Simon Hengel pushed to branch wip/sol/dont-use-global-variables at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC Commits: 9a9ae4df by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-05T14:44:37-04:00 Use __attribute__((dllimport)) for external RTS symbol declarations This is needed to be hygenic about DLL symbol imports and exports. The attribute is ignored on platforms other than Windows. Use of the attribute however means that external data symbols do not have a compile-time constant address (they are loaded using an indirection). This means we have to adjust the rtsSyms initial linker table so that it is a local constant in a function, rather than a global constant. We now define it within a function that pre-populates the symbol table with the RTS symbols. - - - - - 2ad3e01e by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-05T14:44:37-04:00 Fix the rts linker declarations for a few data symbols and ensure that the (windows only) rts_IOManagerIsWin32Native data symbol is marked as externally visible. - - - - - 8ff4fdb5 by David Eichmann at 2026-05-05T14:44:37-04:00 Hadrian: Disable runtime pseudo relocations for RTS on windows hosts - - - - - 96974723 by Teo Camarasu at 2026-05-05T14:45:20-04:00 ghci/TH: refactor to use IORef QState This is a pure refactor and shouldn't modify semantics at all - - - - - eff6bfaf by Teo Camarasu at 2026-05-05T14:45:20-04:00 iserv: recover/getQ/putQ should behave same as internal interpreter The internal and external interpreter should behave the same when handling `recover`, the exeception recovery method of Q. In practice, they diverge. In case of failure, the internal interpreter only restores error message state to before the computation, wheras the external interperter restores error message state *and* the state of putQ/getQ. As far as I can tell this is a simple mistake in the implementation. Note [TH recover with -fexternal-interpreter] describes the correct behaviour but the implementation doesn't mirror this. This change restores the correct behaviour by keeping the effects of putQ in the erroring computation. This is a breaking change since it modifies the behaviour of programs that rely on recover ignoring putQ from failling computations when used with the external interpreter. Although I highly doubt anyone relies on this behaviour. This divergence was first introduced in d00c308633fe7d216d31a1087e00e63532d87d6d. As far as I can tell this was unintentional and tha commit was trying to solve a different bug. Resolves #27022 - - - - - 1cb1d672 by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-06T09:53:40-04:00 rts: Add dynamic trace flags API This commit adds an API to the RTS (exposed via Rts.h) that allows users to dynamically change the trace flags. Prior to this commit, users were able to stop and start the profiling and heap profiling timers (via startProfTimer/stopProfTimer and startHeapProfTimer/stopHeapProfTimer). This extends that functionality to also cover the core event types. The getTraceFlag/setTraceFlag functions read and write the values of the trace flag cache, which is allocated by Trace.c, rather than modifying the members of RtsFlags.TraceFlags. This is done under the assumption that the members of RtsFlags should not be modified after RTS initialisation. Consequently, if the user modifies the trace flags using setTraceFlag, the object returned by getTraceFlags (from base) will not reflect these changes. The trace flags are not protected by locks of any sort. Hence, these functions are not thread-safe. However, the trace flags are not modified by the RTS after initialisation, only read, so the race conditions introduced by one user modifying them are most likely benign. This PR also puts the trace flag cache in a single global struct, as opposed to a collection of global variables, and changes the types of the individual flags from uint8_t to bool, as these have the same size on both Clang and GCC and are a better semantic match. Prior to the change to uint8_t, they had type int, see 42c47cd6. Even with its deprecation in C23, I don't think there should be any issue depending on stdbool.h. The TRACE_X macros are redefined to access the global struct, with values cast to const bool to ensure they are read-only. - - - - - 9d54dc94 by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-06T09:53:40-04:00 rts: Ensure TRACE_X values are used in place of RtsFlags.TraceFlags.X - - - - - 418d737b by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-06T09:53:40-04:00 rts: Fix nonmoving-GC tracing The current nonmoving-GC tracing functions were written in a different style from the other tracing functions. They were directly implemented as, e.g., a traceConcMarkEnd function that called postConcMarkEnd. The other tracing functions are implemented as, e.g., traceThreadLabel_, a function that posts the thread label event, and traceThreadLabel, a macro that checks whether TRACE_scheduler is set. This commit fixes that implementation, and ensures that the nonmoving-GC tracing functions only emit events if nonmoving-GC tracing is enabled. - - - - - 99f4afa4 by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-06T09:53:40-04:00 rts: Add SymI_HasProto for get/setTraceFlag - - - - - 7e9eb8b9 by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-06T09:53:40-04:00 rts: Add SymI_HasProto for start/endEventLogging - - - - - 3a3045fb by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-06T09:53:41-04:00 rts: Add changelog entry - - - - - a3b339a4 by Teo Camarasu at 2026-05-06T09:54:25-04:00 interface-stability/base: don't distinguish ws-32 The interface of base is identical when the Word size is 32bits. Therefore, there is no need to have another file for this case. So, we delete it. Step towards: #26752 - - - - - eb922183 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-07T14:28:50+01:00 Add a rts posix FdWakup utility module This will be used to implement wakeupIOManager for in-RTS I/O managers. It provides a notification/wakeup mechanism using FDs, suitable for situations when a thread is blocked on a set of fds anyway. It uses the classic self-pipe trick, or equivalently eventfd on supported platforms. This will initially be used to implement prompt interrupt or shutdown of the posix ticker thread. - - - - - 01b0e233 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-07T14:28:50+01:00 Add prompt shutdown to the pthread ticker implementation. The Linux timerfd ticker monitors a pipe which is used by exitTicker to ensure a prompt wakeup and shutdown. The pthread ticker lacked this and so would only exit at the next ticker wakeup (10ms by default). This patch adds the same mechanism to the pthread ticker. This changes the pthread ticker from waiting by using nanosleep() to waiting using either ppoll() or select(), so that it can wait on both a time and a file descriptor. On Linux at least, a test program to compare the timing jitter of these APIs shows that using nanpsleep, ppoll or select makes no statistical difference to the maximum or average jitter. This is a step towards unifying the posix ticker implementations, so that we can have just one portable one (albeit with some limited cpp). It is also a step towards using the ticker as part of a more general implementation of wakeUpRts, since this will require a method to wake the rts from a signal handler context (ctl-c handler). - - - - - bc41d646 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-07T14:28:50+01:00 Update ticker header commentary It was antique and didn't apply even to the previous implementation, and certainly not to the updated one. - - - - - 4ed9a386 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-07T14:28:50+01:00 Remove the timerfd-based ticker implementation There does not appear to be any remaining advantage on Linux to using the timerfd ticker implementation over the portable one (using ppoll on Linux for precise timing). The eventfd implementation was originally added at a time when Linux was still using a signal based implementation. So it made sense at the time. See (closed) issue #10840. - - - - - 97504fa6 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-07T14:28:50+01:00 Consolidate to a single posix ticker implementation Previously we had four implementations, two using signals and two using threads. Having just one should make behaviour more consistent between platforms, and should make maintenance easier. - - - - - 1e60023b by Facundo Domínguez at 2026-05-07T18:01:16-04:00 Generalize so_inline to specify which bindings should be preserved This commit generalizes the so_inline option of the simple optimizer so we can indicate with a predicate the specific bindings that should be kept. This feature is important for the LiquidHaskell plugin, which relies on the simple optimizer to make core programs easier to read, but needs to preserve bindings that are relevant for verification. See https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/24386 for the full discussion. - - - - - 44cf9cd7 by Wolfgang Jeltsch at 2026-05-12T09:48:18-04:00 Move the `Text.Read` implementation into `base` - - - - - 4ac3f7d6 by Vladislav Zavialov at 2026-05-12T09:49:03-04:00 EPA: Use AnnParen for tuples and sums Summary of changes * Do not use AnnParen in XListTy, replace it with EpToken "[" and "]" * Specialise AnnParen to tuple/sums by dropping the AnnParensSquare and keeping only AnnParens and AnnParensHash * Use AnnParen in XExplicitTuple * Use AnnParen in XExplicitTupleTy * Use AnnParen in XTuplePat * Use AnnParen in XExplicitSum (via AnnExplicitSum) * Use AnnParen in XSumPat (via EpAnnSumPat) This is a refactoring with no user-facing changes. - - - - - 1bdcddec by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00 Add minimal dlltool support to ghc-toolchain The dlltool is a tool that can create dll import libraries from .def files. These .def files list the exported symbols of dlls. Its somewhat like gnu linker scripts, but more limited. We will need dlltool to build the rts and ghc-internal libraries as DLLs on Windows. The rts and ghc-internal libraries have a recursive dependency on each other. Import libraries can be used to resolve recursive dependencies between dlls. We will use an import library for the rts when linking the ghc-internal library. - - - - - f7fc3770 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00 Add minimal dlltool support into ./configure Find dlltool, and hopefully support finding it within the bundled llvm toolchain on windows. - - - - - e4e22bfb by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00 Update the default host and target files for dlltool support - - - - - 5666c8f9 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00 Add dlltool as a hadrian builder Optional except on windows. - - - - - 5e14fe3f by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00 Update and generate libHSghc-internal.def from .def.in file The only symbol that the rts imports from the ghc-internal package now is init_ghc_hs_iface. So the rts only needs an import lib that defines that one symbol. Also, remove the libHSghc-prim.def because it is redundant. The rts no longer imports anything from ghc-prim. Keep libHSffi.def for now. We may yet need it once it is clear how libffi is going to be built/used for ghc. - - - - - 3d91e4a6 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00 Add rule to build libHSghc-internal.dll.a and link into the rts On windows only, with dynamic linking. This is needed because on windows, all symbols in dlls must be resolved. No dangling symbols allowed. References to external symbols must be explicit. We resolve this with an import library. We create an import library for ghc-internal, a .dll.a file. This is a static archive containing .o files that define the symbols we need, and crucially have ".idata" sections that specifies the symbols the dll imports and from where. Note that we do not install this libHSghc-internal.dll.a, and it does not need to list all the symbols exported by that package. We create a special purpose import lib and only use it when linking the rts dll, so it only has to list the symbols that the rts uses from ghc-internal (which is exactly one symbol: init_ghc_hs_iface). - - - - - c8dae539 by Alice Rixte at 2026-05-12T09:50:52-04:00 Script for downloading and copying `base-exports` file - - - - - dea6fdbf by Simon Hengel at 2026-05-13T19:15:39+07:00 Don't use global variables to address concurrency bugs! (fixes #27234) This was originally introduce with 88f38b03025386f0f1e8f5861eed67d80495168a to address #17922. In this specific case a better fix would have been to synchronize on stderr: withHandle_ "stderrSupportsAnsiColors" stderr $ \ _ -> do ... But apparently the dependency on `terminfo` was removed in 32ab07bf3d6ce45e8ea5b55e8095174a6b42a7f0, preventing #17922 in the first place. - - - - - 74 changed files: - + changelog.d/T27022 - + changelog.d/dynamic-trace-flags - + changelog.d/ghc-api-epa-parens - + changelog.d/so_inline_is_a_predicate - compiler/GHC/Core/SimpleOpt.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Config.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/DynFlags.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Dump.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Expr.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Pat.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Type.hs - compiler/GHC/Parser.y - compiler/GHC/Parser/Annotation.hs - compiler/GHC/Parser/PostProcess.hs - compiler/GHC/SysTools/Terminal.hs - configure.ac - distrib/configure.ac.in - hadrian/cfg/default.host.target.in - hadrian/cfg/default.target.in - hadrian/src/Builder.hs - hadrian/src/Rules/Generate.hs - hadrian/src/Rules/Library.hs - hadrian/src/Rules/Rts.hs - hadrian/src/Settings/Packages.hs - libraries/base/src/Data/Functor/Classes.hs - libraries/base/src/Data/Functor/Compose.hs - libraries/base/src/Prelude.hs - libraries/base/src/Text/Read.hs - libraries/ghc-internal/ghc-internal.cabal.in - libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/IO/Encoding.hs - − libraries/ghc-internal/src/GHC/Internal/Text/Read.hs - libraries/ghci/GHCi/TH.hs - m4/find_llvm_prog.m4 - m4/fp_setup_windows_toolchain.m4 - m4/ghc_toolchain.m4 - m4/prep_target_file.m4 - rts/.gitignore - rts/IOManager.h - rts/Linker.c - rts/LinkerInternals.h - rts/RtsSymbols.c - rts/RtsSymbols.h - rts/Trace.c - rts/Trace.h - rts/include/rts/EventLogWriter.h - rts/linker/Elf.c - + rts/posix/FdWakeup.c - + rts/posix/FdWakeup.h - rts/posix/Ticker.c - − rts/posix/ticker/Pthread.c - − rts/posix/ticker/TimerFd.c - rts/rts.cabal - rts/sm/NonMoving.c - + rts/win32/libHSghc-internal.def.in - + testsuite/tests/ghc-api/T24386.hs - testsuite/tests/ghc-api/T25121_status.stdout - testsuite/tests/ghc-api/all.T - + testsuite/tests/interface-stability/.gitignore - testsuite/tests/interface-stability/README.mkd - − testsuite/tests/interface-stability/base-exports.stdout-ws-32 - + testsuite/tests/interface-stability/download-base-exports.sh - testsuite/tests/parser/should_compile/DumpParsedAst.stderr - testsuite/tests/parser/should_compile/DumpRenamedAst.stderr - testsuite/tests/parser/should_compile/KindSigs.stderr - testsuite/tests/parser/should_compile/T20452.stderr - testsuite/tests/th/T24111.stdout - + testsuite/tests/th/T27022.hs - + testsuite/tests/th/T27022.stdout - testsuite/tests/th/all.T - testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_compile/subsumption_sort_hole_fits.stderr - testsuite/tests/typecheck/should_fail/T21130.stderr - utils/check-exact/ExactPrint.hs - utils/ghc-toolchain/exe/Main.hs - utils/ghc-toolchain/src/GHC/Toolchain/Target.hs The diff was not included because it is too large. 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