`nix derivation add`, and its C API counterpart, now works a bit closer
to `builtins.derivation` in that they don't require the user to fill-in
input addressed paths correctly ahead of time.
The logic for this is carefully deduplicated, between all 3 entry
points, and also between the existing `checkInvariants` function. There
are some more functional tests, and there are also many more unit tests.
Replace the null-terminated C-style strings in Value with hybrid C /
Pascal strings, where the length is stored in the allocation before the
data, and there is still a null byte at the end for the sake of C
interopt.
Co-Authored-By: Taeer Bar-Yam <taeer@bar-yam.me>
Co-Authored-By: Sergei Zimmerman <sergei@zimmerman.foo>
Update all channel URLs from https://nixos.org/channels/ to
https://channels.nixos.org/ to use the more reliable subdomain.
The nixos.org domain apex lacks IPv6 support due to DNS hoster
limitations. Using the subdomain allows better CDN distribution
and improved reliability.
Updated files:
- Installation scripts (multi-user and tarball installers)
- Channel URL resolution in eval-settings.cc
- Documentation and examples
- Docker image default channel URL
- Release notes (added note about URL change)
Fixes#14517
Show which element(s) are involved at each error point:
- When an element is missing the "key" attribute, show the element
- When an element is not an attribute set, show the element
- When comparing keys fails, show both elements being compared
- When calling operator fails, show which element was being processed
This provides concrete context using ValuePrinter with errorPrintOptions.
Note: errorPrintOptions uses maxDepth=10 by default, which may print
quite deeply nested structures in error messages. This could potentially
be overwhelming, but follows the existing default for error contexts.
It is better to avoid null termination for performance and memory
safety, wherever possible.
These are good cleanups extracted from the Pascal String work that we
can land by themselves first, shrinking the diff in that PR.
Co-Authored-By: Aspen Smith <root@gws.fyi>
Co-Authored-By: Sergei Zimmerman <sergei@zimmerman.foo>
Firstly, this is now available on darwin where the default in llvm 19.
Secondly, this leads to very weird segfaults when building with newer nixpkgs for some reason.
(It's UB after all).
This appears when building with the following:
mesonComponentOverrides = finalAttrs: prevAttrs: {
mesonBuildType = "debugoptimized";
dontStrip = true;
doCheck = false;
separateDebugInfo = false;
preConfigure = (prevAttrs.preConfigure or "") + ''
case "$mesonBuildType" in
release|minsize|debugoptimized) appendToVar mesonFlags "-Db_lto=true" ;;
*) appendToVar mesonFlags "-Db_lto=false" ;;
esac
'';
};
And with the following nixpkgs input:
nix build ".#nix-cli" -L --override-input nixpkgs "https://releases.nixos.org/nixos/unstable/nixos-25.11pre870157.7df7ff7d8e00/nixexprs.tar.xz"
Stacktrace:
#0 0x00000000006afdc0 in ?? ()
#1 0x00007ffff71cebb6 in _Unwind_ForcedUnwind_Phase2 () from /nix/store/41ym1jm1b7j3rhglk82gwg9jml26z1km-gcc-14.3.0-lib/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
#2 0x00007ffff71cf5b5 in _Unwind_Resume () from /nix/store/41ym1jm1b7j3rhglk82gwg9jml26z1km-gcc-14.3.0-lib/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
#3 0x00007ffff7eac7d8 in std::basic_ios<char, std::char_traits<char> >::~basic_ios (this=<optimized out>, this=<optimized out>)
at /nix/store/82kmz7r96navanrc2fgckh2bamiqrgsw-gcc-14.3.0/include/c++/14.3.0/bits/basic_ios.h:286
#4 std::__cxx11::basic_ostringstream<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::basic_ostringstream (this=<optimized out>, this=<optimized out>)
at /nix/store/82kmz7r96navanrc2fgckh2bamiqrgsw-gcc-14.3.0/include/c++/14.3.0/sstream:806
#5 nix::SimpleLogger::logEI (this=<optimized out>, ei=...) at ../logging.cc:121
#6 0x00007ffff7515794 in nix::Logger::logEI (this=0x675450, lvl=nix::lvlError, ei=...) at /nix/store/bkshji3nnxmrmgwa4n2kaxadajkwvn65-nix-util-2.32.0pre-dev/include/nix/util/logging.hh:144
#7 nix::handleExceptions (programName=..., fun=...) at ../shared.cc:336
#8 0x000000000047b76b in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at /nix/store/82kmz7r96navanrc2fgckh2bamiqrgsw-gcc-14.3.0/include/c++/14.3.0/bits/new_allocator.h:88
A follow-up optimization will make it impossible to make a find function
that returns an iterator in an efficient manner. All consumer code can
easily use the `get` variant.
These constant Values have no business being in the EvalState in the
first place. The ultimate goal is to get rid of the ugly `getBuiltins`
and its relience (in `createBaseEnv`) on these global constants is getting in the way.
Same idea as in f017f9ddd3.
Co-authored-by: eldritch horrors <pennae@lix.systems>
This object is always constant and will never get modified.
Having it as a global (constant) static is much easier and
unclutters the EvalState.
Same idea as in f017f9ddd3.
Co-authored-by: eldritch horrors <pennae@lix.systems>
Now that Symbols are statically allocated at compile time with known IDs,
we can use switch statements instead of if-else chains for Symbol comparisons.
This provides better performance through compiler optimizations like jump tables.
Changes:
- Add public getId() method to Symbol class to access the internal ID
- Convert if-else chains comparing Symbol values to switch statements
in primops.cc's derivationStrictInternal function
- Simplify control flow by removing the 'handled' flag and moving the
default attribute handling into the switch's default case
The static and runtime Symbol IDs are guaranteed to match by the
copyIntoSymbolTable implementation which asserts this invariant.
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
In b70d22b `mkStringNoCopy()` was renamed to
`mkString()`, but this is a bit risky since in code like
vStringRegular.mkString("regular");
we want to be sure that the right overload is picked. (This is
especially problematic since the overload that takes an
`std::string_view` *does* allocate.) So let's be explicit.
(Rebased from https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11551)
The motivation for this change is two-fold:
1. Commonly used Symbol values can be referred to
quite often and they can be assigned at compile-time
rather than runtime.
2. This also unclutters EvalState constructor, which was
getting very long and unreadable.
Spiritually similar to https://gerrit.lix.systems/c/lix/+/2218,
though that patch doesn't allocate the Symbol at compile time.
Co-authored-by: eldritch horrors <pennae@lix.systems>
This is needed to rearrange include order, but I also think it is a good
thing anyways, as we seek to reduce the use of global settings variables
over time.
Instead of parsing a structured attrs at some later point, we parsed it
right away when parsing the A-Term format, and likewise serialize it to
`__json = <JSON dump>` when serializing a derivation to A-Term.
The JSON format can directly contain the JSON structured attrs without
so encoding it, so we just do that.
* It is tough to contribute to a project that doesn't use a formatter,
* It is extra hard to contribute to a project which has configured the formatter, but ignores it for some files
* Code formatting makes it harder to hide obscure / weird bugs by accident or on purpose,
Let's rip the bandaid off?
Note that PRs currently in flight should be able to be merged relatively easily by applying `clang-format` to their tip prior to merge.
This factors out most of the value representation into a mixin class.
`finishValue` is now gone for good and replaced with a simple template
function `setStorage` which derives the type information/disriminator from
the type of the argument. Likewise, reading of the value goes through function
template `getStorage`.
An empty type `Null` is introduced to make the bijection InternalType <-> C++ type
complete.
This prevents C++ level undefined behavior from affecting
the evaluator. Stdlib implementation details should not affect
eval, regardless of the build platform. Even erroneous usage
of `builtins.sort` should not make it possible to crash the
evaluator or produce results that depend on the host platform.
