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Fix ocamldebug module source lookup #6562

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vicuna opened this issue Sep 17, 2014 · 8 comments
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Fix ocamldebug module source lookup #6562

vicuna opened this issue Sep 17, 2014 · 8 comments
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vicuna commented Sep 17, 2014

Original bug ID: 6562
Reporter: @lpw25
Assigned to: @damiendoligez
Status: closed (set by @damiendoligez on 2014-10-03T15:28:23Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Version: 4.02.0
Target version: 4.02.1+dev
Fixed in version: 4.02.1+dev
Category: tools (ocaml{lex,yacc,dep,debug,...})
Tags: patch
Monitored by: @gasche

Bug description

The attached patch fixes the following issues with ocamldebug's module source lookup:

  • Source file names in pos_fname can be relative to the compilation directory, in which case the compilation directory should be included in debug_dirs.

  • Relative filenames (e.g. "../foo.ml") were being treated as relative to the directory in which the debugger was run, instead they should be looked-up from the path.

  • If an absolute source filename is used and the file is removed then the debugger raises an uncaught exception about a missing file.

Since these fixes are very small I include them in a single patch. They are also probably worth including in 4.02.1.

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vicuna commented Sep 17, 2014

Comment author: @garrigue

These look like reasonable bug fixes, and I buy everything that improves ocamldebug usability, so I would like to commit this one.
Anyone sees a problem?

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vicuna commented Sep 18, 2014

Comment author: @gasche

Why does the implementation of find_in_path_rel try to normalize path in its "simplify" function? I'm surprised that this logic would be necessary. I understand that find_in_path cannot be used directly because it only looks in the path for "implicit" filenames¹.

I think we could just generalize find_in_path to abstract over the test used in the branch (implicit or relative; over a function or a boolean deciding which function to use, as you prefer), and then call that directly from source.ml -- this would also include the "if not (Sys.file_exists ...) then raise Not_found" logic.

¹ note to others: a filename of the form ./path or ../path is relative but not implicit, and supporting relative-but-not-implicit paths is also the reason for the proposed change in source.ml.

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vicuna commented Sep 18, 2014

Comment author: @lpw25

Why does the implementation of find_in_path_rel try to normalize path in its "simplify" function?

So that the filenames displayed by ocamldebug do not look like:

foo/bar/.././baz.ml

The logic was copied from Location.absolute_path.

We could provide a "Location.simplify_path" function and then call that from source_of_module instead if you prefer.

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vicuna commented Sep 18, 2014

Comment author: @lpw25

We could provide a "Location.simplify_path" function and then call that from source_of_module instead if you prefer.

Or just drop it, it doesn't really matter if the names are displayed badly since they are only really used by emacs -- which probably won't even display the full path.

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vicuna commented Sep 22, 2014

Comment author: @damiendoligez

I don't agree with the simplify function.

Do this:

cd /tmp
mkdir foo
ln -s . foo/bar
ls /tmp/foo/bar/..

You will notice that /tmp/foo/bar/.. is /tmp, while the simplify function returns /tmp/foo.

We should drop it.

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vicuna commented Sep 23, 2014

Comment author: @lpw25

I'm away this week, so cannot test it, but this probably means that Location.absolute_path is broken as well.

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vicuna commented Sep 28, 2014

Comment author: @damiendoligez

I'm away this week, so cannot test it, but this probably means that Location.absolute_path is broken as well.

Yes it is. Good catch!

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vicuna commented Oct 3, 2014

Comment author: @damiendoligez

Patch applied after removing the .. case in simplify (branch 4.02, rev 15455).

I've also opened a new PR for Location.absolute_path (#6595).

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