[pypy-dev] translation error on jit.unroll_safe with jit_libffi

[Carl Friedrich Bolz]

On 25/10/14 14:24, Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 25 October 2014 10:10, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would not be surprised if static methods are simply unsupported by
>> the JIT (but likely for no good reason)
> 
> That's not a crash of the JIT:
> 
>>> "/Users/tim/oss-not-dropbox/externals/pypy/rpython/annotator/bookkeeper.py",
>>> line 396, in getdesc
>>> [translation:info]     raise Exception("%s: %r" % (msg, pyobj))
>>> [translation:ERROR] Exception: unexpected prebuilt constant: <staticmethod
>>> object at 0x10a8d5bb0>
> 
> What is unsupported at all is staticmethod objects in RPython.  I have
> no clue why uncommenting that jit.unroll_safe makes the annotator sees
> some staticmethod object...  You have to figure out what this pyobj
> is.

I don't understand what you mean by "staticmethod objects" being
unsupported. We use staticmethod a bit everywhere in PyPy, no?


Anyway, I tried to run translation of pixie to debug the error, and am
getting this problem:

https://bpaste.net/show/4eb70f41ce44

(which is unrelated)

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich