--- sml/trunk/HISTORY 2001/04/18 15:43:09 808 +++ sml/trunk/HISTORY 2002/03/15 02:30:53 1145 @@ -8,12 +8,2434 @@ The form of an entry should be: Name: -Date: +Date: yyyy/mm/dd Tag: Description: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/03/14 21:30:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020314-controls +Description: + +Controls: +--------- + +1. Factored out the recently-added Controls : CONTROLS stuff and put + it into its own library $/controls-lib.cm. The source tree for + this is under src/smlnj-lib/Controls. + +2. Changed the names of types and functions in this interface, so they + make a bit more "sense": + + module -> registry + 'a registry -> 'a group + +3. The interface now deals in ref cells only. The getter/setter interface + is (mostly) gone. + +4. Added a function that lets one register an already-existing ref cell. + +5. Made the corresponding modifications to the rest of the code so that + everything compiles again. + +6. Changed the implementation of Controls.MLRISC back to something closer + to the original. In particular, this module (and therefore MLRISC) + does not depend on Controls. There now is some link-time code in + int-sys.sml that registers the MLRISC controls with the Controls + module. + +CM: +--- + + * One can now specify the lambda-split aggressiveness in init.cmi. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Allen Leung +Date: 2002/03/13 17:30:00 EST +Tag: leunga-20020313-x86-fp-unary +Description: + +Bug fix for: + +> leunga@weaselbane:~/Yale/tmp/sml-dist{21} bin/sml +> Standard ML of New Jersey v110.39.1 [FLINT v1.5], March 08, 2002 +> - fun f(x,(y,z)) = Real.~ y; +> [autoloading] +> [autoloading done] +> fchsl (%eax), 184(%esp) +> Error: MLRisc bug: X86MCEmitter.emitInstr +> +> uncaught exception Error +> raised at: ../MLRISC/control/mlriscErrormsg.sml:16.14-16.19 + +The problem was that the code generator did not generate any fp registers +in this case, and the ra didn't know that it needed to run the X86FP phase to +translate the pseudo fp instruction. This only happened with unary fp +operators in certain situations. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/03/13 14:00:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020313-overload-etc +Description: + +1. Added _overload as a synonym for overload for backward compatibility. + (Control.overloadKW must be true for either version to be accepted.) + +2. Fixed bug in install script that caused more things to be installed + than what was requested in config/targets. + +3. Made CM aware of the (_)overload construct so that autoloading + works. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/03/12 22:03:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020312-url +Description: + +Forgot to update BOOT and srcarchiveurl. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/03/12 17:30:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020312-version110392 +Description: + +Yet another version number bump (because of small changes to the +binfile format). Version number is now 110.39.2. NEW BOOTFILES! + +Changes: + + The new pid generation scheme described a few weeks ago was overly + complicated. I implemented a new mechanism that is simpler and + provides a bit more "stability": Once CM has seen a compilation + unit, it keeps its identity constant (as long as you do not delete + those crucial CM/GUID/* files). This means that when you change + an interface, compile, then go back to the old interface, and + compile again, you arrive at the original pid. + + There now also is a mechanism that instructs CM to use the plain + environment hash as a module's pid (effectively making its GUID + the empty string). For this, "noguid" must be specified as an + option to the .sml file in question within its .cm file. + This is most useful for code that is being generated by tools such + as ml-nlffigen (because during development programmers tend to + erase the tool's entire output directory tree including CM's cached + GUIDs). "noguid" is somewhat dangerous (since it can be used to locally + revert to the old, broken behavior of SML/NJ, but in specific cases + where there is no danger of interface confusion, its use is ok + (I think). + + ml-nlffigen by default generates "noguid" annotations. They can be + turned off by specifying -guid in its command line. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2002/03/12 12 14:42:36 EST +Tag: george-20020312-frequency-computation +Description: + +Integrated jump chaining and static block frequency into the +compiler. More details and numbers later. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2002/03/11 11 22:38:53 EST +Tag: george-20020311-jump-chain-elim +Description: + +Tested the jump chain elimination on all architectures (except the +hppa). This is on by default right now and is profitable for the +alpha and x86, however, it may not be profitable for the sparc and ppc +when compiling the compiler. + +The gc test will typically jump to a label at the end of the cluster, +where there is another jump to an external cluster containing the actual +code to invoke gc. This is to allow factoring of common gc invocation +sequences. That is to say, we generate: + + f: + testgc + ja L1 % jump if above to L1 + + L1: + jmp L2 + + +After jump chain elimination the 'ja L1' instructions is converted to +'ja L2'. On the sparc and ppc, many of the 'ja L2' instructions may end +up being implemented in their long form (if L2 is far away) using: + + jbe L3 % jump if below or equal to L3 + jmp L2 + L3: + ... + + +For large compilation units L2 may be far away. + + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/03/11 13:30:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020311-mltreeeval +Description: + +A functor parameter was missing. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Allen Leung +Date: 2002/03/11 10:30:00 EST +Tag: leunga-20020311-runtime-string0 +Description: + + The representation of the empty string now points to a +legal null terminated C string instead of unit. It is now possible +to convert an ML string into C string with InlineT.CharVector.getData. +This compiles into one single machine instruction. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Allen Leung +Date: 2002/03/10 23:55:00 EST +Tag: leunga-20020310-x86-call +Description: + + Added machine generation for CALL instruction (relative displacement mode) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/03/08 16:05:00 +Tag: blume-20020308-entrypoints +Description: + +Version number bumped to 110.39.1. NEW BOOTFILES! + +Entrypoints: non-zero offset into a code object where execution should begin. + +- Added the notion of an entrypoint to CodeObj. +- Added reading/writing of entrypoint info to Binfile. +- Made runtime system bootloader aware of entrypoints. +- Use the address of the label of the first function given to mlriscGen + as the entrypoint. This address is currently always 0, but it will + not be 0 once we turn on block placement. +- Removed the linkage cluster code (which was The Other Way(tm) of dealing + with entry points) from mlriscGen. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Allen Leung +Date: 2002/03/07 20:45:00 EST +Tag: leunga-20020307-x86-cmov +Description: + + Bug fixes for CMOVcc on x86. + + 1. Added machine code generation for CMOVcc + 2. CMOVcc is now generated in preference over SETcc on PentiumPro or above. + 3. CMOVcc cannot have an immediate operand as argument. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/03/07 16:15:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020307-controls +Description: + +This is a very large but mostly boring patch which makes (almost) +every tuneable compiler knob (i.e., pretty much everything under +Control.* plus a few other things) configurable via both the command +line and environment variables in the style CM did its configuration +until now. + +Try starting sml with '-h' (or, if you are brave, '-H') + +To this end, I added a structure Controls : CONTROLS to smlnj-lib.cm which +implements the underlying generic mechanism. + +The interface to some of the existing such facilities has changed somewhat. +For example, the MLRiscControl module now provides mkFoo instead of getFoo. +(The getFoo interface is still there for backward-compatibility, but its +use is deprecated.) + +The ml-build script passes -Cxxx=yyy command-line arguments through so +that one can now twiddle the compiler settings when using this "batch" +compiler. + +TODO items: + +We should go through and throw out all controls that are no longer +connected to anything. Moreover, we should go through and provide +meaningful (and correct!) documentation strings for those controls +that still are connected. + +Currently, multiple calls to Controls.new are accepted (only the first +has any effect). Eventually we should make sure that every control +is being made (via Controls.new) exactly once. Future access can then +be done using Controls.acc. + +Finally, it would probably be a good idea to use the getter-setter +interface to controls rather than ref cells. For the time being, both +styles are provided by the Controls module, but getter-setter pairs are +better if thread-safety is of any concern because they can be wrapped. + +***************************************** + +One bug fix: The function blockPlacement in three of the MLRISC +backpatch files used to be hard-wired to one of two possibilities at +link time (according to the value of the placementFlag). But (I +think) it should rather sense the flag every time. + +***************************************** + +Other assorted changes (by other people who did not supply a HISTORY entry): + +1. the cross-module inliner now works much better (Monnier) +2. representation of weights, frequencies, and probabilities in MLRISC + changed in preparation of using those for weighted block placement + (Reppy, George) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2002/03/07 14:44:24 EST 2002 +Tag: george-20020307-weighted-block-placement + +Tested the weighted block placement optimization on all architectures +(except the hppa) using AMPL to generate the block and edge frequencies. +Changes were required in the machine properties to correctly +categorize trap instructions. There is an MLRISC flag +"weighted-block-placement" that can be used to enable weighted block +placement, but this will be ineffective without block/edge +frequencies (coming soon). + + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2002/03/05 17:24:48 EST +Tag: george-20020305-linkage-cluster + +In order to support the block placement optimization, a new cluster +is generated as the very first cluster (called the linkage cluster). +It contains a single jump to the 'real' entry point for the compilation +unit. Block placement has no effect on the linkage cluster itself, but +all the other clusters have full freedom in the manner in which they +reorder blocks or functions. + +On the x86 the typical linkage code that is generated is: + ---------------------- + .align 2 + L0: + addl $L1-L0, 72(%esp) + jmp L1 + + + .align 2 + L1: + ---------------------- + +72(%esp) is the memory location for the stdlink register. This +must contain the address of the CPS function being called. In the +above example, it contains the address of L0; before +calling L1 (the real entry point for the compilation unit), it +must contain the address for L1, and hence + + addl $L1-L0, 72(%esp) + +I have tested this on all architectures except the hppa.The increase +in code size is of course negligible + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Allen Leung +Date: 2002/03/03 13:20:00 EST +Tag: leunga-20020303-mlrisc-tools + + Added #[ ... ] expressions to mlrisc tools + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/02/27 12:29:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020227-cdebug +Description: + +- made types in structure C and C_Debug to be equal +- got rid of code duplication (c-int.sml vs. c-int-debug.sml) +- there no longer is a C_Int_Debug (C_Debug is directly derived from C) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/02/26 12:00:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020226-ffi +Description: + +1. Fixed a minor bug in CM's "noweb" tool: + If numbering is turned off, then truly don't number (i.e., do not + supply the -L option to noweb). The previous behavior was to supply + -L'' -- which caused noweb to use the "default" line numbering scheme. + Thanks to Chris Richards for pointing this out (and supplying the fix). + +2. Once again, I reworked some aspects of the FFI: + + A. The incomplete/complete type business: + + - Signatures POINTER_TO_INCOMPLETE_TYPE and accompanying functors are + gone! + - ML types representing an incomplete type are now *equal* to + ML types representing their corresponding complete types (just like + in C). This is still safe because ml-nlffigen will not generate + RTTI for incomplete types, nor will it generate functions that + require access to such RTTI. But when ML code generated from both + incomplete and complete versions of the C type meet, the ML types + are trivially interoperable. + + NOTE: These changes restore the full generality of the translation + (which was previously lost when I eliminated functorization)! + + B. Enum types: + + - Structure C now has a type constructor "enum" that is similar to + how the "su" constructor works. However, "enum" is not a phantom + type because each "T enum" has values (and is isomorphic to + MLRep.Signed.int). + - There are generic access operations for enum objects (using + MLRep.Signed.int). + - ml-nlffigen will generate a structure E_foo for each "enum foo". + * The structure contains the definition of type "mlrep" (the ML-side + representation type of the enum). Normally, mlrep is the same + as "MLRep.Signed.int", but if ml-nlffigen was invoked with "-ec", + then mlrep will be defined as a datatype -- thus facilitating + pattern matching on mlrep values. + ("-ec" will be suppressed if there are duplicate values in an + enumeration.) + * Constructors ("-ec") or values (no "-ec") e_xxx of type mlrep + will be generated for each C enum constant xxx. + * Conversion functions m2i and i2m convert between mlrep and + MLRep.Signed.int. (Without "-ec", these functions are identities.) + * Coversion functions c and ml convert between mlrep and "tag enum". + * Access functions (get/set) fetch and store mlrep values. + - By default (unless ml-nlffigen was invoked with "-nocollect"), unnamed + enumerations are merged into one single enumeration represented by + structure E_'. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Allen Leung +Date: 2002/02/25 04:45:00 EST +Tag: leunga-20020225-cps-spill + +This is a new implementation of the CPS spill phase. +The new phase is in the new file compiler/CodeGen/cpscompile/spill-new.sml +In case of problems, replace it with the old file spill.sml + +The current compiler runs into some serious performance problems when +constructing a large record. This can happen when we try to compile a +structure with many items. Even a very simple structure like the following +makes the compiler slow down. + + structure Foo = struct + val x_1 = 0w1 : Word32.int + val x_2 = 0w2 : Word32.int + val x_3 = 0w3 : Word32.int + ... + val x_N = 0wN : Word32.int + end + +The following table shows the compile time, from N=1000 to N=4000, +with the old compiler: + +N +1000 CPS 100 spill 0.04u 0.00s 0.00g + MLRISC ra 0.06u 0.00s 0.05g + (spills = 0 reloads = 0) + TOTAL 0.63u 0.07s 0.21g + +1100 CPS 100 spill 8.25u 0.32s 0.64g + MLRISC ra 5.68u 0.59s 3.93g + (spills = 0 reloads = 0) + TOTAL 14.71u 0.99s 4.81g + +1500 CPS 100 spill 58.55u 2.34s 1.74g + MLRISC ra 5.54u 0.65s 3.91g + (spills = 543 reloads = 1082) + TOTAL 65.40u 3.13s 6.00g + +2000 CPS 100 spill 126.69u 4.84s 3.08g + MLRISC ra 0.80u 0.10s 0.55g + (spills = 42 reloads = 84) + TOTAL 129.42u 5.10s 4.13g + +3000 CPS 100 spill 675.59u 19.03s 11.64g + MLRISC ra 2.69u 0.27s 1.38g + (spills = 62 reloads = 124) + TOTAL 682.48u 19.61s 13.99g + +4000 CPS 100 spill 2362.82u 56.28s 43.60g + MLRISC ra 4.96u 0.27s 2.72g + (spills = 85 reloads = 170) + TOTAL 2375.26u 57.21s 48.00g + +As you can see the old cps spill module suffers from some serious +performance problem. But since I cannot decipher the old code fully, +instead of patching the problems up, I'm reimplementing it +with a different algorithm. The new code is more modular, +smaller when compiled, and substantially faster +(O(n log n) time and O(n) space). Timing of the new spill module: + +4000 CPS 100 spill 0.02u 0.00s 0.00g + MLRISC ra 0.25u 0.02s 0.15g + (spills=1 reloads=3) + TOTAL 7.74u 0.34s 1.62g + +Implementation details: + +As far as I can tell, the purpose of the CPS spill module is to make sure the +number of live variables at any program point (the bandwidth) +does not exceed a certain limit, which is determined by the +size of the spill area. + +When the bandwidth is too large, we decrease the register pressure by +packing live variables into spill records. How we achieve this is +completely different than what we did in the old code. + +First, there is something about the MLRiscGen code generator +that we should be aware of: + +o MLRiscGen performs code motion! + + In particular, it will move floating point computations and + address computations involving only the heap pointer to + their use sites (if there is only a single use). + What this means is that if we have a CPS record construction + statement + + RECORD(k,vl,w,e) + + we should never count the new record address w as live if w + has only one use (which is often the case). + + We should do something similar to floating point, but the transformation + there is much more complex, so I won't deal with that. + +Secondly, there are now two new cps primops at our disposal: + + 1. rawrecord of record_kind option + This pure operator allocates some uninitialized storage from the heap. + There are two forms: + + rawrecord NONE [INT n] allocates a tagless record of length n + rawrecord (SOME rk) [INT n] allocates a tagged record of length n + and initializes the tag. + + 2. rawupdate of cty + rawupdate cty (v,i,x) + Assigns to x to the ith component of record v. + The storelist is not updated. + +We use these new primops for both spilling and increment record construction. + + 1. Spilling. + + This is implemented with a linear scan algorithm (but generalized + to trees). The algorithm will create a single spill record at the + beginning of the cps function and use rawupdate to spill to it, + and SELECT or SELp to reload from it. So both spills and reloads + are fine-grain operations. In contrast, in the old algorithm + "spills" have to be bundled together in records. + + Ideally, we should sink the spill record construction to where + it is needed. We can even split the spill record into multiple ones + at the places where they are needed. But CPS is not a good + representation for global code motion, so I'll keep it simple and + am not attempting this. + + 2. Incremental record construction (aka record splitting). + + Long records with many component values which are simulatenously live + (recall that single use record addresses are not considered to + be live) are constructed with rawrecord and rawupdate. + We allocate space on the heap with rawrecord first, then gradually + fill it in with rawupdate. This is the technique suggested to me + by Matthias. + + Some restrictions on when this is applicable: + 1. It is not a VECTOR record. The code generator currently does not handle + this case. VECTOR record uses double indirection like arrays. + 2. All the record component values are defined in the same "basic block" + as the record constructor. This is to prevent speculative + record construction. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Allen Leung +Date: 2002/02/22 01:02:00 EST +Tag: leunga-20020222-mlrisc-tools + +Minor bug fixes in the parser and rewriter + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Allen Leung +Date: 2002/02/21 20:20:00 EST +Tag: leunga-20020221-peephole + +Regenerated the peephole files. Some contained typos in the specification +and some didn't compile because of pretty printing bugs in the old version +of 'nowhere'. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Allen Leung +Date: 2002/02/19 20:20:00 EST +Tag: leunga-20020219-mlrisc-tools +Description: + + Minor bug fixes to the mlrisc-tools library: + + 1. Fixed up parsing colon suffixed keywords + 2. Added the ability to shut the error messages up + 3. Reimplemented the pretty printer and fixed up/improved + the pretty printing of handle and -> types. + 4. Fixed up generation of literal symbols in the nowhere tool. + 5. Added some SML keywords to to sml.sty + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/02/19 16:20:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020219-cmffi +Description: + +A wild mix of changes, some minor, some major: + +* All C FFI-related libraries are now anchored under $c: + $/c.cm --> $c/c.cm + $/c-int.cm --> $c/internals/c-int.cm + $/memory.cm --> $c/memory/memory.cm + +* "make" tool (in CM) now treats its argument pathname slightly + differently: + 1. If the native expansion is an absolute name, then before invoking + the "make" command on it, CM will apply OS.Path.mkRelative + (with relativeTo = OS.FileSys.getDir()) to it. + 2. The argument will be passed through to subsequent phases of CM + processing without "going native". In particular, if the argument + was an anchored path, then "make" will not lose track of that anchor. + +* Compiler backends now "know" their respective C calling conventions + instead of having to be told about it by ml-nlffigen. This relieves + ml-nlffigen from one of its burdens. + +* The X86Backend has been split into X86CCallBackend and X86StdCallBackend. + +* Export C_DEBUG and C_Debug from $c/c.cm. + +* C type encoding in ml-nlffi-lib has been improved to model the conceptual + subtyping relationship between incomplete pointers and their complete + counterparts. For this, ('t, 'c) ptr has been changed to 'o ptr -- + with the convention of instantiating 'o with ('t, 'c) obj whenever + the pointer target type is complete. In the incomplete case, 'o + will be instantiated with some "'c iobj" -- a type obtained by + using one of the functors PointerToIncompleteType or PointerToCompleteType. + + Operations that work on both incomplete and complete pointer types are + typed as taking an 'o ptr while operations that require the target to + be known are typed as taking some ('t, 'c) obj ptr. + + voidptr is now a bit "more concrete", namely "type voidptr = void ptr'" + where void is an eqtype without any values. This makes it possible + to work on voidptr values using functions meant to operate on light + incomplete pointers. + +* As a result of the above, signature POINTER_TO_INCOMPLETE_TYPE has + been vastly simplified. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/02/19 10:48:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020219-pqfix +Description: + +Applied Chris Okasaki's bug fix for priority queues. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/02/15 17:05:00 +Tag: Release_110_39 +Description: + +Last-minute retagging is becoming a tradition... :-( + +This is the working release 110.39. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/02/15 16:00:00 EST +Tag: Release_110_39-orig +Description: + +Working release 110.39. New bootfiles. + +(Update: There was a small bug in the installer so it wouldn't work +with all shells. So I retagged. -Matthias) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/02/15 14:17:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020215-showbindings +Description: + +Added EnvRef.listBoundSymbols and CM.State.showBindings. Especially +the latter can be useful for exploring what bindings are available at +the interactive prompt. (The first function returns only the list +of symbols that are really bound, the second prints those but also the +ones that CM's autoloading mechanism knows about.) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/02/15 12:08:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020215-iptrs +Description: + +Two improvements to ml-nlffigen: + + 1. Write files only if they do not exist or if their current contents + do not coincide with what's being written. (That is, avoid messing + with the time stamps unless absolutely necessary.) + + 2. Implement a "repository" mechanism for generated files related + to "incomplete pointer types". See the README file for details. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/02/14 11:50:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020214-quote +Description: + +Added a type 't t_' to tag.sml (in ml-nlffi-lib.cm). This is required +because of the new and improved tag generation scheme. (Thanks to Allen +Leung for pointing it out.) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2002/02/14 09:55:27 EST 2002 +Tag: george-20020214-isabelle-bug +Description: + +Fixed the MLRISC bug sent by Markus Wenzel regarding the compilation +of Isabelle on the x86. + +From Allen: +----------- + I've found the problem: + + in ra-core.sml, I use the counter "blocked" to keep track of the + true number of elements in the freeze queue. When the counter goes + to zero, I skip examining the queue. But I've messed up the + bookkeeping in combine(): + + else (); + case !ucol of + PSEUDO => (if !cntv > 0 then + (if !cntu > 0 then blocked := !blocked - 1 else (); + ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + moveu := mergeMoveList(!movev, !moveu) + ) + else (); + + combine() is called to coalesce two nodes u and v. + I think I was thinking that if the move counts of u and v are both + greater than zero then after they are coalesced then one node is + removed from the freeze queue. Apparently I was thinking that + both u and v are of low degree, but that's clearly not necessarily true. + + +02/12/2002: + Here's the patch. HOL now compiles. + + I don't know how this impact on performance (compile + time or runtime). This bug caused the RA (especially on the x86) + to go thru the potential spill phase when there are still nodes on the + freeze queue. + + + + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/02/13 22:40:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020213-fptr-rtti +Description: + +Fixed a bug in ml-nlffigen that was introduced with one of the previous +updates. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/02/13 16:41:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020213-cmlpq +Description: + +Added new priority queue export symbols (which have just been added to +smlnj-lib.cm) to CML's version of smlnj-lib.cm. (Otherwise CML would +not compile and the installer would choke.) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/02/13 16:15:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020213-various +Description: + +1. More tweaks to ml-nlffigen: + + - better internal datastructures (resulting in slight speedup) + - "-match" option requires exact match + - "localized" gensym counters (untagged structs/unions nested within + other structs/unions or within typedefs get a fresh counter; their + tag will be prefixed by a concatenation of their parents' tags) + - bug fixes (related to calculation of transitive closure of types + to be included in the output) + +2. Minor Basis updates: + + - added implementations for List.collate and Option.app + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/02/11 15:55:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020211-gensym +Description: + +Added a "-gensym" option to command line of ml-nlffigen. This can be +used to specify a "stem" -- a string that is inserted in all "gensym'd" +names (ML structure names that correspond to unnamed C structs, unions, +and enums), so that separate runs of ml-nlffigen do not clash. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/02/11 12:05:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020211-gensml +Description: + +A quick fix for a problem with GenSML (in the pgraph-util library): +Make generation of toplevel "local" optional. (Strictly speaking, +signature definitions within "local" are not legal SML.) + +Other than that: updates to INSTALL and cm/TODO. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/02/08 15:00:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020208-uniquepid +Description: + +0. Version number has been bumped to 110.38.1. NEW BOOTFILES!!! + +1. The installer (config/install.sh) has gotten smarter: + + - Configuration options are a bit easier to specify now + (in config/targets). + - Bug in recognizing .tar.bz2 files fixed. + - Installer automatically resolves dependencies between + configuration options (e.g., if you ask for eXene, you will + also get cml -- regardless whether you asked for it or not). + - Installer can run in "quieter mode" by setting the environment + variable INSTALL_QUIETLY to "true". "Quieter" does not mean + "completely silent", though. + - Build HashCons library as part of smlnj-lib. + +2. A new scheme for assigning persistent identifiers to compilation + units (and, by extension, to types etc.) has been put into place. + This fixes a long-standing bug where types and even dynamic values + can get internally confused, thereby compromising type safety + (abstraction) and dynamic correctness. See + + http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/blume/pid-confusion.tgz + + for an example of how things could go wrong until now. + + The downside of the new scheme is that pids are not quite as + persistent as they used to be: CM will generate a fresh pid + for every compilation unit that it thinks it sees for the first + time. That means that if you compile starting from a clean, fresh + source tree at two different times, you end up with different + binaries. + + Cutoff recompilation, however, has not been compromised because + CM keeps pid information in special caches between runs. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2002/02/07 15:34:13 EST 2002 +Tag: +Description: + +Compilers that generate assembly code may produce global labels +whose value is resolved at link time. The various peephole optimization +modules did not take this in account. + +TODO. The Labels.addrOf function should really return an option +type so that clients are forced to deal with this issue, rather +than an exception being raised. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2002/02/06 13:55:02 EST +Tag: george-20020206-ra-breakup +Description: + +1. A bug fix from Allen. + + A typo causes extra fstp %st(0)'s to be generated at compensation + edges, which might cause stack underflow traps at runtime. This + occurs in fft where there are extraneous fstps right before the 'into' + trap instruction (in this case they are harmless since none of the + integers overflow.) + +2. Pulled out various utility modules that were embedded in the modules + of the register allocator. I need these modules for other purposes, but + they are not complete enough to put into a library (just yet). +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/31 16:05:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020131-sparc-ccalls +Description: + +1. C-calls on Sparc needlessly allocated a huge chunk (96 bytes) + of extra stack space by mistake. Fixed. + +2. Bug in logic of handling of command-line options in ml-nlffigen fixed. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Allen Leung +Date: 2002/01/30 +Tag: leunga-20020130-nowhere-bug-fix +Description: + + MLRISC bug fixes: + 1. Fixed a bindings computation bug in the 'nowhere' program generator tool. + 2. MachineInt.fromString was negating its value. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/29 +Tag: blume-20020129-INSTALL +Description: + +- Added somewhat detailed installation instructions (file INSTALL). +- Fixed curl-detection bug in config/install.sh. +- It is now possible to select the URL getter using the URLGETTER + environment variable: + + not set / "unknown" --> automatic detection (script tries wget, + curl, and lynx) + "wget" / "curl" / "lynx" --> use the specified program (script "knows" + how to properly invoke them) + other --> use $URLGETTER directly, it must take + precisely two command-line arguments + (source URL and destination file name) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/28 +Tag: blume-20020128-sparc-ccalls +Description: + +- Fixed problem with calculation of "used" registers in sparc-c-calls. +- Make use of the allocParam argument in sparc-c-calls. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/28 +Tag: blume-20020128-allocParam +Description: + +John Reppy: Changes c-calls API to accept client-callback for +allocating extra stack space. +me: Corresponding changes to mlriscGen (using a dummy argument that + does not change the current behavior). + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/28 12:00:00 +Tag: Release_110_38 +Description: + +This time for real!!! + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/28 10:56:00 EST +Tag: blume-20020128-retraction +Description: + +0. Retracted earlier 110.38. (The Release_110_38 tag has been replaced + with blume-Release_110_38-retracted.) + +1. Fixed a problem with incorrect rounding modes in real64.sml. + (Thanks to Andrew Mccreight .) + +2. A bug in ml-nlffigen related to the handling of unnamed structs, unions, + and enums fixed. The naming of corresponding ML identifiers should + now be consistent again. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Allen Leung +Date: 2002/01/27 +Tag: leunga-20020127-nowhere +Description: + + Added a target called nowhere in the configuration scripts. + Enabling this will build the MLRISC 'nowhere' tool (for translating + programs with where-clauses into legal SML code) during installation. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/25 21:27:00 EST +Tag: blume-Release_110_38-retracted +Description: + +Call it a (working) release! Version is 110.38. Bootfiles are ready. + +README will be added later. + +!!! NOTE: Re-tagged as blume-Release_110_38-retracted. Original tag +(Release_110_38) removed. Reason: Last-minute bug fixes. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/25 +Tag: blume-20020125-ffi +Description: + +A large number of tweaks and improvements to ml-nlffi-lib and +ml-nlffigen: + + - ML represenation types have been streamlined + - getter and setter functions work with concrete values, not abstract + ones where possible + - ml-nlffigen command line more flexible (see README file there) + - some bugs have been fixed (hopefully) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2002/01/24 +Tag: george-20020124-risc-ra-interface +Description: + + There is a dramatic simplification in the interface to the + register allocator for RISC architectures as a result of making + parallel copy instructions explicit. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/22 +Tag: blume-20020122-x86-ccalls +Description: + +Bug fix for c-calls on x86 (having to do with how char- and +short-arguments are being handled). + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/21 +Tag: blume-20020121-ff +Description: + +Another day of fiddling with the FFI... + +1. Bug fix/workaround: CKIT does not complain about negative array + dimensions, so ml-nlffigen has to guard itself against this possibility. + (Otherwise a negative dimension would send it into an infinite loop.) + +2. Some of the abstract types (light objects, light pointers, most "base" + types) in structure C are now eqtypes. + +3. Added constructors and test functions for NULL function pointers. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/18 +Tag: blume-20020118-ready-for-new-release +Description: + +Made config/srcarchiveurl point to a new place. (Will provide boot +files shortly.) + +Maybe we christen this to be 110.38? + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/18 +Tag: blume-20020118-more-ffifiddle +Description: + +Today's FFI fiddling: + + - Provided a structure CGetSet with "convenient" versions of C.Get.* and + C.Set.* that use concrete (MLRep.*) arguments and results instead + of abstract ones. + + - Provided word-style bit operations etc. for "int" representation + types in MLRep.SBitops where ranges over Char, Int, Short, + and Long. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/18 +Tag: blume-20020118-use-x86-fp +Description: + +Now that x86-fast-fp seems to be working, I turned it back on again +by default. (Seems to work fine now, even with the FFI.) + +Other than that, I added some documentation about the FFI to +src/ml-nlffigen/README and updated the FFI test examples in +src/ml-nlffi-lib/Tests/*. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Allen Leung +Date: 2002/01/17 +Tag: leunga-20020117-x86-fast-fp-call +Description: + + 1. Fixed a problem with handling return fp values when x86's fast fp + mode is turned on. + + 2. Minor pretty printing fix for cellset. Print %st(0) as %st(0) instead + of %f32. + + 3. Added a constructor INT32lit to the ast of MLRISC tools. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/16 +Tag: blume-20020116-ffifiddle +Description: + +More fiddling with the FFI interface: + + - Make constness 'c instead of rw wherever possible. This eliminates + the need for certain explicit coercions. (However, due to ML's + value polymorphism, there will still be many cases where explicit + coercions are necessary. Phantom types are not the whole answer + to modeling a subtyping relationship in ML.) + + - ro/rw coersions for pointers added. (Avoids the detour through */&.) + + - "printf" test example added to src/ml-nlffi-lib/Tests. (Demonstrates + clumsy workaround for varargs problem.) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2002/01/15 +Tag: +Description: + +1. Since COPY instructions are no longer native to the architecture, + a generic functor can be used to implement the expandCopies function. + +2. Allowed EXPORT and IMPORT pseudo-op declarations to appear inside a + TEXT segment. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/15 +Tag: blume-20020115-ffiupdates +Description: + +1. Fix for bug resulting in single-precision float values being returned + incorrectly from FFI calls. + +2. Small modifications to C FFI API: + + - memory-allocation routines return straight objects (no options) + and raise an exception in out-of-memory situations + - unsafe extensions to cast between function pointers and pointers + from/to ints + - added structure C_Debug as an alternative to structure C where + pointer-dereferencing (|*| and |*!) always check for null-pointers + - added open_lib' to DynLinkage; open_lib' works like open_lib + but also takes a (possibly empty) list of existing library handles + that the current library depends on + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2002/01/10 +Tag: blume-20020110-newffigen +Description: + +1. Updates to portable graph code. + +2. Major update to ml-nlffigen and ml-nlffi-lib. Things are much + more scalable now so that even huge interfaces such as the one + for GTK compile in finite time and space. :-) + See src/ml-nlffigen/README for details on what's new. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2001/01/09 14:31:35 EST 2002 +Tag: george-20011206-rm-native-copy +Description: + + Removed the native COPY and FCOPY instructions + from all the architectures and replaced it with the + explicit COPY instruction from the previous commit. + + It is now possible to simplify many of the optimizations + modules that manipulate copies. This has not been + done in this change. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2001/12/06 16:50:13 EST 2001 +Tag: george-20011206-mlrisc-instruction +Description: + +Changed the representation of instructions from being fully abstract +to being partially concrete. That is to say: + + from + type instruction + + to + type instr (* machine instruction *) + + datatype instruction = + LIVE of {regs: C.cellset, spilled: C.cellset} + | KILL of {regs: C.cellset, spilled: C.cellset} + | COPYXXX of {k: CB.cellkind, dst: CB.cell list, src: CB.cell list} + | ANNOTATION of {i: instruction, a: Annotations.annotation} + | INSTR of instr + +This makes the handling of certain special instructions that appear on +all architectures easier and uniform. + +LIVE and KILL say that a list of registers are live or killed at the +program point where they appear. No spill code is generated when an +element of the 'regs' field is spilled, but the register is moved to +the 'spilled' (which is present, more for debugging than anything else). + +LIVE replaces the (now deprecated) DEFFREG instruction on the alpha. +We used to generate: + + DEFFREG f1 + f1 := f2 + f3 + trapb + +but now generate: + + f1 := f2 + f3 + trapb + LIVE {regs=[f1,f2,f3], spilled=[]} + +Furthermore, the DEFFREG (hack) required that all floating point instruction +use all registers mentioned in the instruction. Therefore f1 := f2 + f3, +defines f1 and uses [f1,f2,f3]! This hack is no longer required resulting +in a cleaner alpha implementation. (Hopefully, intel will not get rid of +this architecture). + +COPYXXX is intended to replace the parallel COPY and FCOPY available on +all the architectures. This will result in further simplification of the +register allocator that must be aware of them for coalescing purposes, and +will also simplify certain aspects of the machine description that provides +callbacks related to parallel copies. + +ANNOTATION should be obvious, and now INSTR represents the honest to God +machine instruction set! + +The /instructions/Instr.sml files define certain utility +functions for making porting easier -- essentially converting upper case +to lower case. All machine instructions (of type instr) are in upper case, +and the lower case form generates an MLRISC instruction. For example on +the alpha we have: + + datatype instr = + LDA of {r:cell, b:cell, d:operand} + | ... + + val lda : {r:cell, b:cell, d:operand} -> instruction + ... + +where lda is just (INSTR o LDA), etc. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/11/22 21:40:00 EST +Tag: Release_110_37 +Description: + +Release 110.37. This time for real. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/11/21 16:35:00 EST +Tag: blume-20011121-foot-in-mouth +Description: + +Removed the "Release_110_37" tag because of a serious bug. +This will be re-tagged once the bug is fixed. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/11/21 16:14:00 EST +Tag: blume-20011121-forgottenfile +Description: + +Forgot to add a file. (Just a .tex-file -- part of +the CM manual source.) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/11/21 16:10:00 EST +Tag: blume-20011121-invalid_110_37 +Description: + +Note: I removed the original tag "Release_110_37" from this commit + because we found a serious bug in all non-x86 backends. + - Matthias + +1. Modifications to the SML/NJ code generator and to the runtime system + so that code object name strings are directly inserted into code + objects at code generation time. The only business the runtime system + has with this is now to read the name strings on occasions. + (The encoding of the name string has also changed somewhat.) + +2. CM now implements a simple "set calculus" for specifying export lists. + In particular, it is now possible to refer to the export lists of + other libraries/groups/sources and form unions as well as differences. + See the latest CM manual for details. + +3. An separate notion of "proxy" libraries has again be eliminated from + CM's model. (Proxy libraries are now simply a special case of using + the export list calculus.) + +4. Some of the existing libraries now take advantage of the new set + calculus. + (Notice that not all libraries have been converted because some + of the existing .cm-files are supposed to be backward compatible + with 110.0.x.) + +5. Some cleanup in stand-alone programs. (Don't use "exnMessage" -- use + "General.exnMessage"! The former relies on a certain hook to be + initialized, and that often does not happen in the stand-alone case.) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2001/11/21 13:56:18 EST +Tag: george-2001121-pseudo-ops +Description: + + Implemented a complete redesign of MLRISC pseudo-ops. Now there + ought to never be any question of incompatabilities with + pseudo-op syntax expected by host assemblers. + + For now, only modules supporting GAS syntax are implemented + but more should follow, such as MASM, and vendor assembler + syntax, e.g. IBM as, Sun as, etc. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/11/14 11:52:00 EST +Tag: blume-20011114-srcname +Description: + +1. Routed the name of the current source file to mlriscgen where it + should be directly emitted into the code object. (This last part + is yet to be done.) + +2. Some cleanup of the pgraph code to make it match the proposal that + I put out the other day. (The proposal notwithstanding, things are + still in flux here.) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2001/11/14 09:44:04 EST +Tag: +Description: + + Fix for a backpatching bug reported by Allen. + + Because the boundary between short and long span-dependent + instructions is +/- 128, there are an astounding number of + span-dependent instructions whose size is over estimated. + + Allen came up with the idea of letting the size of span + dependent instructions be non-monotonic, for a maxIter + number of times, after which the size must be monotonically + increasing. + + This table shows the number of span-dependent instructions + whose size was over-estimated as a function of maxIter, for the + file Parse/parse/ml.grm.sml: + + maxIter # of instructions: + 10 687 + 20 438 + 30 198 + 40 0 + + In compiling the compiler, there is no significant difference in + compilation speed between maxIter=10 and maxIter=40. Actually, + my measurements showed that maxIter=40 was a tad faster than + maxIter=10! Also 96% of the files in the compiler reach a fix + point within 13 iterations, so fixing maxIter at 40, while high, + is okay. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/10/31 15:25:00 EST +Tag: blume-20011031-pgraph +Description: + +CKIT: +* Changed the "Function" constructor of type Ast.ctype to carry optional + argument identifiers. +* Changed the return type of TypeUtil.getFunction accordingly. +* Type equality ignores the argument names. +* TypeUtil.composite tries to preserve argument names but gives up quickly + if there is a mismatch. + +installation script: +* attempts to use "curl" if available (unless "wget" is available as well) + +CM: +* has an experimental implementation of "portable graphs" which I will + soon propose as an implementation-independent library format +* there are also new libraries $/pgraph.cm and $/pgraph-util.cm + +NLFFI-LIB: +* some cleanup (all cosmetic) + +NLFFIGEN: +* temporarily disabled the mechanism that suppresses ML output for + C definitions whose identifiers start with an underscore character +* generate val bindings for enum constants +* user can request that only one style (light or heavy) is being used; + default is to use both (command-line arguments: -heavy and -light) +* fixed bug in handling of function types involving incomplete pointers +* generate ML entry points that take record arguments (i.e., using + named arguments) for C functions that have a prototype with named + arguments + (see changes to CKIT) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Allen Leung +Date: 2001/10/27 20:34:00 EDT +Tag: leunga-20011027-x86-fast-fp-call +Description: + + Fixed the bug described in blume-20010920-slowfp. + + The fix involves + 1. generating FCOPYs in FSTP in ia32-svid + 2. marking a CALL with the appropriate annotation + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/10/16 11:32:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20011016-netbsd +Description: + +Underscore patch from Chris Richards (fixing problem with compiling +runtime system under recent NetBSD). + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Allen Leung +Date: 2001/10/12 17:18:32 EDT 2001 +Tag: leung-20011012-x86-printflowgraph +Description: + +X86RA now uses a valid (instead of dummy) PrintFlowgraph module. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2001/10/11 23:51:34 EDT +Tag: george-20011011-too-many-instrs +Description: + +The representation of a program point never expected to see more +than 65536 instructions in a basic block! + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2001/10/09 09:41:37 EDT +Tag: george-20011008-mlrisc-labels +Description: + +Changed the machine description files to support printing of +local and global labels in assembly code, based on host assembler +conventions. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/09/25 15:25:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010925-exninfo +Description: + +I provided a non-hook implementation of exnName (at the toplevel) and +made the "dummy" implementation of exnMessage (at the toplevel) more +useful: if nothing gets "hooked in", then at least you are going to +see the exception name and a message indicating why you don't see more. + +[For the time being, programs that need exnMessage and want to use +ml-build should either use General.exnMessage (strongly recommended) or +refer to structure General at some other point so that CM sees a +static dependency.] + +[Similar remarks go for "print" and "use": If you want to use their +functionality in stand-alone programs generated by ml-build, then use +TextIO.output and Backend.Interact.useFile (from $smlnj/compiler.cm).] + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/09/20 17:28:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010920-slowfp +Description: + +Allen says that x86-fast-fp is not safe yet, so I turned it off again... + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/09/20 17:20:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010920-canonicalpaths +Description: + +0. Updated the BOOT file (something that I forgot to do earlier). + +1. Small internal change to CM so that it avoids "/../" in filenames + as much as possible (but only where it is safe). + +2. Changed config/_run-sml (resulting in a changed bin/.run-sml) so + that arguments that contain delimiters are passed through correctly. + This change also means that all "special" arguments of the form + @SMLxxx... must come first. + +3. Changed install script to put relative anchor names for tool commands + into pathconfig. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/09/18 15:35:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010918-readme11036 +Description: + +Added README files. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/09/18 11:45:00 EDT +Tag: Release_110_36 (retag) +Description: + +Fixed mistake in config/preloads. Retagged as 110.36. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/09/18 09:40:00 EDT +Tag: Release_110_36_orig (tag changed) +Description: + +New version (110.36). New bootfiles. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/09/14 16:15:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010914-x86fastfp +Description: + +John committed some changes that Allen made, in particular a (hopefully) +correctly working version of the x86-fp module. + +I changed the default setting of the Control.MLRISC.getFlag "x86-fast-fp" +flag to "true". Everything seems to compile to a fixpoint ok, and +"mandelbrot" speeds up by about 15%. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/09/13 11:20:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010913-minimal +Description: + +1. Stefan Monnier's patch to fix a miscompilation problem that + was brought to light by John Reppy's work on Moby. + +2. Implemented a minimal "structure Compiler" that contains just + "version" and "architecture". The minimal version will be + available when the full version is not. This is for backward- + compatibility with code that wants to test Compiler.version. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/08/28 14:03:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010828-ml-lex +Description: + +Fix for bug 1581, received from Neophytos Michael. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/08/27 11:20:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010827-readme11035 +Description: + +Fleshed out the README file for 110.35. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/08/24 17:10:00 EDT +Tag: Release_110_35 +Description: + +New version number (110.35). New bootfiles. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2001/08/24 13:47:18 EDT 2001 +Tag: george-20010824-MLRISC-graphs +Description: + + removed clusters from MLRISC completely and replaced with graphs. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/08/23 17:50:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010823-toplevel +Description: + +- some reorganization of the code that implements various kinds of + environments in the compiler (static, dynamic, symbolic, combined) +- re-implemented the EnvRef module so that evalStream works properly + (if the stream contains references to "use", "CM.make", etc.) +- cleaned up evalloop.sml and interact.sml (but they need more cleaning) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/08/20 15:50 EDT +Tag: blume20010820-slipup +Description: + +I forgot to commit a few files. Here they are... + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/08/20 15:35:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010820-debugprof +Description: + +!!!! NEW BOOTFILES !!!! + +This is another round of reorganizing the compiler sources. This +time the main goal was to factor out all the "instrumentation" +passes (for profiling and backtracing) into their own library. +The difficulty was to do it in such a way that it does not depend +on elaborate.cm but only on elabdata.cm. + +Therefore there have been further changes to both elaborate.cm and +elabdata.cm -- more "generic" things have been moved from the former +to the latter. As a result, I was forced to split the assignment +of numbers indicating "primtyc"s into two portions: SML-generic and +SML/NJ-specific. Since it would have been awkward to maintain, +I bit the bullet and actually _changed_ the mapping between these +numbers and primtycs. The bottom line of this is that you need +a new set of bin- and bootfiles. + +I have built new bootfiles for all architectures, so doing a fresh +checkout and config/install.sh should be all you need. + +The newly created library's name is + + $smlnj/viscomp/debugprof.cm + +and its sources live under + + src/compiler/DebugProf + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/08/15 17:15:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010815-compreorg +Description: + +This is a first cut at reorganizing the CM libraries that make up the +core of the compiler. The idea is to separate out pieces that could +be used independently by tools, e.g., the parser, the typechecker, etc. + +The current status is a step in this direction, but it is not quite +satisfactory yet. Expect more changes in the future. + +Here is the current (new) organization... + + What used to be $smlnj/viscomp/core.cm is now divided into + six CM libraries: + + $smlnj/viscomp/basics.cm + /parser.cm + /elabdata.cm + /elaborate.cm + /execute.cm + /core.cm + + The CM files for these libraries live under src/system/smlnj/viscomp. + All these libraries are proxy libraries that contain precisely + one CM library component. Here are the locations of the components + (all within the src/compiler tree): + + Basics/basics.cm + Parse/parser.cm + ElabData/elabdata.cm + Elaborator/elaborate.cm + Execution/execute.cm + core.cm + + [This organization is the same that has been used already + for a while for the architecture-specific parts of the visible + compiler and for the old version of core.cm.] + + As you will notice, many source files have been moved from their + respective original locations to a new home in one of the above + subtrees. + + The division of labor between the new libraries is the following: + + basics.cm: + - Simple, basic definitions that pertain to many (or all) of + the other libraries. + parser.cm: + - The SML parser, producing output of type Ast.dec. + - The type family for Ast is also defined and exported here. + elabdata.cm: + - The datatypes that describe input and output of the elaborator. + This includes types, absyn, and static environments. + elaborator.cm: + - The SML/NJ type checker and elaborator. + This maps an Ast.dec (with a given static environment) to + an Absyn.dec (with a new static environment). + - This libraries implements certain modules that used to be + structures as functors (to remove dependencies on FLINT). + execute.cm: + - Everything having to do with executing binary code objects. + - Dynamic environments. + core.cm: + - SML/NJ-specific instantiations of the elaborator and MLRISC. + - Top-level modules. + - FLINT (this should eventually become its own library) + +Notes: + +I am not 100% happy with the way I separated the elaborator (and its +data structures) from FLINT. Two instances of the same problem: + + 1. Data structures contain certain fields that carry FLINT-specific + information. I hacked around this using exn and the property list + module from smlnj-lib. But the fact that there are middle-end + specific fields around at all is a bit annoying. + + 2. The elaborator calculates certain FLINT-related information. I tried + to make this as abstract as I could using functorization, but, again, + the fact that the elaborator has to perform calculations on behalf + of the middle-end at all is not nice. + + 3. Having to used exn and property lists is unfortunate because it + weakens type checking. The other alternative (parameterizing + nearly *everything*) is not appealing, though. + +I removed the "rebinding =" warning hack because due to the new organization +it was awkward to maintain it. As a result, the compiler now issues some of +these warnings when compiling init.cmi during bootstrap compilation. On +the plus side, you also get a warning when you do, for example: + val op = = Int32.+ +which was not the case up to now. + +I placed "assign" and "deref" into the _Core structure so that the +code that deals with the "lazy" keyword can find them there. This +removes the need for having access to the primitive environment +during elaboration. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/08/13 +Tag: blume-20010813-closures +Description: + +This fix was sent to us by Zhong Shao. It is supposed to improve the +performance of certain loops by avoiding needless closure allocation. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2001/07/31 10:03:23 EDT 2001 +Tag: george-20010731-x86-fmalloc +Description: Fixed bug in x86 calls + + There was a bug where call instructions would mysteriously + vanish. The call instruction had to be one that returned + a floating point value. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2001/07/19 16:36:29 EDT 2001 +Tag: george-20010719-simple-cells +Description: + +I have dramatically simplified the interface for CELLS in MLRISC. + +In summary, the cells interface is broken up into three parts: + + 1. CellsBasis : CELLS_BASIS + + CellsBasis is a top level structure and common for all + architectures. it contains the definitions of basic datatypes + and utility functions over these types. + + 2. functor Cells() : CELLS + + Cells generates an interface for CELLS that incorporates the + specific resources on the target architecture, such as the + presence of special register classes, their number and size, + and various useful substructures. + + 3. CELLS + + e.g. SparcCells: SPARCCELLS + + CELLS usually contains additional bindings for special + registers on the architecture, such as: + + val r0 : cell (* register zero *) + val y : cell (* Y register *) + val psr : cell (* processor status register *) + ... + + The structure returned by applying the Cells functor is opened + in this interface. + +The main implication of all this is that the datatypes for cells is +split between CellsBasis and CELLS -- a fairly simple change for user +code. + +In the old scheme the CELLS interface had a definitional binding of +the form: + + signature CELLS = sig + + structure CellsBasis = CellsBasis + + ... + + end + +With all the sharing constraints that goes on in MLRISC, this old +design quickly leads to errors such as: + + "structure definition spec inside of sharing ... " + + +and appears to require an unacceptable amount of sharing and where +constraint hackery. + +I think this error message (the interaction of definitional specs and +sharing) requires more explanation on our web page. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/07/19 15:00:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010719-libreorg +Description: + +This update puts together a fairly extensive but straightforward change +to the way the libraries that implement the interactive system are +organized: + + The biggest change is the elimination of structure Compiler. As a + replacement for this structure, there is now a CM library + (known as $smlnj/compiler.cm or $smlnj/compiler/current.cm) + that exports all the substructures of the original structure Compiler + directly. So instead of saying Compiler.Foo.bar one now simply + says Foo.bar. (The CM libraries actually export a collection of + structures that is richer than the collection of substructures of + structure Compiler.) + + To make the transition smooth, there is a separate library called + $smlnj/compiler/compiler.cm which puts together and exports the + original structure Compiler (or at least something very close to it). + + There are five members of the original structure Compiler + that are not exported directly but which instead became members + of a new structure Backend (described by signature BACKEND). These are: + structure Profile (: PROFILE), structure Compile (: COMPILE), structure + Interact (: INTERACT), structure Machine (: MACHINE), and val + architecture (: string). + + Structure Compiler.Version has become structure CompilerVersion. + + Cross-compilers for alpha32, hppa, ppc, sparc, and x86 are provided + by $smlnj/compiler/.cm where is alpha32, hppa, ppc, sparc, + or x86, respectively. + Each of these exports the same frontend structures that + $smlnj/compiler.cm exports. But they do not have a structure Backend + and instead export some structure Backend where is Alpha32, + Hppa, PPC, Sparc, or X86, respectively. + + Library $smlnj/compiler/all.cm exports the union of the exports of + $smlnj/compiler/.cm + + There are no structures Compiler anymore, use + $smlnj/compiler/.cm instead. + + Library host-compiler-0.cm is gone. Instead, the internal library + that instantiates CM is now called cm0.cm. Selection of the host + compiler (backend) is no longer done here but. (Responsibility for it + now lies with $smlnj/compiler/current.cm. This seems to be more + logical.) + + Many individual files have been moved or renamed. Some files have + been split into multiple files, and some "dead" files have been deleted. + +Aside from these changes to library organization, there are also changes +to the way the code itself is organized: + + Structure Binfile has been re-implemented in such a way that it no + longer needs any knowledge of the compiler. It exclusively deals + with the details of binfile layout. It no longer invokes the + compiler (for the purpose of creating new prospective binfile + content), and it no longer has any knowledge of how to interpret + pickles. + + Structure Compile (: COMPILE) has been stripped down to the bare + essentials of compilation. It no longer deals with linking/execution. + The interface has been cleaned up considerably. + + Utility routines for dealing with linking and execution have been + moved into their own substructures. + + (The ultimate goal of these changes is to provide a light-weight + binfile loader/linker (at least for, e.g., stable libraries) that + does not require CM or the compiler to be present.) + +CM documentation has been updated to reflect the changes to library +organization. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/07/10 17:30:00 EDT +Tag: Release_110_34 +Description: + +Minor tweak to 110.34 (re-tagged): + + - README.html file added to CVS repository + - runtime compiles properly under FreeBSD 3.X and 4.X + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/07/10 17:30:00 EDT +Tag: Release_110_34 +Description: + +New version number (110.34). New bootfiles. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/07/09 16:00:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010709-more-varargs +Description: + +I changed the handling of varargs in ml-nlffigen again: +The ellipsis ... will now simply be ignored (with an accompanying warning). + +The immediate effect is that you can actually call a varargs function +from ML -- but you can't actually supply any arguments beyond the ones +specified explicitly. (For example, you can call printf with its format +string, but you cannot pass additional arguments.) + +This behavior is only marginally more useful than the one before, but +it has the advantage that a function or, more importantly, a function +type never gets dropped on the floor, thus avoiding follow-up problems with +other types that refer to the offending one. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/07/09 11:25:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010709-varargs +Description: + +1. ckit-lib.cm now exports structure Error +2. ml-nlffigen reports occurences of "..." (i.e., varargs function types) + with a warning accompanied by a source location. Moreover, it + merely skips the offending function or type and proceeds with the + rest of its work.u As a result, one can safely feed C code containing + "..." to ml-nlffigen. +3. There are some internal improvements to CM, providing slightly + more general string substitutions in the tools subsystem. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/06/27 15:10:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010627-concur +Description: + +Fixed a small bug in CM's handling of parallel compilation. +(You could observe the bug by Control-C-interrupting an ordinary +CMB.make or CM.stabilize and then attaching some compile servers. +The result was that all of a sudden the previously interrupted +compilation would continue on its own. This was because of +an over-optimization: CM did not bother to clean out certain queues +when no servers were attached "anyway", resulting in the contents +of these queues to grab control when new servers did get attached.) + +There is also another minor update to the CM manual. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/06/26 16:15:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010626-cmdoc +Description: + +Minor typo fixed in CM manual (syntax diagram for libraries). + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/06/25 22:55:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010625-x86pc +Description: + +Fixed a nasty bug in the X86 assembly code that caused signal +handlers to fail (crash) randomly. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/06/25 12:05:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010625-nlffigen +Description: + +This update fixes a number of minor bugs in ml-nlffigen as reported by +Nick Carter . + + 1. Silly but ok typedefs of the form "typedef void myvoid;" are now accepted. + 2. Default names for generated files are now derived from the name of + the C file *without its directory*. In particular, this causes generated + files to be placed locally even if the C file is in some system directory. + 3. Default names for generated signatures and structures are also derived + from the C file name without its directory. This avoids silly things + like "structure GL/GL". + (Other silly names are still possible because ml-nlffigen does not do + a thorough check of whether generated names are legal ML identifiers. + When in doubt, use command line arguments to force particular names.) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/06/21 12:25:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010621-eXene +Description: + +eXene now compiles and (sort of) works again. + +The library name (for version > 110.33) is $/eXene.cm. + +I also added an new example in src/eXene/examples/nbody. See the +README file there for details. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/06/20 16:40:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010620-cml +Description: + +CML now compiles and works again. + +Libraries (for version > 110.33): + + $cml/cml.cm Main CML library. + $cml/basis.cm CML's version of $/basis.cm. + $cml/cml-internal.cm Internal helper library. + $cml/core-cml.cm Internal helper library. + $cml-lib/trace-cml.cm Tracing facility. + $cml-lib/smlnj-lib.cm CML's version of $/smlnj-lib.cm + +The installer (config/install.sh) has been taught how to properly +install this stuff. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/06/19 17:55:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010619-instantiate +Description: + +This un-breaks the fix for bug 1432. +(The bug was originally fixed in 110.9 but I broke it again some +time after that.) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/06/19 17:25:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010619-signals +Description: + +This should (hopefully) fix the long-standing signal handling bug. +(The runtime system was constructing a continuation record with an +incorrect descriptor which would cause the GC to drop data on the floor...) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/06/15 15:05:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010615-moresparc +Description: + +Here is a short late-hour update related to Sparc c-calls: + + -- made handling of double-word arguments a bit smarter + + -- instruction selection phase tries to collapse certain clumsily + constructed ML-Trees; typical example: + + ADD(ty,ADD(_,e,LI d1),LI d2) -> ADD(ty,e,LI(d1+d2)) + + This currently has no further impact on SML/NJ since mlriscGen does + not seem to generate such patterns in the first place, and c-calls + (which did generate them in the beginning) has meanwhile been fixed + so as to avoid them as well. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/06/15 15:05:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010615-sparc +Description: + +The purpose of this update is to provide an implementation of NLFFI +on Sparc machines. + +Here are the changes in detail: + + * src/MLRISC/sparc/c-calls/sparc-c-calls.sml is a new file containing + the Sparc implementation of the c-calls API. + * The Sparc backend of SML/NJ has been modified to uniformely use %fp + for accessing the ML frame. Thus, we have a real frame pointer and + can freely modify %sp without need for an omit-frame-ptr phase. + The vfp logic in src/compiler/CodeGen/* has been changed to accomodate + this case. + * ml-nlffigen has been taught to produce code for different architectures + and calling conventions. + * In a way similar to what was done in the x86 case, the Sparc + backend uses its own specific extension to mltree. (For example, + it needs to be able to generate UNIMP instructions which are part + of the calling convention.) + * ml-nlffi-lib was reorganized to make it more modular (in particular, + to make it easier to plug in new machine- and os-dependent parts). + +There are some other fairly unrelated bug fixes and cleanups as well: + + * I further hacked the .cm files for MLRISC tools (like MDLGen) so + that they properly share their libraries with existing SML/NJ libraries. + * I fixed a minor cosmetic bug in CM, supressing certain spurious + follow-up error messages. + * Updates to CM/CMB documentation. + +TODO items: + + * MLRISC should use a different register as its asmTemp on the Sparc. + (The current %o2 is a really bad choice because it is part of the + calling conventions, so things might interfere in unexpected ways.) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/06/07 +Tag: blume-20010607-calls +Description: + +A number of internal changes related to C calls and calling conventions: + +1. ML-Tree CALL statements now carry a "pops" field. It indicates the + number of bytes popped implicitly (by the callee). In most cases + this field is 0 but on x86/win32 it is some non-zero value. This + is information provided for the benefit of the "omit-frameptr" pass. +2. The CALL instruction on the x86 carries a similar "pops" field. + The instruction selection phase copies its value from the ML-Tree + CALL statement. +3. On all other architectures, the instruction selection phase checks + whether "pops=0" and complains if not. +4. The c-calls implementation for x86 now accepts two calling conventions: + "ccall" and "stdcall". When "ccall" is selected, the caller cleans + up after the call and pops is set to 0. For "stdcall", the caller + does nothing, leaving the cleanup to the callee; pops is set to + the number of bytes that were pushed onto the stack. +5. The cproto decoder (compiler/Semant/types/cproto.sml) now can + distinguish between "ccall" and "stdcall". +6. The UNIMP instruction has been added to the supported Sparc instruction + set. (This is needed for implementing the official C calling convention + on this architecture.) +7. I fixed some of the .cm files under src/MLRISC/Tools to make them + work with the latest CM. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/06/05 15:10:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010605-cm-index +Description: + +0. The "lambdasplit" parameter for class "sml" in CM has been documented. + +1. CM can now generate "index files". These are human-readable files + that list on a per-.cm-file basis each toplevel symbol defined or + imported. The location of the index file for +

/.cm is

/CM/INDEX/.cm. + To enable index-file generation, set CM.Control.generate_index to true + or export an environment-symbol: export CM_GENERATE_INDEX=true. + + The CM manual has been updated accordingly. + +2. I made some slight modifications to the c-calls API in MLRISC. + + a) There is now a callback to support saving/restoring of + dedicated but caller-save registers around the actual call + instruction. + b) One can optionally specify a comment-annotation for the + call instruction. + +3. SML/NJ (mlriscGen.sml) uses this new API for the rawccall primop. + (For example, the comment annotation shows the C prototype of + the function being called.) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/06/01 13:30:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010601-nlffi-cleanup +Description: + +This is mostly a cleanup of MLFFI stuff: + + - some signature files have been put into a more exposed place + - the ugly 'f type parameter is gone (simplifies types tremendously!) + - ml-nlffigen changed accordingly + - tutorial updated + +Other changes: + + - author's affiliation in CM manual(s) updated + - some more recognized keywords added to Allen's sml.sty + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/05/25 15:30:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010525-iptr +Description: + + - put the official 110.33-README (as it appears on the ftp server) under + CVS + - fixed a small bug related to incomplete pointer types in + ml-nlffigen + - small cosmetic change to the ml-nlffi-lib's "arr" type constructor + (it does not need the 'f type parameter) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/05/23 14:30:00 EDT +Tag: Release_110_33 +Description: + +New version number (110.33). New bootfiles. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/05/22 18:06:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010522-targets +Description: + +Made install.sh use file config/targets.customized if it exists, falling +back to config/targets if it doesn't. This way one can have a customized +version of the targets file without touching the "real thing", thus +eliminating the constant fear of accidentally checking something bogus +back into the CVS repository... (File config/targets.customized must +not be added to the repository!) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/05/22 16:30:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010522-minitut +Description: + +1. Bug fix in ml-nlffigen; now (hopefully) correctly handling + struct returns. +2. Added src/ml-nlffi-lib/Doc/mini-tutorial.txt. This is some very + incomplete, preliminary documentation for NLFFI. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/05/14 11:30:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010514-script +Description: + +Some bugs in install script fixed. + +In addition to that I also made a slight change to the NLFFI API: +Functors generated by ml-nlffigen now take the dynamic library as a +straight functor argument, not as a suspended one. (The original +functor code used to force the suspension right away anyway, so there +was nothing gained by this complication of the interface.) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/05/11 14:35:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010511-ml-nlffi +Description: + +I finally took the plunge and added my new FFI code to the main +repository. For x86-linux it is now ready for prime-time. + +There are two new subdirectories of "src": + + - ml-nlffi-lib: + The utility library for programs using the FFI interface. + Here is the implementation of $/c.cm and its associated low-level + partners $/c-int.cm and $/memory.cm. + - ml-nlffigen: + A stand-alone program for generating ML glue code from C source + code. + +Building ml-nlffigen requires $/ckit-lib.cm. + +The config/install.sh script has been updates to do the Right Thing +(hopefully). + +Notice that the source tree for the C-Kit will not be put under "src" +but directly under the installation root directory. (This is the +structure that currently exists on the CVS server when you check out +module "sml".) Fortunately, config/install.sh knows about this oddity. + +Bugs: No documentation yet. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/05/09 16:35:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010509-cpscontract +Description: + +Fixed a bug in the accounting code in cpsopt/contract.sml. (The +wrapper/unwrapper elimination did not decrement usage counts and some +dead variables got overlooked by the dead-up logic.) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2001/05/08 17:26:09 EDT +Tag: george-20010508-omit-frameptr +Description: + +Changes to implement the omit-frame-pointer optimization to support +raw C calls. For now, there is only support on the Intel x86, but +other architectures will follow as more experience is gained with this. + + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/05/07 14:40:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010507-proxies +Description: + +I made into "proxy libraries" all libraries that qualify for such a +change. (A qualifying library is a library that has another library or +groups as its sole member and repeats that member's export list +verbatim. A proxy library avoids this repetition by omitting its export +list, effectively inheriting the list that its (only) member exports. +See the CM manual for more explanation.) +The main effect is that explicit export lists for these libraries +do not have to be kepts in sync, making maintenance a bit easier. + +I also added copyright notices to many .cm-files. + +Last but not least, I made a new set of bootfiles. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/05/04 17:00:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010504-cm-lsplit +Description: + +0. John merged pending changes to $/smlnj-lib.cm + +1. Allen's previous change accidentally backed out of one of Lal's + earlier changes. I undid this mistake (re-introducing Lal's change). + +2. I used the new topOrder' function from graph-scc.sml (from $/smlnj-lib.cm) + within the compiler where applicable. There is some code simplification + because of that. + +3. The "split" phase (in FLINT) is now part of the default list of phases. + Compiler.Control.LambdaSplitting.* can be used to globally control the + lambda-splitting (cross-module-inlining) engine. In addition to that, + it can now also be controlled on a per-source basis: CM has been taught + a new tool parameter applicable to ML source files. + + - To turn lambda-splitting off completely: + local open Compiler.Control.LambdaSplitting in + val _ = set Off + end + - To make "no lambda-splitting" the global default (but allow per-source + overriding); this is the initial setting: + local open Compiler.Control.LambdaSplitting in + val _ = set (Default NONE) + end + - To make "lambda-splitting with aggressiveness a" the global default + (and allow per-source overriding): + local open Compiler.Control.LambdaSplitting in + val _ = set (Default (SOME a)) + end + + - To turn lambda-splitting off for a given ML souce file (say: a.sml) + write (in the respective .cm-file): + a.sml (lambdasplitting:off) + - To turn lambda-splitting for a.sml on with minimal aggressiveness: + a.sml (lambdasplitting:on) + - To turn lambda-splitting for a.sml on with aggressiveness (where + is a decimal non-negative integer): + a.sml (lambdasplitting:) + - To turn lambda-splitting for a.sml on with maximal aggressiveness: + a.sml (lambdasplitting:infinity) + - To use the global default for a.sml: + a.sml (lambdasplitting:default) + or simply + a.sml + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Allen Leung +Date: 2001/05/04 01:57:00 EDT +Tag: leunga-20010504-sync +Description: + + MLRISC features. + + 1. Fix to CMPXCHG instructions. + 2. Changed RA interface to allow annotations in callbacks. + 3. Added a new method to the stream interface to allow annotations updates. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/05/01 11:45:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010501-pcedittmp +Description: + +Changed install.sh to use the current working directory instead of +/usr/tmp for a temporary file (pcedittmp). The previous choice +of /usr/tmp caused trouble with MacOS X because of file premission +problems. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume +Date: 2001/04/20 11:10:00 EDT +Tag: blume-20010420-inMLflag +Description: + + - added vp_limitPtrMask to vproc-state.h + (for use by the raw-C-calls mechanism to implement proper interrupt + handling) + - made the ML compiler aware of various data-structure offsets so it + can generate code for accessing the vp_inML flag and vp_limitPtrMask + - tweaked mlriscGen.sml to have it emit interrupt-handling code for + raw C-calls + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Lal George +Date: 2001/04/20 09:15:28 EDT +Tag: george-20010420-macosX +Description: + + - Changes to port to Mac OS X; Darwin. + + - In the process I found that sqrt was broken on the PPC, because the + fsqrt instruction is not implemented. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Name: Matthias Blume Date: 2001/04/18 12:45:00 EDT Tag: blume-20010418-ccalls Description: @@ -29,7 +2451,7 @@ - made makeml script's verbosity level configurable via environment variable (MAKEML_VERBOSITY) - - eliminteded placeholder implementations for f32l, w16s, i16s, and f32s + - eliminated placeholder implementations for f32l, w16s, i16s, and f32s in rawmem-x86.sml; we are now using the real thing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -2062,7 +4484,7 @@ elaborator). There were a lot of changes during my "linkpath" trials that could have been reverted to their original state but weren't. Please, don't be too harsh on me for messing with this code a bit more - than what was strictly necessary... (I _did_ resist the tempation + than what was strictly necessary... (I _did_ resist the temptation of doing any "global reformatting" to avoid an untimely death at Dave's hands. :)

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