ifd requires building which uses async code today, fetching requires
network io which really should use async code but does not yet. eval
itself cannot be made async for performance reasons. offloading work
to other threads is possible but questionable as currently there are
no uses in which evaluation must take place from within asynchronous
operations, which are currently confined entirely to store behavior.
Change-Id: I1e3c86fca19b042d79332e9a5ef9546f90a6448b
this finally gives us a witness type we can use to prove that a certain
call graph subtree can't be used in kj promises using only a single new
assumption: if EvalState& is never held as a reference member of a type
and instead only ever passes as an argument or held on the stack we can
be certain that anything that has access to en EvalState ref must never
be run inside a promise and, crucially, that anything that doesn't have
access to an EvalState& *can* be run inside a promise without problems.
Change-Id: I6c15ada479175ad7e6cd3e4a729a5586b3ba30d6
this is not necessary in any way, but it will make the following changes
smaller and easier to review. the aliases could also be added piecemeal,
but doing it here lets us lean heavily on our compilers for correctness.
(teacher notes: here the author foreshadows the shape of things to come.
not all names change, and only the names unchanged are those which will,
over time, become ever more unrecognizable. note especially nix/main.cc,
where `state` is not only cloned, but itself changes pointerness. it can
be seen as a nod to the trans community, but more realistically it is no
more than foreshadowing the future where `state` is only seen by proxy.)
Change-Id: I7732025e58df089b7f8e564fc63960cd91729d09
this belongs to lazy trees, which we neither have nor intend to have.
we will keep SourcePath as that may come in handy at some later date.
Change-Id: I44b8f1dd6c435d7486c393fabdcd272766b2b56b
They are like experimental features, but opt-in instead of opt-out. They
will allow us to gracefully remove language features. See #437
Change-Id: I9ca04cc48e6926750c4d622c2b229b25cc142c42
Currently, the parser relies on the global experimental feature flags.
In order to properly test conditional language features, we instead need
to pass it around in the parser::State.
This means that the parser cannot cache the result of isEnabled anymore,
which wouldn't necessarily hurt performance if the function didn't
perform a linear search on the list of enabled features on every single
call. While we could simply evaluate once at the start of parsing and
cache the result in the parser state, the more sustainable solution
would be to fix `isEnabled` such that all callers may profit from the
performance improvement.
Change-Id: Ic9b9c5d882b6270e1114988b63e6064d36c25cf2
This also bans various sneaking of negative numbers from the language
into unsuspecting builtins as was exposed while auditing the
consequences of changing the Nix language integer type to a newtype.
It's unlikely that this change comprehensively ensures correctness when
passing integers out of the Nix language and we should probably add a
checked-narrowing function or something similar, but that's out of scope
for the immediate change.
During the development of this I found a few fun facts about the
language:
- You could overflow integers by converting from unsigned JSON values.
- You could overflow unsigned integers by converting negative numbers
into them when going into Nix config, into fetchTree, and into flake
inputs.
The flake inputs and Nix config cannot actually be tested properly
since they both ban thunks, however, we put in checks anyway because
it's possible these could somehow be used to do such shenanigans some
other way.
Note that Lix has banned Nix language integer overflows since the very
first public beta, but threw a SIGILL about them because we run with
-fsanitize=signed-overflow -fsanitize-undefined-trap-on-error in
production builds. Since the Nix language uses signed integers, overflow
was simply undefined behaviour, and since we defined that to trap, it
did.
Trapping on it was a bad UX, but we didn't even entirely notice
that we had done this at all until it was reported as a bug a couple of
months later (which is, to be fair, that flag working as intended), and
it's got enough production time that, aside from code that is IMHO buggy
(and which is, in any case, not in nixpkgs) such as
https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/445, we don't think
anyone doing anything reasonable actually depends on wrapping overflow.
Even for weird use cases such as doing funny bit crimes, it doesn't make
sense IMO to have wrapping behaviour, since two's complement arithmetic
overflow behaviour is so *aggressively* not what you want for *any* kind
of mathematics/algorithms. The Nix language exists for package
management, a domain where bit crimes are already only dubiously in
scope to begin with, and it makes a lot more sense for that domain for
the integers to never lose precision, either by throwing errors if they
would, or by being arbitrary-precision.
This change will be ported to CppNix as well, to maintain language
consistency.
Fixes: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/423
Change-Id: I51f253840c4af2ea5422b8a420aa5fafbf8fae75
almost all places where Exprs are passed as pointers expect the pointers
to be non-null. pass them as references to encode this constraint in the
type system as well (and also communicate that Exprs must not be freed).
Change-Id: Ia98f166fec3c23151f906e13acb4a0954a5980a2
We're not using it anymore. Any leftover bugs in the Meson buildsystem
are now just bugs.
Closes#249.
Change-Id: I0465a0c37ae819f94d40e7829f5bff046aa63d73
This is good in general (see how the other libraries also have long had
it, since 49fe9592a4) but in particular
needed to fix the NetBSD build.
(cherry picked from commit b23273f6a29c725646b3523b1c35a0ae4a84ef61)
Today, with the tests inside a `tests` intermingled with the
corresponding library's source code, we have a few problems:
- We have to be careful that wildcards don't end up with tests being
built as part of Nix proper, or test headers being installed as part
of Nix proper.
- Tests in libraries but not executables is not right:
- It means each executable runs the previous unit tests again, because
it needs the libraries.
- It doesn't work right on Windows, which doesn't want you to load a
DLL just for the side global variable . It could be made to work
with the dlopen equivalent, but that's gross!
This reorg solves these problems.
There is a remaining problem which is that sibbling headers (like
`hash.hh` the test header vs `hash.hh` the main `libnixutil` header) end
up shadowing each other. This PR doesn't solve that. That is left as
future work for a future PR.
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
(cherry picked from commit 91b6833686a6a6d9eac7f3f66393ec89ef1d3b57)
(cherry picked from commit a61e42adb528b3d40ce43e07c79368d779a8b624)
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