Fix Issue 23639 - Casting to shared not allowed with -preview=nosharedaccess #14836

RazvanN7 · 2023-01-18T13:47:37Z

Casting to shared should be allowed even if the result is returned, read or written because the variable has just been "promoted" to shared so it's not being actually shared with anyone. This is currently blocking the templatization of the __d_new_class runtime hook (cc @teodutu ).

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✓	23639	blocker	Casting to shared not allowed with -preview=nosharedaccess

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dkorpel

Given it's still in preview, and in the absence of anything better, I think this is okay.
However, I think this will permit this:

shared string s;
string s2 = cast(shared) s;

So it might need more thought long term.

RazvanN7 · 2023-01-18T14:19:10Z

No it doesn't. If you run that code it gives: "direct access to shared s is not allowed, see core.atomic"

dkorpel · 2023-01-18T14:20:52Z

Oh, that's good

maxhaton · 2023-01-18T20:35:24Z

Isn't this a special case patching over an issue with the nosharedaccess check?

IIRC this same issue also breaks nosharedaccess atomics with ldc because the cast is badly analyzed and/or then "optimized" to strip out the shared (this is actually tested with a static assert somewhere in the test suite)

thewilsonator

Couple of thing I'd like clarified before this is merged.

thewilsonator · 2023-01-18T22:06:40Z

compiler/src/dmd/expressionsem.d

-            if (e.type.isShared())
+            // https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23639
+            // Should be able to cast(shared)
+            if (!e.isCastExp() && e.type.isShared())


what does this do to const shared?

If you cast to const shared it just performs the cast.

please augment the test case then.

Why? Before this patch the cast would not have been allowed, but now it is allowed. Note that the code would fail because you cannot convert a const(shared) to a shared.

thewilsonator · 2023-01-18T22:06:58Z

compiler/test/compilable/test23639.d

+{
+    void *p;
+    // assume p is allocated here
+    return cast(shared(T))p;


what is the @safety of this operation?

Error: cast from void* to shared(T) not allowed in safe code

The expected @safety level - @System.

and if typeof(p) == T?

The modified code has nothing to do with the safety checks. Casts to differently qualified types remain unsafe, that part is not modified.

-preview=nosharedaccess is all about safety. even if the end result is that the code must be system. Perhaps I was thinking things wrong, but it seems to me that the only reason why you would want to do this with -preview=nosharedaccess is because you have a unique reference to an object you then want to share. Its fine if that needs to be trusted, then please disregard this request for changes, but please do document this discussion in the test case.

Yes, a prime example of this is memory allocation. You allocate heap memory which is naturally shared among threads and you want to express that. What other way of casting the mallocd memory to shared is there?

RazvanN7 · 2023-01-19T11:52:03Z

Isn't this a special case patching over an issue with the nosharedaccess check?

Well, -preview=nosharedaccess does not allow free access to shared variables. The implementation simply checks if the type of an expression is shared and then errors out (provided, core.atomic is not used). This includes cast expressions to shared types. Note that casting a shared type to an unshared type works without this patch, so it is reasonable that doing the opposite works.

You call this patch special casing. Fine, but I have no idea what is the general problem other than "casting to shared is not allowed".

IIRC this same issue also breaks nosharedaccess atomics with ldc because the cast is badly analyzed and/or then "optimized" to strip out the shared (this is actually tested with a static assert somewhere in the test suite)

Without a test case, I have no idea what you are referring to.

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RazvanN7 · 2023-01-20T11:47:15Z

@thewilsonator I have added a fail_compilation test.

@maxhaton Ping. This is blocking progress on templating druntime hooks.

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Translate _d_newclass to a template #14837

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Fix Issue 23639 - Casting to shared not allowed with -preview=nosharedaccess #14836

Fix Issue 23639 - Casting to shared not allowed with -preview=nosharedaccess #14836

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