On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:14:09PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
And between last time and this one I didn't think that there were any
dangerous changes. Given that, and the lack of any helpful log on this
smoke report, I'm stuck as to what I messed up that needs fixing.
I think I failed
this would make our rebuilds cleaner, and make it
easier to work out the correct set of dependencies such that we can make
parallel makes work.
Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 06:44:57PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
On 9/24/05, Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also observe that sometimes when I edit files and rebuild, later files
needlessly get rebuilt, probably because make thinks something is out of
date, something
any
dangerous changes. Given that, and the lack of any helpful log on this
smoke report, I'm stuck as to what I messed up that needs fixing.
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(maint-5.8/nicholas): Integrate:
http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=25558
22:34 @Steve_p Eeek! My maint smoke is 28 patches behind!
Still some more patches to chug through.
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there. Retry ...
The perl.org list server's resident grue eats all files /\.t$/, at least for
the default MIME type that most mailers garnish them with (troff, IIRC)
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know?
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most recent version had cured
it, but it was the day after testdrive went down for 2 weeks.
Is the current version happy on VMS with SDBM_File?
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On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:45:33PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
I see Nicholas Clark has been hard at work integrating patches into
perl5.8.x. Trying a build on cygwin at patch 25494 passes all tests
except for op/layers.t, which should be fixed once 24764 is
integrated.
Ooh
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:16:34PM -0700, Robert Spier wrote:
Nick takes the lead!
Anyone would think that I programmed in Perl.
(instead of on perl)
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it be detected
with a perl level regression test?
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in the patches that fix the warnings.
Then I'll only be left with the warnings that are due to me keeping all
the non-static functions identical to 5.8.7 (ie no const there)
I might have broken VMS or Windows, but as testdrive is down I can't check
on VMS. Sorry.
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, which does.
So now I want
valgrind
dtrace
gdb that works with threads
*and*
clean system headers
all on the same platform. Is this too much to ask?
(What are the system headers like on Solaris x86? Is anyone porting valgrind
to it? This seems like the path of least resistance)
Nicholas
.
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:15:58PM +0100, Salvador Fandiño wrote:
Hi,
Nicholas Clark wrote:
Now that the assertion code is (I believe) fully feature complete, I'm
wondering if it can be refactored into a minimal set of core hooks, and an
XS module in ext. Having more hooks increases what
installed would be
why isn't it installing the XS version of a core module? ?
Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:28:20PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Nicholas == Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nicholas And the bug report for the distributor of the perl you
Nicholas installed would be why isn't it installing the XS version
Nicholas of a core module? ?
What do
what's forcing that change?
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on the Perl 6 lists.
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can wait.
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on heap and copy the content from the local one in my perlxs
code. Is there a better way to handle this case?
Well, aside from always allocate it on the heap in the first place, I
believe not.
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. My patch fixes this, and sets
ranlib for darwin.
Note that this patch is for ActivePerl 5.6.1 (it doesn't appear to be
fixed in 5.9.2), so it probably needs to be manually applied...
Indeed it did.
Thanks, applied (25402)
Sorry about the delay on this one.
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:28:52PM -0500, Steve Peters wrote:
The only other exception would be changes to re-entrant functions through
reentr.pl, where the generated code is quite different than that in bleadperl.
Until and unless one of us figures out how to merge the code.
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malloc_size()/malloced_size() and malloc_good_size()/undef ?
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causes this to SEGV:
thread-next-prev = thread-prev;
So, also, somehow it's looking like a thread can get freed up without
correctly tidying up the linked list.
Thoughts?
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patches into maint at the last
minute worries you, then those patches will by definition worry me]
Clearly if anyone wants to fix bugs in pseudohashes or 5005 threads, then
those patches have to go direct to maint. But I believe that little else
does.
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sufficient
space, hence revealing latent bugs elsewhere.
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to suggest.
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that the assertion code is (I believe) fully feature complete, I'm
wondering if it can be refactored into a minimal set of core hooks, and an
XS module in ext. Having more hooks increases what is possible for future
authors to achieve as independent modules released to CPAN.
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that will be recycled as a new scalar at some
point. I'm not sure quite what route, or what manipulation of $@ could create
actual corruption though.
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] we were expecting to see %*2$1d INVALID
(where INVALID means that an /^Invalid conversion/ warning was issued)
but actually we got the result 12
But your patch goes nowhere near the printf code.
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++;
EXPECT_NUMBER(q, width);
- }
if (vectorize) {
if (vectorarg) {
You didn't want to do that. :-)
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On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:43:48PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:07:21PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
OK, Runops::Switch 0.01 just uploaded to CPAN.
From my very first tests, it's slower.
To make it faster, would
is present you will get c or just c printed
out instead of the expected cd.
I've added a TODO regression test for this in t/op/pat.t, but I'm not sure
how to fix this, without creating a speed hit by copying the matched string
every time.
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On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:14:27PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 05:32:25AM -0700, Thilo Girmann wrote:
The statement $s = $1 causes Perl to re-use the string abcd
for storing the first half (ab) and add a terminating zero.
$2 still points to the original second
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:00:31PM +0200, Dominic Dunlop wrote:
Does consting stuff like this get rolled into the various maints as a
matter of course?
It will get into 5.8.x if it doesn't seem to break anything else.
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in start_thread () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
#12 0xb750aa2a in clone () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
So I assume that all this in-malloc() corruption comes from scribbling over
memory at some other point in some other thread. Reasonable?
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oploop inline all the ops, but clustered as currently
laid out in source files?
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tokens no 5
Execution of /tmp/perl-em47tij aborted due to compilation errors.
So I think not.
(if anyone wants to compile perl4 on FreeBSD, tell Configure that libc is
/usr/lib/libc.a, rather than .so
After that you'll need to edit a couple of things, but they'll be obvious)
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0 pushmark s -5
6 1 rv2av[t3] lK/1 -7
5 $ gv(*b) s -6
-1 ex-list lK -b
8 0 pushmark s -9
a 1 rv2av[t1] lKRM*/1 -b
9 $ gv(*a) s -a
I expected to see an ex-scmp in there. Is the cmp ever compiled to ops?
Nicholas
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:59:52AM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
Nicholas Clark wrote:
I expected to see an ex-scmp in there. Is the cmp ever compiled to ops?
yes, but it's freed in S_simplify_sort, called by ck_sort during optree
construction, i.e. before the peephole optimizer
in saying
you'd consider it and then realising that you can't do it (and no need to say
why)
You don't need to know C. Let alone the perl source.
Just have some confidence about how to go about tasks, and create well formed
patches.
Does this seem like a good idea?
Nicholas Clark
. The switch runloop is about 3-4 times faster
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the whole runloop is pluggable, and can be
replaced by any CPAN module. So I'm wondering if anyone wants to take this
idea and see if they can create a replacement runloop module that makes
existing perl faster.
Nicholas
$TIMEZONE_DAYLIGHT_SAVING'
1 'CDE$DETACHED_LOGICALS'
2 'MOP$NAMED_LOAD'
3 'BUILD_ROOT'
4 'SMBSRVSHR_TV'
IIRC %ENV on VMS is special, in that it's the only platform and only hash
that uses the DYNAMIC_ENV_FETCH code.
It's quite possible that there's a strange, unnoticed bug in that.
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to change the behaviour from the default?
If running it interactively did you accept the default answers when
prompted?
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);
- if(RETVAL == -1)
- XSRETURN_UNDEF;
+ if(RETVAL == -1)
+ XSRETURN_UNDEF;
}
LEAVE;
I'm confused.
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with the
assumption that no there will be no port of MMK to other platforms even
though it is open source.
Seems a reasonable assumption.
Thanks, applied (25310)
Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 11:21:44PM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote:
If VMS is configured to use IEEE float, test 145 was not run.
Thanks, applied (25311)
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 01:08:07AM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote:
Nicholas Clark wrote:
I can only reproduce this on one instance of one test, but on that test
it can be reproduced every time.
In your previous messages I couldn't spot whether you said which test.
Is there some quick way
be possible to write a module for CPAN that traverses
the SV heads and compacts the allocations of SV bodies.
(Assuming that nothing is evil enough to store a direct pointer to the body)
I'm not sure if we'd benefit from getting much more complex in the arena
allocation code.
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 05:25:02PM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote:
Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 01:08:07AM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote:
Nicholas Clark wrote:
I can only reproduce this on one instance of one test, but on that test
it can be reproduced every time
asking questions beyond my knowledge.
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character?
I don't know.
And if the test is only checking for invariant characters below 127, it
doesn't strike me as a very thorough test.
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regression tests under
valgrind doesn't find anything amiss either. I'm stuck. But I'm confident
that it's not a three-fold error in the calculation for the size of memory to
allocate for the array of HE **s.
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of things to free.
But if that change works, it can be made after the change you're working on
here goes in.
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consistent across all 3 hunks, and the other
2 hunks were never outdented.
http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=10816
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be much better served by attempting to simplify the current
code base (without losing functionality) and see whether that opens up any
new insights.
(As well as fixing bugs and generally increasing maintainability and
accessibility)
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));
SvIV(SvRV($arg))
} else {
warn(\$arg is not a blessed object\);
XSRETURN_UNDEF;
}
If I make the above change to use SvRV then I can avoid getting a segfault.
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| +- -DDEBUGGING
+--- no debugging
That wasn't me. I didn't do anything. la la la.
What changed?
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not a syslogish way.
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:56:37PM -0500, Graham Barr wrote:
On Aug 10, 2005, at 4:43 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
which somewhat makes sense, as the #! for dprofpp, h2ph and h2xs is
#!/Users/nick/Sandpit/frob/spong
eval 'exec /Users/nick/Sandpit/blead25277/bin/perl5.9.3 -S $0
${1
the string indir.
Does anyone know?
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)
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:11:45PM +0530, Sastry wrote:
On 8/9/05, Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:58:48AM +0530, Sastry wrote:
$enc_string = encode(iso-8859-16, $string);
So $enc_string should be a single byte, 97, everywhere.
Can you suggest some
the text
I cannot compile programs with your C compiler
to that.
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engine rewrite, Perl 6 and Parrot.
ducks
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PS My real opinion is that it should never be on the to do list, given what
people have said about autoconf's failure mode when it guesses wrongly.
Also we find at work that once you check entire source trees into a version
control
of ponie.
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On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:58:48AM +0530, Sastry wrote:
Hi
I get 73 printed on EBCDIC platform. I think it is supposed to print
129 as it is the numeric equivalent of 'a'.
-Sastry
On 8/8/05, Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On your EBCDIC platform, what does this give
. This will make \s consistent.
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and committing. And I don't think that 11pm is a good time to start
the latter)
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start trying more advanced things)
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it out would simplify the PMC(s) that replace AVs
Taking it out would increase the amount of fork between ponie and 5.9
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ord ($enc_string), \n;
__END__
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code, it looks like tr/\x89-\x91//
is treated as tr/i-j// and in turn i-j is treated as letters and always
special cased
I don't know if tr/i-j// and tr/\x89-\x91// should behave differently
(ie whether we currently have a bug)
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to merge.
I also think that there is considerable potential for confusion with more
than one person doing it.
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On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:38:38PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:22:59PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Whoever does maintenance tends to be drawn from someone who has already
been committing to the development branch. I think that this would be more
help
for OSCON, so I'm unlikely to be in a position
to read mail, let alone respond to it, for over 24 hours. (travel + sleep)
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. This was the vendor compiler, not gcc.
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* this change makes things work?
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These measures may effect savings implies
that the measures will cause new savings to come about.
Which would mean that both proposed changes are indeed incorrect, as they're
both obout causing things.
Could we change both verbs to cause or create to avoid all confusion?
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might need to double take)
Hence my suggestion to avoid the problem by not using the verb effect,
even when it's correct.
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of interactive search and replace
we can correct anything needed by a later change of policy on normalisation.
So this is a bit of a bikeshed issue.
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to functions to pointers to data isn't conformant ANSI C.
Offhand I can't remember which platform(s) dislike this.
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 03:55:45PM -0400, Ivan Tubert-Brohman wrote:
Nicholas Clark wrote:
The proposal seems very well thought through, and I'd be very happy to see
you start on this soon. I'd hope that you'd soon attract volunteers to
help,
but as you rightly say, only time will tell
in the if/ else ?
I think that the regression tests tended to do something like
if (ord 'A' == 65) {
# Do the ASCII/UTF-8 version
} else {
# Assume EBCDIC
}
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that change, how does your build fail? How do the errors differ?
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the test if you can't make it work.
Although it would be better if you could figure out why.
The whole point of the test is to verify that barewords work correctly,
and changing it to a non-bareword defeats the purpose of the test.
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the
byte sequence in UTF-8?
Does the source file happen to have the UTF-8 byte sequence?
If so, *that* would explain the failures, and be the thing that needs
correcting. The test file would need if/else with a different test on EBCDIC.
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if ((uv == 0xfe || uv == 0xff)
!(flags UTF8_ALLOW_FE_FF)) {
warning = UTF8_WARN_FE_FF;
goto malformed;
}
#endif
Is that second call to NATIVE_TO_UTF still present in your modified code?
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on it.
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this.
The proposal seems very well thought through, and I'd be very happy to see
you start on this soon. I'd hope that you'd soon attract volunteers to help,
but as you rightly say, only time will tell.
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to miniperl ?
Well, the code is linked into miniperl, so I can only assume that it's
getting called.
If so, does removing the second instance of NATIVE_TO_UTF() improve things?
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was telling me this. I think he told me which function, but it wasn't
all sinking in, as things have been a bit
http://www.flickr.com/photos/twoshortplanks/28698637/
recently *)
Would the core not being able to scan back past tie/overloading/magic/etc
be a bug that needs addressing?
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On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 11:17:10PM -0400, Garry Williams wrote:
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 21:59 -0500, David Nicol wrote:
How about using the word obfuscate? It's a nice word
Eschew obfuscation.
perl -MCPAN -einstall B::Deobfuscate
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(SIGRTMAX() SIGRTMIN(), SIGRTMAX SIGRTMIN);
Or is it successfully exporting SIGRTMIN and SIGRTMAX, and the constants both
have the value -1?
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the current development
sources.
If you build that you should see the same problems as Abe is reporting.
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for the individual commands.
And what it doesn't state explicitly is that you're renaming files, not
directories, so you then have to use perforce wildcards, ie:
$ cd ext/Compress/Zlib/
$ p4 integrate zlib-src-1.2.3/... zlib-src/...
$ p4 delete zlib-src-1.2.3/...
Thanks, applied (25217)
Nicholas
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 05:47:26PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
And this should take care of it. Accidentally left out of my patch of two
hours ago.
Thanks applied (25218)
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to its C
compiler being more stringent about const consistency than anything else
on the planet.
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fixed.
It seems to have been fixed between 5.8.5 and 5.8.6.
Which I guess is fortunate, because it would mean that upgrading to
OS X 10.4 will solve the problem with /usr/bin/perl, if you're not in
a position to install your own perl in /usr/local
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