Re: Destruction bug in make test.

2003-10-09 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. If any object has a destructor it should be called as the last > interpreter is shut down. We're not guaranteeing dead-on immediate > destruction, or if the timely flag isn't set timely destruction, but we > *are* guaranteeing eventual destruction. Oh

Linebuffering and readline

2003-10-09 Thread Melvin Smith
I fixed a bug in the readline routine that now allows it to act like it should. With the ability to toggle linebuffering on IO handles now with pioctl, do we need the explicit readline op anymore? -Melvin

[COMMIT] new IO op 'pioctl'

2003-10-09 Thread Melvin Smith
Added pioctl op and PIO_pioctl API call. General purpose op for IO manipulation in tradition of UNIX ioctl call. This will be the interface for doing all sorts of IO layer stuff such as buffering, blocking, async, etc. At least until someone has a better way to do it. Also added record separator fi

Re: Devel::Cover - what do the numbers mean ?

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:14:55PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > Changing statement column header to Statement Executions and removing the > colour from that column, or changing it to a very pale green, would help. I'll be attacking the output a little in the next release (0.25). I'll see what I can

[ANNOUNCE] Devel::Cover 0.24

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
This is mostly a bug fix release. Hopefully, the problem with tests which chdir has been fixed. If anyone still sees problems in this area, normally manifest with cover_db database directories springing up in unexpected places, please let me know. Devel::Cover wouldn't run on Windows systems. F

Re: References ...

2003-10-09 Thread Melvin Smith
At 11:05 PM 10/9/2003 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 06:43:27PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think if you have the op for dereferencing, you don't need the > > additional ops for > > getting the type of the reference. > > Too

Re: [perl #24169] pthread required to build parrot on freebsd

2003-10-09 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:53:02AM +, Peter Sinnott wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Peter Sinnott > # Please include the string: [perl #24169] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=24169 > > > > Hi, >p

Re: References ...

2003-10-09 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 06:43:27PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think if you have the op for dereferencing, you don't need the > > additional ops for > > getting the type of the reference. > > Too true, thanks Yes, but if you have to go via anot

Re: An evil task for the interested

2003-10-09 Thread Luke Palmer
Thomas Fjellstrom writes: > On October 9, 2003 09:57 am, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Dave Mitchell wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:43:41AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > > We've got ordered destruction on the big list 'o things to do, and it > > > > looks like we need to g

Re: [perl #24167] `#' comment signs not at the very beginning of a line

2003-10-09 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:54:10AM +, Martin Mokrejs wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Martin Mokrejs > # Please include the string: [perl #24167] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=24167 > > > > Hi, >

[perl #24177] [PATCH] Make Parrot dlcompat aware on OS X

2003-10-09 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Michael Scott # Please include the string: [perl #24177] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=24177 > If someone happens to have dlcompat http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/dlcompa

Re: An evil task for the interested

2003-10-09 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On October 9, 2003 09:57 am, Dan Sugalski wrote: > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Dave Mitchell wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:43:41AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > We've got ordered destruction on the big list 'o things to do, and it > > > looks like we need to get that done sooner rather than late

Re: test_main.c can die

2003-10-09 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Juergen Boemmels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > test_main.c is not used any more. parrot.c was built all the time and was unused :) > Shouldn't test_main.c be removed completely? Maybe as part of the big > imcc-move. Yep. > bye > boe leo

Re: Destruction bug in make test.

2003-10-09 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Juergen Boemmels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It turned out, that it was even simpler. The explicit sweeping is > already in the code, but is only triggered if there are objects which > need _early_ destruction, not if objects just need > destruction. Removing this test made it work. Why can't yo

Re: An evil task for the interested

2003-10-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:43:41AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > We've got ordered destruction on the big list 'o things to do, and it > > looks like we need to get that done sooner rather than later. So, this is > > a good chance for someone to burn tho

Re: An evil task for the interested

2003-10-09 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:43:41AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > We've got ordered destruction on the big list 'o things to do, and it > looks like we need to get that done sooner rather than later. So, this is > a good chance for someone to burn those surplus SAN points and become one > with the gr

An evil task for the interested

2003-10-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
We've got ordered destruction on the big list 'o things to do, and it looks like we need to get that done sooner rather than later. So, this is a good chance for someone to burn those surplus SAN points and become one with the great gibbering chaos at the center of the universe (no, wait, that's no

Re: Destruction bug in make test.

2003-10-09 Thread Juergen Boemmels
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I disagree :) We already have a 2 stage IO destroy. The first shall > > flush its files. This get called even if destroy-at-end isn't set. The two stage IO destroy is a problem that we don't have destruction ordering yet. Closing the standard handles t

Re: Destruction bug in make test.

2003-10-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Juergen Boemmels wrote: > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I just discovered a really subtele bug: > >> Normaly the test are not run with --destroy-at-end. This has not many > >> consequences yet because

Re: Destruction bug in make test.

2003-10-09 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Juergen Boemmels wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just discovered a really subtele bug: >> Normaly the test are not run with --destroy-at-end. This has not many >> consequences yet because the only PMCs with active destruction are >> IOs, in fact

test_main.c can die

2003-10-09 Thread Juergen Boemmels
Hi, test_main.c is not used any more. The only references are from make.pl (which also does not seem to work), a comment in imcc/main.c that it is mostly stolen from there, and docs/embed.pod giving test_main.c as an example. Shouldn't test_main.c be removed completely? Maybe as part of the big i

Re: Destruction bug in make test.

2003-10-09 Thread Juergen Boemmels
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Option 2 is the right one. (Well, OK, having parrot do an explicit sweep & > destroy's the right option, but until then...) Go ahead and add a patch to > whatever you need to make this happen. It turned out, that it was even simpler. The explicit

Re: Destruction bug in make test.

2003-10-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Juergen Boemmels wrote: > Hi, > > I just discovered a really subtele bug: > Normaly the test are not run with --destroy-at-end. This has not many > consequences yet because the only PMCs with active destruction are > IOs, in fact only one test is really sensitive to t/pmc/io_4.

parrot_assembly.pod

2003-10-09 Thread Michael Scott
docs/parrot_assembly.pod is just an earlier version of PDD 6. An empowered person should remove it. Mike

Destruction bug in make test.

2003-10-09 Thread Juergen Boemmels
Hi, I just discovered a really subtele bug: Normaly the test are not run with --destroy-at-end. This has not many consequences yet because the only PMCs with active destruction are IOs, in fact only one test is really sensitive to t/pmc/io_4.pasm, it won't flush its buffers without --destroy-at-en

[perl #24169] pthread required to build parrot on freebsd

2003-10-09 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Peter Sinnott # Please include the string: [perl #24169] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=24169 > Hi, parrot is not currently building on freebsd as it requires pthread to be includ

[perl #24168] gmake required to build imcc on freebsd

2003-10-09 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Peter Sinnott # Please include the string: [perl #24168] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=24168 > Hi, currently gmake seems to be required to build imcc on freebsd. When using gm

[perl #24167] `#' comment signs not at the very beginning of a line

2003-10-09 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Martin Mokrejs # Please include the string: [perl #24167] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=24167 > Hi, I get from my compiler: cc: Warning: /software/@sys/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/alpha-