RE: Subroutines...

2002-05-11 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 18:14, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Okay, fair enough. Subs in general will have the following potential > information: > > *) A pointer to a template lexical scratchpad > *) A pointer to a *real* scratchpad (for co-routines and continuations) > *) A pointer to a parent lexical sc

Re: Bytecode format redesign

2002-05-11 Thread Melvin Smith
At 06:18 PM 5/11/2002 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 01:52, Melvin Smith wrote: > > Reposted to the list so people can comment. > > > > As per the IRC discussion with Dan. > > > > I've made some progress, not all there, but getting there. > > I have the loader handling a

Re: entrytype OP is broken?

2002-05-11 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 11:04, Ilya Martynov wrote: {snip} Has this question and patch been addressed? -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@(gtemail.net|capita.com)

Re: Bytecode format redesign

2002-05-11 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 01:52, Melvin Smith wrote: > Reposted to the list so people can comment. > > As per the IRC discussion with Dan. > > I've made some progress, not all there, but getting there. > I have the loader handling arbitrary byteordering, now I'm > working on wordsize transforms.

Re: I think we're busted somehow

2002-05-11 Thread Steve Fink
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 05:49:03PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Could someone do a fresh checkout into a new directory and give > Parrot a whirl? I've got one, and Parrot's failing all its tests, > which is rather troubling. Ok, I just did. It worked. What architecture are you on? (I'm on linux

Re: I think we're busted somehow

2002-05-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:49 PM -0400 5/11/02, Dan Sugalski wrote: >Could someone do a fresh checkout into a new directory and give >Parrot a whirl? I've got one, and Parrot's failing all its tests, >which is rather troubling. Right, nevermind. (Of course) Things are working for me now. --

I think we're busted somehow

2002-05-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
Could someone do a fresh checkout into a new directory and give Parrot a whirl? I've got one, and Parrot's failing all its tests, which is rather troubling. -- Dan --"it's like this"--- Dan Sugalski

Re: Bytecode storage of floats

2002-05-11 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 09:29, Melvin Smith wrote: > > Thanks for that, Bryan! I knew someone had posted some stuff claiming > to have some float conversion stuff, but I couldn't remember who. > > This is a very good compilation of the issues we have to address. > > I implemented a byteordering s

Re: Many problems with 'long long' INTVALS

2002-05-11 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 12:57, Melvin Smith wrote: > > Doh! You are right, I missed that. > It should be opcode_t. Also, I'm not convinced that our INTVAL size should > differ from opcode_t. > Someone convince me. Only if you want to do maximal native math. You don't want opcode_t to be the same

Re: Internal integral types

2002-05-11 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 12:09, Andy Dougherty wrote: > I was looking at some of the 750 warnings generated by the latest parrot > build (with INTVAL = opcode_t = long long). Lots of them stem from some > minor confusion about which integral types to use when. To remove the > warnings, I'd prefer t

[APPLIED] -g and -P, TEST_PROG_ARGS

2002-05-11 Thread Steve Fink
I just applied a couple of patches. You can now use TEST_PROG_ARGS to pass flags to parrot when running tests. And the flags are now more interesting: -g disabled the computed goto core if you're on a machine that supports it in the first place, and -P now works for enabling the prederef core even

[off] NG PThreads

2002-05-11 Thread raptor
I thought this would be interesting. http://oss.software.ibm.com/pthreads/ http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/pthreads Short desc : IBM is creating a new generation of Posix Threads, which will be supported by the Linux kernel. These threads multiplex user-mode threads onto k