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2024-03-18use byte indexed locations for PosIdxeldritch horrors
we now keep not a table of all positions, but a table of all origins and their sizes. position indices are now direct pointers into the virtual concatenation of all parsed contents. this slightly reduces memory usage and time spent in the parser, at the cost of not being able to report positions if the total input size exceeds 4GiB. this limit is not unique to nix though, rustc and clang also limit their input to 4GiB (although at least clang refuses to process inputs that are larger, we will not). this new 4GiB limit probably will not cause any problems for quite a while, all of nixpkgs together is less than 100MiB in size and already needs over 700MiB of memory and multiple seconds just to parse. 4GiB worth of input will easily take multiple minutes and over 30GiB of memory without even evaluating anything. if problems *do* arise we can probably recover the old table-based system by adding some tracking to Pos::Origin (or increasing the size of PosIdx outright), but for time being this looks like more complexity than it's worth. since we now need to read the entire input again to determine the line/column of a position we'll make unsafeGetAttrPos slightly lazy: mostly the set it returns is only used to determine the file of origin of an attribute, not its exact location. the thunks do not add measurable runtime overhead. notably this change is necessary to allow changing the parser since apparently nothing supports nix's very idiosyncratic line ending choice of "anything goes", making it very hard to calculate line/column positions in the parser (while byte offsets are very easy). (cherry picked from commit 5d9fdab3de0ee17c71369ad05806b9ea06dfceda) Change-Id: Ie0b2430cb120c09097afa8c0101884d94f4bbf34
2024-03-04Merge pull request #7348 from thufschmitt/dont-use-vlaseldritch horrors
Remove the usage of VLAs in the code (cherry picked from commit ac4431e9d016e62fb5dc9ae36833bd0c6cdadeec) Change-Id: Ifbf5fbfc2e27122362a2aaea4b62c7cf3ca46b1a
2023-06-27Automatically document builtin constantsJohn Ericson
This is done in roughly the same way builtin functions are documented. Also auto-link experimental features for primops, subsuming PR #8371. Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-06-14Remove RegisterPrimOp constructor without support for documentationMichal Sojka
The remaining constructor RegisterPrimOp::RegisterPrimOp(Info && info) allows specifying the documentation in .args and .doc members of the Info structure. Commit 8ec1ba02109e removed all uses of the removed constructor in the nix binary. Here, we remove the constructor completely as well as its use in a plugin test. According to #8515, we didn't promis to maintain compatibility with external plugins. Fixes #8515
2023-04-07Finish converting existing comments for internal API docs (#8146)John Ericson
* Finish converting existing comments for internal API docs 99% of this was just reformatting existing comments. Only two exceptions: - Expanded upon `BuildResult::status` compat note - Split up file-level `symbol-table.hh` doc comments to get per-definition docs Also fixed a few whitespace goofs, turning leading tabs to spaces and removing trailing spaces. Picking up from #8133 * Fix two things from comments * Use triple-backtick not indent for `dumpPath` * Convert GNU-style `\`..'` quotes to markdown style in API docs This will render correctly.
2023-03-31Ensure all headers have `#pragma once` and are in API docsJohn Ericson
`///@file` makes them show up in the internal API dos. A tiny few were missing `#pragma once`.
2022-04-21replace most Pos objects/ptrs with indexes into a position tablepennae
Pos objects are somewhat wasteful as they duplicate the origin file name and input type for each object. on files that produce more than one Pos when parsed this a sizeable waste of memory (one pointer per Pos). the same goes for ptr<Pos> on 64 bit machines: parsing enough source to require 8 bytes to locate a position would need at least 8GB of input and 64GB of expression memory. it's not likely that we'll hit that any time soon, so we can use a uint32_t index to locate positions instead.
2022-03-25Only provide builtin.{getFlake,fetchClosure} is the corresponding ↵Eelco Dolstra
experimental feature is enabled This allows writing fallback code like if builtins ? fetchClosure then builtins.fetchClose { ... } else builtins.storePath ...
2021-09-29libexpr: throw a more helpful eval-error if a builtin is not available due ↵Maximilian Bosch
to a missing feature-flag I found it somewhat confusing to have an error like error: attribute 'getFlake' missing if the required experimental-feature (`flakes`) is not enabled. Instead, I'd expect Nix to throw an error just like it's the case when using e.g. `nix flake` without `flakes` being enabled. With this change, the error looks like this: $ nix-instantiate -E 'builtins.getFlake "nixpkgs"' error: Cannot call 'builtins.getFlake' because experimental Nix feature 'flakes' is disabled. You can enable it via '--extra-experimental-features flakes'. at «string»:1:1: 1| builtins.getFlake "nixpkgs" | ^ I didn't use `settings.requireExperimentalFeature` here on purpose because this doesn't contain a position. Also, it doesn't seem as if we need to catch the error and check for the missing feature here since this already happens at evaluation time.
2020-10-06Add missing #pragma onceEelco Dolstra
2020-08-24Allow primops to have Markdown documentationEelco Dolstra
2020-06-18Don't provide 'getFlake' if the 'flakes' feature is not enabledEelco Dolstra
(cherry picked from commit 0a1d3c1dd311f94e9d1f56e1aa7fe1ab34314ec1)
2020-04-07Backport libfetchers from the flakes branchEelco Dolstra
This provides a pluggable mechanism for defining new fetchers. It adds a builtin function 'fetchTree' that generalizes existing fetchers like 'fetchGit', 'fetchMercurial' and 'fetchTarball'. 'fetchTree' takes a set of attributes, e.g. fetchTree { type = "git"; url = "https://example.org/repo.git"; ref = "some-branch"; rev = "abcdef..."; } The existing fetchers are just wrappers around this. Note that the input attributes to fetchTree are the same as flake input specifications and flake lock file entries. All fetchers share a common cache stored in ~/.cache/nix/fetcher-cache-v1.sqlite. This replaces the ad hoc caching mechanisms in fetchGit and download.cc (e.g. ~/.cache/nix/{tarballs,git-revs*}). This also adds support for Git worktrees (c169ea59049f861aaba429f48b828d0820b74d1d).
2018-04-09Make prim_exec and prim_importNative available to pluginsShea Levy
2018-02-08Allow using RegisterPrimop to define constants.Shea Levy
This enables plugins to add new constants, as well as new primops.
2016-04-14Make primop registration pluggableEelco Dolstra
This way we don't have to put all primops in one giant file.
2004-08-04* Allow primops with more that 1 arguments.Eelco Dolstra
2004-02-04* Use a map to lookup primops.Eelco Dolstra
* Various performance improvements in the evaluator. * Do not link against unused (and missing!) libraries (-lsglr, etc.).
2003-11-19* Refactoring: put the Nix expression evaluator in its own library soEelco Dolstra
that it can be used by multiple programs.