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1 ;;; find-gc.el --- detect functions that call the garbage collector
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1992, 2001-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
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22 ;;; Commentary:
24 ;; Produce in find-gc-unsafe-list the set of all functions that may invoke GC.
25 ;; This expects the Emacs sources to live in find-gc-source-directory.
27 ;;; Code:
29 (defvar find-gc-unsafe-list nil
30 "The list of unsafe functions is placed here by `find-gc-unsafe'.")
32 (defvar find-gc-source-directory
33 (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "src" source-directory))
34 "Directory containing Emacs C sources.")
36 (defvar find-gc-subrs-callers nil
37 "Alist of users of subrs, from GC testing.
38 Each entry has the form (FUNCTION . FUNCTIONS-THAT-CALL-IT).")
40 (defvar find-gc-subrs-called nil
41 "Alist of subrs called, in GC testing.
42 Each entry has the form (FUNCTION . FUNCTIONS-IT-CALLS).")
45 ;;; Functions on this list are safe, even if they appear to be able
46 ;;; to call the target.
48 (defvar find-gc-noreturn-list '(Fsignal Fthrow wrong_type_argument))
50 ;;; This was originally generated directory-files, but there were
51 ;;; too many files there that were not actually compiled. The
52 ;;; list below was created for a HP-UX 7.0 system.
54 (defvar find-gc-source-files
55 '("dispnew.c" "scroll.c" "xdisp.c" "window.c"
56 "term.c" "cm.c" "emacs.c" "keyboard.c" "macros.c"
57 "keymap.c" "sysdep.c" "buffer.c" "filelock.c"
58 "insdel.c" "marker.c" "minibuf.c" "fileio.c"
59 "dired.c" "cmds.c" "casefiddle.c"
60 "indent.c" "search.c" "regex.c" "undo.c"
61 "alloc.c" "data.c" "doc.c" "editfns.c"
62 "callint.c" "eval.c" "fns.c" "print.c" "lread.c"
63 "syntax.c" "unexcoff.c"
64 "bytecode.c" "process.c" "callproc.c" "doprnt.c"
65 "xterm.c" "xfns.c"))
68 (defun find-gc-unsafe ()
69 "Return a list of unsafe functions--that is, which can call GC.
70 Also store it in `find-gc-unsafe-list'."
71 (trace-call-tree nil)
72 (trace-use-tree)
73 (find-unsafe-funcs 'Fgarbage_collect)
74 (setq find-gc-unsafe-list
75 (sort find-gc-unsafe-list
76 (function (lambda (x y)
77 (string-lessp (car x) (car y)))))))
79 ;;; This does a depth-first search to find all functions that can
80 ;;; ultimately call the function "target". The result is an a-list
81 ;;; in find-gc-unsafe-list; the cars are the unsafe functions, and the cdrs
82 ;;; are (one of) the unsafe functions that these functions directly
83 ;;; call.
85 (defun find-unsafe-funcs (target)
86 (setq find-gc-unsafe-list (list (list target)))
87 (trace-unsafe target))
89 (defun trace-unsafe (func)
90 (let ((used (assq func find-gc-subrs-callers)))
91 (or used
92 (error "No find-gc-subrs-callers for %s" (car find-gc-unsafe-list)))
93 (while (setq used (cdr used))
94 (or (assq (car used) find-gc-unsafe-list)
95 (memq (car used) find-gc-noreturn-list)
96 (progn
97 (push (cons (car used) func) find-gc-unsafe-list)
98 (trace-unsafe (car used)))))))
103 (defun trace-call-tree (&optional ignored)
104 (message "Setting up directories...")
105 (setq find-gc-subrs-called nil)
106 (let ((case-fold-search nil)
107 (default-directory find-gc-source-directory)
108 (files find-gc-source-files)
109 name entry rtlfile)
110 (dolist (file files)
111 (message "Compiling %s..." file)
112 (call-process "gcc" nil nil nil "-I" "." "-I" "../lib"
113 "-fdump-rtl-expand" "-o" null-device "-c" file)
114 (setq rtlfile
115 (file-expand-wildcards (format "%s.*.expand" file) t))
116 (if (/= 1 (length rtlfile))
117 (message "Error compiling `%s'?" file)
118 (with-temp-buffer
119 (insert-file-contents (setq rtlfile (car rtlfile)))
120 (delete-file rtlfile)
121 (while (re-search-forward ";; Function \\|(call_insn " nil t)
122 (if (= (char-after (- (point) 3)) ?o)
123 (progn
124 (looking-at "[a-zA-Z0-9_]+")
125 (setq name (intern (match-string 0)))
126 (message "%s : %s" (car files) name)
127 (setq entry (list name)
128 find-gc-subrs-called
129 (cons entry find-gc-subrs-called)))
130 (if (looking-at ".*\n?.*\"\\([A-Za-z0-9_]+\\)\"")
131 (progn
132 (setq name (intern (match-string 1)))
133 (or (memq name (cdr entry))
134 (setcdr entry (cons name (cdr entry)))))))))))))
136 (defun trace-use-tree ()
137 (setq find-gc-subrs-callers (mapcar 'list (mapcar 'car find-gc-subrs-called)))
138 (let ((ptr find-gc-subrs-called)
139 p2 found)
140 (while ptr
141 (setq p2 (car ptr))
142 (while (setq p2 (cdr p2))
143 (if (setq found (assq (car p2) find-gc-subrs-callers))
144 (setcdr found (cons (car (car ptr)) (cdr found)))))
145 (setq ptr (cdr ptr)))))
147 (provide 'find-gc)
149 ;;; find-gc.el ends here