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On Windows, the Dyld's library scan (used as last resort for symbols that resolve neither in the JIT nor in the process) walks the search path, which includes System32. Windows still ships the Visual C++ 6 runtime there (msvcp60.dll), which exports std::basic_string and other std:: members whose mangled names match modern lookups - with a pre-C++11, refcounted ABI. Binding JIT'd code to those exports silently corrupts every object they touch. Seen on the Windows CI of the CppInterOp migration branch: JIT'd wrapper code calling outlined MSVC STL string methods (msvcp140.dll exports almost none of basic_string, it is header-inline) landed in msvcp60.dll, producing strings with NULL data pointers but positive sizes (test_crossinheritance test37: "NULL string with positive size" from call_fs building its result via operator+=), access violations in string concatenation, streaming and default-argument materialization (test_pythonify test10/test19, test_regression test18, test_stltypes test09, test_streams, test_fragile test20, test_templates test16), and a direct stack trace with msvcp60!basic_string::find under JIT frames in tutorial-roofit-roostats-StandardHypoTestInvDemo-py. Permanently ignore msvcp*/msvcr*/msvcirt* in the scan. The runtimes the process actually links are already loaded and their exports are found in-process before this scan is consulted, so this only removes the ABI-incompatible legacy candidates; genuinely unresolved symbols now fail with a clear "symbol unresolved" error instead of corrupting memory.
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…Match [upstream] When the best viable function is a not-yet-instantiated template specialization, force the instantiation of its body with diagnostics suppressed and reject the match if the body turns out ill-formed. Callers use this function to probe whether a valid instantiation exists (e.g. cpyrt's __cppjit_internal::is_equal fallback for comparison operators), so an ill-formed body must surface as "no viable function" rather than as a stream of hard errors when the wrapper is compiled at call time. This mirrors cling's LookupHelper::overloadFunctionSelector. Note that probing with an expression-SFINAE helper instead is not equivalent: C++20 rewritten (reversed) operator candidates make comparisons like a member operator==(const Base&) ambiguous, which is a hard substitution failure in a SFINAE context but only a warning in a function body. InstantiateTemplate equally refuses to hand out a specialization whose attempted instantiation marked it invalid: any use of it, such as compiling a call wrapper, can only fail. With the error spam gone, test21_access_to_global_variables of test_advancedcpp passes and loses its xfail marker.
…[upstream] Layered onto upstream's GetVariableOffset (which since carries the prefer-definition and instantiation-pattern guards, the evaluation of const initializers found in the AST ahead of the JIT lookup with constant arrays materialized into a per-interpreter buffer, and odr-use emission for discardable-ODR linkage): - Serve module-local (internal-linkage) const/constexpr values from the evaluated initializer before any symbol lookup: no library symbol can legitimately be such an entity, and a missed JIT lookup falls to the symbol autoloader, which loads any library on the dynamic path exporting the name (a REPL constexpr int S pulled in msys-2.0.dll on the Windows CI, corrupting the host process at exit) - Keep the initializer reads (getInit/evaluateValue) inside one SynthesizingCodeRAII, since they may lazily deserialize; the final symbol lookup and the evaluate fallback stay outside it, or execution is deferred - Also ForceCodeGen strong definitions whose initializer is in the AST but whose home binary does not export the symbol (Windows: bindexplib does not export read-only data) - On symbol-lookup failure, fall back to odr-using the variable in an interpreter-evaluated expression, as TClingDataMemberInfo::Offset does
…upstream] Models MSVC's std::shared_ptr::operator->, a member template with a defaulted, SFINAE-constrained template parameter. With no call arguments BestOverloadFunctionMatch must return an instantiation with a concrete return type rather than the template pattern, which smart-pointer detection relies on to find the pointee type.
…sizingCodeRAII [upstream] SizeOf, GetNumBases, GetBaseClass and IsLambdaClass read declarations that a PCH or module may still have to deserialize, which on Cling requires an open transaction; without one the lazy loads hit assertion failures and crashes. Open the RAII scope right before the deserializing call. GetNamed's guard now also covers the parent's typedef unwrap, which is what GetScope needed, and GetClassDecls' guard moves before its own typedef unwrap. The same guard covers GetEnumConstantDatamembers, whose enumerator iteration deserializes as well.
Adapts the vendored CppInterOp to ROOT's Cling: - ExistsFunctionTemplate, LookupDatamember, GetFunctionsUsingName and GetClassTemplatedMethods call buildLookup on the parent context before the qualified lookup, as GetNamed does, so that declarations Cling registers lazily are visible to it - make_narg_call drops the class_name:: qualification of the callee so that the wrapper dispatches virtually (TInterpreter::Declare is pure virtual) - GetTypeAsString builds its PrintingPolicy from default LangOptions instead of the ASTContext's policy, which keeps the std::basic_string<char> spelling the cpyrt type factory expects - GetReferencedType returns a null type for a null input instead of dereferencing it
cppyy-backend's TClingCallFunc::compile_wrapper hardcodes withAccessControl=false for every wrapper: the callee was already selected (and public-filtered) by the caller, and the generated code may legitimately name entities that are private at the call site. The wrapper for RResultPtr<std::vector<T>>::begin() spells its return type through the private member template RIterationHelper; with access control on it fails to compile and iterating a Take result raises (rdf_define_pyz.test_cpp_free_function). Subsumes the narrower relaxAccessControl escape hatch for using-shadows; the parameter stays in the signature for its callers.
Consumers of the dispatch API spread across several shared libraries must share a single pointer table. On ELF the extern pointers resolve across module boundaries by default; on Windows data symbols are not auto-exported (WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS covers functions only), so every non-defining DLL failed to link. Mark the table dllexport in the module that compiles the definition TU (CPPINTEROP_DISPATCH_EXPORTS) and dllimport everywhere else.
…patch] GetCompleteName spelled non-type template arguments with their literal suffix (array<unsigned int,3UL>). ROOT and cppyy always exposed the suffix-free form, which the names cpyrt matches against expect.
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Full tree of compiler-research/cppjit at the pinned revision, minus .github and zizmor.yml; cppjit-version.tag records the pin. Not yet wired into the build.
… details [upstream]
…ations [upstream]
…for operators [upstream]
…[upstream] SmartPtrConverter wrapped ordinary objects into the smart pointer unconditionally; respect the global implicit smart-pointer conversion policy like the other implicit-conversion sites. Matches compiler-research/cppjit#110.
…stream]
A std::string executor may hand back a Python str rather than a proxy;
op_str cast the result to CPPInstance unconditionally and read through
it. Take the text from either shape, and treat the generic
"{not representable}" fallback like an address-only result so op_str
falls through to the generic repr.
…tch] Port of master's CPyCppyy-Always-convert-returned-std-string.patch (Jonas Rembser): the std::string executors return a Python str instead of a std::string proxy, the str-forcing __repr__/__str__ wrappers of the std::string pythonization go, and the tests compare against the type std::to_string returns. Unlike the master patch, the executors keep upstream's assignment type check and pending-exception check.
Adapt the interop layer to ROOT: - Load the dispatch API from libCling via gSystem->DynamicPathName: in ROOT, CppInterOp is compiled into libCling rather than shipped as a standalone libclangCppInterOp - Call TClass::GetClass in GetScope for dictionary/module autoloading - Guard GetActualClass and GetBaseOffset with Cpp::IsComplete to handle incomplete types (e.g. TCling with no public header)
Under runtime_cxxmodules=OFF, autoloading a dictionary registers only a forward declaration, so GetActualClass saw an incomplete derived scope and dropped the cast. IsComplete's plain-class branch is a passive hasDefinition() query that never asks Sema to complete the type, so ROOT's on-demand autoparse is never triggered. GetOrForceDefinition completes it through Sema (RequireCompleteType -> autoparse). The CppInterOp API half landed upstream as root-project#810.
…T-patch] Take gInterpreterMutex (when ROOT thread safety is enabled) around the CppInterOp calls of the interop layer, so Python-side reflection serializes against TCling users on other threads (I/O, RDataFrame workers). The private recursive mutex still serializes concurrent Python-side callers when thread safety is off. Lock order is global-then-local; threads coming through TCling only ever take the global mutex, so no deadlock. Constructors and destructors are resolved under the lock but run without it, like every other wrapped call: their bodies are user code. cppdef, cppexec, evaluate, include and add_include_path call Cpp functions directly from Python and would run unlocked; they take the same lock through _lock_interpreter/_unlock_interpreter, which release the GIL while waiting. test_root_interpreter_lock.py checks that a declaration cannot interleave with a TCling user holding the lock.
…tch] gROOT is a macro expanding to ROOT::GetROOT(), and the TGlobalMappedFunction ROOT registers for it is not consulted by this backend. Resolve it to ROOT::Internal::gROOTLocal instead, initializing it first.
Frontend adaptations for ROOT: - Expose gbl.gInterpreter via TInterpreter::Instance() - Route load_library, add_library_path and load_reflection_info through gSystem so library resolution follows ROOT's dynamic path (with the Windows winmode=0 special case for absolute paths) - Check cppexec's captured diagnostics besides the Process return code, which covers parse errors only: on Windows a runtime lookup failure's exception cannot unwind through the JITed wrapper frame, so nothing is raised and the code stays 0
…OOT-patch] Includes loading the test dictionaries by their ACLiC names.
ROOT-owned CMake files inside the vendored tree (src/, python/, test/; upstream's scikit-build/ExternalProject CMakeLists.txt stays vendored but unreferenced, keeping future vendor bumps pure): cppjit_backend STATIC on the etc/cppinterop staging + CppInterOpEtc, cpyrt SHARED with unresolved-symbol link flags and CPPJIT_USE_CLING (the interpreter is cling), a thin libcppjit python module, and the pytest suite wired through ctest with ACLiC-compiled dictionaries. Includes the PyInit_libcppjit -> Init module split enabling ROOT's three-target wiring. The build enters these files in the next commit. The interop layer locates the staged CppInterOp headers through TROOT::GetEtcDir() instead of a build-directory prefix compiled into libcpyrt, so an installed ROOT does not depend on its build tree (the dispatch API itself comes from libCling). The cppjit extension module installs into the cppjit package directory on every platform, which is where its loader looks for it.
…patch] Switch commit: the tree moves from bindings/pyroot/cppyy to the vendored cppjit in one step so it never holds two live binding stacks. - Enter the vendored tree's ROOT-owned CMake files (previous commit) from bindings/pyroot/CMakeLists.txt - Install a cppyy compatibility alias package: import cppyy resolves to cppjit via sys.modules registration plus a meta-path finder, so cppyy.gbl call sites (ROOT facade, roottest, tutorials) keep working; the alias loader keeps the module's own __spec__, which importlib overwrites on the way - Retarget pythonizations and TPython to the cpyrt API (includes, namespaces, link targets) and the type-repr checks to cppjit spellings, including the canonical std::basic_string forms in the std::string exclusion list and gInterpreter cached on the facade; CPPYY_API_PATH=none and CPPYY_NO_ROOT_FILTER are dropped (cppjit has neither the header check nor the filter) - Pythonize template instantiations that cppjit caches in the namespace (they carry __cpp_template__ too), and test membership against ns_vars.values(): the previous `instance not in ns_vars` looked at the keys, a master bug - Adapt the roottest atlas-datavector template-instantiation test: with cppjit, instantiating foo<AtlasLikeDataVector<CustomStruct>> succeeds, since resolving the name autoloads the dictionary and the default second template argument becomes visible, so the test asserts the new behaviour and checks the demangled typeid name of the instantiation - Retarget the PyException regression macro (ScottCppyy.C and the regression test) from CPyCppyy::PyException to cppjit::cpyrt::PyException and the cpyrt/PyException.h header - Export CppGetProcAddress from libCling's linker script for the dispatch mechanism - Drop the superseded bindings/pyroot/cppyy tree, including master's patches/ machinery
bindexplib deliberately excluded all read-only data from the generated .def files, so const globals in ACLiC-built libraries could never be resolved at runtime. The interpreter needs exactly that: test_advancedcpp accesses 'extern const char my_global_string2[]' whose definition lives in the ACLiC library, and with the symbol unexported the lookup fails and there is no way to reconstruct the value (the initializer is not in the AST either). Export '?'-prefixed (C++-mangled) external read-only data symbols as DATA. User const globals are what the interpreter needs to resolve; restricting to C++-mangled names excludes both the compiler-generated symbols (vtables ??_7, RTTI ??_R, string literals ??_C, deleting dtors ??_G/??_E) and MSVC's constant pools (__real@/__xmm@) and exception data (_CT*/_TI*). The latter's names get garbled by the cdecl '@'-truncation into non-existent symbols such as '_real', which would otherwise break every ACLiC library with a floating-point literal (LNK2001/LNK1120, 242 CI failures). This only affects runtime lookup: compile-time clients never linked against these symbols (without dllimport they could not), so no existing link can change behavior.
Running TPython from an interpreted macro requires code JIT-compiled in the cling session to resolve the CppInternal::DispatchRaw::MakeFunctionCallable_interp dispatch slot. On Windows that fails: the slot is a data symbol (a function-pointer variable), which the bindexplib-generated export tables do not cover, so the IncrementalExecutor reports it unresolved and the test fails deterministically. Properly exporting writable data across a DLL boundary (or better, registering the dispatch slots by value in the JIT instead of relying on symbol lookup, an upstream CppInterOp change) is not worth blocking the migration for this niche path. Disable the test on MSVC following the existing precedent in this file, behind the usual win_broken_tests escape hatch.
…atch]
These fits JIT-compile their formulas through cling on top of an
already large Python + ROOT process, and on the win32 CI the JIT runs
out of 32-bit address space during TH1::Fit:
LLVM ERROR: out of memory
Buffer allocation failed
error code: Exit code 0xc0000409
The baseline does not fail, so this is a memory-footprint effect of the
larger per-method JIT wrapper volume of the CppInterOp-based bindings,
which the 32-bit address space no longer absorbs for these tutorials.
fitNormSum failed this way on the old migration branch and
fitConvolution on the cppjit stack (round 6, identical signature).
Veto them on MSVC x86 following the existing 32-bit veto precedents,
behind the usual win_broken_tests escape hatch.
GetType() resolves names that Cpp::GetType() cannot handle by declaring
`using <unique id> = __typeof__(<name>);` in the interpreter. Without a
cache, every call parses and compiles code and adds one more alias to
the AST, growing the interpreter state unboundedly for repeated names.
Memoize the resolved types by name. A name that fails to resolve may
succeed once more declarations are available, so failures are retried.
Upstream motivation: in ROOT, reading a TTree array branch creates the
converter for the branch's element pointer type (e.g. "Double_t*") on
every access, so an event loop went through the trampoline for every
entry. The original reproducer:
import array
import time
import ROOT
n = array.array("i", [3])
e = array.array("d", [1.0, 2.0, 3.0])
tree = ROOT.TTree("tree", "")
tree.Branch("n", n, "n/I")
tree.Branch("e", e, "e[n]/D")
for _ in range(10000):
tree.Fill()
start = time.perf_counter()
for event in tree:
event.e # array branch: the converter for "Double_t*" is created on each access
print(f"loop over 10000 entries reading an array branch: {time.perf_counter() - start:.2f} s")
This takes 0.11 s instead of 1.66 s with this change.
On performance in cppjit proper, the honest result of validating this is
that no equivalent hot path exists here: with an instrumented build, the
full test suite (559 tests) and targeted scenarios (STL container
template instantiation, low-level views, callbacks through
std::function, operator dispatch, exception translation) produce exactly
one trampoline invocation per process, the one-time resolution of
std::exception. Spellings like "double*" are resolved by Cpp::GetType
directly. So there is no cppjit-side number to quote; the cache prevents
AST alias growth for consumers that do drive this path repeatedly, at
the cost of one map lookup per call.
Matches compiler-research/cppjit#117.
Every polymorphic object handed to Python goes through GetActualClass(),
which demangles the dynamic type's name and resolves it with a full
interpreter name lookup, and then through GetBaseOffset(), which walks
the inheritance paths. Neither result was cached, so this cost was paid
again for every returned object.
Memoize both in the interop wrapper, where the calls are already
serialized by the interop lock:
- GetActualClass per (static class, dynamic type_info). Only outcomes
that cannot change are cached: a failed lookup may succeed once more
declarations are available, so it is retried.
- GetBaseOffset per (derived, base) class pair. The object address was
already ignored, so the offset is fixed per pair once both records are
complete. An incomplete record has no walkable bases (the lookup would
read an empty base path), so -- like the error case -- it is treated
silently and retried next time rather than frozen into the cache.
For example, getting objects out of a container of base pointers, with
auto-downcast to the actual derived class on each access:
import time
import cppjit
cppjit.cppdef(r"""
#include <vector>
struct PerfBase {
virtual ~PerfBase() = default;
virtual int value() const { return 1; }
};
struct PerfDerived : PerfBase {
int value() const override { return 2; }
};
std::vector<PerfBase*> make_perf_vec(int n) {
static PerfDerived d[64];
std::vector<PerfBase*> v;
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) v.push_back(&d[i % 64]);
return v;
}
""")
vec = cppjit.gbl.make_perf_vec(100)
vec.at(0) # warm-up
start = time.perf_counter()
for _ in range(2000):
for i in range(100):
vec.at(i) # returns PerfBase*, auto-downcast to PerfDerived
print(f"200k vector<PerfBase*>.at() calls: {time.perf_counter() - start:.2f} s")
This takes 0.18 s instead of 0.40 s per 200k accesses (Release build
against the pinned CppInterOp, min of 7 repetitions, interleaved A/B
against the pristine library, ~2.3x). An instrumented build confirms one
GetActualClass() and one GetBaseOffset() call per element access before
this change.
If the name lookup is expensive -- the actual class is templated with a
non-type template argument, e.g. `Impl<float, (EOp)0>`, whose spelled
name needs interpreter-assisted resolution -- the difference is much
larger: a single returned base pointer cost ~420 us and now costs
~0.6 us.
Matches compiler-research/cppjit#115.
Passing an object of a derived class to a formal base-class argument, as
well as binding a method call whose 'self' is an instance of a class
derived from the method's declaring class, makes the bindings check
interop::IsSubclass() on every call, and the clang derivation check is
not free.
Memoize IsSubclass() per class pair in the interop wrapper, where the
calls are already serialized by the interop lock. A class that is still
incomplete can gain bases once its definition is loaded, so a negative
answer is only cached when both classes are complete.
For example, calling a C++ function that takes a base-class reference
with a derived instance:
import time
import cppjit
cppjit.cppdef(r"""
struct SubBase {
virtual ~SubBase() = default;
virtual int value() const { return 1; }
};
struct SubDerived : SubBase {
int value() const override { return 2; }
};
int take_base(const SubBase& b) { return b.value(); }
""")
d = cppjit.gbl.SubDerived()
cppjit.gbl.take_base(d) # warm-up
start = time.perf_counter()
for _ in range(200000):
cppjit.gbl.take_base(d)
print(f"200k calls: {time.perf_counter() - start:.2f} s")
This takes 0.08 s instead of 0.22 s per 200k calls in a pristine build
(0.18 s with only the parent commit's caches applied; ~2x further).
Release build against the pinned CppInterOp, min of 7 repetitions,
interleaved A/B. An instrumented build confirms the converter queries
IsSubclass() once per call on this path, so the saved cost is the clang
derivation check itself.
Matches compiler-research/cppjit#116.
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