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ICE with FloatBug in pattern #68396

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Centril opened this issue Jan 20, 2020 · 0 comments · Fixed by #68399 or #86761
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ICE with FloatBug in pattern #68396

Centril opened this issue Jan 20, 2020 · 0 comments · Fixed by #68399 or #86761
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C-bug Category: This is a bug. glacier ICE tracked in rust-lang/glacier. I-ICE Issue: The compiler panicked, giving an Internal Compilation Error (ICE) ❄️ T-compiler Relevant to the compiler team, which will review and decide on the PR/issue.

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Centril commented Jan 20, 2020

fn main() {
    let 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890e-340: f64 = 0.0;
}

backtrace:


Standard Error

   Compiling playground v0.0.1 (/playground)
error: internal compiler error: encountered errors lowering pattern: [FloatBug]
 --> src/main.rs:4:9
  |
4 |     let 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890e-340: f64 = 0.0;
  |         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

thread 'rustc' panicked at 'no errors encountered even though `delay_span_bug` issued', src/librustc_errors/lib.rs:356:17
stack backtrace:
   0: backtrace::backtrace::libunwind::trace
             at /cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/backtrace-0.3.40/src/backtrace/libunwind.rs:88
   1: backtrace::backtrace::trace_unsynchronized
             at /cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/backtrace-0.3.40/src/backtrace/mod.rs:66
   2: std::sys_common::backtrace::_print_fmt
             at src/libstd/sys_common/backtrace.rs:77
   3: <std::sys_common::backtrace::_print::DisplayBacktrace as core::fmt::Display>::fmt
             at src/libstd/sys_common/backtrace.rs:59
   4: core::fmt::write
             at src/libcore/fmt/mod.rs:1057
   5: std::io::Write::write_fmt
             at src/libstd/io/mod.rs:1426
   6: std::sys_common::backtrace::_print
             at src/libstd/sys_common/backtrace.rs:62
   7: std::sys_common::backtrace::print
             at src/libstd/sys_common/backtrace.rs:49
   8: std::panicking::default_hook::{{closure}}
             at src/libstd/panicking.rs:204
   9: std::panicking::default_hook
             at src/libstd/panicking.rs:224
  10: rustc_driver::report_ice
  11: std::panicking::rust_panic_with_hook
             at src/libstd/panicking.rs:476
  12: std::panicking::begin_panic
  13: <rustc_errors::HandlerInner as core::ops::drop::Drop>::drop
  14: core::ptr::real_drop_in_place
  15: core::ptr::real_drop_in_place
  16: core::ptr::real_drop_in_place
  17: rustc_interface::interface::run_compiler_in_existing_thread_pool
  18: scoped_tls::ScopedKey<T>::set
  19: syntax::with_globals
note: Some details are omitted, run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=full` for a verbose backtrace.

error: internal compiler error: unexpected panic

note: the compiler unexpectedly panicked. this is a bug.

note: we would appreciate a bug report: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#bug-reports

note: rustc 1.42.0-nightly (c0e02ad72 2020-01-19) running on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

note: compiler flags: -C codegen-units=1 -C debuginfo=2 --crate-type bin

note: some of the compiler flags provided by cargo are hidden

query stack during panic:
end of query stack
error: could not compile `playground`.

To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.
@Centril Centril added I-ICE Issue: The compiler panicked, giving an Internal Compilation Error (ICE) ❄️ T-compiler Relevant to the compiler team, which will review and decide on the PR/issue. labels Jan 20, 2020
@Centril Centril self-assigned this Jan 20, 2020
@jonas-schievink jonas-schievink added the C-bug Category: This is a bug. label Jan 20, 2020
@rust-lang-glacier-bot rust-lang-glacier-bot added the glacier ICE tracked in rust-lang/glacier. label Jan 21, 2020
@bors bors closed this as completed in 5850482 Jan 21, 2020
Alexhuszagh added a commit to Alexhuszagh/rust that referenced this issue Jul 17, 2021
Implementation is based off fast-float-rust, with a few notable changes.

- Some unsafe methods have been removed.
- Safe methods with inherently unsafe functionality have been removed.
- All unsafe functionality is documented and provably safe.
- Extensive documentation has been added for simpler maintenance.
- Inline annotations on internal routines has been removed.
- Fixed Python errors in src/etc/test-float-parse/runtests.py.
- Updated test-float-parse to be a library, to avoid missing rand dependency.
- Added regression tests for rust-lang#31109 and rust-lang#31407 in core tests.
- Added regression tests for rust-lang#31109 and rust-lang#31407 in ui tests.
- Use the existing slice primitive to simplify shared dec2flt methods
- Remove Miri ignores from dec2flt, due to faster parsing times.

- resolves rust-lang#85198
- resolves rust-lang#85214
- resolves rust-lang#85234
- fixes rust-lang#31407
- fixes rust-lang#31109
- fixes rust-lang#53015
- resolves rust-lang#68396
- closes aldanor/fast-float-rust#15
bors added a commit to rust-lang-ci/rust that referenced this issue Jul 17, 2021
Update Rust Float-Parsing Algorithms to use the Eisel-Lemire algorithm.

# Summary

Rust, although it implements a correct float parser, has major performance issues in float parsing. Even for common floats, the performance can be 3-10x [slower](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.11408.pdf) than external libraries such as [lexical](https://github.com/Alexhuszagh/rust-lexical) and [fast-float-rust](https://github.com/aldanor/fast-float-rust).

Recently, major advances in float-parsing algorithms have been developed by Daniel Lemire, along with others, and implement a fast, performant, and correct float parser, with speeds up to 1200 MiB/s on Apple's M1 architecture for the [canada](https://github.com/lemire/simple_fastfloat_benchmark/blob/0e2b5d163d4074cc0bde2acdaae78546d6e5c5f1/data/canada.txt) dataset, 10x faster than Rust's 130 MiB/s.

In addition, [edge-cases](rust-lang#85234) in Rust's [dec2flt](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/868c702d0c9a471a28fb55f0148eb1e3e8b1dcc5/library/core/src/num/dec2flt) algorithm can lead to over a 1600x slowdown relative to efficient algorithms. This is due to the use of Clinger's correct, but slow [AlgorithmM and Bellepheron](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.45.4152&rep=rep1&type=pdf), which have been improved by faster big-integer algorithms and the Eisel-Lemire algorithm, respectively.

Finally, this algorithm provides substantial improvements in the number of floats the Rust core library can parse. Denormal floats with a large number of digits cannot be parsed, due to use of the `Big32x40`, which simply does not have enough digits to round a float correctly. Using a custom decimal class, with much simpler logic, we can parse all valid decimal strings of any digit count.

```rust
// Issue in Rust's dec2fly.
"2.47032822920623272088284396434110686182e-324".parse::<f64>();   // Err(ParseFloatError { kind: Invalid })
```

# Solution

This pull request implements the Eisel-Lemire algorithm, modified from [fast-float-rust](https://github.com/aldanor/fast-float-rust) (which is licensed under Apache 2.0/MIT), along with numerous modifications to make it more amenable to inclusion in the Rust core library. The following describes both features in fast-float-rust and improvements in fast-float-rust for inclusion in core.

**Documentation**

Extensive documentation has been added to ensure the code base may be maintained by others, which explains the algorithms as well as various associated constants and routines. For example, two seemingly magical constants include documentation to describe how they were derived as follows:

```rust
    // Round-to-even only happens for negative values of q
    // when q ≥ −4 in the 64-bit case and when q ≥ −17 in
    // the 32-bitcase.
    //
    // When q ≥ 0,we have that 5^q ≤ 2m+1. In the 64-bit case,we
    // have 5^q ≤ 2m+1 ≤ 2^54 or q ≤ 23. In the 32-bit case,we have
    // 5^q ≤ 2m+1 ≤ 2^25 or q ≤ 10.
    //
    // When q < 0, we have w ≥ (2m+1)×5^−q. We must have that w < 2^64
    // so (2m+1)×5^−q < 2^64. We have that 2m+1 > 2^53 (64-bit case)
    // or 2m+1 > 2^24 (32-bit case). Hence,we must have 2^53×5^−q < 2^64
    // (64-bit) and 2^24×5^−q < 2^64 (32-bit). Hence we have 5^−q < 2^11
    // or q ≥ −4 (64-bit case) and 5^−q < 2^40 or q ≥ −17 (32-bitcase).
    //
    // Thus we have that we only need to round ties to even when
    // we have that q ∈ [−4,23](in the 64-bit case) or q∈[−17,10]
    // (in the 32-bit case). In both cases,the power of five(5^|q|)
    // fits in a 64-bit word.
    const MIN_EXPONENT_ROUND_TO_EVEN: i32;
    const MAX_EXPONENT_ROUND_TO_EVEN: i32;
```

This ensures maintainability of the code base.

**Improvements for Disguised Fast-Path Cases**

The fast path in float parsing algorithms attempts to use native, machine floats to represent both the significant digits and the exponent, which is only possible if both can be exactly represented without rounding. In practice, this means that the significant digits must be 53-bits or less and the then exponent must be in the range `[-22, 22]` (for an f64). This is similar to the existing dec2flt implementation.

However, disguised fast-path cases exist, where there are few significant digits and an exponent above the valid range, such as `1.23e25`. In this case, powers-of-10 may be shifted from the exponent to the significant digits, discussed at length in rust-lang#85198.

**Digit Parsing Improvements**

Typically, integers are parsed from string 1-at-a-time, requiring unnecessary multiplications which can slow down parsing. An approach to parse 8 digits at a time using only 3 multiplications is described in length [here](https://johnnylee-sde.github.io/Fast-numeric-string-to-int/). This leads to significant performance improvements, and is implemented for both big and little-endian systems.

**Unsafe Changes**

Relative to fast-float-rust, this library makes less use of unsafe functionality and clearly documents it. This includes the refactoring and documentation of numerous unsafe methods undesirably marked as safe. The original code would look something like this, which is deceptively marked as safe for unsafe functionality.

```rust
impl AsciiStr {
    #[inline]
    pub fn step_by(&mut self, n: usize) -> &mut Self {
        unsafe { self.ptr = self.ptr.add(n) };
        self
    }
}

...

#[inline]
fn parse_scientific(s: &mut AsciiStr<'_>) -> i64 {
    // the first character is 'e'/'E' and scientific mode is enabled
    let start = *s;
    s.step();
    ...
}
```

The new code clearly documents safety concerns, and does not mark unsafe functionality as safe, leading to better safety guarantees.

```rust
impl AsciiStr {
    /// Advance the view by n, advancing it in-place to (n..).
    pub unsafe fn step_by(&mut self, n: usize) -> &mut Self {
        // SAFETY: same as step_by, safe as long n is less than the buffer length
        self.ptr = unsafe { self.ptr.add(n) };
        self
    }
}

...

/// Parse the scientific notation component of a float.
fn parse_scientific(s: &mut AsciiStr<'_>) -> i64 {
    let start = *s;
    // SAFETY: the first character is 'e'/'E' and scientific mode is enabled
    unsafe {
        s.step();
    }
    ...
}
```

This allows us to trivially demonstrate the new implementation of dec2flt is safe.

**Inline Annotations Have Been Removed**

In the previous implementation of dec2flt, inline annotations exist practically nowhere in the entire module. Therefore, these annotations have been removed, which mostly does not impact [performance](aldanor/fast-float-rust#15 (comment)).

**Fixed Correctness Tests**

Numerous compile errors in `src/etc/test-float-parse` were present, due to deprecation of `time.clock()`, as well as the crate dependencies with `rand`. The tests have therefore been reworked as a [crate](https://github.com/Alexhuszagh/rust/tree/master/src/etc/test-float-parse), and any errors in `runtests.py` have been patched.

**Undefined Behavior**

An implementation of `check_len` which relied on undefined behavior (in fast-float-rust) has been refactored, to ensure that the behavior is well-defined. The original code is as follows:

```rust
    #[inline]
    pub fn check_len(&self, n: usize) -> bool {
        unsafe { self.ptr.add(n) <= self.end }
    }
```

And the new implementation is as follows:

```rust
    /// Check if the slice at least `n` length.
    fn check_len(&self, n: usize) -> bool {
        n <= self.as_ref().len()
    }
```

Note that this has since been fixed in [fast-float-rust](aldanor/fast-float-rust#29).

**Inferring Binary Exponents**

Rather than explicitly store binary exponents, this new implementation infers them from the decimal exponent, reducing the amount of static storage required. This removes the requirement to store [611 i16s](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/868c702d0c9a471a28fb55f0148eb1e3e8b1dcc5/library/core/src/num/dec2flt/table.rs#L8).

# Code Size

The code size, for all optimizations, does not considerably change relative to before for stripped builds, however it is **significantly** smaller prior to stripping the resulting binaries. These binary sizes were calculated on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.

**new**

Using rustc version 1.55.0-dev.

opt-level|size|size(stripped)
|:-:|:-:|:-:|
0|400k|300K
1|396k|292K
2|392k|292K
3|392k|296K
s|396k|292K
z|396k|292K

**old**

Using rustc version 1.53.0-nightly.

opt-level|size|size(stripped)
|:-:|:-:|:-:|
0|3.2M|304K
1|3.2M|292K
2|3.1M|284K
3|3.1M|284K
s|3.1M|284K
z|3.1M|284K

# Correctness

The dec2flt implementation passes all of Rust's unittests and comprehensive float parsing tests, along with numerous other tests such as Nigel Toa's comprehensive float [tests](https://github.com/nigeltao/parse-number-fxx-test-data) and Hrvoje Abraham  [strtod_tests](https://github.com/ahrvoje/numerics/blob/master/strtod/strtod_tests.toml). Therefore, it is unlikely that this algorithm will incorrectly round parsed floats.

# Issues Addressed

This will fix and close the following issues:

- resolves rust-lang#85198
- resolves rust-lang#85214
- resolves rust-lang#85234
- fixes rust-lang#31407
- fixes rust-lang#31109
- fixes rust-lang#53015
- resolves rust-lang#68396
- closes aldanor/fast-float-rust#15
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