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

2005-05-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jerry Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dynclasses and spawnw have been busted on win32 for some time now. > with this patch, these annoying test failures will be skipped on > win32. Good, just commit it ;-) > ~jerry leo

Re: Parrot as an extension language

2005-05-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Someone fixes the Eiffel interface generator to understand C > variadic functions. Yep :) > 2) We provide a function and method call interface that assumes > you've already pre-filled in the registers according to parrot's > calling conventions That

Re: Parrot as an extension language

2005-05-21 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "Leopold" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Leopold> What's the difference WRT va_list? If the interface code Leopold> can stuff things into an array, it sould as well be able Leopold> to prepare a va_list. You are quite right. I'll harass the author of the interfac

Re: pcre.t failure

2005-05-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> t/library/pcreCan't use string ("Test::Builder") as a HASH ref while >> "strict refs" in use at lib/Test/Builder.pm line 304. > This is a feature of the Test-Simple update I did yesterday. > I bet $has_pcre is false for you and you're hitting the skip

Re: Parrot as an extension language

2005-05-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Colin Paul Adams wrote: "Leopold" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Leopold> What's the difference WRT va_list? If the interface code Leopold> can stuff things into an array, it sould as well be able Leopold> to prepare a va_list. You are quite right. I'll harass the

Re: Parrot as an extension language

2005-05-21 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "Leopold" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Leopold> Colin Paul Adams wrote: >>> "Leopold" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Leopold> What's the difference WRT va_list? If the interface code Leopold> can stuff things into an array, it sould as we

Re: Parrot as an extension language

2005-05-21 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "Leopold" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Leopold> BTW (again) which interface generator for which Eiffel? Oops. I missed that last bit. All current Eiffel compilers are supported. -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire

Re: Parrot as an extension language

2005-05-21 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Leopold" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Leopold> What's the difference WRT va_list? If the interface code Leopold> can stuff things into an array, it sould as well be able Leopold> to prepare a va_list

Re: Parrot as an extension language

2005-05-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Colin Paul Adams wrote: "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: "Leopold" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Leopold> What's the difference WRT va_list? If the interface code Leopold> can stuff things into an array, it sould as well be able Leopold> t

[perl #35910] [PATCH] parrotcode dl urls

2005-05-21 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Dino Morelli # Please include the string: [perl #35910] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=35910 > It was pointed out by a visitor to #parrot that, on the index and source pages of parro

[Fwd: [Python-Dev] First PyPy (preview) release]

2005-05-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Especially goals below ... leo Original Message Subject: [Python-Dev] First PyPy (preview) release Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 23:44:29 +0200 From: Armin Rigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: python-dev@python.org The PyPy 0.6 release *The PyPy Development Team is happ

Cross-type string appending message

2005-05-21 Thread Colin Paul Adams
I'm getting the following error message: Cross-type string appending (fixed_8/ascii) (fixed_8/ascii) unsupported Just looking at the text alone suggests an incorrect error text (at best). -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire

Re: Cross-type string appending message

2005-05-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Colin Paul Adams wrote: I'm getting the following error message: Cross-type string appending (fixed_8/ascii) (fixed_8/ascii) unsupported Just looking at the text alone suggests an incorrect error text (at best). Strange at best. Please provide a code snippet that exhibits the problem. BTW, w

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

2005-05-21 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Jerry Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> dynclasses and spawnw have been busted on win32 for some time now. >> with this patch, these annoying test failures will be skipped on >> win32. > Good, just commit it ;-) Just my opinion on this: I'd rather see failures for things

config/auto/m4.pl patch

2005-05-21 Thread Kevin Tew
Debian sid reports m4 --version as GNU M4 1.4.3 Written by Rene' Seindal. Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. notice the captial M

wanted: hash stress tests

2005-05-21 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:07:10 +0200 I'm currently rewriting the hash implementation in src/hash.c. The new hash structure has just one piece of malloced memory with bucket pointers and buckets in one piece. But before comitting I'd l