Re: My autodetect stuff

2007-08-02 Thread James E Keenan
Andy Lester wrote: I just committed a patch that autodetects the HASATTRIBUTE_xxx attributes for GCC. It's kinda funky under Solaris, but still passes. Please let me know what happens on other platforms. I'm off to bed. I'm assuming you're speaking of revisions to config/init/attributes.pm

Re: My autodetect stuff

2007-08-02 Thread James E Keenan
James E Keenan wrote: Andy Lester wrote: I just committed a patch that autodetects the HASATTRIBUTE_xxx attributes for GCC. It's kinda funky under Solaris, but still passes. Please let me know what happens on other platforms. I'm off to bed. init::attributes should therefore be renamed a

Re: Floating point comparisons

2007-08-02 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Joshua Isom wrote: > I'm pretty sure 0.0 always equals -0.0. I think it's part of the c > specification. Now, on OpenBSD, you can't print -0.0, as it will print 0.0 > instead which is really annoying. This is with at least 3.8 but I don't know > if it's been changed since th

[perl #44333] [BUG] parrot build breaks with msvc

2007-08-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jerry Gay # Please include the string: [perl #44333] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=44333 > r20426 (or something shortly before--probably andy's compiler attribute detection) breaks w

Re: [perl #44291] [PATCH] Fix for suncc

2007-08-02 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Paul Cochrane wrote: > On 01/08/07, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 31 July 2007 23:23:22 Paul Cochrane wrote: > > > > Hi Paul, > > > > > This is what I thought. However, making the change made suncc > > > happier, which made me wonder if it worked on other

Re: Floating point comparisons

2007-08-02 Thread Doug McNutt
At 09:34 -0400 8/2/07, Andy Dougherty wrote: > Guessing programmer intent doesn't seem to me to be an >appropriate job for a virtual machine. Agreed. But in engineering and science floating point tests are often buried in deep loops. An operator for rapid testing of near-equal can help with ex

Re: [perl #44333] [BUG] parrot build breaks with msvc

2007-08-02 Thread Paul Cochrane
I've been doing some digging on this issue today, and it seems that msvc doesn't barf with HASATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT like it does with the other attribute checks, and consequently HASATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT gets set as being defined. Then later on (within compiler.h) the __attribute__..

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14431 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-08-02 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Aug 2 16:19:18 2007 New Revision: 14431 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S11.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Log: Clarification of autoincrement semantics requested by pmichaud++ self does not expand in list context typos Modified: d

should Parrot_confess() call abort()? was Re: Thank you so much Josh Hoblitt for the backtracing

2007-08-02 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
Does anyone object to this patch? Index: exceptions.c === --- exceptions.c(revision 20408) +++ exceptions.c(working copy) @@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ { fprintf(stderr, "%s:%u: failed assertion '%s'\n", file, line, cond);

Re: Quality improvement in volunteer software projects

2007-08-02 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
Oops, please ignore the accidental CCs. -J -- On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 01:35:51PM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > This is Martin Michlmayr Ph.d thesis: > > http://www.cyrius.com/publications/michlmayr-phd.pdf > > > -J > > -- pgpht9olpUBmS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Quality improvement in volunteer software projects

2007-08-02 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
This is Martin Michlmayr Ph.d thesis: http://www.cyrius.com/publications/michlmayr-phd.pdf -J -- pgpBoYLGg19Mn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [perl #44345] [PATCH] Add NQP to docs/glossary.pod

2007-08-02 Thread Larry Wall
: +Acronym for Native Quite Perl (6). NQP is designed to be a very small compiler for s/Native/Not/ Larry

[perl #44345] [PATCH] Add NQP to docs/glossary.pod

2007-08-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Colin Kuskie # Please include the string: [perl #44345] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=44345 > The attached patch adds NQP to the glossary in the docs directory. I

[perl #44347] [PATCH] docs/pmc/*.pod for PerlArray

2007-08-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Colin Kuskie # Please include the string: [perl #44347] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=44347 > This mail message contains standard MIME attachments. If you see this note, your e-mail

[perl #44353] [BUG] Configure.pl: verbose-step option not working with named step

2007-08-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #44353] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=44353 > --- osname= linux osvers= 2.6.18.3 arch= i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi cc= cc --- Fl

Re: [perl #44353] [BUG] Configure.pl: verbose-step option not working with named step

2007-08-02 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
The issue is here is that there is nothing in Configure.pl's output to correlate the package name of the step with the output seen from a typical run. For example, say the test that outputs "Determining architecture, OS and JIT capability..." is failing for some reason so you w