Re: PMC flags

2005-05-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Aaron Sherman wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 08:58 +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: The vtable functions C and C, which take now a string, are a bit heavy-weighted and might get an extension in the log run that take an integer flag. Unless this happens, this would be a HUGE performance hit. After all,

Re: Test::Builder change BAILOUT -> BAIL_OUT

2005-05-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:23:01PM -0700, chromatic wrote: > Parrot bundles Test::Builder 0.11 (from Test-Simple 0.41). Is it worth > upgrading? Couldn't hurt. A whole mess of is_deeply() bugs have been fixed since 0.41. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~sch

Re: Test::Builder change BAILOUT -> BAIL_OUT

2005-05-03 Thread chromatic
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 15:36 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Test::Simple/More/Builder 0.61 will introduce a change to Test::Builder > whereby the BAILOUT() method becomes BAIL_OUT(). Additionally Test::More > finally features a BAIL_OUT() function. > > Using cpansearch [1] I've determined that

Re: disassemble segfaults

2005-05-03 Thread Matt Fowles
Bob~ On 5/3/05, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >. . . but I can't figure out why. I thought the patch below would > help, but it appears that the value of c is itself broken somehow. > > . . . > This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"... > (gdb) r runtime/parrot/libra

disassemble segfaults

2005-05-03 Thread Bob Rogers
. . . but I can't figure out why. I thought the patch below would help, but it appears that the value of c is itself broken somehow. . . . This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"... (gdb) r runtime/parrot/library/config.pbc Starting program: /usr/src/parrot/disassemble ru

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03

2005-05-03 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03 All~ Welcome to another weeks summary. This week I shall endeavor not to accidentally delete my summary or destroy the world. So here we go with p6c. Perl 6 Compilers implicit $_ on for loops Kiran Kumar found a bug in pugs

Re: PMC flags

2005-05-03 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 08:58 +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1 bit for SVf_IOK > > 1 bit for SVf_NOK > > 1 bit for SVf_POK > > 1 bit for SVf_ROK > > I'd not mess around with (or introduce) flag bits. The more that this > would only cover perl5 PMCs. Pr

First monthly slush - May 4

2005-05-03 Thread Chip Salzenberg
Starting May 4, to ease the transition to regular releases, we'll not so much freeze as slush the code base. Please don't do anything destabilizing (to the code base :-)) in the next few days. I expect the slush will last a few days as well. The plan is to make a release branch for each release,

New version of PGE released

2005-05-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
The short story --- I've just committed a new, rewritten version of PGE to the Parrot repository. It's still somewhat preliminary and many rule features are still missing. On the other hand, it's now written entirely in PIR (no more C compiling!) and provides a stronger base plat

Re: [svn:parrot] rev 7965 - in trunk: . config/gen/makefiles languages/m4/src

2005-05-03 Thread William Coleda
If someone wanted to convert languages/tcl in such a fashion, that would be cool. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: bernhard Date: Tue May 3 14:32:31 2005 New Revision: 7965 Added: trunk/languages/m4/src/builtin.pir - copied, changed from rev 7963, trunk/languages/m4/src/builtin.imc tr

Test::Builder change BAILOUT -> BAIL_OUT

2005-05-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
Test::Simple/More/Builder 0.61 will introduce a change to Test::Builder whereby the BAILOUT() method becomes BAIL_OUT(). Additionally Test::More finally features a BAIL_OUT() function. Using cpansearch [1] I've determined that you all are the only current users of BAILOUT() on CPAN. Ponie, Parr

Re: should push (etc) be available via extend.h ?

2005-05-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:35:50AM -0700, chromatic wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:48 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > > And should they eventually even be autogenerated ;) > > Now, that bit I agree with. A task for someone who likes writing perl? > > I like writing Perl. Where can I find t

Re: New version of PGE released

2005-05-03 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:22:11PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Whilst I confess that it's unlikely to be me here, if anyone has the time > to contribute some help, do you have a list of useful self-contained tasks > that people might be able to take on? Following some discussion on #perl6, it s

Re: New version of PGE released

2005-05-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 02:33:25PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: [snip the good bit] Three cheers for Patrick. Boo hiss to real life, especially when it gets in the way. > Not yet implemented, but coming soon (rough priority order): > > - updated test harness/test suite > - cut operation

Pugs now embeds Parrot.

2005-05-03 Thread Autrijus Tang
Because I want to embed PGE in Pugs, I end up embedding the entire libparrot. :-) As of two hours ago, if you set the PUGS_EMBED environment variable to "parrot" and run perl Makefile.PL, Pugs will build and link against Parrot, and provide a require_parrot() primitive for you. JIT works as one o

[perl #35195] [PATCH] @MAIN defined twice - behavior documented and tested

2005-05-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by jerry gay # Please include the string: [perl #35195] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=35195 > i couldn't find documentation on the behavior of IMCC if the @MAIN subpragma was defined o

Re: should push (etc) be available via extend.h ?

2005-05-03 Thread chromatic
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:48 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > And should they eventually even be autogenerated ;) > Now, that bit I agree with. A task for someone who likes writing perl? I like writing Perl. Where can I find the source information, where should I write it, and how should it look?

Re: object/method tailcalls ?

2005-05-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Bob Rogers wrote: How about extending ".return" to cover these: .return foo(x, ...) # tail function call .return o.foo(x, ...) # tail method call Done - rev 7959. More tests are welcome, as always. See imcc/t/syn/tail.t for existing ones. leo

Re: should push (etc) be available via extend.h ?

2005-05-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 02:55:22PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > >Should There be a Parrot_PMC_push_pmc() [and friends?] in extend.h to allow > >parrot-extending code direct access to those vtable methods? > > > >Eventually, should extend.h contain methods to make calls on

Re: should push (etc) be available via extend.h ?

2005-05-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Nicholas Clark wrote: Should There be a Parrot_PMC_push_pmc() [and friends?] in extend.h to allow parrot-extending code direct access to those vtable methods? Eventually, should extend.h contain methods to make calls on all public vtable methods? Yep. Think so. But note that all "vtables" denoted M

should push (etc) be available via extend.h ?

2005-05-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
Should There be a Parrot_PMC_push_pmc() [and friends?] in extend.h to allow parrot-extending code direct access to those vtable methods? Eventually, should extend.h contain methods to make calls on all public vtable methods? Nicholas Clark

[PROPOSAL] call syntax abstraction

2005-05-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Below is a POD that tries to the describe an extensible calling scheme that should cover most of our targets HLLs call syntax. Comments welcome, leo =head1 TITLE Calling convention abstraction =head1 ABSTRACT The current Parrot calling conventions as described in F are not covering major parts

Re: [Patch] Win32 thread primitives

2005-05-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Vladimir Lipsky wrote: It's state is set to PREVIOUS_STATE+FINISHED So it's never equal to just FINISHED Ah, Yep. Works for JOINABLE, which is 0, but ... Typo or what? Inexact ;-) leo

Re: [Patch] Win32 thread primitives

2005-05-03 Thread Vladimir Lipsky
And on the third hand, if I understood the code correctly ... src/threads.c: 40: thread_func() src/threads.c: 53: interpreter->thread_data->state |= THREAD_STATE_FINISHED; src/threads.c: 312: pt_thread_join () src/threads.c: 321: if (interpreter->thread_data->state == THREAD_STATE_JOINABLE || sr

[svn meta] sorry

2005-05-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Sorry, I forgot to attach necessary legal bits to the last two patches I applied: new n_arithmetics tests Courtesy of Bob Rogers [Patch] Win32 thread primitives Courtesy of Vladimir Lipsky leo

Re: [Patch] Win32 thread primitives

2005-05-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Vladimir Lipsky wrote: threads_4 is testing killing threads. This is achieved by scheduling a terminate event to the running interpreter. This can only succeed, if the event system is running too. see src/events.c/Parrot_new_terinate_event() Though thr_windows.h doesn't contain error checking fo