Re: [perl #31032] IRIX64 one remaining bug in nci.t

2004-08-12 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jarkko Hietaniemi (via RT) wrote: After the [perl #31029] this one failure remains in IRIX64 (big-endian, intval and long size 8, int size 4): The remaining failure has something to with alignment (or lack thereof, too, and something to do with keyed access): ./parrot t/pmc/nci_20.pasm 10 Bus error

ppm-able Devel::Cover 0.47 for AS Perl 5.8 Win32

2004-08-12 Thread Brian Cassidy
Hi All, There was recently some talk about getting a ppm-able version of Devel::Cover made since ActiveState's repository can't seem to build it. I've compiled version 0.47 for AS Perl 5.8 Win32. You can get it by pointing your ppm installer at: http://www.alternation.net/ppm/Devel-Cover.ppd If

Re: New Devel::Cover Noise

2004-08-12 Thread David Wheeler
Finally replying to this; sorry for the delay. On Jun 17, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 09:31:48AM -0700, David Wheeler wrote: I checked in a bunch of changes to my module last night, and then the nightly process that runs cover on it output these lines: Devel::Cove

Re: The encoding API

2004-08-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:19 PM +0530 8/11/04, Gopal V wrote: Hi Dan & Michael, As a guy who speaks a strange language (multi byte chars, multi glyph chars, caseless text and half vowels) , I think you have made it too complicated than it should be . This scared me some, as I've not gotten to the complicated part... :

[perl #31058] [PATCH] profiling tweaks

2004-08-12 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jarkko Hietaniemi # Please include the string: [perl #31058] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=31058 > - make number of noop calibration rounds relative to the number of opcodes per

Re: If you're up for a real challenge

2004-08-12 Thread David Essex
Uri Guttman wrote: ... DE> Yes, run-time libraries are included. They are written in C. DE> Generally, both OC and TC generate inline code for program flow DE> control. The RTL are used mostly for type conversions, system calls DE> and such. then the question is how hard would it be to retarget f

Re: parrot cvs mirrored with svk

2004-08-12 Thread Chia-liang Kao
While this is not the best list discussing which version control system is better, I must say that I didn't mean svn is better though I setup the mirror. And my purpose was actually to make it possible for svk to mirror more efficiently. for people interested, checking out from locally mirrored pa

Re: [perl #31026] Fix generation of src/nci.c to be more efficient

2004-08-12 Thread chromatic
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 12:11, Dan Sugalski wrote: > You could look at what we do for class registration -- that code > might be similar. I don't think we've got too much at the C level > that messes around with parrot hashes yet, though. No, not a lot of examples. Here's a patch that's somewhat

The charset API part 1

2004-08-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
I realized there are two parts to this, so here's the first part. Note that the charset API has the entire encoding API in it. This allows the charset to interfere with what code wants to do to the underlying byte buffer. (The unicode charset will undoubtedly want to make sure those set_codepoin

Re: Functions for embedders to override

2004-08-12 Thread Arthur Bergman
On 11 Aug 2004, at 06:10, Dan Sugalski wrote: * Networking: socket, accept, connect, listen, etc. (see "Files") Yeah, and this'll be ever so much fun too. We need to add in select and poll to that list. Modern operating systems all have a way to get around the suckiness of poll/select when yo

Re: Functions for embedders to override

2004-08-12 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:20:14 -0400, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not very clear on the situation in Parrot with having multiple > interpreters running in the same process. Entirely possible. In fact, each thread in a process has its own interpreter. > I know that Lua has this

Re: [perl #31026] Fix generation of src/nci.c to be more efficient

2004-08-12 Thread chromatic
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 09:16, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Does the structure change at runtime? (ie can one register new dynamically > loaded NCI helper code?) If I understand what Dan wants, no. Unless the platform has a JIT that can generate stubs for all valid NCI signatures, it has to fall back t

[perl #31046] IRIX64 perlnum_36 float output expectation

2004-08-12 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jarkko Hietaniemi # Please include the string: [perl #31046] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=31046 > $ perl -Ilib t/pmc/perlnum.t ... not ok 36 - +- zero # Failed test (t/pmc/pe