in PIR, a BigInt is turning into a string against my will -- what am I doing wrong?

(This is with parrot built from the subversion trunk, revision 16999) Here's a bit of PIR that demonstrates my problem: .sub 'main' :main load_bytecode 'dumper.pir' .local ResizablePMCArray fields split fields, ,, hey,you _dumper (fields)

Re: [perl #41617] make test-pir fails on x86 linux, r14402

Audrey == Audrey Tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Audrey Thanks, please svn up the pugs tree and try again. Same problem with r15386. -- Raffarin said he wants to see secure Internet voting in France by 2009, and he said if he had a homosexual son, he would love him ... -- from the

Re: [perl #42106] t/pmc/iterator.t t/src/io.t failed on Linux

I think that's my code; I'm looking into it. -- I'd like to see Rush Limbaugh tell Omar he can't get married. --Alex Kotlowitz. You hadda be there

Re: [perl #37997] r10604 build failure on Cygwin

I use Cygwin and am willing to occasionally test the build on it. Alas I have no clue how to actually -develop- for Cygwin, so I doubt I'd be much help fixing any problems that I find. But I'd be happy to svn up; perl Configure.pl make all test and summarize or post the results. -- I'd like to

Re: [perl #37997] r10604 build failure on Cygwin

Joshua == Joshua Gatcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joshua Really? No one on #parrot has been able to get parrot to Joshua work on Cygwin for months. The reason has changed since Joshua this specific ticket but if you have a working cygwin Joshua build can you please share more

Re: IRC discussion of smoking and branching

chromatic == chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: chromatic The line-ending coding standards tests can be a problem chromatic in some cases, where Windows developers add new files chromatic with their native format and forget to set the chromatic svn:eol-style=native property on

Re: [perl #42170] [PATCH] Report line numbers on trailing_space.t

jerry == jerry gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jerry i've never run emacs, so i don't know the lispy analog. jerry i'm sure somebody will chime in with it. This does what you think it does: (setq-default show-trailing-whitespace t) Emacs 22 users can highlight tabs like this:

Re: [perl #37997] r10604 build failure on Cygwin

Ron == Ron Blaschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ron Sorry, I guess there was some mental PATH overloading going Ron on. Try adding the absolute path to Fblib/lib to PATH. Ron export PATH=/path/to/parrot/blib/lib:$PATH Ron And then make. OK, that gets me past that failure,

Re: Current State of Building Parrot on Cygwin

Ron == Ron Blaschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ron If you see this error ... Ron the file has Windows line endings Dare I suggest that parrot not be so fussy about line endings? -- If you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one

Re: [perl #39426] [BUG] Can't build with cygwin.

Paul == Paul Cochrane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Cygwin is building for me without the PATH setting as of Paul r19022. Not for me, alas: $ svn up -r19022 $ perl Makefile.PL $ make all ... Invoking Parrot to generate runtime/parrot/include/config.fpmc --cross

Re: What should I work on at the hackathon tomorrow and Friday?

That's a generous offer. How about activating the TODO test described in http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=42996, and making it pass? -- A DRE voting system is one of the simplest computer applications you could imagine. It just adds by one. -- Brit Williams, emeritus

Re: [tutorial] pct tutorial language: Squaak implementation

Mark == Mark J Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark ... confusion with Squeak, which is how I read this subject Mark at first. (Smalltalk on Parrot?! Whoa!). But maybe Mark that's just me. :) I read it that way too (and had the same reaction :-) -- [T]he main reason Viaweb