1 ;;;; This file implements type check generation. This is a phase that
2 ;;;; runs at the very end of IR1. If a type check is too complex for
3 ;;;; the back end to directly emit in-line, then we transform the check
4 ;;;; into an explicit conditional using TYPEP.
6 ;;;; This software is part of the SBCL system. See the README file for
9 ;;;; This software is derived from the CMU CL system, which was
10 ;;;; written at Carnegie Mellon University and released into the
11 ;;;; public domain. The software is in the public domain and is
12 ;;;; provided with absolutely no warranty. See the COPYING and CREDITS
13 ;;;; files for more information.
19 ;;; Return some sort of guess about the cost of a call to a function.
20 ;;; If the function has some templates, we return the cost of the
21 ;;; cheapest one, otherwise we return the cost of CALL-NAMED. Calling
22 ;;; this with functions that have transforms can result in relatively
23 ;;; meaningless results (exaggerated costs.)
25 ;;; We special-case NULL, since it does have a source tranform and is
26 ;;; interesting to us.
27 (defun fun-guessed-cost (name)
28 (declare (symbol name))
29 (let ((info (info :function :info name))
30 (call-cost (template-cost (template-or-lose 'call-named))))
32 (let ((templates (fun-info-templates info)))
34 (template-cost (first templates))
36 (null (template-cost (template-or-lose 'if-eq)))
40 ;;; Return some sort of guess for the cost of doing a test against
41 ;;; TYPE. The result need not be precise as long as it isn't way out
42 ;;; in space. The units are based on the costs specified for various
43 ;;; templates in the VM definition.
44 (defun type-test-cost (type)
45 (declare (type ctype type))
46 (or (let ((check (type-check-template type)))
49 (let ((found (cdr (assoc type *backend-type-predicates*
52 (+ (fun-guessed-cost found) (fun-guessed-cost 'eq))
56 (reduce #'+ (compound-type-types type) :key 'type-test-cost))
58 (* (length (member-type-members type))
59 (fun-guessed-cost 'eq)))
61 (* (if (numeric-type-complexp type) 2 1)
63 (if (csubtypep type (specifier-type 'fixnum)) 'fixnump 'numberp))
65 (if (numeric-type-low type) 1 0)
66 (if (numeric-type-high type) 1 0))))
68 (+ (type-test-cost (specifier-type 'cons))
69 (fun-guessed-cost 'car)
70 (type-test-cost (cons-type-car-type type))
71 (fun-guessed-cost 'cdr)
72 (type-test-cost (cons-type-cdr-type type))))
74 (fun-guessed-cost 'typep)))))
77 (weaken-type :hash-bits 8
78 :hash-function (lambda (x)
79 (logand (type-hash-value x) #xFF)))
81 (declare (type ctype type))
82 (let ((min-cost (type-test-cost type))
85 (dolist (x *backend-type-predicates*)
86 (let ((stype (car x)))
87 (when (and (csubtypep type stype)
88 (not (union-type-p stype)))
89 (let ((stype-cost (type-test-cost stype)))
90 (when (or (< stype-cost min-cost)
92 ;; If the supertype is equal in cost to the type, we
93 ;; prefer the supertype. This produces a closer
94 ;; approximation of the right thing in the presence of
98 min-cost stype-cost))))))
103 (defun weaken-values-type (type)
104 (declare (type ctype type))
105 (cond ((eq type *wild-type*) type)
106 ((values-type-p type)
107 (make-values-type :required (mapcar #'weaken-type
108 (values-type-required type))
109 :optional (mapcar #'weaken-type
110 (values-type-optional type))
111 :rest (acond ((values-type-rest type)
113 ((values-type-keyp type)
115 (t (weaken-type type))))
117 ;;;; checking strategy determination
119 ;;; Return the type we should test for when we really want to check
120 ;;; for TYPE. If speed, space or compilation speed is more important
121 ;;; than safety, then we return a weaker type if it is easier to
122 ;;; check. First we try the defined type weakenings, then look for any
123 ;;; predicate that is cheaper.
124 (defun maybe-weaken-check (type policy)
125 (declare (type ctype type))
126 (cond ((policy policy (zerop safety))
129 (and (<= speed safety)
131 (<= compilation-speed safety)))
134 (weaken-values-type type))))
136 ;;; This is like VALUES-TYPES, only we mash any complex function types
138 (defun no-fun-values-types (type)
139 (declare (type ctype type))
140 (multiple-value-bind (res count) (values-types type)
141 (values (mapcar (lambda (type)
142 (if (fun-type-p type)
143 (specifier-type 'function)
148 ;;; Switch to disable check complementing, for evaluation.
149 (defvar *complement-type-checks* t)
151 ;;; CONT is a continuation we are doing a type check on and TYPES is a
152 ;;; list of types that we are checking its values against. If we have
153 ;;; proven that CONT generates a fixed number of values, then for each
154 ;;; value, we check whether it is cheaper to then difference between
155 ;;; the proven type and the corresponding type in TYPES. If so, we opt
156 ;;; for a :HAIRY check with that test negated. Otherwise, we try to do
157 ;;; a simple test, and if that is impossible, we do a hairy test with
158 ;;; non-negated types. If true, FORCE-HAIRY forces a hairy type check.
160 ;;; When doing a non-negated check, we call MAYBE-WEAKEN-CHECK to
161 ;;; weaken the test to a convenient supertype (conditional on policy.)
162 ;;; If SPEED is 3, or DEBUG-INFO is not particularly important (DEBUG
163 ;;; <= 1), then we allow weakened checks to be simple, resulting in
164 ;;; less informative error messages, but saving space and possibly
167 ;;; FIXME: I don't quite understand this, but it looks as though
168 ;;; that means type checks are weakened when SPEED=3 regardless of
169 ;;; the SAFETY level, which is not the right thing to do.
170 (defun maybe-negate-check (cont types original-types force-hairy)
171 (declare (type continuation cont) (list types))
172 (multiple-value-bind (ptypes count)
173 (no-fun-values-types (continuation-proven-type cont))
174 (if (eq count :unknown)
175 (if (and (every #'type-check-template types) (not force-hairy))
176 (values :simple types)
177 (values :hairy (mapcar (lambda (x) (list nil x x)) types)))
178 (let ((res (mapcar (lambda (p c a)
179 (let ((diff (type-difference p c)))
181 (< (type-test-cost diff)
183 *complement-type-checks*)
186 ptypes types original-types)))
187 (cond ((or force-hairy (find-if #'first res))
189 ((every #'type-check-template types)
190 (values :simple types))
192 (values :hairy res)))))))
194 ;;; Determines whether CONT's assertion is:
195 ;;; -- checkable by the back end (:SIMPLE), or
196 ;;; -- not checkable by the back end, but checkable via an explicit
197 ;;; test in type check conversion (:HAIRY), or
198 ;;; -- not reasonably checkable at all (:TOO-HAIRY).
200 ;;; A type is checkable if it either represents a fixed number of
201 ;;; values (as determined by VALUES-TYPES), or it is the assertion for
202 ;;; an MV-BIND. A type is simply checkable if all the type assertions
203 ;;; have a TYPE-CHECK-TEMPLATE. In this :SIMPLE case, the second value
204 ;;; is a list of the type restrictions specified for the leading
205 ;;; positional values.
207 ;;; We force a check to be hairy even when there are fixed values if
208 ;;; we are in a context where we may be forced to use the unknown
209 ;;; values convention anyway. This is because IR2tran can't generate
210 ;;; type checks for unknown values continuations but people could
211 ;;; still be depending on the check being done. We only care about
212 ;;; EXIT and RETURN (not MV-COMBINATION) since these are the only
213 ;;; contexts where the ultimate values receiver
215 ;;; In the :HAIRY case, the second value is a list of triples of
217 ;;; (NOT-P TYPE ORIGINAL-TYPE)
219 ;;; If true, the NOT-P flag indicates a test that the corresponding
220 ;;; value is *not* of the specified TYPE. ORIGINAL-TYPE is the type
221 ;;; asserted on this value in the continuation, for use in error
222 ;;; messages. When NOT-P is true, this will be different from TYPE.
224 ;;; This allows us to take what has been proven about CONT's type into
225 ;;; consideration. If it is cheaper to test for the difference between
226 ;;; the derived type and the asserted type, then we check for the
227 ;;; negation of this type instead.
228 (defun continuation-check-types (cont force-hairy)
229 (declare (type continuation cont))
230 (let ((ctype (continuation-type-to-check cont))
231 (atype (continuation-asserted-type cont))
232 (dest (continuation-dest cont)))
233 (aver (not (eq ctype *wild-type*)))
234 (multiple-value-bind (ctypes count) (no-fun-values-types ctype)
235 (multiple-value-bind (atypes acount) (no-fun-values-types ctype)
236 (aver (eq count acount))
237 (cond ((not (eq count :unknown))
238 (if (or (exit-p dest)
240 (multiple-value-bind (ignore count)
241 (values-types (return-result-type dest))
242 (declare (ignore ignore))
243 (eq count :unknown))))
244 (maybe-negate-check cont ctypes atypes t)
245 (maybe-negate-check cont ctypes atypes force-hairy)))
246 ((and (mv-combination-p dest)
247 (eq (basic-combination-kind dest) :local))
248 (aver (values-type-p ctype))
249 (maybe-negate-check cont
250 (args-type-optional ctype)
251 (args-type-optional atype)
254 (values :too-hairy nil)))))))
256 ;;; Do we want to do a type check?
257 (defun worth-type-check-p (cont)
258 (let ((dest (continuation-dest cont)))
259 (not (or (values-subtypep (continuation-proven-type cont)
260 (continuation-type-to-check cont))
261 (and (combination-p dest)
262 (eq (combination-kind dest) :full)
263 ;; The theory is that the type assertion is from a
264 ;; declaration in (or on) the callee, so the callee
265 ;; should be able to do the check. We want to let
266 ;; the callee do the check, because it is possible
267 ;; that by the time of call that declaration will be
268 ;; changed and we do not want to make people
269 ;; recompile all calls to a function when they were
270 ;; originally compiled with a bad declaration. (See
272 (values-subtypep (continuation-externally-checkable-type cont)
273 (continuation-type-to-check cont)))
274 (and (mv-combination-p dest) ; bug 220
275 (eq (mv-combination-kind dest) :full))))))
277 ;;; Return true if CONT is a continuation whose type the back end is
278 ;;; likely to want to check. Since we don't know what template the
279 ;;; back end is going to choose to implement the continuation's DEST,
280 ;;; we use a heuristic. We always return T unless:
281 ;;; -- nobody uses the value, or
282 ;;; -- safety is totally unimportant, or
283 ;;; -- the continuation is an argument to an unknown function, or
284 ;;; -- the continuation is an argument to a known function that has
285 ;;; no IR2-CONVERT method or :FAST-SAFE templates that are
286 ;;; compatible with the call's type.
288 ;;; We must only return NIL when it is *certain* that a check will not
289 ;;; be done, since if we pass up this chance to do the check, it will
290 ;;; be too late. The penalty for being too conservative is duplicated
291 ;;; type checks. The penalty for erring by being too speculative is
292 ;;; much nastier, e.g. falling through without ever being able to find
293 ;;; an appropriate VOP.
294 (defun probable-type-check-p (cont)
295 (declare (type continuation cont))
296 (let ((dest (continuation-dest cont)))
297 (cond ((or (not dest)
298 (policy dest (zerop safety)))
300 ((basic-combination-p dest)
301 (let ((kind (basic-combination-kind dest)))
302 (cond ((eq cont (basic-combination-fun dest)) t)
305 (and (combination-p dest)
306 (not (values-subtypep ; explicit THE
307 (continuation-externally-checkable-type cont)
308 (continuation-type-to-check cont)))))
310 ((eq kind :error) nil)
311 ;; :ERROR means that we have an invalid syntax of
312 ;; the call and the callee will detect it before
313 ;; thinking about types.
315 ((fun-info-ir2-convert kind) t)
317 (dolist (template (fun-info-templates kind) nil)
318 (when (eq (template-ltn-policy template) :fast-safe)
319 (multiple-value-bind (val win)
320 (valid-fun-use dest (template-type template))
321 (when (or val (not win)) (return t)))))))))
324 ;;; Return a form that we can convert to do a hairy type check of the
325 ;;; specified TYPES. TYPES is a list of the format returned by
326 ;;; CONTINUATION-CHECK-TYPES in the :HAIRY case. In place of the
327 ;;; actual value(s) we are to check, we use 'DUMMY. This constant
328 ;;; reference is later replaced with the actual values continuation.
330 ;;; Note that we don't attempt to check for required values being
331 ;;; unsupplied. Such checking is impossible to efficiently do at the
332 ;;; source level because our fixed-values conventions are optimized
333 ;;; for the common MV-BIND case.
335 ;;; We can always use MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND, since the macro is clever
336 ;;; about binding a single variable.
337 (defun make-type-check-form (types)
338 (let ((temps (make-gensym-list (length types))))
339 `(multiple-value-bind ,temps 'dummy
340 ,@(mapcar (lambda (temp type)
342 (let ((*unparse-fun-type-simplify* t))
343 (type-specifier (second type))))
344 (test (if (first type) `(not ,spec) spec)))
345 `(unless (typep ,temp ',test)
348 ',(type-specifier (third type))))))
353 ;;; Splice in explicit type check code immediately before the node
354 ;;; which is CONT's DEST. This code receives the value(s) that were
355 ;;; being passed to CONT, checks the type(s) of the value(s), then
356 ;;; passes them on to CONT.
357 (defun convert-type-check (cont types)
358 (declare (type continuation cont) (type list types))
359 (with-ir1-environment-from-node (continuation-dest cont)
361 ;; Ensuring that CONT starts a block lets us freely manipulate its uses.
362 (ensure-block-start cont)
364 ;; Make a new continuation and move CONT's uses to it.
365 (let* ((new-start (make-continuation))
366 (dest (continuation-dest cont))
367 (prev (node-prev dest)))
368 (continuation-starts-block new-start)
369 (substitute-continuation-uses new-start cont)
371 ;; Setting TYPE-CHECK in CONT to :DELETED indicates that the
372 ;; check has been done.
373 (setf (continuation-%type-check cont) :deleted)
375 ;; Make the DEST node start its block so that we can splice in
376 ;; the type check code.
377 (when (continuation-use prev)
378 (node-ends-block (continuation-use prev)))
380 (let* ((prev-block (continuation-block prev))
381 (new-block (continuation-block new-start))
382 (dummy (make-continuation)))
384 ;; Splice in the new block before DEST, giving the new block
385 ;; all of DEST's predecessors.
386 (dolist (block (block-pred prev-block))
387 (change-block-successor block prev-block new-block))
389 ;; Convert the check form, using the new block start as START
390 ;; and a dummy continuation as CONT.
391 (ir1-convert new-start dummy (make-type-check-form types))
393 ;; TO DO: Why should this be true? -- WHN 19990601
394 (aver (eq (continuation-block dummy) new-block))
396 ;; KLUDGE: Comments at the head of this function in CMU CL
397 ;; said that somewhere in here we
398 ;; Set the new block's start and end cleanups to the *start*
399 ;; cleanup of PREV's block. This overrides the incorrect
400 ;; default from WITH-IR1-ENVIRONMENT-FROM-NODE.
401 ;; Unfortunately I can't find any code which corresponds to this.
402 ;; Perhaps it was a stale comment? Or perhaps I just don't
403 ;; understand.. -- WHN 19990521
405 (let ((node (continuation-use dummy)))
406 (setf (block-last new-block) node)
407 ;; Change the use to a use of CONT. (We need to use the
408 ;; dummy continuation to get the control transfer right,
409 ;; because we want to go to PREV's block, not CONT's.)
410 (delete-continuation-use node)
411 (add-continuation-use node cont))
412 ;; Link the new block to PREV's block.
413 (link-blocks new-block prev-block))
415 ;; MAKE-TYPE-CHECK-FORM generated a form which checked the type
416 ;; of 'DUMMY, not a real form. At this point we convert to the
417 ;; real form by finding 'DUMMY and overwriting it with the new
418 ;; continuation. (We can find 'DUMMY because no LET conversion
419 ;; has been done yet.) The [mv-]combination code from the
420 ;; mv-bind in the check form will be the use of the new check
421 ;; continuation. We substitute for the first argument of this
423 (let* ((node (continuation-use cont))
424 (args (basic-combination-args node))
425 (victim (first args)))
426 (aver (and (= (length args) 1)
429 (continuation-use victim)))
431 (substitute-continuation new-start victim)))
433 ;; Invoking local call analysis converts this call to a LET.
434 (locall-analyze-component *current-component*))
438 ;;; Emit a type warning for NODE. If the value of NODE is being used
439 ;;; for a variable binding, we figure out which one for source
440 ;;; context. If the value is a constant, we print it specially. We
441 ;;; ignore nodes whose type is NIL, since they are supposed to never
443 (defun emit-type-warning (node)
444 (declare (type node node))
445 (let* ((*compiler-error-context* node)
446 (cont (node-cont node))
447 (atype-spec (type-specifier (continuation-asserted-type cont)))
448 (dtype (node-derived-type node))
449 (dest (continuation-dest cont))
450 (what (when (and (combination-p dest)
451 (eq (combination-kind dest) :local))
452 (let ((lambda (combination-lambda dest))
453 (pos (position-or-lose cont (combination-args dest))))
454 (format nil "~:[A possible~;The~] binding of ~S"
455 (and (continuation-use cont)
456 (eq (functional-kind lambda) :let))
457 (leaf-source-name (elt (lambda-vars lambda)
459 (cond ((eq dtype *empty-type*))
460 ((and (ref-p node) (constant-p (ref-leaf node)))
461 (compiler-warn "~:[This~;~:*~A~] is not a ~<~%~9T~:;~S:~>~% ~S"
462 what atype-spec (constant-value (ref-leaf node))))
465 "~:[Result~;~:*~A~] is a ~S, ~<~%~9T~:;not a ~S.~>"
466 what (type-specifier dtype) atype-spec))))
469 ;;; Loop over all blocks in COMPONENT that have TYPE-CHECK set,
470 ;;; looking for continuations with TYPE-CHECK T. We do two mostly
471 ;;; unrelated things: detect compile-time type errors and determine if
472 ;;; and how to do run-time type checks.
474 ;;; If there is a compile-time type error, then we mark the
475 ;;; continuation and emit a warning if appropriate. This part loops
476 ;;; over all the uses of the continuation, since after we convert the
477 ;;; check, the :DELETED kind will inhibit warnings about the types of
480 ;;; If a continuation is too complex to be checked by the back end, or
481 ;;; is better checked with explicit code, then convert to an explicit
482 ;;; test. Assertions that can checked by the back end are passed
483 ;;; through. Assertions that can't be tested are flamed about and
484 ;;; marked as not needing to be checked.
486 ;;; If we determine that a type check won't be done, then we set
487 ;;; TYPE-CHECK to :NO-CHECK. In the non-hairy cases, this is just to
488 ;;; prevent us from wasting time coming to the same conclusion again
489 ;;; on a later iteration. In the hairy case, we must indicate to LTN
490 ;;; that it must choose a safe implementation, since IR2 conversion
491 ;;; will choke on the check.
493 ;;; The generation of the type checks is delayed until all the type
494 ;;; check decisions have been made because the generation of the type
495 ;;; checks creates new nodes whose derived types aren't always updated
496 ;;; which may lead to inappropriate template choices due to the
497 ;;; modification of argument types.
498 (defun generate-type-checks (component)
500 (do-blocks (block component)
501 (when (block-type-check block)
502 (do-nodes (node cont block)
503 (let ((type-check (continuation-type-check cont)))
504 (unless (member type-check '(nil :deleted))
505 (let ((atype (continuation-asserted-type cont)))
507 (unless (values-types-equal-or-intersect
508 (node-derived-type use) atype)
509 (unless (policy node (= inhibit-warnings 3))
510 (emit-type-warning use))))))
511 (when (eq type-check t)
512 (cond ((worth-type-check-p cont)
513 (conts (cons cont (not (probable-type-check-p cont)))))
514 ((probable-type-check-p cont)
515 (setf (continuation-%type-check cont) :deleted))
517 (setf (continuation-%type-check cont) :no-check))))))
518 (setf (block-type-check block) nil)))
519 (dolist (cont (conts))
520 (destructuring-bind (cont . force-hairy) cont
521 (multiple-value-bind (check types)
522 (continuation-check-types cont force-hairy)
526 (convert-type-check cont types))
528 (let* ((context (continuation-dest cont))
529 (*compiler-error-context* context))
530 (when (policy context (>= safety inhibit-warnings))
532 "type assertion too complex to check:~% ~S."
533 (type-specifier (continuation-asserted-type cont)))))
534 (setf (continuation-%type-check cont) :deleted)))))))