Re: Coding Standard Questions

2006-10-17 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Kevin Tew wrote: > 1) *s should go right next to the type in function declarations and > definitions > > /* incorrect */ > do_thaw(Parrot_Interp interpreter, PMC * pmc, visit_info *info) > /* correct */ > do_thaw(Parrot_Interp interpreter, PMC* pmc, visit_info* info) Disagree. Consider: char* fo

Too many errors

2006-10-13 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Just reload parrot. Ran: make realclean perl Configure.pl make make test The result: 11 tests and 579 subtests skipped. Failed 14/254 test scripts, 94.49% okay. 176/6439 subtests failed, 97.27% okay. make: *** [test] Error 1 And no, I'm not going to open 176 tickets on this! -- __END__ Just

Re: [perl #40513] [CAGE] add flex/bison files to c coding standard tests

2006-10-11 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Jerry Gay (via RT) wrote: > *.l and *.y are c files, and must meet the coding standards for this filetype. > ~jerry > By "this filetype" I assume you mean the C standard. Although these files contain C code and that code should be written to the C standard, they are not C files. Each should have

Re: Shootout Tests 14 &15 Failing on PPC (Linux, at least)

2006-09-23 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
chromatic wrote: > Tests 14 and 15 in t/examples/shootout.t fail on Linux/PPC because > jit_set_args_pc does not handle floating point arguments correctly. I poked > at the code a little bit, but PPC is different enough with its relative > wealth of registers that I couldn't fix things triviall

Re: End the Hollerith Tyranny? (linelength.t)

2006-08-21 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Chip Salzenberg wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:05:08PM -0400, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: >> Don't forget that some programs, like mailers, wrap at 80 characters. > > I don't know of any mailer that is hard-coded at any given column width. > Do you? Thunderbird,

Re: End the Hollerith Tyranny? (linelength.t)

2006-08-21 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
jerry gay wrote: > On 8/21/06, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My preference: soft limit 80 - keep lines shorter, if it's easy >>hard limit ~100 - you SHALL not exceed it >> > coding standards are quite helpful, but cannot be applied absolutely. > there are good reas

Re: parrot compile error

2006-08-08 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Ben. B. wrote: > I have been getting the same error on my laptop for several weeks also. > Have you tried? make realclean perl Configure.pl make I got a compiler error earlier that went away when I did this. -- __END__ Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "For the t

Additions to docs/glossary.pod

2006-07-22 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
I've been reading thru the docs and have come across the following terms which are not in docs/glossary.pod =head2 AST Abstract Syntax Tree. =head2 HLL High-Level Language. =head2 PGE Parrot Grammar Engine. =head2 PIL Pugs' Intermediate Language. =head2 POST Parrot Opcode Syntax Tree. =

Help Understanding Configure.pl Output

2006-07-21 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Hi, I ran `perl Configure.pl` and I have some questions about its output. First: Determining if your C compiler is actually gcc.yes. Determining if your C compiler is actually Visual C++...no. Enabling optimization..

Re: FAQ Questions (WAS: ICU advantages? was Re: Problems Installing Parrot)

2006-07-21 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Chris Dolan wrote: > On Jul 21, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Rockway wrote: > >>> I have downloaded the icu4j_3_4_4.jar but have no idea what to do with >>> it. Could someone please help? >>> >> You'll want to get icu4c (icu for C), not icu4j (for java). If you >> get the tgz C version, just tar xz

Problems Installing Parrot

2006-07-21 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Hi, I am trying to install Parrot and the README file has this: You'll need a C compiler, a linker and a make program of course. If you will be linking with the ICU library you have to download and install it before configuring Parrot. Get it from http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/ic