On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Will Coleda <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Cosimo Streppone <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:11:05 +0200, Patrick R. Michaud <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 11:06:07PM +0200, Cosimo Streppone wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Just for fun, I'm trying to write a Digest::MD5 module for Rakudo.
>>>> Right now I'm stuck with something like:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> The MD5.pbc module loads into a different HLL namespace from
>>> Rakudo ('parrot' instead of 'perl6'). So, you probably want
>>> 'get_root_namespace' here.
>>>
>>> sub test($text) {
>>> Q:PIR {
>>> load_bytecode 'Digest/MD5.pbc'
>>> $P0 = find_lex '$text'
>>> $P1 = get_root_global ['parrot'], '_md5sum'
>>> $P2 = $P1($P0)
>>> $P1 = get_root_global ['parrot'], '_md5_hex'
>>> $S2 = $P1($P2)
>>> say $S0
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> test('hello world');
>>
>> I guess you meant 'say $S2'.
>>
>>> Running this program for me (with --trace=1) results in a
>>> segmentation fault somewhere in the _md5sum function.
>>
>> Interesting, because it doesn't segfault for me. I get:
>>
>> NULL PMC access in find_method('signature')
>> in 'test' at line 2:test.pl
>> in main program body at line 15:test.pl
>>
>> My ignorant guess is that the signature() method is
>> available in the 'parrot' namespace, but not in my
>> current namespace.
>>
>> This makes me think I'd prefer avoiding the globals business
>> and using the functions in their natural package (Digest?),
>> but I don't know how to do that.
>>
>> I tried:
>>
>> - find_method ['Digest'], '_md5sum'
>> - get_hll_global ['Digest'], '_md5sum'
>> - other futile attempts...
>>
>> with no luck.
>>
>> --
>> Cosimo
>>
>
> Here's my best guess:
>
>
> sub test (Str $test) {
> my $result = Q:PIR {
> # This loads into the /current/ HLL, but should probably load into
> # the /parrot/ HLL.
Whoops. Leftover, incorrect comment.
> load_bytecode 'Digest/MD5.pbc'
> .local pmc md5sum, md5hex, test
> md5sum = get_root_global ['parrot'; 'Digest'], '_md5sum'
> md5hex = get_root_global ['parrot'; 'Digest'], '_md5hex'
> test = find_lex '$test'
> %r = md5sum(test)
> %r = md5hex(%r)
> };
> return $result;
> }
>
> test('hi');
>
>
> ... but this also fails with the 'signature' issue - note that Digest
> doesn't have anything called 'signature'
>
> I think this is related to the recent dynop issues - recent changes in
> parrot moved a lot of opcodes into dynamic opcode libraries - stepping
> through this, it dies in the invocation of the 'rot' opcode, which is
> recently moved to the dynamic 'bit' ops. I'm guessing that when this
> is invoked, it's actually invoking some perl6 opcode and going south.
>
> Once this bug is fixed (it's related to loading opcode libraries in a
> different order in the perl6 and Digest PBCs), this should work.
>
> Regards.
>
> --
> Will "Coke" Coleda
>
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Will "Coke" Coleda
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