Re: Library: EasyXS
Hi Felipe! On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 11:22:07 -0400 Felipe Gasper wrote: > Hi all, > > I’ve cobbled together a bunch of tools I often need in XS modules > here: > > https://github.com/FGasper/easyxs > > This includes, for example: > > - the standard XS #include directives > - ppport.h > - a fix for the deluge of warnings from new clangs > - simple interfaces to call Perl from C > > … and more. > > See what you think. > Looks nifty, starred and bookmarked. I suggest having tests and CI though: https://github.com/shlomif/Freenode-programming-channel-FAQ/blob/master/FAQ_with_ToC__generated.md#what-are-some-best-practices-in-programming-that-i-should-adopt > cheers, > -Felipe -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ Selina Mandrake - The Slayer (Buffy parody) - https://shlom.in/selina Monologue: one person talking to himself. Dialogue: two persons talking to themselves. — Shaike Ophir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpVrKm9QCc Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply .
Help needed getting the eperl reduced testcase to pass on appveyor/win64/cygwin64/cmake
Hi all! Help needed getting the ePerl reduced testcase to pass on appveyor/win64/cygwin64/cmake . See: * https://github.com/thewml/website-meta-language/tree/reduce-appveyor-error (note the branch) * https://ci.appveyor.com/project/shlomif/website-meta-language I reduced it as much as I could and still get <<< "; --end-- Perl parsing error (interpreter rc=9) error= # Failed test 'generic system wml' # at t/03-p3_eperl.t line 12. # Failed test 'generic cmp' # at t/03-p3_eperl.t line 29. # got: '' # expected: 'foo # ' # Looks like >>> any insights will be appreciated. Code is under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License v2+.
Help needed getting the eperl reduced testcase to pass on appveyor/win64/cygwin64/cmake
Hi all! Help needed getting the ePerl reduced testcase to pass on appveyor/win64/cygwin64/cmake . See: * https://github.com/thewml/website-meta-language/tree/reduce-appveyor-error (note the branch) * https://ci.appveyor.com/project/shlomif/website-meta-language I reduced it as much as I could and still get <<< "; --end-- Perl parsing error (interpreter rc=9) error= # Failed test 'generic system wml' # at t/03-p3_eperl.t line 12. # Failed test 'generic cmp' # at t/03-p3_eperl.t line 29. # got: '' # expected: 'foo # ' # Looks like >>> any insights will be appreciated. Code is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License v2+. -- --------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ https://is.gd/MQHVF3 - The Atom Text Editor edits a 2,000,001B file Summer Glau can give you the Hug of Death, but you’ll die happy. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Summer-Glau/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
Re: Seeking more help figuring out test failures
Hi David, On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 18:57:25 -0400 David Mertens <dcmertens.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My work with Alien::TinyCCx gives errors on appveyor ( > https://ci.appveyor.com/project/run4flat/alien-tinyccx/build/1.0.7). I > cannot reproduce these errors on my own setup. If you have a Windows > machine, I would appreciate if you could try to run the test suite for > Alien::TinyCCx. (I just pushed v0.08 to CPAN, but you can also get it from > github at https://github.com/run4flat/Alien-TinyCCx). If you can reproduce > the errors seen on appveyor, I'd like to know about your setup. > I am getting these test failures on a Windows 7 x86-64 Professional VirtualBox VM with strawberry perl 5.22.1.3: http://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/images/alien-tinyccx.png Getting to the point where I was able to run this was time consuming because it involved installing many updates (VBox guest additions, Windows Update, Strawberry Perl, etc.). I hate Windows. Regards, Shlomi Fish > Thanks! > David > -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Parody of "The Fountainhead" - http://shlom.in/towtf Botje: “you can’t kill Botje” isn’t Newton’s first law. It’s not even the 5th. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/sharp-perl.html Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
Re: How to have perl allocate pointers predictably.
Hi Liz,
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:54:13 +0200
Elizabeth Mattijsen l...@dijkmat.nl wrote:
I can't help but think this may be caused by hash randomization.
Have you tried running this with PERL_HASH_SEED=0 ?
See https://metacpan.org/module/perlrun#PERL_HASH_SEED .
Here goes:
shlomif[XML-LibXML]:$trunk$ cat TEST.pl
# Feeding XML::LibXML with an invalid file, triggering memory leaks
use strict;
use warnings;
use Devel::Leak;
binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)';
check_libxml_memory();
sub check_libxml_memory {
print running\n;
my $handle;
my $leaveCount = 0;
my $enterCount = Devel::Leak::NoteSV($handle);
print STDERR \nENTER: $enterCount SVs\n;
{
make_trouble(); # Trace how loading a bad doc affects memory
}
$leaveCount = Devel::Leak::CheckSV($handle);
print STDERR \nLEAVE: $leaveCount SVs\n;
}
sub make_trouble {
my $x;
$x = \$x;
return;
}
1;
shlomif[XML-LibXML]:$trunk$ PERL_HASH_SEED=0 perl TEST.pl
running
ENTER: 9318 SVs
new 0x13a14e8 :
LEAVE: 9319 SVs
shlomif[XML-LibXML]:$trunk$ PERL_HASH_SEED=0 perl TEST.pl
running
ENTER: 9318 SVs
new 0xf074e8 :
LEAVE: 9319 SVs
shlomif[XML-LibXML]:$trunk$ which perl
/bin/perl
shlomif[XML-LibXML]:$trunk$
So it did not appear to have helped.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
Liz
On Aug 23, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
with the included script below, Devel::Leak keeps outputting
different pointers each time for the leaked SVs. This makes
debugging harder. Can I have perl somehow allocate the same
pointers each time when an allocation is being requested? I don't
mind rebuilding a dedicated perl for that using perlbrew or
whatever. Note that this also happens if make_trouble() is as
simple as my $x; $x = \$x;.
Regards,
-- Shlomi Fish
# Feeding XML::LibXML with an invalid file, triggering memory leaks
use strict;
use warnings;
use Devel::Leak;
use Encode;
use XML::LibXML;
use Carp;
binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)';
check_libxml_memory();
sub check_libxml_memory {
print running\n;
my $handle;
my $leaveCount = 0;
my $enterCount = Devel::Leak::NoteSV($handle);
print STDERR \nENTER: $enterCount SVs\n;
{
make_trouble(); # Trace how loading a bad doc affects memory
}
$leaveCount = Devel::Leak::CheckSV($handle);
print STDERR \nLEAVE: $leaveCount SVs\n;
}
sub make_trouble {
# Tries to load a bad XML file into XML::LibXML
my $filenameIn = 'libxml-trouble-sample.html';
local $/; #Read whole file
open(my $FILEIN,'', $filenameIn)
or die Can't read file '$filenameIn' [$!]\n;
my $str = $FILEIN;
close ($FILEIN);
# Feeds the bad file to XML::LibXML.
my $parser = XML::LibXML-new;
my $success=1;
# if recover is set to 0 or 1, the problem ceases to exist
my $doc = $parser-parse_html_string($str,
{recover = 2, encoding = 'UTF-8'}
);
return;
}
1;
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Re: How to have perl allocate pointers predictably.
Hi bulk 88,
thanks for your message. See below for my response.
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:31:05 -0400
bulk 88 bul...@hotmail.com wrote:
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:33:53 +0300
From: shlo...@shlomifish.org
To: perl-xs@perl.org
Subject: How to have perl allocate pointers predictably.
Hi all,
with the included script below, Devel::Leak keeps outputting
different pointers each time for the leaked SVs. This makes
debugging harder. Can I have perl somehow allocate the same
pointers each time when an allocation is being requested? I don't
mind rebuilding a dedicated perl for that using perlbrew or
whatever. Note that this also happens if make_trouble() is as
simple as my $x; $x = \$x;.
On Windows XP I always get the same SV *s assuming all inputs to the
process are the same on each run.
C:\Documents and
Settings\Owner\Desktopperl -e print \\\perl\ SCALAR(0x8fe04c)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktopperl -e print \\\perl\
SCALAR(0x8fe04c)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktopperl -e print \\\perl\
SCALAR(0x8fe04c)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktopperl -e print \\\perl\
SCALAR(0x8fe04c)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktopperl -e print \\\perl\
SCALAR(0x8fe04c)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktopperl -e print \\\perl\
SCALAR(0x8fe04c)
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktopperl -e print unpack('J',
pack('p', \p erl\))
9468532
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktopperl -e print unpack('J',
pack('p', \p erl\))
9468532
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktopperl -e print unpack('J',
pack('p', \p erl\))
9468532
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktopperl -e print unpack('J',
pack('p', \p erl\))
9468532
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktopperl -e print unpack('J',
pack('p', \p erl\))
9468532
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop
Hash number randomization is irrelevant since the width of the hash
array is determined by the number of keys/HEKs usually, not the hash
number. So the memory allocation sizes and order of them to malloc
are the same. Its it quite popular in modern OSes to randomize
heaps/dlls/stacks/etc per boot or per process nowadays. That is
probably what is happening in your case.
Thanks for the lead. This seems to have been the case. After searching in
vein for perl heap randomization and stuff like that, I searched for
linux heap randomization and got to this page:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1455904/how-to-disable-address-space-randomization-for-a-binary-on-linux
This referred me to the setarch -R command and doing this:
$ ( PERL_HASH_SEED=0 setarch x86_64 -R perl libxml2.pl ) 21
now gives me consistent results on each run. It may be enabled by default in
gdb, though.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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How to have perl allocate pointers predictably.
Hi all,
with the included script below, Devel::Leak keeps outputting different pointers
each time for
the leaked SVs. This makes debugging harder. Can I have perl somehow allocate
the same pointers
each time when an allocation is being requested? I don't mind rebuilding a
dedicated perl for that
using perlbrew or whatever. Note that this also happens if make_trouble() is as
simple as
my $x; $x = \$x;.
Regards,
-- Shlomi Fish
# Feeding XML::LibXML with an invalid file, triggering memory leaks
use strict;
use warnings;
use Devel::Leak;
use Encode;
use XML::LibXML;
use Carp;
binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)';
check_libxml_memory();
sub check_libxml_memory {
print running\n;
my $handle;
my $leaveCount = 0;
my $enterCount = Devel::Leak::NoteSV($handle);
print STDERR \nENTER: $enterCount SVs\n;
{
make_trouble(); # Trace how loading a bad doc affects memory
}
$leaveCount = Devel::Leak::CheckSV($handle);
print STDERR \nLEAVE: $leaveCount SVs\n;
}
sub make_trouble {
# Tries to load a bad XML file into XML::LibXML
my $filenameIn = 'libxml-trouble-sample.html';
local $/; #Read whole file
open(my $FILEIN,'', $filenameIn)
or die Can't read file '$filenameIn' [$!]\n;
my $str = $FILEIN;
close ($FILEIN);
# Feeds the bad file to XML::LibXML.
my $parser = XML::LibXML-new;
my $success=1;
# if recover is set to 0 or 1, the problem ceases to exist
my $doc = $parser-parse_html_string($str,
{recover = 2, encoding = 'UTF-8'}
);
return;
}
1;
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Re: XS for C++
Hi Alberto, On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:13:37 + Alberto Simões al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt wrote: Hello, I am used to write XS code (well, simple code) for C libraries. I never did anything for C++ (and I do not know much about C++), but I'll need to write a simple interface. Mostly, I need to call a method inside a namespace, and that should be enough. Can you suggest any module that interfaces with a C++ library where I can peek for ideas? off the top of my head: * http://search.cpan.org/dist/Wx/ * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdebindings However, since these are GUI libraries, the bindings might be generated using scripts. Regards, Shlomi Fish Thank you Alberto -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Best Introductory Programming Language - http://shlom.in/intro-lang I invented the term Object‐Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay (Attributed) Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
Re: embedding?
Hi Ben, On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:13:28 -0700 ben b...@appliedplastic.com wrote: I'm trying to embed perl in a pam module and have a few questions. Is this a good place to ask? If not where is? I think here would be a good place. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What Makes Software Apps High Quality - http://shlom.in/sw-quality Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes Deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
Re: How to export functions from C++ to embedded perl.
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 06:23:47 Thomas Rowe wrote:
I'm trying to embed perl in a C++ application and have some perl modules
call back into the C++. I cannot figure out how to make the bootstrap
work on my callback module. When I eval use Callback; I get Can't
locate loadable object for module Callback in @INC even though the
Callback stuff is linked in. It shouldn't be looking for a .so file.
The DynaLoader stuff works fine for other modules.
Here's what I got:
Makefile:
OBJS = main.o perlxsi.o callbackxs.o
...
main : $(OBJS) # my callbackxs.o should link in here fine, right?
$(CC) -o $@ $^ $(PERLLD)
callbackxs.o : callback.xs
xsubpp callback.xs callbackxs.cpp
$(CC) -c callbackxs.cpp $(PERLCXX) # compiles fine.
...
perlxsi.c:
EXTERN_C void boot_DynaLoader (pTHX_ CV* cv);
EXTERN_C void boot_Callback (pTHX_ CV* cv);
EXTERN_C void
xs_init(pTHX)
{
char *file = const_castchar*( __FILE__ );
dXSUB_SYS;
newXS(DynaLoader::boot_DynaLoader, boot_DynaLoader, file);
newXS(Callback::boot_Callback, boot_Callback, file);
}
main.cpp:
perl_parse(my_perl, xs_init, arg_count, const_castchar**(args),
NULL); #
dynaloader works fine
I can see XS(boot_Callback) defined just fine in the code spat out by
xsubpp on my xs file.
What gives? What's the missing step to tell perl about linked in module
code?
Have you tried putting something into %INC? See its entry in perldoc perlvar:
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html
%INC is very useful for mocking modules even in pure-Perl scenarios.
Regards,
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Wrong refcount for Array ref contents (work with pure-Perl code)
Hi all!
In:
http://opensvn.csie.org/shlomif/documents/perl/trunk/perl5/ext-embed-internals/docbook/examples/incremental-examples-1/XSTest/
I have written the following XS function:
AV *
concat_two_array_refs(array1, array2)
AV * array1
AV * array2
INIT:
/* Initialize RETVAL to NULL, so we'll know something is wrong
* if this indeed the case*/
RETVAL = NULL;
CODE:
{
AV * ret;
AV * current;
I32 max_index;
I32 i;
I32 array_idx;
SV * * elem;
/* av_make() accepts a size and a list of SV's. So this
* call creates a new array*/
ret = av_make(0, NULL);
if (ret == NULL)
{
goto myerror;
}
for(array_idx=0;array_idx2;array_idx++)
{
current = (array_idx == 0) ? array1 : array2;
max_index = av_len(current);
for(i=0;i=max_index;i++)
{
elem = av_fetch(current, i, 0);
if (elem == NULL)
{
av_push(ret, PL_sv_undef);
}
else
{
/* Increment the reference count because we now
* reference it in another place and av_push
* does not do it for us.
*
* SvREFCNT_inc_void_NN is a variation of SvREFCNT_inc
* which has some limitations that don't matter here.
*
* From the documentation (perldoc perlapi):
*
* SvREFCNT_inc_void_NN
Same as SvREFCNT_inc, but can only be used if
you don't need the return value, and you know
that sv is not NULL. The macro doesn't need to
return a meaningful value, or check for
NULLness, so it's smaller and faster.
* av_fetch cannot return a non-NULL SV** that points
* to a NULL SV*.
* */
SvREFCNT_inc_void_NN(*elem);
av_push(ret, *elem);
}
}
}
myerror:
RETVAL = ret;
}
OUTPUT:
RETVAL
}}}
Now, I wrote the following test case (in t/10-array-from-scratch.t to check
that the values were indeed destroyed):
{{
package MyTestDestroyed;
use vars (qw(@log));
sub new
{
my $class = shift;
my $self = {};
bless $self, $class;
$self-{'id'} = shift;
return $self;
}
sub DESTROY
{
my $self = shift;
push @log, $self-{id} was Destroyed;
}
package main;
{
{
my $combined;
{
my @array1 = (One, MyTestDestroyed-new(CamelCase));
my @array2 = (20,30,40);
$combined = XSTest::concat_two_array_refs(\...@array1, \...@array2);
# $combined = [...@array1, @array2];
}
# TEST
is ($combined-[0], One,
concat_two_arrays - Garbage Collection - elem 0
);
# TEST
is ($combined-[1]-{'id'}, CamelCase,
concat_two_arrays - Garbage Collection - elem 1/id
);
}
# TEST
is_deeply(
\...@mytestdestroyed::log,
[CamelCase was Destroyed],
concat_two_arrays - Garbage Collection - object was destroyed.,
);
@MyTestDestroyed::log = ();
}
}}
The test fails.
If I replace the lines:
{{{
$combined = XSTest::concat_two_array_refs(\...@array1, \...@array2);
# $combined = [...@array1, @array2];
}}}
Everything works as expected.
What am I doing wrong? I asked on #p5p on irc.perl.org.il, and no one could
tell me what is wrong.
Regards,
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Problems with the new constructor in a GD-derived module
Hi all! This is my first message to this list. To cut to the chase, I'm trying to write a derived class from the GD distribution in CPAN ( http://search.cpan.org/dist/GD/ ). The code I have now is here: http://eskimo.shlomifish.org/Files/files/code/perl/gd-phpfilter/ (Note that I wrote it for work, so it may be considered an in-house code of sorts, and not really open-source yet. But it's perfectly OK to look at it.) Now my problem is that I'm getting the following on ./Build test: t/01-object...ok 1/10Can't locate auto/GD/new.al in @INC (@INC contains: /home/shlomi/progs/perl/cpan/GD-PHPFilter-0.01/blib/lib /home/shlomi/progs/perl/cpan/GD-PHPFilter-0.01/blib/arch /home/shlomi/apps/perl/modules/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux /home/shlomi/apps/perl/modules/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux /home/shlomi/apps/perl/modules/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 I inherit from GD and also have my own new() function (which I think is unnecessary), so I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Regards, Shlomi Fish - Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage:http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris wrote a complete Perl 6 implementation in a day but then destroyed all evidence with his bare hands, so no one will know his secrets.
Re: Problems with the new constructor in a GD-derived module
Hi! Thanks for your help. See below for my comments. I forgot to note that I'm using Mandriva Cooker (about to become Mandriva 2007) with perl-5.8.8-6mdk and gcc-4.1.1-2mdk on a P4-2.4GHz machine. On Monday 24 July 2006 15:07, Sisyphus wrote: - Original Message - From: Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: perl-xs@perl.org Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 9:02 PM Subject: Problems with the new constructor in a GD-derived module Hi all! This is my first message to this list. To cut to the chase, I'm trying to write a derived class from the GD distribution in CPAN ( http://search.cpan.org/dist/GD/ ). The code I have now is here: http://eskimo.shlomifish.org/Files/files/code/perl/gd-phpfilter/ (Note that I wrote it for work, so it may be considered an in-house code of sorts, and not really open-source yet. But it's perfectly OK to look at it.) Now my problem is that I'm getting the following on ./Build test: t/01-object...ok 1/10Can't locate auto/GD/new.al in @INC (@INC contains: /home/shlomi/progs/perl/cpan/GD-PHPFilter-0.01/blib/lib /home/shlomi/progs/perl/cpan/GD-PHPFilter-0.01/blib/arch /home/shlomi/apps/perl/modules/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux /home/shlomi/apps/perl/modules/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux /home/shlomi/apps/perl/modules/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 I inherit from GD and also have my own new() function (which I think is unnecessary), so I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I don't use Module::Build (though I have it), so I wrote a Makefile.PL, relocated lib/PHPFilter.xs and typemap to the top level, and tried to build the ol' fashioned way. First problem was that I needed to remove your TODO ... comments from the XS file. I thought the same would be necessary if you were using Module::Build. Indeed, I believe I fixed them in the copy on the web. And then I couldn't see any reference to the GD header or library in Build.pl, though I expected that would need to be specified, too. That's the case indeed. I started from what Module::Starter::XSimple gave me, (which so far only supports building module templates using M::B) and since I was able to build everything so far, that's what I used. But I do need to add it somehow. Did 'PHPFilter.so' actually get built for you ? It was: shlomi:~/progs/perl/cpan/GD-PHPFilter-0.01$ ls -l ./blib/arch/auto/GD/PHPFilter/PHPFilter.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 shlomi shlomi 8962 Jul 24 15:49 ./blib/arch/auto/GD/PHPFilter/PHPFilter.so Like I said - I'm still a newbie at this, and it's the first time I'm trying to use Module::Build (which I only happily used for pure Perl modules so far) for PerlXS stuff. It didn't for me, though I think I gave it every chance of succeeding. Sticking point for me was that `gdImageGrayScale' could not be resolved - so the build process failed at the 'make' stage. Where is that symbol defined ? it's not in my version (2.0.33) of GD. Hmmm... Maybe it's a function that the PHP guys coded in C. I'll have to check. When I tried to build using your source straight out of the box with Module::Build, the shared object did not get built for the very same reason. It strikes me as a bug in Module::Build that the 'test' phase could then be run but, like I said, I don't use Module::Build ... and I know little about it (or its quirks and limitations :-) OK. shlomi:~/Docs/homepage/homepage/trunk$ perl -MModule::Build -le 'print $Module::Build::VERSION' 0.2801 But maybe I should switch to ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Regards, Shlomi Fish - Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage:http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris wrote a complete Perl 6 implementation in a day but then destroyed all evidence with his bare hands, so no one will know his secrets.
