new ICU 2.4 release available

2002-12-27 Thread Mitchell N Charity
Dan wrote ("What's up for 0.0.10", 19 Dec 2002) [..] here's a list of the things I'd like us to work on specifically for 0.0.10. [...] [...] *) Get ICU building and (hopefully) integrated As of Dec 20, there is a new ICU release, 2.4. http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/2.4/

[CVS ci] mark3 - PMC/Buffer unification #9 + #19418

2002-12-27 Thread Leopold Toetsch
This is the next step in PMC/Buffer unification. - mark_used and buffer_lives are both substituted by: void pobject_lives(INTERP *, PObj *) - the mark vtable function is adjusted to above signature - the string_header and buffer_header pools are now only pointers to the real pools managed in s

[perl #19493] [PATCH] Documentation updates in vtables.pod

2002-12-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Please include the string: [perl #19493] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19493 > Hi, during the holidays I have been looking in the possibility of targeting the Qu

Re: [perl #19358] [PATCH] Test fix for P6C.

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:58 AM + 12/23/02, Joseph F.Ryan (via RT) wrote: This patch should fix a bug in the test suite (specifically, at parrot/languages/perl6/t/compiler/1.t) that was causing one test to fail. Seems to be nothing more than a typo. Applied, thanks. -- Da

Re: [perl #19359] [PATCH] Extending P6C strings.

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:16 AM + 12/23/02, Joseph F.Ryan (via RT) wrote: This patch will extend interpolating string support to include \c[^], \c[NAME], \c[NAME;NAME], \u, \l, \e, \U[], \L[], and \E[]. Applied, thanks. -- Dan --"it's l

Re: [perl #19363] [PATCH] Radii Support for P6C.

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:28 AM + 12/23/02, Joseph F.Ryan (via RT) wrote: This patch adds full numeral support, including 0b0, 0c0, 0d0, 0x0, specific radii notation, and dotted-radii notation. This doesn't mean *everything* with numbers is done; for instance, "formatted" (underscore separated) numbers still aren

Re: [perl #19367] [PATCH] Bug Fixes for P6C.

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:29 AM + 12/23/02, Joseph F.Ryan (via RT) wrote: This patch adds further extends interpolating strings to add support for \0, \0[], \0[;], and \x[;]. Also, Bug fixes: - \e worked incorrectly (and thus broke a test); fixed - Literal backslashes ('\\') broke the parse; fixed - \c[;] didn't

Re: [perl #19369] [PATCH] P6C compiler tests for tickets 19359, 19363, 19367.

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:41 AM + 12/23/02, Joseph F.Ryan (via RT) wrote: This patch adds tests that cover the changes made by tickets 19359, 19363, and 19367. Applied, though we need to do something about the non-descriptive test file names... In the future, if you could patch MANIFEST when adding files, that

[perl #19500] [PATCH] fix to disallow negative zero

2002-12-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Michael Joyce # Please include the string: [perl #19500] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19500 > Hello. The core parrot op neg() allows zero to become negative. That shouldn't happen

Re: [perl #19406] [PATCH] creates a script which describes source files

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 4:25 PM + 12/24/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (via RT) wrote: This patch creates a script tools/dev/extract_file_descriptions.pl It produces a browsable list of file names with brief descriptions, and is intended to help familiarize new developers with the layout of parrot. Applied, thanks. --

Re: [perl #19462] [PATCH] Supress alignment warnings in jit.h and debug.h

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:42 PM + 12/26/02, Bruce Gray (via RT) wrote: Summary: Whenever jit.h or debug.h are '#include'ed, gcc 3.x emits warnings about structure padding. These patches fix the problem. Note: I am not convinced that this is the right way to handle these warnings on *every* platform. We may nee

Re: [perl #19463] [PATCH] Sanity check for alignptrs/test_c.in

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:15 AM + 12/27/02, Bruce Gray (via RT) wrote: This patch gives Configure's pointer alignment test a better error message for missing input. Hopefully this won't happen, but in case it does... Applied, thanks. -- Dan --

Re: [perl #17507] [PATCH] lib/Parrot/Configure/Step.pm - more litter cleanup

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:03 PM -0600 12/26/02, Bruce Gray wrote: (Take 2: even "RT-Send-CC: perl6-internals at perl.org" is not getting out to the mailing list.) URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17507 On 2002-09-22, I opened this ticket and submitted a patch. On 2002-12-11, I updated (in RT) th

Re: [perl #19465] [PATCH] method_util.h lacks Vim local variables

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:23 AM + 12/27/02, Bruce Gray (via RT) wrote: The file 'method_util.h' is missing the standard comment block that sets the behavior for the Vim editor. This patch adds the comment. Applied, thanks. -- Dan --"it

Re: [perl #19467] [PATCH] win32.h - MinGW #pragma warnings

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:22 AM + 12/27/02, Bruce Gray (via RT) wrote: The gcc compiler in MinGW (win32) emits warnings for invalid pragmas in win32.h (platform.h). This patch uses '#ifndef __GNUC__' to hide the pragmas from gcc. Nope--there are more compilers that aren't gcc than just MinGW. Is there a MinGW s

Re: [perl #19470] [PATCH] --cc=FOO fails for Win32

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:19 AM + 12/27/02, Bruce Gray (via RT) wrote: In hints/mswin32.pl, there is code in place to customize the build environment based on the value of $cc. However, $cc is only populated by the 'cc' from the local 'perl -V'; the command-line flag '-cc=FOO' is not used here. This patch corrects

Re: [perl #19500] [PATCH] fix to disallow negative zero

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:39 PM + 12/27/02, Michael Joyce (via RT) wrote: The core parrot op neg() allows zero to become negative. That shouldn't happen. I've attached a patch to this email that corrects the problem by testing if neg() was passed a value of zero. I've also attached a patch that adds a new test to

Re: [perl #19467] [PATCH] win32.h - MinGW #pragma warnings

2002-12-27 Thread Bruce Gray
[cc'ed to Brent Dax for his specific attention] On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 20:34:33 -0500, "Dan Sugalski" wrote: >At 1:22 AM + 12/27/02, Bruce Gray (via RT) wrote: >>The gcc compiler in MinGW (win32) emits warnings for invalid >>pragmas in win32.h (platform.h). >>This patch uses '#ifndef __GNUC__' t

[perl #19511] [PATCH] Pointers in List_chunk not initialized

2002-12-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bruce Gray # Please include the string: [perl #19511] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19511 > On Win32, these tests are segfaulting due to invalid pointers in List_chunk structs: t/op

[perl #19516] imcc whitespace sensitive parsing error

2002-12-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Please include the string: [perl #19516] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19516 > Whitespace sensitive imcc issue... $ cat find_close.imc .sub MAIN $S0 = "\\"

[perl #19517] RT issue

2002-12-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Please include the string: [perl #19517] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19517 > (I don't see an RT queue, so I'm sending this to the parrot queue) I have a dev.pe

LXR or GLOBAL Re: new ICU 2.4 release available

2002-12-27 Thread Robert Spier
>Btw - Is there any interest in having a GNU GLOBAL or LXR cross-referenced >web copy of the parrot code? Yes, definitely. We could probably even put it on parrotcode.org or dev.perl.org/perl6. Do you have a recommendation between GLOBAL and LXR? -R

Re: [perl #19517] RT issue

2002-12-27 Thread Robert Spier
>(I don't see an RT queue, so I'm sending this to the parrot queue) There is one, but it's not visible to you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the shortest address to get there. >I have a dev.perl.org account. my email is currently set to "will at >coleda.com". > > For proper tracking, you should send t