Re: Parrot 0.0.9

2002-10-23 Thread Steve Fink
On Oct-23, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 7:41 PM +0200 10/23/02, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > >>Possible (feature/architectural) goals for 0.0.9 > >> > >>* PMC cleanup > >> - Leo did a huge amount of work on this, but there are a few things > >> left: > >>

RE: Configuring and DOD problems

2002-10-23 Thread Brent Dax
Erik Lechak: # While trying to figure it out I rewrote Config.pl and some supporting # files. They were just a little too complex for my taste. I have # included the files because I don't feel confident enough to # make them a # patch. Can you please *please* PLEASE generate a patch? 'cvs d

[PATCH] Probe stack direction at run-time (was Re: Configuring and DOD problems)

2002-10-23 Thread Josh Wilmes
At 22:58 on 10/23/2002 EDT, Erik Lechak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I fix the errors then It gets all wierd on the def PARROT_STACK_DIR. So > I tried to figure out that problem. > > Anyways, I am on Win XP using VC++. I look in Config.pm and I see this > '#define PARROT_STACK_DIR'. It's not

Configuring and DOD problems

2002-10-23 Thread Erik Lechak
Hello all, I've been trying to figure out why I can't build the latest Parrot. It comes down to dod.c. I get this: dod.c(481) : error C2059: syntax error : ')' dod.c(484) : error C2100: illegal indirection dod.c(485) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before ')' dod.c(489) : error C206

RE: Parrot 0.0.9

2002-10-23 Thread Brent Dax
Steve Fink: # - requires sprintf* to work on PPC. (Brent -- what's the status?) Dan said that he would give me an account on a PPC machine so I could debug this, but that hasn't happened yet. # * Exceptions # - I haven't been paying much attention to developments on this, # alth

Re: Parrot 0.0.9

2002-10-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:43 AM +1000 10/24/02, Rhys Weatherley wrote: Steve Fink wrote: - Stratospheric rehydrocalibration amplifiers for the .NET people (er... or something; I can't remember what they needed) The ability to embed arbitrary data in a pbc file under a named section. This data needs to

Re: Parrot 0.0.9

2002-10-23 Thread Rhys Weatherley
Steve Fink wrote: > - Stratospheric rehydrocalibration amplifiers for the .NET people > (er... or something; I can't remember what they needed) The ability to embed arbitrary data in a pbc file under a named section. This data needs to be readable by the program when it runs, but is ot

Re: Variable/value split prelims

2002-10-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 4:57 PM +0200 10/19/02, Leopold Toetsch wrote: struct { can; has; isa; union { scalar_vtable; aggregate_vtable; object_vtable; }; VTABLE; Rather than a union, there'd be a set of pointers to various vtable pieces. But a scalar (PerlInt) doesn't hav

Re: [RFC] 2. Proposal for _keyed opcodes

2002-10-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:23 AM +0200 10/22/02, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Juergen Boemmels wrote: ... Also no vtable function has to decide wether its called with 1, 2 or 3 keyed elements. Yes, another advantage, I didn't think of. Currently all _keyed vtable calls have to check, it the key is really there. This co

Re: RT permissions

2002-10-23 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > So changing own requests seems to be ok. That's what I just observed too. I can change my own tickets, but I can't do anything to any others. -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [perl #18056] [PATCH] Extending the Packfile (Part 1.)

2002-10-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:21 AM +0200 10/23/02, Leopold Toetsch wrote: And second, while you are at it, could you provide some PBC versioning, which get checked at packfile load time as discussed in "fingerprinting PBC files". Yes, *please*. We need this info in the header and it needs to be checked on load time

Re: Scratchpad confusion

2002-10-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 4:51 PM -0500 10/20/02, Allen Short wrote: The ops described in PDD 6 and docs/parrot_assembly.pod for scratchpads appear to be subtly different from the ones actually in core.ops. In particular, i was led astray by the docs referring to the "newpad" op and core.ops implementing "new_pad". whic

Re: Parrot 0.0.9

2002-10-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:41 PM +0200 10/23/02, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Possible (feature/architectural) goals for 0.0.9 * PMC cleanup - Leo did a huge amount of work on this, but there are a few things left: - array.pmc still autocreates something called "PerlUndef"

Re: [perl #17903] [PATCH] sprintf test

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Spier
Steve Fink writes: >> >I don't know exactly who has the permissions to do these things, but >> >I'm pretty sure that if you have commit access then you also have RT >> >futzing access. ^^^ this isn't true. The permissions are seperate (but obviously should be related.) -R

Re: Parrot 0.0.9

2002-10-23 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Steve Fink wrote: > I suppose I ought to try to wrap up a release one of these days. I've > been thinking about the possibilities, but I'm not sure about the > current state of a couple of things. And what I'd most like to see > right now is some stabilization. So I'll list my

[perl #18064] test 75 of t/pmc/pmc.t fails

2002-10-23 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jerome Quelin # Please include the string: [perl #18064] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=18064 > Parrot currently fails test 75 of t/pmc/pmc.t with --gc-debug but passes without it :

Re: Parrot 0.0.9

2002-10-23 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Keyed access > - Another discussion that's gone over my head. Leo has a scheme to > dramatically reduce the number of instructions, at the cost of > requiring a couple of opcodes for keyed accesses; Dan sa

Re: Parrot 0.0.9

2002-10-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Steve Fink wrote: I suppose I ought to try to wrap up a release one of these days. - Artificial goal: I want the list of pending patches to be smaller than one screenfull before I release. Fortunately, I have a large screen. I did set 2 of them to "Applied". I'll wade through my

RT permissions

2002-10-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Steve Fink wrote: Hm. Sorry. I assumed that if it worked for me, it would work for anyone. Robert has fixed one permission problem recently; can you give it another try? I tried: RT/perl: Modify ticket #18034 Set patch status to "Applied" Results * Permission Denied And with: RT/perl

Parrot 0.0.9

2002-10-23 Thread Steve Fink
I suppose I ought to try to wrap up a release one of these days. I've been thinking about the possibilities, but I'm not sure about the current state of a couple of things. And what I'd most like to see right now is some stabilization. So I'll list my current thinking: Prerequisites for 0.0.9 rele

Re: [perl #18056] [PATCH] Extending the Packfile (Part 1.)

2002-10-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jürgen Bömmels (via RT) wrote: # New Ticket Created by Jürgen Bömmels # Please include the string: [perl #18056] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=18056 > This patch is the beginning of an effort to make Pack

Re: 64-bit ints and non-capable hardware

2002-10-23 Thread Martin D Kealey
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Rhys Weatherley wrote: > Martin D Kealey wrote: > > [Frank Farance's paper] "specification based extended integer range" > > [at] http://wwwold.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/docs/c9x/extended-integers/. > Very interesting proposal. I wish they had adopted it. Would > have saved me