/* * stack.c * * The Lisp evaluation stack. * * Stack frames could be implemented in cons space; indeed, the stack * could simply be an assoc list consed onto the front of the environment. * But such a stack would be costly to search. The design sketched here, * with stack frames as special objects, SHOULD be substantially more * efficient, but does imply we need to generalise the idea of cons pages * with freelists to a more general 'equal sized object pages', so that * allocating/freeing stack frames can be more efficient. * * (c) 2017 Simon Brooke * Licensed under GPL version 2.0, or, at your option, any later version. */ #include #include "consspaceobject.h" #include "conspage.h" #include "lispops.h" #include "print.h" #include "stack.h" #include "vectorspace.h" /** * get the actual stackframe object from this `pointer`, or NULL if * `pointer` is not a stackframe pointer. */ struct stack_frame *get_stack_frame( struct cons_pointer pointer ) { struct stack_frame *result = NULL; fputws ( L"get_stack_frame: about to get a pointer to the vector space object\n", stderr ); struct vector_space_object *vso = pointer2cell( pointer ).payload.vectorp.address; fputws( L"get_stack_frame: got a pointer, about to test it\n", stderr ); if ( vectorpointp( pointer ) ) { // && stackframep(vso)){ fputws( L"get_stack_frame: pointer is good, about to set the result\n", stderr ); result = ( struct stack_frame * ) &( vso->payload ); fputws( L"get_stack_frame: all good, returning\n", stderr ); } else { fputws( L"get_stack_frame: fail, returning NULL\n", stderr ); } return result; } /** * Make an empty stack frame, and return it. * @param previous the current top-of-stack; * @param env the environment in which evaluation happens. * @return the new frame, or NULL if memory is exhausted. */ struct cons_pointer make_empty_frame( struct cons_pointer previous ) { fputws( L"Entering make_empty_frame\n", stderr ); struct cons_pointer result = make_vso( STACKFRAMETAG, sizeof( struct stack_frame ) ); if ( !nilp( result ) ) { fputws( L"make_empty_frame: about to call get_stack_frame\n", stderr ); struct stack_frame *frame = get_stack_frame( result ); /* * TODO: later, pop a frame off a free-list of stack frames */ fwprintf( stderr, L"make_empty_frame: about to set previous to %4.4s\n", pointer2cell( previous ).tag ); frame->previous = previous; fputws( L"make_empty_frame: about to call inc_ref\n", stderr ); inc_ref( previous ); /* * clearing the frame with memset would probably be slightly quicker, but * this is clear. */ frame->more = NIL; frame->function = NIL; frame->args = 0; fputws( L"make_empty_frame: about to initialise arg registers\n", stderr ); for ( int i = 0; i < args_in_frame; i++ ) { set_reg( frame, i, NIL ); } } fputws( L"Leaving make_empty_frame\n", stderr ); return result; } /** * Allocate a new stack frame with its previous pointer set to this value, * its arguments set up from these args, evaluated in this env. * @param previous the current top-of-stack; * @args the arguments to load into this frame; * @param env the environment in which evaluation happens. * @return the new frame, or an exception if one occurred while building it. */ struct cons_pointer make_stack_frame( struct cons_pointer previous, struct cons_pointer args, struct cons_pointer env ) { fputws( L"Entering make_stack_frame\n", stderr ); struct cons_pointer result = make_empty_frame( previous ); if ( nilp( result ) ) { /* i.e. out of memory */ result = make_exception( c_string_to_lisp_string( "Memory exhausted." ), previous ); } else { struct stack_frame *frame = get_stack_frame( result ); for ( frame->args = 0; frame->args < args_in_frame && consp( args ); frame->args++ ) { /* iterate down the arg list filling in the arg slots in the * frame. When there are no more slots, if there are still args, * stash them on more */ struct cons_space_object cell = pointer2cell( args ); /* * TODO: if we were running on real massively parallel hardware, * each arg except the first should be handed off to another * processor to be evaled in parallel; but see notes here: * https://github.com/simon-brooke/post-scarcity/wiki/parallelism */ struct cons_pointer arg_frame_pointer = make_empty_frame( result ); inc_ref( arg_frame_pointer ); if ( nilp( arg_frame_pointer ) ) { result = make_exception( c_string_to_lisp_string ( "Memory exhausted." ), previous ); break; } else { struct stack_frame *arg_frame = get_stack_frame( arg_frame_pointer ); set_reg( arg_frame, 0, cell.payload.cons.car ); struct cons_pointer val = lisp_eval( arg_frame, arg_frame_pointer, env ); if ( exceptionp( val ) ) { result = val; break; } else { set_reg( frame, frame->args, val ); } dec_ref( arg_frame_pointer ); args = cell.payload.cons.cdr; } } if ( !exceptionp( result ) ) { if ( consp( args ) ) { /* if we still have args, eval them and stick the values on `more` */ struct cons_pointer more = eval_forms( get_stack_frame( previous ), previous, args, env ); frame->more = more; inc_ref( more ); } #ifdef DEBUG dump_frame( stderr, result ); #endif } } fputws( L"Leaving make_stack_frame\n", stderr ); return result; } /** * A 'special' frame is exactly like a normal stack frame except that the * arguments are unevaluated. * @param previous the previous stack frame; * @param args a list of the arguments to be stored in this stack frame; * @param env the execution environment; * @return a new special frame. */ struct cons_pointer make_special_frame( struct cons_pointer previous, struct cons_pointer args, struct cons_pointer env ) { fputws( L"Entering make_special_frame\n", stderr ); struct cons_pointer result = make_empty_frame( previous ); if ( nilp( result ) ) { /* i.e. out of memory */ result = make_exception( c_string_to_lisp_string( "Memory exhausted." ), previous ); } else { struct stack_frame *frame = get_stack_frame( result ); for ( frame->args = 0; frame->args < args_in_frame && !nilp( args ); frame->args++ ) { /* iterate down the arg list filling in the arg slots in the * frame. When there are no more slots, if there are still args, * stash them on more */ struct cons_space_object cell = pointer2cell( args ); set_reg( frame, frame->args, cell.payload.cons.car ); args = cell.payload.cons.cdr; } if ( !exceptionp( result ) ) { if ( consp( args ) ) { frame->more = args; inc_ref( args ); } #ifdef DEBUG dump_frame( stderr, result ); #endif } } fputws( L"Leaving make_special_frame\n", stderr ); return result; } /** * Free this stack frame. */ void free_stack_frame( struct stack_frame *frame ) { /* * TODO: later, push it back on the stack-frame freelist */ for ( int i = 0; i < args_in_frame; i++ ) { dec_ref( frame->arg[i] ); } if ( !nilp( frame->more ) ) { dec_ref( frame->more ); } free( frame ); } /** * Dump a stackframe to this stream for debugging * @param output the stream * @param frame_pointer the pointer to the frame */ void dump_frame( FILE * output, struct cons_pointer frame_pointer ) { struct stack_frame *frame = get_stack_frame( frame_pointer ); if ( frame != NULL ) { for ( int arg = 0; arg < frame->args; arg++ ) { struct cons_space_object cell = pointer2cell( frame->arg[arg] ); fwprintf( output, L"Arg %d:\t%c%c%c%c\tcount: %10u\tvalue: ", arg, cell.tag.bytes[0], cell.tag.bytes[1], cell.tag.bytes[2], cell.tag.bytes[3], cell.count ); print( output, frame->arg[arg] ); fputws( L"\n", output ); } fputws( L"More: \t", output ); print( output, frame->more ); fputws( L"\n", output ); } } void dump_stack_trace( FILE * output, struct cons_pointer pointer ) { if ( exceptionp( pointer ) ) { print( output, pointer2cell( pointer ).payload.exception.message ); fwprintf( output, L"\n" ); dump_stack_trace( output, pointer2cell( pointer ).payload.exception.frame ); } else { while ( vectorpointp( pointer ) && stackframep( pointer_to_vso( pointer ) ) ) { dump_frame( output, pointer ); pointer = get_stack_frame( pointer )->previous; } } } /** * Fetch a pointer to the value of the local variable at this index. */ struct cons_pointer fetch_arg( struct stack_frame *frame, unsigned int index ) { struct cons_pointer result = NIL; if ( index < args_in_frame ) { result = frame->arg[index]; } else { struct cons_pointer p = frame->more; for ( int i = args_in_frame; i < index; i++ ) { p = pointer2cell( p ).payload.cons.cdr; } result = pointer2cell( p ).payload.cons.car; } return result; }