This information can be used to specialize such calls, e.g.
- report location of unsound calls (done for reflect.NewAt)
- exploit argument information (done for constant 'dir' parameter to reflect.ChanOf)
+ tests.
R=crawshaw
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/14517046
Since the Go runtime treats it specially, so must the pointer analysis.
Details:
- Combine object.{val,typ} fields into 'data interface{}'.
It may now hold a string, describing an instrinsically
allocated object such as the command-line args.
- extend Label accordingly; add Label.ReflectType() accessor.
Also: document pointer analysis algorithm classification.
R=crawshaw
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/14156043
(reflect.Value).Send
(reflect.Value).TrySend
(reflect.Value).Recv
(reflect.Value).TryRecv
(reflect.Type).ChanOf
(reflect.Type).In
(reflect.Type).Out
reflect.Indirect
reflect.MakeChan
Also:
- specialize genInvoke when the receiver is a reflect.Type under the
assumption that there's only one possible concrete type. This
makes all reflect.Type operations context-sensitive since the calls
are no longer dynamic.
- Rename all variables to match the actual parameter names used in
the reflect API.
- Add pointer.Config.Reflection flag
(exposed in oracle as --reflect, default false) to enable reflection.
It currently adds about 20% running time. I'll make it true after
the presolver is implemented.
- Simplified worklist datatype and solver main loop slightly
(~10% speed improvement).
- Use addLabel() utility to add a label to a PTS.
(Working on my 3 yr old 2x2GHz+4GB Mac vs 8x4GHz+24GB workstation,
one really notices the cost of pointer analysis.
Note to self: time to implement presolver.)
R=crawshaw
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/13242062
Core:
reflect.TypeOf
reflect.ValueOf
reflect.Zero
reflect.Value.Interface
Maps:
(reflect.Value).MapIndex
(reflect.Value).MapKeys
(reflect.Value).SetMapIndex
(*reflect.rtype).Elem
(*reflect.rtype).Key
+ tests:
pointer/testdata/mapreflect.go.
oracle/testdata/src/main/reflection.go.
Interface objects (T, V...) have been renamed "tagged objects".
Abstraction: we model reflect.Value similar to
interface{}---as a pointer that points only to tagged
objects---but a reflect.Value may also point to an "indirect
tagged object", one in which the payload V is of type *T not T.
These are required because reflect.Values can hold lvalues,
e.g. when derived via Field() or Elem(), though we won't use
them till we get to structs and pointers.
Solving: each reflection intrinsic defines a new constraint
and resolution rule. Because of the nature of reflection,
generalizing across types, the resolution rules dynamically
create additional complex constraints during solving, where
previously only simple (copy) constraints were created.
This requires some solver changes:
The work done before the main solver loop (to attach new
constraints to the graph) is now done before each iteration,
in processNewConstraints.
Its loop over constraints is broken into two passes:
the first handles base (addr-of) constraints,
the second handles simple and complex constraints.
constraint.init() has been inlined. The only behaviour that
varies across constraints is ptr()
Sadly this will pessimize presolver optimisations, when we get
there; such is the price of reflection.
Objects: reflection intrinsics create objects (i.e. cause
memory allocations) with no SSA operation. We will represent
them as the cgnode of the instrinsic (e.g. reflect.New), so we
extend Labels and node.data to represent objects as a product
(not sum) of ssa.Value and cgnode and pull this out into its
own type, struct object. This simplifies a number of
invariants and saves space. The ntObject flag is now
represented by obj!=nil; the other flags are moved into
object.
cgnodes are now always recorded in objects/Labels for which it
is appropriate (all but those for globals, constants and the
shared contours for functions).
Also:
- Prepopulate the flattenMemo cache to consider reflect.Value
a fake pointer, not a struct.
- Improve accessors and documentation on type Label.
- @conctypes assertions renamed @types (since dyn. types needn't be concrete).
- add oracle 'describe' test on an interface (missing, an oversight).
R=crawshaw
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/13418048
Previously, if the result was not wanted, the received
(value, ok) tuple had no type for 'value'.
Now it is always set to the channel's element type.
Also: set the position on such receive instructions to that of
the = or := token, and document it.
+ (indirect) test via pointer analysis.
R=crawshaw, gri
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/12956052
