Re: Parrot coredumps on Solaris 8

2001-09-12 Thread Philip Kendall
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:23:51AM -0700, Daniel Sully wrote: [Parrot coredumps on Solaris] It also coredumps on Solaris 7, when running the test2.pbc - test.pbc is fine. The coredump doesn't show much, only that it keeled over at interpreter.c line 16, which is the while() loop. That was

Re: Parrot coredumps on Solaris 8

2001-09-12 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 12:11:35PM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: test3.pbc is still segfaulting on me though. Yes, it is here too; I've sent some debugging info to Dan and he's having a look at it. I'm trying to take a look at it too. I suspect that CHUNK_BASE isn't doing what it should. Simon

Re: Parrot coredumps on Solaris 8

2001-09-12 Thread H . Merijn Brand
On Wed 12 Sep 2001 13:23, Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we usefully smoke parrots yet? Or is this something that someone (Schwern?) is working on? [in that as all the world is not a vax^Wx86 it would be useful to smoke on obscure architectures that SIGBUS on unaligned integer

Re: on the long term Configure system

2001-09-12 Thread Simon Cozens
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 04:19:12PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: P.S. Maybe the long term discussion should take place in perl6-build, to draw fire from the short term? Thanks for thinking about this; it'd probably be a good idea to move to perl6-build. Simon

Re: Parrot coredumps on Solaris 8

2001-09-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:18 PM 9/12/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 12:11:35PM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: test3.pbc is still segfaulting on me though. Yes, it is here too; I've sent some debugging info to Dan and he's having a look at it. I'm trying to take a look at it too. I suspect

Re: Parrot coredumps on Solaris 8

2001-09-12 Thread Philip Kendall
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:24:06AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 12:18 PM 9/12/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 12:11:35PM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: test3.pbc is still segfaulting on me though. Yes, it is here too; I've sent some debugging info to Dan and he's

Re: Parrot coredumps on Solaris 8

2001-09-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 02:40 PM 9/12/2001 +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:24:06AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 12:18 PM 9/12/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 12:11:35PM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: test3.pbc is still segfaulting on me though. Yes, it is

Re: Parrot coredumps on Solaris 8

2001-09-12 Thread Philip Kendall
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:45:42AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 02:40 PM 9/12/2001 +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:24:06AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: CHUNK_BASE was OK, it was Allocate_Aligned that was broken. That and the problems with the assembler generating

PDD 6 (parrot assembly) now in CVS

2001-09-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
I just checked PDD 6 into CVS. (parrot/docs/parrot_assembly.pod) Some changes since last time, so check it out to see what's up. Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even

RE: Parrot coredumps on Solaris 8

2001-09-12 Thread Hong Zhang
Now works on Solaris and i386, but segfaults at the GRAB_IV call in read_constants_table on my Alpha. Problems with the integer-pointer conversions in memory.c? (line 29 is giving me a warning). The line 29 is extremely wrong. It assigns IV to void* without casting. The alignment calculation

Purify Output

2001-09-12 Thread Josh Wilmes
I just ran purify against the current Parrot CVS as of today at 10 AM PDT. Here are the results: jwilmes@jwilmes-sun:/apps/users/jwilmes/devel/parrot$ ./test_prog test.pbc Purify instrumented test_prog (pid 2187 at Wed Sep 12 10:05:34 2001) * Purify 5.2 Solaris 2 (32-bit), Copyright

RE: Parrot coredumps on Solaris 8

2001-09-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 09:57 AM 9/12/2001 -0700, Hong Zhang wrote: Now works on Solaris and i386, but segfaults at the GRAB_IV call in read_constants_table on my Alpha. Problems with the integer-pointer conversions in memory.c? (line 29 is giving me a warning). The line 29 is extremely wrong. It assigns IV to

Parrot coredumps on Alpha (Was: Parrot coredumps on Solaris 8)

2001-09-12 Thread Philip Kendall
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 02:54:49PM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:45:42AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 02:40 PM 9/12/2001 +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: Now works on Solaris and i386, but segfaults at the GRAB_IV call in read_constants_table on my Alpha. Problems

CVS is being slashdotted...

2001-09-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
For those of you who're curious as to why performance is so bad, Parrot's made Slashdot, and the CVS server's undoubtedly being slashdotted. Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski

[patch] Add euclid.pasm to Makefile

2001-09-12 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
All -- This Makefile patch addes euclid.pasm to the make test target. Note also that it redirects output to t/*.out, which other folks might not agree with (I like it, given the amount of output generated for some tests). Regards, -- Gregor

[new file] .cvsignore to ignore build products

2001-09-12 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
All -- The following .cvsignore file goes in the root parrot source code directory to ignore the build products. Regards, -- Gregor _ / perl -e 'srand(-2091643526); print chr rand 90 for (0..4)' \ Gregor N.

[new file] t/.cvsignore to ignore 'make test' products

2001-09-12 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
All -- The attached t/.cvsignore file will cause cvs to ignore the products of 'make test'. Regards, -- Gregor _ / perl -e 'srand(-2091643526); print chr rand 90 for (0..4)' \ Gregor N. Purdy

Protection from opcode-table-change mixups

2001-09-12 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
All -- Should we do an MD5 on the opcode table and store that in the assembler, assembler output, disassembler, and interpreter, so that the interpreter won't even try to execute byte code assembed by an assembler with a different opcode table? It seems to me that while things are developing it

Re: Protection from opcode-table-change mixups

2001-09-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:45 PM 9/12/2001 -0400, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: Should we do an MD5 on the opcode table and store that in the assembler, assembler output, disassembler, and interpreter, so that the interpreter won't even try to execute byte code assembed by an assembler with a different opcode table? It

patches to assembler opcode_table

2001-09-12 Thread Brian Wheeler
The assembler patches: * handle blank lines containing a label * handle constants in decimal,octal, or hex. Opcode table patch (and basic_opcodes.ops): * adds and, or, not, xor, shl, and shr. Builds ok, but coredumps in the interpreter. Any hints on what I did

Re: Parrot coredumps on Alpha (Was: Parrot coredumps on Solaris 8)

2001-09-12 Thread Philip Kendall
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 07:21:06PM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: [Coredumps on Alpha] Quick research reveals the obvious problem: even when IVs are 64 bit, assemble.pl is still 32 bit (as $pack_types{i} is the 32-bit type 'l'). Changing this over to 'q' means I get further, but it's still

[patch] First cut at TODO allow add I4, I4, 3 instead of add_i_ic...

2001-09-12 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
All -- Attached is a diff for assemble.pl that does a somewhat messy job of solving the problem posed in the TODO file. It does it by parsing the root of each opcode when parsing the opcode table and creating a hash with the opcode root and the formal argument types (qualifiers) so that, e.g.

Re: Parrot coredumps on Alpha (Was: Parrot coredumps on Solaris 8)

2001-09-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:17 PM 9/12/2001 +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 07:21:06PM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote: [Coredumps on Alpha] Quick research reveals the obvious problem: even when IVs are 64 bit, assemble.pl is still 32 bit (as $pack_types{i} is the 32-bit type 'l'). Changing

Re: [patch] First cut at TODO allow add I4, I4, 3 instead ofadd_i_ic ...

2001-09-12 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
All -- BTW, Here are some things to consider: * The recognition of register types means that you can't use labels like 'I4'. It would be nice if registers and labels were in different namespaces. Could label definitions be like this: FOO:, and label uses be like this: :FOO?

Re: [patch] First cut at TODO allow add I4, I4, 3 instead of add_i_ic ...

2001-09-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:36 PM 9/12/2001 -0400, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: All -- BTW, Here are some things to consider: * The recognition of register types means that you can't use labels like 'I4'. It would be nice if registers and labels were in different namespaces. I don't think this is necessary.

#include config.h or #include parrot/config.h

2001-09-12 Thread Andy Dougherty
In perl5, we've had occasional header file name conflicts over the years. One common example is someone putting a file named config.h in /usr/local/include. Other conflicts with string.h and memory.h are also conceivable. I'd suggest cd parrot mkdir include mkdir

Re: #include config.h or #include parrot/config.h

2001-09-12 Thread Benjamin Stuhl
--- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In perl5, we've had occasional header file name conflicts over the years. One common example is someone putting a file named config.h in /usr/local/include. Other conflicts with string.h and memory.h are also conceivable. I'd suggest

RE: Parrot coredumps on Solaris 8

2001-09-12 Thread Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs
I hate to ask such a stupid question, but what is a power of two boundry and why do we want it to be aligned on one? I was assuming a power of two boundry to be some memory address N such that N = 2 ** i, but this apparently is not the case. Sorry for asking such a rudimentary question, but

Re: #include config.h or #include parrot/config.h

2001-09-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:59 PM 9/12/2001 -0700, Benjamin Stuhl wrote: --- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In perl5, we've had occasional header file name conflicts over the years. One common example is someone putting a file named config.h in /usr/local/include. Other conflicts with string.h

RE: Parrot coredumps on Solaris 8

2001-09-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 06:11 PM 9/12/2001 -0500, Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs wrote: I hate to ask such a stupid question, but what is a power of two boundry and why do we want it to be aligned on one? I was assuming a power of two boundry to be some memory address N such that N = 2 ** i, but this apparently is not the

Using int32_t instead of IV for code

2001-09-12 Thread Hong Zhang
I think we should use int32_t instead of IV for all code related data. The IV is 64-bit on 64-bit machine, which is significant waste. The IV is also platform specific, and has caused some nasty problems so far. Hong

Resend: working patch for bitops

2001-09-12 Thread Brian Wheeler
This seems to be working: * fixes for label-only lines in assembler * recognition of 0x, 0b, etc in constants * and, not, or, shl, shr, xor Enjoy! Brian Patch follows Index: assemble.pl === RCS

Re: Using int32_t instead of IV for code

2001-09-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:06 PM 9/12/2001 -0700, Hong Zhang wrote: I think we should use int32_t instead of IV for all code related data. Absolutely. Using an IV was a quick answer to get things working--a first draft if you will. It needs rewriting so all the ops are I32 and the floating point constants are

Re: Using int32_t instead of IV for code

2001-09-12 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
I think we should use int32_t instead of IV for all code related data. The IV is 64-bit on 64-bit machine, which is significant waste. I always see this claim (why would you use 64 bits unless you really need them big, they must be such a waste) being bandied around, without much hard numbers

pasm.pl: a different parrot assembler

2001-09-12 Thread Brian Wheeler
I've been having tons of problems with labels in the current assembler...so I wrote my own. It should provide all of the features that the current assembler has. I'ved tested and ran all of the current t/*.pasm files. Here it is...feedback is always welcome. Brian #! /usr/bin/perl -w # #

print_n doesn't work?

2001-09-12 Thread Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs
I have done all the trancendental math functions...but I'm having a problem with print_n...I checked out a clean copy of parrot and ran the following program: set_n_nc N1, 1 print_n N1 end and nothing prints out... Can anyone else get this to print out anything...is it just me? Also,

jsr_ic ret support

2001-09-12 Thread Brian Wheeler
This diff adds jsr_ic and ret to the interpreter. I don't know if my way of returning is legal, and I know there's probably issues with 64 bit machines, but it works...and that's the important part :) Right now it only has a depth of 32 and no bounds checking, but its enough to get started.

RE: print_n doesn't work?

2001-09-12 Thread Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs
Ah, apparently I selected long double for NV which doesn't work correctly...double works fine however. -Original Message- From: Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: 9/12/2001 11:32 PM Subject: print_n doesn't work? I have done all the trancendental math functions...but