parrot-0.1.1 make test and nci

2005-01-03 Thread Ian Joyce
Pardon me if this is the wrong list for this question. I'm attempting to build parrot-0.1.1. Configure and make go fine. However when running 'make test' 45/46 tests for nci fail. See below for sample failure. t/pmc/nci..NOK 5# Failed test (t/pmc/nci.t at line 181) #

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03

2005-01-03 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03 All~ Welcome to a New Year of Perl 6 Summaries. I have been doing bi-weekly summaries over the holiday season, but I plan on returning to weekly ones now. Hopefully "World of Warcraft" won't prevent me, we shall see, but if anyon

Re: parrot on x86 solaris 2.5.1 (and 2.7)

2005-01-03 Thread Andy_Bach
Please let me know if I'm being too dense or too, er, flippant here, I've just gotten sucked, er, just joined the parrot world (dang O'Reilly books ;-) and I'm not sure how formal this list is or how much detail you'll want off the bat. If these issues are too picayune at this point, I'll desis

Resizable array questions

2005-01-03 Thread Simon Glover
1) When we resize a Resizable*Array (where * = Integer, Float or String) by calling set_integer_native, we also set the PMC's active_destroy flag. However, we don't do this when resizing a ResizablePMCArray (which also has a different memory allocation strategy). Is this because we don't stri

pop_pad

2005-01-03 Thread Peter Christopher
Hi there, Is there a reason that `op pop_pad(out PMC)' has not been implemented yet? (It's in ops/var.ops). If so, could someone give me a quick heads up as to that reason. Thanks for the information, Pete

[PROPOSAL] VTABLE_call_method

2005-01-03 Thread Sam Ruby
Ramblings on creating a new VTABLE_call_method "slot" to help with implementing Python's bound vs unbound methods: http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/01/03/Bound-Methods This is related to a previous discussion on Overloaded Operator Methods: http://xrl.us/ekh8 - Sam Ruby

[perl #33662] [PATCH] Rename libnci.so to libnci_test.so

2005-01-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bernhard Schmalhofer # Please include the string: [perl #33662] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=33662 > Hi, the library 'libnci.so' is used for testing the Native Call Interface, n

Re: [perl #33642] [PATCH] Change working directory for parrotbench.pl

2005-01-03 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
--- Matt Diephouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Matt Diephouse > # Please include the string: [perl #33642] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence > about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=33642 > > > > > parrotbench.pl cu

Re: Native data structure for parrot?

2005-01-03 Thread Luke Palmer
Bernhard Schmalhofer writes: > This sounds somewhat like a Piddle, which is the data structure of the > Perl Data Language, http://pdl.perl.org/. AFAIK there is already a hook, > that allows you to use your own data lying somewhere in your memory. > > It might be worthwile to create a Piddle PMC

Re: Native data structure for parrot?

2005-01-03 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: Graciliano M. P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I'm thinking is that in Parrot, as is in Perl, we have dynamic data structures, like dynamic HASH and ARRAYs, with SCALARs that can grow as they want. To write our code this help a lot, but some parts of our algorithms