On Sun Jul 06 11:03:37 2008, japhb wrote:
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> Better yet, we should replace the inherently insecure quicksort
> algorithm (insecure in the "vulnerable to algorithmic attack" sense)
> with a more secure mergesort like perl5 uses. IIRC, perl5's mergesort
> is also carefully crafted to be as sensibl
I recently resumed work on refactoring and testing of the Parrot
configuration steps. The attached patch represents work done in the
last two weeks in the 'autojit' branch.
As with other config steps, the approach was to refactor code out of
runstep() into internal subroutines, then to test the h
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Patrick R. Michaud (via RT)
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> If there's agreement on using a method-based form, I think I can
> implement it fairly quickly, and we can update PDD21 accordingly.
I would tend to disagree, if only out of respect for symmetry with the
get_
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If we create a class from a namespace, then objects created
from the class don't p
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osname= cygwin
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cc= gcc
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More details — needless to say the location of the segfault is nowhere near
the bug, w
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 20:11 -0700, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Parrot_quicksort() is in src/utils.c; the first do-while loop has nothing to
> stop it when j reaches 0, so it keeps going outside of the data array. I
> guess that the while condition needs j > 0 adding to it to prevent that from
> happeni
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If sort is given a comparison function that always returns >0, the result is
a segfaul
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>From Coke's rant in RT #55238:
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