Re: Cygwin versun plain XP (for working with Pugs+Parrot together)

2006-01-02 Thread Greg Bacon
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joshua Hoblitt writes: : Can you send the post the output of `prove -v t/op/trans.t`? I suspect : that atan2() may be misbehaving on cygwin in the same way that it does : on Solaris. After upping to r10836, I needed the following patch to build: Index:

Re: Configuration error in parrot-0.4.0

2006-01-02 Thread Sastry
Hi I could install parrot with the earlier one itself. Thanks for the help. regards Ravi Sastry On 12/30/05, Joshua Hoblitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this issue still occur with recent svn sources? -J -- On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 06:54:18AM -0800, jerry gay wrote: On 12/28/05, Sastry

[perl #34549] atan2() isn't IEEE compliant on OpenBSD/*BSD/Cygwin/Solaris

2006-01-02 Thread Joshua Hoblitt via RT
I've commited a possible fix for openbsd, cygwin, solaris as changesets r10839 r10843. I basically applied what Steve Peters proposed but with the changes in math.c instead of creating init.c (as agreed to on #parrot). This doesn't appear to have done anything for gcc/solaris... can someone

Re: [perl #34549] atan2() isn't IEEE compliant on OpenBSD/*BSD/Cygwin/Solaris

2006-01-02 Thread Greg Bacon
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joshua Hoblitt via RT writes: : I've commited a possible fix for openbsd, cygwin, solaris as changesets : r10839 r10843. I basically applied what Steve Peters proposed but : with the changes in math.c instead of creating init.c (as agreed to on : #parrot). :

Re: IMCC optimizer instruction duplication and opcode write/reads

2006-01-02 Thread Amos Robinson
Argh. Just realised my old address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], could receive emails but not send them (not even to itself!) On Dec 31, 2005, at 15:43, Amos Robinson wrote: -- A copy_ins() function would be nice, if needed. However, this doesn't seem to work with e.g. set_args. Why? In my local

Re: IMCC optimizer instruction duplication and opcode write/reads

2006-01-02 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Jan 2, 2006, at 16:53, Amos Robinson wrote: error:imcc:The opcode '_' (1) was not found. Check the type and number of the arguments Looks strange. gdb might help. Hmm, okay. I was hoping I could've just copied the set_args, get_results, and callmethodccs. I'll have a look further into

Re: [perl #34549] atan2() isn't IEEE compliant on OpenBSD/*BSD/Cygwin/Solaris

2006-01-02 Thread Steve Peters
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:01:55AM -0600, Greg Bacon wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joshua Hoblitt via RT writes: : I've commited a possible fix for openbsd, cygwin, solaris as changesets : r10839 r10843. I basically applied what Steve Peters proposed but : with the changes

[perl #38131] Configuration system should detect symlinks availability

2006-01-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Alberto Simoes # Please include the string: [perl #38131] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38131 If we go in the way Perl5 is working, symlink fails (raise exception) in cases

T and L parameter types for NCI

2006-01-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
I just went, after ages, and sync'd up with a current parrot for my work project. Fixing things to work with the changes has been... interesting. The big hang up has been the removal of the T and L parameter types for NCI calls. T was a string pointer array and L was a long array. They're

Re: [RFC] Dynamic binding patch

2006-01-02 Thread Bob Rogers
Table of contents 1. Deep binding is not appropriate. 2. Outline of a shallow-binding solution. 3. Unbinding must work with a general stack-unwinding mechanism. 4. Conclusion (not). 1. Deep binding is not appropriate. It has always been clear that a save/modify/restore

Re: T and L parameter types for NCI

2006-01-02 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Jan 2, 2006, at 19:36, Dan Sugalski wrote: The big hang up has been the removal of the T and L parameter types for NCI calls. T was a string pointer array and L was a long array. [ ... ] Are there alternatives? The documentation for this stuff is worse now than when I wrote it

[PATCH] t/pmc/os.t 'mkdir' test can fail

2006-01-02 Thread Bob Rogers
. . . depending on where Parrot is located. Mine is in /usr/src/parrot, so the code expected /usr/xpto/parrot/src instead of /usr/src/parrot/xpto . . . -- Bob Rogers http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/

Re: [RFC] Dynamic binding patch

2006-01-02 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 06:55:24PM -0500, Bob Rogers wrote: : [2] About two-thirds of the way through A06 (search for temporize : object attributes), Larry says that this will be done via : closures. In order to support rezipping, such a closure would need : to accept a new value