Rewrite manifestJson to execute "stacklessly" inside evaluate() #1142
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This gets rid of the mutual recursion between manifestJson() and evaluate(), turning the manifestJson processing into a part of the interpreter's main loop. It should remove one avenue for native stack overflows during execution. The Interpreter needed to be able to convert things to JSON anyway, as this is the behaviour of string coercion (for string concatenation), and also the behaviour when using the 'error' operator/statement.
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This gets rid of the mutual recursion between
manifestJsonandevaluate, turning themanifestJsonprocessing into a part of the interpreter's main loop. It should remove one avenue for native stack overflows during execution. Of course, the runtime still tracks its own internal call stack depth and can safely abort.The Interpreter needed to be able to convert things to JSON anyway, as this is the behaviour of string coercion (for string concatenation), and also the behaviour when using the
erroroperator/statement.Some general notes:
Interpreter::evaluatewas already a really long function; this makes it even longer.Framestruct gets even bigger.TL;DR: This is not ready yet, and might never be ready. But hey, it's been fun to make. Consider it just a sketch or prototype for now.
Edit - Note that there is still potentially deep recursion in some other pieces of the interpreter code. For example, code dealing with
HeapExtendedObject(e.g.,objectFieldsAux,objectInvariants,countLeaves,findObject) needs to recurse through the object inheritance tree. Not sure that's a problem though.