"super" CC's are "orphans", meaning there is no class CC table that
points at them. Since they are orphans, we should mark the class
reference so that if the cache happens to be used, the class will still
be alive
This patch removes the `VALUE flags` member from the `rb_ast_t` structure making `rb_ast_t` no longer an IMEMO object.
## Background
We are trying to make the Ruby parser generated from parse.y a universal parser that can be used by other implementations such as mruby.
To achieve this, it is necessary to exclude VALUE and IMEMO from parse.y, AST, and NODE.
## Summary (file by file)
- `rubyparser.h`
- Remove the `VALUE flags` member from `rb_ast_t`
- `ruby_parser.c` and `internal/ruby_parser.h`
- Use TypedData_Make_Struct VALUE which wraps `rb_ast_t` `in ast_alloc()` so that GC can manage it
- You can retrieve `rb_ast_t` from the VALUE by `rb_ruby_ast_data_get()`
- Change the return type of `rb_parser_compile_XXXX()` functions from `rb_ast_t *` to `VALUE`
- rb_ruby_ast_new() which internally `calls ast_alloc()` is to create VALUE vast outside ruby_parser.c
- `iseq.c` and `vm_core.h`
- Amend the first parameter of `rb_iseq_new_XXXX()` functions from `rb_ast_body_t *` to `VALUE`
- This keeps the VALUE of AST on the machine stack to prevent being removed by GC
- `ast.c`
- Almost all change is replacement `rb_ast_t *ast` with `VALUE vast` (sorry for the big diff)
- Fix `node_memsize()`
- Now it includes `rb_ast_local_table_link`, `tokens` and script_lines
- `compile.c`, `load.c`, `node.c`, `parse.y`, `proc.c`, `ruby.c`, `template/prelude.c.tmpl`, `vm.c` and `vm_eval.c`
- Follow-up due to the above changes
- `imemo.{c|h}`
- If an object with `imemo_ast` appears, considers it a bug
Co-authored-by: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
When we're searching for CCs, compare the argc and flags for CI rather
than comparing pointers. This means we don't need to store a reference
to the CI, and it also naturally "de-duplicates" CC objects.
We can observe the effect with the following code:
```ruby
require "objspace"
hash = {}
p ObjectSpace.memsize_of(Hash)
eval ("a".."zzz").map { |key|
"hash.merge(:#{key} => 1)"
}.join("; ")
p ObjectSpace.memsize_of(Hash)
```
On master:
```
$ ruby -v test.rb
ruby 3.4.0dev (2024-04-15T16:21:41Z master d019b3baec) [arm64-darwin23]
test.rb:3: warning: assigned but unused variable - hash
3424
527736
```
On this branch:
```
$ make runruby
compiling vm.c
linking miniruby
builtin_binary.inc updated
compiling builtin.c
linking static-library libruby.3.4-static.a
ln -sf ../../rbconfig.rb .ext/arm64-darwin23/rbconfig.rb
linking ruby
ld: warning: ignoring duplicate libraries: '-ldl', '-lobjc', '-lpthread'
RUBY_ON_BUG='gdb -x ./.gdbinit -p' ./miniruby -I./lib -I. -I.ext/common ./tool/runruby.rb --extout=.ext -- --disable-gems ./test.rb
2240
2368
```
Co-authored-by: John Hawthorn <jhawthorn@github.com>
This patch is part of universal parser work.
## Summary
- Decouple VALUE from members below:
- `(struct parser_params *)->debug_lines`
- `(rb_ast_t *)->body.script_lines`
- Instead, they are now `rb_parser_ary_t *`
- They can also be a `(VALUE)FIXNUM` as before to hold line count
- `ISEQ_BODY(iseq)->variable.script_lines` remains VALUE
- In order to do this,
- Add `VALUE script_lines` param to `rb_iseq_new_with_opt()`
- Introduce `rb_parser_build_script_lines_from()` to convert `rb_parser_ary_t *` into `VALUE`
## Other details
- Extend `rb_parser_ary_t *`. It previously could only store `rb_parser_ast_token *`, now can store script_lines, too
- Change tactics of building the top-level `SCRIPT_LINES__` in `yycompile0()`
- Before: While parsing, each line of the script is added to `SCRIPT_LINES__[path]`
- After: After `yyparse(p)`, `SCRIPT_LINES__[path]` will be built from `p->debug_lines`
- Remove the second parameter of `rb_parser_set_script_lines()` to make it simple
- Introduce `script_lines_free()` to be called from `rb_ast_free()` because the GC no longer takes care of the script_lines
- Introduce `rb_parser_string_deep_copy()` in parse.y to maintain script_lines when `rb_ruby_parser_free()` called
- With regard to this, please see *Future tasks* below
## Future tasks
- Decouple IMEMO from `rb_ast_t *`
- This lifts the five-members-restriction of Ruby object,
- So we will be able to move the ownership of the `lex.string_buffer` from parser to AST
- Then we remove `rb_parser_string_deep_copy()` to make the whole thing simple
We don't need to check that the object is pointer to the GC heap in
vm_ccs_free because it is called during sweeping, which does not free
pages so it can never point to an object that is not on the GC heap.
We don't need to check that the object is pointer to the GC heap in
moved_or_living_object_strictly_p because it is called during reference
updating, which does not free pages so it can never point to an object
that is not on the GC heap.
Aaron Patterson
John Hawthorn
HASUMI Hitoshi
Peter Zhu