I just committed some modifications to make panics produce better
output. I'll paste a sample here (I got it by commenting out a line in
embed.c, thus inducing a panic in pmc_new):
Parrot VM: PANIC: Null vtable used!
C file c:\brent\visual studio projects\perl 6\parrot\parrot\pmc.c, line
48
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Version : 0.0.3
Configured : Fri Feb 15 14:25:35 2002
Architecture: i386-nojit
JIT Capable : No
Interp Flags: 0x54454e2e
Exceptions : (missing from core)
Dumping core...
Sorry, coredump is not yet implemented for this platform.
Core dumping isn't implemented yet. Different platforms have different
ways to do it--on DOS you call abort(), on Unix you send yourself a
SIGABRT, etc. Perl 5 wraps it in a macro called ABORT(), but there's
some Perl 5-specific stuff in some of the definitions.
That reminds me--put in panics! I think the only panic in the entire
core is in pmc_new, and I'm sure there are plenty of other places where
they'd be appropriate. The one in pmc_new is just this:
if(!pmc->vtable || !pmc->vtable->init) {
/* This is usually because you either didn't call init_world
early
enough or you added a new PMC class without adding
Parrot_(classname)_class_init to init_world. */
PANIC("Null vtable used");
return NULL;
}
You'll need to have an interpreter called 'interpreter' in scope, too,
but that's almost always the case anyways.
A couple side effects:
-a new define, PARROT_CONFIG_DATE, is now available in config.h
-aliases for several internal data types are also in config.h
Those aliases are the first wave of my upcoming embedding patch
(exposing several important data structures and functions, like the
string subsystem, to the outside world).
--Brent Dax
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