Re: [perl #19232] [PATCH] UINTVAL_SIZE is not defined

2002-12-18 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:11:59AM +, Bruce Gray wrote: 2) PTR_SIZE == INTVAL_SIZE == LONG_SIZE (x86 Linux and Win32) Intermediate casts to (unsigned long) removed, i.e. (any)(unsigned long)(d) becomes (any)(d) Under MS VC++ for .Net, this patch changes the results of none

Re: Register scanning

2002-12-18 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:49:50PM -0800, Steve Fink wrote: As a more concrete demonstration of what I'm talking about, here's an implementiation of the easy part: the pinning and releasing macros. (UNPIN would probably be better than RELEASE, huh?) It's a naive implementation with a low fixed

Re: Register scanning

2002-12-18 Thread Andy Wardley
Steve Fink wrote: (UNPIN would probably be better than RELEASE, huh?) Maybe ATTACH / DETACH or AQUIRE / RELEASE? A

This week's Perl 6 Summary

2002-12-18 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl Summary for the week ending 20021215 Hi, and welcome to the first summary prepared on my shiny second hand TiBook (no, it wasn't a gift from a grateful summary reader, it was bought from a friend who was upgrading, gifts from grateful summary readers are, of course, still

Re: Register scanning

2002-12-18 Thread Jason Gloudon
We have indeed gone through this before. The last time the dominant argument was that these types of mark/unmark operations can be mis-used just as readily as malloc/free, because the programmer has to know when and where to call them. I'm just repeating this for everyone's benefit, not giving an

Re: [perl #19192] JIT fails 3 tests on AMD K5

2002-12-18 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:40:26AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Tracking this further down would need some extensive debug sessions on this machine, which would currently imply to prepare pasm's w/o macros and empty lines. Aha. But say I cut it down to this: set N1, 0.0

Returning a new PMC from ops

2002-12-18 Thread David Robins
What's the cleanest way to return a new PMC from an op? e.g. Suppose I have a Vec2D_in_X_plane and a Vec2D_in_Y_plane and I add them and want to always produce a Vec3D - is this correct (and is it efficient?): void add(PMC* value, PMC* dest) { if(value-vtable ==

Re: Returning a new PMC from ops

2002-12-18 Thread Leopold Toetsch
David Robins wrote: What's the cleanest way to return a new PMC from an op? e.g. Suppose I have a Vec2D_in_X_plane and a Vec2D_in_Y_plane and I add them and want to always produce a Vec3D - is this correct (and is it efficient?): void add(PMC* value, PMC* dest) { if(value-vtable ==

Re: number constant segment

2002-12-18 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Marco Baringer wrote: speaking of compiling directly to pbc, parrotbyte.pod says that number constants should be encoded as FLOATVALs, which is a system dependant careteristic, shouldn't there be a specified format for floats? ie either ieee single/double float or, preferably, the number segment

Re: Register scanning

2002-12-18 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Steve Fink wrote: I propose that we have configure probes for the variations that we can support, but have everything else (including miniparrot) fall back to a registration scheme. In other words, whenever you allocate a collectible pointer and don't immediately anchor it to something, you

Re: [perl #19192] JIT fails 3 tests on AMD K5

2002-12-18 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:40:26AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: what would your response be? :-) dddp (s. docs/jit.pod) [if I remove either the set N1, or the sub N2, the answer is correct in the JIT] Register allocation problem WRT K5 Nicholas Clark leo

Re: Returning a new PMC from ops

2002-12-18 Thread David Robins
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Leopold Toetsch wrote: David Robins wrote: if(value-vtable == Parrot_base_vtables[enum_class_Vec2D_in_Y_plane]) { always compare ids (vtables may change) - yes, many pmc's do like above, but will need changes too. What do you mean by ids? pmc-type()? PMC*

Incorrect sprintf test?

2002-12-18 Thread Steve Fink
Looking at some of the test failures, I see several instances where t/src/sprintf test 1 is failing because printf(0x%x, (int) -1) is 0x but Parrot_sprintf(%08vd, (INTVAL) -1) is 0x Except that the latter seems correct to me, for a 64-bit platform. For now, I'm

Re: Returning a new PMC from ops

2002-12-18 Thread Leopold Toetsch
David Robins wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Leopold Toetsch wrote: always compare ids (vtables may change) - yes, many pmc's do like above, but will need changes too. What do you mean by ids? pmc-type()? Yes, -vtable-type(). morph dest to be a ret? unimplemented, unused, but your