Re: Parrot FAQ

2001-12-09 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Fink) writes: On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:02:34AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: Q: Who has commit privileges? Who's responsible for what? A: Good question. Simon and Dan, and a handful of others. Can anyone fill in the handful? Ask, maybe? I'm hoping for a

Bytecode portablilty

2001-12-09 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
For the past week or so, I've been working on design and code within this area. While I am waiting for answers to my last couple of questions, I'm throwing this out there. This is mostly FYI, partly RFC, and not an FIX. Portability: There are four levels of potential portability and

[Patch] - for memory.c

2001-12-09 Thread David Jacobs
This small patch cleans up two things with the allocate aligned memory routine. It cleans up the for loop eliminating the need for the bit operations inside and making it a bit clearer what is happening. It also reduces the memory allocated from twice the rounded up power of two to the

[Patch] - stacks.c

2001-12-09 Thread David Jacobs
This patch fixes a bug in the pop_generic_entry's switch statment, changing it from switching on type to (*top)-entry_type. Otherwise when type=0 (i.e., don't care) the logic breaks. The patch also includes a few styalistic changes that make it easier for the compiler to optimize (e.g.,

Re: [Patch] - for memory.c

2001-12-09 Thread David Lisa Jacobs
Thanks for the catch! How about just adding the limit check back in. for (i=1; (sizei) (i0xff); i=1); Do you like the rest of the changes I made to the algorithm? David Jacobs - Original Message - From: Sam Tregar [EMAIL PROTECTED] +for (i = 1; size i; i = 1);

Re: [Patch] - for memory.c

2001-12-09 Thread David Lisa Jacobs
Ack! never mind, I see the problem, I'll submit a new patch if an elegant solution comes to me. Thanks for your time. David - Original Message - From: David Lisa Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sam Tregar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 5:16 PM

Re: cvs.perl.org downtime (fwd)

2001-12-09 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: the city is doing some compliance testing whatever on the building where cvs.perl.org is this Sunday (don't ask, I think it sounds odd too!). power is back up and so is the box where cvs.perl.org is. have fun. :) - ask -- ask bjoern hansen,