[perl #16818] [PATCH] Build cleanup

2002-08-28 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #16818] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=16818 I discovered 'make languages' yesterday. The enclosed patch cleans up a lot of

Re: set_p_p

2002-08-28 Thread Mattia Barbon
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:56:54 +0200 Aldo Calpini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stumbled upon this because I'm trying to implement an Iterator PMC (almost done), and the most obvious way I've found to bind the iterator to what it should iterate is this one: new P0, .PerlHash new P1,

Possible regex engine optimizations?

2002-08-28 Thread Deven T. Corzine
Re: [perl6-language] Does ::: constrain the pattern engine implementation? On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: A medium-term goal for the regex engine is to note where a DFA would give correct behaviour and use one, rather than going through the more expensive generalized regex engine

Regex status?

2002-08-28 Thread Dan Sugalski
So, folks... How're we coming with the perl 6 regex stuff? What works, what doesn't, and are we at a state where we can release something for people to play with? -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan

Encodings - Questions

2002-08-28 Thread Angel Faus
Hi, Now that we've got ICU in, I thought it may be time to revisit the encodings implementation. I am a clamorous ignorant is unicode/encodings issues, so please be patient with me. :) From what I have asked people at IRC, and what's on the list archives, my understanding of how parrot will

Re: Regex status?

2002-08-28 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: How're we coming with the perl 6 regex stuff? What works, what doesn't, and are we at a state where we can release something for people to play with? There are plenty of things, like anonymous rules, any of the builtin assertions, and modifiers, that

languages/imcc Bison and Flex dependence

2002-08-28 Thread Andy Dougherty
I note that currently imcc uses Bison and Flex. Is there any compelling reason for this? I've sort of got it working with Sun's yacc and flex. Do folks think it would be worthwhile for me to polish things up a bit and post patches so it builds fine with either? Or is the use of Bison/Flex a

Re: Possible regex engine optimizations?

2002-08-28 Thread Steve Fink
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 01:18:19PM -0400, Deven T. Corzine wrote: Re: [perl6-language] Does ::: constrain the pattern engine implementation? On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: A medium-term goal for the regex engine is to note where a DFA would give correct behaviour and use one,

[perl #16820] [PATCH] Build libparrot.a with ar and ranlib

2002-08-28 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #16820] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=16820 The use of ar rcs to build a library and reconstruct the symbol table is

Re: Possible regex engine optimizations?

2002-08-28 Thread Melvin Smith
At 12:15 PM 8/28/2002 -0700, Steve Fink wrote: Anyone else notice that imcc eats something called PIR, for _P_arrot _I_ntermediate um... _R_anguage? I think Melvin was avoiding PIL _R_epresentation I'm influenced mostly by my favorite compiler book by Steven Muchnick. He has 3 intermediate

Re: languages/imcc Bison and Flex dependence

2002-08-28 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Andy Dougherty wrote: I note that currently imcc uses Bison and Flex. Is there any compelling reason for this? I've sort of got it working with Sun's yacc and flex. Do folks think it would be worthwhile for me to polish things up a bit and post patches so it builds fine with either? Send

[PRE-RELEASE] Parrot 0.0.8

2002-08-28 Thread Jeff
Codename Octarine Schedule as follows: August 29, 8am EDT: Code slush, only bug and warning fixes allowed. August 30, 11:59pm EDT: Code freeze and pretag August 31, 00:59 EDT: Tag and Release -- Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [perl #16818] [PATCH] Build cleanup

2002-08-28 Thread Mike Lambert
I discovered 'make languages' yesterday. The enclosed patch cleans up a lot of small nits I found in the build process. In a number of cases, the Makefiles were running perl scripts as ./script rather than as $(PERL) script A few other places called a plain 'perl' instead of

Re: [perl #16820] [PATCH] Build libparrot.a with ar and ranlib

2002-08-28 Thread Mike Lambert
The use of ar rcs to build a library and reconstruct the symbol table is non-portable. (Mac OS X, for example, doesn't support the 's' option to ar.) Yes, I had noticed that, and was hoping someone more knowledgeable would help out with our build problems. :) The following patch changes