CS eliminates outer expressions before inner ones, as `x * y * z`
before `x * y`. It does this by reversing the order of expressions in
the code. This almost always works, but it sometimes doesn't work if
a STI changes the value number of a LOI. In code like `expr1 LOI
expr2 STI expr2 LOI`, CS might eliminate the inner `expr2` before the
outer `expr2 LOI`. This caused a read after free because the
occurrence of `expr2 LOI` pointed to the eliminated lines of `expr2`.
This bug went unnoticed until my recent changes caused CS to crash
with a double free. I did not get the crash in OpenBSD, but I saw the
crash in Travis, then David Given reproduced the crash in Linux. See
the discussion in https://github.com/davidgiven/ack/pull/73
Enable this in CS for PowerPC; disable it for all other machines.
PowerPC has no remainder instruction; the back end uses division to
compute remainder. If CS finds both a / b and a % b, then CS now
rewrites a % b as a - b * (a / b) and computes a / b only once. This
removes an extra division in the PowerPC code, so it saves both time
and space.
I have not considered whether to enable this optimization for other
machines. It might be less useful in machines with a remainder
instruction. Also, if a % b occurs before a / b, the EM code gets a
DUP. PowerPC ncg handles this DUP well; other back ends might not.
In ego, the CS phase may convert a LAR/SAR to AAR LOI/STI so it can
optimize multiple occurrences of AAR of the same array element. This
conversion should not happen if it would LOI/STI a large or unknown
size.
cs_profit.c okay_lines() checked the size of each occurrence of AAR
except the first. If the first AAR was the implicit AAR in a LAR/SAR,
then the conversion happened without checking the size. For unknown
size, this made a bad LOI -1 or STI -1. Fix by checking the size
earlier: if a LAR/SAR has a bad size, then don't enter it as an AAR.
This Modula-2 code showed the bug. Given M.def:
DEFINITION MODULE M;
TYPE S = SET OF [0..95];
PROCEDURE F(a: ARRAY OF S; i, j: INTEGER);
END M.
and M.mod:
(*$R-*) IMPLEMENTATION MODULE M;
FROM SYSTEM IMPORT ADDRESS, ADR;
PROCEDURE G(s: S; p, q: ADDRESS; t: S); BEGIN
s := s; p := p; q := q; t := t;
END G;
PROCEDURE F(a: ARRAY OF S; i, j: INTEGER); BEGIN
G(a[i + j], ADR(a[i + j]), ADR(a[i + j]), a[i + j])
END F;
END M.
then the bug caused an error:
$ ack -mlinuxppc -O3 -c.e M.mod
/tmp/Ack_b357d.g, line 57: Argument range error
The bug had put LOI -1 in the code, then em_decode got an error
because -1 is out of range for LOI.
Procedure F has 4 occurrences of `a[i + j]`. The size of `a[i + j]`
is 96 bits, or 12 bytes, but the EM code hides the size in an array
descriptor, so the size is unknown to CS. The pragma `(*$R-*)`
disables a range check on `i + j` so CS can work. EM uses AAR for the
2 `ADR(a[i + j])` and LAR for the other 2 `a[i + j]`. EM pushes the
arguments to G in reverse order, so the last `a[i + j]` in Modula-2 is
the first LAR in EM.
CS found 4 occurrences of AAR. The first AAR was an implicit AAR in
LAR. Because of the bug, CS converted this LAR 4 to AAR 4 LOI -1.
This uncovers a problem in il/il_aux.c: it passes 3 arguments to
getlines(), but the function expects 4 arguments. I add FALSE as the
4th argument. TRUE would fill in the list of mesregs. IL uses
mesregs during phase 1, but this call to getlines() is in phase 2.
TRUE would leak memory unless I added a call to Ldeleteset(mesregs).
So I pass FALSE.
Functions passed to go() now have a `void *` parameter because
no_action() now takes a `void *`.
*Important:* Do `make clean` to work around a problem and prevent
infinite rebuilds, https://github.com/davidgiven/ack/issues/68
I edit tokens.g in util/LLgen/src, so I regenerate tokens.c. The
regeneration script bootstrap.sh can't find LLgen, but I can run the
same command by typing the path to llgen.
These files "magically reappeared" after the conversion from CVS to
Mercurial. The old CVS repository deleted these files but did not
record *when* it deleted these files. The conversion resurrected these
files because they have no history of deletion. These files were
probably deleted before year 1995. The CVS repository begins to record
deletions around 1995.
These files may still appear in older revisions of this Mercurial
repository, when they should already be deleted. There is no way to fix
this, because the CVS repository provides no dates of deletion.
See http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29823032
