So if I understand correctly, OtherCon is only created here:
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/blob/a952dd80d40bf6b67194a44ff71d7bf759...
simplAlt env _ imposs_deflt_cons case_bndr' cont' (Alt DEFAULT bndrs rhs)
= assert (null bndrs) $
do { let env' = addBinderUnfolding env case_bndr'
(mkOtherCon imposs_deflt_cons)
-- Record the constructors that the case-binder *can't* be.
; rhs' <- simplExprC env' rhs cont'
; return (Alt DEFAULT [] rhs') }
What you should know is that in Core case-expressions are actually more
like:
case scrut as b of alts
where `b` binds the evaluated result of `scrut.
So if I am to understand the `simplAlt` code correctly, `case_bndr'` is the
binder for the evaluated result of `scrut`.
And what is recorded in the unfolding is that once we get to the DEFAULT
pattern, we know that `case_bndr'` cannot be the constructors in
`imposs_deflt_cons` (probably the constructor matched by the other
alternatives).
Now... there's also a FloutOut pass, which might have floated that
`case_bndr'` to the TopLevel.
And I think that is what you're seeing, and I think you can simply ignore
them.
Also... another thing that you should know is that -fexpose-all-unfoldings
doesn't actually expose *all* unfoldings.
Bottoming bindings are never exposed.
That's why in the Clash compiler we have the following code when loading
core-expressions from .hi files
https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/blob/cb93b418865e244da50e1d2bc8...
loadExprFromTyThing :: CoreSyn.CoreBndr -> GHC.TyThing -> Maybe
CoreSyn.CoreExpr
loadExprFromTyThing bndr tyThing = case tyThing of
GHC.AnId _id | Var.isId _id ->
let _idInfo = Var.idInfo _id
unfolding = IdInfo.unfoldingInfo _idInfo
in case unfolding of
CoreSyn.CoreUnfolding {} ->
Just (CoreSyn.unfoldingTemplate unfolding)
CoreSyn.DFunUnfolding dfbndrs dc es ->
Just (MkCore.mkCoreLams dfbndrs (MkCore.mkCoreConApps dc es))
CoreSyn.NoUnfolding
#if MIN_VERSION_ghc(9,0,0)
| Demand.isDeadEndSig $ IdInfo.strictnessInfo _idInfo
#else
| Demand.isBottomingSig $ IdInfo.strictnessInfo _idInfo
#endif
-> do
let noUnfoldingErr = "no_unfolding " ++ showPpr
unsafeGlobalDynFlags bndr
Just (MkCore.mkAbsentErrorApp (Var.varType _id) noUnfoldingErr)
_ -> Nothing
_ -> Nothing
i.e. when we encounter a NoUnfolding with a bottoming demand signature, we
conjure an absentError out of thin air.
On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 at 10:05, ÉRDI Gergő
Hi,
I'm CC-ing the Clash mailing list because I believe they should have encountered the same problem (and perhaps have found a solution to it already!).
I'm trying to use `.hi` files compiled with `ExposeAllUnfoldings` set to reconstruct full Core bindings for further processing. By and large, this works, but I get tripped up on identifiers whose unfolding is only given as `OtherCon []`. It is unclear to me what is causing this -- some of them are recursive bindings while others are not.
The problem, of course, is that if all I know about an identifier is that it is `OtherCon []`, that doesn't allow me to restore its definition. So is there a way to tell GHC to put "full" unfoldings everywhere in `ExposeAllUnfoldings` mode?
Thanks, Gergo
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