`nix --version` doesn't require `nix-command` experimental feature to
run and we could all do with less nix-env
Change-Id: I90748d591c574d96eda46591e9f9ce828311da29
These files are required to get Nix in PATH in existing multi-user installs using
the legacy installer. We really could use some tests.
Cc: #33
This partially reverts commit 93cc063344.
Fixes: #173
Change-Id: Iafb55280596732670a432f604b897f48562868e4
protocol versions are sent as u64. on the peer we read them as uint64,
check that the upper half is 0, and throw an exception if not. we then
read an arbitrary amount of data from the peer and dump it to the user
terminal. this is a little bit ridiculous, can never happen in correct
implementation, and is severly untested. let us just drop it entirely.
Change-Id: Ibd2f53a765341ed6439d40d9d1eac11e79c6b5e3
this is not needed and introduces a bunch of memset calls, making up for
3% of valgrind cycle estimation *alone*. real-world impact is a lot
lower on our test machine, but we suspect that less powerful machines
would see an impact from dropping this.
Change-Id: Iad10e9d556e64fdeb0bee0059a4e52520058d11e
This commit adds several meson.build, which successfully build and
install Lix executables, libraries, and headers. Meson does not yet
build docs, Perl bindings, or run tests, which will be added in
following commits. As such, this commit does not remove the existing
build system, or make it the default, and also as such, this commit has
several FIXMEs and TODOs as notes for what should be done before the
existing autoconf + make buildsystem can be removed and Meson made the
default. This commit does not modify any source files.
A Meson-enabled build is also added as a Hydra job, and to
`nix flake check`.
Change-Id: I667c8685b13b7bab91e281053f807a11616ae3d4
this was mostly an inconvenience for error reporting, but fully broke
the debugger (because the debugger does *a lot* of eager position
resolution). copying the line offsets into a local and filling that
local when empty without also storing the calculated offsets back does
kind of ... not cache anything.
fixes #165
Change-Id: Iccb0ba193ce2f15c832978daecf7b9bebbbe8585
within lix itself this problem is caught by the test suite. outside of
lix itself three cases can be had: either the problem is fully inside
lix libs, fully inside user code, or it exists at the boundary. the
first is caught by the test suite, the second isn't caught at all, and
the third is something lix should not be responsible for.
Change-Id: I95aa35d8cb6f0ef5816a2941c467bc0c15916063
* changes:
Release notes for builtins.nixVersion change
un-nixes ur lix, a little
issue importer: list issues that are *not* closed when finding existing issues
I didn't really go attack the docs because we need to pull a bunch of
PRs. I went looking for strings in the code that called lix nix.
Change-Id: I2138bb4dd239096bc530946b281db7f875195b39
add a reset() method to close the wrapped fd instead of assigning magic
constants. also make the from-fd constructor explicit so you can't
accidentally assign the *wrong* magic constant, or even an unrelated
integer that also just happens to be an fd by pure chance.
Change-Id: I51311b0f6e040240886b5103d39d1794a6acc325
static env association is from expr to its enclosing scope, but let
exprs set their association to their *inner* scope. this skips one level
of envs and will cause segfaults if the parent is a with expr.
fixes#145
Change-Id: I1d22146110f071ede21b4eed7ed34b5850ef2ef3
not doing this exposes the binding name order to the annoying
interference of parse order on symbol order, which wouldn't be so bad if
it didn't make the tests less reliable and, importantly, dependent on
linker behavior (due to primop initialization being done in static
initializer, and the order of static initializers being defined only
within a single translation unit).
fixes#143
Change-Id: I3cf417893fbcf19e9ad3ff8986deb7cbcf3ca511
we now keep not a table of all positions, but a table of all origins and
their sizes. position indices are now direct pointers into the virtual
concatenation of all parsed contents. this slightly reduces memory usage
and time spent in the parser, at the cost of not being able to report
positions if the total input size exceeds 4GiB. this limit is not unique
to nix though, rustc and clang also limit their input to 4GiB (although
at least clang refuses to process inputs that are larger, we will not).
this new 4GiB limit probably will not cause any problems for quite a
while, all of nixpkgs together is less than 100MiB in size and already
needs over 700MiB of memory and multiple seconds just to parse. 4GiB
worth of input will easily take multiple minutes and over 30GiB of
memory without even evaluating anything. if problems *do* arise we can
probably recover the old table-based system by adding some tracking to
Pos::Origin (or increasing the size of PosIdx outright), but for time
being this looks like more complexity than it's worth.
since we now need to read the entire input again to determine the
line/column of a position we'll make unsafeGetAttrPos slightly lazy:
mostly the set it returns is only used to determine the file of origin
of an attribute, not its exact location. the thunks do not add
measurable runtime overhead.
notably this change is necessary to allow changing the parser since
apparently nothing supports nix's very idiosyncratic line ending choice
of "anything goes", making it very hard to calculate line/column
positions in the parser (while byte offsets are very easy).
(cherry picked from commit 5d9fdab3de0ee17c71369ad05806b9ea06dfceda)
Change-Id: Ie0b2430cb120c09097afa8c0101884d94f4bbf34
this needs a string comparison because there seems to be no other way to
get that information out of bison. usually the location info is going to
be correct (pointing at a bad token), but since EOF isn't a token as
such it'll be wrong in that this case.
this hasn't shown up much so far because a single line ending *is* a
token, so any file formatted in the usual manner (ie, ending in a line
ending) would have its EOF position reported correctly.
(cherry picked from commit 855fd5a1bb781e4f722c1d757ba43e866d370132)
Change-Id: I120c56a962f4286b1ae3b71da7b71ce8ec3e0535
the parser treats a plain \r as a newline, error reports do not. this
can lead to interesting divergences if anything makes use of this
feature, with error reports pointing to wrong locations in the input (or
even outside the input altogether).
(cherry picked from commit 2be6b143289e5479cc4a2667bb84e879116c2447)
Change-Id: Ieb7f7655bac8cb0cf5734c60bd41723388f2973c
previously we reported the error at the beginning of the binding
block (for plain inherits) or the beginning of the attr list (for
inherit-from), effectively hiding where exactly the error happened.
this also carries over to runtime positions of attributes in sets as
reported by unsafeGetAttrPos. we're not worried about this changing
observable eval behavior because it *is* marked unsafe, and the new
behavior is much more useful.
(cherry picked from commit 1edd6fada53553b89847ac3981ac28025857ca02)
Change-Id: I2f50eb9f3dc3977db4eb3e3da96f1cb37ccd5174
we already normalize attr order to lexicographic, doing the same for
formals makes sense. doubly so because the order of formals would
otherwise depend on the context of the expression, which is not quite as
useful as one might expect.
(cherry picked from commit 4147ecfb1c51f3fe3b4adcbd4e753fd487dab645)
Change-Id: I3fd0dbdef3ac7447a3a03ff20bb514a0d0f23fb1
the parser modifies its inputs, which means that sharing them between
the error context reporting system and the parser itself can confuse the
reporting system. usually this led to early truncation of error context
reports which, while not dangerous, can be quite confusing.
(cherry picked from commit d384ecd553aa997270b79ee98d02f7cf7e1849e6)
Change-Id: I677646b5675b12b2faa787943646aa36dc6e6ee3
vfork confers a large performance advantage over fork, measured locally
at 16µs per vfork agains 90µs per fork. however nix *almost always*
follows a vfork up with an execve-family call, melting the performance
advantage from 6x to only 15%. in most of those cases it's doing things
that are undefined behavior (like manipulating the heap, or even
throwing exceptions and trashing the parent process stack).
most notably the one place that could benefit from the vfork performance
improvement is linux derivation sandbox setup—which doesn't use vfork.
Change-Id: I2037b7384d5a4ca24da219a569e1b1f39531410e
These now have equivalents in the standard lib in C++20. This change was
performed with a custom clang-tidy check which I will submit later.
Executed like so:
ninja -C build && run-clang-tidy -checks='-*,nix-*' -load=build/libnix-clang-tidy.so -p .. -fix ../tests | tee -a clang-tidy-result
Change-Id: I62679e315ff9e7ce72a40b91b79c3e9fc01b27e9
This builtin is only going to cause us problems because we are not Nix,
so let's just falsify being in the 2.18 series, since that is the
closest target that has any meaning.
In future we might want to have a better feature detection mechanism,
for when we actually add stuff to some builtin's attr set argument. But
builtins.nixVersion is just going to be hopelessly broken and it should
be stubbed out.
Fixes #144
Change-Id: Id7390b32a29c6147f2977737d81846320de5d67e
diagnose attr duplication at the path the duplication was detected, not
at the path the current attribute wanted to place. doing the latter is
only correct if a leaf attribute was duplicated, not if an attrpath was
set to a non-attrset in one binding and a (potentially implied) attrset
in another binding.
fixes#124
Change-Id: Ic4aa9cc12a9874d4e7897c6f64408f10aa36fc82
-O3 does not measurably improve performance of the resulting binaries,
neither with lto enabled nor with lto disabled. what it does to however
is cause gcc warning spew in libstdc++ that we can't do anything
about (and that upon inspection of libstdc++ source looks like a gcc
bug).
with lto, -O3:
Benchmark 1: GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE=10g nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
Time (mean ± σ): 4.608 s ± 0.027 s [User: 3.866 s, System: 0.522 s]
Range (min … max): 4.579 s … 4.640 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: nix eval -f <nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix>
Time (mean ± σ): 408.1 ms ± 25.5 ms [User: 360.0 ms, System: 28.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 387.6 ms … 439.0 ms 10 runs
with lto, -O2:
Benchmark 1: GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE=10g nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
Time (mean ± σ): 4.632 s ± 0.044 s [User: 3.874 s, System: 0.544 s]
Range (min … max): 4.563 s … 4.673 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: nix eval -f <nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix>
Time (mean ± σ): 394.0 ms ± 23.9 ms [User: 351.2 ms, System: 27.6 ms]
Range (min … max): 377.8 ms … 429.3 ms 10 runs
without lto, -O3:
Benchmark 1: GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE=10g nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
Time (mean ± σ): 4.700 s ± 0.024 s [User: 3.906 s, System: 0.559 s]
Range (min … max): 4.663 s … 4.717 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: nix eval -f <nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix>
Time (mean ± σ): 400.4 ms ± 25.6 ms [User: 353.7 ms, System: 26.8 ms]
Range (min … max): 379.8 ms … 430.6 ms 10 runs
without lto, -O2:
Benchmark 1: GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE=10g nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
Time (mean ± σ): 4.724 s ± 0.030 s [User: 3.924 s, System: 0.570 s]
Range (min … max): 4.687 s … 4.749 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: nix eval -f <nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix>
Time (mean ± σ): 392.4 ms ± 24.3 ms [User: 350.9 ms, System: 26.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 376.9 ms … 428.0 ms 10 runs
fixes#46
Change-Id: Ib8afad8a07c278f57f2e3317d00cce4f9ec0f338
It happens with some frequency that plugins that might be unimportant to
the evaluation at hand mismatch with the nix version, leading to
spurious load failures. Let's make these non fatal.
Change-Id: Iba10e951d171725ccf1a121bcd9be1e1d6ad69eb
This is because they are unrepresentable in the source files with
commentary but not in the output, so we should just eat them in
normalization. It's ok.
Change-Id: I2cb7e8b3fc7b00874885bb287cbaa200b41cb16b
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