Make OverflowError more informative

NEWS.md

@@ -242,11 +242,12 @@ Deprecated or removed
   * `fieldnames` now operates only on types. To get the names of fields in an object, use
     `fieldnames(typeof(x))` ([#22350]).
 
-  * `InexactError` and `DomainError` now take
+  * `InexactError`, `DomainError`, and `OverflowError` now take
     arguments. `InexactError(func::Symbol, type, -3)` now prints as
-    `ERROR: InexactError: func(type, -3)`, and `DomainError(val,
-    [msg])` prints as `ERROR: DomainError with val:\nmsg`. ([#20005],
-    [#22751])
+    "ERROR: InexactError: func(type, -3)", `DomainError(val,
+    [msg])` prints as "ERROR: DomainError with val:\nmsg",
+    and `OverflowError(msg)` prints as "ERROR: OverflowError: msg".
+    ([#20005], [#22751], [#22761])
 
   * The operating system identification functions: `is_linux`, `is_bsd`, `is_apple`, `is_unix`,
     and `is_windows`, have been deprecated in favor of `Sys.islinux`, `Sys.isbsd`, `Sys.isapple`,
@@ -1118,6 +1119,7 @@ Command-line option changes
 [#22723]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/22723
 [#22732]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/22732
 [#22751]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/22751
+[#22761]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/22761
 [#22762]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/22762
 [#22793]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/22793
 [#22796]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/22796

base/boot.jl

@@ -212,7 +212,6 @@ struct BoundsError        <: Exception
     BoundsError(@nospecialize(a), i) = (@_noinline_meta; new(a,i))
 end
 struct DivideError        <: Exception end
-struct OverflowError      <: Exception end
 struct OutOfMemoryError   <: Exception end
 struct ReadOnlyMemoryError<: Exception end
 struct SegmentationFault  <: Exception end
@@ -241,6 +240,9 @@ struct InexactError <: Exception
 
     InexactError(f::Symbol, @nospecialize(T), @nospecialize(val)) = (@_noinline_meta; new(f, T, val))
 end
+struct OverflowError <: Exception
+    msg
+end
 
 abstract type DirectIndexString <: AbstractString end
 

base/checked.jl

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import Core.Intrinsics:
        checked_srem_int,
        checked_uadd_int, checked_usub_int, checked_umul_int, checked_udiv_int,
        checked_urem_int
-import Base: no_op_err, @_inline_meta
+import Base: no_op_err, @_inline_meta, @_noinline_meta
 
 # define promotion behavior for checked operations
 checked_add(x::Integer, y::Integer) = checked_add(promote(x,y)...)
@@ -90,16 +90,18 @@ The overflow protection may impose a perceptible performance penalty.
 function checked_neg(x::T) where T<:Integer
     checked_sub(T(0), x)
 end
+throw_overflowerr_negation(x) = (@_noinline_meta;
+    throw(OverflowError("checked arithmetic: cannot compute -x for x = $x::$(typeof(x))")))
 if BrokenSignedInt != Union{}
 function checked_neg(x::BrokenSignedInt)
     r = -x
-    (x<0) & (r<0) && throw(OverflowError())
+    (x<0) & (r<0) && throw_overflowerr_negation(x)
     r
 end
 end
 if BrokenUnsignedInt != Union{}
 function checked_neg(x::T) where T<:BrokenUnsignedInt
-    x != 0 && throw(OverflowError())
+    x != 0 && throw_overflowerr_negation(x)
     T(0)
 end
 end
@@ -117,7 +119,7 @@ function checked_abs end
 
 function checked_abs(x::SignedInt)
     r = ifelse(x<0, -x, x)
-    r<0 && throw(OverflowError())
+    r<0 && throw(OverflowError(string("checked arithmetic: cannot compute |x| for x = ", x, "::", typeof(x))))
     r
  end
 checked_abs(x::UnsignedInt) = x
@@ -152,6 +154,9 @@ end
 end
 
 
+throw_overflowerr_binaryop(op, x, y) = (@_noinline_meta;
+    throw(OverflowError("$x $op $y overflowed for type $(typeof(x))")))
+
 """
     Base.checked_add(x, y)
 
@@ -162,7 +167,7 @@ The overflow protection may impose a perceptible performance penalty.
 function checked_add(x::T, y::T) where T<:Integer
     @_inline_meta
     z, b = add_with_overflow(x, y)
-    b && throw(OverflowError())
+    b && throw_overflowerr_binaryop(:+, x, y)
     z
 end
 
@@ -219,7 +224,7 @@ The overflow protection may impose a perceptible performance penalty.
 function checked_sub(x::T, y::T) where T<:Integer
     @_inline_meta
     z, b = sub_with_overflow(x, y)
-    b && throw(OverflowError())
+    b && throw_overflowerr_binaryop(:-, x, y)
     z
 end
 
@@ -284,7 +289,7 @@ The overflow protection may impose a perceptible performance penalty.
 function checked_mul(x::T, y::T) where T<:Integer
     @_inline_meta
     z, b = mul_with_overflow(x, y)
-    b && throw(OverflowError())
+    b && throw_overflowerr_binaryop(:*, x, y)
     z
 end
 

base/combinatorics.jl

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ end
 
 function factorial_lookup(n::Integer, table, lim)
     n < 0 && throw(DomainError(n, "`n` must not be negative."))
-    n > lim && throw(OverflowError())
+    n > lim && throw(OverflowError(string(n, " is too large to look up in the table")))
     n == 0 && return one(n)
     @inbounds f = table[n]
     return oftype(n, f)

base/deprecated.jl

@@ -1549,6 +1549,12 @@ function DomainError()
     DomainError(nothing)
 end
 
+# PR #22761
+function OverflowError()
+    depwarn("OverflowError now supports a message string, use `OverflowError(msg)` instead.", :OverflowError)
+    OverflowError("")
+end
+
 # PR #22703
 @deprecate Bidiagonal(dv::AbstractVector, ev::AbstractVector, isupper::Bool) Bidiagonal(dv, ev, ifelse(isupper, :U, :L))
 @deprecate Bidiagonal(dv::AbstractVector, ev::AbstractVector, uplo::Char) Bidiagonal(dv, ev, ifelse(uplo == 'U', :U, :L))

base/docs/helpdb/Base.jl

@@ -1509,7 +1509,7 @@ used only with extreme caution, as it can cause memory use to grow without bound
 gc_enable
 
 """
-    OverflowError()
+    OverflowError(msg)
 
 The result of an expression is too large for the specified type and will cause a wraparound.
 """

base/gmp.jl

@@ -494,6 +494,8 @@ isqrt(x::BigInt) = MPZ.sqrt(x)
 
 function bigint_pow(x::BigInt, y::Integer)
     if y<0; throw(DomainError(y, "`y` cannot be negative.")); end
+    @noinline throw1(y) =
+        throw(OverflowError("exponent $y is too large and computation will overflow"))
     if x== 1; return x; end
     if x==-1; return isodd(y) ? x : -x; end
     if y>typemax(Culong)
@@ -507,7 +509,7 @@ function bigint_pow(x::BigInt, y::Integer)
        #
        #Assume that the answer will definitely overflow.
 
-       throw(OverflowError())
+       throw1(y)
     end
     return x^convert(Culong, y)
 end

base/intfuncs.jl

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ end
 # binary GCD (aka Stein's) algorithm
 # about 1.7x (2.1x) faster for random Int64s (Int128s)
 function gcd(a::T, b::T) where T<:Union{Int64,UInt64,Int128,UInt128}
+    @noinline throw1(a, b) = throw(OverflowError("gcd($a, $b) overflows"))
     a == 0 && return abs(b)
     b == 0 && return abs(a)
     za = trailing_zeros(a)
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ function gcd(a::T, b::T) where T<:Union{Int64,UInt64,Int128,UInt128}
     end
     r = u << k
     # T(r) would throw InexactError; we want OverflowError instead
-    r > typemax(T) && throw(OverflowError())
+    r > typemax(T) && throw1(a, b)
     r % T
 end
 
@@ -841,6 +842,7 @@ julia> factorial(5) ÷ (factorial(5-3) * factorial(3))
 ```
 """
 function binomial(n::T, k::T) where T<:Integer
+    n0, k0 = n, k
     k < 0 && return zero(T)
     sgn = one(T)
     if n < 0
@@ -861,7 +863,7 @@ function binomial(n::T, k::T) where T<:Integer
     while rr <= k
         xt = div(widemul(x, nn), rr)
         x = xt
-        x == xt || throw(OverflowError())
+        x == xt || throw(OverflowError("binomial($n0, $k0) overflows"))
         rr += 1
         nn += 1
     end

base/parse.jl

@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ function tryparse_internal(::Type{T}, s::AbstractString, startpos::Int, endpos::
         n, ov_mul = mul_with_overflow(n, base)
         n, ov_add = add_with_overflow(n, d)
         if ov_mul | ov_add
-            raise && throw(OverflowError())
+            raise && throw(OverflowError("overflow parsing $(repr(SubString(s,startpos,endpos)))"))
             return _n
         end
         (i > endpos) && return Nullable{T}(n)

base/rational.jl

@@ -233,11 +233,11 @@ isinteger(x::Rational) = x.den == 1
 
 -(x::Rational) = (-x.num) // x.den
 function -(x::Rational{T}) where T<:Signed
-    x.num == typemin(T) && throw(OverflowError())
+    x.num == typemin(T) && throw(OverflowError("rational numerator is typemin(T)"))
     (-x.num) // x.den
 end
 function -(x::Rational{T}) where T<:Unsigned
-    x.num != zero(T) && throw(OverflowError())
+    x.num != zero(T) && throw(OverflowError("cannot negate unsigned number"))
     x
 end
 

base/replutil.jl

@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ showerror(io::IO, ex::KeyError) = print(io, "KeyError: key $(repr(ex.key)) not f
 showerror(io::IO, ex::InterruptException) = print(io, "InterruptException:")
 showerror(io::IO, ex::ArgumentError) = print(io, "ArgumentError: $(ex.msg)")
 showerror(io::IO, ex::AssertionError) = print(io, "AssertionError: $(ex.msg)")
+showerror(io::IO, ex::OverflowError) = print(io, "OverflowError: $(ex.msg)")
 
 function showerror(io::IO, ex::UndefVarError)
     if ex.var in [:UTF16String, :UTF32String, :WString, :utf16, :utf32, :wstring, :RepString]

src/codegen.cpp

@@ -6015,7 +6015,6 @@ static void init_julia_llvm_env(Module *m)
     global_jlvalue_to_llvm("jl_emptytuple", &jl_emptytuple, m);
     global_jlvalue_to_llvm("jl_diverror_exception", &jl_diverror_exception, m);
     global_jlvalue_to_llvm("jl_undefref_exception", &jl_undefref_exception, m);
-    global_jlvalue_to_llvm("jl_overflow_exception", &jl_overflow_exception, m);
 
     jlRTLD_DEFAULT_var =
         new GlobalVariable(*m, T_pint8,

src/datatype.c

@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ void jl_compute_field_offsets(jl_datatype_t *st)
     return;
  throw_ovf:
     if (descsz >= jl_page_size) free(desc);
-    jl_throw(jl_overflow_exception);
+    jl_errorf("type %s has field offset %d that exceeds the page size", jl_symbol_name(st->name), descsz);
 }
 
 extern int jl_boot_file_loaded;

src/init.c

@@ -785,7 +785,6 @@ void jl_get_builtin_hooks(void)
     jl_errorexception_type = (jl_datatype_t*)core("ErrorException");
     jl_stackovf_exception  = jl_new_struct_uninit((jl_datatype_t*)core("StackOverflowError"));
     jl_diverror_exception  = jl_new_struct_uninit((jl_datatype_t*)core("DivideError"));
-    jl_overflow_exception  = jl_new_struct_uninit((jl_datatype_t*)core("OverflowError"));
     jl_undefref_exception  = jl_new_struct_uninit((jl_datatype_t*)core("UndefRefError"));
     jl_undefvarerror_type  = (jl_datatype_t*)core("UndefVarError");
     jl_interrupt_exception = jl_new_struct_uninit((jl_datatype_t*)core("InterruptException"));

src/julia.h

@@ -529,7 +529,6 @@ extern JL_DLLEXPORT jl_value_t *jl_stackovf_exception;
 extern JL_DLLEXPORT jl_value_t *jl_memory_exception;
 extern JL_DLLEXPORT jl_value_t *jl_readonlymemory_exception;
 extern JL_DLLEXPORT jl_value_t *jl_diverror_exception;
-extern JL_DLLEXPORT jl_value_t *jl_overflow_exception;
 extern JL_DLLEXPORT jl_value_t *jl_undefref_exception;
 extern JL_DLLEXPORT jl_value_t *jl_interrupt_exception;
 extern JL_DLLEXPORT jl_datatype_t *jl_boundserror_type;