miniparrot, a first attempt.

2002-10-31 Thread Josh Wilmes
I've banged together a first attempt at a miniparrot- that is, something that can be built on any ANSI C system without anything other than a compiler. Right now, as a proof of concept, it's building a source tree and a shell script which would build miniparrot under gcc. A real version woul

[PATCH] Re: How to portably link on Win32 (all flavors), OS/2 and VMS?

2002-10-31 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Andy Dougherty wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Andy Dougherty wrote: > > > Here's my proposal for stage one: This patch is intended to define > > explicitly what the different compiler and linker commands and flags > > are, what they are supposed to mean, and how they are to b

RE: [perl #18170] [PATCH] very complete lexical scope implementation

2002-10-31 Thread Jonathan Sillito
> -Original Message- > From: Leopold Toetsch [mailto:lt@;toetsch.at] > > WRT your comment: "should we use a List * here", I slightly vote for > yes. In the long run we could use List as the basic store for registers > and stacks as well. > List would only need a small extension to manage ar

Packfile / strings / flags

2002-10-31 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The packfile contains for string constants the STRING internal field "flags". This is used for various *internal* purposes, e.g. defining that a string is external or COWed. So a badly (i.e. non NULL) set flags field could seriously damage parrots operation WRT strings. IMHO, this field doesn't

Re: [perl #18170] [PATCH] very complete lexical scope implementation

2002-10-31 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jonathan Sillito (via RT) wrote: # New Ticket Created by Jonathan Sillito # Please include the string: [perl #18170] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=18170 > - changed: sub.c Comments? WRT your comment: