Changeset 12124

Timestamp:

08/28/09 10:55:00 (13 years ago)

Author:

ehuelsmann

Message:

Proposed solution to ticket #61: skip type checking
on DEFTYPE-d types (usually complex types).

Note: with this change structure slot accessors

still verify their argument types.

Location:

trunk/abcl/src/org/armedbear/lisp

Files:

• SpecialOperators.java (modified) (1 diff)
• Symbol.java (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/abcl/src/org/armedbear/lisp/SpecialOperators.java

@@ -374 +374 @@
         LispObject rv = eval(args.cadr(), env, LispThread.currentThread());
 
+        // check only the most simple types: single symbols
+        // (class type specifiers/primitive types)
+        // DEFTYPE-d types need expansion;
+        // doing so would slow down our execution too much
+
+        // An implementation is allowed not to check the type,
+        // the fact that we do so here is mainly driven by the
+        // requirement to verify argument types in structure-slot
+        // accessors (defstruct.lisp)
+
+        // The policy below is in line with the level of verification
+        // in the compiler at *safety* levels below 3
         LispObject type = args.car();
-        if (type instanceof Symbol
+        if ((type instanceof Symbol
+             && get(type, Symbol.DEFTYPE_DEFINITION) == NIL)
             || type instanceof BuiltInClass)
-    if (rv.typep(type) == NIL) {
-      // Try to call the Lisp-side TYPEP, as we will miss
-      // DEFTYPEd types.
-      Symbol typep
-        = PACKAGE_SYS.findAccessibleSymbol("TYPEP");
-      LispObject result
-        = typep.getSymbolFunction().execute(rv, type);
-      if (result == NIL) {
+    if (rv.typep(type) == NIL)
         type_error(rv, type);
-      }
-    }
+
         return rv;
       }

trunk/abcl/src/org/armedbear/lisp/Symbol.java

@@ -3012 +3012 @@
   public static final Symbol DATUM =
     PACKAGE_SYS.addInternalSymbol("DATUM");
+  public static final Symbol DEFTYPE_DEFINITION =
+    PACKAGE_SYS.addInternalSymbol("DEFTYPE-DEFINITION");
   public static final Symbol EXPECTED_TYPE =
     PACKAGE_SYS.addInternalSymbol("EXPECTED-TYPE");