Support emitting Java 9 bytecode by adding "-target:9" #8060

hrhino · 2019-05-15T01:08:38Z

A resurrection of @mkurz's #6146 (in the sixes!) that drops support for 1.7 and under, and gives the option of -target:jvm-9 for symmetry with -target:jvm-1.8, but prefers -target:9 (as a combination of @retronym's and @SethTisue's suggestions on that PR). Well, it still prefers -target:jvm-1.8 over either, but it can be persuaded to change its mind.

The sole effect of this flag is to emit bytecode that breaks on Java 8, which @SethTisue points out would be a useful feature. The hope is that it can be used also to enable various features which are impossible on versions later than 8, if we so desire.

I'm prepared to accept criticism, pushback, and outright insults based on at least these bases:

~~should we also have -target:10 and -target:11?~~
- ~~should we additionally also have -target:jvm-10 &c.?~~
should we not have the jvm- variant at all?
should I have kept the previous versions? (I hope not!)
is this a good idea at all?

retronym · 2019-05-15T02:21:35Z

jvm- is something of a historical artifact of the time there was also msil- (the .NET backend). IMO we should align with javac now, and primarily use -target:9 etc. If it's easy to do, we can still support jvm- prefixed targets for backwards compat.

retronym · 2019-05-15T02:37:16Z

src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/settings/StandardScalaSettings.scala

@@ -45,12 +47,15 @@ trait StandardScalaSettings {
  val nowarn =         BooleanSetting ("-nowarn", "Generate no warnings.") withAbbreviation "--no-warnings"
  val optimise:        BooleanSetting // depends on post hook which mutates other settings
  val print =          BooleanSetting ("-print", "Print program with Scala-specific features removed.") withAbbreviation "--print"
-  val target =         ChoiceSettingForcedDefault ("-target", "target", "Target platform for object files. All JVM 1.5 - 1.7 targets are deprecated.",
-                          List("jvm-1.5", "jvm-1.6", "jvm-1.7", "jvm-1.8"), "jvm-1.8") withAbbreviation "--target"
+  val target =         ChoiceSetting  ("-target", "target", "Target platform for object files.", List("jvm-1.8", "jvm-9", "9"), "jvm-1.8") withPostSetHook fixupTarget _ withAbbreviation "--target"


How abuot we just advertise "1.8", "9", ... here, and rig up this setting to strip off the jvm- part before the contains call in ChoiceSetting.

case List(x) if choices contains x => value = x ; SomeOfNil

= ChoiceSetting ("-target", "target", "Target platform for object files.", List("jvm-1.8", "jvm-9", "9"), "jvm-1.8").withPostSetHook(fixupTarget).withPreSetHook(_.stripPrefix("jvm-")).withAbbreviation("--target")

(where withPreSetHook is a new method on ChoiceSetting)

Adding a method to ChoiceSetting from this class is apparently non-trivial.

retronym · 2019-05-15T02:40:16Z

src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/backend/jvm/analysis/BackendUtils.scala

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ abstract class BackendUtils extends PerRunInit {

  lazy val classfileVersion: LazyVar[Int] = perRunLazy(this)(compilerSettings.target match {
    case "jvm-1.8" => asm.Opcodes.V1_8
+    case "9"       => asm.Opcodes.V9


I'd extend this at least to 11.

hrhino · 2019-06-01T02:27:25Z

As the (new) commit message says, "I got annoyed with all of the abstract types and such involved in the settings cake with the stated goal of enabling an immutable Settings object which is nearly a decade in the making. It's enough to make me lose a bit of faith, and therefore I've trimmed down the amount of abstraction going on here."

retronym · 2019-06-03T02:17:54Z

src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/settings/AbsScalaSettings.scala

-
-import scala.language.higherKinds
-
-trait AbsScalaSettings {


retronym · 2019-06-12T07:47:14Z

src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/settings/StandardScalaSettings.scala

  val unchecked =      BooleanSetting ("-unchecked", "Enable additional warnings where generated code depends on assumptions.") withAbbreviation "--unchecked"
  val uniqid =         BooleanSetting ("-uniqid", "Uniquely tag all identifiers in debugging output.") withAbbreviation "--unique-id"
  val usejavacp =      BooleanSetting ("-usejavacp", "Utilize the java.class.path in classpath resolution.") withAbbreviation "--use-java-class-path"
  val usemanifestcp =  BooleanSetting ("-usemanifestcp", "Utilize the manifest in classpath resolution.") withAbbreviation "--use-manifest-class-path"
  val verbose =        BooleanSetting ("-verbose", "Output messages about what the compiler is doing.") withAbbreviation "--verbose"
  val version =        BooleanSetting ("-version", "Print product version and exit.") withAbbreviation "--version"
+
+  final val MinTargetVersion = 8
+  final val MaxTargetVersion = 12 // this one goes to twelve


Let's make these non-constants in case some separately compiled client code wanted to depend on updated values.

retronym · 2019-06-12T07:50:42Z

project/ScalaOptionParser.scala

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ object ScalaOptionParser {
    "-Ymacro-expand" -> List("discard", "none"),
    "-Yresolve-term-conflict" -> List("error", "object", "package"),
    "-g" -> List("line", "none", "notailcails", "source", "vars"),
-    "-target" -> List("jvm-1.5", "jvm-1.6", "jvm-1.7", "jvm-1.8"))
+    "-target" -> List("jvm-1.8", "jvm-9", "9"))


Needs to go up to 12 as well.

It would be great if we could resurrect https://github.com/scala/scala-tool-support/blob/master/bash-completion/src/main/scala/BashCompletion.scala to dynamically generate the completion data for Bash and for sbt scalac ... as well.

Just remembered we now have sbt generateDocsData which generates compiler-options.yml containing all the data we would need. So the "it would be great" thing would now to be that data into the our parser for sbt scalac and to transform that data into a bash completion script.

retronym

Avoid constants for things that will change
Update SBT option parser to go up to 12.

I got annoyed with all of the abstract types and such involved in the settings cake with the stated goal of enabling an immutable `Settings` object which is nearly a decade in the making. It's enough to make me lose a bit of faith, and therefore I've trimmed down the amount of abstraction going on here. I'm sure that if we ever do get around to that refactor, this won't be that hard to reinstate. Co-Authored-By: Matthias Kurz <m.kurz@irregular.at>

mr-git · 2019-09-18T13:47:55Z

and we have 13 already now, at time, when 2.13.1 gets released... and 14 (LTS) is coming in 6 month...
Will Scala support compilation at 13, 14 (LTS) (15, 16, 17 (LTS)) in 2.13.2+?

SethTisue · 2019-09-30T19:34:13Z

and we have 13 already now, at time, when 2.13.1 gets released... and 14 (LTS) is coming in 6 month...

Will Scala support compilation at 13, 14 (LTS) (15, 16, 17 (LTS)) in 2.13.2+?

a few relevant tickets:

pull requests in this area are welcome

lrytz · 2019-10-10T09:43:06Z

In a recent internal discussion, @dwijnand clarified that Java 14 is not LTS, the next LTS release will be 17:

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/java-se-support-roadmap.html says "Oracle will designate a release, every three years, as a Long-Term-Support (LTS) release", so every 6th release, given their 6 months cadence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history

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