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Ben Gamari pushed to branch wip/local-symbols-2
at <a href="https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc">Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC</a>
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<span>by David Beacham</span>
<i>at 2020-10-27T13:59:35-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Fix `instance Bounded a => Bounded (Down a)` (#18716)
* Flip `minBound` and `maxBound` to respect the change in ordering
* Remove awkward `Enum` (and hence `Integral`) instances for
`Data.Ord.Down`
* Update changelog
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<span>by Vladislav Zavialov</span>
<i>at 2020-10-27T14:00:11-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Version bump: base-4.16 (#18712)
Also bumps upper bounds on base in boot libraries (incl. submodules).
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<span>by Tamar Christina</span>
<i>at 2020-10-27T14:00:49-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">winio: simplify logic remove optimization step.
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2020-10-27T14:01:24-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">hadrian: Suppress xelatex output unless it fails
As noted in #18835, xelatex produces an absurd amount of output, nearly
all of which is meaningless. Silence this.
Fixes #18835.
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2020-10-27T14:02:00-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">build system: Clean mingw tarballs
Tamar noticed in !4293 that the build systems fail to clean up the mingw
tarballs directory (`ghc-tarballs`). Fix this in both the make build
system and Hadrian.
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<span>by Simon Peyton Jones</span>
<i>at 2020-10-27T14:02:34-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Fix two constraint solving problems
This patch fixes two problems in the constraint solver.
* An actual bug #18555: we were floating out a constraint to eagerly,
and that was ultimately fatal. It's explained in
Note [Do not float blocked constraints] in GHC.Core.Constraint.
This is all very delicate, but it's all going to become irrelevant
when we stop floating constraints (#17656).
* A major performance infelicity in the flattener. When flattening
(ty |> co) we *never* generated Refl, even when there was nothing
at all to do. Result: we would gratuitously rewrite the constraint
to exactly the same thing, wasting work. Described in #18413, and
came up again in #18855.
Solution: exploit the special case by calling the new function
castCoercionKind1. See Note [castCoercionKind1] in
GHC.Core.Coercion
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<span>by Sergei Trofimovich</span>
<i>at 2020-10-27T14:03:14-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">ghc.mk: amend 'make sdist'
Noticed 'make sdist' failure seen as:
```
"rm" -rf sdistprep/ghc/ghc-9.1.0.20201020/hadrian/_build/ (SRC_DIST_GHC_DIR)/hadrian/dist-newstyle/
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
```
commit 9657f6f34
("sdist: Include hadrian sources in source distribution")
added a new cleanup path without a variable expantion.
The change adds variable reference. While at it move directory
cleanup to a separate statement.
Amends #18794
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
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<span>by David Eichmann</span>
<i>at 2020-10-27T14:03:51-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Use config.run_ways for multi_compile_and_run tests
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<span>by Alan Zimmerman</span>
<i>at 2020-10-27T14:04:26-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Api Annotations: Introduce AnnPercent for HsExplicitMult
For the case
foo :: a %p -> b
The location of the '%' is captured, separate from the 'p'
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2020-10-27T14:05:02-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">gitlab-ci: Bump ci-images
Bumps bootstrap compiler to 8.10.1.
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<span>by Sebastian Graf</span>
<i>at 2020-10-27T14:05:37-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">DmdAnal: Kill `is_thunk` case in `splitFV`
The `splitFV` function implements the highly dubious hack
described in `Note [Lazy und unleashable free variables]` in
GHC.Core.Opt.DmdAnal. It arranges it so that demand signatures only
carry strictness info on free variables. Usage info is released through
other means, see the Note. It's purely for analysis performance reasons.
It turns out that `splitFV` has a quite involved case for thunks that
produces slightly different usage signatures and it's not clear why we
need it: `splitFV` is only relevant in the LetDown case and the only
time we call it on thunks is for top-level or local recursive thunks.
Since usage signatures of top-level thunks can only reference other
top-level bindings and we completely discard demand info we have on
top-level things (see the lack of `setIdDemandInfo` in
`dmdAnalTopBind`), the `is_thunk` case is completely irrelevant here.
For local, recursive thunks, the added benefit of the `is_thunk` test
is marginal: We get used-multiple-times in some cases where previously
we had used-once if a recursive thunk has multiple call sites. It's
very unlikely and not a case to optimise for.
So we kill the `is_thunk` case and inline `splitFV` at its call site,
exposing `isWeakDmd` from `GHC.Types.Demand` instead.
The NoFib summary supports this decision:
```
Min 0.0% -0.0%
Max 0.0% +0.0%
Geometric Mean -0.0% -0.0%
```
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2020-10-28T21:11:39-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">hadrian: Don't quote metric baseline argument
Previously this was quoted inappropriately.</pre>
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<span>by Alan Zimmerman</span>
<i>at 2020-10-28T21:12:15-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">API Annotations: put constructors in alphabetical order
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<span>by John Ericson</span>
<i>at 2020-10-29T03:53:14-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Widen acceptance threshold for T10421a
Progress towards #18842. As @sgraf812 points out, widening the window is
dangerous until the exponential described in #17658 is fixed. But this
test has caused enough misery and is low stakes enough that we and
@bgamari think it's worth it in this one case for the time being.
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<span>by Sylvain Henry</span>
<i>at 2020-10-29T03:53:52-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Split GHC.Driver.Types
I was working on making DynFlags stateless (#17957), especially by
storing loaded plugins into HscEnv instead of DynFlags. It turned out to
be complicated because HscEnv is in GHC.Driver.Types but LoadedPlugin
isn't: it is in GHC.Driver.Plugins which depends on GHC.Driver.Types. I
didn't feel like introducing yet another hs-boot file to break the loop.
Additionally I remember that while we introduced the module hierarchy
(#13009) we talked about splitting GHC.Driver.Types because it contained
various unrelated types and functions, but we never executed. I didn't
feel like making GHC.Driver.Types bigger with more unrelated Plugins
related types, so finally I bit the bullet and split GHC.Driver.Types.
As a consequence this patch moves a lot of things. I've tried to put
them into appropriate modules but nothing is set in stone.
Several other things moved to avoid loops.
* Removed Binary instances from GHC.Utils.Binary for random compiler
things
* Moved Typeable Binary instances into GHC.Utils.Binary.Typeable: they
import a lot of things that users of GHC.Utils.Binary don't want to
depend on.
* put everything related to Units/Modules under GHC.Unit:
GHC.Unit.Finder, GHC.Unit.Module.{ModGuts,ModIface,Deps,etc.}
* Created several modules under GHC.Types: GHC.Types.Fixity, SourceText,
etc.
* Split GHC.Utils.Error (into GHC.Types.Error)
* Finally removed GHC.Driver.Types
Note that this patch doesn't put loaded plugins into HscEnv. It's left
for another patch.
Bump haddock submodule
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<span>by Sylvain Henry</span>
<i>at 2020-10-29T03:53:52-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">GC: Avoid data race (#18717, #17964)
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<span>by Ryan Scott</span>
<i>at 2020-10-29T04:18:52-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Check for large tuples more thoroughly
This fixes #18723 by:
* Moving the existing `GHC.Tc.Gen.HsType.bigConstraintTuple` validity
check to `GHC.Rename.Utils.checkCTupSize` for consistency with
`GHC.Rename.Utils.checkTupSize`, and
* Using `check(C)TupSize` when checking tuple _types_, in addition
to checking names, expressions, and patterns.
Note that I put as many of these checks as possible in the typechecker so
that GHC can properly distinguish between boxed and constraint tuples. The
exception to this rule is checking names, which I perform in the renamer
(in `GHC.Rename.Env`) so that we can rule out `(,, ... ,,)` and
`''(,, ... ,,)` alike in one fell swoop.
While I was in town, I also removed the `HsConstraintTuple` and
`HsBoxedTuple` constructors of `HsTupleSort`, which are functionally
unused. This requires a `haddock` submodule bump.
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<span>by Richard Eisenberg</span>
<i>at 2020-10-29T22:08:13-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Remove unnecessary gender from comments/docs
While, say, alternating "he" and "she" in sequential writing
may be nicer than always using "they", reading code/documentation
is almost never sequential. If this small change makes individuals
feel more welcome in GHC's codebase, that's a good thing.
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<span>by Viktor Dukhovni</span>
<i>at 2020-10-30T05:28:30-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">[skip ci] Fix typo in `callocBytes` haddock.
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<span>by Ryan Scott</span>
<i>at 2020-10-30T18:52:50-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Split HsConDecl{H98,GADT}Details
Haskell98 and GADT constructors both use `HsConDeclDetails`, which includes
`InfixCon`. But `InfixCon` is never used for GADT constructors, which results
in an awkward unrepresentable state. This removes the unrepresentable state by:
* Renaming the existing `HsConDeclDetails` synonym to `HsConDeclH98Details`,
which emphasizes the fact that it is now only used for Haskell98-style data
constructors, and
* Creating a new `HsConDeclGADTDetails` data type with `PrefixConGADT` and
`RecConGADT` constructors that closely resemble `PrefixCon` and `InfixCon`
in `HsConDeclH98Details`. The key difference is that `HsConDeclGADTDetails`
lacks any way to represent infix constructors.
The rest of the patch is refactoring to accommodate the new structure of
`HsConDecl{H98,GADT}Details`. Some highlights:
* The `getConArgs` and `hsConDeclArgTys` functions have been removed, as
there is no way to implement these functions uniformly for all
`ConDecl`s. For the most part, their previous call sites now
pattern match on the `ConDecl`s directly and do different things for
`ConDeclH98`s and `ConDeclGADT`s.
I did introduce one new function to make the transition easier:
`getRecConArgs_maybe`, which extracts the arguments from a `RecCon(GADT)`.
This is still possible since `RecCon(GADT)`s still use the same representation
in both `HsConDeclH98Details` and `HsConDeclGADTDetails`, and since the
pattern that `getRecConArgs_maybe` implements is used in several places,
I thought it worthwhile to factor it out into its own function.
* Previously, the `con_args` fields in `ConDeclH98` and `ConDeclGADT` were
both of type `HsConDeclDetails`. Now, the former is of type
`HsConDeclH98Details`, and the latter is of type `HsConDeclGADTDetails`,
which are distinct types. As a result, I had to rename the `con_args` field
in `ConDeclGADT` to `con_g_args` to make it typecheck.
A consequence of all this is that the `con_args` field is now partial, so
using `con_args` as a top-level field selector is dangerous. (Indeed, Haddock
was using `con_args` at the top-level, which caused it to crash at runtime
before I noticed what was wrong!) I decided to add a disclaimer in the 9.2.1
release notes to advertise this pitfall.
Fixes #18844. Bumps the `haddock` submodule.
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<span>by Ryan Scott</span>
<i>at 2020-10-31T02:53:55-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Make typechecker equality consider visibility in ForAllTys
Previously, `can_eq_nc'` would equate `ForAllTy`s regardless of their
`ArgFlag`, including `forall i -> i -> Type` and `forall i. i -> Type`! To fix
this, `can_eq_nc'` now uses the `sameVis` function to first check if the
`ArgFlag`s are equal modulo specificity. I have also updated `tcEqType`'s
implementation to match this behavior. For more explanation on the "modulo
specificity" part, see the new `Note [ForAllTy and typechecker equality]`
in `GHC.Tc.Solver.Canonical`.
While I was in town, I fixed some related documentation issues:
* I added `Note [Typechecker equality]` to `GHC.Tc.Utils.TcType` to describe
what exactly distinguishes `can_eq_nc'` and `tcEqType` (which implement
typechecker equality) from `eqType` (which implements definitional equality,
which does not care about the `ArgFlags` of `ForAllTy`s at all).
* The User's Guide had some outdated prose on the specified/inferred
distinction being different for types and kinds, a holdover from #15079. This
is no longer the case on today's GHC, so I removed this prose, added some new
prose to take its place, and added a regression test for the programs in
#15079.
* The User's Guide had some _more_ outdated prose on inferred type variables
not being allowed in `default` type signatures for class methods, which is no
longer true as of the resolution of #18432.
* The related `Note [Deferred Unification]` was being referenced as
`Note [Deferred unification]` elsewhere, which made it harder to `grep`
for. I decided to change the name of the Note to `Deferred unification`
for consistency with the capitalization style used for most other Notes.
Fixes #18863.
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<span>by Sylvain Henry</span>
<i>at 2020-10-31T02:54:34-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Refactor numeric constant folding rules
Avoid the use of global pattern synonyms.
1) I think it's going to be helpful to implement constant folding for
other numeric types, especially Natural which doesn't have a wrapping
behavior. We'll have to refactor these rules even more so we'd better
make them less cryptic.
2) It should also be slightly faster because global pattern synonyms
matched operations for every numeric types instead of the current one:
e.g., ":**:" pattern was matching multiplication for both Int# and
Word# types. As we will probably want to implement constant folding
for other numeric types (Int8#, Int16#, etc.), it is more efficient
to only match primops for a given type as we do now.
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<span>by Sylvain Henry</span>
<i>at 2020-10-31T02:54:34-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Simplify constant-folding (#18032)
See #18032 for the details.
* Use `Lit (LitNumber _ i)` instead of `isLitValue_maybe` which does
more work but that is not needed for constant-folding
* Don't export `GHC.Types.Literal.isLitValue_maybe`
* Kill `GHC.Types.Literal.isLitValue` which isn't used
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2020-10-31T02:55:10-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">primops.txt.pp: Move ByteArray# primops to separate file
This file will be generated.
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2020-10-31T02:55:10-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">primops: Generate ByteArray# index/read/write primops
Previously these were mostly undocumented and was ripe for potential
inconsistencies.
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<span>by Sylvain Henry</span>
<i>at 2020-10-31T02:55:50-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Move loadDecl into IfaceToCore
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<span>by Tamar Christina</span>
<i>at 2020-10-31T09:26:56-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">winio: Fix unused variables warnings
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<span>by Andrzej Rybczak</span>
<i>at 2020-10-31T09:27:34-04:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Add testcase for #816
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2020-11-01T16:36:45+00:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">nativeGen: Make makeImportsDoc take an NCGConfig rather than DynFlags
It appears this was an oversight as there is no reason the full DynFlags
is necessary.
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2020-11-01T16:36:45+00:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Move this_module into NCGConfig
In various places in the NCG we need the Module currently being
compiled. Let's move this into the environment instead of chewing threw
another register.
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2020-11-01T16:36:45+00:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">codeGen: Produce local symbols for module-internal functions
It turns out that some important native debugging/profiling tools (e.g.
perf) rely only on symbol tables for function name resolution (as
opposed to using DWARF DIEs). However, previously GHC would emit
temporary symbols (e.g. `.La42b`) to identify module-internal
entities. Such symbols are dropped during linking and therefore not
visible to runtime tools (in addition to having rather un-helpful unique
names). For instance, `perf report` would often end up attributing all
cost to the libc `frame_dummy` symbol since Haskell code was no covered
by any proper symbol (see #17605).
We now rather follow the model of C compilers and emit
descriptively-named local symbols for module internal things. Since this
will increase object file size this behavior can be disabled with the
`-fno-expose-all-symbols` flag.
With this `perf record` can finally be used against Haskell executables.
Even more, with `-g3` `perf annotate` provides inline source code.
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2020-11-01T16:36:45+00:00</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Enable -fexpose-all-symbols when debug level >=2
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