RE: RFC: library entry name collision

2002-10-05 Thread Brent Dax
Dan Sugalski: # At 9:37 PM -0400 9/29/02, Mike Lambert wrote: # >intlist is not the only culprit. ./classes/key.c and ./key.c have a # >similar problem. # # Then let's start a convention. # # Classes start with a CL_ prefix, encodings with an EN_ prefix, and # character set stuff starts with a

Re: Parrot file list

2002-10-05 Thread Steve Fink
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:42:52PM -0400, Erik Lechak wrote: > > Is there a document out there that describes the genclass.pl script, > Vtable.pm and how pmc files become C files? classes/pmc2c.pl has documentation for the last. perldoc -F classes/pmc2c.pl > If I wanted to write a section o

Re: [perl #17766] [PATCH] memory_internals.pod

2002-10-05 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 10:32:41AM -0700, Brent Dax wrote: > Why not just drop the 'therefore'? > > Objects in all pools not alive are considered dead. > > Are the objects not alive or the pools? If it's the objects, is the "in > all pools" necessary? Yes, I'm just starting to wonder wh

Re: [perl #17731] [PATCH] Integration of Lea like allocators

2002-10-05 Thread Mike Lambert
> And additionally, for + 10 % more generations in life.pasm > - tossed one instruction in the fast path of Buffer_headers I don't believe this is valid. bufstart needs to be set to 0 when you free an object. When the stackwalk runs, it could "liven" a dead buffer. When the copying collector runs

RE: [perl #17766] [PATCH] memory_internals.pod

2002-10-05 Thread Brent Dax
Nicholas Clark: # > +Objects in all pools not alive are considered dead therefore. # # I find the order of that sentence slightly confusing - # therefore is quite an important word, yet it's the end (just # like a perl5 regexp flag). Beyond that, I believe it's bad grammar. I've never seen a

Re: Parrot file list

2002-10-05 Thread mark sparshatt
Sean O' Rourke wrote >On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Tanton Gibbs wrote: >> I agree with this; however, I also think it would be nice to have it all in >> one place.  It's a nuisance to have to open every file just to see what it >> is.  By the time I figure out what the 60th file does, I've forgotten what >

Re: [perl #17766] [PATCH] memory_internals.pod

2002-10-05 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 09:21:47AM +, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >>Attached docu is for review and might also go in. >>Suggestions, bugfixes, comments welcome. >> > > I don't know enough about the technical specifics of parrot to find bugs > in your descriptions. It's a

Re: [perl #17766] [PATCH] memory_internals.pod

2002-10-05 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 09:21:47AM +, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Attached docu is for review and might also go in. > Suggestions, bugfixes, comments welcome. I don't know enough about the technical specifics of parrot to find bugs in your descriptions. It's a good document, thanks. I did have

Re: [perl #17731] [PATCH] Integration of Lea like allocators

2002-10-05 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski wrote: > I've committed this. Thanks you. > ...It fails two of intlist.t's tests, but only with > the new allocator, so there's code in for folks to poke at and abuse. Actually intlist's intlist_extend is wrong as the attached tests shows. (If then there are still failures, w

Re: [perl #17731] [PATCH] Integration of Lea like allocators

2002-10-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:51 AM + 10/3/02, Leopold Toetsch (via RT) wrote: ># New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch ># Please include the string: [perl #17731] ># in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. ># http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17731 > > > >As adviced by Dan, th

[perl #17766] [PATCH] memory_internals.pod

2002-10-05 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch # Please include the string: [perl #17766] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17766 > Attached docu is for review and might also go in. Suggestions, bugfixes, comments we

Re: [perl #17739] [PATCH] Tests for assign ops

2002-10-05 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Nicholas Clark wrote: > I don't feel qualified to apply various of the outstanding patches, for both > the above reasons. > > use more 'executive dictatorial decisions'; Can't locate more.pm in @INC (@INC contains: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.parrotcode.org/ .). > Nicholas Clark AOL &&