Support LFortran and simplify assertions

.github/workflows/deploy-docs.yml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Build Developer Documentation
       run: |
-        ford -I include doc-generator.md > ford_output.txt
+        ford -I include ford.md > ford_output.txt
         # Turn warnings into errors
         cat ford_output.txt; if grep -q -i Warning ford_output.txt; then exit 1; fi
         cp ./README.md ./doc/html

README.md

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ This assertion utility contains four public entities:
 
 The `assert` subroutine
 * Error-terminates with a variable stop code when a caller-provided logical assertion fails,
-* Includes user-supplied diagnostic data in the output if provided by the calling procedure,
 * Is callable inside `pure` procedures, and
 * Can be eliminated at compile-time, as controlled by the `ASSERTIONS` preprocessor define.
 
@@ -42,10 +41,6 @@ If instead `fpm install` is used, then either the user must copy `include/assert
 the user must invoke `assert` directly (via `call assert(...)`).
 In the latter approach when the assertions are disabled, the `assert` procedure will start and end with `if (.false.) then ... end if`, which might facilitate automatic removal of `assert` during the dead-code removal phase of optimizing compilers.
 
-The `characterizable_t` type defines an `as_character()` deferred binding that produces `character` strings for use as diagnostic output from a user-defined derived type that extends  `characterizable_t` and implements the deferred binding.
-
-The `intrinsic_array_t` type that extends `characterizable_t` provides a convenient mechanism for producing diagnostic output from arrays of intrinsic type `complex`, `integer`, `logical`, or `real`.
-
 Use Cases
 ---------
 Two common use cases include
@@ -63,27 +58,49 @@ The requirements and assurances might be constraints of three kinds:
 
 The [example/README.md] file shows examples of writing constraints in notes on class diagrams using the formal syntax of the Object Constraint Language ([OCL]).
 
-Downloading, Building, and Running Examples
--------------------------------------------
+Running the Examples
+--------------------
+See the [./example](./example) subdirectory.
+
+Building and Testing
+--------------------
+
+- [Cray Compiler Environment (CCE) `ftn`](#cray-compiler-environment-cce-ftn)
+- [GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) `gfortran`](#gnu-compiler-collection-gcc-gfortran))
+- [Intel `ifx`](#intel-ifx))
+- [LFortran `lfortran`](#lfortran-lfortran)
+- [LLVM `flang-new`](#llvm-flang-new)
+- [Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) `nagfor`](#numerical-algorithms-group-nag-nagfor)
+
+### Cray Compiler Environment (CCE) `ftn`
+Because `fpm` uses the compiler name to determine the compiler identity and because
+CCE provides one compiler wrapper, `ftn`, for invoking all compilers, you will
+need to invoke `ftn` in a shell script named to identify CCE compiler. For example,
+place a script named `crayftn.sh` in your path with the following contents and with
+executable privileges set appropriately:
+```
+#!/bin/bash
 
-### Downloading Assert
+ftn $@
 ```
-git clone git@github.com:berkeleylab/assert
-cd assert
+Then build and test Assert with the command
+```
+fpm test --compiler crayftn.sh --profile release
 ```
 
-### Building and testing with `gfortran`
+### GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) `gfortran`
+
 #### Single-image (serial) execution
-The command below builds Assert and runs the full test suite in a single image.
-For `gfortran` 14 or later, use
+With `gfortran` 14 or later, use
 ```
 fpm test --profile release
 ```
-For `gfortran` 13 or earlier, use
+With `gfortran` 13 or earlier, use
 ```
 fpm test --profile release --flag "-ffree-line-length-0"
 ```
 The above commands build the Assert library (with the default of assertion enforcement disabled) and runs the test suite.
+
 #### Multi-image (parallel) execution
 With `gfortran` 14 or later versions and OpenCoarrays installed, use
 ```
@@ -93,60 +110,56 @@ With `gfortran` 13 or earlier versions and OpenCoarrays installed,
 ```
 fpm test --compiler caf --profile release --runner "cafrun -n 2" --flag "-ffree-line-length-0"
 ```
-To build and test with the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) Fortran compiler version
-7.1 or later, use
-```
-fpm test --compiler=nagfor --profile release --flag "-coarray=cosmp -fpp -f2018"
-```
 
-### Building and testing with the Intel `ifx` compiler
+### Intel `ifx`
+
 #### Single-image (serial) execution
 ```
 fpm test --compiler ifx --profile release 
 ```
+
 #### Multi-image (parallel) execution 
 With Intel Fortran and Intel MPI installed,
 ```
 fpm test --compiler ifx --profile release --flag "-coarray -DASSERT_MULTI_IMAGE"
 ```
 
-### Building and testing with the LLVM `flang-new` compiler
-#### LLVM version 19
+### LLVM `flang-new`
+
+#### Single-image (serial) execution
+With `flang-new` version 19, use
 ```
 fpm test --compiler flang-new --flag "-mmlir -allow-assumed-rank -O3"
 ```
-#### LLVM version 20 or later
+With `flang-new` version 20 or later, use
 ```
 fpm test --compiler flang-new --flag "-O3"
 ```
 
-### Building and testing with the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) compiler
+### LFortran `lfortran`
+
+#### Single-image (serial) execution
 ```
-fpm test --compiler nagfor --profile release --flag "-fpp -coarray=cosmp"
+fpm test --compiler lfortran --profile release --flag --cpp
 ```
 
-### Building and testing with the Cray Compiler Environment (CCE)
-Because `fpm` uses the compiler name to determine the compiler identity and because
-CCE provides one compiler wrapper, `ftn`, for invoking all compilers, you will
-need to invoke `ftn` in a shell script named to identify CCE compiler. For example,
-place a script named `crayftn.sh` in your path with the following contents and with
-executable privileges set appropriately:
+### Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) `nagfor`
+
+#### Single-image (serial) execution
+With `nagfor` version 7.1 or later, use
+```
+fpm test --compiler nagfor --profile release --flag -fpp
 ```
-#!/bin/bash
 
-ftn $@
+#### Multi-image execution
+With `nagfor` 7.1, use
 ```
-Then build and test Assert with the command
+fpm test --compiler nagfor --profile release --flag "-fpp -coarray=cosmp -f2018"
 ```
-fpm test --compiler crayftn.sh --profile release
+With `nagfor` 7.2 or later, use
+```
+fpm test --compiler nagfor --profile release --flag -fpp
 ```
-
-
-### Building and testing with other compilers
-To use Assert with other compilers, please submit an issue or pull request.  
-
-### Running the examples
-See the [./example](./example) subdirectory.
 
 Documentation
 -------------
@@ -208,19 +221,19 @@ character for line-breaks in a macro invocation:
 
 ```fortran
 ! OK for flang-new and gfortran
-call_assert_diagnose( computed_checksum == expected_checksum, \
-                      "Checksum mismatch failure!", \
-                      expected_checksum )                  
+call_assert_describe( computed_checksum == expected_checksum, \
+                      "Checksum mismatch failure!" \
+                    )                  
 ```
 
 Whereas Cray Fortran wants `&` line continuation characters, even inside
 a macro invocation:
 
 ```fortran
 ! OK for Cray Fortran
-call_assert_diagnose( computed_checksum == expected_checksum, &
-                      "Checksum mismatch failure!", &
-                      expected_checksum )                  
+call_assert_describe( computed_checksum == expected_checksum, &
+                      "Checksum mismatch failure!" &
+                    )                  
 ```
 
 There appears to be no syntax acceptable to all compilers, so when writing
@@ -237,29 +250,29 @@ after macro expansion (on gfortran and flang-new):
 
 ```fortran
 ! INCORRECT: cannot use Fortran comments inside macro invocation
-call_assert_diagnose( computed_checksum == expected_checksum, ! ensured since version 3.14
-                      "Checksum mismatch failure!",           ! TODO: write a better message here
-                      computed_checksum )             
+call_assert_describe( computed_checksum == expected_checksum, ! ensured since version 3.14
+                      "Checksum mismatch failure!"            ! TODO: write a better message here
+                    )             
 ```
 
 Depending on your compiler it *might* be possible to use a C-style block
 comment (because they are often removed by the preprocessor), for example with
 gfortran one can instead write the following:
 
 ```fortran
-call_assert_diagnose( computed_checksum == expected_checksum, /* ensured since version 3.14 */ \
-                      "Checksum mismatch failure!",           /* TODO: write a better message here */ \
-                      computed_checksum )
+call_assert_describe( computed_checksum == expected_checksum, /* ensured since version 3.14 */ \
+                      "Checksum mismatch failure!"            /* TODO: write a better message here */ \
+                    )
 ```
 
 However that capability might not be portable to other Fortran compilers. 
 When in doubt, one can always move the comment outside the macro invocation:
 
 ```fortran
 ! assert a property ensured since version 3.14
-call_assert_diagnose( computed_checksum == expected_checksum, \
-                      "Checksum mismatch failure!",           \
-                      computed_checksum ) ! TODO: write a better message above
+call_assert_describe( computed_checksum == expected_checksum, \
+                      "Checksum mismatch failure!"            \
+                    ) ! TODO: write a better message above
 ```                      
 
 Legal Information

example/README.md

@@ -10,82 +10,34 @@ The [simple_assertions.f90] example demonstrates a precondition and a
 postcondition, each with an assertion that checks the truth of a logical
 expression based on scalar, real values.
 
-Derived type diagnostic data
-----------------------------
-
-See [derived_type_diagnostic.f90].  For reasons related to runtime performance,
-it is desirable to ensure that any computation required to extract diagnostic
-data from an object only take place if the assertion fails.  This is one of the
-main motivations for allowing objects to be passed to the `diagnostic_data`
-argument of `assert`.  The generic programming facilities planned for
-"Fortran 202y" (two standards after Fortran 2018) will ultimately provide the
-best way to facilitate the extraction of diagnostic data from objects by
-empowering developers to express requirements on types such as that the types
-must support a specific procedure binding that can be used to extract output
-in character form, the form that `assert` uses for its error stop code.  For
-now, we impose such a requirement through an `as_character` deferred binding
-on the provided `characterizable_t` abstract type.
-
-Because it might prove problematic to require that a user type to extend the
-`characterizable_t` abstract type, the [derived_type_diagnostic.f90] example
-shows a workaround based on the class hierarchy described in the figure below.
-The figure shows a Unified Modeling Language ([UML]) class diagram with the
-`characterizable_t` abstract class, an example user's `stuff_t` class, and a
-`characterizable_stuff_t` class.  The pattern expressed in the workaround
-aggregates the example user type, `stuff_t`, as a component inside the
-encapsulating `characterizable_stuff_t` type defined to extend `characterizable_t`
-for purposes of implementing `characterizable_t` parent type's deferred
-`as_character()` binding.
-
-The figure below also shows two constraints written in UML's Object Constraint
-Language ([OCL]).  The constraints describe the precondition and postcondition
-checked in [derived_type_diagnostic.f90] and the context for those constraints.
-
-The UML diagram below was generated in the [Atom] editor [PlantUML] package
-from the PlantUML script in this repository's [doc] folder.
-
-![Classes involved in Derived-Type Diagnostic Example](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13108868/130385757-6b79e5f1-5dec-440c-98f5-0f659c538754.png)
-
 Running the examples
 --------------------
 
 ### Single-image execution
 ```
 fpm run --example simple_assertions
-fpm run --example derived_type_diagnostic
 ```
 where `fpm run` automatically invokes `fpm build` if necessary, .e.g., if the package's source code
-has changed since the most recent build.  If `assert` is working correctly, the first `fpm run` above
-will error-terminate with the character stop code
-```
-Assertion "reciprocal: abs(error) < tolerance" failed on image 1 with diagnostic data "-1.00000000"
+has changed since the most recent build.  If `assert` is working correctly, the `fpm run` above
+will error-terminate with the character stop code similar to the following
 ```
-and the second `fpm run` above will error-terminate with the character stop code
-```
-Assertion "stuff_t%z(): self%defined()" failed on image 1 with diagnostic data "(none provided)"
+Assertion failure on image 1: reciprocal: abs(error) < tolerance
 ```
 
 ### Multi-image execution with `gfortran` and OpenCoarrays
 ```
 git clone git@github.com/sourceryinstitute/assert
 cd assert
 fpm run --compiler caf --runner "cafrun -n 2" --example simple_assertions
-fpm run --compiler caf --runner "cafrun -n 2" --example derived_type_diagnostic
 ```
 Replace either instance of `2` above with the desired number of images to run for parallel execution.
 If `assert` is working correctly, both of the latter `fpm run` commands will error-terminate with one
 or more images providing stop codes analogous to those quoted in the [Single-image execution] section.
 
-## Derived-type diagnostic data output
-To demonstrate the derived-type diagnostic data output capability, try replacing the
-`i%defined()` assertion in the [derived_type_diagnostic.f90](./derived_type_diagnostic.f90)
-with `.false.`.
-
 [Hyperlinks]:#
 [OpenCoarrays]: https://github.com/sourceryinstitute/opencoarrays
 [Enforcing programming contracts]: #enforcing-programming-contracts
 [Single-image execution]: #single-image-execution
-[derived_type_diagnostic.f90]: ./derived_type_diagnostic.f90
 [simple_assertions.f90]: ./simple_assertions.f90
 [UML]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language
 [OCL]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Constraint_Language