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pennae 1bebb1095a cache more often-used symbols for primops
there's a few symbols in primops we can create once and pick them out of
EvalState afterwards instead of creating them every time we need them. this
gives almost 1% speedup to an uncached nix search.
2022-01-13 13:58:33 +01:00
pennae 5838354d34 optimize ExprConcatStrings::eval
constructing an ostringstream for non-string concats (like integer addition) is
a small constant cost that we can avoid. for string concats we can keep all the
string temporaries we get from coerceToString and concatenate them in one go,
which saves a lot of intermediate temporaries and copies in ostringstream. we
can also avoid copying the concatenated string again by directly allocating it
in GC memory and moving ownership of the concatenated string into the target
value.

saves about 2% on system eval.

before:

  Benchmark 1: nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.837 s ±  0.031 s    [User: 2.562 s, System: 0.191 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.796 s …  2.892 s    20 runs

after:

  Benchmark 1: nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.790 s ±  0.035 s    [User: 2.532 s, System: 0.187 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.722 s …  2.836 s    20 runs
2022-01-12 10:07:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2b4c944823 Remove EvalState::mkAttrs() 2022-01-04 20:29:17 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 17daec0b83 Move empty attrset optimisation 2022-01-04 19:23:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ed93aec3c3 Remove non-method mkPath() 2022-01-04 18:45:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 263a8d293c Remove non-method mk<X> functions 2022-01-04 18:40:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra cc08364315 Remove non-method mkString() 2022-01-04 18:24:42 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6d9a6d2cc3 Ensure that attrsets are sorted
Previously you had to remember to call value->attrs->sort() after
populating value->attrs. Now there is a BindingsBuilder helper that
wraps Bindings and ensures that sort() is called before you can use
it.
2022-01-04 18:00:33 +01:00
pennae 09b245690a bulk-allocate Value instances in the evaluator
calling GC_malloc for each value is significantly more expensive than
allocating a bunch of values at once with GC_malloc_many. "a bunch" here
is a GC block size, ie 16KiB or less.

this gives a 1.5% performance boost when evaluating our nixos system.

tested with

nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'

 # on master

  Time (mean ± σ):      3.335 s ±  0.007 s    [User: 2.774 s, System: 0.293 s]
  Range (min … max):    3.315 s …  3.347 s    50 runs

 # with this change

  Time (mean ± σ):      3.288 s ±  0.006 s    [User: 2.728 s, System: 0.292 s]
  Range (min … max):    3.274 s …  3.307 s    50 runs
2021-12-20 23:01:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra cc6406cc59 Merge branch 'better-interpolation-error-location' of https://github.com/greedy/nix 2021-12-13 19:20:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f46434f32
Merge pull request #5648 from edolstra/list-iter
Support range-based for loop over list values
2021-11-25 17:13:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b6c8e57056 Support range-based for loop over list values 2021-11-25 16:31:39 +01:00
regnat c47027f3a1 Fix the error when accessing a forbidden path in pure eval
If we’re in pure eval mode, then tell that in the error message rather
than (wrongly) speaking about restricted mode.

Fix https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5611
2021-11-25 14:48:01 +01:00
Tom Bereknyei 4318ba2ec5 add real path to allowedPaths 2021-11-20 00:25:36 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra d7bae52b9d Call functors with both arguments at once
This is not really useful on its own, but it does recover the
'infinite recursion' error message for '{ __functor = x: x; } 1', and
is more efficient in conjunction with #3718.

Fixes #5515.
2021-11-16 22:34:17 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e41cf8511f Don't hang when calling an attrset
Fixes #5565.
2021-11-16 17:44:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 40925337a9 Remove maxPrimOpArity 2021-11-04 15:04:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra acd6bddec7 Fix derivation primop 2021-11-04 15:04:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra bcf4780006 Add level / displacement types 2021-11-04 15:03:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 81e7c40264 Optimize primop calls
We now parse function applications as a vector of arguments rather
than as a chain of binary applications, e.g. 'substring 1 2 "foo"' is
parsed as

  ExprCall { .fun = <substring>, .args = [ <1>, <2>, <"foo"> ] }

rather than

  ExprApp (ExprApp (ExprApp <substring> <1>) <2>) <"foo">

This allows primops to be called immediately (if enough arguments are
supplied) without having to allocate intermediate tPrimOpApp values.

On

  $ nix-instantiate --dry-run '<nixpkgs/nixos/release-combined.nix>' -A nixos.tests.simple.x86_64-linux

this gives a substantial performance improvement:

  user CPU time:      median =      0.9209  mean =      0.9218  stddev =      0.0073  min =      0.9086  max =      0.9340  [rejected, p=0.00000, Δ=-0.21433±0.00677]
  elapsed time:       median =      1.0585  mean =      1.0584  stddev =      0.0024  min =      1.0523  max =      1.0623  [rejected, p=0.00000, Δ=-0.20594±0.00236]

because it reduces the number of tPrimOpApp allocations from 551990 to
42534 (i.e. only small minority of primop calls are partially
applied) which in turn reduces time spent in the garbage collector.
2021-11-04 15:03:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ab35cbd675 StaticEnv: Use std::vector instead of std::map 2021-11-04 15:03:34 +01:00
regnat af99941279 Make experimental-features a proper type
Rather than having them plain strings scattered through the whole
codebase, create an enum containing all the known experimental features.

This means that
- Nix can now `warn` when an unkwown experimental feature is passed
  (making it much nicer to spot typos and spot deprecated features)
- It’s now easy to remove a feature altogether (once the feature isn’t
  experimental anymore or is dropped) by just removing the field for the
  enum and letting the compiler point us to all the now invalid usages
  of it.
2021-10-26 07:02:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d39692e6b3 Make builtins.{path,filterSource} work with chroot stores 2021-10-07 14:22:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 972405edf5 Allow access to path copied to the store
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/5163#issuecomment-931733912.
2021-10-07 12:15:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra cfaad7168e Refactoring: Add allowPath() method 2021-10-07 12:11:00 +02:00
Andreas Rammhold cae41eebff libexpr: remove matchAttrs boolean from ExprLambda
The boolean is only used to determine if the formals are set to a
non-null pointer in all our cases. We can get rid of that allocation and
instead just compare the pointer value with NULL. Saving up to
sizeof(bool) + platform specific alignment per ExprLambda instace.
Probably not a lot of memory but perhaps a few kilobyte with nixpkgs?

This also gets rid of a potential issue with dereferencing formals based on
the value of the boolean that didn't have to be aligned with the formals
pointer but was in all our cases.
2021-10-06 17:24:06 +02:00
Maximilian Bosch 2b02ce0e48
libexpr: throw a more helpful eval-error if a builtin is not available due to a missing feature-flag
I found it somewhat confusing to have an error like

    error: attribute 'getFlake' missing

if the required experimental-feature (`flakes`) is not enabled. Instead,
I'd expect Nix to throw an error just like it's the case when using e.g. `nix
flake` without `flakes` being enabled.

With this change, the error looks like this:

    $ nix-instantiate -E 'builtins.getFlake "nixpkgs"'
    error: Cannot call 'builtins.getFlake' because experimental Nix feature 'flakes' is disabled. You can enable it via '--extra-experimental-features flakes'.

           at «string»:1:1:

                1| builtins.getFlake "nixpkgs"
                 | ^

I didn't use `settings.requireExperimentalFeature` here on purpose
because this doesn't contain a position. Also, it doesn't seem as if we
need to catch the error and check for the missing feature here since
this already happens at evaluation time.
2021-09-29 11:57:15 +02:00
Geoff Reedy 9d67332e4b Better eval error locations for interpolation and +
Previously, type or coercion errors for string interpolation, path
interpolation, and plus expressions were always reported at the
beginning of the outer expression. This leads to confusing evaluation
error messages making it hard to accurately diagnose and then fix the
error.

For example, errors were reported as follows.

```
cannot coerce an integer to a string
1| let foo = 7; in "bar" + foo
 |                 ^

cannot add a string to an integer
1| let foo = "bar"; in 4 + foo
 |                     ^

cannot coerce an integer to a string
1| let foo = 7; in "x${foo}"
 |                  ^
```

This commit changes the ExprConcatStrings expression vector to store a
sequence of expressions *and* their expansion locations so that error
locations can be reported accurately. For interpolation, the error is
reported at the beginning of the entire `${foo}`, not at the beginning
of `foo` because I thought this was slightly clearer. The previous
errors are now reported as:

```
cannot coerce an integer to a string
1| let foo = 7; in "bar" + foo
 |                         ^

cannot add a string to an integer
1| let foo = "bar"; in 4 + foo
 |                         ^

cannot coerce an integer to a string
1| let foo = 7; in "x${foo}"
 |                   ^
```

The error is reported at this kind of precise location even for
multi-line indented strings.

This probably helps with at least some of the cases mentioned in #561
2021-09-22 20:57:34 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra 49a932fb18 nix --help: Display help using lowdown instead of man
Fixes #4476.
Fixes #5231.
2021-09-13 14:45:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7ee639f9db
Merge pull request #5066 from Radvendii/master
add antiquotations to paths
2021-09-01 12:55:04 +02:00
Taeer Bar-Yam 9da8f5e25d path antiquotations: canonizePath -> canonicalizePath 2021-08-31 08:02:04 -04:00
Robert Hensing f10465774f Force all Pos* to be non-null
This fixes a class of crashes and introduces ptr<T> to make the
code robust against this failure mode going forward.

Thanks regnat for the idea of a ref<T> without overhead!

Closes #4895
Closes #4893
Closes #5127
Closes #5113
2021-08-29 18:11:58 +02:00
Taeer Bar-Yam 8f9429dcab add antiquotations to paths 2021-08-06 06:46:05 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra c000cec27f
Merge pull request #5048 from tweag/flox-eval-store
--eval-store and faster closure copying
2021-07-27 12:20:32 +02:00
Pamplemousse c2d7c0cdb9 libexpr: Remove unused code
Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-07-26 09:14:34 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra bef40c2949 Add --eval-store option 2021-07-22 09:59:51 +02:00
Pamplemousse c1c5dd7449 Avoid global counters
Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-07-21 16:49:52 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra 24bc935462 Merge branch 'disable_gc' of https://github.com/Pamplemousse/nix 2021-07-05 13:53:52 +02:00
Domen Kožar f9d72855ae
Merge pull request #4967 from Pamplemousse/specific_errors
Prefer to throw specific errors
2021-07-03 10:34:56 +02:00
Pamplemousse 4a7a8b87cd Prefer to throw specific errors
Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-07-01 11:09:31 -07:00
Pamplemousse 5be17a4b96 Allow to compile after ./configure --enable-gc=no
Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-06-30 09:45:21 -07:00
Robert Hensing bec83a6f95 BoehmGCStackAllocator: ignore stack protection page
This fixes a crash that looks like:

```
Thread 1 "nix-build" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff7ad22a0 in GC_push_all_eager () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
(gdb) bt
0  0x00007ffff7ad22a0 in GC_push_all_eager () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
1  0x00007ffff7adeefb in GC_push_all_stacks () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
2  0x00007ffff7ad5ac7 in GC_mark_some () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
3  0x00007ffff7ad77bd in GC_stopped_mark () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
4  0x00007ffff7adbe3a in GC_try_to_collect_inner.part.0 () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
5  0x00007ffff7adc2a2 in GC_collect_or_expand () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
6  0x00007ffff7adc4f8 in GC_allocobj () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
7  0x00007ffff7adc88f in GC_generic_malloc_inner () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
8  0x00007ffff7ae1a04 in GC_generic_malloc_many () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
9  0x00007ffff7ae1c72 in GC_malloc_kind () from /nix/store/p1z58l18klf88iijpd0qi8yd2n9lhlk4-boehm-gc-8.0.4/lib/libgc.so.1
10 0x00007ffff7e003d6 in nix::EvalState::allocValue() () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
11 0x00007ffff7e04b9c in nix::EvalState::callPrimOp(nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Pos const&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
12 0x00007ffff7e0a773 in nix::EvalState::callFunction(nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Pos const&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
13 0x00007ffff7e0a91d in nix::ExprApp::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
14 0x00007ffff7e0a8f8 in nix::ExprApp::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
15 0x00007ffff7e0e0e8 in nix::ExprOpNEq::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
16 0x00007ffff7e0d708 in nix::ExprOpOr::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
17 0x00007ffff7e0d695 in nix::ExprOpOr::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
18 0x00007ffff7e0d695 in nix::ExprOpOr::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
19 0x00007ffff7e0d695 in nix::ExprOpOr::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
20 0x00007ffff7e0d695 in nix::ExprOpOr::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
21 0x00007ffff7e09e19 in nix::ExprOpNot::eval(nix::EvalState&, nix::Env&, nix::Value&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
22 0x00007ffff7e0a792 in nix::EvalState::callFunction(nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Value&, nix::Pos const&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
23 0x00007ffff7e8cba0 in nix::addPath(nix::EvalState&, nix::Pos const&, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Value*, nix::FileIngestionMethod, std::optional<nix::Hash>, nix::Value&)::{lambda(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)#1}::operator()(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) const () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixexpr.so
24 0x00007ffff752e6f9 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
25 0x00007ffff752e8e2 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
26 0x00007ffff752e8e2 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
27 0x00007ffff752e8e2 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
28 0x00007ffff752e8e2 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
29 0x00007ffff752e8e2 in nix::dump(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, nix::Sink&, std::function<bool (std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)>&) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
30 0x00007ffff757f8c0 in void boost::context::detail::fiber_entry<boost::context::detail::fiber_record<boost::context::fiber, nix::VirtualStackAllocator, boost::coroutines2::detail::pull_coroutine<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >::control_block::control_block<nix::VirtualStackAllocator, nix::sinkToSource(std::function<void (nix::Sink&)>, std::function<void ()>)::SinkToSource::read(char*, unsigned long)::{lambda(boost::coroutines2::detail::push_coroutine<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >&)#1}>(boost::context::preallocated, nix::VirtualStackAllocator&&, nix::sinkToSource(std::function<void (nix::Sink&)>, std::function<void ()>)::SinkToSource::read(char*, unsigned long)::{lambda(boost::coroutines2::detail::push_coroutine<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >&)#1}&&)::{lambda(boost::context::fiber&&)#1}> >(boost::context::detail::transfer_t) () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libnixutil.so
31 0x00007ffff6f331ef in make_fcontext () from /nix/store/hzdzcv9d3bc8rlsaphh7x54zsf0x8nx6-nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b/lib/libboost_context.so.1.69.0
32 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
```
2021-06-24 12:20:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 293220bed5
Merge pull request #4440 from Ma27/misc-pos-fixes
Miscellaneous improvements for positioning in eval-errors
2021-04-23 11:10:59 +02:00
Maximilian Bosch 7c76964daa
libexpr: misc improvements for proper error position
When working on some more complex Nix code, there are sometimes rather
unhelpful or misleading error messages, especially if coerce-errors are
thrown.

This patch is a first steps towards improving that. I'm happy to file
more changes after that, but I'd like to gather some feedback first.

To summarize, this patch does the following things:

* Attrsets (a.k.a. `Bindings` in `libexpr`) now have a `Pos`. This is
  helpful e.g. to identify which attribute-set in `listToAttrs` is
  invalid.

* The `Value`-struct has a new method named `determinePos` which tries
  to guess the position of a value and falls back to a default if that's
  not possible.

  This can be used to provide better messages if a coercion fails.

* The new `determinePos`-API is used by `builtins.concatMap` now. With
  that change, Nix shows the exact position in the error where a wrong
  value was returned by the lambda.

  To make sure it's still obvious that `concatMap` is the problem,
  another stack-frame was added.

* The changes described above can be added to every other `primop`, but
  first I'd like to get some feedback about the overall approach.
2021-04-13 23:12:38 +02:00
Graham Christensen d04969ffa5 EvalSettings::getDefaultNixPath: respect {restrict,pure}Eval
Otherwise Nix may look to invalid locations for channels.
2021-04-12 12:37:15 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 665d4ec2da nix repl :doc: Don't return docs for partially applied primops
This gives misleading results for Nixpkgs functions like lib.toUpper.

Fixes #4596.
2021-03-03 17:52:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 574eb2be81
Tweak error message 2021-02-22 15:24:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8d4268d190 Improve error formatting
Changes:

* The divider lines are gone. These were in practice a bit confusing,
  in particular with --show-trace or --keep-going, since then there
  were multiple lines, suggesting a start/end which wasn't the case.

* Instead, multi-line error messages are now indented to align with
  the prefix (e.g. "error: ").

* The 'description' field is gone since we weren't really using it.

* 'hint' is renamed to 'msg' since it really wasn't a hint.

* The error is now printed *before* the location info.

* The 'name' field is no longer printed since most of the time it
  wasn't very useful since it was just the name of the exception (like
  EvalError). Ideally in the future this would be a unique, easily
  googleable error ID (like rustc).

* "trace:" is now just "…". This assumes error contexts start with
  something like "while doing X".

Example before:

  error: --- AssertionError ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nix
  at: (7:7) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix

       6|
       7|   x = assert false; 1;
        |       ^
       8|

  assertion 'false' failed
  ----------------------------------------------------- show-trace -----------------------------------------------------
  trace: while evaluating the attribute 'x' of the derivation 'hello-2.10'
  at: (192:11) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix

     191|         // (lib.optionalAttrs (!(attrs ? name) && attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)) {
     192|           name = "${attrs.pname}-${attrs.version}";
        |           ^
     193|         } // (lib.optionalAttrs (stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform && !dontAddHostSuffix && (attrs ? name || (attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)))) {

Example after:

  error: assertion 'false' failed

         at: (7:7) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix

              6|
              7|   x = assert false; 1;
               |       ^
              8|

         … while evaluating the attribute 'x' of the derivation 'hello-2.10'

         at: (192:11) in file: /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix

            191|         // (lib.optionalAttrs (!(attrs ? name) && attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)) {
            192|           name = "${attrs.pname}-${attrs.version}";
               |           ^
            193|         } // (lib.optionalAttrs (stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform && !dontAddHostSuffix && (attrs ? name || (attrs ? pname && attrs ? version)))) {
2021-01-21 11:02:09 +01:00
Domen Kožar 00f99fdfe6
Merge pull request #4240 from bburdette/2259-error-message
2259 error message - "auto-call" error
2021-01-15 18:26:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 75efa42134 Move <nix/fetchurl.nix> into the nix binary
This makes the statically linked nix binary just work, without needing
any additional files.
2020-12-22 14:43:20 +01:00