If the final block ends in a conditional statement, appending return to the
block will hide the conditional statement from the flow analyzer. This may
cause the conditional statement's destination node be become unreachable
according to the analyzer and thus eliminated. The label for the branch
then loses its target sblock and thus the code generator will produce a
zero-distance jump resulting in an infinite loop.
Thus, if the final block ends in a conditional statement (or, for
completeness, a call statement), append a new empty block before adding the
return statement.
If MOVEP's destination is variable, then the actual destination isn't (at
this stage) knowable, so it can't be attached to the dagnode and thus must
be a child.
Getting the operands directly from the statement was missing the
destination operand of movep when movep's op_c was a constant pointer and
thus the flowvar wasn't being counted/created early enough. This led to a
segfault in the set code when attempting to add -1 to the set.
It turns out the recent dead-block code "broke" vector component access
from objects. The breakage is really highlighting a problem with temporary
operands and aliasing. The problem was hiding behind a basic-block split
that the recent dead-block work mended and thus exposed the bug.
type_id is implemented as a pointer to "struct obj_object" (ie, not really
a class), so the correct check is to ensure the type is:
1 a pointer
2 to a struct
3 using the same symbol table as type_obj_object
Empty structs are now (correctly) invalid. The hack of using an empty
struct to represent a handle returned from a builtin has been unnecessary
since opaque structs were implemented: now a pointer to an opaque struct
can be used. This is mostly safe as handles are aways negative and thus
attempting to dereference such a pointer should result in a VM error. It
will be even safer once const is implemented and the pointers can be made
constant (eg, typedef struct handle * const handle;)
void foo (int); is fine for a prototype (or, presumably, a qc function
variable), but not for an actual function body. This fixes the segmentation
fault when the parameter name is omitted.
This is needed to allow compile-time protocol conformance checks, though
nothing along those lines has been implemented yet.
id has been changed from TYPE to OBJECT, required to allow id <proto> to be
parsed. OBJECT uses symbol, allowing id to be redefined once suitable work
has been done on the parser.
It uses the new block merge code. Now forgotten return statements are
detected properly (naive dead block removal) and all unreachable code is
eliminated (flow analysis unreachable node removal).
This reverts commit 83ead0842f.
Note: does not compile.
It turns out basic dead block removal is needed for the "control reaches
end of non-void function" warning to work correctly.
Empty sblocks are removed (unless it's the only sblock), and blocks that
are split unnecessarily are merged.
This mostly fixes bogus "no return" warnings.
Unreachable nodes will cause the first elements of the array to remain
unwritten by df_search. This fixes the segfaults caused by unreachable
nodes (the reason they were an internal error before).
Bill Currie