<div dir="ltr">Woah, that's pretty neat. I didn't even realize that GHCi could do that. From a quick perusal of the GHCi docs, it looks like :print and :force are related commands. How is GHCi used to show the type of a closure though?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 5:29 PM Simon Peyton Jones <<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>You might also find compiler/ghci/RtClosureInspect.hs useful.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>It’s the main module of the GHCi debugger, and allows Haskell code to inspect the Haskell heap. So it has mechanisms for unpacking arbitrary closures, all in Haskell.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew Martin<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 06 February 2019 20:57<br>
<b>To:</b> Matthew Pickering <<a href="mailto:matthewtpickering@gmail.com" target="_blank">matthewtpickering@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Haskell Libraries <<a href="mailto:libraries@haskell.org" target="_blank">libraries@haskell.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Peeking into StgInfoTable in cmm<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Or even better, it looks like cmmGetClosureType already combines the two for me.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks. The source code of ghc-heap has led me to what I was looking for. That whole library hinges upon unpackClosure# (stg_unpackClosurezh), whose implementation opens with the telling:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In CmmParse.y, we find the implementation of GET_STD_INFO, and just a few lines below is the INFO_TYPE macro. The combination of these (along with a cmm implementation of UNTAG, which I am still unsure of exactly how to accomplish) should
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> For an optimization I’m implementing, I’m trying to write an inline primop that gives me lets me inspect the closure type of an arbitrary heap-allocated value. I’m close to figuring this out, and the FCode machinery is starting to make sense, but one thing
eludes me. Starting from a StgHeader, I get the info table pointer. This is easy since it’s the first field in the struct. But next I have to deference the info table pointer and get the closure type. There are two fields at the beginning of an info table
that may or may not be present. I don’t know how to figure out if they are present or not. I suspect that there is something I can get out of DynFlags that tells me this, but I can’t find anything else in the stg-to-cmm pass that reads from an info table.<br>
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