Auditing the remaining cts baseline for R7 exposed real contract gaps hiding
among the model residue — all fixed to reference behavior:
- stale no-ratio-era stubs: numerator/denominator now work over jolt's exact
rationals (non-ratio is the Ratio cast failure); rational? includes decimals
- casts and pending: peek/pop demand an IPersistentStack (pop nil is nil),
realized? demands an IPending (a plain list/range throws), transient demands
an editable COLLECTION (non-colls throw; the RFC 0003 sorted/list/seq
superset keeps the copy-on-write fallback), empty on a plain record throws
- nil and empties: (nth nil i) is nil, (nth nil i d) is d, a nil index is NPE,
keys/vals of anything empty are nil, (conj nil) is nil
- lookups: contains? on a string is index-only (other keys IAE), get on an
array is lenient (nth still throws), a VECTOR invocation has nth semantics
(([1 2] 5) throws — call position and jolt-invoke both)
- into only transients editable collections; a PersistentQueue/sorted target
folds through conj (RT's IEditableCollection split)
- numbers: number?/num accept BigDecimal, quot/rem throw on an Infinite/NaN
quotient, even?/odd? demand integers
- ordering: keywords compare namespace-first with nil first (Symbol.compareTo)
- misc: run! honors reduced, eval self-evaluates non-form values, intern
demands an existing namespace, counted? excludes strings, seqable? includes
arrays, shuffle rejects maps, sort-by rejects a collection comparator,
when-let demands one binding pair, case*/deftype*/letfn*/reify*/& are
special symbols
Two mis-certified corpus rows fixed (they threw on the JVM too and hid in the
tolerated bucket): a raw \d string escape and duplicate literal map keys.
SPEC.md gains the baseline-traceability section: every one of the 146
remaining suite failures maps to a documented divergence (integer-box,
no-single-float, RFC 0003 transients, seq/chunking model, stm-refs,
parse-uuid strictness, vec-array adoption). cts baseline 5955 -> 6042 pass,
5 errors, 30 namespaces. 9 JVM-certified corpus rows.
byte/short/int/long/char silently wrapped or passed out-of-range values
through; the JVM range-checks (RT.byteCast family). One checked-cast
helper now carries the ranges: a double range-checks ITSELF before
truncating ((byte 1.1) is 1, (byte 127.000001) throws), NaN casts to 0,
ratios and bigdecs truncate, a non-number is CCE, and the throw carries
the JVM message. float range-checks against Float/MAX_VALUE. The
unchecked-* casts now genuinely wrap and sign-fold ((unchecked-byte 200)
is -56 — the old bit-and lost the sign) with doubles saturating like
Java's conversions; unchecked-long/int are host natives. double/float of
a bigdec convert instead of crashing. The no-single-float residue stays
accepted (SPEC.md).
Also fixes#290: a binary built by the SELF-CONTAINED joltc died with
'variable var-deref is not bound' when a namespace loaded at runtime.
The in-process build compiled flat.ss against a clean copy-environment,
which orphans every top-level define in locations the binary's runtime
eval can't see. It now compiles against the default interaction
environment (defines land in the real symbol cells, same as the legacy
fresh-Chez path) and a generated prologue pre-binds each kernel name the
runtime redefines to its kernel value, so the earliest boot reads match
the legacy path's primitive references. requiring-resolve is implemented
(the issue's dynamic-require pattern), and the release workflow smokes a
runtime require in a built binary.
Cast namespaces byte/short/int/long/char now fully clean; cts baseline
5805 -> 5857 pass, 67 baselined namespaces. 7 JVM-certified corpus rows.
Arithmetic and comparisons lowered to raw Chez ops, so an operand outside
Chez's tower (BigDecimal) crashed with a raw condition, and Chez contagion
leaked: (* 1.0 0) gave exact 0 where the JVM gives 0.0, (* ##Inf 0) gave 0
instead of ##NaN, (/ 1 0) raised an untyped error.
One seam now (host/chez/seq.ss): call position emits jolt-n* macros with the
both-Chez-numbers fast path open-coded; value position folds through the same
binary ops. Anything outside the tower falls to per-op slow hooks that
java/bigdec.ss extends, so bigdec arithmetic works in every position (the old
static-only :bigdec typing limitation is gone). JVM rules patched into the
fast path: a double operand wins, an exact zero divisor throws
ArithmeticException while a double zero divisor yields Inf/NaN, quot/rem/mod
cover ratios and doubles, min/max return the original operand with NaN
winning, a nil operand is NPE and a non-number CCE, zero-arg -// throw
ArityException at runtime instead of failing expansion.
Also: with-precision now binds *math-context* and bigdec results round with
real RoundingMode semantics (UNNECESSARY throws; division rounds to precision
instead of throwing); rationalize goes through the shortest decimal print
like BigDecimal.valueOf (the identity stub is gone); ratios coerce to bigdec
like Numbers.toBigDecimal; min/max int-literal operands no longer coerce to
flonum in the numeric pass.
Perf neutral: fib and seq benches unchanged (the fast path is two type checks
the optimizer folds); hinted fl/fx paths untouched. 19 JVM-certified corpus
rows; cts baseline 5614->5730 pass, 192->88 errors, 84->79 baselined
namespaces.
Review found (< 1M 2M) worked but (min 1M 2M) threw — incoherent. Wire min/max
the same way as the other ops: value-position jolt-min/jolt-max shims (new in
seq.ss, added to core-value-procs) and call-position via bd-spec/bd-ops ->
jbd-min/jbd-max.
min/max return the original operand by value, not a coerced copy, matching
Clojure: (min 1M 2.0) -> 1M, (max 1M 2.0) -> 2.0, (min 1.50M 2M) -> 1.50M; a tie
keeps the second operand ((max 1.5M 1.50M) -> 1.50M). bigdec mixed with a flonum
in call position stays in the documented :any/contagion gap (value position
handles it). Re-mint; 6 more JVM-certified rows.
A direct (+ 1.5M 2.5M) emits a raw Chez + that rejects the bigdec record. Rather
than guard every arithmetic call site (measured 2-4x on unhinted fixnum loops),
let the analyzer dispatch where it can prove the type.
jolt.passes.numeric seeds a :bigdec kind from the M-literal and flows it through
let/loop/if like the existing :double/:long kinds; an arithmetic/comparison invoke
whose operands are all bigdec (integer literals allowed) gets :num-kind :bigdec.
The back end (bd-ops + emit-numeric) lowers those to the bigdec.ss engine
(jbd-add/-sub/-mul/-div, jbd-lt?/…, jbd-zero?/-pos?/-neg?, jbd-quot/-rem).
Zero cost on non-bigdec code: with no bigdec literals present the kind never
arises, so emission is byte-identical — the re-mint leaves prelude.ss unchanged,
only image.ss (the compiler) moves. Gaps (filed): a bigdec mixed with a flonum in
call position, and a bigdec the analyzer types :any, still hit the raw op and
throw; use value position or a literal-typed let.
Re-mint (numeric/backend are seed sources). 16 JVM-certified corpus rows.
bigdec values existed but +,-,*,/ and compare threw — the header even said
"arithmetic contagion is not modelled". Add the scale-aware engine on the
{unscaled, scale} pair (jbd-add/-sub/-mul/-div + comparison helpers) following
java.math.BigDecimal's rules: add/sub align to the larger scale, multiply adds
scales, divide gives the exact quotient at minimal scale or throws
ArithmeticException on a non-terminating expansion. Clojure contagion: a bigdec
mixed with an integer stays bigdec, a flonum operand wins (result is a double).
Wire it into the value-position shims only — jolt-add/-sub/-mul/-div (what
(reduce + bigs)/(apply * bigs) lower to) and compare — so the inlined native hot
path is untouched. A call-position (+ 1.5M 2.5M) still reaches the raw Chez op;
that needs the analyzer's :bigdec type (next).
Runtime .ss only, no re-mint. 13 JVM-certified corpus rows.
The host/chez directory mixed jolt's own runtime (value model, seq, reader,
vars, ns, multimethods) with the shims that emulate the JVM: java.* / javax.*
classes, clojure.lang interfaces, and the host-class registry they hang off.
Move that JVM-emulation layer into host/chez/java/ so it reads as a distinct
unit instead of being interleaved with the platform runtime.
Moved (content unchanged): host-static, host-static-methods,
host-static-classes, host-class, dot-forms, records-interop, byte-buffer,
io, io-streams, inst-time, java-time, bigdec, natives-queue, natives-str,
natives-array, math, concurrency, async, ffi.
The load paths in rt.ss/cli.ss and the build.ss runtime manifest are updated
to point at java/; the build inliner follows the (load ...) strings, so the
AOT path needs no other change. All runtime shims, no seed source touched
(the three .clj edits are doc comments), so no re-mint.
Gate green: make test (selfhost fixpoint, certify 0-new, sci 211, infer),
shakesmoke (4 apps byte-identical).