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pennae
47baa9d43c make Pos smaller
reduces peak hep memory use on eval of our test system from 264.4MB to 242.3MB,
possibly also a slight performance boost.

theoretically memory use could be cut down by another eight bytes per Pos on
average by turning it into a tuple containing an index into a global base
position table with row and column offsets, but that doesn't seem worth the
effort at this point.
2022-03-08 23:30:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
df552ff53e Remove std::string alias (for real this time)
Also use std::string_view in a few more places.
2022-02-25 16:13:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1ac2664472 Remove std::vector alias 2022-02-21 16:32:34 +01:00
pennae
1daf1babf9 fix nix repl not overriding existing bindings in :a
previously :a would override old bindings of a name with new values if the added
set contained names that were already bound. in nix 2.6 this doesn't happen any
more, which is potentially confusing.

fixes #6041
2022-02-04 15:27:59 +01:00
pennae
7d4cc5515c defer formals duplicate check for incresed efficiency all round
if we defer the duplicate argument check for lambda formals we can use more
efficient data structures for the formals set, and we can get rid of the
duplication of formals names to boot. instead of a list of formals we've seen
and a set of names we'll keep a vector instead and run a sort+dupcheck step
before moving the parsed formals into a newly created lambda. this improves
performance on search and rebuild by ~1%, pure parsing gains more (about 4%).

this does reorder lambda arguments in the xml output, but the output is still
stable. this shouldn't be a problem since argument order is not semantically
important anyway.

 before

  nix search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      8.550 s ±  0.060 s    [User: 6.470 s, System: 1.664 s]
    Range (min … max):    8.435 s …  8.666 s    20 runs

  nix eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):     346.7 ms ±   2.1 ms    [User: 312.4 ms, System: 34.2 ms]
    Range (min … max):   343.8 ms … 353.4 ms    20 runs

  nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.720 s ±  0.031 s    [User: 2.415 s, System: 0.231 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.662 s …  2.780 s    20 runs

 after

  nix search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      8.462 s ±  0.063 s    [User: 6.398 s, System: 1.661 s]
    Range (min … max):    8.339 s …  8.542 s    20 runs

  nix eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):     329.1 ms ±   1.4 ms    [User: 296.8 ms, System: 32.3 ms]
    Range (min … max):   326.1 ms … 330.8 ms    20 runs

  nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.687 s ±  0.035 s    [User: 2.392 s, System: 0.228 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.626 s …  2.754 s    20 runs
2022-01-19 17:07:29 +01:00
pennae
9ac836d1d6 don't use Symbols for strings
string expressions by and large do not need the benefits a Symbol gives us,
instead they pollute the symbol table and cause unnecessary overhead for almost
all strings. the one place we can think of that benefits from them (attrpaths
with expressions) extracts the benefit in the parser, which we'll have to touch
anyway when changing ExprString to hold strings.

this gives a sizeable improvement on of 3-5% on all benchmarks we've run.

 before

  nix search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      8.844 s ±  0.045 s    [User: 6.750 s, System: 1.663 s]
    Range (min … max):    8.758 s …  8.922 s    20 runs

  nix eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):     367.4 ms ±   3.3 ms    [User: 332.3 ms, System: 35.2 ms]
    Range (min … max):   364.0 ms … 375.2 ms    20 runs

  nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.810 s ±  0.030 s    [User: 2.517 s, System: 0.225 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.742 s …  2.854 s    20 runs

 after

  nix search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      8.533 s ±  0.068 s    [User: 6.485 s, System: 1.642 s]
    Range (min … max):    8.404 s …  8.657 s    20 runs

  nix eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):     347.6 ms ±   3.1 ms    [User: 313.1 ms, System: 34.5 ms]
    Range (min … max):   343.3 ms … 354.6 ms    20 runs

  nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.709 s ±  0.032 s    [User: 2.414 s, System: 0.232 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.655 s …  2.788 s    20 runs
2022-01-19 14:48:00 +01:00
pennae
0a7746603e remove ExprIndStr
it can be replaced with StringToken if we add another bit if information to
StringToken, namely whether this string should take part in indentation scanning
or not. since all escaping terminates indentation scanning we need to set this
bit only for the non-escaped IND_STRING rule.

this improves performance by about 1%.

 before

  nix search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      8.880 s ±  0.048 s    [User: 6.809 s, System: 1.643 s]
    Range (min … max):    8.781 s …  8.993 s    20 runs

  nix eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):     375.0 ms ±   2.2 ms    [User: 339.8 ms, System: 35.2 ms]
    Range (min … max):   371.5 ms … 379.3 ms    20 runs

  nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.831 s ±  0.040 s    [User: 2.536 s, System: 0.225 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.769 s …  2.912 s    20 runs

 after

  nix search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      8.832 s ±  0.048 s    [User: 6.757 s, System: 1.657 s]
    Range (min … max):    8.743 s …  8.921 s    20 runs

  nix eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):     367.4 ms ±   3.2 ms    [User: 332.7 ms, System: 34.7 ms]
    Range (min … max):   364.6 ms … 374.6 ms    20 runs

  nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.810 s ±  0.030 s    [User: 2.517 s, System: 0.225 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.742 s …  2.854 s    20 runs
2022-01-19 13:39:42 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ca5baf2392 Turn mkString(Symbol) into a method 2022-01-04 19:09:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
263a8d293c Remove non-method mk<X> functions 2022-01-04 18:40:39 +01:00
Yorick van Pelt
a4ab0a74d9
Fix accidental O(n^2 * log n) performance in NixRepl::addAttrsToScope
Only sort once, after adding all of the attrs first. This reduces my
`nix repl '<nixpkgs>'` loading time from 1.07s to 103ms.

Fixes #5823
2021-12-27 13:18:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
cc6406cc59 Merge branch 'better-interpolation-error-location' of https://github.com/greedy/nix 2021-12-13 19:20:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bcf4780006 Add level / displacement types 2021-11-04 15:03:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
81e7c40264 Optimize primop calls
We now parse function applications as a vector of arguments rather
than as a chain of binary applications, e.g. 'substring 1 2 "foo"' is
parsed as

  ExprCall { .fun = <substring>, .args = [ <1>, <2>, <"foo"> ] }

rather than

  ExprApp (ExprApp (ExprApp <substring> <1>) <2>) <"foo">

This allows primops to be called immediately (if enough arguments are
supplied) without having to allocate intermediate tPrimOpApp values.

On

  $ nix-instantiate --dry-run '<nixpkgs/nixos/release-combined.nix>' -A nixos.tests.simple.x86_64-linux

this gives a substantial performance improvement:

  user CPU time:      median =      0.9209  mean =      0.9218  stddev =      0.0073  min =      0.9086  max =      0.9340  [rejected, p=0.00000, Δ=-0.21433±0.00677]
  elapsed time:       median =      1.0585  mean =      1.0584  stddev =      0.0024  min =      1.0523  max =      1.0623  [rejected, p=0.00000, Δ=-0.20594±0.00236]

because it reduces the number of tPrimOpApp allocations from 551990 to
42534 (i.e. only small minority of primop calls are partially
applied) which in turn reduces time spent in the garbage collector.
2021-11-04 15:03:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ab35cbd675 StaticEnv: Use std::vector instead of std::map 2021-11-04 15:03:34 +01:00
Andreas Rammhold
cae41eebff libexpr: remove matchAttrs boolean from ExprLambda
The boolean is only used to determine if the formals are set to a
non-null pointer in all our cases. We can get rid of that allocation and
instead just compare the pointer value with NULL. Saving up to
sizeof(bool) + platform specific alignment per ExprLambda instace.
Probably not a lot of memory but perhaps a few kilobyte with nixpkgs?

This also gets rid of a potential issue with dereferencing formals based on
the value of the boolean that didn't have to be aligned with the formals
pointer but was in all our cases.
2021-10-06 17:24:06 +02:00
Geoff Reedy
9d67332e4b Better eval error locations for interpolation and +
Previously, type or coercion errors for string interpolation, path
interpolation, and plus expressions were always reported at the
beginning of the outer expression. This leads to confusing evaluation
error messages making it hard to accurately diagnose and then fix the
error.

For example, errors were reported as follows.

```
cannot coerce an integer to a string
1| let foo = 7; in "bar" + foo
 |                 ^

cannot add a string to an integer
1| let foo = "bar"; in 4 + foo
 |                     ^

cannot coerce an integer to a string
1| let foo = 7; in "x${foo}"
 |                  ^
```

This commit changes the ExprConcatStrings expression vector to store a
sequence of expressions *and* their expansion locations so that error
locations can be reported accurately. For interpolation, the error is
reported at the beginning of the entire `${foo}`, not at the beginning
of `foo` because I thought this was slightly clearer. The previous
errors are now reported as:

```
cannot coerce an integer to a string
1| let foo = 7; in "bar" + foo
 |                         ^

cannot add a string to an integer
1| let foo = "bar"; in 4 + foo
 |                         ^

cannot coerce an integer to a string
1| let foo = 7; in "x${foo}"
 |                   ^
```

The error is reported at this kind of precise location even for
multi-line indented strings.

This probably helps with at least some of the cases mentioned in #561
2021-09-22 20:57:34 -06:00
Maximilian Bosch
7c76964daa
libexpr: misc improvements for proper error position
When working on some more complex Nix code, there are sometimes rather
unhelpful or misleading error messages, especially if coerce-errors are
thrown.

This patch is a first steps towards improving that. I'm happy to file
more changes after that, but I'd like to gather some feedback first.

To summarize, this patch does the following things:

* Attrsets (a.k.a. `Bindings` in `libexpr`) now have a `Pos`. This is
  helpful e.g. to identify which attribute-set in `listToAttrs` is
  invalid.

* The `Value`-struct has a new method named `determinePos` which tries
  to guess the position of a value and falls back to a default if that's
  not possible.

  This can be used to provide better messages if a coercion fails.

* The new `determinePos`-API is used by `builtins.concatMap` now. With
  that change, Nix shows the exact position in the error where a wrong
  value was returned by the lambda.

  To make sure it's still obvious that `concatMap` is the problem,
  another stack-frame was added.

* The changes described above can be added to every other `primop`, but
  first I'd like to get some feedback about the overall approach.
2021-04-13 23:12:38 +02:00
regnat
e2f3b2eb42 Make missing auto-call arguments throw an eval error
The PR #4240 changed messag of the error that was thrown when an auto-called
function was missing an argument.
However this change also changed the type of the error, from `EvalError`
to a new `MissingArgumentError`. This broke hydra which was relying on
an `EvalError` being thrown.

Make `MissingArgumentError` a subclass of `EvalError` to un-break hydra.
2021-02-22 16:13:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8d4268d190 Improve error formatting
Changes:

* The divider lines are gone. These were in practice a bit confusing,
  in particular with --show-trace or --keep-going, since then there
  were multiple lines, suggesting a start/end which wasn't the case.

* Instead, multi-line error messages are now indented to align with
  the prefix (e.g. "error: ").

* The 'description' field is gone since we weren't really using it.

* 'hint' is renamed to 'msg' since it really wasn't a hint.

* The error is now printed *before* the location info.

* The 'name' field is no longer printed since most of the time it
  wasn't very useful since it was just the name of the exception (like
  EvalError). Ideally in the future this would be a unique, easily
  googleable error ID (like rustc).

* "trace:" is now just "…". This assumes error contexts start with
  something like "while doing X".

Example before:

  error: --- AssertionError ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nix
  at: (7:7) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix

       6|
       7|   x = assert false; 1;
        |       ^
       8|

  assertion 'false' failed
  ----------------------------------------------------- show-trace -----------------------------------------------------
  trace: while evaluating the attribute 'x' of the derivation 'hello-2.10'
  at: (192:11) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix

     191|         // (lib.optionalAttrs (!(attrs ? name) && attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)) {
     192|           name = "${attrs.pname}-${attrs.version}";
        |           ^
     193|         } // (lib.optionalAttrs (stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform && !dontAddHostSuffix && (attrs ? name || (attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)))) {

Example after:

  error: assertion 'false' failed

         at: (7:7) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix

              6|
              7|   x = assert false; 1;
               |       ^
              8|

         … while evaluating the attribute 'x' of the derivation 'hello-2.10'

         at: (192:11) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix

            191|         // (lib.optionalAttrs (!(attrs ? name) && attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)) {
            192|           name = "${attrs.pname}-${attrs.version}";
               |           ^
            193|         } // (lib.optionalAttrs (stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform && !dontAddHostSuffix && (attrs ? name || (attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)))) {
2021-01-21 11:02:09 +01:00
Domen Kožar
00f99fdfe6
Merge pull request #4240 from bburdette/2259-error-message
2259 error message - "auto-call" error
2021-01-15 18:26:21 +00:00
Silvan Mosberger
b70d22baca
Replace Value type setters with mk* functions
Move clearValue inside Value

mkInt instead of setInt

mkBool instead of setBool

mkString instead of setString

mkPath instead of setPath

mkNull instead of setNull

mkAttrs instead of setAttrs

mkList instead of setList*

mkThunk instead of setThunk

mkApp instead of setApp

mkLambda instead of setLambda

mkBlackhole instead of setBlackhole

mkPrimOp instead of setPrimOp

mkPrimOpApp instead of setPrimOpApp

mkExternal instead of setExternal

mkFloat instead of setFloat

Add note that the static mk* function should be removed eventually
2020-12-18 21:48:22 +01:00
Ben Burdette
3edfe6090e missing argument error 2020-11-11 09:29:32 -07:00
Ben Burdette
1d43a6e123 use plain errPos instead of nixCode; fix tests 2020-06-23 15:30:13 -06:00
Ben Burdette
e6f93b94fc Merge branch 'master' into caveman-LOCs 2020-06-18 13:07:53 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra
1fb762d11f Get rid of explicit ErrorInfo constructors 2020-06-15 14:06:58 +02:00
Ben Burdette
6a420d672c print LOC for stdin, string args 2020-05-20 22:18:26 -06:00
Ben Burdette
ec870b9c85 new pos format for more errors 2020-05-12 10:52:26 -06:00
Ben Burdette
b93c1bf3d6 fixes to merged code 2020-05-11 15:52:15 -06:00
Ben Burdette
59b1f5c701 Merge branch 'master' into errors-phase-2 2020-05-11 14:35:30 -06:00
Ben Burdette
e2f61263eb uncrustify formatting 2020-04-29 10:14:32 -06:00
Ben Burdette
e4fb9a3849 remove 'format' from Error constructor calls 2020-04-21 17:07:07 -06:00
Domen Kožar
a693a9fa4b
Attach pos to if expression errors 2020-04-09 09:45:15 +02:00
Silvan Mosberger
c34e96f7e0
Make function arguments retain position info
This allows querying the location of function arguments. E.g.

  builtins.unsafeGetAttrPos "x" (builtins.functionArgs ({ x }: null))

  => { column = 57; file = "/home/infinisil/src/nix/inst/test.nix"; line = 1; }
2020-04-02 05:52:52 +02:00
John Ericson
96e6e680c1 Fix extra ; warnings involving MakeError 2019-11-10 11:24:47 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
f3c85f9eb3
Revert "Throw a specific error for incomplete parse errors."
This reverts commit 6498adb002. We don't
actually use IncompleteParseError in 'nix repl'.
2018-05-11 11:40:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
53ec5ac69f
Fix some random -Wconversion warnings 2018-05-02 13:56:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
55aa622fb1
Fix compatibility with latest boost::format 2018-03-14 19:25:09 +01:00
Tim Engler
383afab9ad Modified MakeBinOp to no longer produce its name using concatenation and "##".
Doing so prevents emacs tags from working, as well as makes the code extremely
confusing for a newbie.

In the prior state, if someone wants to find the definition of "ExprApp" for
example, a grep through the code reveals nothing. Since the definition could be
hiding in numerous ".h" files, it's really difficult to find. This personally
took me several hours to figure out.
2018-03-09 03:16:33 +00:00
Jörg Thalheim
2fd8f8bb99 Replace Unicode quotes in user-facing strings by ASCII
Relevant RFC: NixOS/rfcs#4

$ ag -l | xargs sed -i -e "/\"/s/’/'/g;/\"/s/‘/'/g"
2017-07-30 12:32:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
215b70f51e
Revert "Get rid of unicode quotes (#1140)"
This reverts commit f78126bfd6. There
really is no need for such a massive change...
2016-11-26 00:38:01 +01:00
Guillaume Maudoux
f78126bfd6 Get rid of unicode quotes (#1140) 2016-11-25 15:48:27 +01:00
Scott Olson
6498adb002 Throw a specific error for incomplete parse errors.
`nix-repl` will use this for deciding whether to keep waiting for input or
error out right away.
2016-02-24 04:32:21 -06:00
Christian Theune
14ebde5289 First hit at providing support for floats in the language. 2016-01-05 00:40:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
15d2d3c34e Add restricted evaluation mode
If ‘--option restrict-eval true’ is given, the evaluator will throw an
exception if an attempt is made to access any file outside of the Nix
search path. This is primarily intended for Hydra, where we don't want
people doing ‘builtins.readFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa’ or stuff like that.
2015-02-23 15:54:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ecc2c8f464 Improve printing of ASTs 2014-10-20 09:13:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b6809608cc Get rid of some unnecessary ExprConcatStrings nodes in dynamic attrs
This gives a ~18% speedup in NixOS evaluation (after converting
most calls to hasAttr/getAttr to dynamic attrs).
2014-10-05 01:04:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
11849a320e Use proper quotes everywhere 2014-08-20 18:03:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
0960d674d4 Drop ImportError and FindError
We're not catching these anywhere.
2014-06-12 13:00:54 +02:00
Shea Levy
718f20da6d findFile: Realise the context of the path attributes 2014-06-12 12:57:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d8c061e044 Remove ExprBuiltin
It's slower than ExprVar since it doesn't compute a static
displacement. Since we're not using the throw primop in the
implementation of <...> anymore, it's also not really needed.
2014-05-26 17:14:28 +02:00