[pypy-dev] pypy translation error

Wed Oct 12 01:51:45 CEST 2011

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Shawn Walker <binarycrusader at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 October 2011 15:56, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Shawn Walker <binarycrusader at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I've been working on getting pypy to build on Solaris 11 Express using gcc 4.5.
>>
>> Hi. In general Solaris is not a supported platform, so expect problems
>> (we don't happen to have a buildbot or a maintainer), we can try to
>> help however.
>
> Yes, that was apparent, but the help is appreciated.
>
> With some small tweaks most of pypy is compiling, so I think it
> shouldn't take much.
>
> I've figured out a lot of other issues already.
>
>>>
>>> I could use some help deciphering the following error I encountered
>>> during translation using "python2.6 translate.py -Ojit":
>>>
>>> [translation:ERROR] Error:
>>> [translation:ERROR]  Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File "translate.py", line 308, in main
>>> [translation:ERROR]     drv.proceed(goals)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/translator/driver.py", line 809,
>>> in proceed
>>> [translation:ERROR]     return self._execute(goals, task_skip =
>>> self._maybe_skip())
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/translator/tool/taskengine.py",
>>> line 116, in _execute
>>> [translation:ERROR]     res = self._do(goal, taskcallable, *args, **kwds)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/translator/driver.py", line 286,
>>> in _do
>>> [translation:ERROR]     res = func()
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/translator/driver.py", line 323,
>>> in task_annotate
>>> [translation:ERROR]     s = annotator.build_types(self.entry_point,
>>> self.inputtypes)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/annrpython.py", line
>>> 103, in build_types
>>> [translation:ERROR]     return self.build_graph_types(flowgraph,
>>> inputcells, complete_now=complete_now)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/annrpython.py", line
>>> 194, in build_graph_types
>>> [translation:ERROR]     self.complete()
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/annrpython.py", line
>>> 250, in complete
>>> [translation:ERROR]     self.processblock(graph, block)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/annrpython.py", line
>>> 448, in processblock
>>> [translation:ERROR]     self.flowin(graph, block)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/annrpython.py", line
>>> 508, in flowin
>>> [translation:ERROR]     self.consider_op(block.operations[i])
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/annrpython.py", line
>>> 710, in consider_op
>>> [translation:ERROR]     raise_nicer_exception(op, str(graph))
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/annrpython.py", line
>>> 707, in consider_op
>>> [translation:ERROR]     resultcell = consider_meth(*argcells)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File "<4151-codegen
>>> /export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/annrpython.py:745>",
>>> line 3, in consider_op_simple_call
>>> [translation:ERROR]     return arg.simple_call(*args)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/unaryop.py", line
>>> 175, in simple_call
>>> [translation:ERROR]     return
>>> obj.call(getbookkeeper().build_args("simple_call", args_s))
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/unaryop.py", line
>>> 696, in call
>>> [translation:ERROR]     return bookkeeper.pbc_call(pbc, args)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/bookkeeper.py", line
>>> 667, in pbc_call
>>> [translation:ERROR]     results.append(desc.pycall(schedule, args,
>>> s_previous_result, op))
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/description.py", line
>>> 798, in pycall
>>> [translation:ERROR]     return self.funcdesc.pycall(schedule, args,
>>> s_previous_result, op)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/description.py", line
>>> 283, in pycall
>>> [translation:ERROR]     result = self.specialize(inputcells, op)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/description.py", line
>>> 279, in specialize
>>> [translation:ERROR]     return self.specializer(self, inputcells)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/specialize.py", line
>>> 80, in default_specialize
>>> [translation:ERROR]     graph = funcdesc.cachedgraph(key, builder=builder)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/description.py", line
>>> 237, in cachedgraph
>>> [translation:ERROR]     graph = self.buildgraph(alt_name, builder)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/annotation/description.py", line
>>> 200, in buildgraph
>>> [translation:ERROR]     graph = translator.buildflowgraph(self.pyobj)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/translator/translator.py", line
>>> 77, in buildflowgraph
>>> [translation:ERROR]     graph = space.build_flow(func)
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/objspace/flow/objspace.py", line
>>> 279, in build_flow
>>> [translation:ERROR]     ec.build_flow()
>>> [translation:ERROR]    File
>>> "/export/home/swalker/devel/pypy/pypy/objspace/flow/flowcontext.py",
>>> line 273, in build_flow
>>> [translation:ERROR]     self.space.unwrap(e.get_w_value(self.space))))
>>> [translation:ERROR]  Exception': found an operation that always raises
>>> AttributeError: generated by a constant operation:  getattr
>>> [translation:ERROR]      .. v119 = simple_call(v118, fd_0)
>>> [translation:ERROR]      .. '(pypy.rlib.rsocket:269)PacketAddress.as_object'
>>> [translation:ERROR] Processing block:
>>> [translation:ERROR]  block at 3 is a <class
>>> 'pypy.objspace.flow.flowcontext.SpamBlock'>
>>> [translation:ERROR]  in (pypy.rlib.rsocket:269)PacketAddress.as_object
>>> [translation:ERROR]  containing the following operations:
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v120 = getattr(space_0, ('newtuple'))
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v121 = getattr(space_0, ('wrap'))
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v118 = getattr(self_0, ('get_ifname'))
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v119 = simple_call(v118, fd_0)
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v122 = simple_call(v121, v119)
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v123 = getattr(space_0, ('wrap'))
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v124 = getattr(self_0, ('get_protocol'))
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v125 = simple_call(v124)
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v126 = simple_call(v123, v125)
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v127 = getattr(space_0, ('wrap'))
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v128 = getattr(self_0, ('get_pkttype'))
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v129 = simple_call(v128)
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v130 = simple_call(v127, v129)
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v131 = getattr(space_0, ('wrap'))
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v132 = getattr(self_0, ('get_hatype'))
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v133 = simple_call(v132)
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v134 = simple_call(v131, v133)
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v135 = getattr(space_0, ('wrap'))
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v136 = getattr(self_0, ('get_addr'))
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v137 = simple_call(v136)
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v138 = simple_call(v135, v137)
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v139 = newlist(v122, v126, v130, v134, v138)
>>> [translation:ERROR]        v140 = simple_call(v120, v139)
>>> [translation:ERROR]  --end--
>>>
>>> If I understand the above error correctly, it's either saying
>>> get_ifname doesn't exist as an attribute (function) or that as_object
>>> doesn't exist.
>>>
>>> I'm not familiar with pypy's translation errors, so I'm uncertain how
>>> to interpret the above.
>>>
>>> Any assistance is appreciated,
>>> --
>>> Shawn Walker
>>
>> Seems as_object does not exist. I suggest first running rsocket tests
>> and seeing why it's not there by reading the source code (you don't
>> have to translate for that).
>
> So I cd'd into 'pypy' from the source root, and ran:
>
> ./test_all.py rlib/test/test_rsocket.py
>
> Everything passes except one test which was skipped:
>
> rlib/test/test_rsocket.py:35: test_netlink_addr SKIPPED
>
> Looking at the source:
>
>  35 def test_netlink_addr():
>  36     if getattr(rsocket, 'AF_NETLINK', None) is None:
>  37         py.test.skip('AF_NETLINK not supported.')
>
> That seems expected given my platform.
>
> Is there a way to do an incremental translate?  Currently, every time
> I run translate, it does the whole thing again, which makes the whole
> fix/build cycle very slow.
>
> -Shawn
>

No, there is no such thing :(

I believe one of those operations inside get_ifname does not work,
like ifreq is not there? (can you import it from _rsocket_rffi?). For
now you can possibly disable the entire PacketAddress class
declaration and it should compile