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compiler flag for "preview all"
Jun 29, 2020
Bruce Carneal
Jun 29, 2020
rikki cattermole
Jun 30, 2020
Bruce Carneal
Jun 30, 2020
Bruce Carneal
Jun 30, 2020
Bruce Carneal
Jun 30, 2020
Bruce Carneal
Jun 30, 2020
rikki cattermole
Jun 30, 2020
Mathias LANG
Jun 30, 2020
Bruce Carneal
Jun 30, 2020
Dennis
Jun 30, 2020
Bruce Carneal
Jul 01, 2020
Max Samukha
June 29, 2020
One of the ideas floated at beerconf was that of a single compiler flag activating all "preview" options.  For reference there are 11 preview options available to the ldc user currently, and the set changes over time so.  A "preview all" flag would be very useful to anyone wanting to test as far in to the foreseeable future as possible.

The ldc and dmd documentation say that the preview=all flag will list all available preview options, but in my testing both ldc 1.22.0 and dmd 2.091.1 treat preview=all as an error.  They *do* list the preview options without error when given preview=?.  IOW, the preview=all formulation could be used for conveniently peering in to the future. At beerconf Iain indicated that he may have already implemented the capability on a private copy so gdc would also be a go if I read him correctly.

So, any objections to preview=all meaning "enable all known preview items"?  If not, I'd ask that one of the compiler command line maintainers make the request for the change or let me know how I might do so.

PS: Also at beerconf Stefan Koch opined that turning on all preview options might not be possible due to incompatibilities of some sort which, if true, would be an excellent reason for adding the capability.






June 30, 2020
-preview=d3

dmd3 = dmd2 -preview=d3

Any major breaking changes would not be turned on in D2.

Not a new idea ;)
June 30, 2020
On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 23:43:11 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> -preview=d3
>
> dmd3 = dmd2 -preview=d3
>
> Any major breaking changes would not be turned on in D2.
>
> Not a new idea ;)

Well, the scope is a little different.  preview=all would refer to currently implemented preview features which are, presumably, less controversial than a d3 moniker would imply.  Implementing -preview=all could be as simple as replacing a string within args[] with a table of strings (which table probably already exists).

But yeah, same general idea.  A simpler way for us to test against possible futures.




June 30, 2020
On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 23:31:16 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
> One of the ideas floated at beerconf was that of a single compiler flag activating all "preview" options.
[snip]
>
> PS: Also at beerconf Stefan Koch opined that turning on all preview options might not be possible due to incompatibilities of some sort which, if true, would be an excellent reason for adding the capability.

Stefan was right.  ldc 1.22.0 seg faults when compiling with all preview flags set, manually, and trivially exercising dip 1008 by itself.

Could be that there are several additional fatal combinations.

I suggest that the compiler writers extend their test suites to exercise at least the "all previews enabled" + small-N-utilized permutations.





June 30, 2020
On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 at 01:05:22 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
> On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 23:31:16 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
>> One of the ideas floated at beerconf was that of a single compiler flag activating all "preview" options.
> [snip]
>>
>> PS: Also at beerconf Stefan Koch opined that turning on all preview options might not be possible due to incompatibilities of some sort which, if true, would be an excellent reason for adding the capability.
>
> Stefan was right.  ldc 1.22.0 seg faults when compiling with all preview flags set, manually, and trivially exercising dip 1008 by itself.
>
> Could be that there are several additional fatal combinations.
>
> I suggest that the compiler writers extend their test suites to exercise at least the "all previews enabled" + small-N-utilized permutations.

Turns out you can trigger the seg fault by just enabling dip 1008 and dip 1021.

Not sure how many other such preview-combo seg faults are there to be isolated and fixed but seems like a systematic sweep of the combinations should be part of the compiler test suite.  Playing "combinatoric seg fault roulette" doesn't sound like fun for anybody.

My guess is that these preview-combo errors can be isolated to the front end.





June 30, 2020
On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 at 01:29:16 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 at 01:05:22 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
>
> Turns out you can trigger the seg fault by just enabling dip 1008 and dip 1021.
>

This particular combinatoric crash was written up and submitted as a dmd bug, issue 20994.




June 30, 2020
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20994

June 30, 2020
On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 23:31:16 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
> One of the ideas floated at beerconf was that of a single compiler flag activating all "preview" options.  [...]
>
> The ldc and dmd documentation say that the preview=all flag will list all available preview options, but in my testing both ldc 1.22.0 and dmd 2.091.1 treat preview=all as an error. [...]

It was always intended to work this way, but it seems to have broken at some point.
Well, next release: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/11348
June 30, 2020
On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 at 04:23:23 UTC, Mathias LANG wrote:
> On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 23:31:16 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
>> One of the ideas floated at beerconf was that of a single compiler flag activating all "preview" options.  [...]
>>
>> The ldc and dmd documentation say that the preview=all flag will list all available preview options, but in my testing both ldc 1.22.0 and dmd 2.091.1 treat preview=all as an error. [...]
>
> It was always intended to work this way, but it seems to have broken at some point.
> Well, next release: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/11348

Thanks Mathias.  Nicely localized fix and quickly done.  It'll still trigger 20994 and others of its ilk of course but that's a good thing.


June 30, 2020
On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 23:31:16 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
> So, any objections to preview=all meaning "enable all known preview items"?

I wouldn't object, but I wouldn't find 'all *known* preview items' useful since the status of the switches varies a lot.

I personally try to enable dip25, dip1000, fieldwise, markdown, fixAliasThis, intpromote, and dtorfields for my projects. I especially like markdown in DDoc, and dip25+dip1000 enabling @safe use of stack memory.

I don't use the following switches:

nosharedaccess: tried it, but it gave some compile errors I couldn't be bothered to fix
rvaluerefparam: cool feature, but DIP is in 'GitHub gist' state (not even draft review), so it's not certain this will actually become part of the language
dip1008: I don't need @nogc Exceptions it, from what I heard it's in a buggy state
dip1021: useless switch that gives 100% false positives (see DIP review). I tried to enable it, it gave a compile error in Phobos std.uni.CowArray, and ended in a dmd segfault

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