Re: [perl #29200] [NCI Feature Request] Handle Out Parameters

2004-04-26 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > int SDLCALL TTF_SizeText(TTF_Font *font, const char *text, int *w, int > *h); > *w and *h are out parameters. > Per my reading of the NCI PDD and the code, this isn't yet supported. Then the POD is missing some items: ,--[ src/call_list.txt ] | # 2 - point

[perl #29200] [NCI Feature Request] Handle Out Parameters

2004-04-26 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by chromatic # Please include the string: [perl #29200] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=29200 > I've just come across the following signature for which I want to write NCI bindings: /

Re: Joys of assignment

2004-04-26 Thread TOGoS
> Okay, I've skimped on the explanations > (I thought they were obvious, but that's > just not true), so it's time to get things > down. w007, w00t. That is correct. :) > (And yes, this means store_global > will be relatively little-used) Would a few operators like 'find_or_store_reference_glob

Joys of assignment

2004-04-26 Thread Dan Sugalski
Okay, I've skimped on the explanations (I thought they were obvious, but that';s just not true), so it's time to get things down. Parrot's got two main variable 'types'--value and reference. Value types are types that are directly referenced--types whose PMCs actually represent themselves. When

Re: One change to the strings document

2004-04-26 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 08:12, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 9:34 PM -0400 4/25/04, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > >On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 16:34, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >> Just a heads up, there are two things that have been pointed out. > >> > >> First, the transset op is transcharset. The abbreviation was a

Re: Win32 build fails on src\interpreter.str

2004-04-26 Thread Ron Blaschke
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:40:08 +0200, Ron Blaschke wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:48:22 +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >>> After, so I already got the interpreter.str file. I guess VC gets confused >>> with the _CONST_STRING(i, __LINE__) thingy, where __LINE__ doesn't get >>> expanded, and the whol

Cygwin build failing for some time

2004-04-26 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
I am not sure if this message will make it to the list as I am posting it using the www.perldiscuss.com interface. Cygwin has been failing to build since at least the 21st. I suspect it has been since ICU went in. I checked the tinderbox report but it is not listed. FWIW - PLATFORMS is also inc

Re: A12: The dynamic nature of a class

2004-04-26 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:14 AM -0700 4/26/04, Jeff Clites wrote: On Apr 25, 2004, at 11:59 PM, Luke Palmer wrote: Jeff Clites writes: I don't (right off) know of any other language which has something "in between" variables and objects. That is, containers. They're feeling a bit artificial. Well... Perl 5. Well, the

Re: One change to the strings document

2004-04-26 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:34 PM -0400 4/25/04, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 16:34, Dan Sugalski wrote: Just a heads up, there are two things that have been pointed out. First, the transset op is transcharset. The abbreviation was a bit sloppy. Second, in spots where "character" is used, substitute

Re: Win32 build fails on src\interpreter.str

2004-04-26 Thread Ron Blaschke
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:48:22 +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> After, so I already got the interpreter.str file. I guess VC gets confused >> with the _CONST_STRING(i, __LINE__) thingy, where __LINE__ doesn't get >> expanded, and the whole results in _CONST_STRING_ instead of >> _CONST_STRING_1309,

Re: Win32 build fails on src\interpreter.str

2004-04-26 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After, so I already got the interpreter.str file. I guess VC gets confused > with the _CONST_STRING(i, __LINE__) thingy, where __LINE__ doesn't get > expanded, and the whole results in _CONST_STRING_ instead of > _CONST_STRING_1309, etc. > Now, here come

Re: imcc code generation problem

2004-04-26 Thread Nick Glencross
Leo, I've been away from email for the weekend, so sorry for the delay. Leopold Toetsch wrote: Well C and C<$I13> or some such is the same for the compiler. Both need a Parrot register allocation. If they aren't reused after this instruction, there isn't any problem to put these into the same re

Re: Win32 build fails on src\interpreter.str

2004-04-26 Thread Ron Blaschke
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:37:44 +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> Your problem seems to be related to the %.str: %.c inference rule, which >> nmake doesn't understand. For nmake, this should read >> .c.str: >> $(PERL) build_tools\c2str.pl $< > $@ > That's already in CVS ;) Great. :-) > >>

Re: nmake error

2004-04-26 Thread Ron Blaschke
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:46:05 +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote: >> Main Makefile contain line >> .c.str: build_tools\c2str.pl >> >> But nmake do not understand this construction, only >> >> .c.str: >> . >> > This is a problem I flagged up earlier, but I haven't had time to check > leo's lat

Re: One change to the strings document

2004-04-26 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 16:34, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Just a heads up, there are two things that have been pointed out. > > First, the transset op is transcharset. The abbreviation was a bit sloppy. > > Second, in spots where "character" is used, substitute "grapheme", as > I'm going to. Noting, of

Re: nmake error

2004-04-26 Thread Jonathan Worthington
"Nick Kostirya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Main Makefile contain line > .c.str: build_tools\c2str.pl > > But nmake do not understand this construction, only > > .c.str: > . > This is a problem I flagged up earlier, but I haven't had time to check leo's latest fix. Looking at that line,

nmake error

2004-04-26 Thread Nick Kostirya
Hello. Main Makefile contain line .c.str: build_tools\c2str.pl But nmake do not understand this construction, only .c.str: . Nick.

Re: A12: The dynamic nature of a class

2004-04-26 Thread Jeff Clites
On Apr 25, 2004, at 11:59 PM, Luke Palmer wrote: Jeff Clites writes: I don't (right off) know of any other language which has something "in between" variables and objects. That is, containers. They're feeling a bit artificial. Well... Perl 5. Well, there's that. :) But--how does that manifest its

Re: A12: The dynamic nature of a class

2004-04-26 Thread Luke Palmer
Jeff Clites writes: > I don't (right off) know of any other language which has something "in > between" variables and objects. That is, containers. They're feeling a > bit artificial. Well... Perl 5. Luke