abstract interpreter for GHC Core or STG

[Csaba Hruska]

Cmm is too low level, I've implemented the primops in haskell in a high
level way, including the out of line primops with the rts related parts
(scheduler, io manager).
see:
https://github.com/grin-compiler/ghc-whole-program-compiler-project/blob/master/external-stg-interpreter/lib/Stg/Interpreter/ThreadScheduler.hs
https://github.com/grin-compiler/ghc-whole-program-compiler-project/tree/master/external-stg-interpreter/lib/Stg/Interpreter/PrimOp

STM is still missing though, but IMO it would be similar to
concurrency/exception related primops.
Regarding the ghcjs STM implementation, IMO the primops needs to be
implemented at least in Haskell in a pure way with ADTs to be easy for
reasoning.
But thanks for the reference.

Currently, I'm in the design phase. I.e. I need to design the abstract
domain of the STG machine values.

If this approach succeeds then it would be interesting to apply the
calculating correct compilers method on the stg interpreter to get a
compiler form it.
With this level of automation it would be extremely easy to support new
target platforms, because the RTS would be generated automatically.

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 10:51 PM Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The stm impl In ghcjs might be a helpful comparative example on that
> front.
>
> Though I guess more broadly does this necessitate having a model of the
> Cmm semantics for the out of line primops ?
>
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 5:10 AM Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <
> ghc-devs at haskell.org> wrote:
>
>> I wonder if there was an attempt in the past to create an abstract
>> interpreter for GHC Core or STG to approximate the program runtime
>> behaviour?
>>
>>
>>
>> No, not that I know of.   Because of all the primops, concurrency, STM,
>> etc, it would be something of a challenge.  The AAM story could be
>> interesting…
>>
>>
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* ghc-devs <ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org> *On Behalf Of *Csaba
>> Hruska
>> *Sent:* 07 June 2021 15:18
>> *To:* GHC developers <ghc-devs at haskell.org>
>> *Subject:* abstract interpreter for GHC Core or STG
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I wonder if there was an attempt in the past to create an abstract
>> interpreter for GHC Core or STG to approximate the program runtime
>> behaviour?
>>
>> I'm curious because I'd like to turn my external STG interterpreter to an
>> abstract interpreter using the AAM (Abstracting Abstract Machines) method.
>>
>> This approach seems promising to me because a single Haskell code base
>> (ext STG interpreter) could be the specification of the Haskell operational
>> semantics and also be a detailed static analyzer that could help
>> optimization transformations.
>>
>> I'm interested in any attempt that happened during GHC/Haskell evolution.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Csaba Hruska
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