Bug in SRT generation for procs in .cmm files?

Ömer Sinan Ağacan omeragacan at gmail.com
Thu Jan 23 06:54:04 UTC 2020


Hi Simon,

Currently CmmParse only generates CmmLabels for procs, and those are considered
non-CAFFY by hasCAF (and thus CmmBuildInfoTables).

As a result if I have two procs in a .cmm file:

- p1, refers to a CAF in base
- p2, refers to p1

I *think* (haven't checked) we don't consider p1 as CAFFY, and even if we do, we
don't consider p2 as CAFFY becuase the reference from p2 to p1 won't be
considered CAFFY by hasCAF.

So we currently can't define a CAFFY Cmm proc in .cmm files as the SRT algorithm
will never build SRTs for procs in .cmm files.

Is this intentional? I'd expect this to be possible, because there's nothing
preventing me from referring to a CAFFY definition in a library (e.g. base) in a
.cmm file, but doing this would be a bug in runtime.

Thanks,

Ömer


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