In PDD 15 it says
Creating a new class with attributes
Adding the attributes a and b to the new class Foo:
newclass $P0, "Foo"
addattribute $P0, "a", "Foo::a" # This is offset 0
addattribute $P0, "b", "Foo::b" # This is offset 1
maybe I'm just being a numpty but should this not be
Creatin
get this running for
ages and got absolutely nowhere with it, it was like walking in a minefield.
Harry
--
Regards,
Harry Jackson.
Leon Brocard wrote:
Dan Sugalski sent the following bits through the ether:
>
Objects please!
I would second that. I would prefer a cool release to a cool date ;-)
Harry Jackson
Dan Sugalski wrote:
Your code is fine. It *should* work. That it doesn't is a bug, which
needs fixing. For now you're going to have to work around it.
I would have swore the code was wrong. Am I being naive thinking that a
call to a sub is different than what looked like a call to a label. On
fur
Dan Sugalski wrote:
Okay, here's a quick scoop and status.
*) I'd like to shoot for a Feb 14th release. Names wanted. (I'm partial
to the bleeding heart release, but not that partial)
You can always find some reference to a bird in it somewhere
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15254a.htm
We coul
Pete Lomax wrote:
Leo clarified this as a problem with backward branch circa 3/12/03:
Sorry to be a pain in the butt, but I need to be told that there has
been no improvement in the last two months on this ;-(
..sub _main
goto L1
test:
$I1 = 1
ret
L1:
$I2 = 2
Simon Cozens wrote:
I think the mail servers for cpan.org/perl.org are having to shift
rather a lot of mail at the moment, for some reason.
For those that are unaware there is currently a rather serious virus in
the wild at the moment and a lot of mailing lists are being afffected. I
think its ca
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Harry Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
RHAS 2.1 dev edition
Harry, do you still see these hanging parrot programs?
chromatic, do you run a DeadRat (sorry) linux too?
RedHat is well known to provide b0rken patches to otherwise running
software. Could you try to u
Melvin Smith wrote:
At 08:44 PM 1/9/2004 +, Harry Jackson wrote:
So, are they staying, staying for now or not sure yet? I have a few
hundred lines of imcc that uses macros and if they are being removed
then I would rather change now and save myself some pain later.
I think we are going to
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Jonathan Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The attached patch fixes a problem in imcc/TestCompiler.pm which was causing
all imcpasm tests to fail on Win32.
Applied, as well as the icu.pl patch.
[ Please provide patches relative to parrot root to simplify applying ]
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 2:59 PM +0100 1/16/04, LF wrote:
hello
i noticed that harry jackson is writing a postgres interface to wrap
the nci functions. i'd like him to show what he's written so far and
give his comments
guess i'm not the only one hoping to test it
Just somet
Dan Sugalski wrote:
Folks,
I got reminded the other day that we have a full, working RT
installation (as everyone's probably noticed with the tickets that fly
past on occasion) and, well, we ought to use it. What I'm going to start
doing is putting in tickets for the tasks that need doing, that
Stéphane Payrard wrote:
Le Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:06:18PM -0600, le valeureux mongueur Robert Eaglestone a dit:
OK, I'm looking at the Parrot String documentation, and I've
got questions. It's not like the docs are a total mess, they
just need some fleshing out. Yeah, that's it. So here I go.
Mark Solinski wrote:
I'm also a shy lurker but would love to help in any way I can. I have twenty+ years experience in C/C++/OOP. Is there a reasonable place to start?
Bloody hell man, what took you so long ;-). With that amount of
experience, take your pick.
http://www.parrotcode.org/todo
Har
Ok. So far we have had 7 replies to the shy lurker post, oops another
one just posted, in the word of Mr. Burns "excellent". As to how much
elbow grease we can muster between us is open for debate. If you have
sent me a message and did not receive a reply please resend the message.
We all agree
Robert Eaglestone wrote:
Well, I may be shy, and I may lurk, but I'm willing and
able to contribute. I've coded C professionally, on and
off, since 1992, and I like to tinker with things, and
I'm not too terrible at documentation.
I think a good place to start digging in would be updating
docs,
Paul Cochrane wrote:
If there are any shy lurkers out there please speak now or forever hold
your peace.
I'll admit to being a shy lurker... (and have rudimentary C knowledge, but a
bit low on the elbow grease atm :-/)
Another one, we are getting more and more of them pop up from all over
the
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 5:01 PM + 1/12/04, Harry Jackson wrote:
Tim Bunce wrote:
and am always worried about making an ass of myself when posting.
Dammit, and here I was trying to lead by example. It's OK! :)
Smoothing the path for newcommers, of both types, is very important.
I
Harry Jackson wrote:
The following shows roughly what I had to do to display it. I am using a
global HASH called MetaData that stores various bits about the current
statement being executed.
Sorry: missed a bit
The MetData is where I get the TupleData Array and the associated
FieldData Array
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 4:50 PM + 1/12/04, Harry Jackson wrote:
done similar to
80 getnext:
81
82 .pcc_begin prototyped
83 .pcc_call fetchrow_hash
84 nextrow:
85 .result rowhash
86 .result answer
87
Dan Sugalski wrote:
Which brings up a question. What's the difference between .local and .sym?
I was hoping someone would ask this.
Harry
e to add a few nice features to it if anyone can think of any.
I doubt if any of the functionality that currently exists will be
changed but this is not up to me, all that stuff is at a much higher
layer of abstraction than where I am currently digging.
Harry Jackson
Robert Eaglestone wrote:
Yes, I'm a shy lurker.
Are there any more, don't be shy, there might be a lot of barking but no
one bites at least I have not had anyone bite me _yet_.
Is there anyone on the list who wants to help but does not know where to
start. If you are really that shy email me off
Jeff Clites wrote:
On Jan 12, 2004, at 8:07 AM, Harry Jackson wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote:
Having a fetchrow_hash that returned a Hash where the keys are the
column names and the values are the column values would be most of
the rest.
I read somewhere that accessing a hash was slightly slower
e tasks etc and was dismayed to find none.
There are no lists of things anywhere although I believe Leo compiled
one which got warnocked.
I know its a pain but a list of easy to complete tasks would be rather
helpful for any shy lurkers with some pointers on where to start maybe
not now but later.
h
86 .result answer
87 .pcc_end
where each call to the function will return the hash containg the next
rows data.
Do you have any requests for anything else on, around or near this
before I start. I should be able to ruffle something up pretty quickly.
Harry Jackson
Disclaimer: Th
;d love to be.
It is entirely up to you lot. If you want it on a stamp I will see what
I can come up with ;-)
Harry Jackson.
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 9:05 PM +0100 1/11/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Harry Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am at the point now where I need to know what type of format you want
the data to come out in.
The first question is: how are these data returned in C.
For posgres, that&
Harry Jackson wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote:
> getting back a full row as an array, getting back a full
row as a hash, and stuff like that. Nothing fancy, and nothing that
high-level, but enough to work the basics without quite as manual work
as the current libpg requires.
OK.
I am at
80s
Any requests, pointers, advice, abuse or general chit chat welcome.
Harry Jackson
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Harry Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
251 .local pmc CONN
252 .local int int_answer
253 print "About to Connect\n"
254 P0 = C[0]
255 S5 = s
256 invoke
257 CONN = P5
Calling the sub is something lik
I am trying to create an array of global functions from the postgres
library mainly to ease passing parameters amongst other things. I have
snipped some repetitive code out. I am sure that there are a few errors
in the way I am using imc so any corrections or pointers would be much
appreciated,
Harry Jackson wrote:
I have tested the patches below now. Could someone have a look at them
and see if they can get commited especially the patch to the
call_list.txt file.
# New in libpq.so.3.1
t pt
p ptit33i
i ptit33i
i ptiit33i
c pi
I have jsut added the
I have tested the patches below now. Could someone have a look at them
and see if they can get commited especially the patch to the
call_list.txt file.
Harry
Harry Jackson wrote:
Some questions
Please note:
I have been unable to test these patches with "make test" due to the
Harry Jackson wrote:
I am now trying to get Parrot running on debian and have noticed the
following error while running "perl Configure.pl"
Determining some sizes...Linker failed (see test.ldo) at
lib/Parrot/Configure/Step.pm line 233
Parrot::Configure::Step::cc_build()
Melvin Smith wrote:
But, if you want macros to stay, let them stay.
So, are they staying, staying for now or not sure yet? I have a few
hundred lines of imcc that uses macros and if they are being removed
then I would rather change now and save myself some pain later.
H
I am now trying to get Parrot running on debian and have noticed the
following error while running "perl Configure.pl"
Determining some sizes...Linker failed (see test.ldo) at
lib/Parrot/Configure/Step.pm line 233
Parrot::Configure::Step::cc_build() called at
config/auto/sizes.pl line 3
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
Problems with "make test"
Harry Jackson couldn't get his build of parrot to finish running "make
test". After a certain amount of thrashing about by the team, Dan
narrowed it down to issues with the mutant '2.96' versi
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Harry Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can someone tell me if there is an error in the code below.
The code is fine.
it repeatedly from the command line it sometimes freezes ie it prints
the contents of the array and then just stops and I need to do a CTRL-C
Dan Sugalski wrote:
Let us know either way -- if upgrading gcc works then we're going to
have to figure out how RH/GCC2.96 is breaking things so we can make it
not happen. :(
I have now upgraded gcc to 3.3.2 and I am getting the same error. We are
still freezing during test.
I have also noticed
Matt Fowles wrote:
I understand if this suggestion is dismissed for violating the rules,
but I would like an answer to the question simply because I do not know
the answer.
The most admiral reason for asking a question and I doubt it will be
dismissed.
H
problem. If so, we'll
need to update configure to do that automatically, since I think we're
going to end up running into this for years. :(
No Joy. I will upgrade gcc and see what happens.
Harry Jackson
/2.96/specs
gcc version 2.96 2731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-108.1)
RHAS 2.1 dev edition
Harry Jackson
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Do you have a SMP machine with SMP enabled in your OS?
The unpredictable behavior of your freezes makes me think, that it could
be related to multi-threading. OTOH arithmetic tests or such don't
utilize threads and no events are being generated.
I am running a Cray X1 ( I wis
I might be going mad here and maybe I have been up too long but, does:
http://dev.x.perl.org/perl6/pdd/pdd16_native_call.html
have two identical Parrot_callback_C and Parrot_callback_D function
signatures.
Harry Jackson
Jeff Clites wrote:
On Dec 30, 2003, at 3:11 PM, Harry Jackson wrote:
2) Try running one of the tests which blocks, individually. If you
can get it to happen this way, then run it in gdb and see what it's
doing. (Or, attach to an already blocked one from 'make test'--this
i
0:00 ./parrot --gc-debug -b t/op/arithmetics_4.pasm
From all of this I am guessing that something has corrupted a module in
Perl at least that is all I can think of.
Harry Jackson
nfo ***
Total memory allocated = 139264
DOD runs = 0
Collect runs = 0
Collect memory = 0
Active PMCs = 1024
Active buffers = 6144
Total PMCs = 1024
Total buffers = 6144
Header allocations since last collect = 7
Memory allocations since last collect = 1
Program exited normally.
(gdb)
Harry Jackson
Some questions
Please note:
I have been unable to test these patches with "make test" due to the
problems I mentioned in an earler post. I have managed to get the
postgres lib working again and I am hoping this is the only thing I have
affected with these patches although if someone would like
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 1:02 PM + 12/27/03, Harry Jackson wrote:
Being fairly new to parrot and probably naive I can see a few different
ways of doing this.
A C wrapper ie: parrot/classes/parrotdbi.pmc etc
A C wrapper ie: parrot/dynclasses/parrotdbi.pmc etc
A loadable pasm function library
During
[EMAIL PROTECTED] parrot]$ make test
echo imcc/imcc.y -d -o imcc/imcparser.c
imcc/imcc.y -d -o imcc/imcparser.c
perl -e 'open(A,qq{>>$_}) or die foreach @ARGV' imcc/imcc.y.flag
imcc/imcparser.c imcc/imcparser.h
perl t/harness --gc-debug --running-make-test -b t/op/*.t t/pmc/*.t
t/native_
I was searching on google for
core.html parrot
and the first link took me to
http://www.gurney.co.uk/parrots/dandan.html
Do we have a facilty for number 5.
H
Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> Dunno if I replied, but... Next step is a higher level wrapper, if
> you're up for fiddling with Postgres itself. Stuff like a single call
> to connect (right now you have to make the connect call and poll over
> and over again),
I did some benchmarks using your original l
Dan Sugalski wrote:
We're starting to check in library code, which brings up the annoying
issue of licensing. Since we haven't been able to go the easy (i.e. all
public domain) route for parrot we need to deal with this.
The license on Parrot itself is straightforward enough, albeit a bit odd
w
Dan Sugalski wrote:
It's util/ncidef2pasm.pl, actually. build_nativecall builds the stub
routines for the interpreter if a JIT isn't available. The definitions
of the characters are the same, but ncidef2pasm's a bit better
documented. (There's embedded POD) Invocation is:
perl util/ncidef2pas
Dan Sugalski wrote:
Yep, though that's a big part of it. postgres.pasm is generated from
postgres.declarations, FWIW--there's a script in the library somewhere.
Is /parrot/build_tools/build_nativecall.pl the script in question and if
so whats its usage.
I have done postgres.declarations, please se
hough I imagine there is more to it than this ;-)
As for the OO wrapper. Are you after a pasm library that takes advantage
of objects and hides the details of libpq-fe.h? I think I could start
something if no one else has already started anything.
Harry Jackson (no longer surnameless ;-)
Forgive me if I am looking in the wrong place for some of this stuff. I
am quite new to this.
--- Michael Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm fine with that, I understand why - this is not a rant - but I do
> think that Parrot has a steep learning curve and that good
> documentation is ess
Forgive me if I am looking in the wrong place for some of this stuff. I
only started looking at this today.
--- Michael Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm fine with that, I understand why - this is not a rant - but I do
> think that Parrot has a steep learning curve and that good
> docum
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