See the long comment in pervasives.ml for an explanation of the
change. The short summary is that we need to prove more elaborate
properties between the format types involved in the typing of %(...%),
and that proving things by writing GADT functions in OCaml reveals
that Coq's Ltac is a miracle of usability.
Proofs on OCaml GADTs are runtime functions that do have a runtime
semantics: it is legitimate to hope that those proof computations are
as simple as possible, but the current implementation was optimized
for feasability, not simplicity. François Bobot has some interesting
suggestions to simplify the reasoning part (with more equality
reasoning where I used transitivity and symmetry of the
relation profusely), which may make the code simpler in the future
(and possibly more efficient: the hope is that only %(...%) users will
pay a proof-related cost).
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This should make the type-checking of formats simpler and more robust:
instead of trying to find a pair as previously, we can now use the
path of the format6 type directly.
A nice side-effect of the change is that the internal definition of
formats (as a pair) is not printed in error messages anymore.
Because format6 is in fact defined in the CamlinternalFormatBasics
submodule of Pervasives, and has an alias at the toplevel of
Pervasives, error messages still expand the definition:
> Error: This expression has type
> ('a, 'b, 'c, 'd, 'd, 'a) format6 =
> ('a, 'b, 'c, 'd, 'd, 'a) CamlinternalFormatBasics.format6
> but an expression was expected of type ...
Passing the option `-short-paths` does avoid this expansion and
returns exactly the same error message as 4.01:
> Error: This expression has type ('a, 'b, 'c, 'd, 'd, 'a) format6
> but an expression was expected of type ...
(To get this error message without -short-paths, one would need to
define format6 directly in Pervasives; but this type is mutually
recursive with several GADT types that we don't want to add in the
Pervasives namespace unqualified. This is why I'll keep the alias
for now.)
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(patch by Josh Watzman)
Add absolute directory names to bytecode format for ocamldebug to use
The need for a long list of -I directives makes interactively using
ocamldebug a pain in the butt. Many folks have solved this with various
`find` invocations or even Python wrappers, but those lead to other
problems when it might include files you weren't expecting (or miss
things you were). But all of this is really annoying since the tooling
should be able to figure out itself, even heuristically, where your
source files are -- gdb gets this right, why can't we?
This patch implements one of the more important heuristics from gdb: you
typically debug on the same machine you built on, so looking for the
source files and built artifacts in the absolute paths where they were
during compilation is a good first try. We write out absolute paths into
a new structure at the beginning of the debug section and then
automatically append those directories into the load path.
This means mean that if you happen to be debugging on a machine
where the original source and build artifacts are *not* available in
their original absolute locations, things will work as before, using the
standard load path mechanism. You can also explicitly use -I to prepend
directories to the load path and override the defaults located by this
new mechanism.
I personally find this makes using ocamldebug much more pleasant :)
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There seems to be a problematic interaction with backtrace collection. To test this,
make world.opt
cd testsuite
make one DIR=tests/backtrace/
This needs to be sorted out before the patch can go in again.
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Noticed that I had to bootstrap to test on ARM, so I commit a new bootstrap
compiler.
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of size 2, with tag = Object_tag, the first field being the pointer to the string, and second one being a unique id, generated
from the same sequence as for object values. Special case for predefined exceptions, represented with a negative id.
The unique id generator is moved from camlinternalOO to the C runtime system.
Also fix some bugs.
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Damien Doligez
Alain Frisch
Gabriel Scherer
Mark Shinwell
Jacques Garrigue
Fabrice Le Fessant
Xavier Clerc
Luc Maranget
Xavier Leroy