Unexplained behaviour of Guile's make-c-struct of (system foreign) - scheme

Guile accepts the following code:
(use-modules (system foreign))
(define ptr (make-c-struct (list int int) '(300 43)))
However, it throws an error when the second line is replaced by:
(define ptr (make-c-struct '(int int) '(300 43)))
Is someone be able to infer what the issue could be?
$ guile --version
guile (GNU Guile) 2.0.13
$ uname -a
Linux <host> 4.8.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.8.5-1 (2016-10-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
160: 8 [catch #t #<catch-closure 55b8628b8600> ...]
In unknown file:
?: 7 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 55b8628b8600>]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
66: 6 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
432: 5 [eval # #]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2404: 4 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 55b8628d89c0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4051:3 ()>]
4058: 3 [#<procedure 55b8628d89c0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4051:3 ()>]
In /home/<user>/path/tofile.scm:
7: 2 [#<procedure 55b862cf46c0 ()>]
In system/foreign.scm:
158: 1 [make-c-struct (int int) (300 43)]
In unknown file:
?: 0 [sizeof (int int)]
ERROR: In procedure sizeof:
ERROR: In procedure alignof: Wrong type argument in position 1: int

This:
(list int int)
Creates a list with the previously defined int value as elements, whereas this:
'(int int)
Creates a list with two symbols as elements, they're not equivalent, remember that a single quote is a shorthand for (quote (int int)), not for (list int int).

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Process substitution issue in GDB's shell

The following code, readTwice.c, reads twice from standard input:
int main()
{
char s[8]={0};
read(0, (void *)s, (size_t) 3);
read(0, (void *)(s + 4), (size_t) 3);
for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++)
printf("%d: 0x%x\n", i, s[i]);
return 0;
}
My objective is to, while debugging the corresponding binary, feed the first read() with a first file a (say, created by echo a > a), and the second read() with a second file b (say, created by echo b > b).
Outside GDB, the following bash 5.0 command has the desired effect:
$ ./readTwice < <(cat a;cat b)
0: 0x61
1: 0xa
2: 0x0
3: 0x0
4: 0x62
5: 0xa
6: 0x0
7: 0x0
However, when running the binary in GDB 8.2.1 with the same process redirection, the first read() call also reads the beginning of the second file:
$ gdb -q readTwice
Reading symbols from readTwice...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run < <(cat a;cat b)
Starting program: /home/av/root-me/ch77/readTwice < <(cat a;cat b)
0: 0x61
1: 0xa
2: 0x62
3: 0x0
4: 0xa
5: 0x0
6: 0x0
7: 0x0
[Inferior 1 (process 4710) exited normally]
(gdb)
Could you help me understand this behaviour and/or tell me about a command having the desired effect ?
The input to your program consists of 4 characters:
'a' '\n' 'b' '\n'
Inside your program you use two reads:
read(0, (void *)s, (size_t) 3);
read(0, (void *)(s + 4), (size_t) 3);
read doesn't read exactly 3 characters. It reads up to 3 characters and returns the number of characters read, see man read(2). I assume by default STDIN_FILENO is blocking on your platform, so it should read at least 1 character.
Possible outcomes:
Both reads read 1 byte. s will have {'a',0,0,0,'\n',0,0,0}. There are 2 unread bytes in the input.
First read read 1 byte, second reads 3 bytes. s will have {'a',0,0,0,'\n','b','\n',0}
First read reads 3 bytes, second reads 1 byte. s will have {'a','\n','b',0,'\n',0,0,0}. This is the output you observe in gdb.
First read reads 2 bytes, second reads 2 bytes. s will have {'a','\n',0,0,'b','\n',0,0}. This is the output you observe when running in shell.
Hopefully you get the idea by now.
Most probably your operating system implements read on STDIN_FILENO in a line buffered fashion on your platform, so the two most possible outcomes are the ones you are observing.

Why does GCC for Risc-V generate nop instructions after call

GCC for Risc-V produces nop instructions after call instructions by default:
$ cat test.c
void g();
void f() {
g();
}
$ riscv64-unknown-elf-gcc -S test.c -o -
[...]
f:
addi sp,sp,-16
sd ra,8(sp)
sd s0,0(sp)
addi s0,sp,16
call g
nop #### <-----------here
ld ra,8(sp)
ld s0,0(sp)
addi sp,sp,16
jr ra
.size f, .-f
.ident "GCC: (GNU) 8.3.0"
I'd expect that when targeting an architecture that has branch delay slot, but my understanding is that Risc-V is not such an architecture. Actually, the nop disappears when compiling with -O1 or higher.
Is it just a "bug" in GCC that emits nop as a leftover from architectures that have delay slots, or is there an actual reason for this nop instruction?
Not a complete answer, but at least an attempt at diving into the reason why the nop appears. I strongly believe it's a bug/leftover from architectures that have delay slots (as it gets added in the very first RTL pass - expand).
Onto the investigation, GCC has 2 types of passes, Tree and RTL. To see them in action, prep 2 folders as there will be many files, noopt and opt and use the -fdump-tree-all-raw -fdump-rtl-all to see the intermediate results. The last stage of the Tree pass gives (noopt case):
$ cat noopt/test.c.232t.optimized
;; Function f (f, funcdef_no=0, decl_uid=1549, cgraph_uid=0, symbol_order=0)
f ()
{
<bb 2> :
gimple_call <g, NULL>
gimple_return <NULL NULL>
}
The opt case (-O1) differs negligibly:
$ diff -u noopt/test.c.232t.optimized opt/test.c.232t.optimized
--- noopt/test.c.232t.optimized 2019-09-03 14:48:02.874071927 +0200
+++ opt/test.c.232t.optimized 2019-09-03 14:48:29.550278667 +0200
## -3,7 +3,7 ##
f ()
{
- <bb 2> :
+ <bb 2> [local count: 1073741825]:
gimple_call <g, NULL>
gimple_return <NULL NULL>
The first stage of the RTL passes (expand) is the one that differs:
$ cat noopt/test.c.234r.expand
;; Function f (f, funcdef_no=0, decl_uid=1549, cgraph_uid=0, symbol_order=0)
;; Generating RTL for gimple basic block 2
try_optimize_cfg iteration 1
Merging block 3 into block 2...
Merged blocks 2 and 3.
Merged 2 and 3 without moving.
Merging block 4 into block 2...
Merged blocks 2 and 4.
Merged 2 and 4 without moving.
try_optimize_cfg iteration 2
;;
;; Full RTL generated for this function:
;;
(note 1 0 3 NOTE_INSN_DELETED)
(note 3 1 2 2 [bb 2] NOTE_INSN_BASIC_BLOCK)
(note 2 3 5 2 NOTE_INSN_FUNCTION_BEG)
(call_insn 5 2 8 2 (parallel [
(call (mem:SI (symbol_ref:DI ("g") [flags 0x41] <function_decl 0x7fbc2827a400 g>) [0 g S4 A32])
(const_int 0 [0]))
(clobber (reg:SI 1 ra))
]) "../test.c":3 -1
(nil)
(nil))
(insn 8 5 0 2 (const_int 0 [0]) "../test.c":4 -1
(nil))
The difference with -O1 is just removing that const_int 0 [0], which will ultimately lead to the nop:
$ diff -u noopt/test.c.234r.expand opt/test.c.234r.expand
--- noopt/test.c.234r.expand 2019-09-03 14:48:02.874071927 +0200
+++ opt/test.c.234r.expand 2019-09-03 14:48:29.550278667 +0200
## -25,12 +25,10 ##
(note 1 0 3 NOTE_INSN_DELETED)
(note 3 1 2 2 [bb 2] NOTE_INSN_BASIC_BLOCK)
(note 2 3 5 2 NOTE_INSN_FUNCTION_BEG)
-(call_insn 5 2 8 2 (parallel [
- (call (mem:SI (symbol_ref:DI ("g") [flags 0x41] <function_decl 0x7fbc2827a400 g>) [0 g S4 A32])
+(call_insn 5 2 0 2 (parallel [
+ (call (mem:SI (symbol_ref:DI ("g") [flags 0x41] <function_decl 0x7f0bdec1f400 g>) [0 g S4 A32])
(const_int 0 [0]))
(clobber (reg:SI 1 ra))
]) "../test.c":3 -1
(nil)
(nil))
-(insn 8 5 0 2 (const_int 0 [0]) "../test.c":4 -1
- (nil))
GCC will probably do this on any architecture. I think the nop instruction is related to the void result, it's where a non-void function would set up the return value. Try compiling this:
int g();
int f() {
g();
return 1;
}
For a void function, there is nothing to do to generate the result, hence the nop.

Ocaml : multiply expression (*) int int -> int [duplicate]

This question already has an answer here:
How do you inspect the type of (*) on OCaml's toplevel?
(1 answer)
Closed 4 years ago.
Why Ocaml does not support # (*) int int -> int expression operation as # (+) int int -> int?
(i.e: # (/) 81 9 -> 9, # (*) 9 9 -> Warning 1: this is the start of a comment.)
Because (* is the start of a comment in OCaml syntax:
(* hello, I'm a comment *)
The workaround is to add spaces:
( * ) 9 9
is the * operator.

Can I customize the format of error outputs of common lisp?

I'm using SBCL. When something goes wrong in my program, SBCL will print a long list of back trace informations. This is annoying sometimes, and I have to scroll back and back to find out what the error message was. Can I customize the error outputs(e.g., shorten the back trace list)?
See: *backtrace-frame-count*.
I did some experimenting with sbcl:
(defun crash-big-stack (&optional (c 20))
(if (= c 0)
(error "crash boooooom")
(another-crash (- c 1))))
(defun another-crash (&optional c)
(crash-big-stack c))
1) I am using SBCL 1.0.57.0 which wont give any stacktrace if not asked (using slime though will result in a stacktrace), the only scenario where sbcl crashes and prints the complete stacktrace is when you either use (sb-ext:disable-debugger) or provide the toplevel argument sbcl --disable-debugger
SBCL (without (sb-ext:disable-debugger)):
* (crash-big-stack)
debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread
#<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {1002978CA3}>:
crash boooooom
Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.
restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.
(CRASH-BIG-STACK 0)
0]
SBCL (with (sb-ext:disable-debugger)):
(crash-big-stack)
unhandled SIMPLE-ERROR in thread #<SB-THREAD:THREAD "main thread" RUNNING
{1002978CA3}>:
crash boooooom
0: (SB-DEBUG::MAP-BACKTRACE
#<CLOSURE (LAMBDA # :IN BACKTRACE) {100465352B}>
:START
0
:COUNT
128)
1: (BACKTRACE 128 #<SYNONYM-STREAM :SYMBOL SB-SYS:*STDERR* {1000169AE3}>)
2: (SB-DEBUG::DEBUGGER-DISABLED-HOOK
#<SIMPLE-ERROR "crash boooooom" {1004651C23}>
#<unavailable argument>)
3: (SB-DEBUG::RUN-HOOK
*INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK*
#<SIMPLE-ERROR "crash boooooom" {1004651C23}>)
4: (INVOKE-DEBUGGER #<SIMPLE-ERROR "crash boooooom" {1004651C23}>)
5: (ERROR "crash boooooom")
6: (CRASH-BIG-STACK 0)
7: (SB-INT:SIMPLE-EVAL-IN-LEXENV (CRASH-BIG-STACK) #<NULL-LEXENV>)
8: (EVAL (CRASH-BIG-STACK))
9: (INTERACTIVE-EVAL (CRASH-BIG-STACK) :EVAL NIL)
10: (SB-IMPL::REPL-FUN NIL)
11: ((LAMBDA () :IN SB-IMPL::TOPLEVEL-REPL))
12: (SB-IMPL::%WITH-REBOUND-IO-SYNTAX
#<CLOSURE (LAMBDA # :IN SB-IMPL::TOPLEVEL-REPL) {100450355B}>)
13: (SB-IMPL::TOPLEVEL-REPL NIL)
14: (SB-IMPL::TOPLEVEL-INIT)
15: ((FLET #:WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS-BODY-236911 :IN SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE))
16: ((LABELS SB-IMPL::RESTART-LISP :IN SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE))
unhandled condition in --disable-debugger mode, quitting
As far as the SBCL manual goes, there is no way to influence the predefined behavior of the SBCL debugger interface, but you can provide your own by setting sb-ext:*invoke-debugger-hook*
* (defun crash-big-stack (&optional (c 20))
(if (= c 0)
(error "crash boooooom")
(let ((waste (another-crash (- c 1))))
(+ waste 42))))
CRASH-BIG-STACK
* (defun another-crash (&optional c)
(crash-big-stack c))
ANOTHER-CRASH
* (setf sb-ext:*invoke-debugger-hook* #'(lambda(&rest args) (sb-ext:exit)))
#<FUNCTION (LAMBDA (&REST ARGS)) {10045CEF1B}>
* (crash-big-stack)
~:

Strange multiplication behavior in Guile Scheme interpreter

I was practicing Scheme in Guile 1.8.8 interpreter on OS X. I noticed something interesting.
Here's expt function which is basically does exponentiation expt(b,n) = b^n :
(define (square x) (* x x))
(define (even? x) (= (remainder x 2) 0))
(define (expt b n)
(cond ((= n 0) 1)
((even? n) (square (expt b (/ n 2))))
(else (* b (expt b (- n 1))))
))
If I try it with some inputs
> (expt 2 10)
1024
> (expt 2 63)
9223372036854775808
Here comes the strange part:
> (expt 2 64)
0
More strangely, until n=488 it stays at 0:
> (expt 2 487)
0
> (expt 2 488)
79916762888089401123.....
> (expt 2 1000)
1071508607186267320948425049060....
> (expt 2 10000)
0
When I try this code with repl.it online interpreter, it works as expected. So what the hell is wrong with Guile?
(Note: On some dialects, remainder function is called as mod.)
I recently fixed this bug in Guile 2.0. The bug came into existence when C compilers started optimizing out overflow checks, on the theory that if a signed integer overflow occurs then the behavior is unspecified and thus the compiler can do whatever it likes.
I could reproduce the problem with guile 2.0.6 on OS X. It boils down to:
> (* 4294967296 4294967296)
$1 = 0
My guess is that guile uses the native int type to store small numbers, and then switches to a bignums, backed by GNU MP when the native ints are too small. Maybe in that particular case, the check fails, and the computation overflows the native int.
Interestingly, the following loop shows that squaring powers of two between 2^32 and 2^60 results in 0:
(let loop
((x 1)
(exp 0))
(format #t "(2^~s) ^ 2 = ~s\n" exp (* x x))
(if (< exp 100)
(loop (* 2 x) (+ 1 exp))))
Results in:
(2^0) ^ 2 = 1
(2^1) ^ 2 = 4
(2^2) ^ 2 = 16
(2^3) ^ 2 = 64
(2^4) ^ 2 = 256
(2^5) ^ 2 = 1024
(2^6) ^ 2 = 4096
(2^7) ^ 2 = 16384
(2^8) ^ 2 = 65536
(2^9) ^ 2 = 262144
(2^10) ^ 2 = 1048576
(2^11) ^ 2 = 4194304
(2^12) ^ 2 = 16777216
(2^13) ^ 2 = 67108864
(2^14) ^ 2 = 268435456
(2^15) ^ 2 = 1073741824
(2^16) ^ 2 = 4294967296
(2^17) ^ 2 = 17179869184
(2^18) ^ 2 = 68719476736
(2^19) ^ 2 = 274877906944
(2^20) ^ 2 = 1099511627776
(2^21) ^ 2 = 4398046511104
(2^22) ^ 2 = 17592186044416
(2^23) ^ 2 = 70368744177664
(2^24) ^ 2 = 281474976710656
(2^25) ^ 2 = 1125899906842624
(2^26) ^ 2 = 4503599627370496
(2^27) ^ 2 = 18014398509481984
(2^28) ^ 2 = 72057594037927936
(2^29) ^ 2 = 288230376151711744
(2^30) ^ 2 = 1152921504606846976
(2^31) ^ 2 = 4611686018427387904
(2^32) ^ 2 = 0
(2^33) ^ 2 = 0
(2^34) ^ 2 = 0
(2^35) ^ 2 = 0
(2^36) ^ 2 = 0
(2^37) ^ 2 = 0
(2^38) ^ 2 = 0
(2^39) ^ 2 = 0
(2^40) ^ 2 = 0
(2^41) ^ 2 = 0
(2^42) ^ 2 = 0
(2^43) ^ 2 = 0
(2^44) ^ 2 = 0
(2^45) ^ 2 = 0
(2^46) ^ 2 = 0
(2^47) ^ 2 = 0
(2^48) ^ 2 = 0
(2^49) ^ 2 = 0
(2^50) ^ 2 = 0
(2^51) ^ 2 = 0
(2^52) ^ 2 = 0
(2^53) ^ 2 = 0
(2^54) ^ 2 = 0
(2^55) ^ 2 = 0
(2^56) ^ 2 = 0
(2^57) ^ 2 = 0
(2^58) ^ 2 = 0
(2^59) ^ 2 = 0
(2^60) ^ 2 = 0
(2^61) ^ 2 = 5316911983139663491615228241121378304
(2^62) ^ 2 = 21267647932558653966460912964485513216
(2^63) ^ 2 = 85070591730234615865843651857942052864
(2^64) ^ 2 = 340282366920938463463374607431768211456
(2^65) ^ 2 = 1361129467683753853853498429727072845824
(2^66) ^ 2 = 5444517870735015415413993718908291383296
(2^67) ^ 2 = 21778071482940061661655974875633165533184
(2^68) ^ 2 = 87112285931760246646623899502532662132736
(2^69) ^ 2 = 348449143727040986586495598010130648530944
(2^70) ^ 2 = 1393796574908163946345982392040522594123776
(2^71) ^ 2 = 5575186299632655785383929568162090376495104
(2^72) ^ 2 = 22300745198530623141535718272648361505980416
(2^73) ^ 2 = 89202980794122492566142873090593446023921664
(2^74) ^ 2 = 356811923176489970264571492362373784095686656
(2^75) ^ 2 = 1427247692705959881058285969449495136382746624
(2^76) ^ 2 = 5708990770823839524233143877797980545530986496
(2^77) ^ 2 = 22835963083295358096932575511191922182123945984
(2^78) ^ 2 = 91343852333181432387730302044767688728495783936
(2^79) ^ 2 = 365375409332725729550921208179070754913983135744
(2^80) ^ 2 = 1461501637330902918203684832716283019655932542976
(2^81) ^ 2 = 5846006549323611672814739330865132078623730171904
(2^82) ^ 2 = 23384026197294446691258957323460528314494920687616
(2^83) ^ 2 = 93536104789177786765035829293842113257979682750464
(2^84) ^ 2 = 374144419156711147060143317175368453031918731001856
(2^85) ^ 2 = 1496577676626844588240573268701473812127674924007424
(2^86) ^ 2 = 5986310706507378352962293074805895248510699696029696
(2^87) ^ 2 = 23945242826029513411849172299223580994042798784118784
(2^88) ^ 2 = 95780971304118053647396689196894323976171195136475136
(2^89) ^ 2 = 383123885216472214589586756787577295904684780545900544
(2^90) ^ 2 = 1532495540865888858358347027150309183618739122183602176
(2^91) ^ 2 = 6129982163463555433433388108601236734474956488734408704
(2^92) ^ 2 = 24519928653854221733733552434404946937899825954937634816
(2^93) ^ 2 = 98079714615416886934934209737619787751599303819750539264
(2^94) ^ 2 = 392318858461667547739736838950479151006397215279002157056
(2^95) ^ 2 = 1569275433846670190958947355801916604025588861116008628224
(2^96) ^ 2 = 6277101735386680763835789423207666416102355444464034512896
(2^97) ^ 2 = 25108406941546723055343157692830665664409421777856138051584
(2^98) ^ 2 = 100433627766186892221372630771322662657637687111424552206336
(2^99) ^ 2 = 401734511064747568885490523085290650630550748445698208825344
(2^100) ^ 2 = 1606938044258990275541962092341162602522202993782792835301376
I wasn't able to reproduce your results running Arch.
Here is a log of my terminal session:
$ uname -r
3.6.10-1-ARCH
$ guile --version
Guile 1.8.8
Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation
Guile may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence;
certain other uses are permitted as well. For details, see the file
`COPYING', which is included in the Guile distribution.
There is no warranty, to the extent permitted by law.
$ guile
guile> (define (square x) (* x x))
guile> (define (even? x) (= (remainder x 2) 0))
guile> (define (expt b n)
(cond ((= n 0) 1)
((even? n) (square (expt b (/ n 2))))
(else (* b (expt b (- n 1))))))
guile> (expt 2 10)
1024
guile> (expt 2 64)
18446744073709551616
guile> (expt 2 487)
399583814440447005616844445413525287135820562261116307309972090832047582568929999375399181192126972308457847183540047730617340886948900519205142528
guile> (expt 2 488)
799167628880894011233688890827050574271641124522232614619944181664095165137859998750798362384253944616915694367080095461234681773897801038410285056
guile> (expt 2 1000)
10715086071862673209484250490600018105614048117055336074437503883703510511249361224931983788156958581275946729175531468251871452856923140435984577574698574803934567774824230985421074605062371141877954182153046474983581941267398767559165543946077062914571196477686542167660429831652624386837205668069376
guile> (expt 2 10000)
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guile> (exit)

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