Re: perl6/languages/t/compiler/1.t print format errors

2003-09-16 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Andy Dougherty wrote: [ \d+\.0{6} vs \d+ ] > I expect these are a result of Leo's recent work on the perl PMCs, rather > than a Solaris or perl version issue. There were similar problems in the > base test suite for a bit. Yes. Sorry

Re: Pondering argument passing

2003-09-16 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > It would be tempting to change all pushtop,pushbottom,poptop,popbottom >> > ops into ones that had the start register and number of registers as >> > arguments. >> >> No. These ops are used to save registers for the caller and not for >> argument passing.

Re: [perl #23815] [PATCH] Trivial jako Makefile patch

2003-09-16 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This fixes an apparent obvious typo in the Jako Makefile. Thanks, applied. leo

Re: cvs commit: parrot/languages/imcc/t/syn pcc.t

2003-09-16 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Gordon Henriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> + * ge_n_ic_ic => ge_nc_ic This should of course read ge_n_nc_ic on the RHS. > > | A C D E G I| > | N S T V| > WTF ...

Re: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-16 Thread Robin Berjon
My, is this a conspiracy to drag -internals onto -language to make it look alive? :) You guys almost made me drop my coffee mug... -- Robin Berjon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Research Scientist, Expway http://expway.com/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488

Re: This week's summary

2003-09-16 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... spending the morning of your 36th birthday Happy birthday to you and us. l - "A full year has passed, hasn't it?" - eo

RE: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-16 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Gordon Henriksen wrote: > (Moving to internals. Definitely not a language discussion.) I dunno--while not a language discussion, it does help the people who're involved understand the difficulties in what they're asking for. (Larry, luckily, is aware of this stuff, but many

Re: Pondering argument passing

2003-09-16 Thread Sean O'Rourke
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This sounds like the beginning of a whole set of things like "Warning >> #238: suboptimal implementation of xxx. Are you sure you know what you >> are doing?" > > If the user turns on optimization and the compiler finds such code, yes, > why not. SBCL

Re: cvs commit: parrot/languages/imcc/t/syn pcc.t

2003-09-16 Thread Sean O'Rourke
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gordon Henriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> | A C D E G I| >> | N S T V| >> > > WTF ... Hangman -- the goal is to guess the

Re: Problems building perl6 (perl version dependency?)

2003-09-16 Thread Andy Dougherty
[charnames.pm is unavailable in 5.00503.] Commenting out the 'use charnames' in String.pm, I only get two failures for languages/perl6 with perl5.00503. They are t/compiler/b_4.p6, which is sub main() { print "\c[^J]"; # Control-Char print "\c[REVERSE SOLIDUS]\n"; # Named Unicode pr

Re: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-16 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Ph. Marek wrote: > > You can, of course, stop even potential optimization once the first "I can > > change the rules" operation is found, but since even assignment can change > > the rules that's where we are right now. We'd like to get better by > > optimizing based on what w

Re: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-16 Thread David Storrs
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:49:52AM -0400, Gordon Henriksen wrote: > Austin Hastings wrote: > > > Given that threads are present, and given the continuation based > > nature of the interpreter, I assume that code blocks can be closured. > > So why not allocate JITed methods on the heap and manage t

Jitted array access [was: Next Apocalypse]

2003-09-16 Thread Stéphane Payrard
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:30:06PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: [snipped] > > No, I think Parrot will still only JIT I&N registers. Optimization > includes way more than just JIT. > Do you mean that array accesses will not be jitted? If an array is declared exact type (not subclassable) and that

[perl #23819] [PATCH] Pdump janitorial fixes

2003-09-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Steve Clark # Please include the string: [perl #23819] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=23819 > Attached is a patch file of a couple of trivial janitorial-type fixes to pdump-related

[perl #23822] [PATCH] Avoid undef warnings for ccwarn

2003-09-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #23822] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=23822 > The following patch eliminates the following (correct!) warnings during the Configure

RE: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-16 Thread Gordon Henriksen
David Storrs wrote: > This discussion seems to contain two separate problems, and I'm not > always sure which one is being addressed. The components I see are: > > 1) Detecting when the assumptions have been violated and the code has >to be changed; and, > > 2) Actually making the change af

RE: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-16 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Gordon Henriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Storrs wrote: > > > This discussion seems to contain two separate problems, and I'm not > > always sure which one is being addressed. The components I see > are: > > > > 1) Detecting when the assumptions have been violated and the code > h

Re: This week's summary

2003-09-16 Thread Piers Cawley
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ... spending the morning of your 36th birthday > > Happy birthday to you and us. Thanks.