Re: register allocation questions

2004-10-25 Thread Dan Sugalski
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Re: [CVS ci] indirect register frame 1 - 5

2004-10-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
and the other simple benchmarks? (We've apparently been slowly slowing down over the past months, which I'm not happy about) -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Register stacks, return continuations, and speeding up calling

2004-10-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:20 AM +0200 10/22/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: At 5:34 PM +0200 10/21/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: The question is: is saveall supposed to copy registers or just prepare a fresh set of registers. What about that? Missed that, sorry. A copy. and we see where we go from

Re: Should Resizable*Array's be chunked lists?

2004-10-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
scheme by default, rather than a chunked one. We'd pick up some speed on array access that way in the majority of cases. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Python, Parrot, and lexical scopes

2004-10-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
getting around to implementing) the layered namespace stuff, though if its implemented and never used it has no performance penalties for anything but failed name lookups. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even

Re: Pathological Register Allocation Test Generator

2004-10-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
algorithm to decide. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk

Re: Register stacks, return continuations, and speeding up calling

2004-10-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:34 PM +0200 10/21/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: In that case I won't worry about it, and I think I know what I'd like to do with the interpreter, the register frame, and the register backing stack. I'll muddle it about some and see where it goes. JIT/i386 is up to date now

Re: C89

2004-10-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
got the second edition or later of the KR C book, it uses the C89 spec) -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even

Re: Register stacks, return continuations, and speeding up calling

2004-10-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:16 AM +0200 10/20/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first is the CPS style chews through continuation objects at a massive rate, and using them means that everything needs to be COW. We don't have COWed stacks, they are all single chunk already. Yeah, I

Re: Register stacks, return continuations, and speeding up calling

2004-10-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:13 PM +0200 10/20/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: At 9:16 AM +0200 10/20/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Right. Any time an actual continuation is created we need to walk back up the call chain and mark all the pending return continuations as non-recyclable. Ok. If we're

Re: Register stacks, return continuations, and speeding up calling

2004-10-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:09 PM +0200 10/20/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: 'Kay, now I'm confused. I thought we were talking about removing the registers from out of the interpreter structure, which'd leave us needing two pointers, one for the interpreter struct and one for the registers. Ok, short

Re: parrot authentication handlers

2004-10-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
have an excessive amount of fun with this. You will, I trust, keep us up to date on all the places where we're making life difficult? :) -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: parrot authentication handlers

2004-10-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
Work Project uses parrot objects for everything. Whether this is a useful thing or not's an open question (the language lacks subroutines, for example) but... On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 2:27 PM -0400 10/20/04, Jeff Horwitz wrote: mod_parrot now supports authentication handlers

Re: parrot authentication handlers

2004-10-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 3:55 PM -0400 10/20/04, Jeff Horwitz wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Dan Sugalski wrote: Well, actually scary though it may be, my Work Project uses parrot objects for everything. Whether this is a useful thing or not's an open question (the language lacks subroutines, for example

Register stacks, return continuations, and speeding up calling

2004-10-19 Thread Dan Sugalski
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Re: [perl #32022] [PATCH] push_* for resizable PMCs

2004-10-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
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Re: [perl #32035] [PATCH] tests and fixes for Integer and Undef PMCs

2004-10-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
the patch didn't have t/pmc/integer.t in it. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even

Re: [perl #32021] [PATCH] fix --tree option of pmc2c.pl

2004-10-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:33 AM -0700 10/17/04, Bernhard Schmalhofer (via RT) wrote: this patch fixes the --tree option of classes/pmc2s.pl. Applied, thanks. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai

Re: Python, Parrot, and lexical scopes

2004-10-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
format set so that the proper layers can be anchored to the sub PMCs when bytecode's loaded in from wherever. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Cross-compiling Parrot

2004-10-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
feed in the cross-compilation settings. (And we could then leverage for the upgrade settings too) -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears

Re: Memory leak

2004-10-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
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Re: [perl #31987] Should predefined pmcs inherit nci methods?

2004-10-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
a bit of a muddle, and it needs swamping out. [1] And yes, I am being dragged deep into objects. Kicking and screaming, but still.. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: spurious assembleur directives get in the way of oneliner return implementation

2004-10-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
: .return( ) so it could be relatively easily distinguished from plain .return statements by the parser. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have

Re: Am I a part of this world ?

2004-10-13 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:11 PM +0100 10/12/04, Jonathan Worthington wrote: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:47 AM -0700 10/12/04, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: Pratik Chandra Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering, whether I would just remain a mere spectator, or will I get an opportunity

Re: Getting a char from stdin without waiting for \n

2004-10-13 Thread Dan Sugalski
needs a good design swampout and implementation. I think I'll have some time this evening to dust off the IO/Event doc and give it another edit, and then we can see about getting things written. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski

Re: Getting a char from stdin without waiting for \n

2004-10-13 Thread Dan Sugalski
layer, or at least we will once that gets done. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy

Re: parrotcode.org: release 0.1.1?

2004-10-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:35 AM -0700 10/12/04, Will Coleda wrote: Is there an announcement on use.perl.org yet? Not that I see, no. On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:39:39AM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 8:37 AM -0400 10/11/04, William Coleda wrote: This is set to go, pending

Re: Am I a part of this world ?

2004-10-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
a nonexistent ICU library, and the VS/.NET makefile was looking for an msdev executable to do something or other, but VS/.NET doesn't *have* an msdev program shipped with it...) -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even

Re: parrotcode.org: release 0.1.1?

2004-10-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:37 AM -0400 10/11/04, William Coleda wrote: This is set to go, pending an article on use.perl.org. If Leo's comfortable that things are Working Fine, then push it out to parrotcode.org. Dan Sugalski wrote: At 3:41 PM +0200 10/10/04, Jerome Quelin wrote: Hey guys, We should update http

Re: Pathological Register Allocation Test Generator

2004-10-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
large subs? Mmmm, degenerate behaviour! Cool, and thanks. Should help judge how we're doing with the nastier code. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have

Re: --pirate and coroutines

2004-10-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
, to denote things that should be considered strings or whatever, rather than just having a string representation) -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have

Re: tinderbox

2004-10-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
and see what's up. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk

Re: [perl #31765] Failure related to ncurses

2004-10-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
is generated by the declarations file automatically. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy

Re: --pirate and coroutines

2004-10-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:03 PM -0400 10/11/04, Sam Ruby wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: At 4:23 PM -0400 10/9/04, Michal wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Sam Ruby wrote: Inheritance can reduce the combinatorial problem, but it can introduce a precendence question. The most interesting case still seems to be: mmd_lookup

Re: [perl #31884] Compile fails on Win32 b/c of stat

2004-10-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
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Re: --pirate and coroutines

2004-10-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
specific behavior be removed from the Perl PMCs? If so, when? Yes, and right after we release 0.1.1. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dynamically loadable modules

2004-10-07 Thread Dan Sugalski
for the extensions. (All subject to wholesale pitching if there's a better name :) -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even

Bit more piethon

2004-10-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
a separate set of the tests, but still fails on some of them too. (I've not given it a full shakeout yet) Might be worth syncing up to CVS and poking at it if you're curious. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan

Re: Bit more piethon

2004-10-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:44 PM +0200 10/5/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Sam Ruby's been poking at it, and I'm waiting on the register coloring function to churn, I figured I'd poke at the python converter in CVS a bit. So I did. More ops are done, and things get a bit

Re: Bit more piethon

2004-10-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:34 PM -0400 10/5/04, Sam Ruby wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: Since Sam Ruby's been poking at it, and I'm waiting on the register coloring function to churn, I figured I'd poke at the python converter in CVS a bit. So I did. More ops are done, and things get a bit further on his big list 'o

Namespaces, part 2

2004-10-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
for each lookup, and we store into the first tree in the list on store. Comments? -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy

Re: Parakeet 0.3

2004-10-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
, in which case it's in and you've got it already, which'd be cool :) -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even

Metaclasses

2004-10-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
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Re: Metaclasses

2004-10-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
. On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:45:50 -0400, Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, color me officially confused. I'm working on the assumption that metaclasses are needed, but I don't, as yet, understand them. So, with this bit of ignorance exposed, could someone point me to a good explanation

Re: Plain ole Hash

2004-10-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
-way we'll get it in. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk

Namespaces

2004-09-29 Thread Dan Sugalski
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Re: Namespaces again

2004-09-28 Thread Dan Sugalski
of behaviours simultaneously. This one, alas, I'm going to shoot down. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears

Re: Why lexical pads

2004-09-25 Thread Dan Sugalski
significantly sub-optimal in the face of continuations, since registers aren't preserved... -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even

Re: Why lexical pads

2004-09-25 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:43 PM -0700 9/24/04, Jeff Clites wrote: On Sep 24, 2004, at 7:32 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 7:28 PM -0700 9/24/04, Jeff Clites wrote: On Sep 24, 2004, at 6:51 PM, Aaron Sherman wrote: However, the point is still sound, and that WILL work in P6, as I understand it. Hmm, that's too bad

Re: Why lexical pads

2004-09-25 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:10 PM -0400 9/25/04, Chip Salzenberg wrote: According to Dan Sugalski: Leaf subs and methods can know [their call paths], if we stipulate that vtable methods are on their own, which is OK with me. So, given this sub and tied $*var: sub getvar { my $i = rand; $*var } the FETCH method

Re: [perl #31706] strstart and bufstart out of sync

2004-09-24 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:58 AM -0700 9/24/04, Dan Sugalski (via RT) wrote: # New Ticket Created by Dan Sugalski # Please include the string: [perl #31706] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=31706 Something in parrot's letting

Re: Why lexical pads

2004-09-24 Thread Dan Sugalski
. Without pads of some sort you can't do closures. (They may be called different things, but they're the same) -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears

Re: Hello everybody.

2004-09-24 Thread Dan Sugalski
behave. (We need a book! :) FWIW, I'm putting together a set of slides for a presentation next weekend on this. I'll see about getting them up on the web at some point after that. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski

Namespaces, part 1 (new bits)

2004-09-24 Thread Dan Sugalski
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Re: Namespaces, part 1 (new bits)

2004-09-24 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:51 PM -0400 9/24/04, Jonathan Polley wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:04:52 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: ... (Though class names/namespaces seem to be separate) ... I think Guido might have made things a bit harder to separate out than you anticipate, unless I misread you. It appears

Re: Switching between versions of $language

2004-09-24 Thread Dan Sugalski
-compiling the programs or modules to fix in their behaviour and go from there. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even

Re: Why lexical pads

2004-09-24 Thread Dan Sugalski
at compile-time) -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk

Re: Namespaces, part 1

2004-09-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:06 AM -0700 9/23/04, Jeff Clites wrote: On Sep 22, 2004, at 8:13 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 7:32 PM -0700 9/22/04, Jeff Clites wrote: One problem: Some languages (Scheme, for example, and arguably C) have a unified namespace for subs and variables. What to do there? The easiest thing

Re: towards a new call scheme

2004-09-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
would work fine. If we want to have a variant short-form to support it that'd be fine. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even

Re: towards a new call scheme

2004-09-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:23 AM -0600 9/23/04, Luke Palmer wrote: Dan Sugalski writes: At 4:15 PM +0200 9/23/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: return_cc() # 2) return via current continuation 1) is only needed for special porposes, like passing the continuation on to a different place. The normal way to return

Re: [perl #31680] [TODO] Compile library modules

2004-09-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
from CVS. It has been replaced by 'runtime/parrot/include/Getopt_Long.imc'. ? Which one can we toss? -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED

Namespaces, part 1

2004-09-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
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Re: Namespaces, part 1

2004-09-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:01 PM -0700 9/22/04, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *) The names of namespaces, methods subs, and variables do *not* collide. You may have a namespace Foo, a sub Foo, and a variable Foo at the same level of a namespace. Why? Perl can use sigil

Re: Namespaces, part 1

2004-09-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:23 AM -0700 9/22/04, Will Coleda wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:58:17PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: Okay, this is going to be a three parter. The second part is entirely structural, and mostly a matter of convention. (It's second because the sensible thing to do is go over the link Tim

Re: Namespaces, part 1

2004-09-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:33 PM -0700 9/22/04, chromatic wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 12:21, Dan Sugalski wrote: Larry's told me that as far as he's concerned the sigil is now part of the variable name. So perl doesn't *have* a variable foo -- it has $foo, @foo, %foo, and so on. (Granted, methods/subs are foo

Re: Namespaces, part 1

2004-09-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:32 PM -0700 9/22/04, Jeff Clites wrote: On Sep 22, 2004, at 10:58 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: *) There are three things that can be in a namespace: Another namespace, a method or sub, and a variable. *) The names of namespaces, methods subs, and variables do *not* collide. You may have

Python bytecode volunteers...

2004-09-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
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Compile op and building compilers

2004-09-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
. There's not much reason to JFDI and make the decisions final, so weigh away and we'll just nail it all down on wednesday. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED

Namespaces...

2004-09-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
Okay, I'm back from last week's workshop and digging through mail. Once I finish reading the namespace threads, I'll rework the proposal and we can give it a good thrashing, then implement it. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski

Re: Current state?

2004-09-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
perl 6 are going to be using the new rules parser. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy

Re: Current state?

2004-09-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 3:32 PM -0500 9/18/04, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:41:37PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 11:36 AM -0500 9/18/04, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: I'm by no means an expert, but I'd say that the inner languages don't need to have any idea of closure or of curly braces

Re: Problems Re-Implementing Parrot Forth

2004-09-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
in one of the registers. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk

Re: Current state?

2004-09-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
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Re: Current state?

2004-09-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
. But, then, those languages will probably find a way to use the convenient function to set the characters which indicate the start and end of embedded code function which will, no doubt, be provided... -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski

Fwd: IA64 and HPPA JIT

2004-09-13 Thread Dan Sugalski
) is blocked to send to perl's, can you post it to the list?. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even

Re: multiple languages clarification - newbie

2004-09-13 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 3:31 AM -0600 9/11/04, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: On September 8, 2004 04:34 pm, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 11:02 PM +0100 9/8/04, Richard Jolly wrote: Hi, newbie Can someone provide clarification on what mixing languages will look like in practice, or point me to where its explained? It's

Re: multiple languages clarification - newbie

2004-09-13 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:00 AM -0600 9/13/04, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: On September 13, 2004 07:52 am, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 3:31 AM -0600 9/11/04, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: On September 8, 2004 04:34 pm, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 11:02 PM +0100 9/8/04, Richard Jolly wrote: Hi, newbie Can someone

Re: No Autoconf, dammit!

2004-09-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
, I know. Oh, the pain, the agony! :-P -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even

Re: nci and the running process image

2004-09-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk

Re: GC bug triggered in examples/streams?

2004-09-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:40 PM +0200 9/8/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: At 4:41 PM +0200 9/8/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: No. As layed out my scheme doesn't need any register backing stacks. If you're cloning the context every time someone pushes a register frame... that's a bit excessive

Constant STRINGs from C source

2004-09-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
usage. (Which, since each delegated method call creates one, can be not insignificant) -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even

Re: GC bug triggered in examples/streams?

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
fine. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk

Re: A note on constant strings

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:52 AM +0200 9/8/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: Or, rather, the const_string function. Simple thing, looks like: STRING *foo = const_string(interpreter, c-style string constant); Easy, right? Yeah. Easy. Well, the real constant string is constructed like so: STRING *foo

Re: No Autoconf, dammit!

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
some of the build system written in something that compiles down to run on parrot.. How's that perl 6 compiler coming? ;-) I'm more than happy to start writing the remaining environment probes in pir. :) At 18:20 on 09/07/2004 EDT, Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This argument's old. Very old

Re: Integer PMCs

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
to express the semantics we've worked out. We can work on extending to the perl and python integers after that. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy

Re: No Autoconf, dammit!

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
, but the parrot you'll have won't run on the platform you're on. So... I'm kinda at a loss there. I'm *more* than happy to take suggestions or wholesale direction here. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai

Re: No Autoconf, dammit!

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:44 AM -0400 9/8/04, Josh Wilmes wrote: At 9:23 on 09/08/2004 EDT, Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - executing programs in any kind of sophisticated way (fork/exec, pipes) We do get system and popen, though. Well, system at least. popen is not part of the c89 spec as far as I

Constant strings, part two (A simple perl task!)

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
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Re: No Autoconf, dammit!

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
. That's not negotiable. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk

Re: GC bug triggered in examples/streams?

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 4:41 PM +0200 9/8/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: There are two simple answers here (the proposal for the change in the way interpreter context structs are handled isn't it -- we'll have the same problem because we'll still have backing stacks). No. As layed out my scheme

Re: No Autoconf, dammit!

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:34 PM +0200 9/8/04, Robert Schwebel wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:23:36AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: No offense, but it *doesn't* *matter*. We're not using autoconf, as the subject of this thread makes clear. That's not negotiable. A really convincing argumentation. It wasn't

Re: No Autoconf, dammit!

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
served with The designer makes the final call, for better or worse as a rule one. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even

Re: Current state?

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
... -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk

Re: Current state?

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:35 PM -0400 9/8/04, JOSEPH RYAN wrote: - Original Message - From: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2004 1:56 pm Subject: Re: Current state? At 11:21 AM -0600 9/8/04, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:56:12AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote

Re: Config parameter files

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:03 PM -0700 9/8/04, Gregory Keeney wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: The only problem I can forsee when doing cross-compilation is in the building of the library files. Parrot itself... no big. We build miniparrot for the platform you're on, then use the config file to rebuild for the target

Re: multiple languages clarification - newbie

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
/ assembly/ forth/ postscript/ befunge/ intercal/ applescript/ whatever. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even

Re: Probing for Configurations

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
them. (Which can be problematic when cross-compiling, thought the tricks in the archive are pretty nifty) -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears

Re: TODOish fix ops

2004-09-07 Thread Dan Sugalski
about namespaces and stake out the ones we want. I'll do that in the next message so we can keep the threads separate. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have

Namespaces

2004-09-07 Thread Dan Sugalski
versioning and such too. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk

Namespaces

2004-09-07 Thread Dan Sugalski
versioning and such too. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk

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