Re: segfault in parrot using pugs PIR output

2005-06-30 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 19:36 +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Brian Wheeler wrote: Its been a while since I tinkered with parrot so I thought I'd start playing again...but I've hit a segfault. Should of course not happen... But it seems that the codegen is mixing old and new calling

eof opcode

2004-11-24 Thread brian wheeler
I noticed a hole in the io.ops where the PIO stuff wasn't covered. This patch creates an eof opcode which checks for end of file. Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] cvs diff: Diffing . cvs diff: Diffing ops Index: ops/io.ops === RCS

Re: Problems with 0.1.1 release on x86-64

2004-10-19 Thread Brian Wheeler
Sigh. I'll get this right sometime! Brian Index: config/auto/jit.pl === RCS file: /cvs/public/parrot/config/auto/jit.pl,v retrieving revision 1.33 diff -u -r1.33 jit.pl --- config/auto/jit.pl 8 Mar 2004 08:49:05 - 1.33

Re: Problems with 0.1.1 release on x86-64

2004-10-18 Thread Brian Wheeler
that needs the split for the return exception. Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: config/auto/jit.pl === RCS file: /cvs/public/parrot/config/auto/jit.pl,v retrieving revision 1.33 diff -u -r1.33 jit.pl --- config/auto/jit.pl 8 Mar

Problems with 0.1.1 release on x86-64

2004-10-14 Thread Brian Wheeler
/parrot/dynext/libnci.so] Error 1 No idea how to fix this one...adding --ccflags=-fPIC doesn't help the compile. Below is a patch which fixes the first 3. Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -ur ../parrot-0.1.1/classes/default.pmc ./classes/default.pmc --- ../parrot-0.1.1/classes/default.pmc 2004

Re: Python bytecode notes, part one

2004-07-06 Thread brian wheeler
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 19:27, Dan Sugalski wrote: UNARY_NEGATIVE: restore $Px; new $Py, Undef; $Py = $Px * -1; save $Py | $Px = -1 * $Px Wouldn't something this do what is desired? I'm just guessing, though. Brian

Current CVS broken?

2003-06-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
:Parrot_end_jit(jit_info, interpreter); Did I miss something obvious? Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Current CVS broken?

2003-06-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 15:23, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its been a while since I've looked at parrot, so I did a cvs update -d, perl Configure.pl, make clean, make and build failed: $ make realclean should help. We don't have all dependencies

Re: [RFC] Perl6 Operator List, Take 5

2002-10-31 Thread brian wheeler
alone creating them!). I've got to admit all of these operators are scaring me. Seems alot like Brooks' second-system effect. Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RFC] Perl6 Operator List, Take 5

2002-10-31 Thread brian wheeler
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 12:15, Larry Wall wrote: On 31 Oct 2002, brian wheeler wrote: : I agree considering, this isn't APL and the problems people have had : mailing examples (let alone creating them!). Nevertheless, it has already been decreed that Perl 6 programs are written in Unicode

RE: Parrot 0.0.9

2002-10-29 Thread brian wheeler
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 11:48, Brent Dax wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Well, on thinking a bit about this, there's no reason that # we have to # worry--it's perfectly OK for us to declare, unconditionally, that # segment 0 is always bytecode, 1 line number info, and so on, with #

Re: Perl6 Operator List, TAKE 4

2002-10-28 Thread brian wheeler
- base 256 (...etc...) I've got to admit that I've not paid alot of attention to this thread...but does that mean 0x1234 and 01234 (octal) go away or is this an omission? Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] other uncategorized: my our - [declar] mapgrep sqrt

Re: Perl6 Operator List, TAKE 4

2002-10-28 Thread brian wheeler
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:44, Mark J. Reed wrote: On 2002-10-28 at 16:39:10, brian wheeler wrote: [The below is actually from Larry, not Michael] explicit radix specifications for integers: 0123- decimal 2:0110- binary [also b:0110?] 8:123

Re: [netlabs #757] Problem mixing labels, comments and quote-marks

2002-07-13 Thread brian wheeler
On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 12:32, Tom Hughes wrote: In message 20020703012231$[EMAIL PROTECTED] Simon Glover (via RT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This code: A:# prints a print a end doesn't assemble; the assembler dies with the error message:

[PATCH] 3-arg chopn

2002-07-02 Thread brian wheeler
I saw this was a TODO item in core.ops. Brian --- core.ops1 Jul 2002 17:18:04 - 1.176 +++ core.ops2 Jul 2002 19:41:44 - -2074,9 +2074,9 =item Bchopn(inout STR, in INT) -Remove $2 characters from the end of the string in $1. +=item Bchopn(out STR, in STR, in INT)

[Patch] typeof op

2002-06-29 Thread brian wheeler
This patch implements a typeof op which returns the integer type or string type of a PMC. The test I used is: new P0,.PerlInt typeof S0,P0 eq S0,PerlInt,OK_1 print not OK_1: print ok 1\\n typeof I0,P0 eq I0,.PerlInt,OK_2 print not OK_2: print ok

Re: .include directive for new assembler

2002-06-22 Thread brian wheeler
On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 13:06, Jeff wrote: Clinton A Pierce wrote: At 09:37 PM 6/21/2002 -0500, brian wheeler wrote: I've implemented a .include directive for the new assembler. It basically changes the preprocessor to shift through the source file, and when an include is found

Re: .include directive for new assembler

2002-06-22 Thread brian wheeler
On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 20:12, Jeff wrote: brian wheeler wrote: Its not backwards, it does the right thing. Okay, I believe you now :) I was thinking that the insert was done at the beginning of the -file-, not the insertion point of the file. If you haven't committed, feel free to do so

.include directive for new assembler

2002-06-21 Thread brian wheeler
I've implemented a .include directive for the new assembler. It basically changes the preprocessor to shift through the source file, and when an include is found, the included file is unshifted to the beginning. Should I commit it? Brian --- assemble.pl 17 Jun 2002 03:18:17 - 1.74

Re: quicksort in pasm

2002-05-25 Thread brian wheeler
Crud, I forgot to attach the quicksort in the last one... Brian On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 21:17, brian wheeler wrote: On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 15:10, Sean O'Rourke wrote: I was starting with a very simple test to decide how to determine where the memory overuse was coming from, I'm

quicksort in pasm

2002-05-24 Thread brian wheeler
0.001 0.00 0.00 string_init [128] I don't see anything that really stands out (unlike earlier builds where string_make was taking the most time) Any thoughts? Brian # # quicksort.pasm # # Author: Brian Wheeler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) # # Usage: #./parrot quicksort.pbc /file

Non-vtable functionality on PMCs?

2002-05-20 Thread brian wheeler
I've been trying to catch up with parrot again (darn it, babies take more time than I thought :) and I've come up with a question... how do you do other things to PMCs that aren't normal ops? In particular, I was wondering about shift/unshift, push/pop on the PerlArray PMC. Am I missing

Re: Rewriting the assembler

2002-02-27 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 14:07, Simon Cozens wrote: I know some people have been talking about rewriting the assembler; I've had some more thoughts on this over the past couple of days. First, I think that our assembler is going to be a reference implementation for those producing

Re: .NET CLR and Parrot

2002-02-23 Thread brian wheeler
On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 13:12, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 12:22 PM -0500 2/23/02, Melvin Smith wrote: At 11:53 AM 2/23/2002 +, Simon Cozens wrote: I was very lucky recently to attend a talk by Ganesh Sittampalam introducing Microsoft .NET and the Common Language Runtime. A lot of what CLR is

Re: We have PMCs. Time to start work.

2001-11-24 Thread brian wheeler
On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 13:41, Simon Cozens wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 06:04:29PM +, Simon Cozens wrote: * Rewrite mops.pasm to use integer PMCs, and compare the speeds. I couldn't wait. :) % ../../test_prog mops.pbc Iterations:1 Estimated ops: 2 Elapsed

Re: sizeof(INTVAL), sizeof(void*), sizeof(opcode_t)

2001-11-20 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 12:19, Ken Fox wrote: James Mastros wrote: In byteswapping the bytecode ... I propose that we make INTVAL and opcode_t the same size, and gaurrenteed to be able to hold a void*. It sounds like you want portable byte code. Is that a goal? It seems like we can

RE: Size of integer register vs sizeof(void *)

2001-11-19 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 12:43, Hong Zhang wrote: Are there any cases where a void * cannot be placed into an integer register? It seems like it shouldn't happen, especially since jump and jsr are supposed to take an integer register and they point to a host-machine-address... What

Re: sizeof(INTVAL), sizeof(void*), sizeof(opcode_t)

2001-11-19 Thread brian wheeler
On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 19:59, James Mastros wrote: Hey all. In parellel to splitting out features (yeah, I like that better then platforms too) (which is going well this time, I think (I'm being a lot better about checking against clean checkouts, but having problems thinking of a good

Size of integer register vs sizeof(void *)

2001-11-17 Thread brian wheeler
Are there any cases where a void * cannot be placed into an integer register? It seems like it shouldn't happen, especially since jump and jsr are supposed to take an integer register and they point to a host-machine-address... Brian

Re: Opcode numbers

2001-11-05 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 22:11, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: Brian -- None of these are issues with the approach I've been working on / advocating. I'm hoping we can avoid these altogether. I think this is a cool concept, but it seems like a lot of overhead with the string lookups.

Re: Opcode numbers

2001-11-03 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 21:40, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: James -- We're going to have to think about assigning static opcode numbers, instead of the current order-defined. For one thing, we're looking at perpetual bytecode compatablity (no?). This isn't really a Big Deal, but we need

RE: Ooops, sorry for that blank log message.

2001-10-26 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 09:57, Sam Tregar wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Brent Dax wrote: What if I want my compiler to be lazy? Do you have the right to punish me for my laziness by making me add constant folding to my optimizer (or perhaps making me *write* an optimizer just to do constant

Re: Ooops, sorry for that blank log message.

2001-10-26 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 01:32, Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darn it, I fat fingered the log message. This is a fix which changes the way op variants are handled. The old method forgot the last variant, so thing(i,i|ic

Ooops, sorry for that blank log message.

2001-10-25 Thread Brian Wheeler
Darn it, I fat fingered the log message. This is a fix which changes the way op variants are handled. The old method forgot the last variant, so thing(i,i|ic,i|ic) would generate: thing(i,i,i) thing(i,i,ic) thing(i,ic,i) but not thing(i,ic,ic) The new one does. Brian

Re: Wanted: Subroutine call example

2001-09-17 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 11:20, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: I agree that jsr/ret are what I really want, but I'm dying to play with baby subroutines in jako, and I think I could play enough games with a properly understood jump_i and some assembler magic to make them work. I now have jump.pasm

Re: Wanted: Subroutine call example

2001-09-17 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Sun, 2001-09-16 at 14:26, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: Brian -- Its not going to work, if I understand it correctly. I tried doing it (even set up the symbol '*' to mean the current PC) and do it, but it seems the ops take a relative offset. Take jump_i, for example: Taking this into

Local labels in assemble.pl

2001-09-16 Thread Brian Wheeler
I've commited a change which allows local labels to be used in parrot. The labels are local relative to the last non-local label defined (i.e. local labels are forgotten when a non-local is defined). Here's my test program: main: print test 1\n branch $ok $ng:

Re: RFC: Bytecode file format

2001-09-14 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Fri, 2001-09-14 at 15:44, Buddha Buck wrote: At 03:10 PM 09-14-2001 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: I've been thinking alot about the bytecode file format lately. Its going to get really gross really fast when we start adding other (optional) sections to the code. So, with that in mind

Re: Calls for a Macro Assembler Guy

2001-09-14 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Fri, 2001-09-14 at 10:20, Dan Sugalski wrote: Okay, we've had a number of people in favor of a good macro assembler for Parrot. Given that, do we have anyone who'll volunteer to define, maintain, and extend the thing? (Presuming we jump off of the current assembler, which seems

patch: print op cleanups, new ops, assembler support of \(whatever)

2001-09-13 Thread Brian Wheeler
This patch gives the assembler support of '\a','\n','\r','\t', and '\\' in string constants. In addition, it changes (for all registers) I reg %li is ... to just the value of the register. Printing constants is also supported, but alas, you have to specify the type (print_sc, print_ic,

Re: pasm.pl: a different parrot assembler

2001-09-13 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 02:23, Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 11:23:27PM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: I've been having tons of problems with labels in the current assembler...so I wrote my own. It should provide all of the features that the current assembler has. I'ved tested

patch: bitops with constants

2001-09-13 Thread Brian Wheeler
This patch allows you to do thingies like: and I1,I2,0x 'and', 'or', and 'xor' have been adapted to use this. Also, shl and shr can take an integer register as the amount to shift. Brian ? pasm.pl ? patch ? test2.pbc ? test3.pbc ? euclid0.pbc ? euclid1.pbc ? euclid.pbc ?

patch: assembly listings from assembler

2001-09-13 Thread Brian Wheeler
This patch does a couple of things: * uses Getopt::Long for options. -c is now --checksyntax. I wasn't sure how to keep compatible (patches welcome!) * options include: --help --version --verbose --output=file

patch: assemble.pl choosing wrong op sometimes...

2001-09-13 Thread Brian Wheeler
I caught it trying to use inc_i_ic instead of inc_i in a test program I was running. this patch fixes it. Brian Index: assemble.pl === RCS file: /home/perlcvs/parrot/assemble.pl,v retrieving revision 1.12 diff -r1.12 assemble.pl

jsr_ic ret support

2001-09-12 Thread Brian Wheeler
This diff adds jsr_ic and ret to the interpreter. I don't know if my way of returning is legal, and I know there's probably issues with 64 bit machines, but it works...and that's the important part :) Right now it only has a depth of 32 and no bounds checking, but its enough to get started.

patches to assembler opcode_table

2001-09-12 Thread Brian Wheeler
: test bitops. # and, not, or, shl, shr, xor # Brian Wheeler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) MAIN: set_i_icI1,0b set_i_icI2,0b set_i_icI3,0b10101010 set_i_icI4,0b01010101 set_i_icI5,0 set_s_scS1,OK

Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-10 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 09:16, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: On Monday 10 September 2001 10:28 am, Brian Wheeler wrote: I was thinking about NOP this morning, and I realized that it might very well be necessary. If someone was writing a simple assembler for parrot, it might be useful

Another Patch...

2001-09-10 Thread Brian Wheeler
This patch (which is pretty big) does: * Changes the opcode_table file to provide additional information about the operands. Case shouldn't be a problem since that data never becomes a C symbol [this is pretty much as before] * Padding errors solved: assemble.pl and bytecode.c were padding

Re: Patch to assembler/disassembler + parrot asm

2001-09-10 Thread Brian Wheeler
At 05:23 PM 9/10/2001 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: First off, here's an inconsistancy I found: In test.pasm REDO: eq_i_ic I2, I4, DONE, NEXT appears. Shouldn't this be comparing to a constant, not a register? Nope, though if I let you in on the actual secret it's help

Re: Patch to assembler/disassembler + parrot asm

2001-09-10 Thread Brian Wheeler
another thought... A thought (though gross): if we restrict mneumonics to not use the underscore, then anything after _ can be the op signature. The opcode_table could use these characters for different data types: integer i integer constant j numeric

Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-10 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 08:47, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 08:07 PM 9/9/2001 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: DS == Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DS Yeah, I can't think of a good reason for a noop. We might have one DS anyway, though, just in case one comes along anyway. in a hardware

Re: Patch to assembler/disassembler + parrot asm inconsistancies

2001-09-10 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 20:52, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 07:25 PM 9/10/2001 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: I think Dan mentioned this, but it looks like the suffixes can be derived from the args being passed in. That would greatly simply the assembler to just the function names: set, eq, add,

Patch to assembler/disassembler + parrot asm inconsistancies

2001-09-10 Thread Brian Wheeler
First off, here's an inconsistancy I found: In test.pasm REDO: eq_i_ic I2, I4, DONE, NEXT appears. Shouldn't this be comparing to a constant, not a register? It became a little obvious when I made a few changes to the assembler/disassembler to give more details about the data (and to allow

Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-08 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 15:28, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 03:14 PM 9/8/2001 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 11:00, Dan Sugalski wrote: Okay, I'm whipping together the fancy math section of the interpreter assembly language. I've got: sin, cos, tan : Plain ones

Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-08 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 11:00, Dan Sugalski wrote: Okay, I'm whipping together the fancy math section of the interpreter assembly language. I've got: sin, cos, tan : Plain ones asin, acos, atan : arc-whatevers shinh, cosh, tanh : Hyperbolic whatevers log2, log10, log

Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-08 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 22:24, Uri Guttman wrote: BW == Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BW =item and tx, ty, tz * BW Bitwise And all bits in y with z and store the result in register x. BW (x = y z) just a minor thought on parrot assembler argument order. dan seems

RE: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-08 Thread Brian Wheeler
On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 21:43, Wizard wrote: Questions regarding Bitwise operators: =item rol tx, ty, tz * ... =item ror tx, ty, tz * Are these with or without carry? If not, is there a need for a RCL/RCR (with carry...and carry where)? I'd think without, since I've not seen any

Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

2001-04-16 Thread Brian Wheeler
that triggers it to assume otherwise (I.e. the module keyword) Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]