[Mono-dev] iltest failures on sparc...

2010-03-16 Thread David Miller
Zoltan, I noticed you mentioned that some IL parser fixes for big endian for float constants got made recently. I'm still getting iltest.exe failures for testcase test_0_fcont_to_i It's the only basic test that fails on the current 2.6 branch on sparc for me, maybe it's related to that other IL

Re: [Mono-dev] iltest failures on sparc...

2010-03-16 Thread Zoltan Varga
Hi, I think this is due to a rounding problem on sparc in the OP_FCONV_TO_I implementation in mini-sparc.c. I can't debug this right now because our sparc buildbot seems to be down. Zoltan On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:07 AM, David Miller wrote: > > Zoltan, I noticed you

Re: [Mono-dev] iltest failures on sparc...

2010-03-16 Thread David Miller
From: Zoltan Varga Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:24:14 +0100 > I think this is due to a rounding problem on sparc > in the OP_FCONV_TO_I implementation in mini-sparc.c. For integer conversions, the Sparc FPU always rounds towards zero, no matter what is set in the floating point control register.

Re: [Mono-dev] iltest failures on sparc...

2010-03-16 Thread Zoltan Varga
Hi, I suspect, like powerpc, that this test should simply be disabled > on sparc. > Done in SVN HEAD and the mono 2.6 branch. Zoltan ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinf

Re: [Mono-dev] Issues with System.Random

2010-03-16 Thread Andreas Nahr
I won't comment on the algorithm itself (keep in mind that the existing one already was replaced once with a "better" one which failed miserably in real world apps, so had to be reverted). Also a newsgroup as source doesn't sound reliable at all. But your patch adds errors for exceptions (which we

[Mono-dev] Can't build svn head on Linux/x86

2010-03-16 Thread Thierry Lafage
Hi, I've followed what is written on the website and in the README in mono to build mono from svn (head of trunk), and the build process fails on my Linux/x86 box (see trace below). Note that the version of mono which is installed is 2.6.1 (from tarball). I don't know what I've missed, and I d

Re: [Mono-dev] Issues with System.Random

2010-03-16 Thread Kornél Pál
Also note that this patch seems to break serialization compatibility that might be a problem for some applications. Kornél Andreas Nahr wrote: > I won't comment on the algorithm itself (keep in mind that the existing one > already was replaced once with a "better" one which failed miserably in r

[Mono-dev] tech talk in downtown Chicago?

2010-03-16 Thread David Smith
I moved to Chicago in mid January. I'm wondering if there are any like minded individuals (people following this list) interested in getting together in downtown Chicago to talk tech? If so email me and we can meet up. --dave __

Re: [Mono-dev] tech talk in downtown Chicago?

2010-03-16 Thread Roland Hughes
I don't do work in the city anymore, but it would be interesting to see if you get any bites. I only started following this list a few days ago. Ordinarily I work on and write about real computers. On Tuesday 16 March 2010 09:16:34 am David Smith wrote: > I moved to Chicago in mid January. I'

Re: [Mono-dev] Can't build svn head on Linux/x86

2010-03-16 Thread Jonathan Pryor
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 10:31 +0100, Thierry Lafage wrote: > I've followed what is written on the website and in the README in mono > to build mono from svn (head of trunk), and the build process fails on > my Linux/x86 box (see trace below). ... > $ make > [...] > make[7]: En

Re: [Mono-dev] Method code injection

2010-03-16 Thread Amir Ebrahimi
Thanks, Rodrigo. I'll try this out! On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Rodrigo B. de Oliveira < rodrigobam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Amir! > > Yes, you can use Mono.Cecil: > >import System >import Mono.Cecil >import Mono.Cecil.Cil > >pathToAssembly = "/tmp/test.exe" >asm = Asse

[Mono-dev] SIGSERV in 'mono_arch_get_llvm_call_info' when using up-to-date Mono+LLVM

2010-03-16 Thread Sergei Dyshel
Hello, I get SIGSERV (from mono_arch_get_llvm_call_info at mini-x86.c:1224) when trying to compile attached example with Mono + LLVM backend. Both Mono and LLVM updated today: Mono revision: 153681 LLVM revision: 98629 Code, exe and dump are attached. This errors happens when when non-static metho

Re: [Mono-dev] Issues with System.Random

2010-03-16 Thread Adrian Willenbücher
Andreas Nahr wrote: > I won't comment on the algorithm itself (keep in mind that the existing one > already was replaced once with a "better" one which failed miserably in real > world apps, so had to be reverted). I tested a sequence of 68 million 32-bit values for randomness using the Diehard t

Re: [Mono-dev] Issues with System.Random

2010-03-16 Thread Adrian Willenbücher
Kornél Pál wrote: > Also note that this patch seems to break serialization compatibility > that might be a problem for some applications. That is indeed a problem. However, it should be sufficient to load the state and xor it with the default state if the serialized object is the old version. I

Re: [Mono-dev] Issues with System.Random

2010-03-16 Thread Andreas Nahr
In Text >Andreas Nahr wrote: >> I won't comment on the algorithm itself (keep in mind that the existing one >> already was replaced once with a "better" one which failed miserably in real >> world apps, so had to be reverted). >I tested a sequence of 68 million 32-bit values for randomness using t

Re: [Mono-dev] Issues with System.Random

2010-03-16 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, > As already said I didn't test and can't comment but keep in mind that the > Random class is used (real-world) under VERY specific situations and none of > them are near random. I am not sure about this. I looked through the svn log for the commits to the Random class, and I can not find

Re: [Mono-dev] SIGSERV in 'mono_arch_get_llvm_call_info' when using up-to-date Mono+LLVM

2010-03-16 Thread Zoltan Varga
Hi, This is fixed now in SVN. Zoltan On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Sergei Dyshel wrote: > Hello, > I get SIGSERV (from mono_arch_get_llvm_call_info at mini-x86.c:1224) > when trying to compile attached example with Mono + LLVM backend. > Both Mono and LLVM updated today: > Mon

[Mono-dev] Mono-basic does not build under Solaris x86 in latest mono-2-6 branch

2010-03-16 Thread francis bausch
my previous issue in Solaris-Sparc was resolved - but this problem occurs in Solaris 10 x86 while building mono-basic: make[3]: Entering directory `/Desktop/dev/mono-2-6/mono-basic/vbnc/vbnc' MONO_PATH="../../class/lib/bootstrap:$MONO_PATH" mono --debug ../../class/lib/bootstrap/vbnc.exe @vbn