[COMMIT] Key aggregate code committed.

2001-12-10 Thread Jeff G
Added files: key.c include/parrot/key.h t/op/key.t Altered files: MANIFEST Makefile.in include/parrot/parrot.h core.ops Implements generic aggregate support in the Sn registers. t/op/key.t has quick samples of its use. It does have fairly rigorous internal tests, but the memory all

Fwd: Parrot/MacOSX Link Bug

2001-12-10 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
-- Forwarded Message -- Bryan, One possible bug-report for you - parrot-0.0.3 does not link on MacOSX under an HFS+ filesystem due to the fact that there is a 'Parrot' directory in the same place it is trying to link 'parrot' (HFS+ is case-preserving but case-insensitive) - I

Re: Bytecode portablilty

2001-12-10 Thread Adam Turoff
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 07:46:46PM -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > Proposal: > > For background, revisit my proposed Bytecode Format (v2) at > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg05640.html. > Although it is outdated, is gives a general gist of the direction of my > thinking. In particular, pay no heed t

Re: mem_allocate_aligned

2001-12-10 Thread mrjoltcola
On Monday, December 10, 2001 10:44:09 AM Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 02:57 PM 12/10/2001 +, Simon Cozens wrote: >>On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 11:26:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > it has to do with the fact that the memory allocator >> > adjusts the address before returning the chunk and f

Re: Bytecode portablilty

2001-12-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 08:33 AM 12/10/2001 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >On Monday 10 December 2001 03:06 am, Tom Hughes wrote: > > In message <20011210011601$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > "Bryan C. Warnock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - Endianness. The three major types are Big, Little, and Vaxian. >

Re: [PATCH] sort of (was Re: Absolute types)

2001-12-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:27 AM 12/8/2001 -0500, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >On Friday 07 December 2001 10:46 pm, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > > I need - er, strike that - really, really could use some absolute C type > > abstraction (in addition to our current relative system). > > > > Any objections? Any objections to P

Re: mem_allocate_aligned

2001-12-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 02:57 PM 12/10/2001 +, Simon Cozens wrote: >On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 11:26:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > it has to do with the fact that the memory allocator > > adjusts the address before returning the chunk and free() > > then gets confused. Does this seem to be the issue? > >Th

Re: Configger this.

2001-12-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 08:06 AM 12/8/2001 -0500, James Mastros wrote: >On the other end of the spectrum, Microsoft nmake can't even understand ; >within a commandline. On win9x, IIRC, it has very strange quoting >conventions. This has nothing to do with Make. It's a shell thing. The line gets sent out mostly verba

Re: mem_allocate_aligned

2001-12-10 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 11:26:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > it has to do with the fact that the memory allocator > adjusts the address before returning the chunk and free() > then gets confused. Does this seem to be the issue? That's exactly what it is! Damn, I'd been seeing this too, an

Re: Bytecode portablilty

2001-12-10 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <20011210133529.EYKY11472.femail13.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> Bryan C. Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 10 December 2001 03:06 am, Tom Hughes wrote: > > In message <20011210011601$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Actually VAXes have perfectly ordinary endianness - it was

Re: Bytecode portablilty

2001-12-10 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Monday 10 December 2001 03:06 am, Tom Hughes wrote: > In message <20011210011601$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Bryan C. Warnock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Endianness. The three major types are Big, Little, and Vaxian. > > Supporting these three should handle the majority of cases. >

Re: restarting the discussion: parrot build system

2001-12-10 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Robert Spier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >There was a flurry of activity on perl6-internals a few weeks ago >about creating/finding a cross platform build system for building >parrot and perl6. > >I'm trying to restart that discussion over here in perl6-build, to try >and get the collective minds

Re: Bytecode portablilty

2001-12-10 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <20011210011601$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Bryan C. Warnock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Endianness. The three major types are Big, Little, and Vaxian. > Supporting these three should handle the majority of cases. Actually VAXes have perfectly ordinary endianness - it was PDPs