Re: No-C, no programming project: Some configure investigation

2004-09-06 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:26:22AM +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote: > If I can help testing cross compilation stuff please tell me. > Unfortunately I don't know enough of the Perl/Parrot internals to be > really useful for coding, but anyway. Would autoconf/automake be an option for the C part of par

Re: Takers wanted: new_extended

2004-09-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jens Rieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> I think, we could use that as well generically. classes/fixedpmcarray >> and some others have it implemented in invoke() > Why not generally use the class'es invoke method to create new PMCs/objects? > $P0 = getclass 'Foo' >

Re: No-C, no programming project: Some configure investigation

2004-09-06 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 12:42:16PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Right now configure.pl pulls a bunch of configuration information > straight out of the current perl configuration. We need to stop that, > and this is as good a time as any. > > If someone could go through and make a list of what inf

Re: TODOish fix ops

2004-09-06 Thread Steve Fink
On Sep-06, Jens Rieks wrote: > Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > So first: > > - do we keep these opcodes? > >If yes some permutations are missing. > > - if no,? we should either not include experimental.ops in the default > > opcode set or move it to dynops. > I have not used them yet, but I think th

[PATCH] dynamic pmc libraries

2004-09-06 Thread Steve Fink
Mattia Barbon recently implemented the capability to group multiple dynamic PMCs into a single library. It took me a while, but the correct way of using it finally percolated through my thick skull. One remaining problem is that the build process is very platform-dependent. This patch doesn't fix

Re: No-C, no programming project: Some configure investigation

2004-09-06 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 18:29, Aaron Sherman wrote: > I think right now that info is all in config/init/data.pl, and it's Scratch that. I was grepping through the tree for "Config{" which turns out to not catch the way %Config is used in most of the tree... I'll have a look and get you the details.

Re: No-C, no programming project: Some configure investigation

2004-09-06 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 18:29, Aaron Sherman wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 12:42, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > If someone could go through and make a list of what info configure.pl > > pulls from perl, I'll start writing (or snagging :) the probing code > > to do it ourselves, so we can be perl-free,

Re: No-C, no programming project: Some configure investigation

2004-09-06 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 12:42, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Right now configure.pl pulls a bunch of configuration information > straight out of the current perl configuration. We need to stop that, > and this is as good a time as any. > > If someone could go through and make a list of what info configure

Re: Synopsis 9 draft 1

2004-09-06 Thread Michel Pelletier
> > int1 > > int2 > > int4 > > int8 > > int16 > > int32 (aka int on 32-bit machines) > > int64 (aka int on 64-bit machines) > > Ok, so Parrot doesn't have those. Parrot has "int". I think it should have those, but I'm not a Parrot developer, I've jused used PI

Re: Takers wanted: new_extended

2004-09-06 Thread Jens Rieks
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > I think, we could use that as well generically. classes/fixedpmcarray > and some others have it implemented in invoke() Why not generally use the class'es invoke method to create new PMCs/objects? $P0 = getclass 'Foo' obj = $P0( arg1, arg2, arg3... ) .name

Re: TODOish fix ops

2004-09-06 Thread Jens Rieks
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > So first: > - do we keep these opcodes? >If yes some permutations are missing. > - if no,ยด we should either not include experimental.ops in the default > opcode set or move it to dynops. I have not used them yet, but I think that they can be useful. Has anyone else exce

new examples

2004-09-06 Thread Jens Rieks
Hi all, there are now two new examples: examples/sdl/lcd/clock.imc, which uses a simple SDL LCD object and examples/sdl/minesweeper/mines.imc, a full functional minesweeper clone with nice graphics (taken over from KMines screenshots). Minesweeper freezes after you have created some new fields

No-C, no programming project: Some configure investigation

2004-09-06 Thread Dan Sugalski
Right now configure.pl pulls a bunch of configuration information straight out of the current perl configuration. We need to stop that, and this is as good a time as any. If someone could go through and make a list of what info configure.pl pulls from perl, I'll start writing (or snagging :) th

Re: [perl #31424] [RESOLVED] PATCH: Fix for parrot linking issue on Solaris 8

2004-09-06 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Clayton O'Neill wrote: > This adds support for setting triggers on specific config variables. > The basic idea is that you can register a named callback for any > specific config variable. When that variable is set, all the > callbacks registrered for that variable will be cal

This week's Summary

2004-09-06 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-03 Another week, a free weekend, and still I haven't started writing the summary until Monday. Still, I don't actually start at college 'til next week, so that's all right then. We start with perl6-internals. Compile op with return

Re: [perl #31443] [PATCH] Configure.pl check for gcc is out of order.

2004-09-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The gcc check should come *after* choosing the compiler, and optimizer flags > should only be chosen after you actually have a compiler. The patch > below fixes these things. Thanks, applied. This fixes bug ticket #31446 too. > Alas, there's a problem

Re: [perl #31447] [PATCH] POD and coding standard in src/nci_test.c

2004-09-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Bernhard Schmalhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this patch adds a POD section on top of 'src/nci_test.c'. I also tried to > make 'nci_test.c' more conformant to the coding standards from 'pdd07'. Thanks, applied. leo

Re: Synopsis 9 draft 1

2004-09-06 Thread Aaron Sherman
Taking this to p6i, in order to get Parroty for a few On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 19:47, Larry Wall wrote: > =head1 Overview > > This synopsis summarizes the non-existent Apocalypse 9, which > discussed in detail the design of Perl 6 data structures. [...] > =head1 Sized types > > Sized low-leve

Re: NCI and callback functions

2004-09-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Stephane Peiry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only issue I see atm is if parrot wants to call the callback it- > self while in the "waiting for callback loop", mean it would run into > some race conditions if for some reasons parrot invokes the callback, > and somebody triggers the callback via g