Re: NEWS, PLATFORMS, and make fulltest Results Wanted

2008-05-17 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 22:05 -0700, chromatic wrote: > Parrot 0.6.2 is on schedule for the 20 May release. In preparation, please > gather up any NEWS you find important for your subsystem - Configuration + add step auto::opengl + add step gen::opengl + add step gen::call_list - Miscellaneo

Re: Compile-time checking of assignment to read-only variables (Re:MMD distances)

2008-05-17 Thread Carl Mäsak
Me Here (>), Carl (>>), Me Here (>>>): >> > What is the point of marking things readonly if you can turn it off? >> >> There are many possible reasons, I think. >> >> * The code that declares the variable readonly might not be available >> to you (compiled to bytecode, fetched by RCP etc), >> * or

[perl #54312] [PATCH] Implementation of 'infix:=>' for Rakudo

2008-05-17 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Vasily Chekalkin # Please include the string: [perl #54312] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=54312 > Hello. There is implementation of 'infix:=>' for Rakudo Index: src/parser/grammar-

Re: Create a sub of a particular type

2008-05-17 Thread Allison Randal
Jonathan Worthington wrote: Bob Rogers wrote: Jonathan Worthington wrote: Is the idea sane, and is the name of the adverb OK? If so, I'll go ahead and implement it (with changes as needed). The idea is generally sane. It is a good idea. I think I would call it ":class", though. I d

Re: Compile-time checking of assignment to read-only variables (Re:MMD distances)

2008-05-17 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 May 17, at 4:10, Carl Mäsak wrote: Whether we're risking the loss of important compiler optimizations by allowing overriding of variable RO-ness is not for me to say, that's up to the compiler writers around here. It seems to me you make it sound worse than it really is, that optimizati

Re: NEWS, PLATFORMS, and make fulltest Results Wanted

2008-05-17 Thread Paco Linux
Hi: I have to put/modify some entries in PLATFORMS, but in the meantime : SunOS netra 5.10 Generic_127127-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine cc: Sun C 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124867-01 2007/07/12 parrot: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC32PLUS Version 1, V8+ Required, dynamically

Re: NEWS, PLATFORMS, and make fulltest Results Wanted

2008-05-17 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 00:17 -0700, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 22:05 -0700, chromatic wrote: > > and please run make fulltest on every architecture you can find. > > Running on Debian-testing/i386 (SVK) and Debian-testing/amd64 (git-svn) > overnight (they're common I know, bu

Re: Create a sub of a particular type

2008-05-17 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 15:17:27 +0200 Longer, but clearer would be :instanceof. Allison I like this much better, despite the length. There may be other classes and types involved (especially when defining a :multi sub), but the only relevant

Re: NEWS, PLATFORMS, and make fulltest Results Wanted

2008-05-17 Thread chromatic
On Saturday 17 May 2008 08:42:13 Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: > > Running on Debian-testing/i386 (SVK) and Debian-testing/amd64 (git-svn) > > overnight (they're common I know, but what the heck). > > This is the first time that I've done this, and found the results a bit > disappointing -- there's no

Re: NEWS, PLATFORMS, and make fulltest Results Wanted

2008-05-17 Thread James Fuller
mac osx 10.4.11 (macbook 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM) perl -version = v5.10.0 built for darwin-2level -- perl Configure.pl - ok in plain vanilla mode make - ok make test - failed a single test t/examples/library.t (Wstat: 256 Tests: 4 Failed: 1)

Re: NEWS, PLATFORMS, and make fulltest Results Wanted

2008-05-17 Thread chromatic
On Saturday 17 May 2008 09:40:08 James Fuller wrote: > mac osx 10.4.11 (macbook 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM) > perl -version = v5.10.0 built for darwin-2level > -- > > perl Configure.pl - ok in plain vanilla mode > > make - ok > > make test - failed a single test > >t/exampl

Re: NEWS, PLATFORMS, and make fulltest Results Wanted

2008-05-17 Thread James Fuller
sudo prove -v t/examples/library.t t/examples/library.. 1..4 ok 1 - examples/library/getopt_demo.pir ok 2 - examples/library/md5sum.pir 7.4 Failed to load libpcre current instr.: 'parrot;PCRE;init' pc 99 (library/pcre.pir:106) called from Sub 'parrot;PCRE;main' pc 244 (examples/library/pcre.pi

[perl #54374] [BUG]: Warning being emitted when harness runs t/steps/inter_libparrot-*.t

2008-05-17 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #54374] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=54374 > While running 'perl Configure.pl --test', I get the following warning on each of the t

[perl #54374] [BUG]: Warning being emitted when harness runs t/steps/inter_libparrot-*.t

2008-05-17 Thread James Keenan via RT
The tests needed a bit more information to adapt to the change described above in config/inter/libparrot.pm. The patch attached fixes the tests. If there is no objection I'll apply it within 24 hours. Index: t/steps/inter_libparrot-02.t ===

[perl #36019] [TODO] readline support

2008-05-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
On Sat May 28 03:12:45 2005, leo wrote: > We already have some interactive parrot programs and applications. > Adding readline support for these would vastly improve their usability. This ticket strikes me as being too nebulous to ever be resolvable on its own merits. I vote to close it. Pm

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14542 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-05-17 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Sat May 17 14:37:37 2008 New Revision: 14542 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: Clarifications to how tied longest tokens are handled under LTM Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod == -

[perl #37324] [TODO] build - root.in makefile split-up

2008-05-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
On Sat Jan 12 01:22:42 2008, bernhard wrote: > James Keenan via RT schrieb: > > On Sun Oct 02 05:22:08 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> config/gen/makefiles/root.in already weighs in at 1581 lines. It needs > >> to be divided up into smaller files that are combined when Configure is > >>

[perl #38191] [TODO] build - generate META.yml

2008-05-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
On Fri Jan 11 13:16:00 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun Jan 08 21:12:48 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But wait until we've figured out exactly wait we want to list for CPAN > > to index. Perhaps we can use/steal Module::Build's logic. > > Joshua: I see that we've had a META.yml file i

[perl #38191] [TODO] build - generate META.yml

2008-05-17 Thread James Keenan via RT
Resolved per pmichaud's comment.

[perl #37927] [TODO] build - progs from env vars

2008-05-17 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sat May 17 14:41:38 2008, pmichaud wrote: > On Sun Feb 24 16:59:34 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > What are the other 'utilities' that you were referring to? Which of > > them would normally -- for some definition of 'normally' -- be set in > > ENV variables? > > There hasn't been muc

[perl #39313] [TODO] or [BUG] improve PMC compiler

2008-05-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
No action has occurred on this ticket since 2006, and I suspect it's obsoleted by improvements to PCCMETHOD and pmc2c anyway. I vote to close the ticket. Pm

[perl #36019] [TODO] readline support

2008-05-17 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sat May 17 14:36:08 2008, pmichaud wrote: > On Sat May 28 03:12:45 2005, leo wrote: > > We already have some interactive parrot programs and applications. > > Adding readline support for these would vastly improve their usability. > > This ticket strikes me as being too nebulous to ever be res

[perl #39430] Method cache not always invalidated

2008-05-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
On Mon Jun 12 16:30:13 2006, jonathan wrote: > Both Parrot_store_global and store_sub call Parrot_invalidate_method_cache, > however the versions of these that take keys (Parrot_store_global_p and > store_sub_p) fail to do so. Is this ticket still relevant after the pdd15oo changes incorporated

[perl #39855] [CAGE] configuration: define MIN/MAX macros for all integral typedefs

2008-05-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
On Mon Jul 17 11:59:47 2006, chip wrote: > It's great to have INTVAL and UINTVAL, but without MAX_INTVAL it's kind of > hard to work with them in some respects. All integral typedefs should have > min/max macros. Syntax not a big deal, it can be fixed later, just don't > break anything when intro

[perl #39990] External API and C Strings

2008-05-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
On Thu Jul 27 12:05:41 2006, leo wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 27. Juli 2006 20:27 schrieb chromatic: > > When embedding or extending Parrot through the external API, most of > the > > strings go into and come out of Parrot as the type Parrot_STRING. > This is > > painful and somewhat tedious from C (whe

[perl #41132] [BUG] Segfault in Parrot_call_sub_ret_int

2008-05-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
Is this ticket still relevant? There hasn't been any activity on it since Dec 2006, and if there was a problem we probably would've uncovered it by now. Pm

[perl #41619] [PATCH] add add_attr, rem_attr, and rem_attr_str vtable methods

2008-05-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
On Sun Mar 16 09:20:55 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon Mar 12 05:40:14 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm still working on my use case, but it appears the new MetaClass PMC > > (src/pmc/metaclass.pmc) could use this vtable method as well; currently it > > only has an add_attribute PMETH

[perl #41620] [PATCH] change opcode syntax for label arguments

2008-05-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
On Sun Mar 16 09:24:16 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun Feb 25 20:12:58 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This patch changes the , , and > INT> syntax in opcodes to , , and > LABEL>, respectively. > > There's been no activity in this thread for > 1 year. While the patch > did apply succ

[perl #42393] [TODO] regex - FIXME items in languages/regex/lib/Regex/Grammar.y

2008-05-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
On Sat Sep 01 08:32:08 2007, bernhard wrote: > On Mo. 09. Apr. 2007, 08:16:36, ptc wrote: > > There are two FIXME items in languages/regex/lib/Regex/Grammar.y. > > Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to work out why the > > lines of code need to be fixed, and then to fix them. > > In r18

[perl #42692] install error

2008-05-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
There's been no activity on this ticket since Apr 2007, I vote we close it as being abandoned. Pm

[perl #42938] [BUG] allocation failures in res_lea.c

2008-05-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
Is this ticket still relevant/important in light of the pdd28 strings PDD? If not, I think we can close it. Pm

[perl #54380] PGE <.rule> still generates captures

2008-05-17 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Kevin Tew # Please include the string: [perl #54380] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=54380 > token identifier { <.identifier_nondigit> [ <.identifier_nondigit> | <.digit> ]*

[perl #42987] parrot coredump during make smoke on HPUX 11.23 (Itanium)

2008-05-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
This ticket is over a year old -- and I don't know that we have a way to test it. Shall we close it and let someone reopen/resubmit if it's observed again? Pm

Re: NEWS, PLATFORMS, and make fulltest Results Wanted

2008-05-17 Thread James E Keenan
chromatic wrote: Parrot 0.6.2 is on schedule for the 20 May release. In preparation, please gather up any NEWS you find important for your subsystem, please report any PLATFORMS updates, and please run make fulltest on every architecture you can find. Here's the one non-codingstd failure I g

Re: [perl #42393] [TODO] regex - FIXME items in languages/regex/lib/Regex/Grammar.y

2008-05-17 Thread James E Keenan
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Posted-By: 68.237.16.164 Patrick R. Michaud via RT wrote: > plus I don't know > th

Re: NEWS, PLATFORMS, and make fulltest Results Wanted

2008-05-17 Thread James E Keenan
chromatic wrote: Parrot 0.6.2 is on schedule for the 20 May release. In preparation, please gather up any NEWS you find important for your subsystem, please report any PLATFORMS updates, and please run make fulltest on every architecture you can find. Running 'make fulltest' on Darwin/ppc

Re: Compile-time checking of assignment to read-only variables (Re:MMD distances)

2008-05-17 Thread Me Here
"Carl Mäsak" wrote: > ] Oh, but it gets even better: it turns out they didn't really have to > ] sneak in through native code anyway, at least as far as the JVM is > ] concerned, since the JVM treats final variables as always writable > to ] the class they're defined in! There's no special case fo

[perl #54376] Make runs after make clean

2008-05-17 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Please include the string: [perl #54376] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=54376 > --- osname= linux osvers= 2.6.24-arch arch= i686-linux cc= cc --- Flags:

[svn:parrot-pdd] r27608 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2008-05-17 Thread rgrjr
Author: rgrjr Date: Sat May 17 20:04:52 2008 New Revision: 27608 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd19_pir.pod Log: [DOCS] * docs/pdds/draft/pdd19_pir.pod: + Expand the documentation of :immediate by hijacking the revcomp.pir example, which illustrates a hidden feature. Expand :postco

Licensing issues of translated sample code

2008-05-17 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
I am considering adding PIR translations (and possibly other language translations) of the OpenGL Programming Guide ("Red Book") sample code to examples/opengl/ in the Parrot repository. The original C version of this code is under the seemingly free license at the bottom of this message. What do

[perl #54384] [BUG] split opcode gives "failed assertion" when source string is null

2008-05-17 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #54384] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=54384 > The split opcode gives "failed assertion 's'" when given a null string argument.