type checking and source-transforms
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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SBCL |
Confirmed
|
Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
a.
(block nil (let () (funcall #'+ (eval 'nil) (eval '1) (return :good))))
signals type error.
Our policy is to check argument types at the moment of a call. It
disagrees with ANSI, which says that type assertions are put
immediately onto argument expressions, but is easier to implement in
IR1 and is more compatible to type inference, inline expansion,
etc. IR1-transforms automatically keep this policy, but source
transforms for associative functions (such as +), being applied
during IR1-convertion, do not. It may be tolerable for direct calls
(+ x y z), but for (FUNCALL #'+ x y z) it is non-conformant.
b. Another aspect of this problem is efficiency. [x y + z +]
requires less registers than [x y z + +]. This transformation is
currently performed with source transforms, but it would be good to
also perform it in IR1 optimization phase.
Changed in sbcl: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Confirmed |