This PR sets up tagged pointers for CPython.
The general idea is to create a separate struct _PyStackRef for everything on the evaluation stack to store the bits. This forces the C compiler to warn us if we try to cast things or pull things out of the struct directly.
Only for free threading: We tag the low bit if something is deferred - that means we skip incref and decref operations on it. This behavior may change in the future if Mark's plans to defer all objects in the interpreter loop pans out.
This implies a strict stack reference discipline is required. ALL incref and decref operations on stackrefs must use the stackref variants. It is unsafe to untag something then do normal incref/decref ops on it.
The new incref and decref variants are called dup and close. They mimic a "handle" API operating on these stackrefs.
Please read Include/internal/pycore_stackref.h for more information!
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Co-authored-by: Mark Shannon <9448417+markshannon@users.noreply.github.com>
- Double max trace size to 256
- Add a dependency on executor_cases.c.h for ceval.o
- Mark `_SPECIALIZE_UNPACK_SEQUENCE` as `TIER_ONE_ONLY`
- Add debug output back showing the optimized trace
- Bunch of cleanups to Tools/cases_generator/
- Generalize the syntax for the type of a stack effect to allow a trailing `*`,
so we can declare something as e.g. `PyCodeObject *`.
- When generating assignments for stack effects,
the type of the value on the stack should be the default (i.e., `PyObject *`)
even when the variable copied to/from it has a different type,
so that an appropriate cast is generated
However, not when the variable is an array --
then the type is taken from the variable (as it is always `PyObject **`).
Introducing a new file, stacking.py, that takes over several responsibilities related to symbolic evaluation of push/pop operations, with more generality.
This mostly extracts a whole bunch of stuff out of generate_cases.py into separate files, but there are a few other things going on here.
- analysis.py: `Analyzer` etc.
- instructions.py: `Instruction` etc.
- flags.py: `InstructionFlags`, `variable_used`, `variable_used_unspecialized`
- formatting.py: `Formatter` etc.
- Rename parser.py to parsing.py, to avoid conflict with stdlib parser.py
- Blackify most things
- Fix most mypy errors
- Remove output filenames from Generator state, add them to `write_instructions()` etc.
- Fix unit tests
Mark Shannon
Ken Jin
Irit Katriel
Guido van Rossum
Dong-hee Na