On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 04:29:05PM +0100, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote:
> hi,
>
> i've been working on an actions file for the NQP compiler, written in
> NQP. It can be found in compilers/nqp/bootstrap
> to build it, go to the compilers/nqp directory, and type "make boot"
>
> It seems to work pretty nicely, except that there's some weirdness going on.
> The problem seems to be that some invocations to "get_scalar()" get lost.
>
> Compare the output of ../../parrot nqp.pbc --target=pir
> (note that this code doesn't make sense, and won't run. Just notice
> the translation for $( 1) )
>
> my $past := PAST::Var.new( $(1), :name('x'), :scope('lexical') );
>
> .namespace
> .sub "_block10"
> get_hll_global $P11, ["PAST"], "Var"
> new $P12, "Integer"
> assign $P12, 1
> $P13 = $P12."get_scalar"()
> $P14 = $P11."new"($P13, "x" :named("name"), "lexical" :named("scope"))
> .lex "$past", $P14
> .return ($P14)
> .end
>
> with ../../parrot bootstrap/nqp.pbc --target=pir:
>
> my $past := PAST::Var.new( $(1), :name('x'), :scope('lexical') );
>
> .namespace
> .sub "_block10"
> get_hll_global $P11, ["PAST"], "Var"
> $P12 = $P11."new"(1, "x" :named("name"), "lexical" :named("scope"))
> .lex "$past", $P12
> .return ($P12)
> .end
>
>
> So, the "get_scalar()" call on "1" is removed.
> Am I trying to do something impossible?
Interesting bug. I'd look to see how the self-hosted nqp version
is handling the $(...) operation.
Pm
