Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-05 Thread Jorge Acereda
On Nov 5, 2012, at 7:43 AM, Alexander Burger wrote: Hi Jorge, cool! Thanks for researching! :) Ok, what about this? Right. However, this is src/Makefile, we should to the analog with src64/Makefile, right? Uh? The .patch was changing both files... According to the strip man

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-05 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi Alex, I just tested the latest ongoing on my Mac, and it seems to work quite fine: f3bmac3:picoLispEmu jkleiser$ (cd src64; make) emu.base.c: In function ‘run’: emu.base.c:42120: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments emu.base.c:42175: warning: format not a string

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-05 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, I just tested the latest ongoing on my Mac, and it seems to work quite fine: Good. Something else: While I was looking into the 'misc' folder I found 'reverse.l' and 'setf.l' (the most perverse concept ...). Can you explain what these two do? misc/reverse.l is just a simple

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-05 Thread Alexander Burger
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 02:25:13PM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote: Sorry, didn't look carefully then. But why should we change pil32? It worked all right, didn't it? Sorry again ;-) It didn't strip at all in pil32. I'll change it. Thanks! - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE:

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-05 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, misc/setf.l is just a joke ;-) Unfortunately I still don't understand that joke. :-( There must be some reason why it's there ... Not really. I'm a strong opponent of the CL 'setf' function. I think it completely violates the spirit of how Lisp functions evaluate their arguments.

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, so the only remaining issue with eum64 is currently the fact that fcntl() gives a runtime error on the Mac: MacBook-Air:picoLispEmu jkleiser$ ./pil + [/Users/jkleiser/.pil/history:1] File lock: Invalid argument This happens when it tries to lock the history file of the line editor in

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Alexander Burger
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 09:55:27AM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote: This boils down to (line 19477 of src64/emu.base.c): // lockFileAC: 2644, // 18454: st2 (Flock) The exact line numbers are subject to change, of course. Actually, I mistakenly looked at an a bit outdated

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi Alex, Hi Jon, so the only remaining issue with eum64 is currently the fact that fcntl() gives a runtime error on the Mac: MacBook-Air:picoLispEmu jkleiser$ ./pil + [/Users/jkleiser/.pil/history:1] File lock: Invalid argument This happens when it tries to lock the history file of the

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, 2650, // 18458: cc fcntl (C 14 Flock) The '14' here is the value of F_SETLKW on x86-32 Debian. It is system dependent, and is perhaps different on the Mac. Yes, this is from my Mac's ...Headers/sys/fcntl.h: #define F_SETLKW9 /* F_SETLK; wait

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Alexander Burger
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 01:07:40PM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote: If it is 9 according to the include file on the Mac, is this also the value returned by 'src64/sysdefs', and which thus appears in the above 'fcntl' line (which is (correctly) 14 for Debian)? I mean, how do these lines look on

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Jorge Acereda
I'm not familiar with the syntax, but could this be the problem? --- a/src64/io.lSat Nov 03 15:07:11 2012 +0100 +++ b/src64/io.lSun Nov 04 15:08:35 2012 +0100 @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ (code 'rdLockFileC) ld A F_RDLCK # Read lock, length 0 (code 'lockFileAC) - st2 (Flock) #

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Jorge Acereda
After applying that, some tests are still failing. In test/lib/misc.l and test/src/main.l there are checks for chdir that use /tmp. On Mac, /tmp is a symlink to /private/tmp. I would just change /tmp for /bin. Also, test/src/ext.l and test/src/ht.l fail quite early: bash-3.2$ ./pil lib/test.l

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jorge, I'm not familiar with the syntax, but could this be the problem? ... (code 'lockFileAC) - st2 (Flock) # 'l_type' + st2 (Flock L_TYPE) # 'l_type' Yes!! Very true! A stupid mistake on my side. I don't remember the reason, but somehow I must have been under the assumption

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Jorge Acereda
On Nov 4, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Alexander Burger wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 03:56:04PM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote: I would just change /tmp for /bin. I see. The test does a chdir to /tmp, and then verifies that it is indeed there. But can we be sure that /bin isn't a symlink either on

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Jorge Acereda
On Nov 4, 2012, at 3:56 PM, Alexander Burger wrote: There should be two libraries in lib/ (here, on a 32-bit x86-32): $ file lib/ht lib/ext lib/ht: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped lib/ext: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object,

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jorge, bash-3.2$ file lib/ext lib/ext: Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64 I guess there's a problem with the the symbol loading. nm lib/ext shows the symbols are prefixed with _: .. 1238 D _Snx Yeah, that would explain it. Crappy a.out format on the

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Alexander Burger
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 05:09:14PM +0100, Jorge Acereda wrote: Then I would propose simply to use / - This shouldn't be a symlink on any system, right? :) Sure :-) Released a new testing version with all your suggested changes. ♪♫ - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE:

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi Alex, Things are looking much better now: MacBook-Air:picoLispEmu jkleiser$ (cd src64; make) emu.base.c: In function ‘run’: emu.base.c:42119: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments emu.base.c:42174: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Jorge Acereda
On Nov 4, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Alexander Burger wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 05:09:14PM +0100, Jorge Acereda wrote: Then I would propose simply to use / - This shouldn't be a symlink on any system, right? :) Sure :-) Released a new testing version with all your suggested changes.

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, Things are looking much better now: ... MacBook-Air:picoLispEmu jkleiser$ ./pil + : (load misc/fibo.l) - NIL : (fibo 9) - 34 Yes, indeed. MacBook-Air:picoLispEmu jkleiser$ ./pil + misc/fibo.l Oops. Please note that this is probably not what is intended, and should actually

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Jorge Acereda
On Nov 4, 2012, at 6:43 PM, Alexander Burger wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 06:12:36PM +0100, Jorge Acereda wrote: Works ok on 32 bits: bash-3.2$ ./pil lib/test.l $(/bin/pwd) -bye + OK Interesting. What might be the reason? Is the library format different between those versions? Or

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Jorge Acereda
Ok, no need to modify the sources, this is an interpreter, right? ;-) ? (native @ dlopen 'N lib/ext 9) (native @ dlopen 'N lib/ext 9) dyld: loaded: /Users/jacereda/picolisp/lib/ext dyld: unloaded: /Users/jacereda/picolisp/lib/ext - 0 ? (native @ dlerror 'S) (native @ dlerror 'S) -

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Jorge Acereda
On Nov 4, 2012, at 7:35 PM, Jorge Acereda wrote: Ok, no need to modify the sources, this is an interpreter, right? ;-) ? (native @ dlopen 'N lib/ext 9) (native @ dlopen 'N lib/ext 9) dyld: loaded: /Users/jacereda/picolisp/lib/ext dyld: unloaded: /Users/jacereda/picolisp/lib/ext - 0 ?

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-04 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Joe, I had the same issue on another machine. I was able to get this working by changing the gcc args to -m32 in lib/native.l instead of -m64 (apply call L 'gcc -o (tmp Nm) -fPIC -m32 -shared -export-dynamic Good! I don't know enough about this to offer an opinion on

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-03 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, At least something has changed during the make: MacBook-Air:picoLispEmu jkleiser$ (cd src64; make) emu.base.c: In function ‘run’: emu.base.c:42115: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments emu.base.c:42170: warning: format not a string literal and no format

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-03 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Joe joebo@joebo:~/tmp/picolisp$ ./pil + : *CPU - emu : (load misc/fibo.l) /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-03 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, Yes, quite sure, and I have repeated the whole thing just now, with the latest ongoing, and I haven't spotted a single change from what I reported yesterday. That's a pity. Then I have no idea why fcntl() doesn't work :( The function ** is now obviously not defined in pil32 when I

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-02 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, Starting pil64emu with file argument, like ./bin/picolisp misc/fibo.l, still gives me a Segmentation fault. What's definitely still missing is 'native' support. As misc/fibo.l also does some native stuff, perhaps this is the culprit? Are there other interesting 64-bit

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-02 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi Alex, On 11/2/12 1:44 PM, Alexander Burger wrote: Hi Jon, Starting pil64emu with file argument, like ./bin/picolisp misc/fibo.l, still gives me a Segmentation fault. What's definitely still missing is 'native' support. As misc/fibo.l also does some native stuff, perhaps this is the

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-02 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, It builds more or less as before, and it's still got problems loading .l files (on my Mac): f3bmac3:picoLispEmu jkleiser$ (cd src64; make) emu.base.c: In function ‘run’: emu.base.c:42115: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments OK, this is correct. It is a

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-02 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi Alex, On 11/2/12 4:30 PM, Alexander Burger wrote: Hi Jon, .. : (load misc/fibo.l) [lib/native.l:31] !? (** 2 32) ** -- Undefined ? : (bye) It seems you started only bin/picolisp, right? '**' is defined in lib.l, so at least bin/picolisp lib.l must be started. As ever, the recommended

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-02 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, f3bmac3:picoLispEmu jkleiser$ ./pil + [/Users/jkleiser/.pil/history:1] File lock: Bad address Hmm, that's the same we had last week. For some reason, fcntl() doesn't work. It workes on pil32, I believe. Any ideas anybody (hello, Mac programmers?). ♪♫ - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE:

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-02 Thread Alexander Burger
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 05:38:40PM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote: For some reason, fcntl() doesn't work. It workes on pil32, I believe. Perhaps found the reason. I've changed the calling pattern of fcntl(). Please try once more. Cheers, - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE:

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-02 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi Alex, On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 05:38:40PM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote: For some reason, fcntl() doesn't work. It workes on pil32, I believe. Perhaps found the reason. I've changed the calling pattern of fcntl(). Please try once more. Cheers, - Alex At least something has changed

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-11-02 Thread Joe Bogner
Hi Alex, pil64emu sounds very interesting. In case it helps, here is some output from running pil64emu joebo@joebo:~/tmp/picolisp$ ./pil + : *CPU - emu : (load misc/fibo.l) /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc /usr/bin/ld:

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-10-30 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Shaun, Now that it's out of the bag, what is the purpose of pil64emu? I've been seeing it on the repo, and I am curious. :-) Yes, that's a valid question. I think it is necessary for completeness, to make pil64 available also on systems not explicitly supported. pil64 has features not

pil64emu testing features

2012-10-29 Thread Jon Kleiser
Hi Alex, Using the latest ongoing picoLisp, I have briefly tested coroutines in pil64emu, and it works. I used the pythag code at http://picolisp.com/5000/!wiki?Coroutines Starting pil64emu with file argument, like ./bin/picolisp misc/fibo.l, still gives me a Segmentation fault. Are there

Re: pil64emu testing features

2012-10-29 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jon, Using the latest ongoing picoLisp, I have briefly tested coroutines in pil64emu, and it works. I used the pythag code at Thanks for the testing! Perhaps you are a little bit too early. pil64emu isn't even announced here yet ;-) Starting pil64emu with file argument, like