Re: interesting idea...

2002-11-30 Thread Bryan Hundven
--- Ramesh Ananthakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > beg pardon, but that seems to somehow relate to my idea of making > Parrot sort of OPen Source VMWare. Cool. Otoh, I don't even have a > clue how to do it, so does anybody have any ideas about this. > > cheers, > > Ramesh > > -ask Actual

Re: C#/Parrot Status

2002-11-30 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 05:40:36PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > >Is there any speed advantage in truncating by casting via a C type > >[eg a = (int)(short) b] > >rather than and on a bitmask > >[eg a = b & 0x] > >? > > > gcc uses MOVSX (movs{b,w}l), move byte/word

[perl #18782] [PTACH] long double support i386/linux

2002-11-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch # Please include the string: [perl #18782] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=18782 > All tests including running JIT show: Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed

[perl #18780] [PATCH] Replace 'perl' with 'parrot'

2002-11-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Alin Iacob # Please include the string: [perl #18780] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=18780 > As I read the PDDs I notice that some of them say 'perl' where it should really say 'parr

Re: [PASM] about pushi and popi

2002-11-30 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:15:28AM +0100, Jerome Quelin wrote: > When I want to save all the integer registers, I'm using pushi, > restoring them later with popi. > When I'm doing a pushi, the old values of the registers are still > present, but I'm wondering wether I can rely on this behavior,

Re: [perl #18773] [PATCH] introducing debug features in befunge

2002-11-30 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:56:50AM +, Jerome Quelin wrote: > The following patch introduces a new file in the befunge interpreter > that will hold all the debug-related material. Thanks applied. > Soon, we'll have a fully-functionnal debugger within the befunge > interpreter with breakpoint

[perl #18773] [PATCH] introducing debug features in befunge

2002-11-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jerome Quelin # Please include the string: [perl #18773] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=18773 > Hi, The following patch introduces a new file in the befunge interpreter that will ho

[PASM] about pushi and popi

2002-11-30 Thread Jerome Quelin
Hi, When I want to save all the integer registers, I'm using pushi, restoring them later with popi. When I'm doing a pushi, the old values of the registers are still present, but I'm wondering wether I can rely on this behavior, or if it's accidental and may be removed with another implementati

Re: [perl #18762] nci.t hates me

2002-11-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Alex Gough (via RT) wrote: # New Ticket Created by Alex Gough # Please include the string: [perl #18762] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=18762 > ... so using math.so is probably not the way to test the nci,

Re: Multiarray usage?

2002-11-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jerome Quelin wrote: On Vendredi 29 Novembre 2002 19:02, you wrote: This makes me think... A PerlArray can hold PMCs... So I can have a PerlArray of PerlArrays: This is always ok. set P10, P2[1] set I0, P10[0] or directly: set I0, P2[1;0] It seems to work, and it is (

Re: Multiarray usage?

2002-11-30 Thread Jerome Quelin
On Vendredi 29 Novembre 2002 19:02, you wrote: > > Speaking of limitations, what can hold a multiarray? Only integers, > > only strings, only pmc, a mix of everything? > Everything a list can hold (i.e. all above, but no mix), though it > would need a new class, which takes an list_type initializer