Introduce the type Cmm.exttype to precisely describe arguments to
external C functions, especially unboxed numerical arguments.
Annotate Cmm.Cextcall with the types of the arguments (Cmm.exttype list).
An empty list means "all arguments have default type XInt".
Annotate Mach.Iextcall with the type of the result (Cmm.machtype)
and the types of the arguments (Cmm.exttype list).
Change (slightly) the API for describing calling conventions in Proc:
- loc_external_arguments now takes a Cmm.exttype list,
in order to know more precisely the types of the arguments.
- loc_arguments, loc_parameters, loc_results, loc_external_results
now take a Cmm.machype instead of an array of pseudoregisters.
(Only the types of the pseudoregisters mattered anyway.)
Update the implementations of module Proc accordingly, in every port.
Introduce a new overridable method in Selectgen, insert_move_extcall_arg,
to produce the code that moves an argument of an external C function
to the locations returned by Proc.loc_external_arguments.
Revise the selection of external calls accordingly
(method emit_extcall_args in Selectgen).
This code is adapted from jhjourdan's 2c93ca1e711. Comballoc is
extended to keep track of allocation sizes and debug info for each
allocation, and the frame table format is modified to store them.
The native code GC-entry logic is changed to match bytecode, by
calling the garbage collector at most once per allocation.
amd64 only, for now.
Following on from GPR#851 and GPR#873, this pull request further enhances debugging information in Cmm terms. This was driven both by manually examining the debugger's behaviour and also by a report received from a user regarding substandard DWARF location information.
- Ident.create now takes a scope as argument
- added Ident.create_var to use when the scope doesn't matter
- the current_time and the current_level are unrelated as of this
commit. But one has to remember to bump the level when creating new
scopes.
Stephen Dolan
Xavier Leroy
Mark Shinwell
Thomas Refis
Leo White
Pierre Chambart
Mark Shinwell