Defn]
and installs a body like any other — so the only thing missing was the
session remembering that the name is a macro. It does now, and the
shape that follows is the one [defn] already has: the declaration
joins the session, and the *next* evaluation can call it. Not a re-read
of the file, which would also pick up macros the session was never told
about and would put unsaved-versus-saved skew into expansion.
Left-wins again, and here it is what lets a macro be edited: the
incoming body replaces the one the session was holding under that
name. [Macro.program] dedupes the same way on the same rule, because
while this parse runs the old copy is still ambient. *)
macros :=
Load.macro_union (own_macros forms)
(Load.macro_union l.Load.macros t.macros);
let ds = l.Load.decls in
match package_of t origin with
| None -> ds
| Some p ->
(* Qualified exactly as the import qualified them, so a redefined
[settle] lands on [sim/settle] and its call to [move-grain] lands on
[sim/move-grain]. A name the package does not own — the prelude's, or
another package's — is left alone, which is the same rule [Load] uses
at import time and the reason both go through [qualify_decl]. *)
let owns =
p.Load.owns
@ List.filter_map Ast.declared_name ds
in
List.map (Load.qualify_decl owns p.Load.alias) ds
in
let loc =
match incoming with d :: _ -> d.Ast.dloc | [] -> Loc.unknown
in
(* After [qualify_decl], so a package that defines a [pause] of its own does
not capture the call this splices in. Refused when the position matches
nothing: installing an unmarked body and answering "ok" would report a
breakpoint that is not there. *)
let incoming =
match pause with
| None -> incoming
| Some (line, col) ->
(match Ast.mark_pause ~line ~col incoming with
| Some ds -> ds
| None ->
fail loc "nothing to pause at line %d, column %d of the form sent"
line col)
in
let names = List.filter_map Ast.declared_name incoming in
let replacement n =
List.find_opt
(fun (d : Ast.decl) -> Ast.declared_name d = Some n)
incoming
in
(* Replaced in place and appended only when genuinely new, so declaration
order — which is emission order for globals — does not shuffle on every
evaluation. *)
let replaced = ref [] in
let kept =
List.map
(fun (d : Ast.decl) ->
match Ast.declared_name d with
| Some n ->
(match replacement n with
| Some nd -> replaced := n :: !replaced; nd
| None -> d)
| None -> d)
t.decls
in
let added =
List.filter
(fun (d : Ast.decl) ->
match Ast.declared_name d with
| Some n -> not (List.exists (String.equal n) !replaced)
| None -> false)
incoming
in
let decls = kept @ added in
(* Nothing above this line has changed the session. A [Loc.Error] from here
leaves it exactly as it was. *)
let program, env = Check.program_with_env decls in
compatible ~origin:(Check.instantiation_origin env) ~loc t.program program;
compatible_enums ~loc t.decls decls;
(* ── The bodies to install ────────────────────────────────────────────
The names the form declared that have a body in the checked program —
and, for a generic, the bodies its *copies* have, because a generic
[defn] never reaches [Tast.fns] at all. Without the second clause
[C-c C-c] on a generic reports [installs=false, fns=[]]: it installs
nothing and says nothing went wrong, which is the feature being unusable
in the loop the project exists for.
Transitivity is free. The check above was a whole-program check, so
[env.insts] already holds every copy every call site asked for, including
the ones a redefined generic pulled in by calling another generic at its
own variable.
The third clause is the one that makes a redefinition reach a type the
process was never built with. Redefining a *caller* so that it uses a
generic at a new element type generates a brand-new symbol the host has
never had — it is not [known t] and no name in [names] mentions it — so
it has to be found by being an instantiation that the running process
lacks. [Emit.redefinition] then writes it as a new by-name cell, which is
the same path a [defn] the process was never built with already takes. *)
let declared_fns =
List.filter
(fun n ->
List.exists
(fun (f : Tast.fn) -> String.equal f.Tast.name n)
program.Tast.fns)
names
in
let from_generics =
List.concat_map
(fun n ->
if Check.is_generic env n then Check.instantiations env n else [])
names
in
let new_instances =
List.filter_map
(fun (f : Tast.fn) ->
if known t f.Tast.name then None
else
match Check.instantiation_origin env f.Tast.name with
| Some _ -> Some f.Tast.name
| None -> None)
program.Tast.fns
in
let fns =
List.sort_uniq String.compare
(declared_fns @ from_generics @ new_instances)
in
(* A constant that changed and can be published: known to the host, not
consumed by the checker. The module stores its new value at the frame
boundary, exactly as it stores a new function body. *)
let consts =
List.filter
(fun n ->
known t n
&& List.exists
(fun (g : Tast.global) ->
String.equal g.Tast.gname n && g.Tast.gconst
&& not g.Tast.gfolded)
program.Tast.globals)
names
in
let ir = redefinition t ~consts program ~fns in
let allocates =
List.exists
(fun (g : Tast.global) -> not (known t g.Tast.gname))
program.Tast.globals
in
(* Every one of these together, and after the last thing that can raise:
until this line the session is still the one the evaluation started
against, which is what makes a refusal cost nothing. *)
t.macros <- !macros;
t.decls <- decls;
t.program <- program;
t.env <- env;
{ ir; x86 = t.x86; names; fns; installs = fns <> [] || allocates || consts <> [] }
(* ── Evaluating an expression ──────────────────────────────────────── *)
(* [C-x C-e] is a different primitive from redefining a name, and this is where
the difference lives: there is no name to install a body into, so the
expression is wrapped in a function that has nowhere to be called from, and
the module says "run this once". The agent does, at a frame boundary.
Getting the value back does not marshal anything. 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*, in the thunk. That is the layout decision's
bill, paid here — and it is why the renderer is a compile-time walk over the
type rather than a function in the runtime.
The rendering goes to [flan_dev_emit], a piece at a time, not to stdout.
Piecewise because a struct is its fields with punctuation between them and
concatenating that in generated IR would need an allocator the language does
not have; not stdout because stdout belongs to the program, is in the hot
path for anything that prints, and a dev-only feature must not put a branch
in it. *)
type emitter = { ename : string; ety : Types.t }
let emit_bytes = { ename = "flan/dev-emit"; ety = Types.Slice (Types.Int Types.U8) }
let emit_str = { ename = "flan/dev-emit-str"; ety = Types.Slice (Types.Int Types.U8) }
let emit_i64 = { ename = "flan/dev-emit-i64"; ety = Types.Int Types.I64 }
let emit_u64 = { ename = "flan/dev-emit-u64"; ety = Types.Int Types.U64 }
let emit_f64 = { ename = "flan/dev-emit-f64"; ety = Types.Float Types.F64 }
let externs : Tast.extern list =
let one e sym = { Tast.ename = e.ename; esym = sym; eparams = [ e.ety ];
eret = Types.Unit } in
[ one emit_bytes "flan_dev_emit";
one emit_str "flan_dev_emit_str";
one emit_i64 "flan_dev_emit_i64";
one emit_u64 "flan_dev_emit_u64";
one emit_f64 "flan_dev_emit_f64";
(* The address of a slot in a *stopped* frame, resolved by the agent
against the snapshot that break took. It is the one piece a locals
thunk cannot work out for itself: the compiler knows every slot's type
and name, and nothing but the running program knows where the frame
is. See [render_locals]. *)
{ Tast.ename = "flan/dev-slot"; esym = "flan_agent_frame_slot";
eparams = [ Types.Int Types.I64; Types.Int Types.I64 ];
eret = Types.Ptr (Types.Int Types.U8) };
{ Tast.ename = "flan/dev-begin"; esym = "flan_dev_result_begin";
eparams = []; eret = Types.Unit };
{ Tast.ename = "flan/dev-end"; esym = "flan_dev_result_end";
eparams = []; eret = Types.Unit };
(* The allocation registry's two questions about an address. Both take a
[(Ptr u8)] and every pointer is cast to it: the registry is asked
whether a *byte* is inside a block it knows, and the type at the far
end is the renderer's business and already known there.
[reg-live] returns i32 rather than bool because that is what the C
returns, and a Flan bool is one bit wide; the comparison to zero is
made below, where the type is spelled once.
[reg-emit] writes into the same result buffer every other piece of a
rendering goes to. It answers whether it wrote anything, which this
side ignores — the renderer needs the *emission*, and "nothing was
written" is already the right rendering for an address the registry
never saw. *)
{ Tast.ename = "flan/reg-live"; esym = "flan_dev_reg_live";
eparams = [ Types.Ptr (Types.Int Types.U8) ];
eret = Types.Int Types.I32 };
{ Tast.ename = "flan/reg-emit"; esym = "flan_dev_reg_emit";
eparams = [ Types.Ptr (Types.Int Types.U8) ];
eret = Types.Int Types.I32 } ]
(* The REPL's emitter. Each piece is one extern call: the dev runtime already
has a renderer per scalar, and [flan_dev_emit_str] already quotes and
escapes. See render.ml for what the five are and why they are functions. *)
let dev_emitter : Render.emitter =
let call em (x : Tast.expr) : Tast.expr =
{ Tast.e = Tast.Call (em.ename, [ x ]); ty = Types.Unit; loc = x.Tast.loc }
in
{ Render.ebytes = call emit_bytes;
estr = call emit_str;
ei64 = call emit_i64;
eu64 = call emit_u64;
ef64 = call emit_f64 }
(* And what the REPL may do with a pointer, which [println] may not. See
render.ml's [pointers] for why the two sides differ. *)
let dev_pointers : Render.pointers =
let i32 = Types.Int Types.I32 in
let ask name (p : Tast.expr) : Tast.expr =
let loc = p.Tast.loc in
let byte =
{ Tast.e = Tast.Prim (Tast.Cast (Types.Ptr (Types.Int Types.U8)), [ p ]);
ty = Types.Ptr (Types.Int Types.U8); loc }
in
{ Tast.e = Tast.Call (name, [ byte ]); ty = i32; loc }
in
{ Render.live =
(fun p ->
let loc = p.Tast.loc in
let zero = { Tast.e = Tast.Int (0L, Types.I32); ty = i32; loc } in
{ Tast.e = Tast.Prim (Tast.Ne, [ ask "flan/reg-live" p; zero ]);
ty = Types.Bool; loc });
(* Called for the emission and not for the answer, so the i32 is discarded
here rather than in render.ml: a [Do] whose last element is the unit is
the honest way to say "run this and forget what it said", and it keeps
the walk's node types true. *)
epitaph =
(fun p ->
let loc = p.Tast.loc in
{ Tast.e =
Tast.Do [ ask "flan/reg-emit" p;
{ Tast.e = Tast.Unit; ty = Types.Unit; loc } ];
ty = Types.Unit; loc }) }
(* ── The locals of a stopped frame ─────────────────────────────────── *)
(* The second half of what a break loop can show, and it is the same primitive
as [C-x C-e] pointed somewhere else.
Nothing marshals and nothing is read across the process boundary. A Flan
value carries no header, so the daemon could not make sense of bytes it
copied out even if it had them; what it has instead is the *type*, from
[Tast.fn.slots], and a name for it, from [snames] beside it. So it compiles
a thunk that renders those types at those addresses, in the program, and
reads back the text — exactly what an evaluated expression does, except
that the root is an address rather than an expression. That address is the
only thing that comes from the running program.
[bound] is which slots the program says have been reached. It is not an
optimisation: an unbound slot's entry is null, and a thunk that rendered
one would dereference null on the game thread of a program that is already
stopped. So the refusal happens here, before any code is emitted for it.
What comes back is one line per slot — name, type, value, tab separated.
Tab and newline are safe separators because every string the renderer emits
goes through [flan_dev_emit_str], which escapes both.
Each slot is rendered from its address rather than copied into the thunk
first. A copy would be one [alloca] the size of the slot — 40KB for sand's
grid — and the walk only ever shows eight elements of it. The cost is one
call to [flan/dev-slot] per leaf the walk reaches instead of one per slot,
which the depth and span caps already bound. *)
let render_locals ?(origin = "<locals>") t ~frame ~(fn : Tast.fn) ~bound
: change * (string * string) list =
let loc = fn.Tast.floc in
let extra = ref [] and nslots = ref 0 in
let c =
{ Render.structs = t.program.Tast.structs;
datas = t.program.Tast.datas;
enums = Hashtbl.fold (fun k v acc -> (k, v) :: acc) t.env.Check.enums [];
emit = dev_emitter;
ptrs = Some dev_pointers;
alloc = (fun ty ->
let i = !nslots in
incr nslots;
extra := ty :: !extra;
i) }
in
let nullary n = { Tast.e = Tast.Call (n, []); ty = Types.Unit; loc } in
let bytes_of str =
{ Tast.e =
Tast.Prim (Tast.Bytes, [ { Tast.e = Tast.Str str; ty = Types.String; loc } ]);
ty = Types.Slice (Types.Int Types.U8); loc }
in
let lit str = c.Render.emit.Render.ebytes (bytes_of str) in
let refused = ref [] in
let refuse name why = refused := (name, why) :: !refused in
let one i ty name =
let idx n =
{ Tast.e = Tast.Int (Int64.of_int n, Types.I64); ty = Types.Int Types.I64; loc }
in
let address =
{ Tast.e = Tast.Call ("flan/dev-slot", [ idx frame; idx i ]);
ty = Types.Ptr (Types.Int Types.U8); loc }
in
let typed =
{ Tast.e = Tast.Prim (Tast.Cast (Types.Ptr ty), [ address ]);
ty = Types.Ptr ty; loc }
in
let v = { Tast.e = Tast.Deref typed; ty; loc } in
match Render.render c 0 v with
| parts ->
(* The slot *index* travels with the line, last, and it is what makes
[i] in the break buffer able to name this exact slot back to the
daemon. The name cannot: [check.ml]'s [fresh_slot] only ever
allocates, so (let [v 22] …) inside (let [v 11] …) is two slots both
called [v] and both listed here. Nor can the position in the list,
because a refused slot is not in it. See [render_slot]. *)
Some
((lit (name ^ "\t" ^ Types.to_string ty ^ "\t") :: parts)
@ [ lit ("\t" ^ string_of_int i ^ "\n") ])
| exception Loc.Error { Loc.dmsg = why; _ } ->
(* A type the structural printer has no arm for — a map, a function
value, a type variable. Named, with the reason, rather than left out
of the list: a local that is missing and a local that could not be
printed are different facts. *)
refuse name why;
None
in
let body =
List.concat
((List.filter_map
(fun i ->
let ty = fn.Tast.slots.(i) in
let name =
if i < Array.length fn.Tast.snames then fn.Tast.snames.(i)
else None
in
match name with
| None ->
(* A slot the compiler made up: [dotimes]'s hidden bound, the
temporary a (min) evaluates an operand into. There is no
name to show and inventing one would put a variable in the
list that nobody can find in the file. *)
refuse (Printf.sprintf "s%d" i)
"a slot the compiler made up; no name was written for it";
None
| Some name when not (List.mem i bound) ->
refuse name
"not bound yet at the point the program stopped";
None
| Some name -> one i ty name)
(List.init (Array.length fn.Tast.slots) (fun i -> i))))
in
t.thunks <- t.thunks + 1;
let name = Printf.sprintf "locals/%d" t.thunks in
let thunk : Tast.fn =
{ Tast.name; params = []; ret = Types.Unit;
body = (nullary "flan/dev-begin" :: body) @ [ nullary "flan/dev-end" ];
fdefers = []; fparent = None; floc = loc;
slots = Array.of_list (List.rev !extra);
(* Every slot in here is the walk's own scratch: the locals being shown
are the *other* frame's, and this thunk reaches them by address. *)
snames = Array.make (List.length !extra) None }
in
let program =
{ t.program with
Tast.fns = t.program.Tast.fns @ [ thunk ];
externs = t.program.Tast.externs @ externs }
in
let ir =
redefinition t ~call:name program ~fns:[ name ]
in
ignore origin;
({ ir; x86 = t.x86; names = []; fns = []; installs = true }, List.rev !refused)
(* ── One slot of a stopped frame, walked ───────────────────────────── *)
(* The inspector's second rooting mode, and the whole of what it needed.
The inspector navigates by rewriting *expressions* — `(.pos b)' where the
last one was `b' — because a Flan value has no header and the thunk that
rendered it is [dlclose]d as soon as it returns, so nothing can be held on
this side the way CIDER holds a JVM object. The cost of that is the bug it
had: a name sent back to be evaluated is evaluated wherever the evaluator
stands, which on any frame but the innermost may resolve to a global, to a
different binding, or to nothing, with the listing above it still showing
the frame's own storage.
Rooting at the slot's address alone does not fix it — an address is not an
expression, so the first step has nothing to build from. What makes this
work is that the step does not have to be an expression either. A frame's
address comes from the shadow stack and every slot's type comes from
[Tast.fn.slots], so a step into a field is an address plus an offset with
that field's type, which is *exactly* the arithmetic [Render.render] does
for the locals listing. So this is [render_locals] with a path applied to
the root before the walk, and not a second walk.
What the path cannot do is the honest half. Every step is refused by name
with its reason rather than guessed at: a field the type does not have, an
index past the end of a fixed array, an option's payload on something that
is not an option. A pointer is still never followed — that is the
renderer's rule and not this mode's. *)
(* A step, as the editor sends it. [Sfield] on a data type carries the case as
well, because a data type's payload is at an offset that depends on which case
it is, and the renderer is what told the editor which case this value
currently holds. Guessing the case from a field name that two cases share
would read one case's layout over another's payload. *)
type step = Sfield of string | Sindex of int | Ssome
let step_text = function
| Sfield f -> "." ^ f
| Sindex i -> Printf.sprintf "[%d]" i
| Ssome -> ".some"
let path_text path = String.concat "" (List.map step_text path)
let step_into t (v : Tast.expr) (s : step) : (Tast.expr, string) result =
let loc = v.Tast.loc in
let ty = v.Tast.ty in
let no why = Error why in
match s with
| Ssome ->
(match ty with
| Types.Option pay -> Ok { Tast.e = Tast.Field (v, 1); ty = pay; loc }
| _ ->
no
(Printf.sprintf "%s is not an option, so it has no payload to go into"
(Types.to_string ty)))
| Sindex i ->
(match ty with
| Types.Array (n, el) ->
if i < 0 || Int64.compare (Int64.of_int i) n >= 0 then
no
(Printf.sprintf "%d is past the end of %s, which has %Ld elements" i
(Types.to_string ty) n)
else
Ok
{ Tast.e =
Tast.Prim
(Tast.At,
[ v;
{ Tast.e = Tast.Int (Int64.of_int i, Types.I32);
ty = Types.Int Types.I32; loc } ]);
ty = el; loc }
| Types.Slice el ->
(* A slice's length is not in its type, so this is the one step whose
range cannot be settled here. It is checked in the program, like
every other index in a dev build. *)
if i < 0 then no (Printf.sprintf "%d is not an index" i)
else
Ok
{ Tast.e =
Tast.Prim
(Tast.At,
[ v;
{ Tast.e = Tast.Int (Int64.of_int i, Types.I32);
ty = Types.Int Types.I32; loc } ]);
ty = el; loc }
| _ ->
no
(Printf.sprintf "%s is not an array or a slice, so it has no element %d"
(Types.to_string ty) i))
| Sfield spec ->
(match ty with
| Types.Named n
when List.exists (fun (u : Tast.data) -> String.equal u.Tast.dname n)
t.program.Tast.datas ->
let u =
List.find (fun (u : Tast.data) -> String.equal u.Tast.dname n)
t.program.Tast.datas
in
(* The editor spells this `Type.case.field', which is the head the
renderer wrote — `(Type.case {.field …})' — with the field appended.
A bare `case.field' is taken too, since that is the same fact said
shorter. *)
(match String.rindex_opt spec '.' with
| None ->
no
(Printf.sprintf
"%s is a data type: a field of it has to name the case that holds \
it, because the payload's offset depends on which case the \
value is in"
n)
| Some k ->
let case = String.sub spec 0 k
and fname = String.sub spec (k + 1) (String.length spec - k - 1) in
let case =
let pre = n ^ "." in
let lp = String.length pre in
if String.length case > lp && String.equal (String.sub case 0 lp) pre
then String.sub case lp (String.length case - lp)
else case
in
(match
List.find_opt
(fun (vr : Tast.variant) -> String.equal vr.Tast.vname case)
u.Tast.cases
with
| None ->
no (Printf.sprintf "%s has no case called %s" n case)
| Some vr ->
let rec idx i = function
| [] -> None
| (f : Tast.field) :: rest ->
if String.equal f.Tast.fname fname then Some (i, f.Tast.fty)
else idx (i + 1) rest
in
(match idx 0 vr.Tast.vfields with
| None ->
no
(Printf.sprintf "%s.%s has no field called %s" n case fname)
| Some (i, fty) ->
Ok
{ Tast.e = Tast.CaseField (v, vr.Tast.vname, i); ty = fty; loc })))
| Types.Named n ->
(match
List.find_opt
(fun (s : Tast.structure) -> String.equal s.Tast.sname n)
t.program.Tast.structs
with
| None ->
no
(Printf.sprintf
"%s is a type this session has no layout for, so there is no \
field to step to"
n)
| Some st ->
let rec idx i = function
| [] -> None
| (f : Tast.field) :: rest ->
if String.equal f.Tast.fname spec then Some (i, f.Tast.fty)
else idx (i + 1) rest
in
(match idx 0 st.Tast.fields with
| None ->
no (Printf.sprintf "%s has no field called %s" n spec)
| Some (i, fty) -> Ok { Tast.e = Tast.Field (v, i); ty = fty; loc }))
| _ ->
no
(Printf.sprintf "%s has no fields, so there is no .%s in it"
(Types.to_string ty) spec))
(* Renders slot [slot] of frame [frame], after walking [path] into it. The
thunk is [render_locals]'s, minus the loop over every slot: one root, one
line, and the reply carries the type the path ended at so the editor can
say what it is looking at.
The caller has already established that the frame is the body this session
holds — the slot fingerprint — and that the slot is bound. This function
does not re-derive either; it is handed the [fn] that check passed. *)
let render_slot ?(origin = "<inspect>") t ~frame ~(fn : Tast.fn) ~slot ~path
: (change * string * string, string) result =
let loc = fn.Tast.floc in
let nslots_of_fn = Array.length fn.Tast.slots in
if slot < 0 || slot >= nslots_of_fn then
Error
(Printf.sprintf "there is no slot %d in %s; it has %d" slot fn.Tast.name
nslots_of_fn)
else
let sname =
if slot < Array.length fn.Tast.snames then fn.Tast.snames.(slot) else None
in
match sname with
| None ->
Error
(Printf.sprintf
"slot %d of %s is one the compiler made up; no name was written for \
it, and it is not something the listing offers"
slot fn.Tast.name)
| Some name ->
let extra = ref [] and nslots = ref 0 in
let c =
{ Render.structs = t.program.Tast.structs;
datas = t.program.Tast.datas;
enums = Hashtbl.fold (fun k v acc -> (k, v) :: acc) t.env.Check.enums [];
emit = dev_emitter;
ptrs = Some dev_pointers;
alloc = (fun ty ->
let i = !nslots in
incr nslots;
extra := ty :: !extra;
i) }
in
let idx n =
{ Tast.e = Tast.Int (Int64.of_int n, Types.I64); ty = Types.Int Types.I64;
loc }
in
let ty = fn.Tast.slots.(slot) in
let address =
{ Tast.e = Tast.Call ("flan/dev-slot", [ idx frame; idx slot ]);
ty = Types.Ptr (Types.Int Types.U8); loc }
in
let typed =
{ Tast.e = Tast.Prim (Tast.Cast (Types.Ptr ty), [ address ]);
ty = Types.Ptr ty; loc }
in
let root = { Tast.e = Tast.Deref typed; ty; loc } in
let rec walk v = function
| [] -> Ok v
| s :: rest ->
(match step_into t v s with
| Error why -> Error why
| Ok v' -> walk v' rest)
in
(match walk root path with
| Error why -> Error (name ^ path_text path ^ ": " ^ why)
| Ok v ->
(match Render.render c 0 v with
| exception Loc.Error { Loc.dmsg = why; _ } -> Error (name ^ path_text path ^ ": " ^ why)
| parts ->
let nullary n = { Tast.e = Tast.Call (n, []); ty = Types.Unit; loc } in
t.thunks <- t.thunks + 1;
let tname = Printf.sprintf "inspect/%d" t.thunks in
let thunk : Tast.fn =
{ Tast.name = tname; params = []; ret = Types.Unit;
body =
(nullary "flan/dev-begin" :: parts) @ [ nullary "flan/dev-end" ];
fdefers = []; fparent = None; floc = loc;
slots = Array.of_list (List.rev !extra);
snames = Array.make (List.length !extra) None }
in
let program =
{ t.program with
Tast.fns = t.program.Tast.fns @ [ thunk ];
externs = t.program.Tast.externs @ externs }
in
let ir =
redefinition t
~call:tname program ~fns:[ tname ]
in
ignore origin;
Ok
({ ir; x86 = t.x86; names = []; fns = []; installs = true },
name ^ path_text path,
Types.to_string v.Tast.ty)))
(* ── The globals a stopped stack reaches ───────────────────────────── *)
(* The other half of what a break loop can show, and in this language arguably
the more useful one: a game keeps most of its state in top-level [defvar]s,
and sand.flan holds its entire grid that way.
Almost the same thunk as [render_locals] with a different root, and the
difference is the whole reason this is a second function rather than a
parameter. A local is reached by *address* — [flan/dev-slot] hands back
where the frame is, and only the stopped program knows that. A global is
reached by *name*: [Emit.redefinition] writes a global the host already has
as [external], so the loaded module binds to the program's own storage and
the dynamic linker does the work. Nothing has to be asked of the stopped
thread at all, which is also why there is no [bound] list here — a global's
storage exists from the moment the process started, so there is no
not-yet-bound case to refuse.
[globals] is chosen by the caller and not here, because the choice is about
the *stack* and this function is about rendering. See [Dev.globals_op].
One line per global — name, type, value, tab separated — the same framing
[render_locals] uses, and safe for the same reason: every string the
renderer emits goes through [flan_dev_emit_str], which escapes both. *)
let render_globals ?(origin = "<globals>") t ~(globals : Tast.global list)
: change * (string * string) list =
let loc = Loc.unknown in
let extra = ref [] and nslots = ref 0 in
let c =
{ Render.structs = t.program.Tast.structs;
datas = t.program.Tast.datas;
enums = Hashtbl.fold (fun k v acc -> (k, v) :: acc) t.env.Check.enums [];
emit = dev_emitter;
ptrs = Some dev_pointers;
alloc = (fun ty ->
let i = !nslots in
incr nslots;
extra := ty :: !extra;
i) }
in
let bytes_of str =
{ Tast.e =
Tast.Prim (Tast.Bytes, [ { Tast.e = Tast.Str str; ty = Types.String; loc } ]);
ty = Types.Slice (Types.Int Types.U8); loc }
in
let lit str = c.Render.emit.Render.ebytes (bytes_of str) in
let nullary n = { Tast.e = Tast.Call (n, []); ty = Types.Unit; loc } in
let refused = ref [] in
let one (g : Tast.global) =
let v = { Tast.e = Tast.Global g.Tast.gname; ty = g.Tast.gty; loc } in
match Render.render c 0 v with
| parts ->
Some
((lit (g.Tast.gname ^ "\t" ^ Types.to_string g.Tast.gty ^ "\t") :: parts)
@ [ lit "\n" ])
| exception Loc.Error { Loc.dmsg = why; _ } ->
(* A type the structural printer has no arm for. Named with its reason
rather than left out, for [render_locals]'s reason: a global that is
missing and a global that could not be printed are different facts,
and a list that showed neither would be the same lie twice. *)
refused := (g.Tast.gname, why) :: !refused;
None
in
let body = List.concat (List.filter_map one globals) in
t.thunks <- t.thunks + 1;
let name = Printf.sprintf "globals/%d" t.thunks in
let thunk : Tast.fn =
{ Tast.name; params = []; ret = Types.Unit;
body = (nullary "flan/dev-begin" :: body) @ [ nullary "flan/dev-end" ];
fdefers = []; fparent = None; floc = loc;
slots = Array.of_list (List.rev !extra);
(* Every slot in here is the walk's own scratch: what is being shown is
the program's storage, which this thunk reaches by name. *)
snames = Array.make (List.length !extra) None }
in
let program =
{ t.program with
Tast.fns = t.program.Tast.fns @ [ thunk ];
externs = t.program.Tast.externs @ externs }
in
let ir =
redefinition t ~call:name program ~fns:[ name ]
in
ignore origin;
({ ir; x86 = t.x86; names = []; fns = []; installs = true }, List.rev !refused)
(* [pause] is [C-u C-x C-e] — §9's "last expression" target. It is a flag and
not a position, because there is only one form here and it is the whole of
what was sent: the expression *is* the target. It is also why nothing here
sticks — a thunk is built and thrown away, so the mark lasts exactly one
evaluation, which is the truthful thing for an expression that has no
declaration to live in. *)
let eval_expr ?(origin = "<eval>") ?(pause = false) t src : change =
let form =
match Reader.read_all ~file:origin src with
| [ f ] -> f
| [] -> fail Loc.unknown "nothing to evaluate"
| _ :: f :: _ -> fail f.Form.loc "one expression at a time"
in
(* [Parse.expr] expands, so the imported set has to be in front of it here
exactly as [eval] puts it in front of a declaration: C-x C-e sends one
expression with no import in sight, and the session is the only thing
holding what the imports brought in. Without this the prelude's macros
would work and a package's would be an unknown name.
Expansion happens here, before the thunk is built and long before the
agent is asked for anything, so the three-way wait in [Dev.eval_expr] is
untouched: a cold macro module costs its ~300ms before that clock starts,
and the non-termination refusals raise [Loc.Error] out of this call, which
the daemon already answers as an error rather than a silence. *)
let parsed = Parse.with_imported t.macros (fun () -> Parse.expr form) in
(* Wrapped before the checker, so the call is checked like any other and a
prelude that stopped offering [pause] would be an ordinary unknown name
rather than a thunk that silently did not stop. The [Do] takes the
expression's own location for the reason [Ast.mark_pause] does: the frame
the break loop reports reads it. *)
let parsed =
if pause then
{ Ast.e = Ast.Do [ Ast.pause_call parsed.Ast.loc; parsed ];
Ast.loc = parsed.Ast.loc }
else parsed
in
(* Checking against the live environment can *generate* code: the first
[C-x C-e] of a call to a generic at a type nothing has used yet
instantiates it here, and the copy lands in [t.env] and in no program
anywhere. Marked before and collected after, and spliced into the module
below — without this the thunk calls a symbol the module never defines
and the host has no cell for. *)
let mark = Check.instance_mark t.env in
let checked, base, bnames = Check.expression t.env parsed in
let fresh = Check.instances_since t.env mark in
(* The thunk's frame starts at whatever [Check.expression] needed and grows
as the walk finds slices in it, so the slots the renderer asks for are
appended past [base] and collected here to size the frame below. *)
let extra = ref [] and nslots = ref (Array.length base) in
let c =
{ Render.structs = t.program.Tast.structs;
datas = t.program.Tast.datas;
enums = Hashtbl.fold (fun k v acc -> (k, v) :: acc) t.env.Check.enums [];
emit = dev_emitter;
ptrs = Some dev_pointers;
alloc = (fun ty ->
let i = !nslots in
incr nslots;
extra := ty :: !extra;
i) }
in
let loc = checked.Tast.loc in
let nullary n = { Tast.e = Tast.Call (n, []); ty = Types.Unit; loc } in
let body =
(nullary "flan/dev-begin" :: Render.render c 0 checked)
@ [ nullary "flan/dev-end" ]
in
t.thunks <- t.thunks + 1;
let name = Printf.sprintf "eval/%d" t.thunks in
let thunk : Tast.fn =
{ Tast.name; params = []; ret = Types.Unit; body; fdefers = []; fparent = None; floc = loc;
slots = Array.append base (Array.of_list (List.rev !extra));
(* The expression's own [let]s keep their names; the slots [render] added
behind them are the walk's own scratch and have none to keep. *)
snames = Array.append bnames (Array.make (List.length !extra) None) }
in
(* Built against the program but never spliced into it: an evaluation is not
a declaration, and adding one would leave the session carrying an eval/N
for every expression ever typed. *)
let program =
{ t.program with
Tast.fns = t.program.Tast.fns @ fresh @ [ thunk ];
externs = t.program.Tast.externs @ externs }
in
let ir =
(* The thunk gets debug info on the same flag as everything else. It is a
function nobody sets a breakpoint on by name, but it is a frame on the
stack when the expression signals, and a frame the debugger cannot name
is the thing the conditions buffer is trying to stop showing. *)
redefinition t ~call:name program
~fns:(List.map (fun (f : Tast.fn) -> f.Tast.name) fresh @ [ name ])
in
(* The copies stay in the session's program, unlike the thunk: the thunk is
not a declaration and there is nothing to keep, but a copy that has been
built and loaded *is* part of the running process from here on, and
forgetting it would generate a second one under the same name at the next
evaluation.
After [Emit], not before it: the session must not come to believe it holds
a body that no module was ever written for. A daemon that answers and has
lost track of what the program contains is worse than one that died. *)
t.program <- { t.program with Tast.fns = t.program.Tast.fns @ fresh };
{ ir; x86 = t.x86; names = []; fns = []; installs = true }
(* ── What a macro call expands to ──────────────────────────────────── *)
(* [C-c C-m]. The one thing the editor can ask that compiles nothing, sends
nothing to the program, and leaves the session exactly as it found it.
It is a session operation rather than a [Reader] plus a [Macro] call for the
reason the whole of this file exists: what a call expands to is decided by
*which macros this session holds* — the prelude's, the ones its imports
brought in, and the [defmacro]s the buffer has evaluated since it started —
and that set lives in [t.macros] and nowhere else. Expanding against a fresh
read of the file would answer with macros the session was never told about
and with a version of the ones it was told about that is whatever happens to
be *saved*. An expansion that disagreed with what an evaluation does would
be worse than no expansion at all: a macro decides what the code is.
Nothing here is assigned. [eval] commits [t.macros] and [eval_expr] bumps
[t.thunks] and [t.program]; this reads and writes nothing, so a form that
only *looks* like a declaration — a [defmacro] handed to [C-c C-m] — does
not join the session by having been looked at. [test_session] pins that. *)
type expansion = {
xbefore : Form.t; (* what was sent, quasiquote already desugared *)
xafter : Form.t; (* what it expands to *)
xmacro : string option; (* the macro at the head, when the head is one *)
(* False when the expansion is the form itself. Reported rather than left for
the editor to diff, because the two ways of being unchanged are different
facts: a head that names no macro, and a macro whose answer is its own
call. Only [xmacro] tells them apart. *)
xchanged : bool;
}
(* [all] is the difference between CIDER's two commands, and it is real here
rather than inherited: a macro may quasiquote a call to another macro, so
[(mac/quad 3)] one-stepped is [(mac/twice (mac/twice 3))] and all the way is
[(+ (+ 3 3) (+ 3 3))].
The refusals both live on the [all] path and both are [Loc.Error], which the
daemon answers as a reply: a macro that never settles is stopped by
[Macro.fuel] and named, and a ring of macros was refused while the package
holding it was parsed, which is before any session over it could exist. One
step cannot reach either — it makes exactly one call and does not look at
the answer — so [(s/spin)] one-stepped is a fact about the macro and only
[C-u] refuses. *)
let macroexpand ?(origin = "<eval>") ~(all : bool) t (src : string) : expansion =
let form =
match Reader.read_all ~file:origin src with
| [ f ] -> f
| [] -> fail Loc.unknown "nothing to expand"
| _ :: f :: _ -> fail f.Form.loc "one form at a time"
in
(* Desugared first, exactly as [Parse.parse_forms] does it and for its
reason: a quasiquote that has not been rewritten still looks like a call
to something named [quasiquote], and the [Form.Sym] inside it looks like a
head anything could mistake for one. *)
let before = Expand.quasiquote form in
(* And the session's macros in front of it, as [eval] and [eval_expr] both
put them: [Macro.program] reads [Parse.imported_macros] directly. *)
Parse.with_imported t.macros @@ fun () ->
let after, name =
if all then Macro.expand_all before else Macro.expand_step before
in
{ xbefore = before; xafter = after; xmacro = name;
(* Structural, through the printer both halves are shown with, so "changed"
means "would print differently" — which is the claim the buffer makes.
There is no equality on [Form.t] to use instead: it carries a [Loc.t],
and [Loc.from_macro] stamps a name onto every node a macro answers, so
even an identity expansion compares unequal. *)
xchanged = Form.to_source after <> Form.to_source before }