I have split the VEC rewrite into 25 patches. The only patches that make actual changes are #1 (vec.c and vec.h) and #2 (gengtype). All the others are mechanical side-effects from the first patch.
I will still appreciate if maintainers can take a look at the other patches to make sure I have not introduced anything strange. Some of the changes were done with sed. I've fixed up the formatting manually, but I may have missed the odd thing. All the folks in the CC list: expect to receive at least one of the patches in the patchset. The changes in every area other than vec.[ch] are mechanical, so I am not really looking for an approval. But, if you spot something fishy, please let me know. I have tested the patch pretty extensively: - Regular bootstraps on x86_64, ppc, ia64, sparc and hppa. - Bootstraps with --enable-checking=release - Bootstraps with --enable-checking=gc,gcac - Basic builds on all targets (using contrib/config-list.mk). I'm now doing build-time comparisons, but I do not expect changes. I've documented the changes from a user's perspective on http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cxx-conversion/cxx-vec. This should help reading te new vec code for the first time. We no longer access the vectors via VEC_* macros. The pattern is "VEC_operation (T, A, V, args)" becomes "V.operation (args)". The only thing I could not do is create proper ctors and dtors for the vec class. Since these vectors are stored in unions, we have to keep them as PODs (C++03 does not allow non-PODs in unions). This means that creation and destruction must be explicit. There is a new method vec<type, allocation, layout>::create() and another vec<type, allocation, layout>::destroy() to allocate the internal vector. For vectors that must be pointers, there is a family of free functions that implement the operations that need to tolerate NULL vectors. These functions all start with the prefix 'vec_safe_'. See the wiki page for details. I would like to commit the patch this weekend. This will increase the chances of not conflicting with any other patches going in. I do not expect any breakage to occur, but the patch is massive. Once the patch is in, please CC me on any bug reports that are caused by vec changes. Typical problems include: - An ICE inside a vec function member because 'this' is NULL. These are the easiest to fix. You simply look in the backtrace for the first entry that is outside of vec.h. That's the line you need to modify to use one of the 'vec_safe_*' functions. - A syntax error in calling a vec function member. These should not occur, as I have pruned all the ones that occurred in config-list.mk, but if it happens this is often a vector that was a pointer and its function is being accessed with '.'. If the vector is a GC vector, then it may need to be accessed with 'vec_safe_*' In any case, just forward me the failure and I will deal with it. Richi, I've added vec::quick_grow and vec::quick_grow_cleared. This will let you change that FIXME comment in PRE, I think. Thanks. Diego. [ The patch is too big for e-mail. It's available at http://www.airs.com/~dnovillo/pub/vec-rewrite/01vec.diff ] 2012-11-15 Diego Novillo <dnovi...@google.com> * vec.c (register_overhead): Convert it into member function of vec_prefix. (release_overhead): Likewise. (calculate_allocation): Likewise. (vec_heap_free): Remove. (vec_gc_o_reserve_1): Remove. (vec_heap_o_reserve_1): Remove. (vec_stack_o_reserve_1): Remove. (vec_stack_o_reserve_exact): Remove. (register_stack_vec): New. (stack_vec_register_index): New. (unregister_stack_vec): New. (vec_assert_fail): Remove. * vec.h: Conditionally include ggc.h. Document conditional hackery. Update top-level documentation. (ALONE_VEC_CHECK_INFO): Remove. (VEC_CHECK_INFO): Remove. (ALONE_VEC_CHECK_DECL): Remove. (VEC_CHECK_DECL): Remove. (ALONE_VEC_CHECK_PASS): Remove. (VEC_CHECK_PASS): Remove. (VEC_ASSERT): Remove. (vec_prefix): Add friends va_gc, va_gc_atomic, va_heap and va_stack. Mark fields alloc_ and num_ as protected. (struct vec_t): Remove. Remove all function members. (struct vl_embed): Declare. (struct vl_ptr): Declare. (free): Remove. (reserve_exact): Remove. (reserve): Remove. (safe_splice): Remove. (safe_push): Remove. (safe_grow): Remove. (safe_grow_cleared): Remove. (safe_insert): Remove. (DEF_VEC_I): Remove. (DEF_VEC_ALLOC_I): Remove. (DEF_VEC_P): Remove. (DEF_VEC_ALLOC_P): Remove. (DEF_VEC_O): Remove. (DEF_VEC_ALLOC_O): Remove. (DEF_VEC_ALLOC_P_STACK): Remove. (DEF_VEC_ALLOC_O_STACK): Remove. (DEF_VEC_ALLOC_I_STACK): Remove. (DEF_VEC_A): Remove. (DEF_VEC_ALLOC_A): Remove. (vec_stack_p_reserve_exact_1): Remove. (vec_stack_o_reserve): Remove. (vec_stack_o_reserve_exact): Remove. (VEC_length): Remove. (VEC_empty): Remove. (VEC_address): Remove. (vec_address): Remove. (VEC_last): Remove. (VEC_index): Remove. (VEC_iterate): Remove. (VEC_embedded_size): Remove. (VEC_embedded_init): Remove. (VEC_free): Remove. (VEC_copy): Remove. (VEC_space): Remove. (VEC_reserve): Remove. (VEC_reserve_exact): Remove. (VEC_splice): Remove. (VEC_safe_splice): Remove. (VEC_quick_push): Remove. (VEC_safe_push): Remove. (VEC_pop): Remove. (VEC_truncate): Remove. (VEC_safe_grow): Remove. (VEC_replace): Remove. (VEC_quick_insert): Remove. (VEC_safe_insert): Remove. (VEC_ordered_remove): Remove. (VEC_unordered_remove): Remove. (VEC_block_remove): Remove. (VEC_lower_bound): Remove. (VEC_alloc): Remove. (VEC_qsort): Remove. (va_heap): Declare. (va_heap::default_layout): New typedef to vl_ptr. (va_heap::reserve): New. (va_heap::release): New. (va_gc): Declare. (va_gc::default_layout): New typedef to vl_embed. (va_gc::reserve): New. (va_gc::release): New. (va_gc_atomic): Declare. Inherit from va_gc. (va_stack): Declare. (va_stack::default_layout): New typedef to vl_ptr. (va_stack::alloc): New. (va_stack::reserve): New. (va_stack::release): New. (register_stack_vec): Declare. (stack_vec_register_index): Declare. (unregister_stack_vec): Declare. (vec<T, A = va_heap, L = typename A::default_layout>): Declare empty vec template. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>): Partial specialization for embedded layout. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::allocated): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::length): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::is_empty): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::address): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::operator[]): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::last New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::space): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::iterate): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::iterate): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::copy): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::splice): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::quick_push New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::pop New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::truncate): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::quick_insert): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::ordered_remove): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::unordered_remove): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::block_remove): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::qsort): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::lower_bound): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::embedded_size): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::embedded_init): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::quick_grow): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::quick_grow_cleared): New. (vec_safe_space): New. (vec_safe_length): New. (vec_safe_address): New. (vec_safe_is_empty): New. (vec_safe_reserve): New. (vec_safe_reserve_exact): New. (vec_alloc): New. (vec_free): New. (vec_safe_grow): New. (vec_safe_grow_cleared): New. (vec_safe_iterate): New. (vec_safe_push): New. (vec_safe_insert): New. (vec_safe_truncate): New. (vec_safe_copy): New. (vec_safe_splice): New. (vec<T, A, vl_ptr>): New partial specialization for the space efficient layout. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::exists): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::is_empty): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::length): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::address): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::operator[]): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::operator!=): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::operator==): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::last New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::space): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::iterate): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::copy): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::reserve): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::reserve_exact): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::splice): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::safe_splice): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::quick_push): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::safe_push): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::pop New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::truncate): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::safe_grow): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::safe_grow_cleared): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::quick_grow): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::quick_grow_cleared): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::quick_insert): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::safe_insert): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::ordered_remove): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::unordered_remove): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::block_remove): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::qsort): New. (vec<T, A, vl_embed>::lower_bound): New. (vec_stack_alloc): Define. (FOR_EACH_VEC_SAFE_ELT): Define. * vecir.h: Remove. Update all users. * vecprim.h: Remove. Update all users. Move uchar to coretypes.h. * Makefile.in (VEC_H): Add $(GGC_H). Remove vecir.h and vecprim.h dependencies everywhere.