[perl #29315] [PATCH] Win32 Intel C++ Compiler support

2004-05-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Philip Taylor # Please include the string: [perl #29315] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=29315 > Some changes so that "perl Configure.pl --cc=icl" correctly uses the Intel C++ Co

Re: One more thing...

2004-05-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 4:00 PM +0200 5/2/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well... about that. It's actually easily doable with a bit of trickery. We can either: I have trickery number 4) here. Dunno if its doable, but worth considering IMHO: It's doable but the problem you run into

Re: Outstanding parrot issues?

2004-05-02 Thread Arthur Bergman
On 2 May 2004, at 12:37, Leopold Toetsch wrote: that simplifies step 1) No, it entirely misses the point, every time I call into parrot the place I called parrot_init_stacktop might not, or most likely will not be in my current stack. Can't you call that somewhere in an outer frame? E.g. where you

Re: Strings Manifesto

2004-05-02 Thread Jeff Clites
On May 2, 2004, at 7:38 AM, Andrew E Switala wrote: Jeff Clites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-05-01 18:23:02 >>> [Finishing this discussion on p6i, since it began here.] Good point. However, the more general usage seems to have largely fallen out of use (to the extent to which I'd forgotten about it unt

Re: Bit ops on strings

2004-05-02 Thread Jeff Clites
Two more things to keep in mind: On May 1, 2004, at 4:54 PM, Aaron Sherman wrote: If Perl defaults to UTF-8 People need to realize also that although UTF-8 is a pretty good interchange format, it's a really bad in-memory representation. This is for at least 2 related reasons: (1) To get to the N-

[perl #29309] [PATCH] autogen Tcl's example makefile

2004-05-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #29309] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=29309 > This causes the example Makefile to be autogen'd. ? config/gen/makefiles/tcl_example

[perl #29310] [PATCH] MSWin32 simple nci failures

2004-05-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Ron Blaschke # Please include the string: [perl #29310] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=29310 > Add required symbols for export. libnci.def Flush buffers to avoid unordered output

Re: United States-Perl6 keyboard for windows

2004-05-02 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 20:40, Austin Hastings wrote: > Put ¯¯that¯¯ in your naming convention and smoke it. > > (I have no idea how to translate that character in a reversible way. _over_ > perhaps?) Great, just what I needed: _¯-_-¯_ or die; And if you make ^_^ the ascii-equiv spam-fil

Re: Strings Manifesto

2004-05-02 Thread Andrew E Switala
>>> Jeff Clites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-05-01 18:23:02 >>> [Finishing this discussion on p6i, since it began here.] > Good point. However, the more general usage seems to have largely > fallen out of use (to the extent to which I'd forgotten about it until > now). For instance, the Java String c

Re: One more thing...

2004-05-02 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # recompile each bxor_p_p_p > mmdvtfind P20, .VTABLE_BXOR, .PerlInt, .PerlInt ^^ This has to use the dynamic type of the PMC of course. typeof I20, P17 typeof I21, P18 mmdvtfind P20,

Re: One more thing...

2004-05-02 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well... about that. It's actually easily doable with a bit of > trickery. We can either: I have trickery number 4) here. Dunno if its doable, but worth considering IMHO: Here is mmd.pasm (using bxor but substitute any math/bitwise/... op). Comments inline

ICU makefiles don't work with BSD Style make

2004-05-02 Thread Marcus Thiesen
Hi, it seems as if the ICU makefiles don't work that well with BSD style makes like the one in OpenBSD core and NetBSD. As I'm no makefile expert it's quite hard for me to fix this, don't know if it is possible in a platform independent manner. The first bunch of errors is: make: "/usr/tmp/pa

Re: [perl #29299] [PATCH] MSWin32 Fix spawn stdout handling and PerlNum.get_string()

2004-05-02 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PerlNum.get_string() should print "-0.00" for the value -0.0, but > prints "0.00" on win32. get_string() now prints the sign symbol > itself, instead of relying on sn?printf. I'm not sure, if we shouldn't just one routine (string_from_num()) OTOH

Re: [perl #29300] [PATCH] MSWin32 passing libnci.def to linker

2004-05-02 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > link needs to be told that libnci.def is a module definition file, via > the -def: flag. The patch changes libnci.def to -def:libnci.def. Thanks, applied. leo

Re: Outstanding parrot issues?

2004-05-02 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Arthur Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2 May 2004, at 11:47, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> Parrot_init_stacktop(Interp*, void*); >> >> This function can be used as a replacement for Parrot_init(). I hope >> that simplifies step 1) > No, it entirely misses the point, every time I call into

Re: Outstanding parrot issues?

2004-05-02 Thread Arthur Bergman
On 2 May 2004, at 11:47, Leopold Toetsch wrote: All I want to do is. 1) create a parrot interpreter 2) create some pmcs 3) call some code inside parrot with those pmcs I've now added a missing init function that sets the stack top: Parrot_init_stacktop(Interp*, void*); This function can be used

Re: Outstanding parrot issues?

2004-05-02 Thread Arthur Bergman
On 2 May 2004, at 10:54, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Arthur Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... The obvious answer seems to be to have the embedding interface set the top of stack in each embedding function if it is not set. This would do the right thing and make it easy to embed parrot. No. I've po

Re: Outstanding parrot issues?

2004-05-02 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Arthur Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All I want to do is. > 1) create a parrot interpreter > 2) create some pmcs > 3) call some code inside parrot with those pmcs I've now added a missing init function that sets the stack top: Parrot_init_stacktop(Interp*, void*); This function can be

Re: Outstanding parrot issues?

2004-05-02 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Arthur Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... The obvious answer > seems to be to have the embedding interface set the top of stack in > each embedding function if it is not set. This would do the right thing > and make it easy to embed parrot. No. I've posted already this example: { PM

Re: Bit ops on strings

2004-05-02 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
>> >>I am very confused. THIS IS WHAT WE ALL SEEM TO BE SAYING. BITOPS ONLY >>ON EIGHT-BIT DATA. AM I WRONG? > > > No, it's not, and could you please not get emotional about this? It's I apologize for using UPPERCASE. My only excuse is that it was not personally aimed at you: I have been gri