Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Arthur Bergman:
I am wondering how the references to hash elements are planned to be
done? The call to set_ must somehow be delayed until the time is right.
I would have thought that a hash element would itself be a PMC rather
than an immediate value,
Michal Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A .pcc_sub isn't an object, just a little segment of the list of
instructions.
A pcc_sub *is* an object:
find_global P0, _the_sub
invokecc
print back\n
end
.pcc_sub _the_sub:
print in sub\n
invoke P1
You can store it away, pass
Jonathan Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I currently have a file named win32.pasm containing the following:-
saveall
loadlib P1, 'user32'
dlfunc P2, P1, 'MessageBoxA', 'llttl'
store_global 'MessageBox', P2
# MANY MORE LINES LIKE THIS
restoreall
I compile that file to a .pbc
Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+PObj_COW_CLEAR((PObj*)buf);
Applied, thanks.
leo
Michal Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey all,
When you invoke a Coroutine, it calls swap_context()
Register frames are now properly swapped too. Your given example is
working now. I've checked in a slightly modified version as a test.
leo
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ stack layout ]
I'd rather not have the store statically inside the hunk:
- small objects code currently has an upper limit for sized header pools
Doesn't mean we have to use them, honestly. A separate arena for them
is fine.
Each sized item (a
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040111
It's Monday. People have been talking about Perl 6, Parrot and the
European Union Constitution. Let's find out what they've been saying
about Parrot first shall we?
Threads
Threads were discussed some more. Dan's deadline is coming
Hello,
I've just started trying to experiment with parrot, and I keep getting
segmentation faults, eg when running the following one-liner:
set I0, 7
I'm using gcc 2.95.4 on linux, and it says all the tests are passing
when I run make test.
gdb gives the following:
---
[New
Chris Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I've just started trying to experiment with parrot, and I keep getting
segmentation faults, eg when running the following one-liner:
set I0, 7
end
is missing. Program flow just continues with executing garbage.
I also noticed what seems to be
Paul Cochrane wrote:
If there are any shy lurkers out there please speak now or forever hold
your peace.
I'll admit to being a shy lurker... (and have rudimentary C knowledge, but a
bit low on the elbow grease atm :-/)
Another one, we are getting more and more of them pop up from all over
Ooh, ooh, a chance to leave shy lurker status behind and work on one of
the coolest software projects out there, count me in.
I have some rudimentary C skills and I'm sure there's some elbow grease
around here somewhere...
Jeff
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:58:18PM +, Harry Jackson wrote:
On Monday 12 January 2004 17:58, Harry Jackson wrote:
Robert Eaglestone wrote:
Yes, I'm a shy lurker.
Are there any more, don't be shy, there might be a lot of barking but no
one bites at least I have not had anyone bite me _yet_.
Is there anyone on the list who wants to help but does not
Well, I may be shy, and I may lurk, but I'm willing and
able to contribute. I've coded C professionally, on and
off, since 1992, and I like to tinker with things, and
I'm not too terrible at documentation.
I think a good place to start digging in would be updating
docs, though I can be turned
Robert Eaglestone wrote:
Well, I may be shy, and I may lurk, but I'm willing and
able to contribute. I've coded C professionally, on and
off, since 1992, and I like to tinker with things, and
I'm not too terrible at documentation.
I think a good place to start digging in would be updating
docs,
- Original Message -
From: Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jonathan Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: find_global failing
Jonathan Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I currently have a file named
I'm also a shy lurker but would love to help in any way I can. I have twenty+ years
experience in C/C++/OOP. Is there a reasonable place to start?
Mark Solinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Solinski wrote:
I'm also a shy lurker but would love to help in any way I can. I have twenty+ years experience in C/C++/OOP. Is there a reasonable place to start?
Bloody hell man, what took you so long ;-). With that amount of
experience, take your pick.
http://www.parrotcode.org/todo
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:01:58PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote:
Tim Bunce wrote:
Tim Bunce wrote:
I see Dan says in his blog Yeah, I know, we should use libffi, and
we may as a fallback, if we don't just give in and build up the
function headers everywhere.
I'm not familiar
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:01:32AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Michal Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's my guess:
[lots of good stuff from leo]
Is there a Parrot Architecture Overview document that summarises
this kind of high-level view with links to the deeper docs?
If not it
Jonathan Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, that works great. I now have a .pbc with loadlibs and dlfuncs for
pretty much the entire Win32 API.
Fine.
... The next thing I want to look at is
constants. At first I thought I could do something like:-
.constant MB_YESNOCANCEL 3
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'm having trouble finding anything
about the likely cost of registration for the 2004 OSCON. Anyone have
any guesses based on past experience?
Thanks! =)
--TWH
Harry Jackson wrote:
If no one objects I don't mind starting a TODO list for newcomers or
people who just want to get their feet wet. I will try and supply a list
of simpler stuff that needs doing and some pointers as to where they
should start. If people do not want to post to the parrot list
TP6S == The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
TP6S Congratulations Dan
TP6S Melvin Smith offered his congratulations to Dan for the
TP6S first commercial use of Parrot. I think I can safely say we
TP6S all echo those congratulations.
shouldn't that be
Here are some notes on namespaces, picking up a thread from about a
month ago:
On Dec 11, 2003, at 8:57 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote:
That does, though, argue that we need to revisit the global access
opcodes. If we're going hierarchic, and we want to separate out the
name from the namespace, that
At 11:18 PM 1/12/2004 -0500, Michal Wallace wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Luke Palmer wrote:
A continuation is one snapshot -- it never changes, it never runs.
To invoke the continuation is to take you back to that snapshot and
start running from there. To invoke it a second time is exactly
At 16:47 + 1/12/04, Fergal Daly wrote:
You can just do Test::Builder-new to get the Test::Builder object. It will
be the same one used by Test::More because it's a singleton. That way you
should need no patches,
In the end I came up with this code. It's pretty simple and
straightforward and
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:35:21PM +0100, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
At 16:47 + 1/12/04, Fergal Daly wrote:
You can just do Test::Builder-new to get the Test::Builder object. It will
be the same one used by Test::More because it's a singleton. That way you
should need no patches,
In the
At 15:56 + 1/13/04, Fergal Daly wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:35:21PM +0100, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
In the end I came up with this code. It's pretty simple and
straightforward and maybe would be nice to include with Test::More.
I definitely have a use for that but basing it on test
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 16:41, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
Maybe the first parameter of todo_some should also accept a code
reference to a subroutine which, given the other parameters, is
supposed to give the TODO reason? That would make it even more
flexible, I would think.
I think at
OK, I'm looking at the Parrot String documentation, and I've
got questions. It's not like the docs are a total mess, they
just need some fleshing out. Yeah, that's it. So here I go.
Here's the page I'm looking at:
http://www.parrotcode.org/docs/strings.pod.html
And here are my questions.
Well, there is always up-to-date documentation, your debugger output ...
0x4C56
Who says that the copy-paste antipattern is bad?
Le Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:06:18PM -0600, le valeureux mongueur Robert Eaglestone a
dit:
OK, I'm looking at the Parrot String documentation, and I've
got questions. It's not like the docs are a total mess, they
just need some fleshing out. Yeah, that's it. So here I go.
Here's the page
Stéphane Payrard wrote:
Le Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:06:18PM -0600, le valeureux mongueur Robert Eaglestone a dit:
OK, I'm looking at the Parrot String documentation, and I've
got questions. It's not like the docs are a total mess, they
just need some fleshing out. Yeah, that's it. So here I go.
You'll find some diagrams here which might help.
http://www.vendian.org/parrot/wiki/bin/view.cgi/Main/
ParrotDiagramsString
On 13 Jan 2004, at 22:06, Robert Eaglestone wrote:
OK, I'm looking at the Parrot String documentation, and I've
got questions. It's not like the docs are a total mess,
Harry Jackson wrote:
Harry Jackson
If there are any shy lurkers out there please speak now or forever hold
your peace.
Alright, that's me too. I've been lurking for a couple years, actually,
and have only made one post on perl6-language, I think. I just
downloaded parrot again last week after
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:22:52PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote:
This is a fairly important release because it fixes some errors in the
coverage reported.
And introduces some others :-(
Hold off on this release - I'll upload a new one as soon as possible.
--
Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:39:02PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:22:52PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote:
This is a fairly important release because it fixes some errors in the
coverage reported.
And introduces some others :-(
Hold off on this release - I'll upload a
At 09:55 PM 1/12/2004 +0100, Stéphane Payrard wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:16:50PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
Which brings up a question. What's the difference between .local and .sym?
--
Currently, there is none. So I went for the shortest:
grep -n -e LOCAL imcc.l
imcc.l:181:.sym
In the spirit of getting real continuations working Just Right, this
modifies IMCC's PCC implementation to emit the updatecc *after* the
pushtop, so that the redundant pushtop isn't necessary when returning
with a real continuation.
I'm also thinking that updatecc should cow_copy_context, not
Given this code:
if ( some_expensive_lookup_function() = $MAX_RECORDS ) {
mark_that_we_have_reached_max_records();
return;
}
After I enter that block once, I never want to evaluate the condition
again--I want the code to completely disappear from the bytecode
David Storrs writes:
Given this code:
if ( some_expensive_lookup_function() = $MAX_RECORDS ) {
mark_that_we_have_reached_max_records();
return;
}
After I enter that block once, I never want to evaluate the condition
again--I want the code to completely
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