Pragma once is supported by all compilers for the last ten years.
Better use it instead of include guards (which use different styles
in different files).
Support for simple signal handling was added in
a0a417240e. This commit also adds the
`_simple_handler` function. It seems to me that this function is
intended as a helper function which should only be visible in
`idris_signal.c`, it is not used outside this file. For this purpose it
is probably also marked as inline. However, the inline keyword does not
require the compiler to actually inline the function. As such, the
`_simple_handler` symbol may still be exported if the compiler doesn't
inline the function.
On my system this seems to be the case and causes the following error
during compilation of idris2:
Exception: (while loading libidris2_support.so) Error relocating Idris2-0.4.0/build/exec/idris2_app/libidris2_support.so: _simple_handler: symbol not found
By marking the `_simple_handler` function as `static inline` it is
ensured that the symbol is not exported, thereby preventing the
relocation error.
To be able to eventually refactor/extend `system` function: to be
able to specify a directory, environment variables, specify arguments
as array etc. Ideally it should be something like Rust
[`std::process::Command`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/process/struct.Command.html).
This adds a new flag '--inc <backend>' which, if set, compiles all
modules incrementally, and for executables, links the incrementally
compiled modules rather than building the whole program.
Also, adds an environment variable IDRIS2_INC_CGS for providing a comma
separated list of backends to use for incremental builds.
Also, adds '--whole-program', which overrides incremental builds for an
executable.
Incremental builds are much faster if there's nothing to recompile, but
for the Chez backend, generate code which runs at about half the speed.
Currently only works for Chez - other backends ignore the flag.
Also, incremental building of an executable will only work if *all*
required modules have been built incrementally for the backend in use.
Set the maximum time when initialising the timer, which means we can
check in the middle of potentially expensive operations like
normalisation, rather than just at occasional points in expression
search.
If it's solved by unification, expression search should just print the
unified value. In fact it almost did this, but wasn't reducing the holes
so the result was being rendered incorrectly.
This is set to 1 second by default. Usually if it hasn't found a result
by then, it never will, but given that we find the first batch of
results then sort them, the timeout also stops us fruitlessly searching
for more solutions.
Hopefully 1s is more than enough for CI too. There is a mechanism to
change the timeout (%search_timeout) so if it turns out that CI needs
longer in some cases, we can increase it there.
I haven't documented this yet, but proof/definition search needs
documenting in general. I'll get to that.
The timer mechanism may also be useful elsewhere - I'm considering it
for ambiguity warnings, because the ambiguity depth limit isn't working
very well for that.