Re: Inconsistent Parrot / IMCC behavior

2004-02-28 Thread Melvin Smith
At 08:01 PM 2/28/2004 -0800, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: I made the change, and now I get consistent results. I'll check that in. I am still not clear, though, on why we wouldn't have the same failure in all cases. I'd think these should be equivalent: * Running parrot on 'foo.imc' * Running parrot

Re: Inconsistent Parrot / IMCC behavior

2004-02-28 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
Leo -- Thanks for the pointer. I made the change, and now I get consistent results. I'll check that in. I am still not clear, though, on why we wouldn't have the same failure in all cases. I'd think these should be equivalent: * Running parrot on 'foo.imc' * Running parrot on 'foo.pasm' gen

Re: www.parrotcode.org

2004-02-28 Thread Robert Spier
> Given that the new webpage won't be replacing the old webpage in time > for this upcoming release... > > I suggest we make a few simple modifications to the _existing > website_. I'm not going to make any more changes to the existing website, but since you asked nicely, I made these. > Also, a

[perl #27200] Re: [PATCH] Re: JIT & branches under the Sun

2004-02-28 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch # Please include the string: [perl #27200] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=27200 > Stephane Peiry wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:07:48AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch

Re: LANGUAGES.STATUS

2004-02-28 Thread Andrew Dougherty
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Mitchell N Charity wrote: > (1) LANGUAGES.STATUS is out of date. Just to round out the record, here's a summary of what I got on Solaris 8, with Sun's compiler and Sun's perl5.005_03 for 'make languages' and 'make languages-test': make languages: befunge: OK bf: OK col

Re: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... objects!

2004-02-28 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:08:33PM -0500, Joseph Ryan wrote: : Larry Wall wrote: : : >On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 09:08:31AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: : >: Nope. If a language wants to provide get/set methods for class : >: attributes it needs to create those methods at compilation time. : > : >For

Re: LANGUAGES.STATUS

2004-02-28 Thread Bryan Donlan
On Saturday 28 February 2004 02:17 pm, Mitchell N Charity wrote: >> And these languages were quite broken (bad make test failures): > > [...] > >> m4 > > [...] > >> scheme > >M4 and scheme pass all tests for me, on Gentoo Linux. myconfig is: > > Ok, they both fail on my perl

Re: LANGUAGES.STATUS

2004-02-28 Thread Mitchell N Charity
> And these languages were quite broken (bad make test failures): [...] > m4 [...] > scheme M4 and scheme pass all tests for me, on Gentoo Linux. myconfig is: Ok, they both fail on my perl v5.6.0, and work on my v5.8.2. The scheme test failures are perhaps a dependence of the

Re: LANGUAGES.STATUS

2004-02-28 Thread Will Coleda
Ah. Yes, this was one of the breakages from when Melvin tightened things up. I'd commit a patch for it, but I have, in the margins of my notebook, a reworked version that is much cleaner and implements more. I have a few more things to clean up before I let this version go. Someone with commit

Re: LANGUAGES.STATUS

2004-02-28 Thread Bryan Donlan
On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:12 am, Mitchell N Charity wrote: > (1) LANGUAGES.STATUS is out of date. > > I found (on linux x86 [1]): > > These languages failed to build: > BASIC/interpreter > jako > miniperl > tcl > > And these languages were quite broken (bad make test failures): > BA

README perldoc, compiler warnings

2004-02-28 Thread Mitchell N Charity
(1) ./README should mention perldoc . ("perldoc -F"?) README points people at docs/parrot.pod and docs/intro.pod. While perldoc is currently mentioned somewhere in the pods, by the time folks see that, they've already been challenged - ".pod? what's a .pod? how do i read a .pod?". Even perl f

Re: LANGUAGES.STATUS

2004-02-28 Thread Mitchell N Charity
tcl failed to build? What was the error? $ make perl tcl.pl > tcl.imc ../../parrot --output=tcl.pbc tcl.imc error:imcc:Unknown PMC type 'var' in file 'tcl.imc' line 11 make: *** [tcl.pbc] Error 1 $ pwd [...]/parrot_2004-02-28_08/parrot/languages/tcl Mitchell Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 01

Re: www.parrotcode.org

2004-02-28 Thread Mitchell N Charity
> I brought this up several months ago and was told that a new webpage was > in the works. Where in the works is it? Does it have an expected time > to leave the works? I agree with Mitchell that it is important to > maintain a public face (lest we send the wrong impression). [.

Re: Inconsistent Parrot / IMCC behavior

2004-02-28 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Gregor N. Purdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was running the various languages/jako/examples and I ran > across this oddity (after doing a fresh 'make' of Parrot and > in the languages/jako directory): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] jako]$ ./jako examples/fact.jako > [EMAIL PROTECTED] jako]$ ../../parrot

Re: [CVS ci] PLATFORMS

2004-02-28 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Goplat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That defeats the whole point of 00ff-dos.t, which is to make sure parrot can > deal with lines ending in \r\n. IMO what should be done is to use \r\n in a > quoted string, instead of having the .t itself be \r\n (since that is what > was causing the problems, ge

Re: Current PLATFORMS

2004-02-28 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Paul Cochrane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I got parrot to build on Alpha OSF1, but I can't get make test to go. Here's > what I see: > rolf:[524]/var/tmp/parrot>/usr/bin/make test > perl t/harness --gc-debug --running-make-test -b t/op/*.t t/pmc/*.t > t/native_pbc/*.t imcc/t/*/*.t t/src/

Re: [PATCH] Configure test for inet_aton

2004-02-28 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Andrew Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Leopold Toetsch wrote: [ inet_aton vs inet_pton ] >> We need a config test here. > Something like this ought to do the trick for now. Longer term, we need > to build up some infrastructure for testing for functions on our own. W

Re: [CVS ci] PLATFORMS

2004-02-28 Thread Leopold Toetsch
S. Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I compiled on Tru64 > > uname -m -p -r -s -v >OSF1 V4.0 878 alpha > I compiled with the digital compiler, not gcc, >DEC C V5.6-075 on Digital UNIX V4.0 (Rev. 878) > I ran into the inet_pton problem described earlier. I've committeed thi

Re: PLATFORM

2004-02-28 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Kenneth A Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 16:08, Kenneth A Graves wrote: >> >> How do I verify which runloops/features are working? CGoto core: make testg testC JIT:make testj > I added " or $^O eq 'freebsd'" to t/pmc/{threads,timer}.t and those > tests run succe

Re: [perl #27181] Optimizer bug

2004-02-28 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Simon Glover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If -O2 is used however, it prints '-1', and the hangs. Disassembly of > the optimized bytecode shows that it is being optimized to: -O2 shouldn't do anything for PASM code and it seems that it got more broken recently as it was. I'll disable it for now.

Re: LANGUAGES.STATUS

2004-02-28 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
Jako is in a mostly working state. I just checked in a couple of minor cleanups: * Disable languages/jako/examples/sub.jako, since Parrot / IMCC don't support .global int x * Change languages/jako/examples/pmc.jako to preallocate a nice PerlString PMC before attempting to set to a st

Inconsistent Parrot / IMCC behavior

2004-02-28 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
I saw the report that Jako wasn't working right with the latest Parrot, so I went to investigate. I was running the various languages/jako/examples and I ran across this oddity (after doing a fresh 'make' of Parrot and in the languages/jako directory): [EMAIL PROTECTED] jako]$ ./jako examples/fac