with the prepatory work done this mostly means turning plain pointers
into unique_ptrs, with all the associated churn that necessitates. we
might want to change some of these to box_ptrs at some point as well,
but that would be a semantic change that isn't fully appropriate yet.
Change-Id: I0c238c118617420650432f4ed45569baa3e3f413
almost all places where Exprs are passed as pointers expect the pointers
to be non-null. pass them as references to encode this constraint in the
type system as well (and also communicate that Exprs must not be freed).
Change-Id: Ia98f166fec3c23151f906e13acb4a0954a5980a2
We got confused what formals did and had to briefly figure it out. We
should just have docs, so these are some.
Change-Id: If3e794a401e69d022785cbfa0b0c2e2284f41f58
we now keep not a table of all positions, but a table of all origins and
their sizes. position indices are now direct pointers into the virtual
concatenation of all parsed contents. this slightly reduces memory usage
and time spent in the parser, at the cost of not being able to report
positions if the total input size exceeds 4GiB. this limit is not unique
to nix though, rustc and clang also limit their input to 4GiB (although
at least clang refuses to process inputs that are larger, we will not).
this new 4GiB limit probably will not cause any problems for quite a
while, all of nixpkgs together is less than 100MiB in size and already
needs over 700MiB of memory and multiple seconds just to parse. 4GiB
worth of input will easily take multiple minutes and over 30GiB of
memory without even evaluating anything. if problems *do* arise we can
probably recover the old table-based system by adding some tracking to
Pos::Origin (or increasing the size of PosIdx outright), but for time
being this looks like more complexity than it's worth.
since we now need to read the entire input again to determine the
line/column of a position we'll make unsafeGetAttrPos slightly lazy:
mostly the set it returns is only used to determine the file of origin
of an attribute, not its exact location. the thunks do not add
measurable runtime overhead.
notably this change is necessary to allow changing the parser since
apparently nothing supports nix's very idiosyncratic line ending choice
of "anything goes", making it very hard to calculate line/column
positions in the parser (while byte offsets are very easy).
(cherry picked from commit 5d9fdab3de0ee17c71369ad05806b9ea06dfceda)
Change-Id: Ie0b2430cb120c09097afa8c0101884d94f4bbf34
it's no longer widely used and has a rather confusing meaning now that
inherit-from is handled very differently.
(cherry picked from commit 1cd87b7042d14aae1fafa47b1c28db4c5bd20de7)
Change-Id: I90bbebddf06762960d8ca4f621cf042ce8ae83f9
desugaring inherit-from to syntactic duplication of the source expr also
duplicates side effects of the source expr (such as trace calls) and
expensive computations (such as derivationStrict).
(cherry picked from commit cefd0302b55b3360dbca59cfcb4bf6a750d6cdcf)
Change-Id: Iff519f991adef2e51683ba2c552d37a3df7a179e
this also has the effect of sorting let bindings lexicographically
rather than by symbol creation order as was previously done, giving a
better canonicalization in the process.
(cherry picked from commit 6c08fba533ef31cad2bdc03ba72ecf58dc8ee5a0)
Change-Id: Ia887f629305645bb8a165fbbc0d32e620912595a
in place of inherited() — not quite useful yet since we don't
distinguish plain and inheritFrom attr kinds so far.
(cherry picked from commit 1f542adb3e18e7078e6a589182a53a47d971748a)
Change-Id: If948c9d43e875de18f213a73a06a36f7c335b536
While preparing PRs like #9753, I've had to change error messages in
dozens of code paths. It would be nice if instead of
EvalError("expected 'boolean' but found '%1%'", showType(v))
we could write
TypeError(v, "boolean")
or similar. Then, changing the error message could be a mechanical
refactor with the compiler pointing out places the constructor needs to
be changed, rather than the error-prone process of grepping through the
codebase. Structured errors would also help prevent the "same" error
from having multiple slightly different messages, and could be a first
step towards error codes / an error index.
This PR reworks the exception infrastructure in `libexpr` to
support exception types with different constructor signatures than
`BaseError`. Actually refactoring the exceptions to use structured data
will come in a future PR (this one is big enough already, as it has to
touch every exception in `libexpr`).
The core design is in `eval-error.hh`. Generally, errors like this:
state.error("'%s' is not a string", getAttrPathStr())
.debugThrow<TypeError>()
are transformed like this:
state.error<TypeError>("'%s' is not a string", getAttrPathStr())
.debugThrow()
The type annotation has moved from `ErrorBuilder::debugThrow` to
`EvalState::error`.
(cherry picked from commit c6a89c1a1659b31694c0fbcd21d78a6dd521c732)
Change-Id: Iced91ba4e00ca9e801518071fb43798936cbd05a
these symbols are used a *lot*, so it makes sense to cache them. this
mostly increases clarity of the code (however clear one may wish to call
the parser desugaring here), but it also provides a small performance
benefit.
(cherry picked from commit 09a1128d9e2ff0ae6176784938047350d6f8a782)
Change-Id: I73d9f66be4555168e048cb2d542277251580c2d1
Combine `AbstractPos`, `PosAdapter`, and `Pos`
(cherry picked from commit 113499d16fc87d53b73fb62fe6242154909756ed)
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this is a bit cursed because originally it was based on InputAccessor
code that we don't have and moved/patched features we likewise don't
have (fetchToStore caching, all the individual accessors,
ContentAddressMethod). the commit is adjusted accordingly to
match (remove caching, ignore accessors, use FileIngestionMethod).
note that `state.rootPath . CanonPath == abs` and
computeStorePathForPath works relative to cwd, so the slight rewrite in
the moved fetchToStore is legal.
Change-Id: I05fd340c273f0bcc8ffabfebdc4a88b98083bce5
reduce the size of Env by one pointer
(cherry picked from commit 83f5622545a2fc31eb7e7d5105f64ed6dd3058b3)
Change-Id: I5636290526d0165cfc61aee1e7a5b94db4a26cef
a packet of small optimizations
(cherry picked from commit ee439734e924eb337a869ff2e48aff8b989198bc)
Change-Id: I125d870710750a32a0dece48f39a3e9132b0d023
* Finish converting existing comments for internal API docs
99% of this was just reformatting existing comments. Only two exceptions:
- Expanded upon `BuildResult::status` compat note
- Split up file-level `symbol-table.hh` doc comments to get
per-definition docs
Also fixed a few whitespace goofs, turning leading tabs to spaces and
removing trailing spaces.
Picking up from #8133
* Fix two things from comments
* Use triple-backtick not indent for `dumpPath`
* Convert GNU-style `\`..'` quotes to markdown style in API docs
This will render correctly.
We are looking for *$ because it indicate that it was constructed with a new but
not release. De-referencing shallow copy so deleting as whole might create
dangling pointer that's why we move it so we delete a empty containers + the
nice perf boost.
This makes the position object used in exceptions abstract, with a
method getSource() to get the source code of the file in which the
error originated. This is needed for lazy trees because source files
don't necessarily exist in the filesystem, and we don't want to make
libutil depend on the InputAccessor type in libfetcher.
