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1 : | dbm | 570 | This is the HISTORY file for the Yale SML/NJ CVS repository. |
2 : | |||
3 : | An entry should be made for _every_ commit to the repository. | ||
4 : | The entries in this file will be used when creating the README | ||
5 : | for new versions, so keep that in mind when writing the | ||
6 : | description. | ||
7 : | |||
8 : | The form of an entry should be: | ||
9 : | |||
10 : | Name: | ||
11 : | Date: | ||
12 : | Tag: <post-commit CVS tag> | ||
13 : | Description: | ||
14 : | george | 824 | |
15 : | leunga | 815 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
16 : | blume | 986 | Name: Matthias Blume |
17 : | blume | 987 | Date: 2001/11/21 16:14:00 EST |
18 : | Tag: blume-20011121-forgottenfile | ||
19 : | Description: | ||
20 : | |||
21 : | Forgot to add a file. (Just a .tex-file -- part of | ||
22 : | the CM manual source.) | ||
23 : | |||
24 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
25 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
26 : | blume | 986 | Date: 2001/11/21 16:10:00 EST |
27 : | Tag: Release_110_37 | ||
28 : | Description: | ||
29 : | |||
30 : | 1. Modifications to the SML/NJ code generator and to the runtime system | ||
31 : | so that code object name strings are directly inserted into code | ||
32 : | objects at code generation time. The only business the runtime system | ||
33 : | has with this is now to read the name strings on occasions. | ||
34 : | (The encoding of the name string has also changed somewhat.) | ||
35 : | |||
36 : | 2. CM now implements a simple "set calculus" for specifying export lists. | ||
37 : | In particular, it is now possible to refer to the export lists of | ||
38 : | other libraries/groups/sources and form unions as well as differences. | ||
39 : | See the latest CM manual for details. | ||
40 : | |||
41 : | 3. An separate notion of "proxy" libraries has again be eliminated from | ||
42 : | CM's model. (Proxy libraries are now simply a special case of using | ||
43 : | the export list calculus.) | ||
44 : | |||
45 : | 4. Some of the existing libraries now take advantage of the new set | ||
46 : | calculus. | ||
47 : | (Notice that not all libraries have been converted because some | ||
48 : | of the existing .cm-files are supposed to be backward compatible | ||
49 : | with 110.0.x.) | ||
50 : | |||
51 : | 5. Some cleanup in stand-alone programs. (Don't use "exnMessage" -- use | ||
52 : | "General.exnMessage"! The former relies on a certain hook to be | ||
53 : | initialized, and that often does not happen in the stand-alone case.) | ||
54 : | |||
55 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
56 : | george | 984 | Name: Lal George |
57 : | Date: 2001/11/21 13:56:18 EST | ||
58 : | Tag: george-2001121-pseudo-ops | ||
59 : | Description: | ||
60 : | |||
61 : | Implemented a complete redesign of MLRISC pseudo-ops. Now there | ||
62 : | ought to never be any question of incompatabilities with | ||
63 : | pseudo-op syntax expected by host assemblers. | ||
64 : | |||
65 : | For now, only modules supporting GAS syntax are implemented | ||
66 : | but more should follow, such as MASM, and vendor assembler | ||
67 : | syntax, e.g. IBM as, Sun as, etc. | ||
68 : | |||
69 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
70 : | blume | 977 | Name: Matthias Blume |
71 : | Date: 2001/11/14 11:52:00 EST | ||
72 : | Tag: blume-20011114-srcname | ||
73 : | Description: | ||
74 : | |||
75 : | 1. Routed the name of the current source file to mlriscgen where it | ||
76 : | should be directly emitted into the code object. (This last part | ||
77 : | is yet to be done.) | ||
78 : | |||
79 : | 2. Some cleanup of the pgraph code to make it match the proposal that | ||
80 : | I put out the other day. (The proposal notwithstanding, things are | ||
81 : | still in flux here.) | ||
82 : | |||
83 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
84 : | george | 976 | Name: Lal George |
85 : | Date: 2001/11/14 09:44:04 EST | ||
86 : | Tag: | ||
87 : | Description: | ||
88 : | |||
89 : | Fix for a backpatching bug reported by Allen. | ||
90 : | |||
91 : | Because the boundary between short and long span-dependent | ||
92 : | instructions is +/- 128, there are an astounding number of | ||
93 : | span-dependent instructions whose size is over estimated. | ||
94 : | |||
95 : | Allen came up with the idea of letting the size of span | ||
96 : | dependent instructions be non-monotonic, for a maxIter | ||
97 : | number of times, after which the size must be monotonically | ||
98 : | increasing. | ||
99 : | |||
100 : | This table shows the number of span-dependent instructions | ||
101 : | whose size was over-estimated as a function of maxIter, for the | ||
102 : | file Parse/parse/ml.grm.sml: | ||
103 : | |||
104 : | maxIter # of instructions: | ||
105 : | 10 687 | ||
106 : | 20 438 | ||
107 : | 30 198 | ||
108 : | 40 0 | ||
109 : | |||
110 : | In compiling the compiler, there is no significant difference in | ||
111 : | compilation speed between maxIter=10 and maxIter=40. Actually, | ||
112 : | my measurements showed that maxIter=40 was a tad faster than | ||
113 : | maxIter=10! Also 96% of the files in the compiler reach a fix | ||
114 : | point within 13 iterations, so fixing maxIter at 40, while high, | ||
115 : | is okay. | ||
116 : | |||
117 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
118 : | blume | 975 | Name: Matthias Blume |
119 : | Date: 2001/10/31 15:25:00 EST | ||
120 : | Tag: blume-20011031-pgraph | ||
121 : | Description: | ||
122 : | |||
123 : | CKIT: | ||
124 : | * Changed the "Function" constructor of type Ast.ctype to carry optional | ||
125 : | argument identifiers. | ||
126 : | * Changed the return type of TypeUtil.getFunction accordingly. | ||
127 : | * Type equality ignores the argument names. | ||
128 : | * TypeUtil.composite tries to preserve argument names but gives up quickly | ||
129 : | if there is a mismatch. | ||
130 : | |||
131 : | installation script: | ||
132 : | * attempts to use "curl" if available (unless "wget" is available as well) | ||
133 : | |||
134 : | CM: | ||
135 : | * has an experimental implementation of "portable graphs" which I will | ||
136 : | soon propose as an implementation-independent library format | ||
137 : | * there are also new libraries $/pgraph.cm and $/pgraph-util.cm | ||
138 : | |||
139 : | NLFFI-LIB: | ||
140 : | * some cleanup (all cosmetic) | ||
141 : | |||
142 : | NLFFIGEN: | ||
143 : | * temporarily disabled the mechanism that suppresses ML output for | ||
144 : | C definitions whose identifiers start with an underscore character | ||
145 : | * generate val bindings for enum constants | ||
146 : | * user can request that only one style (light or heavy) is being used; | ||
147 : | default is to use both (command-line arguments: -heavy and -light) | ||
148 : | * fixed bug in handling of function types involving incomplete pointers | ||
149 : | * generate ML entry points that take record arguments (i.e., using | ||
150 : | named arguments) for C functions that have a prototype with named | ||
151 : | arguments | ||
152 : | (see changes to CKIT) | ||
153 : | |||
154 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
155 : | leunga | 972 | Name: Allen Leung |
156 : | Date: 2001/10/27 20:34:00 EDT | ||
157 : | Tag: leunga-20011027-x86-fast-fp-call | ||
158 : | Description: | ||
159 : | |||
160 : | Fixed the bug described in blume-20010920-slowfp. | ||
161 : | |||
162 : | The fix involves | ||
163 : | 1. generating FCOPYs in FSTP in ia32-svid | ||
164 : | 2. marking a CALL with the appropriate annotation | ||
165 : | |||
166 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
167 : | blume | 961 | Name: Matthias Blume |
168 : | Date: 2001/10/16 11:32:00 EDT | ||
169 : | Tag: blume-20011016-netbsd | ||
170 : | Description: | ||
171 : | |||
172 : | Underscore patch from Chris Richards (fixing problem with compiling | ||
173 : | runtime system under recent NetBSD). | ||
174 : | |||
175 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
176 : | george | 959 | Name: Allen Leung |
177 : | Date: 2001/10/12 17:18:32 EDT 2001 | ||
178 : | Tag: leung-20011012-x86-printflowgraph | ||
179 : | Description: | ||
180 : | |||
181 : | X86RA now uses a valid (instead of dummy) PrintFlowgraph module. | ||
182 : | |||
183 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
184 : | george | 952 | Name: Lal George |
185 : | george | 958 | Date: 2001/10/11 23:51:34 EDT |
186 : | Tag: george-20011011-too-many-instrs | ||
187 : | Description: | ||
188 : | |||
189 : | The representation of a program point never expected to see more | ||
190 : | than 65536 instructions in a basic block! | ||
191 : | |||
192 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
193 : | Name: Lal George | ||
194 : | george | 952 | Date: 2001/10/09 09:41:37 EDT |
195 : | Tag: george-20011008-mlrisc-labels | ||
196 : | Description: | ||
197 : | |||
198 : | Changed the machine description files to support printing of | ||
199 : | local and global labels in assembly code, based on host assembler | ||
200 : | conventions. | ||
201 : | |||
202 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
203 : | blume | 916 | Name: Matthias Blume |
204 : | blume | 939 | Date: 2001/09/25 15:25:00 EDT |
205 : | Tag: blume-20010925-exninfo | ||
206 : | Description: | ||
207 : | |||
208 : | I provided a non-hook implementation of exnName (at the toplevel) and | ||
209 : | made the "dummy" implementation of exnMessage (at the toplevel) more | ||
210 : | useful: if nothing gets "hooked in", then at least you are going to | ||
211 : | see the exception name and a message indicating why you don't see more. | ||
212 : | |||
213 : | [For the time being, programs that need exnMessage and want to use | ||
214 : | ml-build should either use General.exnMessage (strongly recommended) or | ||
215 : | refer to structure General at some other point so that CM sees a | ||
216 : | static dependency.] | ||
217 : | |||
218 : | [Similar remarks go for "print" and "use": If you want to use their | ||
219 : | functionality in stand-alone programs generated by ml-build, then use | ||
220 : | TextIO.output and Backend.Interact.useFile (from $smlnj/compiler.cm).] | ||
221 : | |||
222 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
223 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
224 : | blume | 938 | Date: 2001/09/20 17:28:00 EDT |
225 : | Tag: blume-20010920-slowfp | ||
226 : | Description: | ||
227 : | |||
228 : | Allen says that x86-fast-fp is not safe yet, so I turned it off again... | ||
229 : | |||
230 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
231 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
232 : | blume | 937 | Date: 2001/09/20 17:20:00 EDT |
233 : | Tag: blume-20010920-canonicalpaths | ||
234 : | Description: | ||
235 : | |||
236 : | 0. Updated the BOOT file (something that I forgot to do earlier). | ||
237 : | |||
238 : | 1. Small internal change to CM so that it avoids "/../" in filenames | ||
239 : | as much as possible (but only where it is safe). | ||
240 : | |||
241 : | 2. Changed config/_run-sml (resulting in a changed bin/.run-sml) so | ||
242 : | that arguments that contain delimiters are passed through correctly. | ||
243 : | This change also means that all "special" arguments of the form | ||
244 : | @SMLxxx... must come first. | ||
245 : | |||
246 : | 3. Changed install script to put relative anchor names for tool commands | ||
247 : | into pathconfig. | ||
248 : | |||
249 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
250 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
251 : | george | 952 | >>>>>>> 1.169 |
252 : | blume | 932 | Date: 2001/09/18 15:35:00 EDT |
253 : | Tag: blume-20010918-readme11036 | ||
254 : | Description: | ||
255 : | |||
256 : | Added README files. | ||
257 : | |||
258 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
259 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
260 : | blume | 929 | Date: 2001/09/18 11:45:00 EDT |
261 : | Tag: Release_110_36 (retag) | ||
262 : | Description: | ||
263 : | |||
264 : | Fixed mistake in config/preloads. Retagged as 110.36. | ||
265 : | |||
266 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
267 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
268 : | blume | 928 | Date: 2001/09/18 09:40:00 EDT |
269 : | blume | 929 | Tag: Release_110_36_orig (tag changed) |
270 : | blume | 928 | Description: |
271 : | |||
272 : | New version (110.36). New bootfiles. | ||
273 : | |||
274 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
275 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
276 : | blume | 927 | Date: 2001/09/14 16:15:00 EDT |
277 : | Tag: blume-20010914-x86fastfp | ||
278 : | Description: | ||
279 : | |||
280 : | John committed some changes that Allen made, in particular a (hopefully) | ||
281 : | correctly working version of the x86-fp module. | ||
282 : | |||
283 : | I changed the default setting of the Control.MLRISC.getFlag "x86-fast-fp" | ||
284 : | flag to "true". Everything seems to compile to a fixpoint ok, and | ||
285 : | "mandelbrot" speeds up by about 15%. | ||
286 : | |||
287 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
288 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
289 : | blume | 923 | Date: 2001/09/13 11:20:00 EDT |
290 : | Tag: blume-20010913-minimal | ||
291 : | Description: | ||
292 : | |||
293 : | 1. Stefan Monnier's patch to fix a miscompilation problem that | ||
294 : | was brought to light by John Reppy's work on Moby. | ||
295 : | |||
296 : | 2. Implemented a minimal "structure Compiler" that contains just | ||
297 : | "version" and "architecture". The minimal version will be | ||
298 : | available when the full version is not. This is for backward- | ||
299 : | compatibility with code that wants to test Compiler.version. | ||
300 : | |||
301 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
302 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
303 : | blume | 920 | Date: 2001/08/28 14:03:00 EDT |
304 : | Tag: blume-20010828-ml-lex | ||
305 : | Description: | ||
306 : | |||
307 : | Fix for bug 1581, received from Neophytos Michael. | ||
308 : | |||
309 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
310 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
311 : | blume | 918 | Date: 2001/08/27 11:20:00 EDT |
312 : | Tag: blume-20010827-readme11035 | ||
313 : | Description: | ||
314 : | |||
315 : | Fleshed out the README file for 110.35. | ||
316 : | |||
317 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
318 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
319 : | blume | 916 | Date: 2001/08/24 17:10:00 EDT |
320 : | Tag: Release_110_35 | ||
321 : | Description: | ||
322 : | |||
323 : | New version number (110.35). New bootfiles. | ||
324 : | |||
325 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
326 : | george | 915 | Name: Lal George |
327 : | george | 909 | Date: 2001/08/24 13:47:18 EDT 2001 |
328 : | Tag: george-20010824-MLRISC-graphs | ||
329 : | Description: | ||
330 : | |||
331 : | removed clusters from MLRISC completely and replaced with graphs. | ||
332 : | |||
333 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
334 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
335 : | blume | 905 | Date: 2001/08/23 17:50:00 EDT |
336 : | Tag: blume-20010823-toplevel | ||
337 : | Description: | ||
338 : | |||
339 : | - some reorganization of the code that implements various kinds of | ||
340 : | environments in the compiler (static, dynamic, symbolic, combined) | ||
341 : | - re-implemented the EnvRef module so that evalStream works properly | ||
342 : | (if the stream contains references to "use", "CM.make", etc.) | ||
343 : | - cleaned up evalloop.sml and interact.sml (but they need more cleaning) | ||
344 : | |||
345 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
346 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
347 : | blume | 904 | Date: 2001/08/20 15:50 EDT |
348 : | Tag: blume20010820-slipup | ||
349 : | Description: | ||
350 : | |||
351 : | I forgot to commit a few files. Here they are... | ||
352 : | |||
353 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
354 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
355 : | blume | 903 | Date: 2001/08/20 15:35:00 EDT |
356 : | Tag: blume-20010820-debugprof | ||
357 : | Description: | ||
358 : | |||
359 : | !!!! NEW BOOTFILES !!!! | ||
360 : | |||
361 : | This is another round of reorganizing the compiler sources. This | ||
362 : | time the main goal was to factor out all the "instrumentation" | ||
363 : | passes (for profiling and backtracing) into their own library. | ||
364 : | The difficulty was to do it in such a way that it does not depend | ||
365 : | on elaborate.cm but only on elabdata.cm. | ||
366 : | |||
367 : | Therefore there have been further changes to both elaborate.cm and | ||
368 : | elabdata.cm -- more "generic" things have been moved from the former | ||
369 : | to the latter. As a result, I was forced to split the assignment | ||
370 : | of numbers indicating "primtyc"s into two portions: SML-generic and | ||
371 : | SML/NJ-specific. Since it would have been awkward to maintain, | ||
372 : | I bit the bullet and actually _changed_ the mapping between these | ||
373 : | numbers and primtycs. The bottom line of this is that you need | ||
374 : | a new set of bin- and bootfiles. | ||
375 : | |||
376 : | I have built new bootfiles for all architectures, so doing a fresh | ||
377 : | checkout and config/install.sh should be all you need. | ||
378 : | |||
379 : | The newly created library's name is | ||
380 : | |||
381 : | $smlnj/viscomp/debugprof.cm | ||
382 : | |||
383 : | and its sources live under | ||
384 : | |||
385 : | src/compiler/DebugProf | ||
386 : | |||
387 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
388 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
389 : | blume | 902 | Date: 2001/08/15 17:15:00 EDT |
390 : | Tag: blume-20010815-compreorg | ||
391 : | Description: | ||
392 : | |||
393 : | This is a first cut at reorganizing the CM libraries that make up the | ||
394 : | core of the compiler. The idea is to separate out pieces that could | ||
395 : | be used independently by tools, e.g., the parser, the typechecker, etc. | ||
396 : | |||
397 : | The current status is a step in this direction, but it is not quite | ||
398 : | satisfactory yet. Expect more changes in the future. | ||
399 : | |||
400 : | Here is the current (new) organization... | ||
401 : | |||
402 : | What used to be $smlnj/viscomp/core.cm is now divided into | ||
403 : | six CM libraries: | ||
404 : | |||
405 : | $smlnj/viscomp/basics.cm | ||
406 : | /parser.cm | ||
407 : | /elabdata.cm | ||
408 : | /elaborate.cm | ||
409 : | /execute.cm | ||
410 : | /core.cm | ||
411 : | |||
412 : | The CM files for these libraries live under src/system/smlnj/viscomp. | ||
413 : | All these libraries are proxy libraries that contain precisely | ||
414 : | one CM library component. Here are the locations of the components | ||
415 : | (all within the src/compiler tree): | ||
416 : | |||
417 : | Basics/basics.cm | ||
418 : | Parse/parser.cm | ||
419 : | ElabData/elabdata.cm | ||
420 : | Elaborator/elaborate.cm | ||
421 : | Execution/execute.cm | ||
422 : | core.cm | ||
423 : | |||
424 : | [This organization is the same that has been used already | ||
425 : | for a while for the architecture-specific parts of the visible | ||
426 : | compiler and for the old version of core.cm.] | ||
427 : | |||
428 : | As you will notice, many source files have been moved from their | ||
429 : | respective original locations to a new home in one of the above | ||
430 : | subtrees. | ||
431 : | |||
432 : | The division of labor between the new libraries is the following: | ||
433 : | |||
434 : | basics.cm: | ||
435 : | - Simple, basic definitions that pertain to many (or all) of | ||
436 : | the other libraries. | ||
437 : | parser.cm: | ||
438 : | - The SML parser, producing output of type Ast.dec. | ||
439 : | - The type family for Ast is also defined and exported here. | ||
440 : | elabdata.cm: | ||
441 : | - The datatypes that describe input and output of the elaborator. | ||
442 : | This includes types, absyn, and static environments. | ||
443 : | elaborator.cm: | ||
444 : | - The SML/NJ type checker and elaborator. | ||
445 : | This maps an Ast.dec (with a given static environment) to | ||
446 : | an Absyn.dec (with a new static environment). | ||
447 : | - This libraries implements certain modules that used to be | ||
448 : | structures as functors (to remove dependencies on FLINT). | ||
449 : | execute.cm: | ||
450 : | - Everything having to do with executing binary code objects. | ||
451 : | - Dynamic environments. | ||
452 : | core.cm: | ||
453 : | - SML/NJ-specific instantiations of the elaborator and MLRISC. | ||
454 : | - Top-level modules. | ||
455 : | - FLINT (this should eventually become its own library) | ||
456 : | |||
457 : | Notes: | ||
458 : | |||
459 : | I am not 100% happy with the way I separated the elaborator (and its | ||
460 : | data structures) from FLINT. Two instances of the same problem: | ||
461 : | |||
462 : | 1. Data structures contain certain fields that carry FLINT-specific | ||
463 : | information. I hacked around this using exn and the property list | ||
464 : | module from smlnj-lib. But the fact that there are middle-end | ||
465 : | specific fields around at all is a bit annoying. | ||
466 : | |||
467 : | 2. The elaborator calculates certain FLINT-related information. I tried | ||
468 : | to make this as abstract as I could using functorization, but, again, | ||
469 : | the fact that the elaborator has to perform calculations on behalf | ||
470 : | of the middle-end at all is not nice. | ||
471 : | |||
472 : | 3. Having to used exn and property lists is unfortunate because it | ||
473 : | weakens type checking. The other alternative (parameterizing | ||
474 : | nearly *everything*) is not appealing, though. | ||
475 : | |||
476 : | I removed the "rebinding =" warning hack because due to the new organization | ||
477 : | it was awkward to maintain it. As a result, the compiler now issues some of | ||
478 : | these warnings when compiling init.cmi during bootstrap compilation. On | ||
479 : | the plus side, you also get a warning when you do, for example: | ||
480 : | val op = = Int32.+ | ||
481 : | which was not the case up to now. | ||
482 : | |||
483 : | I placed "assign" and "deref" into the _Core structure so that the | ||
484 : | code that deals with the "lazy" keyword can find them there. This | ||
485 : | removes the need for having access to the primitive environment | ||
486 : | during elaboration. | ||
487 : | |||
488 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
489 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
490 : | blume | 898 | Date: 2001/08/13 |
491 : | Tag: blume-20010813-closures | ||
492 : | Description: | ||
493 : | |||
494 : | This fix was sent to us by Zhong Shao. It is supposed to improve the | ||
495 : | performance of certain loops by avoiding needless closure allocation. | ||
496 : | |||
497 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
498 : | george | 890 | Name: Lal George |
499 : | george | 896 | Date: 2001/07/31 10:03:23 EDT 2001 |
500 : | Tag: george-20010731-x86-fmalloc | ||
501 : | Description: Fixed bug in x86 calls | ||
502 : | |||
503 : | There was a bug where call instructions would mysteriously | ||
504 : | vanish. The call instruction had to be one that returned | ||
505 : | a floating point value. | ||
506 : | |||
507 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
508 : | Name: Lal George | ||
509 : | george | 890 | Date: 2001/07/19 16:36:29 EDT 2001 |
510 : | Tag: george-20010719-simple-cells | ||
511 : | Description: | ||
512 : | |||
513 : | I have dramatically simplified the interface for CELLS in MLRISC. | ||
514 : | |||
515 : | In summary, the cells interface is broken up into three parts: | ||
516 : | |||
517 : | 1. CellsBasis : CELLS_BASIS | ||
518 : | |||
519 : | CellsBasis is a top level structure and common for all | ||
520 : | architectures. it contains the definitions of basic datatypes | ||
521 : | and utility functions over these types. | ||
522 : | |||
523 : | 2. functor Cells() : CELLS | ||
524 : | |||
525 : | Cells generates an interface for CELLS that incorporates the | ||
526 : | specific resources on the target architecture, such as the | ||
527 : | presence of special register classes, their number and size, | ||
528 : | and various useful substructures. | ||
529 : | |||
530 : | 3. <ARCH>CELLS | ||
531 : | |||
532 : | e.g. SparcCells: SPARCCELLS | ||
533 : | |||
534 : | <ARCH>CELLS usually contains additional bindings for special | ||
535 : | registers on the architecture, such as: | ||
536 : | |||
537 : | val r0 : cell (* register zero *) | ||
538 : | val y : cell (* Y register *) | ||
539 : | val psr : cell (* processor status register *) | ||
540 : | ... | ||
541 : | |||
542 : | The structure returned by applying the Cells functor is opened | ||
543 : | in this interface. | ||
544 : | |||
545 : | The main implication of all this is that the datatypes for cells is | ||
546 : | split between CellsBasis and CELLS -- a fairly simple change for user | ||
547 : | code. | ||
548 : | |||
549 : | In the old scheme the CELLS interface had a definitional binding of | ||
550 : | the form: | ||
551 : | |||
552 : | signature CELLS = sig | ||
553 : | |||
554 : | structure CellsBasis = CellsBasis | ||
555 : | |||
556 : | ... | ||
557 : | |||
558 : | end | ||
559 : | |||
560 : | With all the sharing constraints that goes on in MLRISC, this old | ||
561 : | design quickly leads to errors such as: | ||
562 : | |||
563 : | "structure definition spec inside of sharing ... " | ||
564 : | |||
565 : | |||
566 : | and appears to require an unacceptable amount of sharing and where | ||
567 : | constraint hackery. | ||
568 : | |||
569 : | I think this error message (the interaction of definitional specs and | ||
570 : | sharing) requires more explanation on our web page. | ||
571 : | |||
572 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
573 : | blume | 826 | Name: Matthias Blume |
574 : | blume | 879 | Date: 2001/07/19 15:00:00 EDT |
575 : | Tag: blume-20010719-libreorg | ||
576 : | Description: | ||
577 : | |||
578 : | This update puts together a fairly extensive but straightforward change | ||
579 : | to the way the libraries that implement the interactive system are | ||
580 : | organized: | ||
581 : | |||
582 : | The biggest change is the elimination of structure Compiler. As a | ||
583 : | replacement for this structure, there is now a CM library | ||
584 : | (known as $smlnj/compiler.cm or $smlnj/compiler/current.cm) | ||
585 : | that exports all the substructures of the original structure Compiler | ||
586 : | directly. So instead of saying Compiler.Foo.bar one now simply | ||
587 : | says Foo.bar. (The CM libraries actually export a collection of | ||
588 : | structures that is richer than the collection of substructures of | ||
589 : | structure Compiler.) | ||
590 : | |||
591 : | To make the transition smooth, there is a separate library called | ||
592 : | $smlnj/compiler/compiler.cm which puts together and exports the | ||
593 : | original structure Compiler (or at least something very close to it). | ||
594 : | |||
595 : | There are five members of the original structure Compiler | ||
596 : | that are not exported directly but which instead became members | ||
597 : | of a new structure Backend (described by signature BACKEND). These are: | ||
598 : | structure Profile (: PROFILE), structure Compile (: COMPILE), structure | ||
599 : | Interact (: INTERACT), structure Machine (: MACHINE), and val | ||
600 : | architecture (: string). | ||
601 : | |||
602 : | Structure Compiler.Version has become structure CompilerVersion. | ||
603 : | |||
604 : | Cross-compilers for alpha32, hppa, ppc, sparc, and x86 are provided | ||
605 : | by $smlnj/compiler/<arch>.cm where <arch> is alpha32, hppa, ppc, sparc, | ||
606 : | or x86, respectively. | ||
607 : | Each of these exports the same frontend structures that | ||
608 : | $smlnj/compiler.cm exports. But they do not have a structure Backend | ||
609 : | and instead export some structure <Arch>Backend where <Arch> is Alpha32, | ||
610 : | Hppa, PPC, Sparc, or X86, respectively. | ||
611 : | |||
612 : | Library $smlnj/compiler/all.cm exports the union of the exports of | ||
613 : | $smlnj/compiler/<arch>.cm | ||
614 : | |||
615 : | There are no structures <Arch>Compiler anymore, use | ||
616 : | $smlnj/compiler/<arch>.cm instead. | ||
617 : | |||
618 : | Library host-compiler-0.cm is gone. Instead, the internal library | ||
619 : | that instantiates CM is now called cm0.cm. Selection of the host | ||
620 : | compiler (backend) is no longer done here but. (Responsibility for it | ||
621 : | now lies with $smlnj/compiler/current.cm. This seems to be more | ||
622 : | logical.) | ||
623 : | |||
624 : | Many individual files have been moved or renamed. Some files have | ||
625 : | been split into multiple files, and some "dead" files have been deleted. | ||
626 : | |||
627 : | Aside from these changes to library organization, there are also changes | ||
628 : | to the way the code itself is organized: | ||
629 : | |||
630 : | Structure Binfile has been re-implemented in such a way that it no | ||
631 : | longer needs any knowledge of the compiler. It exclusively deals | ||
632 : | with the details of binfile layout. It no longer invokes the | ||
633 : | compiler (for the purpose of creating new prospective binfile | ||
634 : | content), and it no longer has any knowledge of how to interpret | ||
635 : | pickles. | ||
636 : | |||
637 : | Structure Compile (: COMPILE) has been stripped down to the bare | ||
638 : | essentials of compilation. It no longer deals with linking/execution. | ||
639 : | The interface has been cleaned up considerably. | ||
640 : | |||
641 : | Utility routines for dealing with linking and execution have been | ||
642 : | moved into their own substructures. | ||
643 : | |||
644 : | (The ultimate goal of these changes is to provide a light-weight | ||
645 : | binfile loader/linker (at least for, e.g., stable libraries) that | ||
646 : | does not require CM or the compiler to be present.) | ||
647 : | |||
648 : | CM documentation has been updated to reflect the changes to library | ||
649 : | organization. | ||
650 : | |||
651 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
652 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
653 : | blume | 875 | Date: 2001/07/10 17:30:00 EDT |
654 : | Tag: Release_110_34 | ||
655 : | Description: | ||
656 : | |||
657 : | blume | 876 | Minor tweak to 110.34 (re-tagged): |
658 : | |||
659 : | - README.html file added to CVS repository | ||
660 : | - runtime compiles properly under FreeBSD 3.X and 4.X | ||
661 : | |||
662 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
663 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
664 : | Date: 2001/07/10 17:30:00 EDT | ||
665 : | Tag: Release_110_34 | ||
666 : | Description: | ||
667 : | |||
668 : | blume | 875 | New version number (110.34). New bootfiles. |
669 : | |||
670 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
671 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
672 : | blume | 874 | Date: 2001/07/09 16:00:00 EDT |
673 : | Tag: blume-20010709-more-varargs | ||
674 : | Description: | ||
675 : | |||
676 : | I changed the handling of varargs in ml-nlffigen again: | ||
677 : | The ellipsis ... will now simply be ignored (with an accompanying warning). | ||
678 : | |||
679 : | The immediate effect is that you can actually call a varargs function | ||
680 : | from ML -- but you can't actually supply any arguments beyond the ones | ||
681 : | specified explicitly. (For example, you can call printf with its format | ||
682 : | string, but you cannot pass additional arguments.) | ||
683 : | |||
684 : | This behavior is only marginally more useful than the one before, but | ||
685 : | it has the advantage that a function or, more importantly, a function | ||
686 : | type never gets dropped on the floor, thus avoiding follow-up problems with | ||
687 : | other types that refer to the offending one. | ||
688 : | |||
689 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
690 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
691 : | blume | 873 | Date: 2001/07/09 11:25:00 EDT |
692 : | Tag: blume-20010709-varargs | ||
693 : | Description: | ||
694 : | |||
695 : | 1. ckit-lib.cm now exports structure Error | ||
696 : | 2. ml-nlffigen reports occurences of "..." (i.e., varargs function types) | ||
697 : | with a warning accompanied by a source location. Moreover, it | ||
698 : | merely skips the offending function or type and proceeds with the | ||
699 : | rest of its work.u As a result, one can safely feed C code containing | ||
700 : | "..." to ml-nlffigen. | ||
701 : | 3. There are some internal improvements to CM, providing slightly | ||
702 : | more general string substitutions in the tools subsystem. | ||
703 : | |||
704 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
705 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
706 : | blume | 854 | Date: 2001/06/27 15:10:00 EDT |
707 : | Tag: blume-20010627-concur | ||
708 : | Description: | ||
709 : | |||
710 : | Fixed a small bug in CM's handling of parallel compilation. | ||
711 : | (You could observe the bug by Control-C-interrupting an ordinary | ||
712 : | CMB.make or CM.stabilize and then attaching some compile servers. | ||
713 : | The result was that all of a sudden the previously interrupted | ||
714 : | compilation would continue on its own. This was because of | ||
715 : | an over-optimization: CM did not bother to clean out certain queues | ||
716 : | when no servers were attached "anyway", resulting in the contents | ||
717 : | of these queues to grab control when new servers did get attached.) | ||
718 : | |||
719 : | There is also another minor update to the CM manual. | ||
720 : | |||
721 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
722 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
723 : | blume | 853 | Date: 2001/06/26 16:15:00 EDT |
724 : | Tag: blume-20010626-cmdoc | ||
725 : | Description: | ||
726 : | |||
727 : | Minor typo fixed in CM manual (syntax diagram for libraries). | ||
728 : | |||
729 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
730 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
731 : | blume | 852 | Date: 2001/06/25 22:55:00 EDT |
732 : | Tag: blume-20010625-x86pc | ||
733 : | Description: | ||
734 : | |||
735 : | Fixed a nasty bug in the X86 assembly code that caused signal | ||
736 : | handlers to fail (crash) randomly. | ||
737 : | |||
738 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
739 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
740 : | blume | 846 | Date: 2001/06/25 12:05:00 EDT |
741 : | Tag: blume-20010625-nlffigen | ||
742 : | Description: | ||
743 : | |||
744 : | This update fixes a number of minor bugs in ml-nlffigen as reported by | ||
745 : | Nick Carter <nbc@andrew.cmu.edu>. | ||
746 : | |||
747 : | 1. Silly but ok typedefs of the form "typedef void myvoid;" are now accepted. | ||
748 : | 2. Default names for generated files are now derived from the name of | ||
749 : | the C file *without its directory*. In particular, this causes generated | ||
750 : | files to be placed locally even if the C file is in some system directory. | ||
751 : | 3. Default names for generated signatures and structures are also derived | ||
752 : | from the C file name without its directory. This avoids silly things | ||
753 : | like "structure GL/GL". | ||
754 : | (Other silly names are still possible because ml-nlffigen does not do | ||
755 : | blume | 847 | a thorough check of whether generated names are legal ML identifiers. |
756 : | When in doubt, use command line arguments to force particular names.) | ||
757 : | blume | 846 | |
758 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
759 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
760 : | blume | 845 | Date: 2001/06/21 12:25:00 EDT |
761 : | Tag: blume-20010621-eXene | ||
762 : | Description: | ||
763 : | |||
764 : | eXene now compiles and (sort of) works again. | ||
765 : | |||
766 : | The library name (for version > 110.33) is $/eXene.cm. | ||
767 : | |||
768 : | I also added an new example in src/eXene/examples/nbody. See the | ||
769 : | README file there for details. | ||
770 : | |||
771 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
772 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
773 : | blume | 844 | Date: 2001/06/20 16:40:00 EDT |
774 : | Tag: blume-20010620-cml | ||
775 : | Description: | ||
776 : | |||
777 : | CML now compiles and works again. | ||
778 : | |||
779 : | Libraries (for version > 110.33): | ||
780 : | |||
781 : | $cml/cml.cm Main CML library. | ||
782 : | $cml/basis.cm CML's version of $/basis.cm. | ||
783 : | $cml/cml-internal.cm Internal helper library. | ||
784 : | $cml/core-cml.cm Internal helper library. | ||
785 : | $cml-lib/trace-cml.cm Tracing facility. | ||
786 : | $cml-lib/smlnj-lib.cm CML's version of $/smlnj-lib.cm | ||
787 : | |||
788 : | The installer (config/install.sh) has been taught how to properly | ||
789 : | install this stuff. | ||
790 : | |||
791 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
792 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
793 : | blume | 843 | Date: 2001/06/19 17:55:00 EDT |
794 : | Tag: blume-20010619-instantiate | ||
795 : | Description: | ||
796 : | |||
797 : | This un-breaks the fix for bug 1432. | ||
798 : | (The bug was originally fixed in 110.9 but I broke it again some | ||
799 : | time after that.) | ||
800 : | |||
801 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
802 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
803 : | blume | 842 | Date: 2001/06/19 17:25:00 EDT |
804 : | Tag: blume-20010619-signals | ||
805 : | Description: | ||
806 : | |||
807 : | This should (hopefully) fix the long-standing signal handling bug. | ||
808 : | (The runtime system was constructing a continuation record with an | ||
809 : | incorrect descriptor which would cause the GC to drop data on the floor...) | ||
810 : | |||
811 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
812 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
813 : | blume | 840 | Date: 2001/06/15 15:05:00 EDT |
814 : | blume | 841 | Tag: blume-20010615-moresparc |
815 : | Description: | ||
816 : | |||
817 : | Here is a short late-hour update related to Sparc c-calls: | ||
818 : | |||
819 : | -- made handling of double-word arguments a bit smarter | ||
820 : | |||
821 : | -- instruction selection phase tries to collapse certain clumsily | ||
822 : | constructed ML-Trees; typical example: | ||
823 : | |||
824 : | ADD(ty,ADD(_,e,LI d1),LI d2) -> ADD(ty,e,LI(d1+d2)) | ||
825 : | |||
826 : | This currently has no further impact on SML/NJ since mlriscGen does | ||
827 : | not seem to generate such patterns in the first place, and c-calls | ||
828 : | (which did generate them in the beginning) has meanwhile been fixed | ||
829 : | so as to avoid them as well. | ||
830 : | |||
831 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
832 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
833 : | Date: 2001/06/15 15:05:00 EDT | ||
834 : | blume | 840 | Tag: blume-20010615-sparc |
835 : | Description: | ||
836 : | |||
837 : | The purpose of this update is to provide an implementation of NLFFI | ||
838 : | on Sparc machines. | ||
839 : | |||
840 : | Here are the changes in detail: | ||
841 : | |||
842 : | * src/MLRISC/sparc/c-calls/sparc-c-calls.sml is a new file containing | ||
843 : | the Sparc implementation of the c-calls API. | ||
844 : | * The Sparc backend of SML/NJ has been modified to uniformely use %fp | ||
845 : | for accessing the ML frame. Thus, we have a real frame pointer and | ||
846 : | can freely modify %sp without need for an omit-frame-ptr phase. | ||
847 : | The vfp logic in src/compiler/CodeGen/* has been changed to accomodate | ||
848 : | this case. | ||
849 : | * ml-nlffigen has been taught to produce code for different architectures | ||
850 : | and calling conventions. | ||
851 : | * In a way similar to what was done in the x86 case, the Sparc | ||
852 : | backend uses its own specific extension to mltree. (For example, | ||
853 : | it needs to be able to generate UNIMP instructions which are part | ||
854 : | of the calling convention.) | ||
855 : | * ml-nlffi-lib was reorganized to make it more modular (in particular, | ||
856 : | to make it easier to plug in new machine- and os-dependent parts). | ||
857 : | |||
858 : | There are some other fairly unrelated bug fixes and cleanups as well: | ||
859 : | |||
860 : | * I further hacked the .cm files for MLRISC tools (like MDLGen) so | ||
861 : | that they properly share their libraries with existing SML/NJ libraries. | ||
862 : | * I fixed a minor cosmetic bug in CM, supressing certain spurious | ||
863 : | follow-up error messages. | ||
864 : | * Updates to CM/CMB documentation. | ||
865 : | |||
866 : | TODO items: | ||
867 : | |||
868 : | * MLRISC should use a different register as its asmTemp on the Sparc. | ||
869 : | (The current %o2 is a really bad choice because it is part of the | ||
870 : | calling conventions, so things might interfere in unexpected ways.) | ||
871 : | |||
872 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
873 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
874 : | blume | 839 | Date: 2001/06/07 |
875 : | Tag: blume-20010607-calls | ||
876 : | Description: | ||
877 : | |||
878 : | A number of internal changes related to C calls and calling conventions: | ||
879 : | |||
880 : | 1. ML-Tree CALL statements now carry a "pops" field. It indicates the | ||
881 : | number of bytes popped implicitly (by the callee). In most cases | ||
882 : | this field is 0 but on x86/win32 it is some non-zero value. This | ||
883 : | is information provided for the benefit of the "omit-frameptr" pass. | ||
884 : | 2. The CALL instruction on the x86 carries a similar "pops" field. | ||
885 : | The instruction selection phase copies its value from the ML-Tree | ||
886 : | CALL statement. | ||
887 : | 3. On all other architectures, the instruction selection phase checks | ||
888 : | whether "pops=0" and complains if not. | ||
889 : | 4. The c-calls implementation for x86 now accepts two calling conventions: | ||
890 : | "ccall" and "stdcall". When "ccall" is selected, the caller cleans | ||
891 : | up after the call and pops is set to 0. For "stdcall", the caller | ||
892 : | does nothing, leaving the cleanup to the callee; pops is set to | ||
893 : | the number of bytes that were pushed onto the stack. | ||
894 : | 5. The cproto decoder (compiler/Semant/types/cproto.sml) now can | ||
895 : | distinguish between "ccall" and "stdcall". | ||
896 : | 6. The UNIMP instruction has been added to the supported Sparc instruction | ||
897 : | set. (This is needed for implementing the official C calling convention | ||
898 : | on this architecture.) | ||
899 : | 7. I fixed some of the .cm files under src/MLRISC/Tools to make them | ||
900 : | work with the latest CM. | ||
901 : | |||
902 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
903 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
904 : | blume | 838 | Date: 2001/06/05 15:10:00 EDT |
905 : | Tag: blume-20010605-cm-index | ||
906 : | Description: | ||
907 : | |||
908 : | 0. The "lambdasplit" parameter for class "sml" in CM has been documented. | ||
909 : | |||
910 : | 1. CM can now generate "index files". These are human-readable files | ||
911 : | that list on a per-.cm-file basis each toplevel symbol defined or | ||
912 : | imported. The location of the index file for | ||
913 : | <p>/<d>.cm is <p>/CM/INDEX/<d>.cm. | ||
914 : | To enable index-file generation, set CM.Control.generate_index to true | ||
915 : | or export an environment-symbol: export CM_GENERATE_INDEX=true. | ||
916 : | |||
917 : | The CM manual has been updated accordingly. | ||
918 : | |||
919 : | 2. I made some slight modifications to the c-calls API in MLRISC. | ||
920 : | |||
921 : | a) There is now a callback to support saving/restoring of | ||
922 : | dedicated but caller-save registers around the actual call | ||
923 : | instruction. | ||
924 : | b) One can optionally specify a comment-annotation for the | ||
925 : | call instruction. | ||
926 : | |||
927 : | 3. SML/NJ (mlriscGen.sml) uses this new API for the rawccall primop. | ||
928 : | (For example, the comment annotation shows the C prototype of | ||
929 : | the function being called.) | ||
930 : | |||
931 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
932 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
933 : | blume | 837 | Date: 2001/06/01 13:30:00 EDT |
934 : | Tag: blume-20010601-nlffi-cleanup | ||
935 : | Description: | ||
936 : | |||
937 : | This is mostly a cleanup of MLFFI stuff: | ||
938 : | |||
939 : | - some signature files have been put into a more exposed place | ||
940 : | - the ugly 'f type parameter is gone (simplifies types tremendously!) | ||
941 : | - ml-nlffigen changed accordingly | ||
942 : | - tutorial updated | ||
943 : | |||
944 : | Other changes: | ||
945 : | |||
946 : | - author's affiliation in CM manual(s) updated | ||
947 : | - some more recognized keywords added to Allen's sml.sty | ||
948 : | |||
949 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
950 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
951 : | blume | 836 | Date: 2001/05/25 15:30:00 EDT |
952 : | Tag: blume-20010525-iptr | ||
953 : | Description: | ||
954 : | |||
955 : | - put the official 110.33-README (as it appears on the ftp server) under | ||
956 : | CVS | ||
957 : | - fixed a small bug related to incomplete pointer types in | ||
958 : | ml-nlffigen | ||
959 : | - small cosmetic change to the ml-nlffi-lib's "arr" type constructor | ||
960 : | (it does not need the 'f type parameter) | ||
961 : | |||
962 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
963 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
964 : | blume | 834 | Date: 2001/05/23 14:30:00 EDT |
965 : | Tag: Release_110_33 | ||
966 : | Description: | ||
967 : | |||
968 : | New version number (110.33). New bootfiles. | ||
969 : | |||
970 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
971 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
972 : | blume | 833 | Date: 2001/05/22 18:06:00 EDT |
973 : | Tag: blume-20010522-targets | ||
974 : | Description: | ||
975 : | |||
976 : | Made install.sh use file config/targets.customized if it exists, falling | ||
977 : | back to config/targets if it doesn't. This way one can have a customized | ||
978 : | version of the targets file without touching the "real thing", thus | ||
979 : | eliminating the constant fear of accidentally checking something bogus | ||
980 : | back into the CVS repository... (File config/targets.customized must | ||
981 : | not be added to the repository!) | ||
982 : | |||
983 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
984 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
985 : | blume | 832 | Date: 2001/05/22 16:30:00 EDT |
986 : | Tag: blume-20010522-minitut | ||
987 : | Description: | ||
988 : | |||
989 : | 1. Bug fix in ml-nlffigen; now (hopefully) correctly handling | ||
990 : | struct returns. | ||
991 : | 2. Added src/ml-nlffi-lib/Doc/mini-tutorial.txt. This is some very | ||
992 : | incomplete, preliminary documentation for NLFFI. | ||
993 : | |||
994 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
995 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
996 : | blume | 829 | Date: 2001/05/14 11:30:00 EDT |
997 : | Tag: blume-20010514-script | ||
998 : | Description: | ||
999 : | |||
1000 : | Some bugs in install script fixed. | ||
1001 : | |||
1002 : | In addition to that I also made a slight change to the NLFFI API: | ||
1003 : | Functors generated by ml-nlffigen now take the dynamic library as a | ||
1004 : | straight functor argument, not as a suspended one. (The original | ||
1005 : | functor code used to force the suspension right away anyway, so there | ||
1006 : | was nothing gained by this complication of the interface.) | ||
1007 : | |||
1008 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1009 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1010 : | blume | 828 | Date: 2001/05/11 14:35:00 EDT |
1011 : | Tag: blume-20010511-ml-nlffi | ||
1012 : | Description: | ||
1013 : | |||
1014 : | I finally took the plunge and added my new FFI code to the main | ||
1015 : | repository. For x86-linux it is now ready for prime-time. | ||
1016 : | |||
1017 : | There are two new subdirectories of "src": | ||
1018 : | |||
1019 : | - ml-nlffi-lib: | ||
1020 : | The utility library for programs using the FFI interface. | ||
1021 : | Here is the implementation of $/c.cm and its associated low-level | ||
1022 : | partners $/c-int.cm and $/memory.cm. | ||
1023 : | - ml-nlffigen: | ||
1024 : | A stand-alone program for generating ML glue code from C source | ||
1025 : | code. | ||
1026 : | |||
1027 : | Building ml-nlffigen requires $/ckit-lib.cm. | ||
1028 : | |||
1029 : | The config/install.sh script has been updates to do the Right Thing | ||
1030 : | (hopefully). | ||
1031 : | |||
1032 : | Notice that the source tree for the C-Kit will not be put under "src" | ||
1033 : | but directly under the installation root directory. (This is the | ||
1034 : | structure that currently exists on the CVS server when you check out | ||
1035 : | module "sml".) Fortunately, config/install.sh knows about this oddity. | ||
1036 : | |||
1037 : | Bugs: No documentation yet. | ||
1038 : | |||
1039 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1040 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1041 : | blume | 826 | Date: 2001/05/09 16:35:00 EDT |
1042 : | Tag: blume-20010509-cpscontract | ||
1043 : | Description: | ||
1044 : | |||
1045 : | Fixed a bug in the accounting code in cpsopt/contract.sml. (The | ||
1046 : | wrapper/unwrapper elimination did not decrement usage counts and some | ||
1047 : | dead variables got overlooked by the dead-up logic.) | ||
1048 : | |||
1049 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1050 : | george | 824 | Name: Lal George |
1051 : | Date: 2001/05/08 17:26:09 EDT | ||
1052 : | Tag: george-20010508-omit-frameptr | ||
1053 : | Description: | ||
1054 : | |||
1055 : | Changes to implement the omit-frame-pointer optimization to support | ||
1056 : | raw C calls. For now, there is only support on the Intel x86, but | ||
1057 : | other architectures will follow as more experience is gained with this. | ||
1058 : | |||
1059 : | |||
1060 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1061 : | blume | 818 | Name: Matthias Blume |
1062 : | blume | 819 | Date: 2001/05/07 14:40:00 EDT |
1063 : | Tag: blume-20010507-proxies | ||
1064 : | Description: | ||
1065 : | |||
1066 : | I made into "proxy libraries" all libraries that qualify for such a | ||
1067 : | change. (A qualifying library is a library that has another library or | ||
1068 : | groups as its sole member and repeats that member's export list | ||
1069 : | verbatim. A proxy library avoids this repetition by omitting its export | ||
1070 : | list, effectively inheriting the list that its (only) member exports. | ||
1071 : | See the CM manual for more explanation.) | ||
1072 : | The main effect is that explicit export lists for these libraries | ||
1073 : | do not have to be kepts in sync, making maintenance a bit easier. | ||
1074 : | |||
1075 : | I also added copyright notices to many .cm-files. | ||
1076 : | |||
1077 : | Last but not least, I made a new set of bootfiles. | ||
1078 : | |||
1079 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1080 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1081 : | blume | 818 | Date: 2001/05/04 17:00:00 EDT |
1082 : | Tag: blume-20010504-cm-lsplit | ||
1083 : | Description: | ||
1084 : | |||
1085 : | 0. John merged pending changes to $/smlnj-lib.cm | ||
1086 : | |||
1087 : | 1. Allen's previous change accidentally backed out of one of Lal's | ||
1088 : | earlier changes. I undid this mistake (re-introducing Lal's change). | ||
1089 : | |||
1090 : | 2. I used the new topOrder' function from graph-scc.sml (from $/smlnj-lib.cm) | ||
1091 : | within the compiler where applicable. There is some code simplification | ||
1092 : | because of that. | ||
1093 : | |||
1094 : | 3. The "split" phase (in FLINT) is now part of the default list of phases. | ||
1095 : | Compiler.Control.LambdaSplitting.* can be used to globally control the | ||
1096 : | lambda-splitting (cross-module-inlining) engine. In addition to that, | ||
1097 : | it can now also be controlled on a per-source basis: CM has been taught | ||
1098 : | a new tool parameter applicable to ML source files. | ||
1099 : | |||
1100 : | - To turn lambda-splitting off completely: | ||
1101 : | local open Compiler.Control.LambdaSplitting in | ||
1102 : | val _ = set Off | ||
1103 : | end | ||
1104 : | - To make "no lambda-splitting" the global default (but allow per-source | ||
1105 : | overriding); this is the initial setting: | ||
1106 : | local open Compiler.Control.LambdaSplitting in | ||
1107 : | val _ = set (Default NONE) | ||
1108 : | end | ||
1109 : | - To make "lambda-splitting with aggressiveness a" the global default | ||
1110 : | (and allow per-source overriding): | ||
1111 : | local open Compiler.Control.LambdaSplitting in | ||
1112 : | val _ = set (Default (SOME a)) | ||
1113 : | end | ||
1114 : | |||
1115 : | - To turn lambda-splitting off for a given ML souce file (say: a.sml) | ||
1116 : | write (in the respective .cm-file): | ||
1117 : | a.sml (lambdasplitting:off) | ||
1118 : | - To turn lambda-splitting for a.sml on with minimal aggressiveness: | ||
1119 : | a.sml (lambdasplitting:on) | ||
1120 : | - To turn lambda-splitting for a.sml on with aggressiveness <a> (where | ||
1121 : | <a> is a decimal non-negative integer): | ||
1122 : | a.sml (lambdasplitting:<a>) | ||
1123 : | - To turn lambda-splitting for a.sml on with maximal aggressiveness: | ||
1124 : | a.sml (lambdasplitting:infinity) | ||
1125 : | - To use the global default for a.sml: | ||
1126 : | a.sml (lambdasplitting:default) | ||
1127 : | or simply | ||
1128 : | a.sml | ||
1129 : | |||
1130 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1131 : | leunga | 815 | Name: Allen Leung |
1132 : | Date: 2001/05/04 01:57:00 EDT | ||
1133 : | Tag: leunga-20010504-sync | ||
1134 : | Description: | ||
1135 : | leunga | 788 | |
1136 : | leunga | 815 | MLRISC features. |
1137 : | |||
1138 : | 1. Fix to CMPXCHG instructions. | ||
1139 : | 2. Changed RA interface to allow annotations in callbacks. | ||
1140 : | 3. Added a new method to the stream interface to allow annotations updates. | ||
1141 : | |||
1142 : | george | 749 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
1143 : | blume | 812 | Name: Matthias Blume |
1144 : | blume | 814 | Date: 2001/05/01 11:45:00 EDT |
1145 : | Tag: blume-20010501-pcedittmp | ||
1146 : | Description: | ||
1147 : | |||
1148 : | Changed install.sh to use the current working directory instead of | ||
1149 : | /usr/tmp for a temporary file (pcedittmp). The previous choice | ||
1150 : | of /usr/tmp caused trouble with MacOS X because of file premission | ||
1151 : | problems. | ||
1152 : | |||
1153 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1154 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1155 : | blume | 812 | Date: 2001/04/20 11:10:00 EDT |
1156 : | Tag: blume-20010420-inMLflag | ||
1157 : | Description: | ||
1158 : | |||
1159 : | - added vp_limitPtrMask to vproc-state.h | ||
1160 : | (for use by the raw-C-calls mechanism to implement proper interrupt | ||
1161 : | handling) | ||
1162 : | - made the ML compiler aware of various data-structure offsets so it | ||
1163 : | can generate code for accessing the vp_inML flag and vp_limitPtrMask | ||
1164 : | - tweaked mlriscGen.sml to have it emit interrupt-handling code for | ||
1165 : | raw C-calls | ||
1166 : | |||
1167 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1168 : | george | 810 | Name: Lal George |
1169 : | Date: 2001/04/20 09:15:28 EDT | ||
1170 : | Tag: george-20010420-macosX | ||
1171 : | Description: | ||
1172 : | |||
1173 : | - Changes to port to Mac OS X; Darwin. | ||
1174 : | |||
1175 : | - In the process I found that sqrt was broken on the PPC, because the | ||
1176 : | fsqrt instruction is not implemented. | ||
1177 : | |||
1178 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1179 : | blume | 799 | Name: Matthias Blume |
1180 : | blume | 808 | Date: 2001/04/18 12:45:00 EDT |
1181 : | Tag: blume-20010418-ccalls | ||
1182 : | Description: | ||
1183 : | |||
1184 : | - fixed two off-by-4 errors in the x86-specific c-calls implementation | ||
1185 : | (this bug prevented structure arguments containing pointers from being | ||
1186 : | passed correctly) | ||
1187 : | - changed the raw-C-call code in mlriscGen.sml in such a way that | ||
1188 : | structure arguments are represented as a pointer to the beginning | ||
1189 : | of the structure (instead of having a series of synthesized arguments, | ||
1190 : | one for each structure member) | ||
1191 : | |||
1192 : | - made makeml script's verbosity level configurable via environment | ||
1193 : | variable (MAKEML_VERBOSITY) | ||
1194 : | |||
1195 : | blume | 813 | - eliminated placeholder implementations for f32l, w16s, i16s, and f32s |
1196 : | blume | 808 | in rawmem-x86.sml; we are now using the real thing |
1197 : | |||
1198 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1199 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1200 : | blume | 806 | Date: 2001/03/22 16:25:00 EST |
1201 : | Tag: blume-20010322-bootfiles | ||
1202 : | Description: | ||
1203 : | |||
1204 : | Created a new set of bootfiles (for your automatic installation convenience). | ||
1205 : | |||
1206 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1207 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1208 : | blume | 805 | Date: 2001/03/22 15:10:00 EST |
1209 : | Tag: blume-20010322-rawmem-parcm | ||
1210 : | Description: | ||
1211 : | |||
1212 : | 1. All "raw memory access" primitives for the new FFI are implemented now | ||
1213 : | (at least on the x86). | ||
1214 : | 2. Some further cleanup of CM's parallel make mechanism. | ||
1215 : | |||
1216 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1217 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1218 : | blume | 801 | Date: 2001/03/19 17:53:00 EST |
1219 : | Tag: blume-20010319-parallel | ||
1220 : | Description: | ||
1221 : | |||
1222 : | Parallel make (using compile servers) now works again. | ||
1223 : | |||
1224 : | To this end, CM.stabilize and CMB.make have been modified to work in | ||
1225 : | two passes when compile servers are attached: | ||
1226 : | 1. Compile everything, do not perform stabilization; this pass | ||
1227 : | uses compile servers | ||
1228 : | 2. Stabilize everything; this pass does not use compile servers | ||
1229 : | If there are no compile servers, the two passes are combined into one | ||
1230 : | (as before). Splitting the passes increases the inherent parallelism | ||
1231 : | in the dependency graph because the entire graph including all | ||
1232 : | libraries is available at the same time. This, in turn, improves | ||
1233 : | server utilization. The downside is that the master process will | ||
1234 : | have to do some extra work after compilation is done (because for | ||
1235 : | technical reasons it must re-read all the binfiles during stabilization). | ||
1236 : | |||
1237 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1238 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1239 : | blume | 800 | Date: 2001/03/16 12:22:00 EST |
1240 : | Tag: blume-20010316-bootfiles | ||
1241 : | Description: | ||
1242 : | |||
1243 : | Created a new set of bootfiles (for your automatic installation convenience). | ||
1244 : | |||
1245 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1246 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1247 : | blume | 799 | Date: 2001/03/16 11:00:00 EST |
1248 : | Tag: blume-20010316-MLTREE-fixup | ||
1249 : | Description: | ||
1250 : | |||
1251 : | This is a minor fixup for an (untagged) earlier commit by Allen. | ||
1252 : | (A file was missing). | ||
1253 : | |||
1254 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1255 : | leunga | 788 | Name: Allen Leung |
1256 : | leunga | 796 | Date: Mon Mar 5 18:54:57 EST 2001 |
1257 : | Tag: leunga-20010305-cut-support | ||
1258 : | |||
1259 : | 1. New support for alternative control-flow in MLTREE. | ||
1260 : | Currently we support | ||
1261 : | |||
1262 : | FLOW_TO(CALL ...., [k1,...,kn]) | ||
1263 : | |||
1264 : | This is needed for 'cuts to' in C-- and try/handle-like constructs | ||
1265 : | in Moby | ||
1266 : | |||
1267 : | New assembler flag "asm-show-cutsto" to turn on control-flow debugging. | ||
1268 : | |||
1269 : | 2. Register Allocator | ||
1270 : | |||
1271 : | Changes in interface [from Fermin, John] | ||
1272 : | |||
1273 : | 3. Alpha 8-bit SLL support [Fermin] | ||
1274 : | |||
1275 : | 4. All architectures | ||
1276 : | |||
1277 : | A new module (ClusterExpandCopies) for expanding parallel copies. | ||
1278 : | |||
1279 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1280 : | Name: Allen Leung | ||
1281 : | leunga | 788 | Date: 2001/02/27 23:07:00 EST |
1282 : | Tag: leunga-20010227-minor-stuff | ||
1283 : | |||
1284 : | 1. Alpha bug fix for CMOVNE | ||
1285 : | 2. Handle mltree COND(..,FCMP ...,...) | ||
1286 : | 3. Bug fix in simplifier | ||
1287 : | |||
1288 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1289 : | blume | 777 | Name: Matthias Blume |
1290 : | blume | 781 | Date: 2001/01/30 17:50:00 EST |
1291 : | Tag: blume-20010130-sync | ||
1292 : | Description: | ||
1293 : | |||
1294 : | This is just a minor update to sync my devel branch with the main brach. | ||
1295 : | The only visible change is the addition of some README files. | ||
1296 : | |||
1297 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1298 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1299 : | blume | 778 | Date: 2001/01/12 23:30:00 JST |
1300 : | Tag: blume-20010112-bootfiles | ||
1301 : | Description: | ||
1302 : | |||
1303 : | Made a new set of bootfiles that goes with the current state of the | ||
1304 : | repository. | ||
1305 : | |||
1306 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1307 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1308 : | blume | 777 | Date: 2001/01/12 21:20:00 JST |
1309 : | Tag: blume-20010112-sync | ||
1310 : | Description: | ||
1311 : | |||
1312 : | I am just flushing out some minor changes that had accumulated in | ||
1313 : | my private branch in order to sync with the main tree. (This is | ||
1314 : | mainly because I had CVS trouble when trying to merge _into_ my | ||
1315 : | private branch.) | ||
1316 : | |||
1317 : | Most people should be completely unaffected by this. | ||
1318 : | |||
1319 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1320 : | leunga | 775 | Name: Allen Leung |
1321 : | Date: Thu Jan 11 21:03:00 EST 2001 | ||
1322 : | Tag: leunga-20010111-labexp=mltree | ||
1323 : | Description: | ||
1324 : | |||
1325 : | 1. Removed the type LabelExp and replace it by MLTree. | ||
1326 : | 2. Rewritten mltree-simplify with the pattern matcher tool. | ||
1327 : | 3. There were some bugs in alpha code generator which would break | ||
1328 : | 64-bit code generation. | ||
1329 : | 4. Redo the tools to generate code with the | ||
1330 : | 5. The CM files in MLRISC (and in src/system/smlnj/MLRISC) | ||
1331 : | are now generated by perl scripts. | ||
1332 : | |||
1333 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1334 : | blume | 771 | Name: Matthias Blume |
1335 : | blume | 774 | Date: 2001/01/10 21:55:00 JST |
1336 : | Tag: blume-20010110-rcc | ||
1337 : | Description: | ||
1338 : | |||
1339 : | The RCC stuff now seems to work (but only on the x86). | ||
1340 : | This required hacking of the c-calls interface (and -implementation) in | ||
1341 : | MLRISC. | ||
1342 : | |||
1343 : | Normal compiler users should be unaffected. | ||
1344 : | |||
1345 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1346 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1347 : | blume | 773 | Date: 2001/01/09 01:20:00 JST |
1348 : | Tag: blume-20010109-rcc | ||
1349 : | Description: | ||
1350 : | |||
1351 : | This is a fairly big patch, flushing out a large number of pending | ||
1352 : | changes that I made to my development copy over the last couple of days. | ||
1353 : | |||
1354 : | Of practical relevance at this moment is a workaround for a pickling | ||
1355 : | bug that Allen ran into the other day. The cause of the bug itself is | ||
1356 : | still unknown and it might be hard to fix it properly, but the | ||
1357 : | workaround has some merits of its own (namely somewhat reducing pickling | ||
1358 : | overhead for certain libraries). Therefore, I think this solution should | ||
1359 : | be satisfactory at this time. | ||
1360 : | |||
1361 : | The rest of the changes (i.e., the vast majority) has to do with my | ||
1362 : | ongoing efforts of providing direct support for C function calls from | ||
1363 : | ML. At the moment there is a new primop "RAW_CCALL", typing magic | ||
1364 : | in types/cproto.sml (invoked from FLINT/trans/translate.sml), a new | ||
1365 : | case in the FLINT CPS datatype (RCC), changes to cps/convert.sml to | ||
1366 : | translate uses of RAW_CCALL into RCC, and changes to mlriscGen.sml to | ||
1367 : | handle RCC. | ||
1368 : | |||
1369 : | The last part (the changes to mlriscGen.sml) are still known to be | ||
1370 : | wrong on the x86 and not implemented on all other architectures. But | ||
1371 : | the infrastructure is in place. I had to change a few functor | ||
1372 : | signatures in the backend to be able to route the CCalls interface | ||
1373 : | from MLRISC there, and I had to specialize the mltree type (on the | ||
1374 : | x86) to include the necessary extensions. (The extensions themselves | ||
1375 : | were already there and redy to go in MLRISC/x86). | ||
1376 : | |||
1377 : | Everything should be very happy as soon as someone helps me with | ||
1378 : | mlriscGen.sml... | ||
1379 : | |||
1380 : | In any case, nothing of this should matter to anyone as long as the | ||
1381 : | new primop is not being used (which is going to be the case unless you | ||
1382 : | find it where I hid it :). The rest of the compiler is completely | ||
1383 : | unaffected. | ||
1384 : | |||
1385 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1386 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1387 : | blume | 772 | Date: 2001/01/05 00:30:00 JST |
1388 : | Tag: blume-20010105-primops | ||
1389 : | Description: | ||
1390 : | |||
1391 : | Added some experimental support for work that I am doing right now. | ||
1392 : | These changes mostly concern added primops, but there is also a new | ||
1393 : | experimental C library in the runtime system (but currently not enabled | ||
1394 : | anywhere except on Linux/X86). | ||
1395 : | |||
1396 : | In the course of adding primops (and playing with them), I discovered that | ||
1397 : | Zhong's INL_PRIM hack (no type info for certain primops) was, in fact, badly | ||
1398 : | broken. (Zhong was very right he labeled this stuff as "major gross hack".) | ||
1399 : | To recover, I made type information in INL_PRIM mandatory and changed | ||
1400 : | prim.sml as well as built-in.sml accordingly. The InLine structure now | ||
1401 : | has complete, correct type information (i.e., no bottom types). | ||
1402 : | |||
1403 : | Since all these changes mean that we need new binfiles, I also bumped the | ||
1404 : | version number to 110.32.1. | ||
1405 : | |||
1406 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1407 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1408 : | blume | 771 | Date: 2000/12/30 22:10:00 JST |
1409 : | Tag: blume-20001230-various | ||
1410 : | Description: | ||
1411 : | |||
1412 : | Added proxy libraries for MLRISC and let MLRISC libraries refer | ||
1413 : | to each other using path anchors. (See CM manual for explanation.) | ||
1414 : | |||
1415 : | Updated CM documentation. | ||
1416 : | |||
1417 : | Fixed some bugs in CM. | ||
1418 : | |||
1419 : | Implemented "proxy" libraries (= syntactic sugar for CM). | ||
1420 : | |||
1421 : | Added "-quiet" option to makeml and changed runtime system accordingly. | ||
1422 : | |||
1423 : | Added cleanup handler for exportML to reset timers and compiler stats. | ||
1424 : | |||
1425 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1426 : | george | 761 | Name: Lal George |
1427 : | Date: 2000/12/22 22:22:58 EST 2000 | ||
1428 : | Tag: Release_110_32 | ||
1429 : | Description: | ||
1430 : | |||
1431 : | Infinite precision used throughout MLRISC. | ||
1432 : | see MLRISC/mltree/machine-int.sig | ||
1433 : | |||
1434 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1435 : | blume | 756 | Name: Matthias Blume |
1436 : | blume | 760 | Date: 2000/12/22 23:16:00 JST |
1437 : | Tag: blume-20001222-warn | ||
1438 : | Description: | ||
1439 : | blume | 759 | |
1440 : | blume | 760 | Corrected wording and formatting of some CM warning message which I |
1441 : | broke in my previous patch. | ||
1442 : | blume | 759 | |
1443 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1444 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1445 : | blume | 763 | Date: 2000/12/22 21:20:00 JST |
1446 : | Tag: blume-20001222-anchorenv | ||
1447 : | Description: | ||
1448 : | |||
1449 : | Fixed CM's handling of anchor environments in connection with CMB.make. | ||
1450 : | |||
1451 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1452 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1453 : | blume | 758 | Date: 2000/12/22 13:15:00 JST |
1454 : | Tag: blume-20001222-cleanup | ||
1455 : | Description: | ||
1456 : | |||
1457 : | Removed src/cm/ffi which does not (and did not) belong here. | ||
1458 : | |||
1459 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1460 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1461 : | blume | 757 | Date: 2000/12/21 23:55:00 JST |
1462 : | Tag: blume-20001221-exn | ||
1463 : | Description: | ||
1464 : | |||
1465 : | Probably most important: CM no longer silently swallows all exceptions | ||
1466 : | in the compiler. | ||
1467 : | Plus: some other minor CM changes. For example, CM now reports some | ||
1468 : | sizes for generated binfiles (code, data, envpickle, lambdapickle). | ||
1469 : | |||
1470 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1471 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1472 : | blume | 756 | Date: 2000/12/15 00:01:05 JST |
1473 : | Tag: blume-20001215-dirtool | ||
1474 : | Description: | ||
1475 : | |||
1476 : | - "dir" tool added. | ||
1477 : | - improvements and cleanup to Tools structure | ||
1478 : | - documentation updates | ||
1479 : | |||
1480 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1481 : | leunga | 752 | Name: Allen Leung |
1482 : | leunga | 755 | Date: Thu Dec 14 03:45:24 EST 2000 |
1483 : | Description: | ||
1484 : | Tag: leunga-20001214-int-inf | ||
1485 : | Description: | ||
1486 : | |||
1487 : | In IntInf, added these standard functions, which are missing from our | ||
1488 : | implementation: | ||
1489 : | |||
1490 : | andb : int * int -> int | ||
1491 : | xorb : int * int -> int | ||
1492 : | orb : int * int -> int | ||
1493 : | notb : int -> int | ||
1494 : | << : int * word -> int | ||
1495 : | ~>> : int * word -> int | ||
1496 : | |||
1497 : | Not tested, I hope they are correct. | ||
1498 : | |||
1499 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1500 : | Name: Allen Leung | ||
1501 : | leunga | 752 | Date: Fri Dec 8 19:23:26 EST 2000 |
1502 : | Description: | ||
1503 : | Tag: leunga-20001208-nowhere | ||
1504 : | Description: | ||
1505 : | |||
1506 : | Slight improvements to the 'nowhere' tool to handle OR-patterns, | ||
1507 : | to generate better error messages etc. Plus a brief manual. | ||
1508 : | |||
1509 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1510 : | george | 749 | Name: Lal George |
1511 : | Date: 2000/12/08 09:54:02 EST 2000 | ||
1512 : | Tag: Release_110_31 | ||
1513 : | Description: | ||
1514 : | george | 705 | |
1515 : | george | 749 | - Version 110.31 |
1516 : | leunga | 591 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
1517 : | leunga | 744 | Name: Allen Leung |
1518 : | Date: Thu Dec 7 22:01:04 EST 2000 | ||
1519 : | Tag: leunga-20001207-cell-monster-hack | ||
1520 : | Description: | ||
1521 : | |||
1522 : | Major MLRISC internal changes. Affect all clients. | ||
1523 : | Summary: | ||
1524 : | |||
1525 : | 1. Type CELLS.cell = int is now replaced by a datatype. | ||
1526 : | As a result, the old regmap is now gone. Almost all interfaces | ||
1527 : | in MLRISC change as a consequence. | ||
1528 : | |||
1529 : | 2. A new brand version of machine description tool (v3.0) that generates | ||
1530 : | modules expecting the new interface. The old version is removed. | ||
1531 : | |||
1532 : | 3. The RA interface has been further abstracted into two new functors. | ||
1533 : | RISC_RA and X86RA. These functors have much simpler interfaces. | ||
1534 : | [See also directory MLRISC/demo.] | ||
1535 : | |||
1536 : | 4. Some other new source->source code generation tools are available: | ||
1537 : | |||
1538 : | a. MLRISC/Tools/RewriteGen -- generate rewriters from rules. | ||
1539 : | b. MLRISC/Tools/WhereGen -- expands conditional pattern matching rules. | ||
1540 : | I use this tool to generate the peephole optimizers---with the new | ||
1541 : | cell type changes, peephole rules are becoming difficult to write | ||
1542 : | without conditional pattern matching. | ||
1543 : | |||
1544 : | 5. More Intmap -> IntHashTable change. Previous changes by Matthias didn't | ||
1545 : | cover the entire MLRISC source tree so many things broke. | ||
1546 : | |||
1547 : | 6. CM files have been moved to the subdirectory MLRISC/cm. | ||
1548 : | They are moved because there are a lot of them and they clutter up the | ||
1549 : | root dir. | ||
1550 : | |||
1551 : | 7. More detailed documentation to come... | ||
1552 : | |||
1553 : | NOTE: To rebuild from 110.30 (ftp distribution), you'll have to do | ||
1554 : | a makeml -rebuild first. This is because of other other | ||
1555 : | changes that Matthias has made (see below). | ||
1556 : | |||
1557 : | |||
1558 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1559 : | blume | 733 | Name: Matthias Blume |
1560 : | blume | 742 | Date: 2000/11/30 23:12:00 JST |
1561 : | Tag: blume-20001130-filereorg | ||
1562 : | Description: | ||
1563 : | |||
1564 : | Some manual updates and some file reorganizations in CM. | ||
1565 : | |||
1566 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1567 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1568 : | blume | 737 | Date: 2000/11/24 17:45:00 JST |
1569 : | Tag: blume-20001124-link | ||
1570 : | Description: | ||
1571 : | |||
1572 : | Drastically improved link traversal code for the case that the dynamic | ||
1573 : | value was already loaded at bootstrap time. As a result, CM and CMB | ||
1574 : | now both load blazingly fast -- even on a very slow machine. Also, | ||
1575 : | memory consumption has been further reduced by this. | ||
1576 : | |||
1577 : | Warning: The format of the PIDMAP file has changed. THerefore, to | ||
1578 : | bootstrap you have to do this: | ||
1579 : | |||
1580 : | 1. Run CMB.make | ||
1581 : | 2. Make a symbolic link for the boot directory: | ||
1582 : | ln -s sml.boot.ARCH-OS xxx | ||
1583 : | 3. "Rebuild" the boot directory: | ||
1584 : | ./makeml -boot xxx -rebuild sml ; rm xxx | ||
1585 : | 4. Boot normally: | ||
1586 : | ./makeml | ||
1587 : | |||
1588 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1589 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1590 : | blume | 735 | Date: 2000/11/21 21:20:00 JST |
1591 : | Tag: blume-20001121-tools | ||
1592 : | Description: | ||
1593 : | |||
1594 : | Continued hacking on autoloading problem -- with success this time. | ||
1595 : | Also changed tool-plugin mechanism. See new CM manual. | ||
1596 : | |||
1597 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1598 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1599 : | blume | 734 | Date: 2000/11/19 14:30:00 JST |
1600 : | Tag: blume-20001119-autoload | ||
1601 : | Description: | ||
1602 : | |||
1603 : | Some hacking to make autoloading faster. Success for CMB, no success | ||
1604 : | so far for CM. There is a reduced structure CM' that autoloads faster. | ||
1605 : | (This is a temporary, non-documented hack to be eliminated again when | ||
1606 : | the general problem is solved.) | ||
1607 : | |||
1608 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1609 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1610 : | blume | 733 | Date: 2000/11/17 14:10:00 JST |
1611 : | Tag: blume-20001117-pickle-lib | ||
1612 : | Description: | ||
1613 : | |||
1614 : | 1. Eliminated comp-lib.cm | ||
1615 : | 2. Made pickle-lib.cm | ||
1616 : | 3. Eliminated all uses of intset.sml (from comp-lib.cm) | ||
1617 : | 4. Replaced all uses of intmap.{sig,sml} (from comp-lib.cm) with | ||
1618 : | equivalent constructs from smlnj-lib.cm (INtHashTable). | ||
1619 : | 5. Point 4. also goes for those uses of intmap.* in MLRISC. | ||
1620 : | Duplicated intmap modules thrown out. | ||
1621 : | 6. Hunted down all duplicated SCC code and replaced it with | ||
1622 : | equivalent stuff (GraphSCCFn from smlnj-lib.cm). | ||
1623 : | 7. Rewrote Feedback module. | ||
1624 : | 8. Moved sortedlist.sml into viscomp-lib.cm. Eventually it | ||
1625 : | should be thrown out and equivalent modules from smlnj-lib.cm | ||
1626 : | should be used (IntRedBlackSet, IntListSet, ...). | ||
1627 : | |||
1628 : | Confirmed that compiler compiles to fixpoint. | ||
1629 : | |||
1630 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1631 : | leunga | 731 | Name: Allen Leung |
1632 : | Date: 2000/11/10 18:00:00 | ||
1633 : | Tag: leunga-20001110-new-x86-fp | ||
1634 : | |||
1635 : | A new x86 floating point code generator has been added. | ||
1636 : | By default this is turned off. To turn this on, do: | ||
1637 : | |||
1638 : | CM.autoload "$smlnj/compiler.cm"; | ||
1639 : | Compiler.Control.MLRISC.getFlag "x86-fast-fp" := true; | ||
1640 : | |||
1641 : | Changes: | ||
1642 : | |||
1643 : | 1. Changed FTAN to FPTAN so that the assembly output is correct. | ||
1644 : | 2. Changed the extension callback for FTANGENT to generate: | ||
1645 : | |||
1646 : | fptan | ||
1647 : | fstp %st(0) | ||
1648 : | instead of | ||
1649 : | fptan | ||
1650 : | fstpl ftempmem | ||
1651 : | |||
1652 : | 3. Numerous assembly fixes for x86. | ||
1653 : | |||
1654 : | 5. Cleaned up the machine code output module x86/x86MC.sml and added | ||
1655 : | support for a whole bunch of instructions and addressing modes: | ||
1656 : | |||
1657 : | fadd/fsub/fsubr/fmul/fdiv/fdivr %st, %st(n) | ||
1658 : | faddp/fsubp/fsubrp/fmulp/fdivp/fdivrp %st, %st(n) | ||
1659 : | fadd/fsub/fsubr/fmul/fdiv/fdivr %st(n), %st | ||
1660 : | fiadd/fisub/fisubr/fimul/fidiv/fidivr mem | ||
1661 : | fxch %st(n) | ||
1662 : | fld %st(n) | ||
1663 : | fst %st(n) | ||
1664 : | fst mem | ||
1665 : | fstp %st(n) | ||
1666 : | fucom %st(n) | ||
1667 : | fucomp %st(n) | ||
1668 : | |||
1669 : | All these are now generated when the fast fp mode is turned on. | ||
1670 : | |||
1671 : | 6. Removed the dedicated registers %st(0), ..., %st(7) from X86CpsRegs | ||
1672 : | |||
1673 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1674 : | blume | 729 | Name: Matthias Blume |
1675 : | Date: 2000/11/09 11:20:00 JST | ||
1676 : | Tag: blume-20001109-scc | ||
1677 : | Description: | ||
1678 : | |||
1679 : | Eliminated some code duplication: | ||
1680 : | |||
1681 : | 1. Added "where" clause to GraphSCCFn in SML/NJ Library. | ||
1682 : | (Otherwise the functor is useless.) | ||
1683 : | 2. Used GraphSCCFn where SCCUtilFun was used previously. | ||
1684 : | 3. Got rid of SCCUtilFun (in comp-lib.cm). | ||
1685 : | |||
1686 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1687 : | george | 721 | Name: Lal George |
1688 : | Date: 2000/11/06 09:02:21 EST 2000 | ||
1689 : | Tag: Release_110_30 | ||
1690 : | Description: | ||
1691 : | |||
1692 : | - Version 110.30 | ||
1693 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1694 : | blume | 715 | Name: Matthias Blume |
1695 : | blume | 716 | Date: 2000/11/04 14:45:00 |
1696 : | Tag: blume-20001104-mlbuild | ||
1697 : | Description: | ||
1698 : | |||
1699 : | - Made ml-build faster on startup. | ||
1700 : | - Documentation fixes. | ||
1701 : | |||
1702 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1703 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1704 : | blume | 715 | Date: 2000/11/02 17:00:00 JST |
1705 : | Tag: blume-20001102-condcomp | ||
1706 : | Description: | ||
1707 : | |||
1708 : | - Small tweaks to pickler -- new BOOTFILES! | ||
1709 : | - Version bumped to 110.29.2. | ||
1710 : | - Added conditional compilation facility to init.cmi (see comment there). | ||
1711 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1712 : | leunga | 713 | Name: Allen Leung |
1713 : | Date: 2000/10/23 19:31:00 | ||
1714 : | Tag: leunga-20001023-demo-ra | ||
1715 : | |||
1716 : | 1. Minor RA changes that improves spilling on x86 (affects Moby and C-- only) | ||
1717 : | 2. Test programs for the graph library updated | ||
1718 : | 3. Some new MLRISC demo programs added | ||
1719 : | |||
1720 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1721 : | blume | 710 | Name: Matthias Blume |
1722 : | blume | 711 | Date: 2000/08/31 22:15:00 JST |
1723 : | Tag: blume-20001017-errmsg | ||
1724 : | Description: | ||
1725 : | |||
1726 : | More error message grief: Where there used to be no messages, there | ||
1727 : | now were some that had bogus error regions. Fixed. | ||
1728 : | |||
1729 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1730 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1731 : | blume | 710 | Date: 2000/08/31 17:30:00 JST |
1732 : | Tag: blume-20001017-v110p29p1 | ||
1733 : | Description: | ||
1734 : | |||
1735 : | I made a version 110.29.1 with new bootfiles. | ||
1736 : | |||
1737 : | Changes: Modified pickler/unpickler for faster and leaner unpickling. | ||
1738 : | CM documentation changes and a small bugfix in CM's error reporting. | ||
1739 : | |||
1740 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1741 : | george | 705 | Name: Lal George |
1742 : | Date: 2000/09/27 14:42:35 EDT | ||
1743 : | Tag: george-20000927-nodestatus | ||
1744 : | Description: | ||
1745 : | |||
1746 : | Changed the type of the nodestatus, so that: | ||
1747 : | |||
1748 : | SPILLED(~1) is now SPILLED | ||
1749 : | SPILLED(m) where m>=0 is now MEMREG(m) | ||
1750 : | SPILLED(s) where s<~1 is now SPILL_LOC(~s) | ||
1751 : | |||
1752 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1753 : | blume | 697 | Name: Matthias Blume |
1754 : | blume | 703 | Date: 2000/09/07 14:45:00 JST |
1755 : | Tag: blume-20000907-cmerrmsg | ||
1756 : | Description: | ||
1757 : | |||
1758 : | Small tweak to CM to avoid getting ML syntax error messages twice. | ||
1759 : | |||
1760 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1761 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1762 : | blume | 701 | Date: 2000/08/31 18:00:00 JST |
1763 : | Tag: blume-20000831-cvsbootfiles | ||
1764 : | Description: | ||
1765 : | |||
1766 : | New URL for boot files (because the 110.29 files on the BL server do | ||
1767 : | now work correctly with my updated install scripts for yacc and lex). | ||
1768 : | |||
1769 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1770 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1771 : | blume | 697 | Date: 2000/08/08 12:33:00 JST |
1772 : | Tag: blume-20000808-manual | ||
1773 : | Description: | ||
1774 : | |||
1775 : | Tiny update to CM manual. | ||
1776 : | |||
1777 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1778 : | leunga | 695 | Name: Allen Leung |
1779 : | Date: 2000/08/7 19:31:00 | ||
1780 : | Tag: leunga-20000807-a-whole-bunch-of-stuff | ||
1781 : | |||
1782 : | Moby, C--, SSA, x86, machine descriptions etc. Should only affect C-- | ||
1783 : | and Mobdy. | ||
1784 : | |||
1785 : | 1. x86 | ||
1786 : | |||
1787 : | a. Fixes to peephole module by John and Dan. | ||
1788 : | b. Assembly fix to SETcc by Allen. | ||
1789 : | c. Fix to c-call by John. | ||
1790 : | d. Fix to spilling by John. (This one deals with the missing FSTPT case) | ||
1791 : | e. Instruction selection optimization to SETcc as suggested by John. | ||
1792 : | |||
1793 : | For example, | ||
1794 : | |||
1795 : | MV(32, x, COND(32, CMP(32, LT, a, b), LI 1, LI 0)) | ||
1796 : | |||
1797 : | should generate: | ||
1798 : | |||
1799 : | MOVL a, x | ||
1800 : | SUBL b, x | ||
1801 : | SHRL 31, x | ||
1802 : | |||
1803 : | 2. IR stuff | ||
1804 : | |||
1805 : | A bunch of new DJ-graph related algorithms added. These | ||
1806 : | speed up SSA construction. | ||
1807 : | |||
1808 : | 3. SSA + Scheduling | ||
1809 : | |||
1810 : | Added code for SSA and scheduling to the repository | ||
1811 : | |||
1812 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1813 : | george | 694 | Name: Lal George |
1814 : | Date: 2000/07/27 11:53:14 EDT | ||
1815 : | |||
1816 : | Tag: lal-20000727-linux-ppc | ||
1817 : | Description: | ||
1818 : | |||
1819 : | Made changes to support Linux PPC. | ||
1820 : | p.s. I have confirmation that the 110.29 boot files work fine. | ||
1821 : | |||
1822 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1823 : | blume | 684 | Name: Matthias Blume |
1824 : | blume | 692 | Date: 2000/07/27 17:40:00 JST |
1825 : | Tag: blume-20000727-scripts | ||
1826 : | Description: | ||
1827 : | |||
1828 : | !!!! WARNING !!!! | ||
1829 : | You must recompile the runtime system! | ||
1830 : | !!!! WARNING !!!! | ||
1831 : | |||
1832 : | This is basically another round of script-enhancements: | ||
1833 : | |||
1834 : | 1. sml, ml-build, and ml-makedepend accept options -D and -U to define | ||
1835 : | and undefine CM preprocessor symbols. | ||
1836 : | |||
1837 : | 2. ml-build avoids generating a new heap image if it finds that the | ||
1838 : | existing one is still ok. (The condition is that no ML file had to | ||
1839 : | be recompiled and all ML files are found to be older that the heap | ||
1840 : | file.) | ||
1841 : | |||
1842 : | To make this work smoothly, I also hacked the runtime system as | ||
1843 : | well as SMLofNJ.SysInfo to get access to the heap image suffix | ||
1844 : | (.sparc-solaris, ...) that is currently being used. | ||
1845 : | |||
1846 : | Moreover, the signature of CM.mk_standalone has changed. See the | ||
1847 : | CM manual. | ||
1848 : | |||
1849 : | 3. ml-makedepend accepts additional options -n, -a, and -o. (See the | ||
1850 : | CM manual for details.) | ||
1851 : | |||
1852 : | 4. More CM manual updates: | ||
1853 : | - all of the above has been documented. | ||
1854 : | - there is now a section describing the (CM-related) command line | ||
1855 : | arguments that are accepted by the "sml" command | ||
1856 : | |||
1857 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1858 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1859 : | blume | 691 | Date: 2000/07/25 16:20:00 JST |
1860 : | Tag: blume-20000725-makedepend | ||
1861 : | Description: | ||
1862 : | |||
1863 : | Added a script called ml-makedepend. This can be used in makefiles | ||
1864 : | for Unix' make in a way very similar to the "makedepend" command for | ||
1865 : | C. | ||
1866 : | |||
1867 : | The script internally uses function CM.sources. | ||
1868 : | |||
1869 : | Synopsis: | ||
1870 : | |||
1871 : | ml-makedepend [-f makefile] cmfile targetname | ||
1872 : | |||
1873 : | The default for the makefile is "makefile" (or "Makefile" should | ||
1874 : | "makefile" not exist). | ||
1875 : | |||
1876 : | ml-makedepend adds a cmfile/targetname-specific section to this | ||
1877 : | makefile (after removing the previous version of this section). The | ||
1878 : | section contains a single dependency specification with targetname on | ||
1879 : | the LHS (targetname is an arbitrary name), and a list of files derived | ||
1880 : | from the cmfile on the RHS. Some of the files on the RHS are | ||
1881 : | ARCH/OPSYS-specific. Therefore, ml-makedepend inserts references to | ||
1882 : | "make" variables $(ARCH) and $(OPSYS) in place of the corresponding | ||
1883 : | path names. The makefile writer is responsible for making sure that | ||
1884 : | these variables have correct at the time "make" is invoked. | ||
1885 : | |||
1886 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1887 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1888 : | blume | 690 | Date: 2000/07/22 23:30:00 JST |
1889 : | Tag: blume-20000722-urlupdate | ||
1890 : | Description: | ||
1891 : | |||
1892 : | Changed BOOT and config/srcarchiveurl to point to BL server: | ||
1893 : | |||
1894 : | ftp://ftp.research.bell-labs.com/dist/smlnj/working/110.29/ | ||
1895 : | |||
1896 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1897 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1898 : | blume | 686 | Date: 2000/07/18 18:00:00 JST |
1899 : | Tag: blume-20000718-Version_110_29 | ||
1900 : | Description: | ||
1901 : | |||
1902 : | 1. Updated src/compiler/TopLevel/main/version.sml to version 110.29 | ||
1903 : | |||
1904 : | 2. Updated config/version to 110.29 | ||
1905 : | |||
1906 : | 3. Updated config/srcarchiveurl | ||
1907 : | |||
1908 : | 3. New boot files! | ||
1909 : | ftp://ftp.cs.princeton.edu/pub/people/blume/sml/110.29-autofetch | ||
1910 : | |||
1911 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1912 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1913 : | blume | 684 | Date: 2000/07/11 13:58:00 JST |
1914 : | Tag: blume-20000711-doctypo | ||
1915 : | Description: | ||
1916 : | |||
1917 : | Fixed a few typos in CM manual. | ||
1918 : | |||
1919 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1920 : | leunga | 683 | Name: Allen Leung |
1921 : | Date: 2000/06/15 00:38:00 | ||
1922 : | Tag: leunga-20000704-sparc-x86 | ||
1923 : | |||
1924 : | 1. x86 peephole improvement sp += k; sp -= k => nop [from John] | ||
1925 : | 2. fix to x86 RET bug [found by Dan Grossman] | ||
1926 : | 3. sparc assembly bug fix for ticc instructions [found by Fermin] | ||
1927 : | |||
1928 : | Affects c-- and moby only | ||
1929 : | |||
1930 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1931 : | blume | 680 | Name: Matthias Blume |
1932 : | blume | 682 | Date: 2000/07/04 15:26:00 |
1933 : | Tag: blume-20000704-trigger | ||
1934 : | Description: | ||
1935 : | |||
1936 : | 1. Improvements to CM manual. | ||
1937 : | 2. SMLofNJ.Internals.BTrace.trigger reinstated as an alternative way | ||
1938 : | of getting a back-trace. The function, when called, raises an | ||
1939 : | internal exception which explicitly carries the full back-trace history, | ||
1940 : | so it is unaffected by any intervening handle-raise pairs ("trivial" | ||
1941 : | or not). The interactive loop will print that history once it arrives | ||
1942 : | at top level. | ||
1943 : | Short of having all exceptions implicitly carry the full history, the | ||
1944 : | recommended way of using this facility is: | ||
1945 : | - compile your program with instrumentation "on" | ||
1946 : | - run it, when it raises an exception, look at the history | ||
1947 : | - if the history is "cut off" because of some handler, go and modify | ||
1948 : | your program so that it explicitly calls BTrace.trigger | ||
1949 : | - recompile (still instrumented), and rerun; look at the full history | ||
1950 : | |||
1951 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1952 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
1953 : | Date: 2000/07/03 15:36:00 JST | ||
1954 : | blume | 680 | Tag: blume-20000702-manual |
1955 : | Description: | ||
1956 : | |||
1957 : | Small corrections and updates to CM manual. | ||
1958 : | |||
1959 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1960 : | blume | 682 | Name: Matthias Blume |
1961 : | blume | 679 | Date: 2000/06/29 16:04:00 JST |
1962 : | Tag: blume-20000629-yacctool | ||
1963 : | Description: | ||
1964 : | |||
1965 : | Changes: | ||
1966 : | |||
1967 : | 1. Class "mlyacc" now takes separate arguments to pass options to | ||
1968 : | generated .sml- and .sig-files independently. | ||
1969 : | 2. Corresponding CM manual updates. | ||
1970 : | 3. BTrace module now also reports call sites. (However, for loop clusters | ||
1971 : | it only shows from where the cluster was entered.) There are associated | ||
1972 : | modifications to core.sml, internals.{sig,sml}, btrace.sml, and btimp.sml. | ||
1973 : | |||
1974 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1975 : | blume | 675 | Name: Matthias Blume |
1976 : | blume | 678 | Date: 2000/06/27 16:51:00 JST |
1977 : | Tag: blume-20000627-noweb | ||
1978 : | Description: | ||
1979 : | |||
1980 : | Changes: | ||
1981 : | |||
1982 : | 1. Implemented "subdir" and "witness" options for noweb tool. | ||
1983 : | This caused some slight internal changes in CM's tool implementation. | ||
1984 : | 2. Fixed bug in "tool plugin" mechanism. This is essentially cleaning | ||
1985 : | some remaining issues from earlier path anchor changes. | ||
1986 : | 3. Updated CM manual accordingly. | ||
1987 : | |||
1988 : | 4. Changed implementation of back-tracing so that I now consider it | ||
1989 : | ready for prime-time. | ||
1990 : | |||
1991 : | In particular, you don't have to explicitly trigger the back-trace | ||
1992 : | anymore. Instead, if you are running BTrace-instrumented code and | ||
1993 : | there is an uncaught exception (regardless of whether or not it was | ||
1994 : | raised in instrumented code), the top-level evalloop will print | ||
1995 : | the back-trace. | ||
1996 : | |||
1997 : | Features: | ||
1998 : | |||
1999 : | - Instrumented and uninstrumented code work together seemlessly. | ||
2000 : | (Of course, uninstrumented code is never mentioned in actual | ||
2001 : | back-traces.) | ||
2002 : | |||
2003 : | - Asymptotic time- and space-complexity of instrumented code is | ||
2004 : | equal to that of uninstrumented code. (This means that | ||
2005 : | tail-recursion is preserved by the instrumentation phase.) | ||
2006 : | |||
2007 : | - Modules whose code has been instrumented in different sessions | ||
2008 : | work together without problem. | ||
2009 : | |||
2010 : | - There is no penalty whatsoever on uninstrumented code. | ||
2011 : | |||
2012 : | - There is no penalty on "raise" expressions, even in | ||
2013 : | instrumented code. | ||
2014 : | |||
2015 : | A potential bug (or perhaps it is a feature, too): | ||
2016 : | |||
2017 : | A back-trace reaches no further than the outermost instrumented | ||
2018 : | non-trivial "raise". Here, a "trivial" raise is one that is the | ||
2019 : | sole RHS of a "handle" rule. Thus, back-traces reach trough | ||
2020 : | |||
2021 : | <exp> handle e => raise e | ||
2022 : | |||
2023 : | and even | ||
2024 : | |||
2025 : | <exp> handle Foo => raise Bar | ||
2026 : | |||
2027 : | and, of course, through | ||
2028 : | |||
2029 : | <exp> handle Foo => ... | ||
2030 : | |||
2031 : | if the exception was not Foo. | ||
2032 : | |||
2033 : | Back-traces always reach right through any un-instrumented code | ||
2034 : | including any of its "handle" expressions, trivial or not. | ||
2035 : | |||
2036 : | To try this out, do the following: | ||
2037 : | |||
2038 : | - Erase all existing binfiles for your program. | ||
2039 : | (You may keep binfiles for those modules where you think you | ||
2040 : | definitely don't need back-tracing.) | ||
2041 : | - Turn on back-trace instrumentation: | ||
2042 : | SMLofNJ.Internals.BTrace.mode (SOME true); | ||
2043 : | - Recompile your program. (I.e., run "CM.make" or "use".) | ||
2044 : | - You may now turn instrumentation off again (if you want): | ||
2045 : | SMLofNJ.Internals.BTrace.mode (SOME false); | ||
2046 : | - Run your program as usual. If it raises an exception that | ||
2047 : | reaches the interactive toplevel, then a back-trace will | ||
2048 : | automatically be printed. After that, the toplevel loop | ||
2049 : | will print the exception history as usual. | ||
2050 : | |||
2051 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2052 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
2053 : | blume | 677 | Date: 2000/06/26 09:56:46 JST |
2054 : | Tag: blume-20000626-setup | ||
2055 : | Description: | ||
2056 : | |||
2057 : | CM: - setup-parameter to "sml" added; this can be used to run arbitrary | ||
2058 : | ML code before and after compiling a file (e.g., to set compiler | ||
2059 : | flags) | ||
2060 : | |||
2061 : | Compiler: - improved btrace API (in core.sml, internals.{sig,sml}) | ||
2062 : | - associated changes to btrace.sml (BTrace instrumentation pass) | ||
2063 : | - cleaner implementation of btimp.sml (BTrace tracing and report | ||
2064 : | module) | ||
2065 : | |||
2066 : | CM manual: * new path encoding documented | ||
2067 : | * description of setup-parameter to "sml" added | ||
2068 : | |||
2069 : | The biggest user-visible change to back-tracing is that it is no | ||
2070 : | longer necessary to compile all traced modules within the same | ||
2071 : | session. (This was a real limitation.) | ||
2072 : | |||
2073 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2074 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
2075 : | blume | 676 | Date: 2000/06/24 12:40:00 JST |
2076 : | Tag: blume-20000624-startup | ||
2077 : | Description: | ||
2078 : | |||
2079 : | Fixes startup slowdown problem. (I was calling SrcPath.sync a _tad_ | ||
2080 : | bit too often -- to put it mildly. :) | ||
2081 : | |||
2082 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2083 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
2084 : | blume | 675 | Date: 2000/06/23 18:20:00 JST |
2085 : | Tag: blume-20000623-btrace | ||
2086 : | Description: | ||
2087 : | |||
2088 : | This updates adds a backtrace facility to aid programmers in debugging | ||
2089 : | their programs. This involves the following changes: | ||
2090 : | |||
2091 : | 1. Module system/smlnj/init/core.sml (structure _Core) now has hooks for | ||
2092 : | keeping track of the current call stack. When programs are compiled | ||
2093 : | in a special mode, the compiler will insert calls to these hooks | ||
2094 : | into the user program. | ||
2095 : | "Hook" means that it is possible for different implementations of | ||
2096 : | back-tracing to register themselves (at different times). | ||
2097 : | |||
2098 : | 2. compiler/MiscUtil/profile/btrace.sml implements the annotation phase | ||
2099 : | as an Absyn.dec->Absyn.dec rewrite. Normally this phase is turned off. | ||
2100 : | It can be turned on using this call: | ||
2101 : | SMLofNJ.Internals.BTrace.mode (SOME true); | ||
2102 : | Turning it off again: | ||
2103 : | SMLofNJ.Internals.BTrace.mode (SOME false); | ||
2104 : | Querying the current status: | ||
2105 : | SMLofNJ.Internals.BTrace.mode NONE; | ||
2106 : | Annotated programs are about twice as big as normal ones, and they | ||
2107 : | run a factor of 2 to 4 slower with a dummy back-trace plugin (one | ||
2108 : | where all hooks do nothing). The slowdown with a plugin that is | ||
2109 : | actually useful (such as the one supplied by default) is even greater, | ||
2110 : | but in the case of the default plugin it is still only an constant | ||
2111 : | factor (amortized). | ||
2112 : | |||
2113 : | 3. system/Basis/Implementation/NJ/internals.{sig,sml} have been augmented | ||
2114 : | with a sub-structure BTrace for controlling back-tracing. In particular, | ||
2115 : | the above-mentioned function "mode" controls whether the annotation | ||
2116 : | phase is invoked by the compiler. Another important function is | ||
2117 : | "trigger": when called it aborts the current execution and causes | ||
2118 : | the top-level loop to print a full back-trace. | ||
2119 : | |||
2120 : | 4. compiler/MiscUtil/profile/btimp.sml is the current default plugin | ||
2121 : | for back-tracing. It keeps track of the dynamic call stack and in | ||
2122 : | addition to that it keeps a partial history at each "level" of that | ||
2123 : | stack. For example, if a tail-calls b, b tail-calls c, and c tail-calls | ||
2124 : | d and b (at separate times, dynamically), then the report will show: | ||
2125 : | |||
2126 : | GOTO d | ||
2127 : | /c | ||
2128 : | GOTO \b | ||
2129 : | CALL a | ||
2130 : | |||
2131 : | This shows that there was an initial non-tail call of a, then a | ||
2132 : | tail-call to b or c, looping behavior in a cluster of functions that | ||
2133 : | consist of b and c, and then a goto from that cluster (i.e., either from | ||
2134 : | b or from c) to d. | ||
2135 : | |||
2136 : | Note that (depending on the user program) the amount of information | ||
2137 : | that the back-trace module has to keep track of at each level is bounded | ||
2138 : | by a constant. Thus, the whole implementation has the same asymptotical | ||
2139 : | complexity as the original program (both in space and in time). | ||
2140 : | |||
2141 : | 5. compiler/TopLevel/interact/evalloop.sml has been modified to | ||
2142 : | handle the special exception SMLofNJ.Internals.BTrace.BTrace | ||
2143 : | which is raised by the "trigger" function mentioned above. | ||
2144 : | |||
2145 : | Notes on usage: | ||
2146 : | |||
2147 : | - Annotated code works well together with unannotated code: | ||
2148 : | Unannotated calls simply do not show up at all in the backtrace. | ||
2149 : | |||
2150 : | - It is not a good idea to let modules that were annotated during | ||
2151 : | different sessions run at the same time. This is because the compiler | ||
2152 : | chooses small integers to identify individual functions, and there | ||
2153 : | will be clashes if different modules were compiled in separate sessions. | ||
2154 : | (Nothing will crash, and you will even be told about the clashes, but | ||
2155 : | back-trace information will in general not be useful.) | ||
2156 : | |||
2157 : | - Back-tracing can be confused by callcc and capture. | ||
2158 : | |||
2159 : | - The only way of getting a back-trace right now is to explicitly | ||
2160 : | invoke the "trigger" function from your user program. Eventually, we | ||
2161 : | should make every exception carry back-trace information (if | ||
2162 : | available). But since this creates more overhead at "raise"-time | ||
2163 : | (similar to the current exnHistory overhead), I have not yet | ||
2164 : | implemented this. (The implementation will be rather easy.) With | ||
2165 : | exceptions carrying back-trace information, this facility will be even | ||
2166 : | more useful because users don't need to modify their programs... | ||
2167 : | |||
2168 : | - While it is possible to compile the compiler with back-trace | ||
2169 : | annotations turned on (I did it to get some confidence in | ||
2170 : | correctness), you must make absolutely sure that core.sml and | ||
2171 : | btimp.sml are compiled WITHOUT annotation! (core.sml cannot actually | ||
2172 : | be compiled with annotation because there is no core access yet, but | ||
2173 : | if you compile btimp.sml with annotation, then the system will go into | ||
2174 : | an infinite recursion and crash.) | ||
2175 : | Since CM currently does not know about BTrace, the only way to turn | ||
2176 : | annotations on and off for different modules of the compiler is to | ||
2177 : | interrupt CMB.make, change the settings, and re-invoke it. Of course, | ||
2178 : | this is awkward and clumsy. | ||
2179 : | |||
2180 : | Sample sessions: | ||
2181 : | |||
2182 : | Standard ML of New Jersey v110.28.1 [FLINT v1.5], June 5, 2000 | ||
2183 : | - SMLofNJ.Internals.BTrace.mode (SOME true); | ||
2184 : | [autoloading] | ||
2185 : | [autoloading done] | ||
2186 : | val it = false : bool | ||
2187 : | - structure X = struct | ||
2188 : | - fun main n = let | ||
2189 : | - fun a (x, 0) = d x | ||
2190 : | - | a (x, n) = b (x, n - 1) | ||
2191 : | - and b (x, n) = c (x, n) | ||
2192 : | - and c (x, n) = a (x, n) | ||
2193 : | - and d x = e (x, 3) | ||
2194 : | - and e (x, 0) = f x | ||
2195 : | - | e (x, n) = e (x, n - 1) | ||
2196 : | - and f 0 = SMLofNJ.Internals.BTrace.trigger () | ||
2197 : | - | f n = n * g (n - 1) | ||
2198 : | - and g n = a (n, 3) | ||
2199 : | - in | ||
2200 : | - f n | ||
2201 : | - end | ||
2202 : | - end; | ||
2203 : | structure X : sig val main : int -> int end | ||
2204 : | - X.main 3; | ||
2205 : | *** BACK-TRACE *** | ||
2206 : | GOTO stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].f | ||
2207 : | GOTO-( stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].e | ||
2208 : | GOTO stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].d | ||
2209 : | / stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].a | ||
2210 : | | stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].b | ||
2211 : | GOTO-\ stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].c | ||
2212 : | CALL stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].g | ||
2213 : | GOTO stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].f | ||
2214 : | GOTO-( stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].e | ||
2215 : | GOTO stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].d | ||
2216 : | / stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].a | ||
2217 : | | stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].b | ||
2218 : | GOTO-\ stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].c | ||
2219 : | CALL stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].g | ||
2220 : | GOTO stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].f | ||
2221 : | GOTO-( stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].e | ||
2222 : | GOTO stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].d | ||
2223 : | / stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].a | ||
2224 : | | stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].b | ||
2225 : | GOTO-\ stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].c | ||
2226 : | CALL stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].g | ||
2227 : | GOTO stdIn:4.2-13.20: X.main[2].f | ||
2228 : | CALL stdIn:2.15-17.4: X.main[2] | ||
2229 : | - | ||
2230 : | |||
2231 : | (Note that because of a FLINt bug the above code currently does not | ||
2232 : | compile without BTrace turned on.) | ||
2233 : | |||
2234 : | Here is another example, using my modified Tiger compiler: | ||
2235 : | |||
2236 : | Standard ML of New Jersey v110.28.1 [FLINT v1.5], June 5, 2000 | ||
2237 : | - SMLofNJ.Internals.BTrace.mode (SOME true); | ||
2238 : | [autoloading] | ||
2239 : | [autoloading done] | ||
2240 : | val it = false : bool | ||
2241 : | - CM.make "sources.cm"; | ||
2242 : | [autoloading] | ||
2243 : | ... | ||
2244 : | [autoloading done] | ||
2245 : | [scanning sources.cm] | ||
2246 : | [parsing (sources.cm):parse.sml] | ||
2247 : | [creating directory CM/SKEL ...] | ||
2248 : | [parsing (sources.cm):tiger.lex.sml] | ||
2249 : | ... | ||
2250 : | [wrote CM/sparc-unix/semant.sml] | ||
2251 : | [compiling (sources.cm):main.sml] | ||
2252 : | [wrote CM/sparc-unix/main.sml] | ||
2253 : | [New bindings added.] | ||
2254 : | val it = true : bool | ||
2255 : | - Main.compile ("../testcases/merge.tig", "foo.out"); | ||
2256 : | *** BACK-TRACE *** | ||
2257 : | CALL lib/semant.sml:99.2-396.21: SemantFun[2].transExp.trvar | ||
2258 : | CALL lib/semant.sml:99.2-396.21: SemantFun[2].transExp.trexp | ||
2259 : | CALL lib/semant.sml:289.3-295.22: SemantFun[2].transExp.trexp.check[2] | ||
2260 : | GOTO lib/semant.sml:289.3-295.22: SemantFun[2].transExp.trexp.check[2] | ||
2261 : | CALL lib/semant.sml:99.2-396.21: SemantFun[2].transExp.trexp | ||
2262 : | CALL lib/semant.sml:99.2-396.21: SemantFun[2].transExp.trexp | ||
2263 : | CALL lib/semant.sml:488.3-505.6: SemantFun[2].transDec.trdec[2].transBody[2] | ||
2264 : | / lib/semant.sml:411.65-543.8: SemantFun[2].transDec | ||
2265 : | CALL-\ lib/semant.sml:413.2-540.9: SemantFun[2].transDec.trdec[2] | ||
2266 : | CALL lib/semant.sml:99.2-396.21: SemantFun[2].transExp.trexp | ||
2267 : | CALL lib/semant.sml:8.52-558.4: SemantFun[2].transProg[2] | ||
2268 : | CALL main.sml:1.18-118.4: Main.compile[2] | ||
2269 : | - | ||
2270 : | |||
2271 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2272 : | blume | 673 | Name: Matthias Blumen |
2273 : | Date: 2000/06/21 18:00:00 JST | ||
2274 : | Tag: blume-20000621-manual | ||
2275 : | Description: | ||
2276 : | |||
2277 : | CM manual update: Path environments documented. | ||
2278 : | |||
2279 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2280 : | blume | 666 | Name: Matthias Blume |
2281 : | blume | 672 | Date: 2000/06/19 13:40:00 |
2282 : | Tag: blume-20000619-manual | ||
2283 : | Description: | ||
2284 : | |||
2285 : | CM manual and system/README update. This only covers the fact that | ||
2286 : | there are no more implicit anchors. (Path environments and the "bind" | ||
2287 : | option to "cm" have yet to be documented.) | ||
2288 : | |||
2289 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2290 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
2291 : | blume | 671 | Date: 2000/06/19 11:05:00 JST |
2292 : | Tag: blume-20000619-chdir-bugfix | ||
2293 : | Description: | ||
2294 : | |||
2295 : | Fixed a bug in new SrcPath module that sometimes led to a bad chDir call. | ||
2296 : | |||
2297 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2298 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
2299 : | blume | 670 | Date: 2000/06/18 22:00:10 JST |
2300 : | Tag: blume-20000618-implicit-anchors-really-gone | ||
2301 : | Description: | ||
2302 : | |||
2303 : | I updates the previous HISTORY entry where I forgot to mention that | ||
2304 : | implicit anchors are no longer with us. | ||
2305 : | |||
2306 : | The current update also gets rid of the (now useless) controller | ||
2307 : | CM.Control.implicit_anchors. | ||
2308 : | |||
2309 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2310 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
2311 : | blume | 666 | Date: 2000/06/16 17:30:00 JST |
2312 : | Tag: blume-20000616-anchorenv | ||
2313 : | Description: | ||
2314 : | |||
2315 : | This patch implements the long anticipated (just kidding :) "anchor | ||
2316 : | environment" mechanism. In the course of doing this, I also | ||
2317 : | re-implemented CM's internal "SrcPath" module from scratch. The new | ||
2318 : | one should be more robust in certain boundary cases. In any case, it | ||
2319 : | is a lot cleaner than its predecessor (IMHO). | ||
2320 : | |||
2321 : | This time, although there is yet another boot file format change, I | ||
2322 : | kept the unpickler backward-compatible. As a result, no new bootfiles | ||
2323 : | are necessary and bootstrapping is straightforward. (You cannot read | ||
2324 : | new bootfiles into an old system, but the other way around is no | ||
2325 : | problem.) | ||
2326 : | |||
2327 : | Visible changes: | ||
2328 : | |||
2329 : | blume | 670 | ** 0. Implicit path anchors (without the leading $-symbol) are no |
2330 : | longer recognized at all. This means that such path names are not | ||
2331 : | illegal either. For example, the name basis.cm simply refers to a | ||
2332 : | local file called "basis.cm" (i.e, the name is an ordinary path | ||
2333 : | relative to .cm-files directory). Or, to put it differently, only | ||
2334 : | names that start with $ are anchored paths. | ||
2335 : | blume | 666 | |
2336 : | blume | 670 | ** 1. The $<singlearc> abbreviation for $/<singlearc> has finally |
2337 : | vanished. | ||
2338 : | |||
2339 : | John (Reppy) had critizised this as soon as I originally proposed and | ||
2340 : | blume | 666 | implemented it, but at that time I did not really deeply believe |
2341 : | him. :) Now I came full-circle because I need the $<singlearc> syntax | ||
2342 : | in another place where it cannot be seen as an abbreviation for | ||
2343 : | $/<singlearc>. To avoid the confusion, $<singlearc> now means what it | ||
2344 : | seems to mean (i.e., it "expands" into the corresponding anchor | ||
2345 : | value). | ||
2346 : | |||
2347 : | However, when paths are used as members in CM description files, it | ||
2348 : | continues to be true that there must be at least another arc after the | ||
2349 : | anchor. This is now enforced separately during semantic analysis | ||
2350 : | blume | 670 | (i.e., from a lexical/syntactical point of view, the notation is ok.) |
2351 : | blume | 666 | |
2352 : | ** 2. The "cm" class now accepts an option "bind". The option's value | ||
2353 : | is a sub-option list of precisely two items -- one labeled "anchor" | ||
2354 : | and the other one labeled "value". As you might expect, "anchor" is | ||
2355 : | used to specify an anchor name to be bound, and "value" specifies what | ||
2356 : | the anchor is being bound to. | ||
2357 : | |||
2358 : | The value must be a directory name and can be given in either standard | ||
2359 : | syntax (including the possibility that it is itself an anchored path) | ||
2360 : | or native syntax. | ||
2361 : | |||
2362 : | Examples: | ||
2363 : | |||
2364 : | foo.cm (bind:(anchor:bar value:$mystuff/bar)) | ||
2365 : | lib.cm (bind:(anchor:a value:"H:\\x\\y\\z")) (* only works under windows *) | ||
2366 : | |||
2367 : | and so on. | ||
2368 : | |||
2369 : | The meaning of this is that the .cm-file will be processed with an | ||
2370 : | augmented anchor environment where the given anchor(s) is/are bound to | ||
2371 : | the given values(s). | ||
2372 : | |||
2373 : | The rationale for having this feature is this: Suppose you are trying | ||
2374 : | to use two different (already stable) libraries a.cm and b.cm (that | ||
2375 : | you perhaps didn't write yourself). Further, suppose each of these | ||
2376 : | two libraries internally uses its own auxiliary library $aux/lib.cm. | ||
2377 : | Normally you would now have a problem because the anchor "lib" can not | ||
2378 : | be bound to more than one value globally. Therefore, the project that | ||
2379 : | uses both a.cm and b.cm must locally redirect the anchor to some other | ||
2380 : | place: | ||
2381 : | |||
2382 : | a.cm (bind:(anchor:lib value:/usr/lib/smlnj/a-stuff)) | ||
2383 : | b.cm (bind:(anchor:lib value:/usr/lib/smlnj/b-stuff)) | ||
2384 : | |||
2385 : | This hard-wires $lib/aux.cm to /usr/lib/smlnj/a-stuff/aux.cm or | ||
2386 : | /usr/lib/smlnj/b-stuff/aux.cm, respectively. | ||
2387 : | |||
2388 : | Hard-wiring path names is a bit inflexible (and CM will verbosely warn | ||
2389 : | you when you do so at the time of CM.stabilize). Therefore, you can | ||
2390 : | also use an anchored path as the value: | ||
2391 : | |||
2392 : | a.cm (bind:(anchor:lib value:$a-lib)) | ||
2393 : | b.cm (bind:(anchor:lib value:$b-lib)) | ||
2394 : | |||
2395 : | Now you can globally configure (using the usual CM.Anchor.anchor or | ||
2396 : | pathconfig machinery) bindings for "a-lib" and "b-lib". Since "lib" | ||
2397 : | itself is always locally bound, setting it globally is no longer | ||
2398 : | meaningful or necessary (but it does not hurt either). In fact, "lib" | ||
2399 : | can still be used as a global anchor for separate purposes. As a | ||
2400 : | matter of fact, one can locally define "lib" in terms of a global | ||
2401 : | "lib": | ||
2402 : | |||
2403 : | a.cm (bind:(anchor:lib value:$lib/a)) | ||
2404 : | b.cm (bind:(anchor:lib value:$lib/b)) | ||
2405 : | |||
2406 : | ** 3: The encoding of path names has changed. This affects the way | ||
2407 : | path names are shown in CM's progress report and also the internal | ||
2408 : | protocol encoding used for parallel make. | ||
2409 : | |||
2410 : | The encoding now uses one or more ':'-separated segments. Each | ||
2411 : | segments corresponds to a file that has been specified relative to the | ||
2412 : | file given by its preceding segment. The first segment is either | ||
2413 : | relative to the CWD, absolute, or anchored. Each segment itself is | ||
2414 : | basically a Unix pathname; all segments but the first are relative. | ||
2415 : | |||
2416 : | Example: | ||
2417 : | |||
2418 : | $foo/bar/baz.cm:a/b/c.sml | ||
2419 : | |||
2420 : | This path denotes the file bar/a/b/c.sml relative to the directory | ||
2421 : | denoted by anchor "foo". Notice that the encoding also includes | ||
2422 : | baz.cm which is the .cm-file that listed a/b/c.sml. As usual, such | ||
2423 : | paths are resolved relative to the .cm-files directory, so baz.cm must | ||
2424 : | be ignored to get the "real" pathname. | ||
2425 : | |||
2426 : | To make this fact more obvious, CM puts the names of such "virtual | ||
2427 : | arcs" into parentheses when they appear in progress reports. (No | ||
2428 : | parentheses will appear in the internal protocol encoding.) Thus, | ||
2429 : | what you really see is: | ||
2430 : | |||
2431 : | $foo/bar/(baz.cm):a/b/c.sml | ||
2432 : | |||
2433 : | I find this notation to be much more informative than before. | ||
2434 : | |||
2435 : | Another new feature of the encoding is that special characters | ||
2436 : | including parentheses, colons, (back)slashes, and white space are | ||
2437 : | written as \ddd (where ddd is the decimal encoding of the character). | ||
2438 : | |||
2439 : | blume | 670 | *** The CM manual still needs to be updated. |
2440 : | |||
2441 : | blume | 666 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
2442 : | leunga | 660 | Name: Allen Leung |
2443 : | Date: 2000/06/15 00:38:00 | ||
2444 : | Tag: leunga-20000615-x86-peephole | ||
2445 : | |||
2446 : | x86 Peephole fix by Fermin. Affects c-- and moby only. | ||
2447 : | |||
2448 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2449 : | blume | 658 | Name: Matthias Blume |
2450 : | Date: 2000/06/12 11:40:00 | ||
2451 : | Tag: blume-20000612-parmakefix | ||
2452 : | Description: | ||
2453 : | |||
2454 : | More cleanup after changing the file naming scheme: This time I | ||
2455 : | repaired the parallel make mechanism for CMB.make which I broke earlier. | ||
2456 : | |||
2457 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2458 : | leunga | 657 | Name: Allen Leung |
2459 : | Date: 2000/06/09 01:25:00 | ||
2460 : | Tag: leunga-20000609-various | ||
2461 : | |||
2462 : | None of these things should affect normal SML/NJ operations | ||
2463 : | |||
2464 : | 1. Peephole improvements provided by Fermin (c--) | ||
2465 : | 2. New annotation DEFUSE for adding extra dependence (moby) | ||
2466 : | 3. New X86 LOCK instructions (moby) | ||
2467 : | 4. New machine description language for reservation tables (scheduling) | ||
2468 : | 5. Fixes to various optimization/analysis modules (branch chaining, dominator | ||
2469 : | trees etc.) | ||
2470 : | 6. I've changed the CM files so that they can work with versions | ||
2471 : | 110.0.6, 110.25 and 110.28 | ||
2472 : | |||
2473 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2474 : | blume | 652 | Name: Matthias Blume |
2475 : | blume | 656 | Date: 2000/06/09 12:40:00 |
2476 : | Tag: blume-20000609-log | ||
2477 : | Description: | ||
2478 : | |||
2479 : | - Removed all(?) remaining RCS Log entries from sources. | ||
2480 : | |||
2481 : | - Fixed bug in ml-yacc and ml-lex sources (use explicit anchors for | ||
2482 : | anchored paths). | ||
2483 : | |||
2484 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2485 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
2486 : | blume | 653 | Date: 2000/06/07 17:00:00 JST |
2487 : | Tag: blume-20000607-no-implicit-anchors | ||
2488 : | Description: | ||
2489 : | |||
2490 : | 1. This update changes the default setting for | ||
2491 : | CM.Control.implicit_anchors from true to false. This means that | ||
2492 : | implicit anchors are no longer permitted by default. I also tried to | ||
2493 : | make sure that nothing else still relies on implicit anchors. | ||
2494 : | (This is the next step on the schedule towards a CM that does not even | ||
2495 : | have the notion of implicit anchors anymore.) | ||
2496 : | |||
2497 : | 2. More CM manual updates. | ||
2498 : | |||
2499 : | 3. I managed to track down and fix the pickling bug I mentioned last | ||
2500 : | time. Because of the previously existing workaround, this entails no | ||
2501 : | immediate practical changes. | ||
2502 : | |||
2503 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2504 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
2505 : | blume | 652 | Date: 2000/06/06 11:15:00 JST |
2506 : | Tag: blume-20000606-lazierpickle | ||
2507 : | Description: | ||
2508 : | |||
2509 : | !!!! NEW BOOT FILES !!!! | ||
2510 : | |||
2511 : | * The main purpose of this update is to make library pickles lazier in | ||
2512 : | order to reduce the initial space penalty for autoloading a library. | ||
2513 : | As a result, it is now possible to have $smlnj/compiler.cm | ||
2514 : | pre-registered. This should take care of the many complaints or | ||
2515 : | inquiries about missing structure Compiler. This required changes to | ||
2516 : | CM's internal data structures and small tweaks to some algorithms. | ||
2517 : | |||
2518 : | As a neat additional effect, it is no longer necessary (for the sake | ||
2519 : | of lean heap image files) to distinguish between a "minimal" CM and a | ||
2520 : | "full" CM. Now, there is only one CM (i.e., the "full" version: | ||
2521 : | $smlnj/cm.cm aka $smlnj/cm/full.cm), and it is always available at the | ||
2522 : | interactive top level. ($smlnj/cm/minimal.cm is gone.) | ||
2523 : | |||
2524 : | To make the life of compiler-hackers easier, "makeml" now also | ||
2525 : | pre-registers $smlnj/cmb.cm (aka $smlnj/cmb/current.cm). In other | ||
2526 : | words, after you bootstrap a new sml for the first time, you will not | ||
2527 : | have to autoload $smlnj/cmb.cm again afterwards. (The first time | ||
2528 : | around you will still have to do it, though.) | ||
2529 : | |||
2530 : | * A second change consists of major updates to the CM manual. There | ||
2531 : | are now several appendices with summary information and also a full | ||
2532 : | specification of the CM description file syntax. | ||
2533 : | |||
2534 : | * In directory src/system I added the script "allcross". This script | ||
2535 : | invokes sml and cross-compiles the compiler for all supported | ||
2536 : | architectures. (Useful when providing a new set of boot files.) | ||
2537 : | |||
2538 : | * There seems to be a latent bug in my "lazy pickles" mechanism. I | ||
2539 : | added a small tweak to pickle-util.sml to work around this problem, | ||
2540 : | but it is not a proper fix yet. I will investigate further. (The | ||
2541 : | effect of the bug was an inflation of library pickle size.) | ||
2542 : | |||
2543 : | * Version number increased to 110.28.1 (to avoid compatibility problems). | ||
2544 : | |||
2545 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2546 : | leunga | 646 | Name: Allen Leung |
2547 : | leunga | 648 | Date: 2000/05/25 17:28 EDT |
2548 : | Tag: leunga-20000525-ra | ||
2549 : | Description: | ||
2550 : | |||
2551 : | Fixed a bug in freezing phase of the register allocator. | ||
2552 : | |||
2553 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2554 : | Name: Allen Leung | ||
2555 : | leunga | 647 | Date: 2000/05/15 22:53 EDT |
2556 : | leunga | 646 | Tag: leunga-20000515-alpha-x86-ra |
2557 : | Description: | ||
2558 : | |||
2559 : | 1. Alpha | ||
2560 : | |||
2561 : | Slight cleanup. Removed the instruction SGNXL | ||
2562 : | |||
2563 : | 2. X86 | ||
2564 : | |||
2565 : | Added the following instructions to the instruction set: | ||
2566 : | |||
2567 : | ROLx, RORx, | ||
2568 : | BTx, BTSx, BTLx, BTRx, | ||
2569 : | XCHGx, and variants with the LOCK prefix | ||
2570 : | |||
2571 : | 3. Register Allocation | ||
2572 : | |||
2573 : | The module ra-rewrite-with-renaming has been improved. | ||
2574 : | |||
2575 : | leunga | 647 | These have no effect on SML/NJ. |
2576 : | |||
2577 : | leunga | 646 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
2578 : | blume | 642 | Name: Matthias Blume |
2579 : | blume | 645 | Date: 2000/05/15 16:20:00 JST |
2580 : | Tag: blume-20000515-lightrebuild | ||
2581 : | Description: | ||
2582 : | |||
2583 : | 1. I added an alternative to "-rebuild" to "makeml". The difference is | ||
2584 : | that prior to calling CMB.make' the CM-variable "LIGHT" will be | ||
2585 : | defined. In effect, the command will not build any cross-compiler | ||
2586 : | backends and therefore finish more quickly. | ||
2587 : | |||
2588 : | The "fixpt" script also takes a "-light" switch to be able to use | ||
2589 : | this new facility while compiling for a fixpoint. | ||
2590 : | |||
2591 : | 2. I replaced all mentions of anchored paths in group owner specifications | ||
2592 : | with simple relative paths (usually starting with ".."). | ||
2593 : | The rationale is that a library's internal workings should not be | ||
2594 : | compromised by the lack of some anchor. (An anchor is necessary | ||
2595 : | for someone who wants to refer to the library by an anchored path, | ||
2596 : | but it should not be necessary to build the same library in the first | ||
2597 : | place.) | ||
2598 : | |||
2599 : | 3. I changed the way CM's tool mechanism determines the shell command | ||
2600 : | string used for things like ml-yacc etc. so that it does not break | ||
2601 : | when CM.Control.implicit_anchors is turned off. | ||
2602 : | |||
2603 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2604 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
2605 : | blume | 644 | Date: 2000/05/12 18:20:00 JST |
2606 : | Tag: blume-20000512-ml-build | ||
2607 : | Description: | ||
2608 : | |||
2609 : | Fixed a bug in config/_ml-build that prevented ml-yacc and ml-lex from | ||
2610 : | getting installed properly (by config/install.sh). | ||
2611 : | |||
2612 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2613 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
2614 : | blume | 643 | Date: 2000/05/12 17:30:00 JST |
2615 : | Tag: blume-20000512-anchors | ||
2616 : | Description: | ||
2617 : | |||
2618 : | !!! NEW BOOT FILES !!! | ||
2619 : | |||
2620 : | This change is in preparation of fading out support for "implicitly | ||
2621 : | anchored path names". I went through all sources and used the | ||
2622 : | explicit (and relatively new) $-notation. See system/README and the | ||
2623 : | CM manual for more info on this. | ||
2624 : | |||
2625 : | I also modified the anchoring scheme for some things such as "smlnj", | ||
2626 : | "MLRISC", "cm", etc. to take advantage of the fact that explicit | ||
2627 : | anchors are more expressive: anchor name and first arc do not have to | ||
2628 : | coincide. This entails the following user-visible change: | ||
2629 : | |||
2630 : | You have to write $smlnj/foo/bar instead of smlnj/foo/bar. In | ||
2631 : | particular, when you fire up sml with a command-line argument, say, | ||
2632 : | e.g.: | ||
2633 : | |||
2634 : | sml '$smlnj/cmb.cm' | ||
2635 : | |||
2636 : | At the ML toplevel prompt: | ||
2637 : | |||
2638 : | CM.autoload "$smlnj/cmb.cm"; | ||
2639 : | |||
2640 : | There is also a new controller in CM.Control that can be used to turn | ||
2641 : | off all remaining support for implicit anchors by saying: | ||
2642 : | |||
2643 : | CM.autoload "$smlnj/ | ||
2644 : | #set CM.Control.implicit_anchors false; | ||
2645 : | |||
2646 : | This causes CM to reject implicitly anchored paths. This is (for the | ||
2647 : | time being) less permissive than the "final" version where there will | ||
2648 : | be no more such implicit anchors and relative paths will be just that: | ||
2649 : | relative. | ||
2650 : | |||
2651 : | The next step (version after next version?) will be to make the | ||
2652 : | default for CM.Control.implicit_anchors false. After the dust has | ||
2653 : | settled, I can then produce the "final" version of this... | ||
2654 : | |||
2655 : | Note: Since bootstrapping is a bit tricky, I provided new boot files. | ||
2656 : | |||
2657 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2658 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
2659 : | blume | 642 | Date: 2000/05/11 16:30:00 JST |
2660 : | Tag: blume-20000511-sources | ||
2661 : | Description: | ||
2662 : | |||
2663 : | The main change is that I added function CM.sources as a generalized | ||
2664 : | version of the earlier CM.makedepend. This entails the following | ||
2665 : | additional changes: | ||
2666 : | |||
2667 : | - CM.makedepend has been dropped. | ||
2668 : | |||
2669 : | - CM manual has been updated. | ||
2670 : | |||
2671 : | - TOOLS signature and API have been changed. | ||
2672 : | |||
2673 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2674 : | leunga | 640 | Name: Allen Leung |
2675 : | leunga | 641 | Date: 2000/05/10 21:17 EDT |
2676 : | Tag: leunga-20000510-moby-c--ssa | ||
2677 : | Description: | ||
2678 : | |||
2679 : | Various bug fixes and new features for C--, Moby and MLRISC optimizations. | ||
2680 : | None of these affect SML/NJ. | ||
2681 : | |||
2682 : | 1. Register Allocation | ||
2683 : | |||
2684 : | a. A new ra spilling module (ra/ra-spill-with-renaming) is implemented. | ||
2685 : | This module tries to remove local (i.e. basic block level) redundancies | ||
2686 : | during spilling. | ||
2687 : | |||
2688 : | b. A new framework for performing region based register allocation. | ||
2689 : | Not yet entirely functional. | ||
2690 : | |||
2691 : | 2. X86 | ||
2692 : | |||
2693 : | a. DefUse for POP was missing the stack pointer [found by Lal] | ||
2694 : | b. Reload for CALL was incorrect in X86Spill [found by John] | ||
2695 : | c. Various fixes in X86Spill so that it can be used correctly for | ||
2696 : | the new spilling module. | ||
2697 : | |||
2698 : | 3. SSA/IR | ||
2699 : | |||
2700 : | a. New module ir/dj-dataflow.sml implements elimination based | ||
2701 : | data flow analysis. | ||
2702 : | |||
2703 : | 4. MLRiscGen | ||
2704 : | |||
2705 : | a. Fix for gc type annotation | ||
2706 : | |||
2707 : | 5. MDGen | ||
2708 : | |||
2709 : | Various fixes for machine description -> ml code translation. For ssa | ||
2710 : | only. | ||
2711 : | |||
2712 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2713 : | Name: Allen Leung | ||
2714 : | leunga | 640 | Date: 2000/05/08 22:17 EDT |
2715 : | Tag: leunga-20000508-labexp | ||
2716 : | Description: | ||
2717 : | |||
2718 : | Fermin has found a few assembly problems with constant expressions | ||
2719 : | generated in LabelExp. Mostly, the problems involve extra parentheses, | ||
2720 : | which choke on dumb assemblers. This is his fix. | ||
2721 : | |||
2722 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2723 : | dbm | 635 | Name: Dave MacQueen |
2724 : | Date: 2000/04/09 14:00 EDT | ||
2725 : | Tag: dbm-20000502-Version_110_28 | ||
2726 : | Description: | ||
2727 : | |||
2728 : | 1. Updated src/compiler/TopLevel/main/version.sml to version 110.28 | ||
2729 : | |||
2730 : | 2. Updated config/version to 110.28 | ||
2731 : | |||
2732 : | 3. Updated config/srcarchiveurl | ||
2733 : | |||
2734 : | 3. New boot files! | ||
2735 : | ftp://ftp.research.bell-labs.com/dist/smlnj/working/110.28/ | ||
2736 : | |||
2737 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2738 : | blume | 634 | Name: Matthias Blume |
2739 : | Date: 2000/05/01 19:05:00 JST | ||
2740 : | Tag: blume-20000501-noweb | ||
2741 : | Description: | ||
2742 : | |||
2743 : | A new noweb tool has been added. The existing system is entirely | ||
2744 : | unaffected by this, but some CM users have asked for renewed noweb | ||
2745 : | support. Everything is documented in the CM manual. | ||
2746 : | |||
2747 : | New (plugin) libraries: | ||
2748 : | |||
2749 : | noweb-tool.cm | ||
2750 : | nw-ext.cm | ||
2751 : | |||
2752 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2753 : | dbm | 633 | Name: Dave MacQueen |
2754 : | Date: 2000/04/30 12:40PM EDT | ||
2755 : | Tag: dbm-20000430-bug_fixes | ||
2756 : | Description: | ||
2757 : | |||
2758 : | 1. Fix for bug 1498 | ||
2759 : | smlnj/src/system/Basis/Implementation/Unsafe/object.sig | ||
2760 : | smlnj/src/system/Basis/Implementation/Unsafe/object.sml | ||
2761 : | added toRealArray function | ||
2762 : | smlnj/src/compiler/MiscUtil/print/ppobj.sml | ||
2763 : | added check for tag Obj.RealArray to array printing case in ppObj | ||
2764 : | |||
2765 : | 2. Fix for bug 1510 | ||
2766 : | smlnj/src/compiler/Semant/types/typesutil.sml | ||
2767 : | fixed definition of dummyargs (used by equalTycon) so that | ||
2768 : | dummy args are distinct types | ||
2769 : | |||
2770 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2771 : | blume | 629 | Name: Matthias Blume |
2772 : | blume | 632 | Date: 2000/04/30 01:00:00 JST |
2773 : | Tag: blume-20000430-versions | ||
2774 : | Description: | ||
2775 : | |||
2776 : | 1. CM version numbering added. This is an implementation of Lal's | ||
2777 : | proposal for adding version numbers and version checking to .cm | ||
2778 : | files. Lal said that his proposal was just that -- a proposal. | ||
2779 : | For the time being I went ahead and implemented it so that people | ||
2780 : | can comment on it. Everything is completely backward-compatible | ||
2781 : | (except for the stable library format, i.e., new bootfiles!). | ||
2782 : | |||
2783 : | As usual, see the CM manual for details. | ||
2784 : | |||
2785 : | 2. An alternative syntax for anchored paths has been implemented. | ||
2786 : | Dave has recently voiced the same concerns that I had when I did | ||
2787 : | this, so there should be some support. My take is that eventually | ||
2788 : | I will let support for the current syntax (where anchors are | ||
2789 : | "implicit") fade out in favor of the new, explicit syntax. | ||
2790 : | In order to be backward-compatible, both old and new syntax are | ||
2791 : | currently supported. | ||
2792 : | |||
2793 : | Again, see the CM manual for details. | ||
2794 : | |||
2795 : | 3. Parallel make is trying to be slightly smarter: When the master | ||
2796 : | process finds a "bottleneck", i.e., when there is only one | ||
2797 : | compilation unit that can be compiled and everybody else is | ||
2798 : | waiting on it, then it will simply compile it directly instead | ||
2799 : | of clumsily telling one of the slaves to do it. | ||
2800 : | |||
2801 : | 4. Support for "unsharing" added. This is necessary in order to be | ||
2802 : | able to have two different versions of the same library running | ||
2803 : | at the same time (e.g., for trying out a new MLRISC while still | ||
2804 : | having the old MLRISC linked into the current compiler, etc.) | ||
2805 : | See the CM manual. | ||
2806 : | |||
2807 : | 5. Simple "makedepend" functionality added for generating Makefile | ||
2808 : | dependency information. (This is rather crude at the moment. | ||
2809 : | Expect some changes here in the future.) | ||
2810 : | |||
2811 : | 6. ".fun" added as a recognized suffix for ML files. Also documented | ||
2812 : | explicitly in the manual that the fallback behavior (unknown suffix | ||
2813 : | -> ML file) is not an official feature! | ||
2814 : | |||
2815 : | 7. Small changes to the pickler for stable libraries. | ||
2816 : | |||
2817 : | 8. Several internal changes to CM (for cleanup/improvement). | ||
2818 : | |||
2819 : | |||
2820 : | !!!! NEW BINFILES !!!! | ||
2821 : | |||
2822 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2823 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
2824 : | blume | 631 | Date: 2000/04/28 17:30:00 JST |
2825 : | Tag: blume-20000428-pathconfig | ||
2826 : | Description: | ||
2827 : | |||
2828 : | 1. I changed config/install.sh to remove duplicate entries from the | ||
2829 : | lib/pathconfig file at the end. Moreover, the final version of | ||
2830 : | lib/pathconfig is sorted alphabetically. The same (sorting) is done | ||
2831 : | in src/system/installml. | ||
2832 : | |||
2833 : | 2. The config/install.sh script now consistently uses relative | ||
2834 : | pathnames in lib/pathconfig whenever the anchor is in the lib | ||
2835 : | directory. (So far this was true for the libraries that come | ||
2836 : | pre-compiled and bundled as part of the bootfiles but not for | ||
2837 : | libraries that are compiled by the script itself.) | ||
2838 : | |||
2839 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2840 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
2841 : | blume | 629 | Date: 2000/04/26 13:10:00 JST |
2842 : | Tag: blume-20000426-fun_suffix | ||
2843 : | Description: | ||
2844 : | |||
2845 : | Added ".fun" as a recognized file name suffix (for ML code). | ||
2846 : | |||
2847 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2848 : | leunga | 628 | Name: Allen Leung |
2849 : | Date: 2000/04/25 17:00:00 EST | ||
2850 : | Tag: leunga-20000425-alpha-ra | ||
2851 : | Description: | ||
2852 : | |||
2853 : | 1. Alpha | ||
2854 : | |||
2855 : | PSEUDOARITH was missing in AlphaRewrite. This causes an endless loop | ||
2856 : | in C--. | ||
2857 : | |||
2858 : | 2. RA | ||
2859 : | |||
2860 : | Added a flag "ra-dump-size" to print out the size of the flowgraph | ||
2861 : | and the interference graph. | ||
2862 : | |||
2863 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2864 : | dbm | 627 | Name: Dave MacQueen |
2865 : | Date: 2000/04/25/ | ||
2866 : | Tag: dbm-20000425-mlyacc_doc_examples | ||
2867 : | Description: | ||
2868 : | Updated mlyacc.tex sections 5 and 7 for SML '97 and CM. | ||
2869 : | Updated all three examples in src/ml-yacc/examples to run | ||
2870 : | under 110.* using CM.make. | ||
2871 : | |||
2872 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2873 : | leunga | 624 | Name: Allen Leung |
2874 : | Date: 2000/04/20 23:04:00 EST | ||
2875 : | Tag: leunga-20000420-ssa-c---stuff | ||
2876 : | Description: | ||
2877 : | |||
2878 : | This update synchronizes my repository with Yale's. Most of these | ||
2879 : | changes, however, do not affect SML/NJ at all (the RA is an exception). | ||
2880 : | |||
2881 : | 1. Register Allocator | ||
2882 : | |||
2883 : | a. An improvement in the interference graph construction: | ||
2884 : | Given a copy | ||
2885 : | |||
2886 : | s <- t | ||
2887 : | |||
2888 : | leunga | 628 | no interference edge between s and t is added for this definition of s. |
2889 : | leunga | 624 | |
2890 : | b. I've added two new spill heuristic modules that Fermin and I developed | ||
2891 : | (in the new library RA.cm). These are unused in SML/NJ but maybe | ||
2892 : | useful for others (Moby?) | ||
2893 : | |||
2894 : | 2. X86 | ||
2895 : | |||
2896 : | a. Various fixes in the backend provided by Fermin [C--] and Lal. | ||
2897 : | |||
2898 : | 3. Alpha | ||
2899 : | |||
2900 : | a. Added the BSR instruction and code generation that goes with it [C--] | ||
2901 : | b. Other fixes too numerous to recount provided by Fermin [C--] | ||
2902 : | |||
2903 : | 4. Regmaps | ||
2904 : | |||
2905 : | a. The regmaps are not initialized with the identity physical bindings | ||
2906 : | at creation time. This is unneeded. | ||
2907 : | |||
2908 : | 5. MLRISC Optimizations | ||
2909 : | |||
2910 : | a. The DJ-Graph module can now compute the iterated dominance frontiers | ||
2911 : | intersects with liveness incrementally in linear time! Woohoo! | ||
2912 : | This is now used in my new SSA construction algorithm. | ||
2913 : | |||
2914 : | b. THe branch reorganization module is now smarter about linear chains of | ||
2915 : | basic blocks. | ||
2916 : | |||
2917 : | |||
2918 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2919 : | blume | 615 | Name: Matthias Blume |
2920 : | Date: 2000/04/12 13:52:00 JST | ||
2921 : | Tag: blume_main_v110p27_1 | ||
2922 : | Description: | ||
2923 : | |||
2924 : | Changed install.sh script to handle archive files without version number | ||
2925 : | and to use "boot.<arch>-<os>" instead of "sml.boot.<arch>-<os>" for the | ||
2926 : | name of the boot file archive. | ||
2927 : | |||
2928 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2929 : | dbm | 607 | Name: Dave MacQueen |
2930 : | Date: 2000/04/09 14:00 EDT | ||
2931 : | Tag: dbm-20000410-Version_110_27 | ||
2932 : | Description: | ||
2933 : | |||
2934 : | 1. Updated src/compiler/TopLevel/main/version.sml to version 110.27 | ||
2935 : | |||
2936 : | 2. Updated src/config/version to 110.27 | ||
2937 : | |||
2938 : | 3. New boot files! | ||
2939 : | |||
2940 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2941 : | leunga | 606 | Name: Allen Leung |
2942 : | Date: 2000/04/09 19:09:00 EST | ||
2943 : | Tag: leunga-20000409-misc | ||
2944 : | Description: | ||
2945 : | |||
2946 : | 1. Yet another fix for x86 assembly for idivl, imull, mull and friends. | ||
2947 : | |||
2948 : | 2. Miscellaneous improvements to MLRISC (unused in sml/nj) | ||
2949 : | |||
2950 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2951 : | monnier | 605 | Name: Stefan |
2952 : | Date: 2000/04/07 10:00:00 EDT | ||
2953 : | Tag: monnier-20000406-branch-handling | ||
2954 : | Description: | ||
2955 : | |||
2956 : | Improved handling of branches (mostly those generated from | ||
2957 : | polymorphic equality), removed switchoff and changed the | ||
2958 : | default optimization settings (more cpsopt and less flintopt). | ||
2959 : | |||
2960 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2961 : | leunga | 601 | Name: Allen Leung |
2962 : | leunga | 602 | Date: 2000/04/06 01:30:00 EST |
2963 : | Tag: leunga-20000406-peephole-x86-SSA-2 | ||
2964 : | Description: | ||
2965 : | |||
2966 : | Forgot a few files. | ||
2967 : | |||
2968 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2969 : | Name: Allen Leung | ||
2970 : | leunga | 601 | Date: 2000/04/06 00:36:00 EST |
2971 : | Tag: leunga-20000406-peephole-x86-SSA | ||
2972 : | Description: | ||
2973 : | |||
2974 : | 1. New Peephole code | ||
2975 : | |||
2976 : | 2. Minor improvement to X86 instruction selection | ||
2977 : | |||
2978 : | 3. Various fixes to SSA and machine description -> code translator | ||
2979 : | |||
2980 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2981 : | blume | 595 | Name: Matthias Blume |
2982 : | Date: 2000/04/05 12:30:00 JST | ||
2983 : | Tag: blume_main_v110p26p2_3 | ||
2984 : | Description: | ||
2985 : | |||
2986 : | This update just merges three minor cosmetic updates to CM's sources | ||
2987 : | to get ready for the 110.27 code freeze on Friday. No functionality | ||
2988 : | has changed. | ||
2989 : | |||
2990 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2991 : | leunga | 593 | Name: Allen Leung |
2992 : | leunga | 594 | Date: 2000/04/04 19:39:00 EST |
2993 : | Tag: leunga-20000404-x86-asm | ||
2994 : | Description: | ||
2995 : | |||
2996 : | 1. Fixed a problem in X86 assembly. | ||
2997 : | |||
2998 : | Things like | ||
2999 : | |||
3000 : | jmp %eax | ||
3001 : | jmp (%eax) | ||
3002 : | |||
3003 : | should be output as | ||
3004 : | |||
3005 : | jmp *%eax | ||
3006 : | jmp *(%eax) | ||
3007 : | |||
3008 : | 2. Assembly output | ||
3009 : | |||
3010 : | Added a new flag | ||
3011 : | |||
3012 : | "asm-indent-copies" (default to false) | ||
3013 : | |||
3014 : | When this flag is on, parallel copies will be indented an extra level. | ||
3015 : | |||
3016 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3017 : | Name: Allen Leung | ||
3018 : | leunga | 593 | Date: 2000/04/04 03:18:00 EST |
3019 : | Tag: leunga-20000404-C--Moby | ||
3020 : | Description: | ||
3021 : | |||
3022 : | All of these fixes are related to C--, Moby, and my own optimization | ||
3023 : | stuff; so they shouldn't affect SML/NJ. | ||
3024 : | |||
3025 : | 1. X86 | ||
3026 : | |||
3027 : | Various fixes related floating point, and extensions. | ||
3028 : | |||
3029 : | 2. Alpha | ||
3030 : | |||
3031 : | Some extra patterns related to loads with signed/zero extension | ||
3032 : | provided by Fermin. | ||
3033 : | |||
3034 : | 3. Assembly | ||
3035 : | |||
3036 : | monnier | 659 | When generating assembly, resolve the value of client defined constants, |
3037 : | leunga | 593 | instead of generating symbolic values. This is controlled by the |
3038 : | new flag "asm-resolve-constants", which is default to true. | ||
3039 : | |||
3040 : | 4. Machine Descriptions | ||
3041 : | |||
3042 : | a. The precedence parser was slightly broken when parsing infixr symbols. | ||
3043 : | b. The type generalizing code had the bound variables reversed, resulting | ||
3044 : | in a problem during arity raising. | ||
3045 : | c. Various fixes in machine descriptions. | ||
3046 : | |||
3047 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3048 : | blume | 592 | Name: Matthias Blume |
3049 : | Date: 2000/04/03 16:05:00 JST | ||
3050 : | Tag: blume_main_v110p26p2_2 | ||
3051 : | Description: | ||
3052 : | |||
3053 : | I eliminated coreEnv from compInfo. Access to the "Core" structure is | ||
3054 : | now done via the ordinary static environment that is context to each | ||
3055 : | compilation unit. | ||
3056 : | |||
3057 : | To this end, I arranged that instead of "structure Core" as "structure | ||
3058 : | _Core" is bound in the pervasive environment. Core access is done via | ||
3059 : | monnier | 659 | _Core (which can never be accidentally rebound because _Core is not a |
3060 : | blume | 592 | legal surface-syntax symbol). |
3061 : | |||
3062 : | The current solution is much cleaner because the core environment is | ||
3063 : | now simply part of the pervasive environment which is part of every | ||
3064 : | compilation unit's context anyway. In particular, this eliminates all | ||
3065 : | special-case handling that was necessary until now in order to deal | ||
3066 : | with dynamic and symbolic parts of the core environment. | ||
3067 : | |||
3068 : | Remaining hackery (to bind the "magic" symbol _Core) is localized in the | ||
3069 : | monnier | 659 | compilation manager's bootstrap compiler (actually: in the "init group" |
3070 : | blume | 592 | handling). See the comments in src/system/smlnj/init/init.cmi for |
3071 : | more details. | ||
3072 : | |||
3073 : | I also tried to track down all mentions of "Core" (as string argument | ||
3074 : | to Symbol.strSymbol) in the compiler and replaced them with a | ||
3075 : | reference to the new CoreSym.coreSym. Seems cleaner since the actual | ||
3076 : | name appears in one place only. | ||
3077 : | |||
3078 : | Binfile and bootfile format have not changed, but the switchover from | ||
3079 : | the old "init.cmi" to the new one is a bit tricky, so I supplied new | ||
3080 : | bootfiles anyway. | ||
3081 : | |||
3082 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3083 : | leunga | 591 | Name: Allen Leung |
3084 : | Date: 2000/04/02 21:17:00 EST | ||
3085 : | Tag: leunga-20000402-mltree | ||
3086 : | Description: | ||
3087 : | leunga | 585 | |
3088 : | leunga | 591 | 1. Renamed the constructor CALL in MLTREE by popular demand. |
3089 : | 2. Added a bunch of files from my repository. These are currently | ||
3090 : | used by other non-SMLNJ backends. | ||
3091 : | |||
3092 : | leunga | 576 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
3093 : | leunga | 590 | Name: Allen Leung |
3094 : | Date: 2000/03/31 21:15:00 EST | ||
3095 : | Tag: leunga-20000331-aliasing | ||
3096 : | Description: | ||
3097 : | |||
3098 : | This update contains a rewritten (and hopefully more correct) module | ||
3099 : | for extracting aliasing information from CPS. | ||
3100 : | |||
3101 : | To turn on this feature: | ||
3102 : | |||
3103 : | Compiler.Control.CG.memDisambiguate := true | ||
3104 : | |||
3105 : | To pretty print the region information with assembly | ||
3106 : | |||
3107 : | Compiler.Control.MLRISC.getFlag "asm-show-region" := true; | ||
3108 : | |||
3109 : | To control how many levels of aliasing information are printed, use: | ||
3110 : | |||
3111 : | Compiler.Control.MLRISC.getInt "points-to-show-level" := n | ||
3112 : | |||
3113 : | The default of n is 3. | ||
3114 : | |||
3115 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3116 : | dbm | 589 | Name: David MacQueen |
3117 : | Date: 2000/03/31 11:15:00 EST | ||
3118 : | Tag: dbm-20000331-runtime_fix | ||
3119 : | Description: | ||
3120 : | |||
3121 : | This update contains: | ||
3122 : | |||
3123 : | 1. runtime/c-lib/c-libraries.c | ||
3124 : | includes added in revision 1.2 caused compilation errors on hppa-hpux | ||
3125 : | |||
3126 : | 2. fix for bug 1556 | ||
3127 : | system/Basis/Implementation/NJ/internal-signals.sml | ||
3128 : | |||
3129 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3130 : | blume | 587 | Name: Matthias Blume |
3131 : | blume | 588 | Date: 2000/03/31 18:00:00 JST |
3132 : | Tag: blume_main_v110p26p2_1 | ||
3133 : | Description: | ||
3134 : | |||
3135 : | This update contains: | ||
3136 : | |||
3137 : | 1. A small change to CM's handling of stable libraries: | ||
3138 : | CM now maintains one "global" modmap that is used for all stable | ||
3139 : | libraries. The use of such a global modmap maximizes sharing and | ||
3140 : | minimizes the need for re-traversing parts of environments during | ||
3141 : | modmap construction. (However, this has minor impact since modmap | ||
3142 : | construction seems to account for just one percent or less of total | ||
3143 : | compile time.) | ||
3144 : | |||
3145 : | 2. I added a "genmap" phase to the statistics. This is where I got the | ||
3146 : | "one percent" number (see above). | ||
3147 : | |||
3148 : | 3. CM's new tool parameter mechanism just became _even_ better. :) | ||
3149 : | - The parser understands named parameters and recursive options. | ||
3150 : | - The "make" and "shell" tools use these new features. | ||
3151 : | (This makes it a lot easier to cascade these tools.) | ||
3152 : | - There is a small syntax change: named parameters use a | ||
3153 : | |||
3154 : | <name> : ( <option> ... ) or | ||
3155 : | <name> : <string> | ||
3156 : | |||
3157 : | syntax. Previously, named parameters were implemented in an | ||
3158 : | ad-hoc fashion by each tool individually (by parsing strings) | ||
3159 : | and had the form | ||
3160 : | |||
3161 : | <name>=<string> | ||
3162 : | |||
3163 : | See the CM manual for a full description of these issues. | ||
3164 : | |||
3165 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3166 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
3167 : | blume | 587 | Date: 2000/03/30 18:00:00 JST |
3168 : | Tag: blume_main_v110p26p2_0 | ||
3169 : | Description: | ||
3170 : | |||
3171 : | !!!!! WARNING !!!!!! | ||
3172 : | !! New binfiles !! | ||
3173 : | !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
3174 : | |||
3175 : | This update contains: | ||
3176 : | |||
3177 : | 1. Moderate changes to CM: | ||
3178 : | |||
3179 : | - Changes to CM's tools mechanism. In particular, it is now possible | ||
3180 : | to have tools that accept additional "command line" parameters | ||
3181 : | (specified in the .cm file at each instance where the tool's class is | ||
3182 : | used). | ||
3183 : | |||
3184 : | monnier | 659 | This was done to accommodate the new "make" and "shell" tools which |
3185 : | facilitate fairly seamless hookup to portions of code managed using | ||
3186 : | blume | 587 | Makefiles or Shell scripts. |
3187 : | |||
3188 : | There are no classes "shared" or "private" anymore. Instead, the | ||
3189 : | sharing annotation is now a parameter to the "sml" class. | ||
3190 : | |||
3191 : | There is a bit of generic machinery for implementing one's own | ||
3192 : | tools that accept command-line parameters. However, I am not yet fully | ||
3193 : | satisfied with that part, so expect changes here in the future. | ||
3194 : | |||
3195 : | All existing tools are described in the CM manual. | ||
3196 : | |||
3197 : | monnier | 659 | - Slightly better error handling. (CM now suppresses many followup |
3198 : | blume | 587 | error messages that tended to be more annoying than helpful.) |
3199 : | |||
3200 : | 2. Major changes to the compiler's static environment data structures. | ||
3201 : | |||
3202 : | - no CMStaticEnv anymore. | ||
3203 : | - no CMEnv, no "BareEnvironment" (actually, _only_ BareEnvironment, | ||
3204 : | but it is called Environment), no conversions between different | ||
3205 : | kinds of static environments | ||
3206 : | |||
3207 : | - There is still a notion of a "modmap", but such modmaps are generated | ||
3208 : | on demand at the time when they are needed. This sounds slow, but I | ||
3209 : | sped up the code that generates modmaps enough for this not to lead to | ||
3210 : | a slowdown of the compiler (at least I didn't detect any). | ||
3211 : | |||
3212 : | - To facilitate rapid modmap generation, static environments now | ||
3213 : | contain an (optional) "modtree" structure. Modtree annotations are | ||
3214 : | constructed by the unpickler during unpickling. (This means that | ||
3215 : | the elaborator does not have to worry about modtrees at all.) | ||
3216 : | Modtrees have the advantage that they are compositional in the same | ||
3217 : | way as the environment data structure itself is compositional. | ||
3218 : | As a result, modtrees never hang on to parts of an environment that | ||
3219 : | has already been rendered "stale" by filtering or rebinding. | ||
3220 : | |||
3221 : | - I went through many, many trials and errors before arriving at the | ||
3222 : | current solution. (The initial idea of "linkpaths" did not work.) | ||
3223 : | But the result of all this is that I have touched a lot of files that | ||
3224 : | depend on the "modules" and "types" data structures (most of the | ||
3225 : | elaborator). There were a lot of changes during my "linkpath" trials | ||
3226 : | that could have been reverted to their original state but weren't. | ||
3227 : | Please, don't be too harsh on me for messing with this code a bit more | ||
3228 : | monnier | 921 | than what was strictly necessary... (I _did_ resist the temptation |
3229 : | blume | 587 | of doing any "global reformatting" to avoid an untimely death at |
3230 : | Dave's hands. :) | ||
3231 : | |||
3232 : | - One positive aspect of the previous point: At least I made sure that | ||
3233 : | all files that I touched now compile without warnings (other than | ||
3234 : | "polyEqual"). | ||
3235 : | |||
3236 : | - compiler now tends to run "leaner" (i.e., ties up less memory in | ||
3237 : | redundant modmaps) | ||
3238 : | |||
3239 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3240 : | leunga | 580 | Name: Allen Leung |
3241 : | leunga | 585 | Date: 2000/03/29 18:00:00 |
3242 : | Tag: leunga-20000327-mlriscGen_hppa_alpha_x86 | ||
3243 : | leunga | 586 | Boot files (optional): ftp://react-ilp.cs.nyu.edu/leunga/110.26.1-sml.boot.x86-unix-20000330.tar.gz |
3244 : | leunga | 585 | Description: |
3245 : | |||
3246 : | This update contains *MAJOR* changes to the way code is generated from CPS | ||
3247 : | in the module mlriscGen, and in various backend modules. | ||
3248 : | |||
3249 : | CHANGES | ||
3250 : | ======= | ||
3251 : | |||
3252 : | 1. MLRiscGen: forward propagation fix. | ||
3253 : | |||
3254 : | There was a bug in forward propagation introduced at about the same time | ||
3255 : | as the MLRISC x86 backend, which prohibits coalescing to be | ||
3256 : | performed effectively in loops. | ||
3257 : | |||
3258 : | Effect: speed up of loops in RISC architectures. | ||
3259 : | By itself, this actually slowed down certain benchmarks on the x86. | ||
3260 : | |||
3261 : | 2. MLRiscGen: forward propagating addresses from consing. | ||
3262 : | |||
3263 : | I've changed the way consing code is generated. Basically I separated | ||
3264 : | out the initialization part: | ||
3265 : | |||
3266 : | store tag, offset(allocptr) | ||
3267 : | store elem1, offset+4(allocptr) | ||
3268 : | store elem2, offset+8(allocptr) | ||
3269 : | ... | ||
3270 : | store elemn, offset+4n(allocptr) | ||
3271 : | |||
3272 : | and the address computation part: | ||
3273 : | |||
3274 : | celladdr <- offset+4+alloctpr | ||
3275 : | |||
3276 : | and move the address computation part | ||
3277 : | |||
3278 : | Effect: register pressure is generally lower as a result. This | ||
3279 : | makes compilation of certain expressions much faster, such as | ||
3280 : | long lists with non-trivial elements. | ||
3281 : | |||
3282 : | [(0,0), (0,0), .... (0,0)] | ||
3283 : | |||
3284 : | 3. MLRiscGen: base pointer elimination. | ||
3285 : | |||
3286 : | As part of the linkage mechanism, we generate the sequence: | ||
3287 : | |||
3288 : | L: ... <- start of the code fragment | ||
3289 : | |||
3290 : | L1: | ||
3291 : | base pointer <- linkreg - L1 + L | ||
3292 : | |||
3293 : | The base pointer was then used for computing relocatable addresses | ||
3294 : | in the code fragment. Frequently (such as in lots of continuations) | ||
3295 : | this is not needed. We now eliminate this sequence whenever possible. | ||
3296 : | |||
3297 : | For compile time efficiency, I'm using a very stupid local heuristic. | ||
3298 : | But in general, this should be done as a control flow analysis. | ||
3299 : | |||
3300 : | Effect: Smaller code size. Speed up of most programs. | ||
3301 : | |||
3302 : | 4. Hppa back end | ||
3303 : | |||
3304 : | Long jumps in span dependence resolution used to depend on the existence | ||
3305 : | of the base pointer. | ||
3306 : | |||
3307 : | A jump to a long label L was expanded into the following sequence: | ||
3308 : | |||
3309 : | LDIL %hi(L-8192), %r29 | ||
3310 : | LDO %lo(L-8192)(%r29), %r29 | ||
3311 : | ADD %r29, baseptr, %r29 | ||
3312 : | BV,n %r0(%r29) | ||
3313 : | |||
3314 : | In the presence of change (3) above, this will not work. I've changed | ||
3315 : | it so that the following sequence of instructions are generated, which | ||
3316 : | doesn't mention the base pointer at all: | ||
3317 : | |||
3318 : | BL,n L', %r29 /* branch and link, L' + 4 -> %r29 */ | ||
3319 : | L': ADDIL L-(L'+4), %r29 /* Compute address of L */ | ||
3320 : | BV,n %r0(%r29) /* Jump */ | ||
3321 : | |||
3322 : | 5. Alpha back end | ||
3323 : | |||
3324 : | New alpha instructions LDB/LDW have been added, as per Fermin's | ||
3325 : | suggestions. This is unrelated to all other changes. | ||
3326 : | |||
3327 : | 6. X86 back end | ||
3328 : | |||
3329 : | I've changed andl to testl in the floating point test sequence | ||
3330 : | whenever appropriate. The Intel optimization guide states that | ||
3331 : | monnier | 659 | testl is preferable to andl. |
3332 : | leunga | 585 | |
3333 : | 7. RA (x86 only) | ||
3334 : | |||
3335 : | I've improved the spill propagation algorithm, using an approximation | ||
3336 : | of maximal weighted independent sets. This seems to be necessary to | ||
3337 : | alleviate the negative effect in light of the slow down in (1). | ||
3338 : | |||
3339 : | I'll write down the algorithm one of these days. | ||
3340 : | |||
3341 : | 8. MLRiscGen: frequencies | ||
3342 : | |||
3343 : | I've added an annotation that states that all call gc blocks have zero | ||
3344 : | execution frequencies. This improves register allocation on the x86. | ||
3345 : | |||
3346 : | BENCHMARKS | ||
3347 : | ========== | ||
3348 : | |||
3349 : | I've only perform the comparison on 110.25. | ||
3350 : | |||
3351 : | The platforms are: | ||
3352 : | |||
3353 : | HPPA A four processor HP machine (E9000) with 5G of memory. | ||
3354 : | X86 A 300Hhz Pentium II with 128M of memory, and | ||
3355 : | SPARC An Ultra sparc 2 with 512M of memory. | ||
3356 : | |||
3357 : | I used the following parameters for the SML benchmarks: | ||
3358 : | |||
3359 : | @SMLalloc | ||
3360 : | HPPA 256k | ||
3361 : | SPARC 512k | ||
3362 : | X86 256k | ||
3363 : | |||
3364 : | COMPILATION TIME | ||
3365 : | ---------------- | ||
3366 : | Here are the numbers comparing the compilation times of the compilers. | ||
3367 : | I've only compared 110.25 compiling the new sources versus | ||
3368 : | a fixpoint version of the new compiler compiling the same. | ||
3369 : | |||
3370 : | 110.25 New | ||
3371 : | Total Time in RA Spill+Reload Total Time In RA Spill+Reload | ||
3372 : | HPPA 627s 116s 2684+3584 599s 95s 1003+1879 | ||
3373 : | SPARC 892s 173s 2891+3870 708s 116s 1004+1880 | ||
3374 : | X86 999s 315s 94006+130691 987s 296s 108877+141957 | ||
3375 : | |||
3376 : | 110.25 New | ||
3377 : | Code Size Code Size | ||
3378 : | HPPA 8596736 8561421 | ||
3379 : | SPARC 8974299 8785143 | ||
3380 : | X86 9029180 8716783 | ||
3381 : | |||
3382 : | So in summary, things are at least as good as before. Dramatic | ||
3383 : | reduction in compilation is obtained on the Sparc; I can't explain it, | ||
3384 : | but it is reproducible. Perhaps someone should try to reproduce this | ||
3385 : | on their own machines. | ||
3386 : | |||
3387 : | SML BENCHMARKS | ||
3388 : | -------------- | ||
3389 : | |||
3390 : | On the average, all benchmarks perform at least as well as before. | ||
3391 : | |||
3392 : | HPPA Compilation Time Spill+Reload Run Time | ||
3393 : | 110.25 New 110.25 New 110.25 New | ||
3394 : | |||
3395 : | barnesHut 3.158 3.015 4.75% 1+1 0+0 2.980 2.922 2.00% | ||
3396 : | boyer 6.152 5.708 7.77% 0+0 0+0 0.218 0.213 2.34% | ||
3397 : | count-graphs 1.168 1.120 4.32% 0+0 0+0 22.705 23.073 -1.60% | ||
3398 : | fft 0.877 0.792 10.74% 1+3 1+3 0.602 0.587 2.56% | ||
3399 : | knuthBendix 3.180 2.857 11.32% 0+0 0+0 0.675 0.662 2.02% | ||
3400 : | lexgen 6.190 5.290 17.01% 0+0 0+0 0.913 0.788 15.86% | ||
3401 : | life 0.803 0.703 14.22% 25+25 0+0 0.153 0.140 9.52% | ||
3402 : | logic 2.048 2.007 2.08% 6+6 1+1 4.133 4.008 3.12% | ||
3403 : | mandelbrot 0.077 0.080 -4.17% 0+0 0+0 0.765 0.712 7.49% | ||
3404 : | mlyacc 22.932 20.937 9.53% 154+181 32+57 0.468 0.430 8.91% | ||
3405 : | nucleic 5.183 5.060 2.44% 2+2 0+0 0.125 0.120 4.17% | ||
3406 : | ratio-regions 3.357 3.142 6.84% 0+0 0+0 116.225 113.173 2.70% | ||
3407 : | ray 1.283 1.290 -0.52% 0+0 0+0 2.887 2.855 1.11% | ||
3408 : | simple 6.307 6.032 4.56% 28+30 5+7 3.705 3.658 1.28% | ||
3409 : | tsp 0.888 0.862 3.09% 0+0 0+0 7.040 6.893 2.13% | ||
3410 : | vliw 24.378 23.455 3.94% 106+127 25+45 2.758 2.707 1.91% | ||
3411 : | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3412 : | Average 6.12% 4.09% | ||
3413 : | |||
3414 : | SPARC Compilation Time Spill+Reload Run Time | ||
3415 : | 110.25 New 110.25 New 110.25 New | ||
3416 : | |||
3417 : | barnesHut 3.778 3.592 5.20% 2+2 0+0 3.648 3.453 5.65% | ||
3418 : | boyer 6.632 6.110 8.54% 0+0 0+0 0.258 0.242 6.90% | ||
3419 : | count-graphs 1.435 1.325 8.30% 0+0 0+0 33.672 34.737 -3.07% | ||
3420 : | fft 0.980 0.940 4.26% 3+9 2+6 0.838 0.827 1.41% | ||
3421 : | knuthBendix 3.590 3.138 14.39% 0+0 0+0 0.962 0.967 -0.52% | ||
3422 : | lexgen 6.593 6.072 8.59% 1+1 0+0 1.077 1.078 -0.15% | ||
3423 : | life 0.972 0.868 11.90% 26+26 0+0 0.143 0.140 2.38% | ||
3424 : | logic 2.525 2.387 5.80% 7+7 1+1 5.625 5.158 9.05% | ||
3425 : | mandelbrot 0.090 0.093 -3.57% 0+0 0+0 0.855 0.728 17.39% | ||
3426 : | mlyacc 26.732 23.827 12.19% 162+189 32+57 0.550 0.560 -1.79% | ||
3427 : | nucleic 6.233 6.197 0.59% 3+3 0+0 0.163 0.173 -5.77% | ||
3428 : | ratio-regions 3.780 3.507 7.79% 0+0 0+0 133.993 131.035 2.26% | ||
3429 : | ray 1.595 1.550 2.90% 1+1 0+0 3.440 3.418 0.63% | ||
3430 : | simple 6.972 6.487 7.48% 29+32 5+7 3.523 3.525 -0.05% | ||
3431 : | tsp 1.115 1.063 4.86% 0+0 0+0 7.393 7.265 1.77% | ||
3432 : | vliw 27.765 24.818 11.87% 110+135 25+45 2.265 2.135 6.09% | ||
3433 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3434 : | Average 6.94% 2.64% | ||
3435 : | |||
3436 : | X86 Compilation Time Spill+Reload Run Time | ||
3437 : | 110.25 New 110.25 New 110.25 New | ||
3438 : | |||
3439 : | barnesHut 5.530 5.420 2.03% 593+893 597+915 3.532 3.440 2.66% | ||
3440 : | boyer 8.768 7.747 13.19% 493+199 301+289 0.327 0.297 10.11% | ||
3441 : | count-graphs 2.040 2.010 1.49% 298+394 315+457 26.578 28.660 -7.26% | ||
3442 : | fft 1.327 1.302 1.92% 112+209 115+210 1.055 0.962 9.71% | ||
3443 : | knuthBendix 5.218 5.475 -4.69% 451+598 510+650 0.928 0.932 -0.36% | ||
3444 : | lexgen 9.970 9.623 3.60% 1014+841 1157+885 0.947 0.928 1.97% | ||
3445 : | life 1.183 1.183 0.00% 162+182 145+148 0.127 0.103 22.58% | ||
3446 : | logic 3.285 3.512 -6.45% 514+684 591+836 5.682 5.577 1.88% | ||
3447 : | mandelbrot 0.147 0.143 2.33% 38+41 33+54 0.703 0.690 1.93% | ||
3448 : | mlyacc 35.457 32.763 8.22% 3496+4564 3611+4860 0.552 0.550 0.30% | ||
3449 : | nucleic 7.100 6.888 3.07% 239+168 201+158 0.175 0.173 0.96% | ||
3450 : | ratio-regions 6.388 6.843 -6.65% 1182+257 981+300 120.142 120.345 -0.17% | ||
3451 : | ray 2.332 2.338 -0.29% 346+398 402+494 3.593 3.540 1.51% | ||
3452 : | simple 9.912 9.903 0.08% 1475+941 1579+1168 3.057 3.178 -3.83% | ||
3453 : | tsp 1.623 1.532 5.98% 266+200 250+211 8.045 7.878 2.12% | ||
3454 : | vliw 33.947 35.470 -4.29% 2629+2774 2877+3171 2.072 1.890 9.61% | ||
3455 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3456 : | Average 1.22% 3.36% | ||
3457 : | |||
3458 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3459 : | Name: Allen Leung | ||
3460 : | leunga | 583 | Date: 2000/03/23 16:25:00 |
3461 : | Tag: leunga-20000323-fix_x86_alpha | ||
3462 : | Description: | ||
3463 : | |||
3464 : | 1. X86 fixes/changes | ||
3465 : | |||
3466 : | a. The old code generated for SETcc was completely wrong. | ||
3467 : | The Intel optimization guide is VERY misleading. | ||
3468 : | |||
3469 : | 2. ALPHA fixes/changes | ||
3470 : | |||
3471 : | a. Added the instructions LDBU, LDWU, STB, STW as per Fermin's suggestion. | ||
3472 : | b. Added a new mode byteWordLoadStores to the functor parameter to Alpha() | ||
3473 : | c. Added reassociation code for address computation. | ||
3474 : | |||
3475 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3476 : | Name: Allen Leung | ||
3477 : | leunga | 580 | Date: 2000/03/22 01:23:00 |
3478 : | Tag: leunga-20000322-fix_x86_hppa_ra | ||
3479 : | Description: | ||
3480 : | |||
3481 : | 1. X86 fixes/changes | ||
3482 : | |||
3483 : | a. x86Rewrite bug with MUL3 (found by Lal) | ||
3484 : | b. Added the instructions FSTS, FSTL | ||
3485 : | |||
3486 : | 2. PA-RISC fixes/changes | ||
3487 : | |||
3488 : | a. B label should not be a delay slot candidate! Why did this work? | ||
3489 : | b. ADDT(32, REG(32, r), LI n) now generates one instruction instead of two, | ||
3490 : | as it should be. | ||
3491 : | c. The assembly syntax for fstds and fstdd was wrong. | ||
3492 : | d. Added the composite instruction COMICLR/LDO, which is the immediate | ||
3493 : | operand variant of COMCLR/LDO. | ||
3494 : | |||
3495 : | 3. Generic MLRISC | ||
3496 : | |||
3497 : | a. shuffle.sml rewritten to be slightly more efficient | ||
3498 : | b. DIV bug in mltree-simplify fixed (found by Fermin) | ||
3499 : | |||
3500 : | 4. Register Allocator | ||
3501 : | |||
3502 : | a. I now release the interference graph earlier during spilling. | ||
3503 : | May improve memory usage. | ||
3504 : | |||
3505 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3506 : | blume | 577 | Name: Matthias Blume |
3507 : | blume | 578 | Date: 2000/03/14 14:15:32 |
3508 : | Tag: blume_main_v110p26p1_2 | ||
3509 : | Description: | ||
3510 : | |||
3511 : | 1. Tools.registerStdShellCmdTool (from smlnj/cm/tool.cm) takes an | ||
3512 : | additional argument called "template" which is an optional string that | ||
3513 : | monnier | 659 | specifies the layout of the tool command line. See the CM manual for |
3514 : | blume | 578 | explanation. |
3515 : | |||
3516 : | monnier | 659 | 2. A special-purpose tool can be "registered" by simply dropping the |
3517 : | blume | 578 | corresponding <...>-tool.cm (and/or <...>-ext.cm) into the same |
3518 : | directory where the .cm file lives that uses this tool. (The | ||
3519 : | behavior/misfeature until now was to look for the tool description | ||
3520 : | files in the current working directory.) As before, tool description | ||
3521 : | files could also be anchored -- in which case they can live anywhere | ||
3522 : | they like. Following the recent e-mail discussion, this change should | ||
3523 : | make it easier to have special-purpose tools that are shipped together | ||
3524 : | with the sources of the program that uses them. | ||
3525 : | |||
3526 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3527 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
3528 : | blume | 577 | Date: 2000/03/10 07:48:34 |
3529 : | Tag: blume_main_v110p26p1_1 | ||
3530 : | Description: | ||
3531 : | |||
3532 : | I added a re-written version of Dave's fixpt script to src/system. | ||
3533 : | Changes relative to the original version: | ||
3534 : | - sh-ified (not everybody has ksh) | ||
3535 : | - automatically figures out which architecture it runs on | ||
3536 : | - uses ./makeml a bit more cleverly | ||
3537 : | - never invokes ./installml (and, thus, does not clobber your | ||
3538 : | good and working installation of sml in case something goes wrong) | ||
3539 : | - accepts max iteration count using option "-iter <n>" | ||
3540 : | - accepts a "base" name using option "-base <base>" | ||
3541 : | |||
3542 : | It does not build any extraneous heap images but directly rebuilds | ||
3543 : | bin- and boot-hierarchies using makeml's "-rebuild" switch. Finally, | ||
3544 : | it can incorporate existing bin- and boot- hierarchies. For example, | ||
3545 : | suppose the base is set to "sml" (which is the default). Then it | ||
3546 : | successively builds | ||
3547 : | |||
3548 : | sml.bin.<arch>-unix and sml.boot.<arch>-unix | ||
3549 : | then sml1.bin.<arch>-unix and sml1.boot.<arch>-unix | ||
3550 : | then sml2.bin.<arch>-unix and sml2.boot.<arch>-unix | ||
3551 : | ... | ||
3552 : | then sml<n>.bin.<arch>-unix and sml<n>.boot.<arch>-unix | ||
3553 : | |||
3554 : | and so on. If any of these already exist, it will just use what's | ||
3555 : | there. In particular, many people will have the initial set of bin | ||
3556 : | and boot files around, so this saves time for at least one full | ||
3557 : | rebuild. Having sets of the form <base><k>.{bin,boot}.<arch>-unix for | ||
3558 : | <k>=1,2,... is normally not a good idea when invoking fixpt. However, | ||
3559 : | they might be the result of an earlier partial run of fixpt (which | ||
3560 : | monnier | 659 | perhaps got accidentally killed). In this case, fixpt will quickly |
3561 : | blume | 577 | move through what exists before continuing where it left off earlier, |
3562 : | and, thus, saves a lot of time. | ||
3563 : | |||
3564 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3565 : | leunga | 576 | Name: Allen Leung |
3566 : | Date: 00/03/10 02:20:00 | ||
3567 : | Tag: leunga-20000310-fix_x86_asm_ra | ||
3568 : | Description: | ||
3569 : | dbm | 570 | |
3570 : | leunga | 576 | More assembly output problems involving the indexed addressing mode |
3571 : | on the x86 have been found and corrected. Thanks to Fermin Reig for the | ||
3572 : | fix. | ||
3573 : | |||
3574 : | The interface and implementation of the register allocator have been changed | ||
3575 : | slightly to accommodate the possibility to skip the register allocation | ||
3576 : | phases completely and go directly to memory allocation. This is needed | ||
3577 : | for C-- use. | ||
3578 : | |||
3579 : | dbm | 570 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
3580 : | blume | 572 | Name: Matthias Blume |
3581 : | blume | 575 | Date: 00/03/09 10:23:53 |
3582 : | Tag: blume_main_v110p26p1_0 | ||
3583 : | Description: | ||
3584 : | |||
3585 : | * Complete re-organization of library names. Many libraries have been | ||
3586 : | consolidated so that they share the same path anchor. For example, | ||
3587 : | all MLRISC-related libraries are anchored at MLRISC, most libraries that | ||
3588 : | are SML/NJ-specific are under "smlnj". Notice that names like | ||
3589 : | host-cmb.cm or host-compiler.cm no longer exist. See system/README | ||
3590 : | for a complete description of the new naming scheme. Quick reference: | ||
3591 : | |||
3592 : | host-cmb.cm -> smlnj/cmb.cm | ||
3593 : | host-compiler.cm -> smlnj/compiler.cm | ||
3594 : | full-cm.cm -> smlnj/cm.cm | ||
3595 : | <arch>-<os>.cm -> smlnj/cmb/<arch>-<os>.cm | ||
3596 : | <arch>-compiler.cm -> smlnj/compiler/<arch>.cm | ||
3597 : | |||
3598 : | * Bug fixes in CM. | ||
3599 : | - exceptions in user code are being passed through (i.e., reach top level) | ||
3600 : | - more bugs in paranoia mode fixed | ||
3601 : | - bug related to checking group owners fixed | ||
3602 : | |||
3603 : | * New install.sh script that automagically fetches archive files: | ||
3604 : | The new file config/srcarchiveurl must contain the URL of the | ||
3605 : | (remote) directory that contains bin files (or other source archives). | ||
3606 : | If install.sh does not find the archive locally, it tries to get | ||
3607 : | it from that remote directory. | ||
3608 : | This should simplify installation further: For machines that have | ||
3609 : | access to the internet, just fetch <version>-config.tgz, unpack it, | ||
3610 : | monnier | 659 | edit config/targets, and go (run config/install.sh). The script will |
3611 : | blume | 575 | fetch everything else that it might need all by itself. |
3612 : | |||
3613 : | For CVS users, this mechanism is not relevant for source archives, but | ||
3614 : | it is convenient for getting new sets of binfiles. | ||
3615 : | |||
3616 : | Archives should be tar files compressed with either gzip, compress, or | ||
3617 : | bzip2. The script recognizes .tgz, .tar, tar.gz, tz, .tar.Z, and .tar.bz2. | ||
3618 : | |||
3619 : | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
3620 : | Name: Matthias Blume | ||
3621 : | blume | 572 | Date: 2000/03/07 04:01:04 |
3622 : | Tag: blume_main_v110_26_2 | ||
3623 : | dbm | 570 | Description: |
3624 : | blume | 572 | - size info in BOOTLIST |
3625 : | * no fixed upper limits for number of bootfiles or length of | ||
3626 : | bootfile names in runtime | ||
3627 : | * falling back to old behavior if no BOOTLIST size info found | ||
3628 : | - allocation size heuristics in .run-sml | ||
3629 : | * tries to read cache size from /proc/cpuinfo (this is important for | ||
3630 : | small-cache Celeron systems!) | ||
3631 : | - install.sh robustified | ||
3632 : | - CM manual updates | ||
3633 : | - paranoid mode | ||
3634 : | * no more CMB.deliver() (i.e., all done by CMB.make()) | ||
3635 : | * can re-use existing sml.boot.* files | ||
3636 : | * init.cmi now treated as library | ||
3637 : | * library stamps for consistency checks | ||
3638 : | - sml.boot.<arch>-<os>/PIDMAP file | ||
3639 : | * This file is read by the CM startup code. This is used to minimize | ||
3640 : | the amount of dynamic state that needs to be stowed away for the | ||
3641 : | purpose of sharing between interactive system and user code. | ||
3642 : | - CM.Anchor.anchor instead of CM.Anchor.{set,cancel} | ||
3643 : | * Upon request by Elsa. Anchors now controlled by get-set-pair | ||
3644 : | like most other CM state variables. | ||
3645 : | - Compiler.CMSA eliminated | ||
3646 : | * No longer supported by CM anyway. | ||
3647 : | - fixed bugs in pickler that kept biting Stefan | ||
3648 : | * past refs to past refs (was caused by the possibility that | ||
3649 : | ad-hoc sharing is more discriminating than hash-cons sharing) | ||
3650 : | * integer overflow on LargeInt.minInt | ||
3651 : | - ml-{lex,yacc} build scripts now use new mechanism | ||
3652 : | for building standalone programs | ||
3653 : | - fixed several gcc -Wall warnings that were caused by missing header | ||
3654 : | files, missing initializations, etc., in runtime (not all warnings | ||
3655 : | eliminated, though) |
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