Front page | perl.perl6.language |
Postings from October 2005
"Matt Fowles" <ubermatt@gmail.com> wrote: > =head3 Obsolete Win32 Exports > > Michael Walter found and removed some obsolete Win32 Exports. > Jonathan Worthington applied the patch. Weren't we planning on auto > generating these? > The Plan is to mark functions that are to be exported with something that we'll #define to be the export directive on Win32, thus rendering the .def file as un-needed. However, before that's done we should really decide on what functions Parrot extension writers should be allowed access to, e.g. as part of the extension API. That's a design decision. I popped it in the ROADMAP, so it will be decided at some point. > =head3 Leaky Parrot > > Alberto Simões is having trouble with Parrot leaking memory and a bad > free. Warnock applies. > The bad free was fixed by the patch I provided Alberto to try out (see below), though there are still lots of memory leaks that would be good to fix up. > =head3 Fighting with a Tiger > > Alberto Simões was having troubles with Tiger. Jonathan Worthington > provided a little C wizardry, and Alberto was happy. He asked to have > the patch applied, but Warnock did instead. > I did apply it. I thought I'd posted to the list that I'd applied it. I may be incapable of using an email client too. ;-) > =head3 Debug Segments > > Jonathan Worthington announced that he was making progress on his > debug segment work, but would soon half to dive into IMCC. As a > slight corollary all existing PBCs were invalidated. > I dived into IMCC. I'm survived the experience and did what was needed in there, though I think maybe my post about that was missed in the summary. I've got just a couple of small things to clear up now, but otherwise the PASM/PIR debug seg stuff is about done. Next up: HLL debug segs. Thanks for the summary, JonathanThread Previous