Re: [PATCH] new header buflen

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel Grunblatt
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Jason Gloudon wrote: > > The buflen of a new header was not always set to 0, which would cause SIGSEGVs > when parrot_reallocate tries to copy a non-zero length buffer with a bufstart > of NULL. This would happen when buffers get recycled. > > I don't know if new_pmc_header

[PATCH] new header buflen

2002-05-20 Thread Jason Gloudon
The buflen of a new header was not always set to 0, which would cause SIGSEGVs when parrot_reallocate tries to copy a non-zero length buffer with a bufstart of NULL. This would happen when buffers get recycled. I don't know if new_pmc_header has the same problem, but it also does not initialize

Re: PMC pdd's in

2002-05-20 Thread Michael Fischer
On Fri, May 17, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:37:32PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Pssst. Brent. Don't tell anyone, but ~0 *is* -1... :) > > $ perl -le 'print ~0' > 4294967295 > $ perl -le 'print -1' > -1 > > What language were we talking about? :-) $ perl -e 'printf "%d

Re: Vtable Methods in Parrot

2002-05-20 Thread David M. Lloyd
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Daniel Grunblatt wrote: > > On Mon, 20 May 2002, David M. Lloyd wrote: > > > What about subroutines? Are bsr & jsr the way it's gonna be or is there > > a rework in the works? > > docs/pdds/pdd03_calling_conventions.pod :) OK, I've looked it over but it doesn't say "Subrout

Re: Vtable Methods in Parrot

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel Grunblatt
On Mon, 20 May 2002, David M. Lloyd wrote: > What about subroutines? Are bsr & jsr the way it's gonna be or is there > a rework in the works? docs/pdds/pdd03_calling_conventions.pod :)

Re: Hashtable+GC problems

2002-05-20 Thread Peter Gibbs
Steve Fink wrote: > Is there some way to make the default be that things will not get > moved around, and allow routines to volunteer to have their guts > scrambled if they know how to handle it? A few random thoughts re buffers that don't wander around on their own: Create a new memory pool for

Re: Vtable Methods in Parrot

2002-05-20 Thread David M. Lloyd
On Mon, 20 May 2002, David M. Lloyd wrote: > Has anyone given any thought to this problem yet? > > Will we be able to do this or do we need a special vtable whose entries > automatically do a callback to Parrot? For that matter, what about calling C functions from Parrot? Loading PMCs dynamical

Re: Hashtable+GC problems

2002-05-20 Thread Steve Fink
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:43:20PM -0400, Mike Lambert wrote: > I started to look into the GC crashes with the perlhash tests. I'm not > sure I found the exact problem, but I found a bunch of dangerous things > that were being done, and could possibly cause the GC problems. > > restore_invariants

Re: [PATCH] old packfile patch

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel Grunblatt
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Jason Gloudon wrote: > > The disassembler isn't happy at the moment, this patch appears to fix > the problem it has with the bytecode header. > Applied, thanks.

Re: More memory management changes

2002-05-20 Thread Steve Fink
Ok, this is now obsolete. I was too slow, I guess. :-) The following patch (1) is no longer needed because Peter's new version has already been committed, and (2) fails to pass a stacks.t test. But in case we want to keep the neonate counters, here's an updated version of Peter's original neonate

Re: GC vtable method limitations?

2002-05-20 Thread Mike Lambert
> At 12:06 AM -0400 5/19/02, Mike Lambert wrote: > >Is there a plan to make a freed method for when pmc header gets put back > >onto the free list? (This would require we call this method on all pmc's > >before moving anything to the freelist, in case of dependancies between > >pmcs and buffers) >

Re: [PATCH] Re: [netlabs #605] Attempt to modify a const STRING *yields compile error [APPLIED]

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel Grunblatt
On 20 May 2002, David Lloyd wrote: > This patch removes the const-ness of those STRINGs that are modified. Applied, thanks.

[netlabs #605] Attempt to modify a const STRING * yields compile error

2002-05-20 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by David Lloyd # Please include the string: [netlabs #605] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=605 > I get: cc -mt -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I./inc

Re: [netlabs #602] [PATCH] Protect pack opcode from suicidal infants

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel Grunblatt
On 20 May 2002, Peter Gibbs wrote: > # New Ticket Created by "Peter Gibbs" > # Please include the string: [netlabs #602] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=602 > > > > Attached patch to core.ops implements

[netlabs #602] [PATCH] Protect pack opcode from suicidal infants

2002-05-20 Thread Peter Gibbs
# New Ticket Created by "Peter Gibbs" # Please include the string: [netlabs #602] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=602 > Attached patch to core.ops implements neonate protection for the 'pack' opcode. The

Vtable Methods in Parrot

2002-05-20 Thread David M. Lloyd
Has anyone given any thought to this problem yet? Will we be able to do this or do we need a special vtable whose entries automatically do a callback to Parrot? - D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: GC vtable method limitations?

2002-05-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:06 AM -0400 5/19/02, Mike Lambert wrote: >Is there a plan to make a freed method for when pmc header gets put back >onto the free list? (This would require we call this method on all pmc's >before moving anything to the freelist, in case of dependancies between >pmcs and buffers) Nope. I do

Re: Parrot cvs

2002-05-20 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 17:47, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 5:25 PM +0100 5/20/02, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões wrote: > >Directory Parrot on root cvs parrot tree was deleted by hand, or why > >can't I update it? > > You're looking at the Parrot directory within parrot itself, right? > It was removed

Re: Parrot cvs

2002-05-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:25 PM +0100 5/20/02, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões wrote: >Directory Parrot on root cvs parrot tree was deleted by hand, or why >can't I update it? You're looking at the Parrot directory within parrot itself, right? It was removed ages ago, and its contents moved into lib/. It was conflictin

Re: [netlabs #601] [PATCH] Simplified version of temporary bufferimmunity patch [APPLIED]

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel Grunblatt
Still, this problem is unsolved: set I0,10 set S0,"#" REDO: pack S1,1,S0 dec I0 print I0 print "\n" if I0,REDO end Will core dump, because in : inline op pack(inout STR, in INT, in STR) { STRING *t,*s = $3; UINTVAL len = (UINTVAL)$2; char buf[3]; if

Re: Parrot cvs

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel Grunblatt
Try this: cvs -d ":pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/perlcvs" get parrot Daniel Grunblatt. On 20 May 2002, Alberto Manuel [ISO-8859-1] Brandão Simões wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 17:58, Daniel Grunblatt wrote: > > On 20 May 2002, Alberto Manuel [ISO-8859-1] Brandão Simões wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: Parrot cvs

2002-05-20 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 17:58, Daniel Grunblatt wrote: > On 20 May 2002, Alberto Manuel [ISO-8859-1] Brandão Simões wrote: > > > > > Directory Parrot on root cvs parrot tree was deleted by hand, or why > > can't I update it? > > It works fine for me. Anonymous CVS, of course cvs server: cannot o

Re: Parrot cvs

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel Grunblatt
On 20 May 2002, Alberto Manuel [ISO-8859-1] Brandão Simões wrote: > > Directory Parrot on root cvs parrot tree was deleted by hand, or why > can't I update it? It works fine for me.

Parrot cvs

2002-05-20 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
Directory Parrot on root cvs parrot tree was deleted by hand, or why can't I update it? Thanks Alberto -- Alberto Manuel B. Simoes Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/~albie - http://numexp.sf.net

Re: [netlabs #601] [PATCH] Simplified version of temporary bufferimmunity patch [APPLIED]

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel Grunblatt
On 20 May 2002, Peter Gibbs wrote: > # New Ticket Created by "Peter Gibbs" > # Please include the string: [netlabs #601] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=601 > > > > Attached is a simplified version of a

[PATCH] old packfile patch

2002-05-20 Thread Jason Gloudon
The disassembler isn't happy at the moment, this patch appears to fix the problem it has with the bytecode header. Index: lib/Parrot/PackFile.pm === RCS file: /home/perlcvs/parrot/lib/Parrot/PackFile.pm,v retrieving revision 1.15 d

[netlabs #601] [PATCH] Simplified version of temporary buffer immunity patch

2002-05-20 Thread Peter Gibbs
# New Ticket Created by "Peter Gibbs" # Please include the string: [netlabs #601] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=601 > Attached is a simplified version of a previous patch to allow buffers to avoid colle

Re: recursion in pasm (and timings)

2002-05-20 Thread Aldo Calpini
Aldo Calpini wrote: > and now for timings: [...] em... forgot to include the platform details: OS: Windows 2000 Advanced Server + Cygwin 1.3.10 CPU: AMD K7 550MHz RAM: 256 MB cheers, Aldo __END__ $_=q,just perl,,s, , another ,,s,$, hacker,,print;

recursion in pasm (and timings)

2002-05-20 Thread Aldo Calpini
hi there, the Examples page on www.parrotcode.org states this about subroutines: The first five registers (I0-I4, S0-S4, P0-P4, N0-N4) are scratch and do not have to be preserved by the callee. this seems to be false for *recursive* subroutines. this is my PASM code fibo.pasm (it calcu

Re: [PATCH] Warnings cleanup

2002-05-20 Thread Melvin Smith
There are, at least native size issues, maybe not alignment issues; but thats why I left that fixme warning in packfile to remind us to go back and fix floats. At least the fetch routines do it per-byte so they don't care. -Melvin Smith IBM :: Atlanta Innovation Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: 770-

Re: [PATCH] Warnings cleanup

2002-05-20 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Mike Lambert wrote: > > This patch removes a bunch of warnings that have accumulated with MSVC > > recently. Thanks. I'm down to 934 warnings now :-). Index: packfile.c -self->number = PackFile_fetch_nv(pf, (unsigned char *)cursor); +self->number = PackFile_fetch_

[COMMIT] JIT v2

2002-05-20 Thread Daniel Grunblatt
Folks, Yesterday I checked in the new JIT from Jason Gloudon. Now it does NOT depend on an external assembler and disassembler but instead uses some macros. All tests succesful. The size of the executable have been reduced by ~700K. It should work on most x8

Re: Profiling PMCs

2002-05-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:09 PM +0100 5/19/02, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 07:33:53PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> At 7:25 PM -0400 5/18/02, Melvin Smith wrote: >> >Yeh I know that word is yucky and from Java land, but in this case, >> >I think that >> >"system" PMCs should take liberties for o

Non-vtable functionality on PMCs?

2002-05-20 Thread brian wheeler
I've been trying to catch up with parrot again (darn it, babies take more time than I thought :) and I've come up with a question... how do you do "other" things to PMCs that aren't normal ops? In particular, I was wondering about shift/unshift, push/pop on the PerlArray PMC. Am I missing somethi

Re: [COMMIT] inc/dec/add ops and new PMC methods

2002-05-20 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:01:56PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > Seriously though - is it possible to automate testing how many ops don't > have tests? That way we could have a test that looked for untested ops, and > failed if any weren't tested. > I guess it couldn't easily be very sophistic

Re: [netlabs #596] .XS build process needs to be more portable

2002-05-20 Thread Aldo Calpini
Jeffrey Goff (via RT) wrote: > I've just patched lib/Parrot/Makefile.PL to check for a Win32 platform, > and if so, use .obj for the default object extension. However I did it > simply by checking $^O for 'Win'. This is probably not as portable as it > could be, but a quick look through ExtUtils::

Re: GC design

2002-05-20 Thread Peter Gibbs
I submitted a patch to implement the initial parts of Dan's method some time ago, which has never been applied. (Although Dan recently agreed that it needed to be done, and I will be updating it shortly in line with changes to the memory management system) However, thinking about it some more, the