[perl #21399] [PATCH]Patch to fix compiler warnings in smallobject.c

2003-02-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Steve Peters # Please include the string: [perl #21399] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=21399 > The attached patch fixes a compiler warning in smallobject.c. The #define UNITS_PER_AL

List datatype

2003-02-27 Thread David
Is there a List datatype for Parrot? I'm looking for something along the lines of what's in Python. Specifically, it should be able to do the following operations: - Append/Prepend elements - Insert element(s) at position - Remove element(s) at position - Return slice Like a PerlArray,

Re: [RFC] imcc calling conventions

2003-02-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:57 PM -0500 2/27/03, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: These are, for all intents and purposes, tail-call optimized versions of the two functions you showed. True, this might not gain us much speed in perl5, but it demonstrates the type of effect that I think that we're aiming at, for parrot's tail-ca

Re: [RFC] imcc calling conventions

2003-02-27 Thread Benjamin Goldberg
Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 10:03 PM -0500 2/26/03, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > >I would not have suggested such a thing. Tail call optomization in > >parrot should be about the same logical semantics as perl5's goto > >&subname (except maybe being faster). > > No it shouldn't. Tail call optimizat

Re: "targeting parrot" tutorial

2003-02-27 Thread Gopal V
If memory serves me right, Simon Wistow wrote: > I'm not sure if the tutorial has gone anywhere but I cam across this > earlier which may be useful as a start. > > Something about using TreeCC would be nice as well. What would you need about TreeCC ?. I think Rhys has written a nice write up for

Build infrastructure stuff we need

2003-02-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
Okay, here's a list of a few things we need in the build infrastructure. 1) A way to portably build a shared library 2) A way to portably probe libraries for functions 3) A way to portably probe for function parameter lists 4) A way to portably probe for type sizes The first is pretty straightforw

"targeting parrot" tutorial

2003-02-27 Thread Simon Wistow
I'm not sure if the tutorial has gone anywhere but I cam across this earlier which may be useful as a start. Something about using TreeCC would be nice as well. http://www.flipcode.com/tutorials/tut_scr01.shtml -- the test for truth is still quicker than the addition

Re: PMCs

2003-02-27 Thread Leopold Toetsch
K Stol wrote: hello, $ ./pmc2c.pl FoobyNumber.pmc [ ... ] Then, in the parrot dir, I ran Configure.pl. You have to do a "make realclean" after such changes. You can check lib/Parrot/PMC.pm, to see if the changes went in. Regards, Klaas-Jan Stol leo

RE: Parrot 0.0.10 freeze [x-adr]

2003-02-27 Thread Garrett Goebel
Jim Cromie wrote: > Jerome Quelin wrote: > >Steve Fink wrote: > >> > >>I'm assuming this will be 0.0.10 > > > >codename? I tried to resist... but I can't. How about "Orange Juice" as an homage to Leo's recent -Oj work? -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direc

Re: [RFC] imcc calling conventions

2003-02-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:03 PM -0500 2/26/03, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: I would not have suggested such a thing. Tail call optomization in parrot should be about the same logical semantics as perl5's goto &subname (except maybe being faster). No it shouldn't. Tail call optimization is far more useful in the case of:

PMCs

2003-02-27 Thread K Stol
hello, I'm doing some research on PMCs, and thought it would be a good idea to try to create some new PMC type. (just for trying and get a grip of it) For that, I thought it would be easy to just copy the code from some existing PMC. I did the following: I copied all the text from PerlInt.pmc an

Help regarding Perl Interpreter

2003-02-27 Thread Mandar S. Dalvi
hi , I needed some help regarding the memory consumption of perl Interpreter.It would be grateful if you could help me on that. I am running my application which makes use of the perl Interpreter to execute perl scripts.my Problem is after executing the script the memory gets released slowly by th

is the AL v2 complete/finished yet

2003-02-27 Thread owenberesford
hi is RFC346 http://dev.perl.org/rfc/346.html , the final version of the perl licence, or is there a newer version that I should refer to? I note that the RFC was froozen in 2000, but have been unable to find a newer version. TIA Owen

Re: [perl #21388] [PATCH]Patch for jit.c to stop compilier warnings

2003-02-27 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:13:02AM +, Steve Peters wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Steve Peters > # Please include the string: [perl #21388] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=21388 > > > > The attached