This includes:
- Parsing proper LabelledStatements with try_parse_labelled_statement()
- Removing LabelableStatement
- Implementing the LoopEvaluation semantics via loop_evaluation() in
each IterationStatement subclass; and IterationStatement evaluation
via {For,ForIn,ForOf,ForAwaitOf,While,DoWhile}Statement::execute()
- Updating ReturnStatement, BreakStatement and ContinueStatement to
return the appropriate completion types
- Basically reimplementing TryStatement and SwitchStatement according to
the spec, using completions
- Honoring result completion types in AsyncBlockStart and
OrdinaryCallEvaluateBody
- Removing any uses of the VM unwind mechanism - most importantly,
VM::throw_exception() now exclusively sets an exception and no longer
triggers any unwinding mechanism.
However, we already did a good job updating all of LibWeb and userland
applications to not use it, and the few remaining uses elsewhere don't
rely on unwinding AFAICT.
This is another major milestone on our journey towards removing global
VM exception state :^)
Does pretty much exactly what it says on the tin: updating
ASTNode::execute() to return a Completion instead of a plain value. This
will *also* allow us to eventually remove the non-standard unwinding
mechanism and purely rely on the various completion types.
In the end this is a nicer API than having separate has_{value,target}()
and having to check those first, and then making another Optional from
the unwrapped value:
completion.has_value() ? completion.value() : Optional<Value> {}
// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
// Implicit creation of non-empty Optional<Value>
This way we need to unwrap the optional ourselves, but can easily pass
it to something else as well.
This is in anticipation of the AST using completions :^)
The spec has a note stating that resolve binding will always return a
reference whose [[ReferencedName]] field is name. However this is not
correct as the underlying method GetIdentifierReference may throw on
env.HasBinding(name) thus it can throw. However, there are some
scenarios where it cannot throw because the reference is known to exist
in that case we use MUST with a comment.
Now that it only needs to deal with ECMAScriptFunctionObject via
internal_call() / internal_construct(), we can:
- Remove the generic FunctionObject parameter
- Move it from the VM to ECMAScriptFunctionObject
- Make it private
Now that it only needs to deal with ECMAScriptFunctionObject via
internal_call() / internal_construct(), we can:
- Remove the generic FunctionObject parameter
- Move it from the VM to ECMAScriptFunctionObject
- Make it private
This patch implements:
- Spec compliant [[Call]] and [[Construct]] internal slots, as virtual
FunctionObject::internal_{call,construct}(). These effectively replace
the old virtual FunctionObject::{call,construct}(), but with several
advantages:
- Clear and consistent naming, following the object internal methods
- Use of completions
- internal_construct() returns an Object, and not Value! This has been
a source of confusion for a long time, since in the spec there's
always an Object returned but the Value return type in LibJS meant
that this could not be fully trusted and something could screw you
over.
- Arguments are passed explicitly in form of a MarkedValueList,
allowing manipulation (BoundFunction). We still put them on the
execution context as a lot of code depends on it (VM::arguments()),
but not from the Call() / Construct() AOs anymore, which now allows
for bypassing them and invoking [[Call]] / [[Construct]] directly.
Nothing but Call() / Construct() themselves do that at the moment,
but future additions to ECMA262 or already existing web specs might.
- Spec compliant, standalone Call() and Construct() AOs: currently the
closest we have is VM::{call,construct}(), but those try to cater to
all the different function object subclasses at once, resulting in a
horrible mess and calling AOs with functions they should never be
called with; most prominently PrepareForOrdinaryCall and
OrdinaryCallBindThis, which are only for ECMAScriptFunctionObject.
As a result this also contains an implicit optimization: we no longer
need to create a new function environment for NativeFunctions - which,
worth mentioning, is what started this whole crusade in the first place
:^)
This patch introduces the "environment coordinate" concept, which
encodes the distance from a variable access to the binding it ends up
resolving to.
EnvironmentCoordinate has two fields:
- hops: The number of hops up the lexical environment chain we have
to make before getting to the resolved binding.
- index: The index of the resolved binding within its declarative
environment record.
Whenever a variable lookup resolves somewhere inside a declarative
environment, we now cache the coordinates and reuse them in subsequent
lookups. This is achieved via a coordinate cache in JS::Identifier.
Note that non-strict direct eval() breaks this optimization and so it
will not be performed if the resolved environment has been permanently
screwed by eval().
This makes variable access *significantly* faster. :^)
VM::resolve_binding() can now return a Reference that knows the exact
binding index if it's pointing into a DeclarativeEnvironment.
Reading/writing through the Reference will now use direct environment
access when possible.
This will be used by LibWeb to squirrel away the stack while performing
a microtask checkpoint in some cases. VM will simply consider saved
execution context stacks as GC roots as well.
Before this we used an ad-hoc combination of references and 'variables'
stored in a hashmap. This worked in most cases but is not spec like.
Additionally hoisting, dynamically naming functions and scope analysis
was not done properly.
This patch fixes all of that by:
- Implement BindingInitialization for destructuring assignment.
- Implementing a new ScopePusher which tracks the lexical and var
scoped declarations. This hoists functions to the top level if no
lexical declaration name overlaps. Furthermore we do checking of
redeclarations in the ScopePusher now requiring less checks all over
the place.
- Add methods for parsing the directives and statement lists instead
of having that code duplicated in multiple places. This allows
declarations to pushed to the appropriate scope more easily.
- Remove the non spec way of storing 'variables' in
DeclarativeEnvironment and make Reference follow the spec instead of
checking both the bindings and 'variables'.
- Remove all scoping related things from the Interpreter. And instead
use environments as specified by the spec. This also includes fixing
that NativeFunctions did not produce a valid FunctionEnvironment
which could cause issues with callbacks and eval. All
FunctionObjects now have a valid NewFunctionEnvironment
implementation.
- Remove execute_statements from Interpreter and instead use
ASTNode::execute everywhere this simplifies AST.cpp as you no longer
need to worry about which method to call.
- Make ScopeNodes setup their own environment. This uses four
different methods specified by the spec
{Block, Function, Eval, Global}DeclarationInstantiation with the
annexB extensions.
- Implement and use NamedEvaluation where specified.
Additionally there are fixes to things exposed by these changes to eval,
{for, for-in, for-of} loops and assignment.
Finally it also fixes some tests in test-js which where passing before
but not now that we have correct behavior :^).
