Re: Closure vs Hash Parsing

2008-08-11 Thread Ron
uot;", $text; > > I'm thinking S04 probably needs some clarification/updating here. > Any block that contains a (placeholder) parameter probably needs > to remain a sub, even if the block content is a comma-separated list > starting with a pair/hash. But then, what will happen to this: %ret = map { { $^a => uc $^a } }, @arr; I would expect that to be the same as %ret = map -> $a { my %h={ $a => uc $a }; %h }, @arr; Regards, Ron

Re: r14574 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-08-12 Thread Ron
n identifiers is The Right Thing (tm), I fail to come up with better examples for the use of ' in identifiers as $larry's-change. Is that the intended use of ' in identifiers. Thanks, Ron

Re: r14574 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-08-13 Thread Ron
. Regards, Ron

Re: pluralization idea that keeps bugging me

2008-01-28 Thread Ron
say "Received $m message{ 1==$m ?? '' !! 's' }." could then look like: say "Recieved {nominative({name=>'message',count=>$m})}." Maybe someone could find a more concise form if huffmanly desireable. Regards, Ron

Re: r29121 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-18 Thread Ron
n should be: if the denominator equals 10**n, with n unsigned integer, .perl will produce a decimal number. Otherwise 1/30 would produce a decimal number like 0.033..., which was probably not intended. Regards, Ron

Re: [perl #37665] [BUG] compile warning on win32

2005-11-17 Thread Ron Blaschke
ereas F says it should be imported from a DLL (namely msvcrt71.dll). Hence the "inconsistent dll linkage" warning. There are two possible solutions: 1) Don't declare C in F 2) "Correctly" declare C as _CRTIMP extern char **environ; Hope this helps, Ron

Some thoughts on threading

2005-12-08 Thread Ron Blaschke
ngularity Project." [3] In Singularity, processes are very lightweight, and communicate with each other through channels. Objects are owned by a single process only. The Java folks have revamped "The Java Memory Model." [4] Can't say much to that one, as I am not through with it y

Compiling Parrot with Visual C++ 2005

2005-12-10 Thread Ron Blaschke
tests and 363 subtests skipped. Failed 4/180 test scripts, 97.78% okay. 5/4061 subtests failed, 99.88% okay. [1] https://rt.perl.org/rt3/index.html?q=37665 Ron

Re: Compiling Parrot with Visual C++ 2005

2005-12-12 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > On Dec 10, 2005, at 16:50, Ron Blaschke wrote: Here's a side by side comparison, Revision 10460, of Visual C++ 7.1 and 8.0. arithmetics.t suffers from -0.0 vs 0.0 problems. We've had something similar some time ago. They seem to have changed that in 8.0

Re: Compiling Parrot with Visual C++ 2005

2005-12-13 Thread Ron Blaschke
jerry gay wrote: > On 12/12/05, Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> arithmetics.t suffers from -0.0 vs 0.0 problems. We've had something >> similar some time ago. They seem to have changed that in 8.0, as the >> test passes there. >> > it s

Re: [perl #37902] [PATCH] Visual C++ Compiler Tests and Options

2005-12-13 Thread Ron Blaschke
ge (>=) at config/auto/msvc.pm line 64. > yes. > otherwise, looks good. if you could get this fixed up, i'll happily apply. Embarrassing actually. (1310 / 100) does not yield 13. Attached is a fixed version. Sorry, Ron msvc_configure_fixed.patch Description: Binary data

Re: [perl #37665] [BUG] compile warning on win32

2005-12-13 Thread Ron Blaschke
SVC 8.0, and avoid the warning on previous versions. Changed Files: src/classes/env.pmc Ron msvc_ticket_37665.patch Description: Binary data

Re: [perl #37665] [BUG] compile warning on win32

2005-12-13 Thread Ron Blaschke
Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 10:38:42 PM, jerry gay wrote: > On 12/13/05, Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> jerry gay wrote: >> > classes\env.pmc(26) : warning C4273: '__p__environ' : inconsistent dll >> > linkage >> > D:\

Re: Some thoughts on threading

2005-12-14 Thread Ron Blaschke
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:18:47 +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 17:16 +0100, Ron Blaschke wrote: >> The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software." >> [1] He starts with "The biggest sea change in software development since >>

Contributions & Win32 Env Mysteries

2005-12-16 Thread Ron Blaschke
This would be simpler, more isolated and probably more efficient because it avoids another level of indirection. Let me know what you think. Ron

Re: Win32 Env Mysteries

2005-12-22 Thread Ron Blaschke
e platform. This would be >>simpler, more isolated and probably more efficient because it avoids >>another level of indirection. Ron

Re: [perl #37993] [BUG] optimized parrot behaves differently than non-optimized (win32-msvc)

2005-12-22 Thread Ron Blaschke
not -0 > nmake realclean && svn up && configure.pl --optimize && nmake smoke > ## fails tests Quite interesting. Could you please post your CFLAGS and LINKFLAGS for either configuration? Thanks, Ron

MSWin32 (Visual C++ 8.0) Test Results (r12017)

2006-03-25 Thread Ron Blaschke
dows env issue still. See http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/32326 t/run/options.t My tempdir points to somewhere below "C:\Documents and Settings," which causes "$PARROT $first" to fail (Error reading source file C:\Documents.) Quoting $first and $second would resolve this. Or should I point my TMPDIR somewhere else? Ron

t/examples/streams.t issue on Windows

2006-04-09 Thread Ron Blaschke
svn:eol-style" is "native". With LF as line separator the tests work fine. t\examples\streamsok All tests successful. Files=1, Tests=12, 1 wallclock secs ( 0.00 cusr + 0.00 csys = 0.00 CPU) So I guess the "svn:eol-style" for the files should be changed to "LF". (Or the tests should normalize CRLF to LF.) Ron

Re: MSWin32 (Visual C++ 8.0) Test Results (r12017)

2006-04-27 Thread Ron Blaschke
chromatic wrote: On Saturday 25 March 2006 07:47, Ron Blaschke wrote: t/configure/step.t $fromfile and $tofile needs to be closed before calling move_if_diff, as Windows can't delete open files. I forgot to check this in a while back, but fixed now as #16032 (I hope). Thanks,

Re: Win32 Env Mysteries

2006-04-27 Thread Ron Blaschke
jerry gay wrote: On 12/22/05, Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tuesday, December 20, 2005, 8:09:32 PM, François PERRAD wrote: At 11:53 16/12/2005 +0100, you wrote: I can think of two ways to fix this: - Hide every env access behind the platform stuff. That is, add somethin

MSWin32 (Visual C++ 8.0) Test Results (r12442)

2006-04-27 Thread Ron Blaschke
Here's another round of test results on my box. I've also added the details for the tests that failed. The C and are not unexpected on Windows. Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed --- t/doc/

Re: [perl #39760] make warnings (r13197 - x86-msvc-7.1)

2006-07-15 Thread Ron Blaschke
inconsistent dll linkage Attached patch brings the declarations of imcc_init in main.c and imc.h in sync. compilers\imcc\main.c main.c Ron Index: compilers/imcc/main.c === --- compilers/imcc/main.c (revision

Re: [perl #39760] make warnings (r13197 - x86-msvc-7.1)

2006-07-15 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Am Samstag, 15. Juli 2006 21:27 schrieb Ron Blaschke: > >> Attached patch brings the declarations of imcc_init in main.c and imc.h >> in sync. > > Well, much simpler - I've deleted the line in main.c :-) > Thanks for the hint. Bummer,

Re: [perl #39760] make warnings (r13197 - x86-msvc-7.1)

2006-07-15 Thread Ron Blaschke
xe -MExtUtils::Command -e touch compilers\ast\ast.y.flag compilers\ast\astparser.c compilers\ast\astparser.h compilers\ast\astparser.c astparser.c Is that sufficient to close this issue, or should I provide a patch to disable the C4102 warning? Ron

[perl #38887] Result of INFINITY or NAN stringification is platform dependent

2006-07-16 Thread Ron Blaschke
N3, -1.0 sqrt N4, N3 print N4 print "\n" .end # trunk >parrot test.pir -1.#INF00 1.#INF00 -1.#IND00 # local >parrot test.pir -inf inf NaN Thanks, Ron

Re: [perl #39853] [BUG] Tcl - pwd returns path with backslashes on Win32

2006-07-18 Thread Ron Blaschke
forward slashes. C:\tmp>ruby require 'Shell' puts Shell.new.cwd ^Z C:/tmp Will this slashing madness ever end? Ron

[perl #38887] Result of INFINITY or NAN stringification is platform dependent

2006-07-26 Thread Ron Blaschke
N3, -1.0 sqrt N4, N3 print N4 print "\n" .end # trunk >parrot test.pir -1.#INF00 1.#INF00 -1.#IND00 # local >parrot test.pir -inf inf NaN Thanks, Ron

Re: [perl #38887] Result of INFINITY or NAN stringification is platform dependent

2006-07-27 Thread Ron Blaschke
'd like to see the "i" in "inf" capitolized or the "N"s in > "NaN" lower case. I like capital I for Inf. Sounds good to me. I'll change it to your suggested "Inf" and "NaN." Thanks, Ron

Re: Inf and NaN

2006-08-01 Thread Ron Blaschke
yield something close to 0. Otherwise, "Inf - Inf" or "NaN - NaN", it's NaN. Is this not portable enough? Is it better to look at the bits directly? Ron

Re: Inf and NaN

2006-08-01 Thread Ron Blaschke
Philip Taylor wrote: > Ron Blaschke wrote on 01/08/2006 08:17: >> >> I am wondering if this NaN != NaN property could be used for the isnan >> and finite tests, like so: [snip] >> Is this not portable enough? Is it better to look at the bits directly? [great stuff sn

Libraries, dynpmc and Visual C++

2006-09-12 Thread Ron Blaschke
p;& $CC =~ /^gcc/i". That way the build seems fine again on Windows XP and Visual C++. Ron

Re: Libraries, dynpmc and Visual C++

2006-09-12 Thread Ron Blaschke
d up in the coming weeks. Thanks! Parrot smokes well on Windows XP and Visual C++ again. 5488 OK from 5499 tests (99.80% ok) Ron

Assertion failed: (PTR2UINTVAL(mmd_table[i].func_ptr) & 3) == 0

2006-11-12 Thread Ron Blaschke
e else seeing this? Ron

Re: [perl #40998] [PATCH] Fix build error on Win32

2006-11-28 Thread Ron Blaschke
ir contains spaces the build process fails. > The fix is to translate build_dir to a short path name. In my opinion it would be better to escape/quote the relevant paths properly. I think the short file names were introduced for backwards compatibility, as a kludge. Besides, they are ugly to read. ;-) Ron

Re: [perl #31652] [TODO] Win32 - Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003

2006-12-18 Thread Ron Blaschke
Jonathan Worthington wrote: > chromatic via RT wrote: >> With ICU optional these days, is this still necessary? >> > Since Windows doesn't ship with a C compiler and this toolkit is one of > the easiest ways to get hold of one for free, then yes, it's good to > have it documented. (It may be *ca

Re: [perl #31652] [TODO] Win32 - Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003

2006-12-19 Thread Ron Blaschke
Jonathan Worthington wrote: > Ron Blaschke wrote: >> Seems like the old Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 is discontinued. >> >> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/aa336490.aspx >> > Aha. If you would have a moment to write these latest changes into > readme.win32.p

Assertions and MMD (on Windows XP)

2006-12-20 Thread Ron Blaschke
k that the lowest two bits of a function pointer are zero. Why's that? Thanks, Ron

Re: Assertions and MMD (on Windows XP)

2006-12-20 Thread Ron Blaschke
chromatic wrote: > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 11:24, Ron Blaschke wrote: > >> - The assertion seems to check that the lowest two bits of a function >> pointer are zero. Why's that? > > Presumably because pointers need a specific alignment, so those two bits wi

Re: Assertions and MMD (on Windows XP)

2006-12-22 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2006 20:24 schrieb Ron Blaschke: >> - The assertion seems to check that the lowest two bits of a function >> pointer are zero. Why's that? > > That's a bigger hack to discern function from PMC pointers in that

Building Parrot::Embed on Windows XP / Visual C++

2006-12-22 Thread Ron Blaschke
way to get there? Thanks, Ron

Re: Building Parrot::Embed on Windows XP / Visual C++

2006-12-22 Thread Ron Blaschke
chromatic wrote: > On Friday 22 December 2006 11:08, Ron Blaschke wrote: >> There are three steps necessary (four using VC8). >> >> 1) Two additional functions need to be exported. >> Parrot_register_pmc >> Parrot_unregister_pmc > > In some .def f

Re: Building Parrot::Embed on Windows XP / Visual C++

2006-12-23 Thread Ron Blaschke
chromatic wrote: > On Friday 22 December 2006 12:54, Ron Blaschke wrote: >> >> -void Parrot_register_pmc(Parrot_INTERP, Parrot_PMC); >> -void Parrot_unregister_pmc(Parrot_INTERP, Parrot_PMC); >> +PARROT_API void Parrot_register_pmc(Parrot_INTERP, Parro

Re: Building Parrot::Embed on Windows XP / Visual C++

2006-12-27 Thread Ron Blaschke
chromatic wrote: > On Saturday 23 December 2006 11:32, Ron Blaschke wrote: > >> It would be great if you could make the change right away. I thought it >> was just too small of a change to submit an official patch. > > Thanks, applied as of r16229. > >>>

[perl #41569] t/distro/file_metadata.t fails on win32

2007-03-08 Thread Ron Blaschke
Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed --- t/distro/file_metadata.t2 512 32 66.67% 2-3 Failed 1/1 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 2/3 subtests failed, 33.33% okay. Thanks, Ron

Re: [perl #41569] t/distro/file_metadata.t fails on win32

2007-03-09 Thread Ron Blaschke
ing svn:keywords attributes... t\distro\file_metadataok 1/3# Collecting svn:eol-style attributes... t\distro\file_metadataok All tests successful. Files=1, Tests=3, 12 wallclock secs ( 0.00 cusr + 0.00 csys = 0.00 CPU) Ron Index: t/distro

Re: [perl #41569] t/distro/file_metadata.t fails on win32

2007-03-09 Thread Ron Blaschke
chromatic wrote: On Friday 09 March 2007 05:00, Ron Blaschke wrote: Attached patch replaces the backslashes with slashes on Windows. Would using File::Spec be less fragile? The problem basically boils down to matching a list of MANIFEST (UNIX?) files with the (native file name, attribute

[perl #37997] r10604 build failure on Cygwin

2007-03-26 Thread Ron Blaschke
ts, 95.19% okay. 39/6675 subtests failed, 99.42% okay. Ron

Re: [perl #37997] r10604 build failure on Cygwin

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Blaschke
Joshua Gatcomb wrote: On 3/26/07, Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not sure about the details of this issue, but r17772 seems to build fine on Cygwin. Really? No one on #parrot has been able to get parrot to work on Cygwin for months. Interesting, didn't know about

Re: [perl #37997] r10604 build failure on Cygwin

2007-03-29 Thread Ron Blaschke
g please see my previous post in this thread about library loading. Paul Ron

Re: [perl #37997] r10604 build failure on Cygwin

2007-03-29 Thread Ron Blaschke
Joshua Gatcomb wrote: On 3/28/07, Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joshua Gatcomb wrote: If you could hang out on #parrot (irc.perl.org) when myself, Jonathan, particle, etc are around - it would go a long way towards getting a reproduceable test case that can be correctly artic

Re: [perl #37997] r10604 build failure on Cygwin

2007-03-30 Thread Ron Blaschke
Ron Blaschke wrote: Paul Cochrane wrote: I don't know if it's of much help, but I too am getting the Cygwin build barfing when miniparrot goes to build runtime/parrot/include/config.fpmc. I think that's actually a good sign. Try adding the absolute path to F and try aga

Re: [perl #37997] r10604 build failure on Cygwin

2007-03-30 Thread Ron Blaschke
to. Haven't look into the details yet, but I think one test creates an executable io_4.exe which doesn't stop printing results, which cause the out of memory situation. I usually just kill io_4.exe. (I know, that's a bad thing, but that's what bad people do.) Not 100% on this, but I think one or two of the stm tests hang, too. Ron

Re: [perl #37997] r10604 build failure on Cygwin

2007-03-30 Thread Ron Blaschke
chromatic wrote: On Friday 30 March 2007 07:35, Ron Blaschke wrote: Not 100% on this, but I think one or two of the stm tests hang, too. t/pmc/stmlog.t, test 2? No, I think this one's fine. More like t/stm/queue.t test 2 and t/stm/runtime.t test 4. Actually, t/stm/queue.t some

Re: [perl #37997] r10604 build failure on Cygwin

2007-03-30 Thread Ron Blaschke
ow.pir error:imcc:syntax error, unexpected $end in file 'runtime/parrot/library/Crow.pir' line 146 make: *** [runtime/parrot/library/Crow.pbc] Error 1 Ron

Re: [perl #35836] [PATCH] Dynclasses make pathquote

2005-05-16 Thread Ron Blaschke
chromatic wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 09:58 -0700, Ron Blaschke wrote: >> Attached patch quotes some paths. >> Otherwise Parrot won't built if living below a directory containing >> spaces (eg "C:/Documents and Settings"). > Will this have problems if a

r8118: MSWin32 Test Results

2005-05-18 Thread Ron Blaschke
Below are the test results of Windows XP SP2 Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.10.3077 for 80x86 Activestate Python 2.4.1 Build 245 Activestate Perl 5.8.6 Build 811 ANTLR 2.7.5 ICU 3.2 GDBM 1.8.3 GMP 4.1.4 Failed TestStat Wstat T

Re: r8118: MSWin32 Test Results

2005-05-19 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> t\op\spawnw.t 5 1280 65 83.33% 2-6 > exit status? Quite likely, yes. I'd gladly provide a patch, if someone would decide The Right Thing To Do. That is, what should Parro

Re: r8118: MSWin32 Test Results

2005-05-19 Thread Ron Blaschke
Ron Blaschke wrote: > Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> t\pmc\bigint.t1 256221 4.55% 22 >> What's up with that one? > Maybe my fault. The program segfaults at C in > C. Memory gets alloc

Re: r8118: MSWin32 Test Results

2005-05-20 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Ron Blaschke wrote: >> Ron Blaschke wrote: >>>>>t\pmc\bigint.t1 256221 4.55% 22 >> The problem seems to be caused by the C in >> F. Well, not the actual cause, but that's >> where we fail. > mp

Re: [perl #35900] [PATCH] skip dynclasses, spawnw tests on win32

2005-05-21 Thread Ron Blaschke
s: I'd rather see failures for things that need to be fixed. Tests should only be skipped if they are not applicable on the current system, or the test busts everything. Others may feel different, of course. Ron

MSWin32 Test Results of Parrot r8259

2005-06-03 Thread Ron Blaschke
83.33% 2-6 t\pmc\threads.t 7 1792117 63.64% 2-5 7-9 t\pmc\timer.t 2 512 82 25.00% 3 5 2 tests and 63 subtests skipped. Failed 10/136 test scripts, 92.65% okay. 81/2373 subtests failed, 96.59% okay. Ron

Microsoft Visual C++ 8 Beta2

2005-06-11 Thread Ron Blaschke
\dynclass\pyint.t 26 665626 26 100.00% 1-26 t\op\spawnw.t 3 768 63 50.00% 4-6 2 tests and 65 subtests skipped. Failed 8/151 test scripts, 94.70% okay. 71/2526 subtests failed, 97.19% okay. Ron

Linking on Windows (was: Building Parrot with MinGW, ActivePerl & command.com)

2005-06-11 Thread Ron Blaschke
rot.dll, which is utterly useless, as it is only used there. I've discussed this issue previously on this list, implemented a solution for the Microsoft toolchain (with all dynclasses tests passing), but the solution got rejected, so I decided to leave it to someone else. Ron

Parrot bc?

2005-06-11 Thread Ron Blaschke
I'm feeling rather dumb asking this, but F says: Currently GNU bc is only used for doublechecking Parrot bc. Now, my question is: Where is "Parrot bc?" Ron

Re: Parrot bc?

2005-06-12 Thread Ron Blaschke
Bernhard Schmalhofer wrote: > Ron Blaschke schrieb: >>Now, my question is: Where is "Parrot bc?" > "Parrot bc" is sitting on my local disk, being very disfunctional. > I'll check it in, as soon as it does something useful. I see. > It will Python

RE: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-07 Thread Reidy, Ron
ck this file, if I explicitly supply > username and password (this is obvious, right?) and show some warnings > if don't. Say, make a connect parameter "use_dot_dbi", which is zero by > default. > -- > Maxim Sloyko -- Ron Reidy Lead DBA Array BioPharma, Inc.

RE: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-13 Thread Reidy, Ron
Sorry, instead of implicit 'commit', I mean to say implicit conversion. ----- Ron Reidy Lead DBA Array BioPharma, Inc. -Original Message- From: Reidy, Ron Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:06 AM To: Sam Vilain; Dean Arnold Cc: dbi-users@perl.org; dbi-dev@perl.

RE: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-13 Thread Reidy, Ron
_DATE_COLUMN > ? > SOME_DATE_COLUMN is the database native date type. On Oracle you'll > need to convert the ? to a 'TO_DATE(?)'. No you do not. The SQL engine will perform an implicit commit of the data. - Ron Reidy Lead DBA Array BioPharma, Inc. &

Pugs 6.2.8 installbin, installscript, installsitelib problems

2005-07-15 Thread Ron Hill
isted here. they are pointing to my Perl5 directory structure. That's not good :-( (good thing I did not run nmake install yet!) I just wanted to let someone know about this. Thanks Ron Hill

[PATCH] Deprecated compiler flag on MS Windows w/ ActiveState perl

2003-08-17 Thread Ron Blaschke
ed by ActiveState Perl $perl -V:ccflags ccflags='-nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX'; The attached patch replaces /Gf with /GF for compiler versi

Re: Streams and Filters (Ticket #31921)

2004-11-08 Thread Ron Blaschke
ith Codepage 1250 is used, except for the "Command Prompt" which uses Codepage 850 (which leads to fun for example with german umlauts). For me it boils down to the question whether parrot should support plain old text files. Ron

Re: Win XP problems

2004-11-08 Thread Ron Blaschke
need to do is use the .NET command line, >>rather than the regular cmd.exe shell. The .NET shell sets up all the >>environment variables needed to do a compile of Parrot. > What's that? It just fires up a command prompt with the vcvars32.bat executed. Ron

Re: Win XP problems

2004-11-08 Thread Ron Blaschke
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:46:47 -0600, Christian Lott wrote: > Ron Blaschke wrote: >>No. Look for a batch file called vcvars32.bat below the Microsoft Visual >>C++ 2003 directory, and run it. It'll setup your environment. >>"dir /s vcvars32.bat" > OK. Path

Re: Strings, charsets, and encodings, oh my!

2004-11-14 Thread Ron Blaschke
t;char"s, and some good time getting Supplementary Characters (> U+) to work. http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/Supplementary/ Ron

Re: [Repost] Building with VS.NET 2003 and ICU 2.8 on Win32

2005-02-01 Thread Ron Blaschke
hard for me to get a grip on this collaboration thingy. I am not sure what things are known (expected?) to broken, or who else is already working on which problem (avoid racing for patches, or patching something someone is already working on). I guess I am asking for a gentle push in the right direction here, to bring me up to speed. Ron

NCI, undef and structures

2005-02-05 Thread Ron Blaschke
# external data: 111 # external data: # external data: 1 # external data: 11 # external data: 111 # external data: # external data: 1 # ' -test failures snap- Ron

Re: [perl #34059] [PATCH][MSWin32] Add NCI test symbols

2005-02-05 Thread Ron Blaschke
) Ron mswin32_add_nci_symbols.patch Description: Binary data

Subversion?

2005-02-04 Thread Ron Blaschke
Just curious. Are there any plans moving parrot to subversion? Ron

Re: [Repost] Building with VS.NET 2003 and ICU 2.8 on Win32

2005-02-02 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am not sure what things are known (expected?) to broken, > The normal CVS state is that "make test" succeeds on linux and OS X. > Intermittent expected failures are announced here. Great, that

Re: Building with VS.NET 2003 and ICU 2.8 on Win32

2005-02-02 Thread Ron Blaschke
Will Coleda wrote: > Ron Blaschke writes: >> On a personal note, I (still) really like to help in win32, though >> it's quite hard for me to get a grip on this collaboration thingy. > *looks around* Apparently, you're not the only one. =-) ;-) I've been blinki

Re: [Repost] Building with VS.NET 2003 and ICU 2.8 on Win32

2005-02-02 Thread Ron Blaschke
scribed in README.win32 (actually, I am the one to blame for the suggestions) and things work fine for me. Would you care to retrace your steps carefully from a clean CVS HEAD, and provide a detailed description (eg, console in and output)? I'll look into this issue. Ron

Re: [perl #34059] [PATCH][MSWin32] Add NCI test symbols

2005-02-05 Thread Ron Blaschke
31649 Another idea would be to create a "symbol list file" for each library, which contains only the symbol names, from which the .def file would be derived (maybe another platform has similar needs?). Ron

Re: [Repost] Building with VS.NET 2003 and ICU 2.8 on Win32

2005-02-03 Thread Ron Blaschke
Jonathan Worthington wrote: > "Ron Blaschke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Leopold Toetsch wrote: >>> Sriram Krishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Failed Test

Re: [Repost] Building with VS.NET 2003 and ICU 2.8 on Win32

2005-02-03 Thread Ron Blaschke
it blows up. What I don't understand is why parrot needs the ICU data directory. Can someone please explain? Ron

Re: NCI, undef and structures

2005-02-06 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> assign nci_dlvar_float, nci_dlvar_float_decl > This calls Undef::assign, which morphs the Undef to the RHS type. So the > Undef becomes an array and >> N2 = nci_dlvar_float[0] > thi

Re: NCI, undef and structures

2005-02-07 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I see. Does this morphing work as designed? Creating an array out of >> an undef feels somewhat wrong. > Yes and yes ;) > A longer answer is: all operators currently need an existing LHS. [snip] T

Re: [perl #34059] [PATCH][MSWin32] Add NCI test symbols

2005-02-07 Thread Ron Blaschke
Bernhard Schmalhofer wrote: > Ron Blaschke wrote: >> I haven't checked the details, but I think this will not work, as it >> seems to generates a list of all symbols beginning with nci_, but >> 'int_cb_D4' is used, too. > nci_test.c is used only for testi

Latest MSWin32 Test Results

2005-02-07 Thread Ron Blaschke
Just for your information: Here are the latest test results on Windows. Ron Failed TestStat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed --- t\dynclass\pybuiltin.t5 1280 65 83.33% 1-2 4-6 t

string_init and ICU data directory

2005-02-13 Thread Ron Blaschke
p); --p;/* slash or backslash */ data_dir = mem_sys_allocate(strlen(prefix) + strlen(p) + 1); strcpy(data_dir, prefix); strcat(data_dir, p); free_data_dir = 1; } ... Ron

The Schizophrenic Parrot

2005-02-13 Thread Ron Blaschke
ion unit(s). " 2) Static linkage Dynclasses are currently statically linked against libparrot.lib, thereby using their own (uninitialized) parrot. Ron

Re: string_init and ICU data directory

2005-02-14 Thread Ron Blaschke
Monday, February 14, 2005, 12:07:51 PM, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'd like to clean up string_init, because it currently backfires >> (segfaults) on Windows if parrot is installed (empty >> DEFAULT_ICU_DATA_DIR ...). >

Re: The Schizophrenic Parrot

2005-02-14 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now things boil down to creating the .sym files. These might be >> created by grepping the source for C, C, etc, or >> by whatever script created the compilation unit(s). > Not everything that star

Re: string_init and ICU data directory

2005-02-16 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've put the precompiled ICU into a directory, and supply the >> --icushared and --icuheaders. This precompiled package contains only >> the bin, include and lib. There's no data directory.

Re: The Schizophrenic Parrot

2005-02-16 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> If I would be the one to choose, I'd add the C macro >> everywhere, and expand it to C<__declspec(dllexport)> on Windows (no >> more .def files). I'd al

Re: [perl #34178] [PATCH][MSWin32] Add gpm linkage and minor cleanup

2005-02-21 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> - adds correct linkage for gpm >> Some tests fail, though >> t\pmc\bigint.t 12 307221 12 57.14% 5-10 13-15 18 20-21 > Is there any indication what's going wrong? Not y

Re: [perl #34178] [PATCH][MSWin32] Add gpm linkage and minor cleanup

2005-03-06 Thread Ron Blaschke
Ron Blaschke wrote: > Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> - adds correct linkage for gpm >>> Some tests fail, though >>> t\pmc\bigint.t 12 307221 12 57.14% 5-10 13-15 18 20-21 >> Is there a

Current MSWin32 (WinXP, VC++ 7.1) Test Results

2005-03-06 Thread Ron Blaschke
6/135 test scripts, 95.56% okay. 55/2238 subtests failed, 97.54% okay. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe' : return code '0xff' The three skipped tests are: t/pmc/signal.t t/pmc/threads.t t/op/64bit.t Ron PS: Should I keep posting them from time to time, or are

Re: Current MSWin32 (WinXP, VC++ 7.1) Test Results

2005-03-07 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Here are the current test results on my WinXP, VC++ 7.1 box. > [ dynclasses failing ] >> PS: Should I keep posting them from time to time, or are they of no >> interest to anyone? > Yes please

Re: [perl #34572] [PATCH] README.win32 instructions for nmake with ICU

2005-03-27 Thread Ron Blaschke
een 3.0 and 3.2. AFAIK, parrot should work with 2.6, 2.8 and 3.0. Haven't tried 3.2 yet. Ron

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