[m-rev.] for tryout and/or review: removing globals from the I/O state

Julien Fischer juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Fri Oct 16 23:20:06 AEDT 2009


On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Julien Fischer wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:
>
>> I would like feedback on this diff mostly in the form of "mmc --make" users
>> trying out a version of the compiler with this diff, which I have installed
>> on goliath in /home/goliath/workspaces/zs/test_install/bin. mmc --make
>> is the functionality that is probably most affected by this diff. The diff
>> has passed bootchecks in several grades, but bootcheck's tests of mmc 
>> --make
>> are not as tough as real life use. I would also appreciate reviews, but
>> the diff is 54,000+ lines long, and most of it is very boring. It is also
>> more than 2 Mb in size, above the mail system's size limit, so I put it
>> in a file for any reviewers to look at: ~zs/tmp/DIFF.globals_iostate.
>> The diff still contains ZZZs marking the spots that at one time or another
>> I thought deserved a second look. I intend to remove these ZZZs before 
>> commit,
>> since I think I later made sure they were handled correctly, but any 
>> reviewers
>> will probably want to concentrate on those spots.
>> 
>> I would like to commit this as soon as possible, since the size of the diff
>> makes conflicts between it and any other change to the compiler quite 
>> likely.
>> (I already had to resolve a few.) On the other hand, I don't want to commit
>> a diff that breaks mmc --make for people. That means I would really 
>> appreciate
>> prompt feedback.
>
> I have compiled G12 with the above compiler (both with and without
> --enable-opt-high**) and also run all the regression tests.  I found
> no problem with this change and mmc --make.

I have also tried bootchecking the compiler with --use-mmc-make enabled,
and did not find any problems with this change either.

Julien.
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