[OT] paging Dr. Sugalski, please consult on Devel::Size

2005-03-04 Thread Jim Cromie
folks, Attached is a patch to Devel::Size which computes CV / coderef sizes. It includes some bad/place-holder pod. Feedback (off this list) is welcome. tia Jim Cromie patch.dsize.60_06.bz2 Description: BZip2 compressed data

Re: The Pumpking is dead, long live the Pumpking!

2003-10-17 Thread Jim Cromie
Dan Sugalski wrote: Hey folks. It's that time of year again, when the patch pumpkin passes paws. Hands, rather. Steve Fink now joins the ranks of Parrot Pumpkings Emeritus, having shepherded a number of releases out the door. We wish him a happy retirement and hope the nervous twitches stop soon.

perl -> $(PERL) in makefiles/root.in

2003-08-10 Thread Jim Cromie
following corrects 1 remaining use of bare 'perl' to match all the other uses of $(PERL) --- root.in~Sun Aug 10 15:54:44 2003 +++ root.inSun Aug 10 17:58:02 2003 @@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ cpu_dep$(O) : $(GENERAL_H_FILES) nci.c : call_list.txt build_nativecall.pl -perl build_nativecall.pl ca

Re: Parrot 0.0.10 freeze

2003-02-26 Thread Jim Cromie
Jerome Quelin wrote: Steve Fink wrote: I'm assuming this will be 0.0.10 codename? I could be persuaded to call it 0.1.0 codename? Jerome while trolling for things parrot, I came upon this; http://www.kingsnicknames.co.uk/ Towards the bottom of this paragraph is the HIT, from

brainfsck -> bf -> brainfart

2002-12-31 Thread Jim Cromie
Nicholas Clark wrote: Admittedly my program may not be portable Ook! as it does assume that cells wrap round from 255 to 0 The original brainfuck version worked fine on Leon's interpreter. (I find Ook! too hard - I'm just another brainfuck monkey) Nicholas Clark . I hesitate to suggest (se

Re: encoding info in mis-aligned pointers

2002-12-31 Thread Jim Cromie
Dan Sugalski wrote: At 7:35 AM -0500 12/31/02, Jim Cromie wrote: pardon the lack of clue I reveal here, but.. on 32 bit box, a void* has 3 values which are illegal/unaligned; void* ptr; if (ptr & 0x00) { /* ok */ } else { /* some exceptional situation */ } is there any conciev

encoding info in mis-aligned pointers

2002-12-31 Thread Jim Cromie
pardon the lack of clue I reveal here, but.. on 32 bit box, a void* has 3 values which are illegal/unaligned; void* ptr; if (ptr & 0x00) { /* ok */ } else { /* some exceptional situation */ } is there any concievable use of this which doesnt interfere with legitimate bus-errors (ie exi

Re: Parrot contribution - #parrot stream parser.

2002-07-13 Thread Jim Cromie
Nicholas Clark wrote: > >An IRC channel is good for discussions. But it doesn't archive them, >index them, collate them and provide them as reference for any new >would be recruits. I'm not saying that anyone has to write the docs, or >even the skeleton of the docs for their code - everyone and a