Re: [perl #17194] ScanMail Message: To Sender, action taken by attachment blocking.

2002-09-12 Thread Robert Spier
>> xScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has blocked a file xattachment(s). >is getting trying. Do we have any official public LARTing policy on >braindead systems that mail back to the list? There are too many to properly LART. When I see them, I add them to the Spam filters. Right now we've got 1

[perl #17202] [PATCH] Avoid SIGBUS/coredump in Configure alignment tests

2002-09-12 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #17202] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17202 > The following patch installs a signal handler to try to catch the core dumps that can

RE: [PATCH] Re: [perl #17091] 64-bit-int builds broken

2002-09-12 Thread Garrett Goebel
From: Andy Dougherty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Btw, can anyone advise me on getting an actual account on > > a natively 64-bit machine somewhere? I don't really like > > the model of checking in broken code, waiting for the tinderbox > > to get around to testing it, blindly fixing things,

Re: So long

2002-09-12 Thread Peter Sergeant
John Porter wrote: > Immediately whereupon he took advantage of the > highest-visibility vehicle available to him, the p6i summary, to > pillory me. > Now, I tend to think that that was an abuse of power, considering > he is completely unaccountable to anyone for what he writes there. This seem

Re: [PATCH] Re: [perl #17091] 64-bit-int builds broken

2002-09-12 Thread Andy Dougherty
> Btw, can anyone advise me on getting an actual account on a natively > 64-bit machine somewhere? I don't really like the model of checking in > broken code, waiting for the tinderbox to get around to testing it, > blindly fixing things, and repeating. Especially when the tinderbox > machines fre

Happy Birthday Dan

2002-09-12 Thread Piers Cawley
What does it feel like to be middle aged? (Well, by the biblical count at least...) -- Piers "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite." -- Jane Austen?

Re: [perl #17193] [PATCH] Re: Howto packout _SC / _NC KEYs

2002-09-12 Thread Leopold Toetsch
> Here is a patch, that is selfcontained in packfile.c, s/packfile/packout/ of course, sorry leo

Re: [PATCH] Re: [perl #17091] 64-bit-int builds broken

2002-09-12 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Andy Dougherty wrote: > > 64-bit-int builds appear to be broken. This is from Linux/SPARC with > > INTVAL='long long'. This configuration used to work quite recently. Thanks, applied (by me). -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: So long

2002-09-12 Thread Piers Cawley
John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've decided it's time for me to take another break from this list. > Not that any of you care, but I think the reason is important. > > Due to a silly misunderstanding -- one which could have been easily > avoided by a simple request for clarification --

Re: More fun with the perl 6 compiler.

2002-09-12 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 09:58, Piers Cawley wrote: > > sub odd($n); > > > > first to declare the function. This gets you a warning about redefining > > odd, but that's ignorable. > > Odd... could have sworn I tried that. And I was under the impression > that official format for this was C<< sub od

Re: More fun with the perl 6 compiler.

2002-09-12 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Piers Cawley wrote: > Heh. I tried predeclaring using the apocalypse style: > >sub odd($n) {...} >sub even($n) {...} > > And that complained about the yadda, even though the functions were > then fully defined. At the time I interpreted this as a stub definition, not

Re: More fun with the perl 6 compiler.

2002-09-12 Thread Piers Cawley
Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 06:46, Piers Cawley wrote: > >> Here's the classic example of mutual recursion: >> >> sub even ($n) { >> given $n { >> when 0 { return 1 }; >> default { odd($n-1) }; >> } >> } >> >> sub odd ($n) { >>

Re: More fun with the perl 6 compiler.

2002-09-12 Thread Piers Cawley
"Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Piers Cawley wrote: > >> So, I know that recursion doesn't seem to work in the simple case, but >> at least it reaches runtime. Mutual recursion doesn't even compile >> successfully. > > It should do about this, since you're calli

Re: [perl #17159] imcc / Mac OS X problem

2002-09-12 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Leon Brocard wrote: > > > cc: unrecognized option `-shared' > > And here probably helps the patch, that was sent to the list sometimes > ago, replacing LD with LINK in root.in (main Makefile): > > > blib/lib/libparrot$(SO): $(LINK) $(LD_SHARED) $

Re: More fun with the perl 6 compiler.

2002-09-12 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 06:46, Piers Cawley wrote: > Here's the classic example of mutual recursion: > > sub even ($n) { > given $n { > when 0 { return 1 }; > default { odd($n-1) }; > } > } > > sub odd ($n) { > given $n { > when 0 { return } > default {

Re: [perl #17194] ScanMail Message: To Sender, action taken by attachment blocking.

2002-09-12 Thread Nicholas Clark
This: On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:36:14PM +, System Attendant wrote: > # New Ticket Created by System Attendant > # Please include the string: [perl #17194] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17194 > > >

Re: More fun with the perl 6 compiler.

2002-09-12 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Piers Cawley wrote: > So, I know that recursion doesn't seem to work in the simple case, but > at least it reaches runtime. Mutual recursion doesn't even compile > successfully. It should do about this, since you're calling it with parens, but for the moment, you need to dec

Re: P6C and closures

2002-09-12 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Piers Cawley wrote: > So, do we have a timetable for when the Perl 6 interpreter is going > handle closures? When it uses find_lex/store_lex instead of registers for locals, which will take a bit of doing, though it's near the top of more than one todo list. > Also, conside

[perl #17194] ScanMail Message: To Sender, action taken by attachment blocking.

2002-09-12 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by System Attendant # Please include the string: [perl #17194] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17194 > ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has blocked a file attachment(s). Place = [EMAIL P

[perl #17193] [PATCH] Re: Howto packout _SC / _NC KEYs

2002-09-12 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch # Please include the string: [perl #17193] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17193 > Here is a patch, that is selfcontained in packfile.c, so should be useful for other

Re: [perl #17159] imcc / Mac OS X problem

2002-09-12 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Leon Brocard wrote: > Leopold Toetsch sent the following bits through the ether: > Cool, I've done the past two patches and it compiles but then fails to > compile parrot shared: We are getting close ;-) > cc: unrecognized option `-shared' And here probably helps the patch, that was sent t

Re: [perl #17159] imcc / Mac OS X problem

2002-09-12 Thread Leon Brocard
Andy Dougherty sent the following bits through the ether: > Yup, That's a long-standing bug. Here, again, is the correct fix for it. Cool, finally imcc works. Now, what's the best way to roll in all the patches? Are they the correct fixes? Leon -- Leon Brocard.htt

Re: [perl #17159] imcc / Mac OS X problem

2002-09-12 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Leon Brocard wrote: > Cool, I've done the past two patches and it compiles but then fails to > compile parrot shared: > > cc -shared -L/usr/local/lib -flat_namespace -o blib/lib/libparrot.so exceptions.o >global_setup.o interpreter.o parrot.o register.o core_ops.o core_o

So long

2002-09-12 Thread John Porter
I've decided it's time for me to take another break from this list. Not that any of you care, but I think the reason is important. Due to a silly misunderstanding -- one which could have been easily avoided by a simple request for clarification -- our Illustrious Summarizer decided to be grievous

Re: [perl #17159] imcc / Mac OS X problem

2002-09-12 Thread Leon Brocard
Leopold Toetsch sent the following bits through the ether: > And finally, in imc.c there is another »int n_spilled;«, please delete > this line. Cool, I've done the past two patches and it compiles but then fails to compile parrot shared: cc -pipe -fno-common -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasi

More fun with the perl 6 compiler.

2002-09-12 Thread Piers Cawley
So, I know that recursion doesn't seem to work in the simple case, but at least it reaches runtime. Mutual recursion doesn't even compile successfully. Here's the classic example of mutual recursion: sub even ($n) { given $n { when 0 { return 1 }; default { odd($n-1) }; }

Re: [perl #17159] imcc / Mac OS X problem

2002-09-12 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Leon Brocard wrote: > Leopold Toetsch sent the following bits through the ether: > > >>Could you try my second proposal? >> > > Sure. The patch I tried is attached, which fixes up a lot of the > warnings. However, I now get: > > ld: multiple definitions of symbol _n_spilled > imcparser.o defi

Re: [perl #17159] imcc / Mac OS X problem

2002-09-12 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Leon Brocard wrote: > Leopold Toetsch sent the following bits through the ether: > And finally, in imc.c there is another »int n_spilled;«, please delete this line. Sorry, leo

P6C and closures

2002-09-12 Thread Piers Cawley
So, do we have a timetable for when the Perl 6 interpreter is going handle closures? Also, consider the following: sub fac($n) { when 0 { 1 } default { $n * fac($n - 1) } } print1 fac(10); Compiling this barfs because there's 'no topic in fac', despite the apocalypse stating tha

Re: [perl #17159] imcc / Mac OS X problem

2002-09-12 Thread Leon Brocard
Leopold Toetsch sent the following bits through the ether: > Could you try my second proposal? Sure. The patch I tried is attached, which fixes up a lot of the warnings. However, I now get: cc -pipe -fno-common -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-common -g-I../../include -o imcpar

Re: imcc 0.0.9 runs 100% perl6 tests + various results

2002-09-12 Thread Melvin Smith
At 02:12 PM 9/10/2002 +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >"perl6 --test -r" runs (i.e. executes inside imcc) _all_ perl6 tests >(including t/compiler/8_5.p6) now correctly, _if_ GC is turned off. Does this include the patch you sent me? I was unable to apply it so it sort of sat in my queue. -Melvin