... I haven't looked at the original problem closely, but can you explain what you think the patch does, and/or why you think it will cure the problem? I can't...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Jun 1, 2001 7:24 am
87354
This is a build failure report for perl from andreas@..., generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.7.1. ... [Please enter your report...
Andreas Fehr
andreas@...
Jun 1, 2001 7:44 am
87355
... But I *am* running Linux! -- Michael G. Schwern <schwern@...> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance <perl-qa@...>...
Michael G Schwern
schwern@...
Jun 1, 2001 8:55 am
87356
... Frankly, I don't even understand what they do. ... That's really, really, really, really bizarre. Even more bizarre is my RCS file doesn't look like that...
Michael G Schwern
schwern@...
Jun 1, 2001 9:23 am
87357
... I'm not too fond of having placeholder code around. Especially uncommented. It has a tendency to not be removed should the experiment fail. It would be...
Michael G Schwern
schwern@...
Jun 1, 2001 9:26 am
87358
... Wow. 1000+ warnings in the core C code alone. And to cap it all off: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/perl-current' ./miniperl configpm...
Michael G Schwern
schwern@...
Jun 1, 2001 9:28 am
87359
... from_to has "in-place" semantics (not my choice). It returns the length i.e. 1 when you take ord() of 1 i.e. '1' you get 241 on EBCDIC. You want...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Jun 1, 2001 10:20 am
87360
Ok, the debugger needs tested. Basic features break alot. How do we do we test it? Do something similar to t/run/runenv.t and fake tty input? Even if we...
Michael G Schwern
schwern@...
Jun 1, 2001 10:28 am
87361
... You're right about it taking a class. DynaLoader docs don't say anything about bootstrap() taking a version argument, though. ... +++ xsutils.c 2001/06/01...
Michael G Schwern
schwern@...
Jun 1, 2001 10:28 am
87362
Hmmm, don't know how to deal with this one. tokereport is only used when build with -DDEBUGGING. Just toss an #ifdef around the whole routine? -- Michael G....
Michael G Schwern
schwern@...
Jun 1, 2001 10:31 am
87363
We've silenced a good chunk of the warnings, but new ones appear to have been added in just the last few days worth of patches. To prevent a two steps...
Michael G Schwern
schwern@...
Jun 1, 2001 10:39 am
87364
I just read up on trigraphs. Wow, what a silly feature. gcc -ansi thinks ??? is a trigraph. ... +++ hv.c 2001/06/01 10:47:32 @@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ compute it....
Michael G Schwern
schwern@...
Jun 1, 2001 10:50 am
87365
Making x2p stuff make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/perl-current/x2p' `sh cflags hash.o` -DPERL_FOR_X2P hash.c CCCMD = cc -c -DDEBUGGING...
Michael G Schwern
schwern@...
Jun 1, 2001 11:00 am
87366
... The perl way is to use Zero() macro. ... -- Nick Ing-Simmons who is looking for a new job see http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Jun 1, 2001 11:04 am
87367
... Should you use Zero() instead? (Serious question, I'm not sure how perlish the x2p stuff is.) -- diff: usage diff [whatever] etc. - plan9 has a bad day...
Simon Cozens
simon@...
Jun 1, 2001 11:05 am
87368
... You're right, it doesn't make sense, and it does break typed lexicals in closures. I misunderstood how that code relates to the problem shown in this...
Abhijit Menon-Sen
ams@...
Jun 1, 2001 11:55 am
87369
... It didn't think so -- I want to make sure a person doing (?c) knows that /c is only good when used with /g. ... D'oh. ... Ok. Just so you know, these...
Jeff Pinyan
jeffp@...
Jun 1, 2001 12:04 pm
87370
... So you'll want to test that (?gc) throws two warnings, and (?o-cg) three, right? ;-) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>...
Philip Newton
Philip.Newton@...
Jun 1, 2001 12:10 pm
87371
From: Jeff Pinyan [mailto:jeffp@...]
> The two patches after my sig add warnings (and their documentation) for
> useless regex modifiers used in (?xxx)...
Paul Marquess
Paul_Marquess@...
Jun 1, 2001 12:16 pm
87372
... I have said this about umpteen times but I'll say it again: the in-place semantic was the initial choice. We want to make it Perlier. So let's do it...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Jun 1, 2001 1:08 pm
87373
... I dunno. What about all the "ununsed variable warnings" left around from stack games? (targ and ax) ... -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Jun 1, 2001 1:41 pm
87374
... ...and ix. Also, the yaccy warnings are still with us. Unless we (absolutely?) eradicate the warnings, people will keep on perlbugging them. ... -- $jhi++;...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Jun 1, 2001 1:52 pm
87375
I haven't been following this thread, but for a progress-making compromise, could you "-Wall -ansi -Wno-unused"?...
Redford, John
John.Redford@...
Jun 1, 2001 1:57 pm
87376
... That could work. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Jun 1, 2001 2:14 pm
87377
... Done it ages ago - now have decode() and encode() as the prefered interfaces. Will word my comments more carefuly next time. ... Left in-place from_to as...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Jun 1, 2001 2:16 pm
87378
Hi, I am trying to install Perl on an AIX 4.3.3 with an IBM HTTP Server. When I execute "sh Configure -de", I get this error: .at: 0652-050 Cannot open...
Romeo B. Titong
rtitong@...
Jun 1, 2001 2:19 pm
87379
... -ansi is going to be a pain as currently, if GCC is in use we use GCC extensions. -ansi is going to complain about them ... -- Nick Ing-Simmons who is...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Jun 1, 2001 2:22 pm
87380
... Well, its down to the stuff I don't really understand. Magic macros and yacc stuff. I'm hoping that by turning on warnings we'll get some exposure and...
Michael G Schwern
schwern@...
Jun 1, 2001 2:23 pm
87381
... Actually, I think there was only one warning about ANSI stuff. The trigraph bit. -- Michael G. Schwern <schwern@...>...
Michael G Schwern
schwern@...
Jun 1, 2001 2:25 pm
87382
... Yes. ;) Below are the new patches. Things look fine where I am. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan japhy@... http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ Are you a...