Re: [svn:parrot] r20172 - trunk/src/ops

2007-07-25 Thread Andy Lester
Because PMCNULL can be (PMC)NULL or it can be PMCNULL, a special non- null variable. See how it's defined in the header. I thought we fixed it. Let's fix it. I don't know what the broken is. We don't want a special PMCNULL value? What is the backstory on PMCNULL? -- Andy Lester => [EMA

Re: [svn:parrot] r20172 - trunk/src/ops

2007-07-25 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 00:27:40 Andy Lester wrote: > >> Because PMCNULL can be (PMC)NULL or it can be PMCNULL, a special non- > >> null variable. > >> > >> See how it's defined in the header. > > > > I thought we fixed it. Let's fix it. > > I don't know what the broken is. We don't want a spe

[perl #37151] [TODO] Tcl-style globbing

2007-07-25 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Mon Sep 12 21:13:38 2005, azuroth wrote: > Need to either change PGE::Glob to fit Tcl style, /or/ create a derived > one just for Tcl. > The only real differences are that {} are treated literally in Tcl, and > Tcl doesn't support negation of character classes (so [^a-z] should match > a-z

Re: [svn:parrot] r20172 - trunk/src/ops

2007-07-25 Thread Andy Lester
PMCNULL is a singleton Null PMC. It's good. We like it. Hooray for PMCNULL. Except that PMCNULL is not a real NULL and therefore splint and lint and whatnot can't keep track of it getting somewhere it shouldn't be. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petda

[perl #40182] [TODO] Convert PGE::CodeString to .pmc

2007-07-25 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Wed Aug 16 23:50:41 2006, coke wrote: > <@pmichaud> CodeString is one of those that I think could give a nice > performance win if it were written in C instead of PIR :-) > This work is done, and sitting in branches/codestring-pmc. I'd like some feedback before committing to trun

[perl #43375] Parrot configuration option exec-prefix: hyphen vs. underscore

2007-07-25 Thread James Keenan via RT
No one commented on this in several weeks, so I'm assuming that it's considered of no importance. Closing ticket.

[perl #44171] [TODO] config/init/attributes.pm: Write unit tests

2007-07-25 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #44171] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=44171 > --- osname= linux osvers= 2.6.18.3 arch= i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi cc= cc --- Fl

[perl #44125] [PATCH] Configure.pl: more consistent interface

2007-07-25 Thread James Keenan via RT
Applied to trunk in r20200.

Re: [svn:parrot] r20196 - in trunk: include/parrot src

2007-07-25 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 17:55:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Modified: >trunk/include/parrot/string_funcs.h >trunk/src/string.c > > Log: > I'm trying to get Parrot_make_COW_reference not take NULl again. > Three tests are still failing at this point. > > * t/library/test_more.t > * t/pmc/

Make a compile-to-bytecode option

2007-07-25 Thread Andy Lester
Andy also needs we need a pbc disassembler where it dumps .pbc to pasm, if we don't have one. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

[perl #40090] [TODO] Tcl - make 'tcl.pbc --pir' work.

2007-07-25 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Sat Aug 05 20:37:59 2006, coke wrote: > When invoked with a '--pir' option and no tcl to process, partcl > should still enter interactive mode, but each interactive command > should: > > 1) output the PIR that was generated to execute that command (as -- > pir does now when passed tcl), an

[perl #43323] [TODO] config/init/install.pm: Write unit tests

2007-07-25 Thread James Keenan via RT
All code covered by tests; cf r20204.