[PATCH] Remove warning when compiling test.c

2001-09-22 Thread Leon Brocard
I get a warning during the Configure process: ... Alright, now I'm gonna check some stuff by compiling and running a small C program. This could take a bit... test.c:13:1: warning: no newline at end of file ... Attached is a trivial patch which adds a newline. Leon -- Leon

(Fwd) Parrot Smoke Sep 22 07:00:00 2001 UTC linux 2.2.15pre14

2001-09-22 Thread Mattia Barbon
This looks really nice... Regards Mattia --- Forwarded message follows --- Automated smoke report for patch Sep 22 07:00:00 2001 UTC v0.01 on linux using cc version 2.95.2 2313 (Debian GNU/Linux) O = OK F = Failure(s), extended report at the bottom ? = still running

(Fwd) Parrot Smoke Sep 22 07:00:00 2001 UTC MSWin32 4.0

2001-09-22 Thread Mattia Barbon
t/op/number.t is basically testing that the rounding behaviour is the same across all platforms. This is ***wrong***. Regards Mattia --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Parrot Smoke

New list for smoke reports?

2001-09-22 Thread Mattia Barbon
I'd be sending 3 smoke reports ( Win2k/MSVC, x86/Linux, Alphs/Tru64/GCC ) per snapshot, and maybe I will start on cygwin and Win2k/MinGW, too. Before I spam everyone with this, is someone interested in it, and if so, should I continue sending it to perl6-internals, or is is preferable a different

Parrot broken on 64 bit

2001-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
I've just been fiddling around with the assembler and disassembler, so that they use Gregor's PackFile modules. While this now means that assembly and disassembly will Just Work seamlessly when we change types and pack formats, it does look like I've broken something on Tru64, or at least,

(Fwd) Parrot Smoke Sep 22 13:00:00 2001 UTC dec_osf 4.0

2001-09-22 Thread Mattia Barbon
--- Forwarded message follows --- Automated smoke report for patch Sep 22 13:00:00 2001 UTC v0.01 on dec_osf using gcc version 2.95.2 O = OK F = Failure(s), extended report at the bottom ? = still running or test results not (yet) available Build failures during:

Re: Parrot broken on 64 bit

2001-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 03:56:09PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: I'm looking into it now. Fixed. Parrot is now as broken as it was on Tru64 before I started messing with it, but now it will also Do The Right Thing when you change the internal types. -- Asynchronous inputs are at the root of our

Tru64 Numeric bug exposed!

2001-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:40:46PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: And now I know why! The branch-fixup section of the assembler's busted: No, that wasn't it. This is it: opcode_t *ne_nc_ic(opcode_t cur_opcode[], struct Parrot_Interp *interpreter) { IV return_offset = 5; if

Re: Tru64 Numeric bug exposed!

2001-09-22 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:17:16PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:40:46PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: And now I know why! The branch-fixup section of the assembler's busted: No, that wasn't it. This is it: opcode_t *ne_nc_ic(opcode_t cur_opcode[], struct

Re: Tru64 Numeric bug exposed!

2001-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:17:16PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: or is there a saner way to do it? There is, and I've done it. (removed an assumption in process_opfunc.pl) Jarkko, please resync; I think you'll find only one test now fails. Unfortunately, I do not have the slightest idea why that

Re: New list for smoke reports?

2001-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:33:31PM +0200, Mattia Barbon wrote: Before I spam everyone with this, is someone interested in it I'm *very* interested in it. and if so, should I continue sending it to perl6-internals, or is is preferable a different ML? For now, let's have them here. We can

Current status.

2001-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 02:51:02PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: I fear some sort of alignment or sizeof() issue is at work, and I'd hate to see whatever problems exist so far get widely propagated into other pieces of the source. I've just cleaned up all the alignment and sizeof() issues from

Re: Current status.

2001-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:45:12PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: Parrot's tests now run successfully on Tru64 and Linux. That is, Linux x86. Linux Alpha just compiled successfully too. -- sub UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD{ $UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD =~ s/::/ /; print $UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD }; hacker perl another

Anyone got any apple connections?

2001-09-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
I've got a mac suitable for setting up as a test platform for parrot now, courtesy of Grant. Does anyone have any connections with Apple? I'd like to see about getting an OS X server license for it so we can do automated smoke testing and suchlike things, but my budget, alas, doesn't have the

Re: Tru64 Numeric bug exposed!

2001-09-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 07:40 PM 9/22/2001 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:17:16PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:40:46PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: And now I know why! The branch-fixup section of the assembler's busted: No, that wasn't it. This is it:

RE: A task independent of the freeze

2001-09-22 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
All -- The missing code is going to look something like this: Next time I'm in front of my development machine, I'll give this a try. If this approach works, I'll work harder to produce a version of the solution that we can be proud of. OK. I got it working. I'm attaching the compile.pl and

run

2001-09-22 Thread raptor
what about adding run ! #!/usr/bin/perl -w my ($pasm) = $ARGV[0] =~ /(.*?)\./; system(./assemble.pl $ARGV[0] $pasm.pbc ; ./test_prog $pasm.pbc); cheers = iVAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

variable number of arguments

2001-09-22 Thread raptor
hi, is it possible the ops to handle variable number of arguments, what I have in mind : print I1,,,N2,\n cheers = iVAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

Re: variable number of arguments

2001-09-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 07:09 PM 9/22/2001 +0300, raptor wrote: hi, is it possible the ops to handle variable number of arguments No. Which isn't to say that if you do: new P0, list push P0, A push P0, multipart push P0, string push P0, \n print P0 you won't get A multipart string out,

Re: variable number of arguments

2001-09-22 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, raptor wrote: hi, is it possible the ops to handle variable number of arguments, what I have in mind : print I1,,,N2,\n This could probably be done as a macro when the assembler has macro support in the future. For now, the Jako Compiler converts: var int i;

[PATCH] assemble.pl registers go from 0-31

2001-09-22 Thread Leon Brocard
Attached patch makes sure you don't try and use register numbers over 31. That is, this patch allows registers I0-I31 and anything else gets a: Error (foo.pasm:0): Register 32 out of range (should be 0-31) in 'set_i_ic' Oh, there's also a comment at end of line patch that has snuck in 'cos it's

Re: [PATCH] assemble.pl registers go from 0-31

2001-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:05:53PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: Attached patch makes sure you don't try and use register numbers over 31. That is, this patch allows registers I0-I31 and anything else gets a: Error (foo.pasm:0): Register 32 out of range (should be 0-31) in 'set_i_ic' Applied,

Re: [PATCH] assemble.pl registers go from 0-31

2001-09-22 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Saturday 22 September 2001 04:05 pm, Leon Brocard wrote: Attached patch makes sure you don't try and use register numbers over 31. That is, this patch allows registers I0-I31 and anything else gets a: Error (foo.pasm:0): Register 32 out of range (should be 0-31) in 'set_i_ic' Except it

(Fwd) Re: Tru64 Numeric bug exposed!

2001-09-22 Thread Mattia Barbon
GRRR... always use reply yo all... --- Forwarded message follows --- From: Mattia Barbon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Tru64 Numeric bug exposed! Copies to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: (Fwd) Parrot Smoke Sep 22 19:00:00 2001 UTC dec_osf 4.0

2001-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:27:53AM +0200, Mattia Barbon wrote: [parrpt]$ perl Configure.pl --defaults --define cc=gcc --define ccflags=-O3 -Iinclude --define iv=long --define nv=double [parrot]$ make [parrot]$ for i in t/op/number*.pbc ; do ./test_prog $i; done Whoa - did you re-assemble

pack(d) packs floats, I think.

2001-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
I've found the bug on Linux Sparc; This is either a bug in Parrot, or a bug in Perl, and I can't tell which. On this machine, NVs are doubles; their pack_type is 'd', which is as it should be. So, a number (2.0) is inserted into the bytecode stream with pack('d', 2.0) However, when I try

Re: cvs commit: parrot/Test More.pm Simple.pm Utils.pm

2001-09-22 Thread Mattia Barbon
cvsuser 01/09/22 10:20:59 Modified:.Makefile.in Added: Test More.pm Simple.pm Utils.pm Log: I'm sick of having to install Test::More everywhere. Temporary measure until we remove this silly dependency. I promise I'll do it after 0.02 is out. Mattia

Re: (Fwd) Parrot Smoke Sep 22 19:00:00 2001 UTC dec_osf 4.0

2001-09-22 Thread Mattia Barbon
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:27:53AM +0200, Mattia Barbon wrote: [parrpt]$ perl Configure.pl --defaults --define cc=gcc --define ccflags=-O3 -Iinclude --define iv=long --define nv=double [parrot]$ make [parrot]$ for i in t/op/number*.pbc ; do ./test_prog $i; done Whoa - did you

Re: pack(d) packs floats, I think.

2001-09-22 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On this machine, NVs are doubles; their pack_type is 'd', which is as it should be. So, a number (2.0) is inserted into the bytecode stream with pack('d', 2.0) ./perl -Ilib -MDevel::Peek -le 'Dump(pack(d,2))' SV = PV(0x1d9ed4) at 0x1e4568 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADTMP,POK,pPOK) PV =

Thoughts on a higher-level VM

2001-09-22 Thread Ken Fox
[Sorry if this is a duplicate. I sent the original from work. Is there a spam filter removing messages from non-subscribers?] I've been thinking about the possibility of building a higher-level VM. The current VM is very close to a traditional CPU. What if we did something non-traditional that

Re: pack(d) packs floats, I think.

2001-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:17:40AM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: unaligned access Bother. It is as I feared. Dan, we need to do something about this. The choices are: put floats into the constant section, or ensure instructions are assigned on an appropriate boundary. I can see pros and

Re: pack(d) packs floats, I think.

2001-09-22 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Saturday 22 September 2001 07:21 pm, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:17:40AM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: unaligned access Bother. It is as I feared. Dan, we need to do something about this. The choices are: put floats into the constant section, or ensure instructions

Re: pack(d) packs floats, I think.

2001-09-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:17:40AM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: unaligned access Bother. It is as I feared. Dan, we need to do something about this. The choices are: put floats into the constant section, or ensure instructions are assigned

Re: pack(d) packs floats, I think.

2001-09-22 Thread Benjamin Stuhl
--- Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:17:40AM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: unaligned access Bother. It is as I feared. Dan, we need to do something about this. The choices are: put floats into the constant section, or ensure instructions are assigned

Re: pack(d) packs floats, I think.

2001-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:41:28PM -0700, Benjamin Stuhl wrote: at load time. Yes, it's slow and hackish, but strings are the only *portable* format for floating-point numbers I thought (although I might have conveniently forgotten the other side of the argument:) that we weren't that

Re: pack(d) packs floats, I think.

2001-09-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Benjamin Stuhl wrote: --- Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:17:40AM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: unaligned access Bother. It is as I feared. Dan, we need to do something about this. The choices are: put floats into the

Re: pack(d) packs floats, I think.

2001-09-22 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Saturday 22 September 2001 07:33 pm, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:41:28PM -0700, Benjamin Stuhl wrote: at load time. Yes, it's slow and hackish, but strings are the only *portable* format for floating-point numbers I thought (although I might have conveniently

Re: Compaq Testdrive

2001-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 07:12:05PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: Compaq has a program called Testdrive where they offer free accounts on a VERY wide range of machines OS's. Tru64, Caldera, Debian, Redhat, Kondara, OpenVMS, Mandrake, SuSE, Turbo, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Beowulf, iPAQ on Alpha,

Re: [PATCH] Remove warning when compiling test.c

2001-09-22 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leon Brocard) writes: [...] Attached is a trivial patch which adds a newline. I've put that in CVS. I also renamed the 'test' executable we make to test_siz (just because using test on a unix system is bad karma). - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/

Re: Anyone got any apple connections?

2001-09-22 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes: I've got a mac suitable for setting up as a test platform for parrot now, courtesy of Grant. Does anyone have any connections with Apple? I'd like to see about getting an OS X server license for it so we can do automated smoke testing and suchlike

Re: Draft switch for DO_OP() :-)

2001-09-22 Thread Damien Neil
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:11:42AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: Actually the ops=C conversion was conceived to do exactly what's being done now--to abstract out the body of the opcodes so that they could be turned into a switch, or turned into generated machine code, or TIL'd. If you're

Stack tests

2001-09-22 Thread Alex Gough
Some tests for stack operations, pushing and popping, except for pmcs. Suggest: t/op/stacks.t Alex Gough -- Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. # #! perl -w # Tests for stack operations, currently push_*, push_*_c and pop_* # where * != p. # Assembler code is

Thoughts on a higher-level VM

2001-09-22 Thread Ken Fox
I've been thinking about the possibility of building a higher-level VM. The current VM is very close to a traditional CPU. What if we did something non-traditional that made implementing higher-level lexically scoped languages easier? What if the VM (and assembler) had lexical scoping built-in

Re: run

2001-09-22 Thread Nathan Torkington
Here's what I use ... #!/usr/bin/perl -w # parrot - compile and run parrot assembly language $srcfile = shift or die usage: $0 PASMFILE\n; ($pbcfile = $srcfile) =~ s{\.pasm$}{.pbc}i; system(perl assemble.pl $srcfile $pbcfile ./test_prog $pbcfile); --

Re: Anyone got any apple connections?

2001-09-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
On 22 Sep 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes: I've got a mac suitable for setting up as a test platform for parrot now, courtesy of Grant. Does anyone have any connections with Apple? I'd like to see about getting an OS X server license for it so we

Re: Thoughts on a higher-level VM

2001-09-22 Thread David M. Lloyd
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Ken Fox wrote: I've been thinking about the possibility of building a higher-level VM. The current VM is very close to a traditional CPU. What if we did something non-traditional that made implementing higher-level lexically scoped languages easier? snip I'm proposing:

Re: Draft switch for DO_OP() :-)

2001-09-22 Thread Michael Maraist
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:11:42AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: Actually the ops=C conversion was conceived to do exactly what's being done now--to abstract out the body of the opcodes so that they could be turned into a switch, or turned into generated machine code, or TIL'd. If you're

Re: Thoughts on a higher-level VM

2001-09-22 Thread Ken Fox
David M. Lloyd wrote: Take it from me (the one with several abortive attempts at getting an extra compare stuck in Perl 5's dispatch loop): You don't want to stick another compare in there. It *kills* performance. Kills? I thought the event flag test dropped performance by a few percent. We