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GHC.Utils.Error

  • 9 types
  • 1 class
  • 51 values
  • Packageghc-9.10.3
  • Exports61
  • LanguageGHC2021
  • LicenceBSD-3-Clause
  • SourceError.hs

Basic types

6 declarations
datadata Severity
#

Used to describe warnings and errors o The message has a file/line/column heading, plus "warning:" or "error:", added by mkLocMessage o With SevIgnore the message is suppressed o Output is intended for end users

Constructors

  • SevIgnore

    Ignore this message, for example in case of suppression of warnings users don't want to see. See Note [Suppressing Messages]

  • SevWarning
  • SevError
Instances5Eq, Ord, Show, Outputable, ToJson

Messages

11 declarations
classclass HasDefaultDiagnosticOpts (DiagnosticOpts a) => Diagnostic a where
#

A class identifying a diagnostic. Dictionary.com defines a diagnostic as:

"a message output by a computer diagnosing an error in a computer program, computer system, or component device".

A Diagnostic carries the actual description of the message (which, in GHC's case, it can be an error or a warning) and the reason why such message was generated in the first place.

Associated types

  • type family DiagnosticOpts a

    Type of configuration options for the diagnostic.

Methods

Instances8Diagnostic, …
datadata MsgEnvelope e
#

An envelope for GHC's facts about a running program, parameterised over the domain-specific (i.e. parsing, typecheck-renaming, etc) diagnostics.

To say things differently, GHC emits diagnostics about the running program, each of which is wrapped into a MsgEnvelope that carries specific information like where the error happened, etc. Finally, multiple MsgEnvelopes are aggregated into Messages that are returned to the user.

Constructors

Instances5Functor, Foldable, Traversable, Show, ToJson
datadata MessageClass
#

The class for a diagnostic message. The main purpose is to classify a message within GHC, to distinguish it from a debug/dump message vs a proper diagnostic, for which we include a DiagnosticReason.

Constructors

  • MCOutput
  • MCFatal
  • MCInteractive
  • MCDump

    Log message intended for compiler developers No file/line/column stuff

  • MCInfo

    Log messages intended for end users. No file/line/column stuff.

  • MCDiagnostic Severity ResolvedDiagnosticReason (Maybe DiagnosticCode)

    Diagnostics from the compiler. This constructor is very powerful as it allows the construction of a MessageClass with a completely arbitrary permutation of Severity and DiagnosticReason. As such, users are encouraged to use the mkMCDiagnostic smart constructor instead. Use this constructor directly only if you need to construct and manipulate diagnostic messages directly, for example inside GHC.Utils.Error. In all the other circumstances, especially when emitting compiler diagnostics, use the smart constructor.

    The Maybe DiagnosticCode field carries a code (if available) for this diagnostic. If you are creating a message not tied to any error-message type, then use Nothing. In the long run, this really should always have a DiagnosticCode. See Note [Diagnostic codes].

Instances1ToJson
newtypenewtype SDoc
#

Represents a pretty-printable document.

To display an SDoc, use printSDoc, printSDocLn, bufLeftRenderSDoc, or renderWithContext. Avoid calling runSDoc directly as it breaks the abstraction layer.

Instances8IsString, Outputable, IsLine, IsDoc, IsOutput, JsRender, …
newtypenewtype DecoratedSDoc
#

A DecoratedSDoc is isomorphic to a '[SDoc]' but it carries the invariant that the input '[SDoc]' needs to be rendered decorated into its final form, where the typical case would be adding bullets between each elements of the list. The type of decoration depends on the formatting function used, but in practice GHC uses the formatBulleted.

newtypenewtype Messages e
#

A collection of messages emitted by GHC during error reporting. A diagnostic message is typically a warning or an error. See Note [Messages].

INVARIANT: All the messages in this collection must be relevant, i.e. their Severity should not be SevIgnore. The smart constructor mkMessages will filter out any message which Severity is SevIgnore.

Instances7Functor, Foldable, Traversable, Semigroup, Monoid, Outputable, …

Formatting

Construction

datadata DiagOpts
#

Constructors

Computes the right Severity for the input DiagnosticReason out of the 'DiagOpts. This function has to be called when a diagnostic is constructed, i.e. with a 'DiagOpts "snapshot" taken as close as possible to where a particular diagnostic message is built, otherwise the computed Severity might not be correct, due to the mutable nature of the DynFlags in GHC.

valuenoHints :: [GhcHint]
#

Helper function to use when no hints can be provided. Currently this function can be used to construct plain DiagnosticMessage and add hints to them, but once #18516 will be fully executed, the main usage of this function would be in the implementation of the diagnosticHints typeclass method, to report the fact that a particular Diagnostic has no hints.

Utilities

1 declaration

Issuing messages during compilation

17 declarations
valuewithTiming
  1. :: MonadIO m
  2. => Logger
  3. -> SDoc

    The name of the phase

  4. -> (a -> ())

    A function to force the result (often either const () or rnf)

  5. -> m a

    The body of the phase to be timed

  6. -> m a
#

Time a compilation phase.

When timings are enabled (e.g. with the -v2 flag), the allocations and CPU time used by the phase will be reported to stderr. Consider a typical usage: withTiming getDynFlags (text "simplify") force PrintTimings pass. When timings are enabled the following costs are included in the produced accounting,

  • The cost of executing pass to a result r in WHNF

  • The cost of evaluating force r to WHNF (e.g. ())

The choice of the force function depends upon the amount of forcing desired; the goal here is to ensure that the cost of evaluating the result is, to the greatest extent possible, included in the accounting provided by withTiming. Often the pass already sufficiently forces its result during construction; in this case const () is a reasonable choice. In other cases, it is necessary to evaluate the result to normal form, in which case something like Control.DeepSeq.rnf is appropriate.

To avoid adversely affecting compiler performance when timings are not requested, the result is only forced when timings are enabled.

See Note [withTiming] for more.

valuewithTimingSilent
  1. :: MonadIO m
  2. => Logger
  3. -> SDoc

    The name of the phase

  4. -> (a -> ())

    A function to force the result (often either const () or rnf)

  5. -> m a

    The body of the phase to be timed

  6. -> m a
#

Same as withTiming, but doesn't print timings in the console (when given -vN, N >= 2 or -ddump-timings).

See Note [withTiming] for more.

valuetraceSystoolCommand :: Logger -> String -> IO a -> IO a
#

Record in the eventlog when the given tool command starts and finishes, prepending the given String with "systool:", to easily be able to collect and process all the systool events.

For those events to show up in the eventlog, you need to run GHC with -v2 or -ddump-timings.