Duncan Coutts pushed to branch wip/dcoutts/io-manager-selectbis at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC Commits: eaa95a6f by Andrei Borzenkov at 2026-09-04T08:08:40-04:00 Parentheses in prefix GADT constructors (#27423) Updated `splitLHsGadtTy` to allow looking through the parentheses for inner binders. General example of a code pattern that's allowed now: data S a where MkS :: (forall a. S a) That should work now with any combination of nested foralls and parentheses. We don't perform parenthesis unwrapping for record GADT constructors in accordance with GHC Proposal #402. To this end `con_inner_bndrs` no longer stores plain forall telescopes: `[HsForAllTelescope pass]` is replaced with `[LHsGadtTelescope pass]`, a new `HsArg`-style type whose `HsGadtForAll` holds an inner telescope and whose `HsGadtPar` holds a pair of parentheses. The parentheses carry no meaning for renaming or type checking; the only reason to record them is exact-printing. Updated `pprConDecl` to improve the `parse == parse . ppr . parse` property of GADT pretty-printing. The pretty printer can now output code that's similar to this: data T a where MkT1 :: (forall a. T a) MkT2 :: forall . forall a. T a These are special cases of inner forall binders for prefix GADT constructors, when we have either implicit or zero explicit outer binders. - - - - - 639456a8 by Evgeny Malyshev at 2026-09-04T08:09:25-04:00 HsPat: Add spacing to unary tuple patterns Use hsep when printing unary boxed TuplePat applications so that the MkSolo constructor is separated from its argument. The old hcat rendered wildcard and parenthesized arguments as MkSolo_ and MkSolo(). Add T27034 to exercise the HsPat splice-dump path with wildcard and variable arguments, and update existing affected golden output. Fixes #27034 Assisted-By: OpenAI Codex - - - - - 2908ab36 by Simon Jakobi at 2026-09-05T07:22:17-04:00 X86 NCG: use btr/bts/btc for single-bit operations Previously the Cmm patterns x & ~(1 << i) x | (1 << i) x ^ (1 << i) compiled to mov/shl/not/and-style sequences of 3-4 instructions. Now they compile to a single btr, bts or btc, matching what C compilers produce. When the bit index is a literal, constant folding has already collapsed these patterns into ones with a literal mask, such as x & 0xfffffeffffffffff for x & ~(1 << 40). Such masks are now also compiled to a bit-test instruction when they don't fit in an imm32 and would otherwise have to be loaded into a register first. For a variable bit index, this applies only when the shift is unchecked (uncheckedShiftL#, Data.Bits.unsafeShiftL): the bounds-checked shiftL used by e.g. the default clearBit/setBit/complementBit implementations wraps the shift in a bounds mask that this optimisation does not see through. With a literal index, the bounds mask is constant-folded away, so the checked operations benefit too. See Note [Bit-test instructions] in GHC.CmmToAsm.X86.CodeGen. Fixes #25233. Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5 - - - - - c673ecf0 by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-09-05T07:22:59-04:00 Move HsStatic free-var test to typechecker A `static` form should have no free *term* variables, but it can have free *type* variables. Alas, the renamer does not really know what is a term variable and what is a type variable, because of required type arguments. This patch moves the test to the typechecker, which does know. Addresses #27664 - - - - - 5939ceaf by sheaf at 2026-09-05T22:06:18-04:00 Windows: enforce path convention in ./configure As detailed in Note [MSYS paths] in Hadrian.Utilities, the standing convention (using Windows-style paths with forward slashes) is now enforced in ./configure instead of within Hadrian, removing the need for 'cygpath' calls within Hadrian. Fixes #26683 - - - - - a6061455 by sheaf at 2026-09-05T22:06:18-04:00 Hadrian: introduce ExeSpawnPath Specific details about the filepath used to specify the executable to spawn with CreateProcess matters on Windows: whether we use forward or backward slashes, a leading ./, or an absolute path changes how the executable is found. This commit introduces 'ExeSpawnPath' which is a path that is guaranteed to be found when spawning a process. All command invocations now go through this type to ensure the path has been properly sanitised. See Note [NeedCurrentDirectoryForExePath] in Hadrian.Utilities. The same treatment is applied to hsc2hs. Updates hsc2hs submodule. - - - - - e28313e3 by sheaf at 2026-09-05T22:07:06-04:00 Preserve tick ordering in 'tickTickedExpr' 'GHC.Core.Utils.tickTickedExpr' tries to combine a tick 't1' into an existing stack of ticks 't2s'. There are two situations: 1. 't1' is subsumed by a tick in 't2s': drop it. 2. A tick in 't2s' is subsumed by 't1', say 't2'. This commit ensures that in case (2) we keep 't1' on the outside instead of replacing 't2' at its position in the stack. This avoids re-ordering source notes (which was the cause of #27749). This fixes a regression introduced in 2dadf3b0d05. Fixes #27749 - - - - - 3172f557 by sheaf at 2026-09-05T22:07:06-04:00 Consistently prefer local source note ticks GHC.Cmm.DebugBlock.cmmDebugGen (DWARF annotations) and GHC.Stg.Debug.quickSourcePos (-finfo-table-map) both contained logic to prioritise source note ticks from the current module. This commit commons up this logic and propagates it to a third consumer: IPE stack frames, in GHC.Driver.GenerateCgIPEStub. See the new function GHC.Types.Tickish.bestSourceNote. - - - - - 192be0b6 by Luite Stegeman at 2026-09-07T19:43:36-04:00 rts: fix ctoi_tuple_spill_words getting out of sync Fix a few places that were not updating ctoi_tuple_spill_words correctly, leading to corruption/crashes when dealing with large unboxed tuples in bytecode: - captureContinuationAndAbort - findRetryFrameHelper/findAtomicallyFrameHelper - interpretBCO bci_BRK_FUN fixes #27633 - - - - - 604eb43c by Simon Jakobi at 2026-09-07T19:44:15-04:00 Hadrian: don't capture the testsuite driver's output (#27780) a6061455d54 switched the Testsuite RunTest case from Shake's cmd to the cmd' wrapper. cmd' always captures stdout and stderr, and since the caller asks for Exit, it returns without dumping what it captured. As a result the testsuite output no longer appears in CI job logs: failures, performance metrics and the summary were lost with the job. Use cmdExe, the uncaptured cmd, as the other plain-cmd sites in that commit do. Fixes #27780. Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1 - - - - - 06eee015 by Luite Stegeman at 2026-09-08T06:03:06+02:00 rts: Fix missing memory barrier in eval_thunk_selector (#27477) unchain_thunk_selectors() was missing an ACQUIRE_LOAD for the indirectee, leading to segfaults and corruption during GC on weakly-ordered architectures. Fixes #27477 - - - - - f8b2bd8f by Alan Zimmerman at 2026-09-08T09:39:12-04:00 EPA Fix HsCmdDo exact print with comments Exact printing of HsCmdDo was ignoring the location for the do statements, and this is an annotation that can have comments in it. Update it so we print the statements as a unit, including any comments. Also add the result of auditing that we capture comments in all needed places, noting that the remaining Anno SrcSpan instances are benign. - - - - - 430967ab by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Reorder cmm decls in HeapStackCheck for a better logical grouping And put more section headers in to deliniate the groups. We're about to add more here, so better to organise it first. - - - - - 344080fd by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Add raisePrimIOException and add it to RTS<->ghc-internal API The raisePrimIOException is a new helper function that I/O primops will use to help them report I/O errors. This is implemented in Haskell (since that's a lot easier), but has a calling convention that is easy(ish) to use from Cmm in the I/O primops. So we add it to the RTS API struct, and since we'll use it from Cmm we also need a field accessor macro for cmm (in deriveConstants). See the Note about how we cannot have nice things due to async exceptions and thunks preventing us from using catch. - - - - - cfdb3399 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Add new blocking functions for I/O primops See the Note [Thread blocking for new I/O primops], and the Note [Calling convention for raisePrimIOException]. The point is, it will allow us to report synchronous exceptions from I/O primops, and do so much more flexibly. Previously the I/O managers could only report async exceptions and only nullary exceptions. This was OK historically, but no good as we add more I/O managers and expand the range of I/O operations we support. - - - - - f09c09d8 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Change the encoding of results from the I/O manager to I/O primops Previously we just had async continue or heap overflow. We now extend what we can report with synchronous success, and synchronous failure with an errno. See Note [Encoding of result of I/O manager operations] We don't use these two new cases yet, but we will. In particular an epoll I/O manager needs to be able to report synchronous success or failure for waitRead#/waitWrite#. - - - - - 30f074d9 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Switch waitRead/Write# to use new blocking return frames and update the I/O managers to set the result before resuming the blocked threads. This makes it possible for I/O managers to report synchronous exceptions from the I/O primops, but that will be done in a subsequent commit. - - - - - a8786ced by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Switch Poll and Select I/O managers to report sync exceptions rather than using raiseAsync with blockedOnBadFD_closure. This uses the new mechanism in the blocking frame return code to report synchronous exceptions. - - - - - 7a9df79a by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Remove now-unused blockedOnBadFD It was previously thrown by the select and poll I/O managers, but now they use raisePrimIOException (with an EBADF errno). - - - - - 6b0424e3 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T11:07:01+01:00 Improve the docs for delay# waitRead# and waitWrite# Document that the waitRead/Write# can throw exceptions (this was true before too), and that all of them are async exception cancellation points. - - - - - afeb2c30 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-09T20:08:58-04:00 Enable printf warnings for trace functions and fix resulting warnings Most of the existing printf-style functions are annotated with attributes to enable gcc/clang warnings for the printf format string, but several trace functions in Trace.h were missing this annotation. Enable them, and fix the resulting warnings. - - - - - 9a442c93 by Alan Zimmerman at 2026-09-09T20:09:36-04:00 EPA: Exact print ConDeclGADT without custom enterAnn !16321 brought in explicit capture of parens in a ConDeclGADT. The ExactPrint update introduced a modification of the fundamental function in exact printing, `enterAnn`, by splitting it into a version allowing injection of functionality normally handled by the ExactPrint class methods. This commit refactors that code, to restore the prior `enterAnn` version, by following the convention in ExactPrint of introducing a helper data structure with its own `ExactPrint` instance to achieve the same effect. - - - - - 4fe03e04 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-10T09:37:20+01:00 Add a new I/O manager based on select() Yes, this is the second such I/O manager, but it is a modern re-implementation based on the new in-RTS I/O manager infrastructure. So it is cleaner and faster than the old select I/O manager. Why do we need another I/O manager based on select? Why isn't the poll() one good enough as a baseline portable unix I/O manager? Because macOS. Apple Inc. is why we cannot have nice things. The man page for poll on macOS documents the fact that it does not work. At least, it does not work for all files. Specifically, it does not work for device files. Whereas macOS select() does work for device files. Aaaaarg! We _do_ want to deprecate and remove the old select I/O manager, but due to macOS we cannot do that until we have a replacement. This is that replacement. Until of course a nice new k-queue I/O manager arrives, which could become the new default for macOS and FreeBSD. Interestingly, this select I/O manager is actually faster than the poll one, on Linix, in some circumstances: specifically when many Haskell threads are waiting on the same fd. The poll I/O manager does O(n) work for n threads waiting on I/O, whereas the select one does O(fds) work for the number of fds that threads are waiting on. Usually this is 1:1, so it's not noticable, but one can concoct extreme benchmarks to show the difference. - - - - - 91ee9b7c by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-10T09:37:21+01:00 Document the new select I/O manager in the user guide in the RTS section about I/O managers. And add a changelog entry. - - - - - fc170527 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-10T09:37:21+01:00 Minor updates in the poll I/O manager to keep in sync This keeps it in sync with select one. The changes are based on code review while implementing the new select I/O manager. The two I/O managers are so similar in structure that it makes sense to try to minimise the diff between them. This should aid understanding, and fixes to both in future. - - - - - 31a44a61 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-09-10T09:37:21+01:00 Use selectbis I/O manager by default for CI coverage This should not be committed to master. It would be nice however to get better CI coverage of non-default I/O managers. - - - - - 156 changed files: - + changelog.d/T27749 - + changelog.d/T27764 - + changelog.d/allow-gadt-prefix-con-parens - + changelog.d/fix-parallel-gc-selector-race-27477 - + changelog.d/ncg-x86-bit-test-instructions - + changelog.d/select-io-manager - compiler/GHC/Builtin/primops.txt.pp - compiler/GHC/Cmm/DebugBlock.hs - compiler/GHC/CmmToAsm/X86/CodeGen.hs - compiler/GHC/CmmToAsm/X86/Instr.hs - compiler/GHC/CmmToAsm/X86/Ppr.hs - compiler/GHC/Core/Utils.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/GenerateCgIPEStub.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Main/Compile.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Decls.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Doc.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Expr.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Extension/Pass.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Instances.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Pat.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Type.hs - compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Quote.hs - compiler/GHC/Iface/Ext/Ast.hs - compiler/GHC/Rename/Expr.hs - compiler/GHC/Rename/HsType.hs - compiler/GHC/Rename/Module.hs - compiler/GHC/Stg/Debug.hs - 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