"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1994 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

Method subclass:#LazyMethod

	 instanceVariableNames:''

	 classVariableNames:'Access CompilationFailedSignal'

	 poolDictionaries:''

	 category:'Kernel-Methods'

!

!LazyMethod class methodsFor:'documentation'!

copyright

"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1994 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

!

documentation

"

    Instances of LazyMethod are created when doing a lazy autoload.

    They do not contain any code (neither byte- nor machinecode), but

    keep their sourcecode only.

    When executed, these will trigger an error in the VM (noByteCode),

    which is cought here to create a real method from the receiver,

    amd re-execute the method.

    This allows faster loading of code, which will be later compiled

    when first executed; for classes with a large number of methods, of

    which only a small subset is actually used, this can also save

    lots of memory (beside making autoloading faster).

"

!

version

    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libcomp/LazyMethod.st,v 1.16 1995-11-23 11:17:11 cg Exp $'

! !

!LazyMethod class methodsFor:'initialization'!

initialize

    CompilationFailedSignal isNil ifTrue:[

	CompilationFailedSignal := ExecutionErrorSignal newSignalMayProceed:true.

	CompilationFailedSignal nameClass:self message:#compilationFailedSignal.

	CompilationFailedSignal notifierString:'compilation of lazy method failed'.

	Access := Semaphore forMutualExclusion.

	"/ Access := RecursionLock new.

    ]

! !

!LazyMethod class methodsFor:'Signal constants'!

compilationFailedSignal

    ^ CompilationFailedSignal

! !

!LazyMethod methodsFor:'compiling'!

makeRealMethod

    "make the receiver a real method; i.e. compile the sourcecode and

     fill in the bytecode. This must be done in order to execute the receiver."

    |m|

    "compile the method"

    "we have to sequentialize this using a lock-semaphore,

     to make sure only one method is compiled at a time.

     Otherwise, we might get into trouble, if (due to a timeout)

     another recompile is forced while compiling this one ...

     (happened when autoloading animation demos)

    "

    [

	Access critical:[

	    m := self asExecutableMethod.

	].

    ] valueUninterruptably.

    (m isNil or:[(byteCode := m byteCode) isNil and:[m code isNil]]) ifTrue:[

	"

	 compilation failed

	"

	^ nil

    ].

    literals := m literals.

    flags := m flags.

    self code:(m code).

    self changeClassToThatOf:m.

    ^ self

    "Created: 24.10.1995 / 14:02:50 / cg"

    "Modified: 24.10.1995 / 15:35:50 / cg"

! !

!LazyMethod methodsFor:'error handling'!

noByteCode 

    "this is triggered by the interpreter when a lazy method is about to 

     be executed (by sending the to-be executed  method this message).

     Hard-compile the method, install its bytecode in the receiver,

     and recall it."

    |sender spec class selector|

    "compile the method"

    self makeRealMethod isNil ifTrue:[

	"

	 compilation failed

	"

	selector := thisContext sender selector.

	class := self containingClass.

	class notNil ifTrue:[

	    spec := class name , '>>' , selector

	] ifFalse:[

	    spec := 'unknown>>' , selector

	].

	"

	 this error is triggered, if the compilation of a lazy method

	 failed - this happens for example, if a lazy methods code has been

	 changed in a fileBrowser without checking the code for syntactical

	 correctnes, or if the instvars of an autoloaded classes superclass 

	 have been changed without changing the subclasses code ...

	 You should enter the SystemBrowser on this method, and try accepting 

	 to see what the problem is.

	 The methods class is found in the local 'class',

	 the selector is found in the local 'selector'.

	 As a general rule: never edit autoloaded classes from anything

	 except the browser - to check that they work and are compilable.

	"

	^ CompilationFailedSignal raiseRequestWith:self

				  errorString:('compilation of lazy method ' , spec , ' failed')

    ].

    "

     Now, the receiver method has mutated into a real (non-lazy) one.

     Get the original message receiver and args, and execute the method.

     ThisContext sender is the context of the original send (the failed one)

    "

    sender := thisContext sender.

    ObjectMemory flushCaches.

    ^ self valueWithReceiver:(sender receiver)

		   arguments:(sender args)

		    selector:(sender selector)

		      search:nil

		      sender:nil

! !

!LazyMethod methodsFor:'queries'!

isLazyMethod

    ^ true

! !

LazyMethod initialize!