Can you give us any update on these tests on the same platform?
All seems to be well here, too. (At svn 37803.)
C:\parrotprove t\op\arithmetics.t
t\op\arithmeticsok
All tests successful.
Files=1, Tests=23, 4 wallclock secs ( 0.08 usr + 0.01 sys = 0.09 CPU)
Result: PASS
C:\parrotprove
Can you give us any update on these tests on the same platform?
I'll be able to check early tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon.
BTW, this mail account will be disappearing in a month or so. I have
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Could I ask that either the requestor or somebody else with an
appropriate system verify my results?
That one's so old I'd fogotten about it. I've been running tests over the
last 9 months, so I think we can consider that closed.
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yep, seems like an msvc version thing. iirc there was funny -0
handling in msvc 7. can the OP attach Parrot::Configure::Generated?
~jerry
I would, if I could find anything with a name like that, (with or without
.pm suffix). What should the complete path be?
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Could you try the following patch ?
That seems to have done the trick.
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On Jan 8, 2009, at 3:11 PM, chromatic wrote:
I can't read the word Purdue without thinking Year of the Purdue
Wonder Chicken -- but try working that into Perl 6 advocacy.
Except that's Perdue
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Alan: Any update on this?
Question for any Win32 expert: Is the Borland C compiler worth
expending Parrot tuits on?
The Strawberry Perl route produced results, so I stopped whacking the
horse, on the assumption that it was dead.
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Don't you think it would be important to start working
in this direction?
What about OpenMoko? Doesn't that run a fairly standard Linux?
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I don't know who is submitting the Darwin x86 tests.
Probably Seneca.
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This is a patch in the sense of bandaid. What is it about the letter
'K' that means that this probe gives sloppy results on Kubuntu when on
Ubuntu it has built cleanly for me every day
Something to do with Gnome, since that's the major difference between the
two?
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This is a patch in the sense of bandaid. What is it about the letter
'K' that means that this probe gives sloppy results on Kubuntu when on
Ubuntu it has built cleanly for me every day since I started
Something to do with KDE vs Gnome, since that's the major difference?
Perhaps KDE's
I fixed the problem in r29488, but I don't have any windows
environment available to test.
I just ran a test on XP-Home (using Strawberry Perl) after updating to
r29495. Configure.pl creates the file (whether or not it was present), but
the value appears to be a constant 0. (Make test and
The desired behavior is creating the file if not present or his number
is outdated, not touching it if the number is already correct.
At 29516, that seems to be what it's doing
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On Windows XP Home Edition, using gcc, the following test error is
occurring:
Divide by zero^M
current instr.: 'life' pc 175 (examples\pir\life.pir:102)
Can any of our windows users duplicate this bug? If not, it may not
exist anymore.
It didn't show up in the tests run after
From Bernhard Schmalhofer:
As Plumhead is a stupid name, cotto proposed to rename to Pharrot.
So I'm still open for an alternative.
Parroheep?
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I notice that the *actual* exit code I'm getting is 256. Has that
changed since the OP or is there some bit-shifting going on here?
If you are testing the return from a system call, To get the actual exit
value, divide by 256. (The lower eight bits are set if the process died
from a signal.)
Well, if I had RTFM 'perldoc File::Temp' correctly, I wouldn't have
gotten the arguments wrong.
Sorry for the confusion.
Sometimes, you just have to explain it to the bear before you understand.
:-)*
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On Windows, make, make perl6, and make test all function in ops2c branch
with no more than the customary grumbling.
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and so we've been holding off on argument processing until that's
resolved a bit more.
Should it matter what's in the allowed class? From the beginning, there
ought to be a default if I don't know what this is, spit it back action.
What happens before that point is irrelevant.
P.S.: Send
This should be fixed in r26641.
Could you confirm?
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Two straight comment patches seeking commitment: currently attached.
(to exception.c and headers.c)
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On a more rational note, has any thought been given to what good enough
performance for release will be?
Should we perhaps add a performance benchmark to the tests?
Normalising it to account for hardware variations might be a problem.
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Patches to events.c and inter_misc.c should be attached to the back
bumper. If they're OK, perhaps someone could commit them?
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Attached are patches to embed.c and runops_cores.c
The embed.c patch also includes an attempt to clarify another comment.
(It's not obvious that the code is doing all that the comment claims, but
I didn't investigate that.)
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Attached patch to pmc.c
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--- src/pmc.c (revision 25371)
+++ src/pmc.c (working copy)
@@ -472,7 +472,9 @@
Using the Strawberry Perl on Windows XP to install Parrot resulted in
the attached warnings output from the make step.
I'll try a stronger glue this time; maybe they'll stay attached.
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Hi, Alan! What kind of CPU do you have? If you have an AMD Athlon XP
(or something of similar lineage), I think I know what the problem is.
I think you've nailed it: Athlon XP-M.
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But I'm unclear: Did 'make' complete successfully? I.e., did you end
up with a './parrot' executable in your top-level sandbox?
Yes. And when I made Perl 6, it said Hello (c).
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Glimmerings of a hint of progress.
Adding --miniparrot to the command line:
C:\parrotConfigure.pl --cc=bcc32 --miniparrot
bypasses the test that hangs. This enables make to fall on its face with
the following message:
C:\parrotmake
MAKE Version 5.2 Copyright (c) 1987, 2000 Borland
Error
I think I've now connected brain to fingers and patch to message.
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--- compilers/imcc/main.c
The attached patch should quieten some of the grumbling. It's entirely
comments, so should not have any functional impact.
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Sorry, finger trouble with the mailer lost the attachment. I will try
again later.
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When using a non-default C compiler, you will usually need to add a
--link to the Configure line. So, something like...
Configure.pl --cc=bcc32 --link=bcc32
Doesn't appear to make any difference.
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Is there anyone familiar with the use (if any) of the revision number in
the Perl 6 and Parrot code?
It looks as though it might be possible to simplify some processes, but
I'm having trouble tracking down evidence. If there's a maven on the
topic, an explanation or some references, (maybe
For a fun bit of trivia, spend some time comparing Perl 1's perl.y and
Perl 5's perly.y. Amazing how much still persists after 20 years.
Technological Cheshire cats; the grin lingers long after the cat has
disappeared. Computing has them by the clowder.
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I think the data will support the idea that a directory structure based
on OS/CPU is probably not the way to start.
Quite possibly. The proposed file could suffer from the same combinatorial
explosion, if not properly structured. Does anyone have a good idea of the
most economical structure for
Some hand-waving on the problem of configuration and test selection, (as
the two appear to share the issues, an ideal solution would address both).
For any usable environment, a large set of common processes have to be
executed, with a smaller, OS /|| CPU specific set omitted. One way to do
this
Jarkko's view was that if he were doing Perl 5 Unicode again he would
opt for fixed width 32 bit rather than UTF-8,
It seems to be a general principle of system design that the best way to
process irregular and unpredictable things, is to grab them as close to
the outside of the system as
While trying to understand Parrot::Vtables.pm, I came across what seems
to be some zombie code, possibly left after RT 48877.
1. Two references to src/pmc/null.pl, which does not appear to exist.
2. The method vtbl_embed, which is used only in
parrot/tools/build/vtable_extend.pl That writes
A quick cage cleaner task. Create a script to generate the file
ports/debian/parrot-doc.docs
I've attached a quickie shell script, in case that's what you want. It's a
naive little thing, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
A properly formatted and tested Perl script will take a
James E Keenan wrote:
For portability reasons, however, shouldn't it be converted to Perl 5?
The difference here is that you can only generate Debian packages on a
Debian-based system, so portability to non-Linux systems isn't a concern.
That was my assumption. (Along with the need for
In the concurrency work I'm about to check in, I have some tests that
fail intermittently because they test for something like:
But, as we add more asynchronous code, and more asynchronous tests, we'll
need to do more thinking on our strategies for testing asynchronous code.
Would
Nicholas Clark wrote:
Do the structures actually overlap, or is this necessary band aid for a
subtly broken compiler?
Jonathan Worthington replied:
I think the compiler is to blame.
Are we hurling abuse at^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H informing the GNU folks about the
apparent problem? :-)*
BTW, I
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, James Keenan wrote:
The patch attached proposes to refactor Parrot configuration step
class inter::progs into two classes: inter::compiler and inter::progs.
Are we at any risk of redoing work here? Other OSS projects must
presumably have faced the same problems. How do
I tried it on the 0.5.0 updated this week, with the following results:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nqp]$ ../../parrot nqp.pbc ~/tmp/blue_rect.pl
Cannot find the attribute 'post' (String) that you asked for.
Method 'named' not found
current instr.: 'parrot;POST::Grammar;_PAST::Op_pirop' pc 4378
the definition of FLOAT_IS_ZERO in include/parrot/misc.h is
Could this be relevant to RT45209 (a -0.0 being taken as true, rather than
false?). I tried to track down the problem, but got lost in the woods.
Somebody more familiar with the logic might recognise it.
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looks like all dutch to me.
Part of it is in English, (the abstract). The body of the paper is in
Dutch (and Javascript). The abstract is very positive towards Parrot.
http://users.fulladsl.be/spb1622/pjs/scriptie.pdf
It's too bad that some of the energy being dissipated on pointless
I'm not sure about the current status of t/examples/shootout.t on Linux,
but it is still failing on Darwin. See attached.
It just passed on my Mandriva.
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