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;; Challenge: find all the bugs in this small functional compiler | |
#lang racket | |
(provide (all-defined-out)) | |
(define verbose-mode (make-parameter #t)) | |
(define i-am-a-mac (make-parameter #f)) | |
;; | |
;; Our compiler will have several layers | |
;; | |
;; Stage 1: IfArith <-- Surface level | |
;; | (ifarith?) | |
;; Stage 2: IfArithTiny <-- Subsurface level, desugars IfArith | |
;; | (ifarith-tiny?) | |
;; Stage 3: ANF <-- Administrative Normal Form | |
;; | (functions have "simple" arguments) | |
;; Stage 4: IR-Virtual <-- Assembly with virtual registers | |
;; | (linearized assembly w/ virtual registers) | |
;; Stage 5: x86 <-- x86, with stack allocation | |
;; | (ir-x86?) | |
;; Stage 6: NASM <-- Assembly file | |
;; | |
;; Once we have assembly code (in this case NASM assembly), we then | |
;; use a standard assembler / linker. | |
;; Stage 1: High-level language: IfArith | |
;; | |
;; Our high-level language will be IfArith--it has the obvious | |
;; semantics we have written several times before; the interpretation | |
;; is not the interesting part here. The only interesting thing to | |
;; note is that true is "anything but zero," and false is "exactly | |
;; zero." | |
;; Here are our primitive operators--notice that we don't include | |
;; =. Our notion of true will be "anything except for 0." Our notion | |
;; of false will be "exactly zero." We can get here by using | |
;; subtracts, etc... | |
(define (bop? op) (member op '(+ * - << >>))) | |
(define (uop? op) (member op '(- not))) | |
;; literals are either integer literals or true / false | |
(define (lit? l) | |
(match l | |
[(? integer? i) #:when (and (>= i (- (expt 2 63))) (< i (expt 2 63))) #t] | |
['true #t] | |
['false #t] | |
[_ #f])) | |
;; IfArith is a tiny (sub-Turing) language we've seen several times | |
;; throughout the course. We will compile IfArith to x86, by way of | |
;; several steps. Our language is intentionally tiny: project 4 showed | |
;; us we can compile to the lambda calculus, now we show how to | |
;; compile a (much less expressive) language all the way down to | |
;; assembly code. | |
(define (ifarith? e) | |
(match e | |
;; literals | |
[(? integer? i) #:when (and (>= i (- (expt 2 63))) (< i (expt 2 63))) #t] | |
['true #t] | |
['false #t] | |
;; applications of primitives, our language has no lambdas | |
[`(,(? bop? bop) ,(? ifarith? e0) ,(? ifarith? e1)) #t] | |
[`(,(? uop? bop) ,(? ifarith? e0)) #t] | |
;; let* works in the usual way | |
[`(let* ([,(? symbol? xs) ,(? ifarith? es)] ...) ,(? ifarith? e-body)) #t] | |
;; print an arbitrary expression (must be a number at runtime) | |
[`(print ,(? ifarith? e)) #t] | |
;; and/or, with short-circuiting semantics | |
[`(and ,(? ifarith? e0) ,(? ifarith? es) ...) #t] | |
[`(or ,(? ifarith? e0) ,(? ifarith? es) ...) #t] | |
;; if argument is 0, false, otherwise true | |
[`(if ,(? ifarith? e0) ,(? ifarith? e1) ,(? ifarith? e2)) #t] | |
;; cond where the last case is else | |
[`(cond [,(? ifarith? conditions) ,(? ifarith? bodies)] | |
... | |
[else ,(? ifarith? else-body)]) #t] | |
[_ #f])) | |
;; Stage 2: IfArith-Tiny | |
;; | |
;; Now we'll observe that many of the forms in ifarith? can be written | |
;; in terms of other forms. This is like the desugaring we did in p4: | |
;; we just eliminate some forms by using existing forms. For example, | |
;; let* can be written as a sequence of single-binding lets (notice we | |
;; change let* to let). Similarly, forms for and/or/cond can be | |
;; compiled to usages of `if`. | |
;; (Stage 2) Language spec | |
(define (ifarith-tiny? e) | |
(match e | |
;; literals | |
[(? integer? i) #:when (and (>= i (- (expt 2 63))) (< i (expt 2 63))) #t] | |
['true #t] | |
['false #t] | |
;; variables, bound in let | |
[(? symbol? x) #t] | |
;; applications of primitives, our language has no lambdas | |
[`(,(? bop? bop) ,(? ifarith? e0) ,(? ifarith? e1)) #t] | |
[`(,(? uop? bop) ,(? ifarith? e0)) #t] | |
;; let* works in the usual way | |
[`(let ([,(? symbol? x) ,(? ifarith? e)]) ,(? ifarith? e-body)) #t] | |
;; print an arbitrary expression (must be a number at runtime) | |
[`(print ,(? ifarith? e)) #t] | |
;; if argument is 0, false, otherwise true | |
[`(if ,(? ifarith? e0) ,(? ifarith? e1) ,(? ifarith? e2)) #t] | |
[_ #f])) | |
;; TODO TODO TODO | |
;; | |
;; Translator: IfArith |--> IfArith-Tiny | |
;; | |
;; You will implement a translator from IfArith to IfArithTiny, | |
;; sketched up above. Specifically, you will convert everything to | |
;; direct-style applications of builtins, along with let, print, and | |
;; if. | |
(define (ifarith->ifarith-tiny e) | |
(match e | |
;; literals | |
[(? integer? i) i] | |
['true e] | |
['false e] | |
[(? symbol? x) x] | |
[`(,(? bop? bop) ,e0 ,e1) `(,bop ,(ifarith->ifarith-tiny e0) ,(ifarith->ifarith-tiny e1))] | |
[`(,(? uop? uop) ,e) `(,uop ,(ifarith->ifarith-tiny e))] | |
;; 0-binding case | |
[`(let* () ,e) (ifarith->ifarith-tiny e)] | |
;; 1+-binding case | |
[`(let* ([,(? symbol? x0) ,e0]) ,e-body) | |
`(let ([,x0 ,(ifarith->ifarith-tiny e0)]) ,(ifarith->ifarith-tiny e-body))] | |
[`(let* ([,(? symbol? x0) ,e0] ,rest-binding-pairs ...) ,e-body) | |
`(let ([,x0 ,(ifarith->ifarith-tiny e0)]) | |
,(ifarith->ifarith-tiny `(let* ,rest-binding-pairs ,e-body)))] | |
;; print an arbitrary expression (must be a number at runtime) | |
[`(print ,_) e] | |
;; and/or, with short-circuiting semantics | |
[`(and ,e0) (ifarith->ifarith-tiny e0)] | |
[`(and ,e0 ,es ...) (ifarith->ifarith-tiny `(if ,e0 (and ,@es) 0))] | |
[`(or ,e0) (ifarith->ifarith-tiny e0)] | |
[`(or ,e0 ,es ...) (ifarith->ifarith-tiny `(if ,e0 true (or ,es)))] | |
;; if argument is 0, false, otherwise true | |
[`(if ,e0 ,e1 ,e2) `(if ,(ifarith->ifarith-tiny e0) | |
,(ifarith->ifarith-tiny e1) | |
,(ifarith->ifarith-tiny e2))] | |
;; cond where the last case is else | |
[`(cond [else ,(? ifarith? else-body)]) | |
(ifarith->ifarith-tiny else-body)] | |
[`(cond [,c0 ,e0] ,rest ...) | |
(ifarith->ifarith-tiny `(if ,c0 ,e0 (cond ,@rest)))])) | |
;; Stage 3: Administrative Normal Form (ANF) | |
;; | |
;; In administrative normal form (or A-normal form) breaks up complex | |
;; instructions into simple instructions by introducing extra | |
;; "administrative" bindings. For example, (+ 1 (* 2 3)) may be | |
;; decomposed as (let ([v (* 2 3)]) (+ 1 v)). We want to do this | |
;; because, in assembly, we must do one single operation at a time. | |
;; Translator: IfArith-Tiny |--> ANF | |
;; | |
;; Conversion into A-Normal form. See here if you are interested: | |
;; https://matt.might.net/articles/a-normalization/ | |
;; | |
;; The algorithm is tricky but intersting. | |
(define (value? v) | |
(match v | |
[(? lit? l) #t] | |
[(? symbol? x) #t] | |
[_ #f])) | |
(define (ifarith-tiny->anf e) | |
(define (normalize-term M) (normalize M (lambda (x) x))) | |
(define (normalize M k) | |
(pretty-print M) | |
(match M | |
[(? lit? l) (let ([t (gensym "x")]) `(let ([,t ,l]) ,(k t)))] | |
[(? value?) (k M)] | |
[`(if ,e0 ,e1 ,e2) | |
(normalize-name e0 (lambda (t) (k `(if ,t ,(normalize-term e1) ,(normalize-term e2)))))] | |
[`(let ([,x ,e]) ,e-b) | |
(normalize e (lambda (N1) `(let ([,x ,N1]) ,(normalize e-b k))))] | |
[`(,f ,e0 ,e1) | |
(normalize-name e0 | |
(lambda (t0) (normalize-name e1 | |
(lambda (t1) (let ([t (gensym "x")]) | |
`(let ([,t (,f ,t0 ,t1)]) ,(k t)))))))] | |
[`(,f ,e0) | |
(normalize-name e0 (lambda (t0) (k `(,f ,t0))))] | |
[`(print ,e0) | |
(normalize-name e0 (lambda (t) (k `(print ,t))))])) | |
(define (normalize-name M k) | |
(normalize M | |
(lambda (N) (if (symbol? N) | |
(k N) | |
(let ([t (gensym "x")]) `(let ([,t ,N]) ,(k t))))))) | |
(normalize-term e)) | |
;; Stage 4: IR-Virtual | |
;; | |
;; Instructions in ir-virtual? are very simple. Notice that it is a | |
;; very restrictive language, which requires *everything* be put in a | |
;; virtual register. This is a pain to write manually, but it's | |
;; simpler to compile fewer forms, so we take this shortcut; in | |
;; practice, many architectures (x86, etc.) do enable instructions | |
;; whose operands are a mix of registers, constants, and memory | |
;; addresses. A more advanced compiler would employ an instruction | |
;; selection phase to particularize these to a given ISA; we use a | |
;; naive strategy: stack allocate everything, shuffle into and out of | |
;; registers. It will work but it will not be as fast as if we used | |
;; registers more optimally. | |
(define label? symbol?) ;; labels will be symbols | |
(define (virtual-instr? instr) | |
(define register? symbol?) | |
(match instr | |
;; move a literal into a register | |
[`(mov-lit ,(? register? dst) ,(? lit? src)) #t] | |
[`(mov-reg ,(? register? dst) ,(? register? src)) #t] | |
;; instructions | |
[`(add ,(? register? dst) ,(? register? src)) #t] | |
[`(mul ,(? register? dst) ,(? register? src)) #t] | |
[`(idiv ,(? register? dst) ,(? register? src)) #t] | |
[`(sub ,(? register? dst) ,(? register? src)) #t] | |
[`(shr ,(? register? dst) ,(? register? src)) #t] | |
[`(shl ,(? register? dst) ,(? register? src)) #t] | |
[`(cmp ,(? register? dst) ,(? register? src)) #t] | |
;; unconditional jump | |
[`(jmp ,(? label? symbol?)) #t] | |
;; jump if not zero | |
[`(jnz ,(? label? symbol?)) #t] | |
;; print the (64-bit integer) in the register src | |
[`(print ,(? register? src)) #t] | |
[_ #f])) | |
;; a possibly-labeled (or not) instruction. When lists of instructions | |
;; are put in sequence, you may jump between them using the various | |
;; jump instructions, jmp and jnz | |
(define (labeled-virtual-instr? instr) | |
(match instr | |
[`((label ,l) ,(? virtual-instr? i)) #t] | |
[(? virtual-instr? i) #t] | |
[_ #f])) | |
;; ir-virtual is just a list of these possibly-labeled virtual | |
;; instructions. | |
(define (ir-virtual? instrs) | |
(and (list? instrs) | |
(andmap labeled-virtual-instr? instrs))) | |
;; Translation: ANF |--> Ir-Virtual | |
;; | |
;; In this stage we will take an expression that is, essentially, a | |
;; decision tree (with `let`-binding and primitive application) and | |
;; turn it into a linearized list of instructions. | |
(define (anf->ir-virtual e) | |
(define (name->op op) | |
(hash-ref (hash '* 'imul '+ 'add '- 'sub) op)) | |
;; helper function which does the bulk of the work, labels | |
;; everything in the return value. | |
(define (linearize e) | |
(define my-lab (gensym "lab")) | |
(match e | |
;; these forms terminate; we mark them with a special mark, | |
;; exit. When we ultimately emit x86 code, we will need to | |
;; ensure that these points all branch to an "exit" node. | |
[`(print ,x) | |
`(((label ,my-lab) (print ,x)) (return 0))] | |
#;[(? symbol? x) `((mov-rax ,x) (exit))] | |
#;[(? integer? i) `((mov-rax ,i) (exit))] | |
[(? value? v) `((return ,v))] | |
;; the rest of the forms either (a) contain explicit branches, | |
;; or (b) fallthrough to the rest. | |
[`(let ([,x ,(? lit? l)]) ,e-b) | |
`(((label ,my-lab) (mov-lit ,x ,l)) . ,(linearize e-b))] | |
;; by this point, we'll have forced literals into variables | |
[`(let ([,x (,f ,x0 ,xs ...)]) ,e-b) | |
`(((label ,my-lab) (mov-reg ,x ,x0)) | |
(,(name->op f) ,x ,@xs) | |
. ,(linearize e-b))] | |
[`(let ([,x ,y]) ,e-b) | |
`(((label ,my-lab) (mov-reg ,x ,y)) | |
. ,(linearize e-b))] | |
[`(if ,xg ,et ,ef) | |
(define compilation-of-et (linearize et)) | |
(define compilation-of-ef (linearize ef)) | |
(define (label sequence) | |
(match sequence | |
[`(((label ,l) . ,_) . ,_) l] | |
[_ (error "expected a label to start the instruction sequence")])) | |
(define x (gensym "zero")) | |
(append `(((label ,my-lab) (mov-lit ,x 0)) | |
(cmp ,xg ,x) | |
(jz ,(label compilation-of-et)) | |
(jmp ,(label compilation-of-ef))) | |
;; notice that the compilation of et/ef must end in a | |
;; (exit) mark so that we don't "fall through" from the | |
;; end of et to the beginning of ef. | |
compilation-of-et | |
compilation-of-ef)])) | |
(linearize e)) | |
;; Ir-Virtual |--> x86 (Stage 5) | |
;; | |
;; Now we present a dirt-simple compiler from ir-virtual? to x86. The | |
;; central challenge is how to deal with the unbounded number of | |
;; registers in ir-virtual. We accomplish this by "spilling:" we | |
;; stack-allocate all virtual registers. This approach will work, | |
;; provided we don't run out of stack space, and that we shuffle | |
;; results into and out of intermediary registers. | |
;; | |
;; We should also note here that our approach is really only thinking | |
;; of a single function: variables are all global. In practice, these | |
;; will all just be local variables sitting on the stack in the | |
;; program's main function. It would be more complicated to handle a | |
;; language with functions, for many reasons, including a more | |
;; thoughtful handling of environments (closures, etc...). | |
;; | |
;; Here, we keep it dirt simple to make it (hopefully) simpler. | |
;; We skip a formal definition of x86. It is the output of the | |
;; following function: ir-virtual->x86. | |
(define (what-is-printf) | |
(if (i-am-a-mac) | |
"_printf" | |
"printf")) | |
(define (what-is-main) | |
(if (i-am-a-mac) | |
"_main" | |
"main")) | |
;; Here is a translation into x86 | |
(define (ir-virtual->x86 instrs) | |
;; calculate the registers used, we need this to determine how much | |
;; stack space to allocate. | |
(define (registers-used i) | |
(match i | |
[`((label ,l) ,i) (registers-used i)] | |
[`(,op ,ops ...) (set->list (filter symbol? ops))])) | |
(define registers (foldl (lambda (instr acc) (set-union (list->set (registers-used instr)) acc)) (set) instrs)) | |
(define num-registers (set-count registers)) | |
(define reg->stackpos (foldl (lambda (reg-name offset acc) (hash-set acc reg-name (- (* offset 8)))) | |
(hash) | |
(set->list registers) | |
(range 1 (add1 num-registers)))) | |
;; calculate the labels used: we add tons of unreachable labels; we | |
;; calculate reachable labels via a foldl. | |
(define (labels-used i) | |
(match i | |
[`((label ,l) ,i) (labels-used i)] | |
[`(jmp ,l) (set l)] | |
[`(jz ,l) (set l)] | |
[`(call ,l) (set l)] | |
[`(,op ,ops ...) (set)])) | |
(define reachable-labels (foldl (lambda (instr acc) (set-union (labels-used instr) acc)) (set) instrs)) | |
;; translate into a sequence of x86 instructions | |
(define (translate instr) | |
(match instr | |
[`((label ,l) ,instr) | |
(define instrs (translate instr)) | |
(if (set-member? reachable-labels l) | |
`(((label ,l) ,(first instrs)) . ,(rest instrs)) | |
instrs)] | |
[`(mov-lit ,dst ,src) | |
`((mov "esi" ,(format "~a" src)) | |
(mov ,(format "[rbp~a]" (hash-ref reg->stackpos dst)) "esi"))] | |
[`(mov-reg ,dst ,src) | |
`((mov "esi" ,(format "[rbp~a]" (hash-ref reg->stackpos src))) | |
(mov ,(format "[rbp~a]" (hash-ref reg->stackpos dst)) "esi"))] | |
[`(print ,src) | |
`((mov "esi" ,(format "[rbp~a]" (hash-ref reg->stackpos src))) | |
(lea "rdi" "[rel int_format]") | |
(mov "eax" "0") | |
(call ,(what-is-printf)))] | |
[`(call ,f) `((call ,f))] | |
[`(jmp ,f) `((jmp ,f))] | |
[`(jz ,f) `((jz ,f))] | |
;; mul needs to go in rax | |
#; | |
[`(imul ,dst ,src) | |
`((mov "rdi" ,(format "[rbp~a]" (hash-ref reg->stackpos src))) | |
(mov "rax" ,(format "[rbp~a]" (hash-ref reg->stackpos dst))) | |
(imul "rdi") | |
(mov "rax" ,(format "[rbp~a]" (hash-ref reg->stackpos dst))))] | |
[`(,op ,dst ,src) | |
`((mov "edi" ,(format "[rbp~a]" (hash-ref reg->stackpos src))) | |
(mov "eax" ,(format "[rbp~a]" (hash-ref reg->stackpos dst))) | |
(,op "eax" "edi") | |
(mov ,(format "[rbp~a]" (hash-ref reg->stackpos dst)) "eax"))] | |
;; emit code to jump to the exit | |
[`(return ,v) | |
`((mov "rax" ,(if (number? v) (number->string v) (format "[rbp~a]" (hash-ref reg->stackpos v)))) | |
(jmp "finish_up"))])) | |
(define translated-instrs | |
(foldl (λ (instr instrs) (append instrs (translate instr))) '() instrs)) | |
`((function (,(string->symbol (what-is-main))) | |
(push "rbp") | |
(mov "rbp" "rsp") | |
;; allocate num-registers * 16. This is more than we | |
;; need but the stack needs to be 16-byte aligned :-) | |
(sub "rsp" ,(format "~a" (* 16 num-registers))) | |
,@translated-instrs | |
((label "finish_up") (add "rsp" ,(format "~a" (* 16 num-registers)))) | |
(leave) | |
(ret)))) | |
;; x86 |--> NASM Assembly (Stage 5) | |
;; | |
;; We compile to NASM assembly, which can be compiled, e.g., on Linux: | |
;; nasm -fmacho64 example.asm. | |
(define (print-x86 x86) | |
(define (op->string op) | |
(cond [(symbol? op) (symbol->string op)] | |
[(string? op) op] | |
[else (error op)])) | |
(define (render-instr instr) | |
(match instr | |
[`((label ,l) ,i) (string-append (format "~a:" l) (render-instr i))] | |
[`(,opcode ,ops ...) (format "\t~a ~a\n" | |
(symbol->string opcode) | |
(string-join (map op->string ops) ", "))] | |
[`(call ,name) (format "\tcall ~a\n" name)] | |
['syscall "\tsyscall"] | |
['leave "\tleave"] | |
['ret "\tret"])) | |
(define (print-function f) | |
(match f | |
[`(function (,name) ,instrs ...) | |
(string-append | |
(format "~a:" name) | |
(apply string-append (map render-instr instrs)))])) | |
;; include a preamble | |
(displayln "section .data\n\tint_format db \"%ld\",10,0\n\n") | |
(displayln (format "\tglobal _main\n\textern ~a\nsection .text\n\n" (what-is-printf))) | |
(displayln (print-function `(function (_start) | |
(call ,(what-is-main)) | |
(mov "rax" "60") | |
(xor "rdi" "rdi") | |
syscall))) | |
(displayln "\n") | |
(displayln (print-function (first x86)))) ;; only print the first (main) for now | |
;; | |
;; Command-line parsing and actually running the compiler | |
;; | |
;; compile from ir-virtual | |
(define (compile-ir-virtual [ir-virtual (get-input-tree)]) | |
(when (verbose-mode) | |
(begin | |
(displayln "ir-virtual:") | |
(pretty-print ir-virtual))) | |
(define x86 (ir-virtual->x86 ir-virtual)) | |
(when (verbose-mode) | |
(begin | |
(displayln "x86:") | |
(print-x86 x86))) | |
;; write the output .asm file | |
(with-output-to-file file-to-write (lambda ()(print-x86 x86)) #:exists 'replace) | |
(when (verbose-mode) | |
(displayln (format "The file has now been written to ~a. You must now assemble and link it." file-to-write)) | |
(if (i-am-a-mac) | |
(begin | |
(displayln (format "(Assemble on Mac, requires nasm:)\n\tnasm -fmacho64 ~a" file-to-write)) | |
(displayln (format "(Link on Mac, hopefully)\n\tld ~a -o ~a -macosx_version_min 11.0 -L /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/lib -lSystem" object-file exe-file))) | |
(begin | |
(displayln (format "(Assemble on Linux, requires nasm)\n\tnasm ~a" file-to-write)) | |
(displayln (format "(Link on Mac, hopefully)\n\tld ~a -o ~a" object-file exe-file)))))) | |
;; compile from ifarith | |
(define (compile-ifa) | |
(define source-tree (get-input-tree)) | |
(when (verbose-mode) | |
(begin | |
(displayln "Input source tree in IfArith:") | |
(pretty-print source-tree))) | |
;; compile ifarith |--> ifarith-tiny | |
(define ifarith-tiny (ifarith->ifarith-tiny source-tree)) | |
(when (verbose-mode) | |
(begin | |
(displayln "ifarith-tiny:") | |
(pretty-print ifarith-tiny))) | |
;; compile ifarith-tiny |--> ir-virtual | |
(define anf (ifarith-tiny->anf ifarith-tiny)) | |
(when (verbose-mode) | |
(begin | |
(displayln "anf:") | |
(pretty-print anf))) | |
(define ir-virtual (anf->ir-virtual anf)) | |
(compile-ir-virtual ir-virtual)) | |
;; Entrypoint -- we allow loading .ifa or .irv files to facilitate | |
;; easy testing. | |
;; parse the command line | |
(define filename | |
(command-line | |
#:once-each | |
[("-v" "--verbose") "Run with Verbose output." | |
(verbose-mode #t)] | |
[("-m" "--mac") "Generate code that is compatible with MachO." | |
(i-am-a-mac #t)] | |
#:args (filename) ; expect one command-line argument: <filename> | |
; return the argument as a filename to compile | |
filename)) | |
(define file-to-write (string-append (first (string-split filename ".")) ".asm")) | |
(define object-file (string-append (first (string-split filename ".")) ".o")) | |
(define exe-file (string-append (first (string-split filename ".")))) | |
;; parsing is as easy as using Racket's `read` | |
(define (get-input-tree) | |
(with-input-from-file filename | |
(lambda () (read)))) | |
(match (last (string-split filename ".")) | |
["ifa" (compile-ifa)] | |
["irv" (compile-ir-virtual)] | |
[_ (print "Error: files must end in .ifa (ifarith) or .irv (ir-virtual)")]) |
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