There were several issues with ISLE's existing error reporting
implementation.
- When using Miette for more readable error reports, it would panic if
errors were reported from multiple files in the same run.
- Miette is pretty heavy-weight for what we're doing, with a lot of
dependencies.
- The `Error::Errors` enum variant led to normalization steps in many
places, to avoid using that variant to represent a single error.
This commit:
- replaces Miette with codespan-reporting
- gets rid of a bunch of cargo-vet exemptions
- replaces the `Error::Errors` variant with a new `Errors` type
- removes source info from `Error` variants so they're easy to construct
- adds source info only when formatting `Errors`
- formats `Errors` with a custom `Debug` impl
- shares common code between ISLE's callers, islec and cranelift-codegen
- includes a source snippet even with fancy-errors disabled
I tried to make this a series of smaller commits but I couldn't find any
good split points; everything was too entangled with everything else.
This PR fixes#4066: it modifies the Cranelift `build.rs` workflow to
invoke the ISLE DSL compiler on every compilation, rather than only
when the user specifies a special "rebuild ISLE" feature.
The main benefit of this change is that it vastly simplifies the mental
model required of developers, and removes a bunch of failure modes
we have tried to work around in other ways. There is now just one
"source of truth", the ISLE source itself, in the repository, and so there
is no need to understand a special "rebuild" step and how to handle
merge errors. There is no special process needed to develop the compiler
when modifying the DSL. And there is no "noise" in the git history produced
by constantly-regenerated files.
The two main downsides we discussed in #4066 are:
- Compile time could increase, by adding more to the "meta" step before the main build;
- It becomes less obvious where the source definitions are (everything becomes
more "magic"), which makes exploration and debugging harder.
This PR addresses each of these concerns:
1. To maintain reasonable compile time, it includes work to cut down the
dependencies of the `cranelift-isle` crate to *nothing* (only the Rust stdlib),
in the default build. It does this by putting the error-reporting bits
(`miette` crate) under an optional feature, and the logging (`log` crate) under
a feature-controlled macro, and manually writing an `Error` impl rather than
using `thiserror`. This completely avoids proc macros and the `syn` build slowness.
The user can still get nice errors out of `miette`: this is enabled by specifying
a Cargo feature `--features isle-errors`.
2. To allow the user to optionally inspect the generated source, which nominally
lives in a hard-to-find path inside `target/` now, this PR adds a feature `isle-in-source-tree`
that, as implied by the name, moves the target for ISLE generated source into
the source tree, at `cranelift/codegen/isle_generated_source/`. It seems reasonable
to do this when an explicit feature (opt-in) is specified because this is how ISLE regeneration
currently works as well. To prevent surprises, if the feature is *not* specified, the
build fails if this directory exists.
* Update to clap 3.0
This commit migrates all CLI commands internally used in this project
from structopt/clap2 to clap 3. The intent here is to ensure that we're
using maintained versions of the dependencies as structopt and clap 2
are less maintained nowadays. Most transitions were pretty
straightforward and mostly dealing with structopt/clap3 differences.
* Fix a number of `cargo deny` errors
This commit fixes a few errors around duplicate dependencies which
arose from the prior update to clap3. This also uses a new feature in
`deny.toml`, `skip-tree`, which allows having a bit more targeted
ignores for skips of duplicate version checks. This showed a few more
locations in Wasmtime itself where we could update some dependencies.
Add support for implicit type conversions to ISLE.
This feature allows the DSL user to register to the compiler that a
particular term (used as a constructor or extractor) converts from one
type to another. The compiler will then *automatically* insert this term
whenever a type mismatch involving that specific pair of types occurs.
This significantly cleans up many uses of the ISLE DSL. For example,
when defining the compiler backends, we often have newtypes like `Gpr`
around `Reg` (signifying a particular type of register); we can define
a conversion from Gpr to Reg automatically.
Conversions can also have side-effects, as long as these side-effects
are idempotent. For example, `put_value_in_reg` in a compiler backend
has the effect of marking the value as used, causing codegen to produce
it, and assigns a register to the value; but multiple invocations of
this will return the same register for the same value. Thus it is safe
to use it as an implicit conversion that may be invoked multiple times.
This is documented in the ISLE-Cranelift integration document.
This PR also adds some testing infrastructure to the ISLE compiler,
checking that "pass" tests pass through the DSL compiler, "fail" tests
do not, and "link" tests are able to generate code and link that code
with corresponding Rust code.
