To: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Catching Break?
From: Ian T Zimmerman <itz@transbay.net>
Date: 05 Feb 1999 10:00:27 -0800
In-Reply-To: Xavier Leroy's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1999 01:24:35 +0100
Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> writes:
>
> > Why doesn't this work:
> > let main() =
> > Sys.catch_break true; try Unix.kill (Unix.getpid()) Sys.sigint
> > with Sys.Break -> prerr_endline "CAUGHT!"; exit 0
> > let _ = main()
> > This program just prints "Fatal error: Uncaught exception
> > Sys.Break" as if the try block weren't there. Am I overlooking
> > something really obvious?
> No, it's fairly subtle, actually. For various reasons related to
> the Caml runtime system, signals in OCaml are not necessarily
> handled at the program point where they are received: the signal
> handler is called only at the next "safe" program point.
> In the case of the ocamlc bytecode interpreter, "safe" program
> points are at function application and at the beginning of each loop
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> iteration. So, in your example above, we leave the "try..with"
> before the handler for the signal is called, and that handler thus
> raises the Sys.Break exception outside of the "try..with".
> If you add a function call after the Unix.kill, everything should
> work as expected:
>
> > let main() =
> > Sys.catch_break true; try Unix.kill (Unix.getpid()) Sys.sigint;
> > prerr_endline "Sent signal" with Sys.Break -> prerr_endline
> > "CAUGHT!"; exit 0
> This is actually a minor OCaml bug; it would be better to check for
> pending signals just before leaving a "try..with" block. I'll see
> what can be done about it.
As I didn't get any further followups on this topic, I looked at the
bytecode compiler and interpreter. (As of Ocaml 2.01) I cannot see
the "function application" case being done:
kronstadt:/usr/src/ocaml-2.01/bytecomp$ grep -B 8 -e Kcheck_signals *.ml
bytegen.ml- comp_expr (add_var id (sz+1) env) handler (sz+1) (add_pop 1 cont1))
bytegen.ml- | Lifthenelse(cond, ifso, ifnot) ->
bytegen.ml- comp_binary_test env cond ifso ifnot sz cont
bytegen.ml- | Lsequence(exp1, exp2) ->
bytegen.ml- comp_expr env exp1 sz (comp_expr env exp2 sz cont)
bytegen.ml- | Lwhile(cond, body) ->
bytegen.ml- let lbl_loop = new_label() in
bytegen.ml- let lbl_test = new_label() in
bytegen.ml: Kbranch lbl_test :: Klabel lbl_loop :: Kcheck_signals ::
-- bytegen.ml- | Lfor(param, start, stop, dir, body) -> bytegen.ml- let lbl_loop = new_label() in bytegen.ml- let lbl_test = new_label() in bytegen.ml- let offset = match dir with Upto -> 1 | Downto -> -1 in bytegen.ml- let comp = match dir with Upto -> Cle | Downto -> Cge in bytegen.ml- comp_expr env start sz bytegen.ml- (Kpush :: comp_expr env stop (sz+1) bytegen.ml- (Kpush :: Kbranch lbl_test :: bytegen.ml: Klabel lbl_loop :: Kcheck_signals ::-- emitcode.ml- out_int (Array.length tbl_const + (Array.length tbl_block lsl 16)); emitcode.ml- let org = !out_position in emitcode.ml- Array.iter (out_label_with_orig org) tbl_const; emitcode.ml- Array.iter (out_label_with_orig org) tbl_block emitcode.ml- | Kboolnot -> out opBOOLNOT emitcode.ml- | Kpushtrap lbl -> out opPUSHTRAP; out_label lbl emitcode.ml- | Kpoptrap -> out opPOPTRAP emitcode.ml- | Kraise -> out opRAISE emitcode.ml: | Kcheck_signals -> out opCHECK_SIGNALS
-- instruct.ml- | Kbranchifnot of label instruct.ml- | Kstrictbranchif of label instruct.ml- | Kstrictbranchifnot of label instruct.ml- | Kswitch of label array * label array instruct.ml- | Kboolnot instruct.ml- | Kpushtrap of label instruct.ml- | Kpoptrap instruct.ml- | Kraise instruct.ml: | Kcheck_signals
-- printinstr.ml- Array.iter (fun lbl -> print_space(); print_int lbl) consts; printinstr.ml- print_string "/"; printinstr.ml- Array.iter (fun lbl -> print_space(); print_int lbl) blocks; printinstr.ml- close_box() printinstr.ml- | Kboolnot -> print_string "\tboolnot" printinstr.ml- | Kpushtrap lbl -> print_string "\tpushtrap L"; print_int lbl printinstr.ml- | Kpoptrap -> print_string "\tpoptrap" printinstr.ml- | Kraise -> print_string "\traise" printinstr.ml: | Kcheck_signals -> print_string "\tcheck_signals"
So I'll see if inserting a dummy loop after the slow system call helps. But yes something should be done about this.
I haven't even start to think what to do in the native code case...
-- Ian T Zimmerman <itz@transbay.net> I came to the conclusion that what was wrong about the guillotine was that the condemned man had no chance at all, absolutely none. Albert Camus, _The Outsider_
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