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Re-write the LCB VM#4464

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Like #4457 but with bugfixes.


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This patch adds new constructors for MCError, allowing varargs or va_list forms.
This patch checks to see if the the source and target typeinfos are
the same before doing any further analysis.
This patch contains a significant rework of the LCB VM implementation.

Most notably, individual bytecodes are now described as individual structs,
and the main operations of description (for building), validation and
execution for each bytecode is within the struct.
In order to ensure iterators still work in the new VM, some tweaks were
necessary to the standard library implementations.
The VM needs to be able to check for conformance at times when it
doesn't have access to the type names.
This is required to resolve ambiguity when both sides are undefined.
This overload was ambiguous and could never be called because the chars
form was always chosen instead.
Otherwise, it isn't possible to use uninitialised vars for the
iteration variable.
The case where both were the same (foreign) type wasn't handled.
The case of unbridgeable foreign types (like pointer) wasn't handled so
optional forms of these types weren't usable as parameters as they'd
fail due to the lack of bridging from undefined -> pointer.
Auto-converion of foreign types now happens if they are the same type
or if they share a bridging type. Without this, there is no way to
convert between different types of C integers.
This fixes inout/out parameters misbehaving in some circumstances.
It now handles any foreign type that bridges to MCNumberRef, not just
NumberRefs themselves. This fixes problems when lists contain foreign
number types (like C floats or integers).
The failure to bridge is properly detected.
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livecodefraser commented Sep 8, 2016

Bits of this change are likely to be temporary. In particular, the changes to the way type bridging works should be obsoleted when the type system is re-done.

Things still to be done with this PR:

  • Get all the widgets in the IDE working again (browser in particular)
  • Update the compiler to emit slightly different bytecode for repeat loops
  • Fix the other bugs I haven't found yet

Depending on the browser implementation, this pointer can be null.
The parameter is only used on X11 and is null everywhere else.
There isn't yet the capability to have default initialisers for custom
types.
It needs to be checked against the special value kMCNullTypeInfo.
This reverts commit d581be6.

The underlying cause has been fixed so this assertion can be reinstated.
Not bridging here complicates implementations of various things as they
have to do the conversions themselves.
@peter-b peter-b modified the milestones: 9.0.0-dp-2, 9.0.0-dp-1 Sep 30, 2016
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Includes #4596

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peter-b commented Oct 12, 2016

@livecode-vulcan review ok f813332

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💙 review by @peter-b ok f813332

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Re-write the LCB VM

Like #4457 but with bugfixes.

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😞 test failure f813332

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peter-b commented Oct 12, 2016

@livecodefraser Looks like there's an unrecognised pragma making the MSVC 2010 compiler sad.

{
if (m_argument_count == kMaxArguments ||
!Allocate(sizeof(void *),
__alignof__(void *),
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@livecodefraser Do you think it might be better to put a #define __alignof__ sizeof in foundation.h (protected by appropriate platform-specific #ifdefery)? I think this would make it easier to fix properly later on.

C++11 added alignof(x) to return the alignment of a type. Not all of our
compilers support this but they do all have equivalents. Lots of ifdef
magic has been added to foundation.h to support this.
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peter-b commented Oct 19, 2016

@livecode-vulcan review ok f3b9012

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💙 review by @peter-b ok f3b9012

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Like #4457 but with bugfixes.

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😎 test success f3b9012

@peter-b peter-b merged commit 664187d into livecode:develop Oct 19, 2016
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