The Spacetime memory profiler is not going to be supported in Multicore OCaml, and is already broken by some of the related changes in OCaml 4.12. The core development team decided to remove Spacetime support from OCaml 4.12.
Config.ocamlopt_cflags and Config.ocamlopt_cppflags were solely used by
the driver when compiling .c files passed on the command line. The
behaviour of this should be the same as for `ocamlc -c` and the
inclusion of `-fPIC` in `ocamlc_cflags` only on some systems causes
problems for `ocamlmklib` which behaves as though the two drivers
compile C files identically.
This PR eliminates the separate settings in configure.ac and deprecates
the old variables in Config.
Add --enable-function-sections option to configure. With this option,
the compiler will emit each function in a separate named text section,
on supported targets. This enables function reordering using a linker
script. With this option, the compiler also emits caml_hot__code_begin
and caml_hot__code_end sections. This allows a linker script to
move function sections outside of the segments they belong to,
without breaking caml_code_segments.
This commit removes support for gprof-based profiling (the -p option to ocamlopt). It follows a discussion on the core developers' list, which indicated that removing gprof support was a reasonable thing to do. The rationale is that there are better easy-to-use profilers out there now, such as perf for Linux and Instruments on macOS; and the gprof support has always been patchy across targets. We save a whole build of the runtime and simplify some other parts of the codebase by removing it.
- Add a Load_path module which caches files lookup
- Instead of falling back to the external environment, allow to
declare in the environment that a module comes from the external
world. This allows persistent structures to shadows non-persistent
ones
- Introduce `-dcamlprimc`, to keep the generated C file containing the primitive list
- Use `-fdebug-prefix-map` for compiling temporary C files when this option is supported
The proposed behavior of `-config-var s` is as follows:
- if `s` is an existing configuration variable, print its value as
a string and exit with a success return value (0)
- if `s` is not an existing configuration variable, print nothing
and exit with a failure return value (non-0)
Note that we do not print a newline after the value of the
configuration variable. In particular, if the value is an empty
string, the output is undistinguishable from the output for
non-existing variables, the return value has to be considered instead.
The following alternative behaviors were considered:
- We could print a newline after the configuration value, which
would let users distinguish empty values from non-existing variables
by counting the lines of output, and would also be more pleasant for
users invoking the option from the command-line. However, the way
bash works on Windows means that $(ocamlc -config-var foo) would keep
a trailing \r in its output, and portable scripts would have to use
$(ocamlc -config-var foo | tr -d '\r') instead, which is a pain.
(This issue was pointed out by David Allsopp)
- We could print a message on the error output if the configuration
variable does not exist. This is clearer to a human user, but it is
annoying for scripts if they forget to silence the error output and
get their output mixed with our error messages. The main use of this
new feature is for scripting purposes.
-(un)safe-string becomes -(no-)force-safe-string
-(un)safe-string-default becomes -default-unsafe-string
Config.safe_string (and Clflags.unsafe_string) keep their name for
backward-compatibility, as well as the C define CAML_SAFE_STRING
(which corresponds to -force-safe-string).
The install-flexdll target now puts the object files for FlexDLL in a
subdirectory flexdll of the Standard Library instead of in the Standard
Library itself.
A configuration tweak means that -I +flexdll is effectively added to all
compiler invocations and also a pseudo-option -L+flexdll to ocamlmklib
calls to Config.mkdll which fixes PR#7373.
These variables represent the C compilers ocamlc and ocamlopt should use
to compile a third-party C source file when no -cc command-line option
has been specified.
Thanks to these variables, the substitutions performed in Makefile and
Makefile.nt to generate utils/config.ml from utils/config.ml become
similar.
(The NATIVE_C_COMPILER variable is not really necessary but it has still
been introduced to preserve symetry.)
This commit modifies these two behaviours:
1. ``make install'' installs libraries with profiling support only when
this makes sense.
2. On platforms that do not support profiling with gprof, the -p option of
ocamlopt produces an error message.
On such platforms, ``make install'' was installing dummy profiling
libraries and ocamlopt's -p option was silently ignored.
In addition, this commit modifies the values of the PROFILING make
variable. Before the commit it was either prof or noprof. After the
commit it is either true or false.
In the asmrun directory, the call to ranlib for libasmrunp.a has also been
removed from the install target because this command is already invoked
in the rule that builds libasmrunp.a.
ocamlc/ocamlopt -config now prints the state of profiling support
This reverts commit 8adfe15f18.
This is a temporary revert caused by Continuous Integration
failure. We'll investigate the issue and merge again when it is fixed.
This commit modifies these two behaviours:
1. ``make install'' installs libraries with profiling support only when
this makes sense.
2. On platforms that do not support profiling with gprof, the -p option of
ocamlopt produces an error message.
On such platforms, ``make install'' was installing dummy profiling
libraries and ocamlopt's -p option was silently ignored.
In addition, this commit modifies the values of the PROFILING make
variable. Before the commit it was either prof or noprof. After the
commit it is either true or false.
In the asmrun directory, the call to ranlib for libasmrunp.a has also been
removed from the install target because this command is already invoked
in the rule that builds libasmrunp.a.
ocamlc/ocamlopt -config now prints the state of profiling support
Florian Angeletti
Thomas Refis
Xavier Leroy
Nicolás Ojeda Bär
Greta Yorsh
David Allsopp
Greta Yorsh
Mark Shinwell
Sébastien Hinderer
Damien Doligez
Jeremie Dimino
Daniel Bünzli
Xavier Clerc
Gabriel Scherer
Damien Doligez
Pierre Chambart
Leo White
Leo White
Jeremy Yallop
François Bobot
Stephen Dolan