Re: Languages testing

2004-03-27 Thread Will Coleda
What, no one's awake? =-) I've modified my local copy of tcl, and testall so that I can now do any of the following, e.g. from the top level parrot directory. cd languages && make test cd languages/tcl && make test cd languages && ./tcl/t/cmd_append.t cd languages/tcl && ./t/cmd_append.t cd lang

Re: Languages testing

2004-03-27 Thread Will Coleda
over in perl-qa, a similar topic just came up, where Schwern answered: { Test::Harness just runs the tests you give it. Simplest thing to do is to just write a little script that has the necessary logic to determine what set of tests to run and feed that file list to runtests(). } However, I no

[DOCS] lib/Parrot

2004-03-27 Thread Michael Scott
Just committed some new docs for the Parrot::* modules. make html-clean; make html Mike

Expletive/Objects and pdd15

2004-03-27 Thread Harry Jackson
In PDD 15 it says Creating a new class with attributes Adding the attributes a and b to the new class Foo: newclass $P0, "Foo" addattribute $P0, "a", "Foo::a" # This is offset 0 addattribute $P0, "b", "Foo::b" # This is offset 1 maybe I'm just being a numpty but should this not be Creatin

Re: Behaviour of PMCs on assignment

2004-03-27 Thread TOGoS
Ergh. Once agian, sorry if this shows up twice. If someone can tell me a way to be subscribed to the list without actually getting every message (I prefer to read from the archive), that'd be great. Anyway... > This has come up before and the discussion > always semi-warnocks, but Yeah... > 1)

[PATCH] wrong type for "status" in platform/win32/exec.c

2004-03-27 Thread Goplat
The second arg of GetExitCodeProcess should be a pointer to DWORD, not int, this was causing a warning on mingw: src/platform.c: In function `Parrot_Run_OS_Command': src/platform.c:446: warning: passing arg 2 of `GetExitCodeProcess' from incompatible pointer type

Re: New functions in the core (Was Re: Dereferencing Syntax)

2004-03-27 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 10:31:13AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: : At 6:59 AM + 3/27/04, Simon Cozens wrote: : >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Gottman) writes: : >> This function would be very useful in inner loops, so if it is possible : >> to : >> implement it more efficiently in the core than as a sub

Re: New functions in the core (Was Re: Dereferencing Syntax)

2004-03-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:59 AM + 3/27/04, Simon Cozens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Gottman) writes: This function would be very useful in inner loops, so if it is possible to implement it more efficiently in the core than as a sub in a module I think we should do so. And, if it's possible to implement it more

Re: Behaviour of PMCs on assignment

2004-03-27 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I show my ignorance yet again. I really need to do some serious > research into how things have changed... > Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> It could work, if the sequence is: >> >>$P0 = $P1 + $P2 >>null $P3 >>$P3 = $P0 + $P4 >> >> T

Re: OpsFile hints - one more (perlish) task

2004-03-27 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Michael Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been all over the ops2c system recently filling in the > documentation (it'll get committed this weekend sometime) so number 2 > is something I can certainly do. Great, thanks > BTW is there a reason for the colon at the start of the hints? Hysteri

Re: MMD vtable functions in bytecode

2004-03-27 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ mmd functions ] Another question: ,--[ pdd15 ]-- |While vtable methods may take a continuation, those |continuations may not escape the vtable method's |execution. This is due to

Re: Windows tinder builds

2004-03-27 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The VS/.NET build works fine, though three of the tests fail for odd > reasons. t\op\string.t 1 256 1301 0.77% 123 Missing end t\pmc\perlnum.t 1 256361 2.78% 36 The ugly +/- zero test. Needs further investigation.

Re: OpsFile hints - one more (perlish) task

2004-03-27 Thread Michael Scott
I've been all over the ops2c system recently filling in the documentation (it'll get committed this weekend sometime) so number 2 is something I can certainly do. BTW is there a reason for the colon at the start of the hints? Mike On 27 Mar 2004, at 08:15, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Opcodes norma

Re: Behaviour of PMCs on assignment

2004-03-27 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
And I show my ignorance yet again. I really need to do some serious research into how things have changed... Leopold Toetsch wrote: It could work, if the sequence is: $P0 = $P1 + $P2 null $P3 $P3 = $P0 + $P4 The C opcode cuts the life range of C<$P3> because of its C specifier. Hmmm...