> A couple of comments on dealing with floats.
>
> - Use FLT_EPSILON/DBL_EPSILON from float.h
>
> - You method is total overkill, return (fabs(x - y) < DBL_EPSILON ? 1 : 0);
> should be sufficent (note: check with a numerical expert).
This is what I thought in the beginning. However, whether on
On 31/07/07, Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Jul 31, 2007, at 1:32 PM, peter baylies wrote:
>
> > That may not be a bad idea, but I think there's a bug in that code --
> > take, for example, the case where x and y both equal approximately a
> > million (or more).
> >
> > Maybe you wan
On Jul 31, 2007, at 10:40 PM, Jerry Gay via RT wrote:
see the 'Makefile' targets in config/gen/makefiles/root.in and
languages/perl6/config/makefiles/root.in
these are the only times i use --step=foo.
I'm glad you pointed these out to me. I was not previously aware of
these instances,
On 7/30/07, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue Jun 12 22:32:52 2007, jkeen at verizon.net wrote:
>
> >
> > So the task is to write unit tests for Parrot::Configure::runstep()
> > and, if appropriate, to refactor it, with that refactoring possibly
> > including renaming and/or
James E Keenan wrote:
When you run Configure.pl with the --step option, do you call it with
*any other* options? And, if so, which options?
And another follow-up question: Do you ever re-run *>1* configuration
step at a time? Example:
perl Configure.pl --step=inter::make --step=gen::m
On Tue Jun 12 22:32:52 2007, jkeen at verizon.net wrote:
>
> So the task is to write unit tests for Parrot::Configure::runstep()
> and, if appropriate, to refactor it, with that refactoring possibly
> including renaming and/or relocating the subroutine.
>
I've partially accomplished this; see t
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Please add/extend the PIR tutorial in examples/tutorial/*.pir. This will save
hours of
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> It might be on the stack or just in a CPU register. While we have
> code to mark all possible pointers on the stack, this isn't generally
> true for CPU registers, as that's rather system-dependent.
>
> See also src/cpu_dep.c():trace_system_areas()
If we can't rely on trac
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Attached is a patch to fetch the whole pugs test suite via svn export, and then
to run
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One line in the patched root.in used spaces instead of a tab.
use svn rm to remove the t
sigh.
And fix escaping slashes in the URL.
Index: languages/perl6/t/fetchspec
===
--- languages/perl6/t/fetchspec (revision 20380)
+++ languages/perl6/t/fetchspec (working copy)
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (C) 200
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Parrot's Perl6 in languages/perl6 is currently missing the "return"
statement. The rel
Author: allison
Date: Tue Jul 31 12:22:27 2007
New Revision: 20384
Modified:
trunk/docs/pdds/pdd15_objects.pod
Log:
[PDD15] Clarifying can and does on class, role, and instance objects.
Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd15_objects.pod
==
On Jul 31, 2007, at 1:32 PM, peter baylies wrote:
That may not be a bad idea, but I think there's a bug in that code --
take, for example, the case where x and y both equal approximately a
million (or more).
Maybe you wanted this instead:
return (fabs(x - y) <= EPSILON) ? 1 : 0;
The RE
On Jul 31, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Paul Cochrane (via RT) wrote:
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Hi all,
Attached is a pat
Another issue to consider...
http://www.cygnus-software.com/papers/comparingfloats/Comparing%20floating%20point%20numbers.htm#_Toc135149458
-J
--
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:46:41AM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
> A couple of comments on dealing with floats.
>
> - Use FLT_EPSILON/DBL_EPSILON from
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Paul Cochrane wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wanting to remove all the floating point comparison warnings which
> appear when compiling parrot and wanted some advice as to how best to
> achieve this.
>
> Floating point comparisons appear in code such as (taken from src/string.c):
Author: allison
Date: Tue Jul 31 11:56:54 2007
New Revision: 20382
Modified:
trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd17_pmc.pod
Log:
[pdd] Add question about COW to PMC PDD.
Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd17_pmc.pod
==
--- trun
A couple of comments on dealing with floats.
- Use FLT_EPSILON/DBL_EPSILON from float.h
- You method is total overkill, return (fabs(x - y) < DBL_EPSILON ? 1 : 0);
should be sufficent (note: check with a numerical expert).
- What about NANs and INFs? I typical test for one of the values being
On 7/31/07, Paul Cochrane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wanting to remove all the floating point comparison warnings which
> appear when compiling parrot and wanted some advice as to how best to
> achieve this.
>
> Floating point comparisons appear in code such as (taken from src/str
Hi all,
I'm wanting to remove all the floating point comparison warnings which
appear when compiling parrot and wanted some advice as to how best to
achieve this.
Floating point comparisons appear in code such as (taken from src/string.c):
if (*p == '-' && f == 0.0)
I'd like to replace this
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 09:11:05 Paul Cochrane wrote:
> Attached is a patch which allows the Sun C compiler on Solaris compile
> Parrot. However, I'm *really* not sure if what I've done is correct.
> I've tested the patch on Solaris (not all tests pass), on Linux (all
> tests pass), and on Window
On Thu, 31 May 2007 23:09:54 -0700
Mark Glines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The code in utf8_encode_and_advance is beautiful. It basically says,
> add a utf8 character to the buffer. Ok, now did we overrun the
> buffer? CRASH!
So if I add a call to Parrot_reallocate_string if the buffer isn't bi
On 7/31/07, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:20:27PM -0700, Matt Diephouse wrote:
> > On 7/30/07, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Monday 30 July 2007 00:21:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > Author: mdiep
>
> > > >=== --- trunk/src/inter_run.c (
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:20:27PM -0700, Matt Diephouse wrote:
> On 7/30/07, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Monday 30 July 2007 00:21:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Author: mdiep
> > >=== --- trunk/src/inter_run.c (original)
> > > +++ trunk/src/inter_run.c Mon Jul 30 00:21:07
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