Fix skip/plan, should quiet coretest

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2010.02.16     darbelo
        * Released 2.1.0
        See NEWS for more.

2010.01.19     chromatic
        * Released 2.0.0
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2009.12.15     Gerd
        * Released 1.9.0
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2009.11.17     barney
        * Released 1.8.0
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2009.10.20     dukeleto
        * Released 1.7.0
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2009.9.15     particle
        * Released 1.6.0
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2009.8.18     Whiteknight
        * Released 1.5.0
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2009.7.21     cotto
        * Released 1.4.0
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2009.06.16    Whiteknight
        * Released 1.3.0
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2009.05.19    Infinoid
        * Released 1.2.0
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2009.04.21    fperrad
        * Released 1.1.0
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2009.03.17    allison
        * Released 1.0.0
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2009.02.17    kjs
        * Released 0.9.1
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2009.01.20    chromatic
        * Released 0.9.0
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2008.12.16    Whiteknight
        * Released 0.8.2
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2008.11.18    chromatic
        * Released 0.8.1
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2008.10.21    particle
        * Released 0.8.0
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2008.09.16    pmichaud
        * Released 0.7.1
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2008.08.19    rgrjr
        * Released 0.7.0
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2008.07.15    barney
        * Released 0.6.4
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2008.06.17    smash
        * Released 0.6.3
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2008.05.20    chromatic
        * Released 0.6.2
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2008.04.15    particle
        * Released 0.6.1
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2008.03.18    bernhard
        * Released 0.6.0
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2008.02.20    pmichaud
        * Released 0.5.3
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2008.01.15    rgrjr
        * Released 0.5.2
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2007.12.18    jonathan
        * Released 0.5.1
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2007.11.20    chromatic
        * Released 0.5.0
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2007.10.17    coke
        * Released 0.4.17
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2007.09.18    particle
        * Released 0.4.16
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2007.08.22    pmichaud
        * Released 0.4.15
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2007.07.17    particle
        * Released 0.4.14
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2007.06.19    allison
        * Released 0.4.13
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2007.05.15    chromatic
        * Released 0.4.12
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2007.04.17    mdiep
        * Released 0.4.11
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2007.03.20    coke
        * Released 0.4.10
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2007.3.10     coke
        * removed parakeet

2007.02.22    pmichaud
        * Released 0.4.9
        See NEWS for more.

2007.01.17    chromatic
        * changed 'name' method on namespaces to 'get_name' per pdd21

2007.01.16    particle
        * Released 0.4.8
        See NEWS for more.

2006.12.12    particle
        * added C<isnull> opcode

2006.11.14    chip
        * Released 0.4.7
        See NEWS for more.

2006.11.07      tewk
        * added :init pragma functionality to subs

2006.10.28      jonathan
        * added :vtable pragma functionality to subs

2006.09.18    chromatic
        * added Parrot::Embed under ext/Parrot-Embed

2006.08.18    leo
        * remove the None PMC - if needed it can trivially be reimplemented
          in languages from r14189

2006.08.16    creiss
        Merged Software Transactional Memory branch into trunk, adds:
        * several new opcodes whose names start with stm_
        * read-only PMC support
        * several new PMC types (whose names start with STM*)
        * support for threads (again)

2006.08.08    chip
        * Released 0.4.6
        See NEWS for more.

2006.08.02    chip
        * opcodes: "in PMC" is no longer a synonym for "invar PMC";
        there are opcodes now that want the real "in PMC".
        * namespace and global opcodes now accept name arrays again, as
        well as keys; the corresponding namespace PMC methods are gone.

2006.07.21    leo
        * Parrot_exit, Parrot_on_exit take now an Interp * argument

2006.07.25    chip
        * add experimental op find_type_i_p
        * fix longstanding bug that sometimes didn't encode pasm keys as
        Key PMCs (specifically "[S0]" and "['stringliteral']").

2006.07.24    chip
        further implementation of new pdd21:
        * new opcodes {get,set}*global
          (old {find,store}*global will be supported for a short while)

2006.07.20    audreyt
        * --maintainer prerequesites are now bison 2.2+ and flex 2.5.3x
          (or some such --leo)
          (at the moment code is checking for 2.0 -- ambs)

2006.07.17    chip
        partial implementation of new pdd21:
        * old: "get_namespace KEY".  new: "get_hll_namespace KEY"
        * get_namespace and find_global opcodes no longer accept arrays
          of strings.  To use arrays, call namespace object methods.

2006.06.19    leo
        * Released 0.4.5
        See NEWS for more.

2006.06.03    leo
        * I and N registers are never cleared to 0 / 0.0 on subroutine entry

2006.05.14    leo
        * Released 0.4.4
        See NEWS for more.

2006.04.30    bernhard
        * Make the Perl PMCs dynamic and move them to src/dynpmc

2006.04.02    leo
        * Released 0.4.3
        See NEWS for more.

2006.03.06    leo
        * Shifted argument type bits left by 2 according to r11754
          change of docs/pdds/pdd03_calling_conventions.pod
        * if you are creating PASM then code needs adjustment

2006.02.22    leo
        * Released 0.4.2
        See NEWS for more.

2006.01.16    bernhard
         * rename src/dynclasses to src/dynpmc
         * rename src/classes to src/pmc

2006.01.15    leo

         * find_global and friends returns a .Null PMC instead of .Undef on
          lookup failure, iff lookup exceptions are off

2006.01.08    leo
        * Released 0.4.1
        See NEWS for more.

2005.12.28    particle
        * renamed all .imc files to .pir
        * modified all doc references to .pir as well

2005.12.13    particle
        * moved jit/ directory to src/jit/

2005.12.12    particle
        * moved io/ directory to src/io/
        * moved classes/ directory to src/classes/
        * moved dynclasses/ directory to src/dynclasses/

2005.12.08    particle
        * moved types/ directory to src/types/
        * moved pf/ directory to src/packfile/
        * moved ops/ directory to src/ops/

2005.12.08    particle
        * moved charset/ directory to src/charset/
        * moved encodings/ directory to src/encodings/

2005.12.07    particle
        * moved imcc/ directory to compilers/imcc/

2005.12.06    particle
        * moved util/ directory to tools/util/
        * removed imcc/examples/ directory
        * moved ast/ directory to compilers/ast/

2005.12.05    particle
        * moved imcc/docs/ directory to docs/imcc/
        * moved build_tools/ directory to tools/build/
        * modified MANIFEST, MANIFEST.generated, and MANIFEST.SKIP

2005.12.04    leo
        * Released 0.4.0
        * See NEWS for changes

2005.11.06    leo
        * Released 0.3.1
        * See NEWS for changes

2005.10.01    leo
        * Released 0.3.0
        * See NEWS for changes

2005.08.05    leo
        * Released 0.2.3
        * See NEWS for changes

2005.07.03    leo
        * Released 0.2.2
        * See NEWS for changes

2005.06.04    leo
        * Released 0.2.1
        * allow short names for object attributes
        * string encoding and charset can now be set independently
        * experimental mmap IO layer for slurping files
        * enable compile opcode support for compilers written in PASM/PIR
        * improved HLL support with .HLL and n_operators pragmas
        * simplified hash code
        * more strength reduce optimizations
        * distinct debug and trace flag settings
        * glob support in PGE
        * new character classification opcodes and interfaces
        * numerous bug fixes and enhancements

2005-05-08    leo
        * Released 0.2.0
        * parrot repository is now under subversion
        * MMD (Multi Method Dispatch) enhanced
        * new unary and infix opcodes that return new result PMCs
        * dynamic scalar PMCs inherit now almost all from Parrot core PMCs
        * more unification of PMCs and ParrotObjects
        * tailcalls for functions and methods
        * PGE (Parrot Grammar Engine) reworked
        * Pugs creates Parrot code and Pugs is a registered compiler now
        * new languages/lisp
        * the usual bug fixes and improvements

2005-03-06    leo
        * Released 0.1.2
        * big rewrite of string code, not yet finished but ...
        * partial implementation of a generational garbage collector
        * indirect register frame addressing
        * .return(args) PIR syntax
        * moved most of the Python code to dynclasses
        * a lot more Python functionality
        * precalculate opcodes with all constants
        * PGE - Parrot Grammar Engine
        * scalar classes refactoring
        * much more tests and big test system cleanup
        * improved documentation
        * and as always a lot more

2004-10-09    leo
        * Released 0.1.1
        * Need Perl 5.6 now for building
        * Basic AST support, PAST file parser, bits of code generation
        * BigInt PMC using GMP
        * Complex PMC
        * Dynamic loading improved including bundles of PMC classes
        * Experimental support for "make install"
        * IA64 and hppa JIT support
        * ICU unicode support
        * IO layer handling code
        * IO readline and buffered IO fixes
        * Incremental GC
        * Internal pythonic functions: filter, map, reduce, max, min ...
        * Languages updates for m4, tcl, perl6, regex. New parakeet language.
        * Library updates, Stream and SDL library
        * MMD - multi method dispatch for binary vtable methods
        * Many new array PMCs
        * Method call syntax in PIR obj."meth"(...)
        * More OS stuff: stat, exec, system, gmtime, piped read and write
        * New Python PMCs like Enumerate, None
        * Non-branching compare opcodes
        * PIR support for += and friends
        * Python language subdir
        * Python types mapped to existing PMCs
        * Slices and range support
        * Tons of bug fixes, documentation updates, new tests
        * Win32 COFF exec support
        * ... and a lot more

2004-02-29    leo
        * Released 0.1.0
        * "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... objects!"
        * Huge documentation overhaul
        * More supported platforms, s. PLATFORMS
        * Basic thread support for pthread based architectures
        * Basic event handling for timers and signals including:
        * PASM callbacks for NCI (native C) functions.
        * Improved platform configuration
        * COW stacks now working, stacks code redone
        * Structure handling vastly improved
        * Random PMC and rand primitives
        * Better subroutine call syntax in PIR
        * Make PIR subroutines compliant with pdd03
        * Improved profiling (DOD, GC timings)
        * Hash code improvements, incl. random key order support
        * Experimental freeze/thaw code for some PMC types
        * IO improvements for buffered layer and Win32
        * String iterators
        * String bitwise vtables
        * Many new opcodes
        * Support for JIT, where malloced memory isn't executable
        * Priority DOD scheme for objects that need timely destruction
        * Improved bytecode loading (e.g. onLoad functions)
        * Language updates: forth, Perl6/P6C, m4
        * Libraries: Getopt_Long, SDL, Dumper, Sort
        * new JAPH examples
        * Unified imcc and parrot test handling
        * Many new tests (make test reports 1386 tests)
        * Numerous bug fixes


2003-10-31    leo
        * Released 0.0.13
        * Yep thirteen - haunted by the ghost of 0.0.12
        * Build imcc as parrot
        * Objects more finished
        * Delegate vtable methods to byte code
        * Binary multi-method dispatching
        * Isa and does methods for PMCs
        * Call byte code from C
        * Start of extension interface
        * Experimental struct handling
        * Catch access to NULL PMCs
        * Experimental network socket interface code and opcodes
        * IO fixes and improvements
        * Dynamic opcode libraries
        * Fix-assigned opcode numbers
        * Argument flattening for function calls
        * More native call interface (NCI) signatures
        * Ncurses, postgres, and pcre interface libraries
        * Forth language is vastly improved
        * BSD and Win32 build improvements
        * Many new tests and fixes

2003-10-22    melvin
        * imcc moved from parrot/languages/ to parrot/

2003-09-20    sfink

        * updated the native_pbc test files (from Leo)
        * built 0.0.11.1 release tarball

2003-09-20    sfink

        * CHANGES BUNDLED INTO 0.0.11:
        * Executable output
        * Dynamic PMC registration
        * Trial exception system
        * Beginnings of object system
        * Iterators
        * Ordered hashes
        * I/O system improvements
        * References
        * Documentation for basic PMC types
        * IMCC support of Parrot Calling Conventions
        * Runtime loading of chartypes (and other string improvements)
        * Conditional breakpoints
        * Dramatically accelerated sweeps for finalizable objects
        * Small PMCs (PMCs split into core and extensions)
        * Loadable bytecode packfiles
        * Constant PMCs
        * Sub variants that deal with the stack correctly
        * Switched runops core
        * Line numbers in warnings
        * Environment access
        * Many documentation cleanups
        * Conversion to CPS style!
        * BASIC debugger and many other wacky features
        * Filename, line number parsing support in IMCC

2003-07-21 17:31 chromatic
        * applied copyright patch from Josh Wilmes

2003-06-14 13:50 dan
        * Moved the registers out of the context structure, since they
          really aren't context
        * Changed the register stack frames to hold only 16 registers
          rather than 32, added half-set push and pop ops, and reworked
          the full set push/pops to do two half-set push/pops. Should
          speed up saving register data on calls, since we usually only
          care about the top half of the registers anyway.
        * Started committing some of the new class/object framework
        * Remembered to finally start updating the Changelog

2003-03-18 03:50  ask

        * Various files
          Update Yet Another copyright statements to reflect the (no longer
          so) shiny new year.

2003-03-11 22:06  chip

        * Configure.pl: print help on non-option command line args

2002-12-18 20:38  sfink: changes since 0.0.8

        - Allow suppression of cgoto core to save memory during compile
        * Native function calling interface
        * Major rewrite of stack and list aggregates
        - Scalar PMC added
        * Scratchpads implemented
        - Win32 libraries
        - Internal memory subsystem documentation
        * Preliminary DotGNU support
        - Packfile fingerprinting
        * Buffer/PMC unification (into PObjs)
        * stabs debugging information support
        * Major Jako overhaul, including:
          - imcc integration
          - native function calling
        - Perl6 string interpolation
        - languages/regex now targets IMCC
        * Optional Lea memory allocator
        * Full sprintf implementation
        * Many, many new tests
        * Miniparrot
        - exchange ops
        - runtime-controllable gc debugging
        * PMC properties
        - Crash info
        * JIT: various improvements
          - register usage tracking
          - block register allocation
          - optimizations
          - more jitted ops
          - restartable
          - architecture abstraction layer
          - debugging via GDB
        * Beginning support for extensible packfiles
        * Much better key support, generally
        * splice()
        * Restructured PMC hierarchy with better functionality inheritance
        * IMCC: many, many improvements. See imcc/ChangeLog
        * Perl6: index map grep join reverse defined
        * Scheme with functions!


2002-03-19 22:54  nicholas

        * docs/running.pod: Patch from Simon Glover <scog@amnh.org>:

         We can now get usage information for test_parrot without having to
         grep the source.

2002-03-19 22:53  simon

        * Configure.pl:
        Parrot is called parrot.

2002-03-19 22:53  nicholas

        * docs/tests.pod: Patch from Simon Glover <scog@amnh.org>:

         1. There are tests in t/pmc as well as t/op now.
         2. Adds a comment about Parrot::Test

2002-03-19 18:09  dan

        * Configure.pl, examples/assembly/life.pasm: Toss a prompt that
        messes up automated builds

        Courtesy of "David M. Lloyd" <dmlloyd@tds.net>

2002-03-19 00:33  mrjoltcola

        * core.ops: Doc cleanup from Simon Glover.

2002-03-18 23:52  mrjoltcola

        * io/io_unix.c: Typo fix for invalid lvalue caught by David Loyd.

2002-03-18 22:09  dan

        * include/parrot/resources.h: Checked in old version

2002-03-18 20:17  dan

        * include/parrot/resources.h: Forgot a prototype

2002-03-18 20:15  dan

        * resources.c: D'oh! Thinko, fixed.

        Courtesy of "Peter Gibbs" <peter@emkel.co.za>

2002-03-18 17:33  josh

        * Configure.pl: Lowering the bar a bit.

2002-03-18 17:33  sfink

        * languages/regex/: MAINTAINER, Makefile, README, regex.pl,
        test.pl, lib/Regex.pm, lib/Regex/AsmOps.pm, lib/Regex/CodeGen.pm,
        lib/Regex/Generate.pm, lib/Regex/Grammar.pm, lib/Regex/Grammar.y,
        lib/Regex/Optimize.pm, lib/Regex/Parse.pm, lib/Regex/Pasm.pm,
        lib/Regex/PreOptimize.pm, lib/Regex/RegexOps.pm,
        lib/Regex/Rewrite.pm, lib/Regex/CodeGen/Re.pm,
        lib/Regex/CodeGen/Rx.pm, lib/Regex/Rewrite/Re.pm,
        lib/Regex/Rewrite/Rx.pm, lib/Regex/Rewrite/Stackless.pm,
        t/example.t: Whoops, wrong time to check this in.

2002-03-18 16:42  dan

        * memory.c, resources.c: Partial fix for GC's memory trouncing. At
        least we consider the PMC and Buffer free pools worth collecting,
        and initialize the Buffer pool stuff.  Still not 100% correct,
        though.

2002-03-18 15:35  simon

        * packfile.c:
        Fix format arg bug.

2002-03-18 07:45  brentdax

        * Configure.pl: Warn if you're using 64-bit ints on a 32-bit
        system.

2002-03-18 00:09  sfink

        * languages/regex/: MAINTAINER, Makefile, README, regex.pl,
        test.pl, lib/Regex.pm, lib/Regex/AsmOps.pm, lib/Regex/CodeGen.pm,
        lib/Regex/Generate.pm, lib/Regex/Grammar.pm, lib/Regex/Grammar.y,
        lib/Regex/Optimize.pm, lib/Regex/Parse.pm, lib/Regex/Pasm.pm,
        lib/Regex/PreOptimize.pm, lib/Regex/RegexOps.pm,
        lib/Regex/Rewrite.pm, lib/Regex/CodeGen/Re.pm,
        lib/Regex/CodeGen/Rx.pm, lib/Regex/Rewrite/Re.pm,
        lib/Regex/Rewrite/Rx.pm, lib/Regex/Rewrite/Stackless.pm,
        t/example.t: Buggy 1st version of regex compiler implementation.
        Warning: the test code depends on features of the assembler that do
        not yet exist.

2002-03-17 21:35  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum_atest.pl: Added a couple of quick routes
        through addition and subtraction.  Also added the ability to run
        all the tests, including the ones which deal with overflow and
        underflow.  These fail, but that's expected.  Soon they'll pass.
        Then I'll show them.  Yesssssss.  Tessssssssts my precioussssss,
        passsssssssings tesssstsssss.

2002-03-17 20:06  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum.h, bignum_test.pl: Modified
        check_(under|over)flow to test bignumbers, rather than values.
        context now carries E_limit, from which max and min exp are found.

        Added a default-context-creating function (although this isn't the
        same as either of the default contexts defined in the eda).

2002-03-17 13:31  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum.h: Made BN_round and BN_iround so that
        exported version matches prototypes of other public functions.

2002-03-17 06:44  josh

        * chartype.c, encoding.c, memory.c, misc.c, packdump.c, packfile.c,
        packout.c, resources.c, string.c, include/parrot/encoding.h: Some
        last-minute re-indenting.

2002-03-17 05:07  mrjoltcola

        * io/io_unix.c: Clear up unsigned compare caught by Solaris GCC.

2002-03-16 23:17  nicholas

        * classes/default.pmc: Patch from Simon Glover <scog@amnh.org> to
        remove warnings:

         default.pmc: In function `Parrot_default_get_integer_keyed':
         default.pmc:50: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
         default.pmc: In function `Parrot_default_get_number_keyed':
         default.pmc:58: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
         default.pmc: In function `Parrot_default_get_string_keyed':
         default.pmc:67: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
         default.pmc: In function `Parrot_default_get_pmc_keyed':
         default.pmc:87: warning: control reaches end of non-void function

2002-03-16 18:50  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum.h: Lots of prototypes changed in
        readiness for nicely telling your caller about any oddness you've
        caused in the persuit of flow.

2002-03-16 17:38  dan

        * interpreter.c, resources.c, docs/pdds/pdd09_gc.pod,
        include/parrot/interpreter.h, include/parrot/resources.h: Now we
        can control the GC and DOD, to stop it when we don't really want
        it.

2002-03-16 16:58  dan

        * resources.c, vtable.tbl, classes/default.pmc,
        include/parrot/resources.h: Added the last code to let PMCs control
        their marking at DOD time

2002-03-16 16:57  ajgough

        * types/bignum.c: Ok, I worked out how to not have lots of tabs.  I
        feel a little more virtuous now.  Really I do.  You might not
        believe me, but you should.  perl -pne 's/\t/        /g', if you're
        curious.

2002-03-16 16:57  josh

        * packfile.c, packout.c: M-x untabify is my new friend.

2002-03-16 16:50  josh

        * trace.c, resources.c: Minor whitespace tweak for the benefit of
        check_source_standards.pl

2002-03-16 16:50  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum.h: More documentation, separate
        functions into public and private sorts, some initial stuff to cope
        with over and underflow correctly.

2002-03-16 16:49  josh

        * resources.c: Re-indented (sorry bout the big diff)

2002-03-16 16:47  bdwheele

        * examples/assembly/fact.pasm: This fixes fact.pasm so it will
        assemble again, both with Simon's new assembler and with the old
        one.

2002-03-16 16:33  mrjoltcola

        * io/TODO: Get the TODO up-to-date for 0.0.4.

2002-03-16 16:11  josh

        * Configure.pl: Patch from Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>: stops
        silly people (such as me) running Configure with
        /usr/local/bin/perl (which is 5.004_05) and not realising their
        mistake until the pmc subdirectory, where the first qr// is
        encountered.

        Syntax error messages don't tell you what you did wrong. This does:

        /usr/local/bin/perl Configure.pl Perl 5.00503 required--this is
        only version 5.00405, stopped at Configure.pl line 10.

2002-03-16 14:38  ajgough

        * Makefile.in: Small fix to Makefile.in to keep Irix make happy
        with commenting.

2002-03-16 11:45  simon

        * MANIFEST, examples/assembly/xml_parser.pasm:
        Added Clint Pierce's XML parser.

2002-03-15 22:24  simon

        * packout.c:
        Don't need that function.

2002-03-15 21:56  simon

        * Makefile.in, include/parrot/packfile.h:
        Rebuild packout.o, since it'll be used for the Packfile XS module

2002-03-15 19:45  dan

        * include/parrot/: memory.h, pmc.h: Another add-in for GC

2002-03-14 19:48  dan

        * core.ops: No string to int for some reason

2002-03-14 18:45  dan

        * string.c, t/op/string.t: Fix 0-length substr problem

2002-03-14 14:46  dan

        * core.ops, interpreter.c, resources.c, classes/array.pmc,
        classes/perlarray.pmc, examples/assembly/life.pasm,
        include/parrot/interpreter.h, include/parrot/resources.h: Added in
        a counter for copied memory, with a display in life.pasm

2002-03-14 03:16  mrjoltcola

        * MANIFEST: Update MANIFEST courtesy of Simon Glover.

2002-03-13 23:43  simon

        * packfile.c:
        Oops.

2002-03-13 23:43  simon

        * packfile.c:
        Hangs head in shame.

2002-03-13 21:31  simon

        * MANIFEST:
        FAQ moved.

2002-03-13 18:06  simon

        * string.c:

        Fix string_compare screw-up.

2002-03-13 18:02  brentdax

        * docs/: parrot.pod, ParrotFAQ.htm, faq.pod: Move the FAQ into POD
        and add a new question/answer pair.

2002-03-12 22:53  mrjoltcola

        * io.ops: Quick and dirty read ops for PIO. No warranty provided.

2002-03-12 22:48  mrjoltcola

        * examples/assembly/io2.pasm: Quick and dirty read ops for PIO. No
        warranty provided.

2002-03-12 22:29  ajgough

        * docs/pdds/pdd14_bignum.pod: Ooops, it is #14, really.

2002-03-12 22:24  ajgough

        * docs/pdds/pdd14_bignum.pod: Creation of bignumber pdd, update to
        version 1.1, Don't know if this is the correct number, but I don't
        want this stuck on my harddrive where it will get lost, so 14 it is
        :)

2002-03-12 11:35  simon

        * MANIFEST, packdump.c, packout.c:

        Just so the functionality doesn't disappear.

2002-03-12 11:33  simon

        * Makefile.in, chartype.c, encoding.c, packfile.c,
        chartypes/unicode.c, chartypes/usascii.c, encodings/singlebyte.c,
        encodings/utf16.c, encodings/utf32.c, encodings/utf8.c,
        include/parrot/chartype.h, include/parrot/encoding.h,
        include/parrot/packfile.h:

        Packfile axing.

2002-03-11 23:06  nicholas

        * core.ops: Patch from Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>:

          Core.ops documentation nits

2002-03-11 23:05  nicholas

        * t/pmc/pmc.t: Patch from Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>:

          Most of the PerlUndef tests in pmc.t appear to have been added
        twice.
          Enclosed patch removes the duplicates.

2002-03-10 23:40  nicholas

        * t/pmc/perlstring.t: Patch from Simon Glover <scog@amnh.org>:

         More tests for the PerlString test-suite.

2002-03-10 23:40  nicholas

        * t/op/time.t: Patch from Simon Glover <scog@amnh.org>:

        test for sleep with negative argument

2002-03-10 21:58  nicholas

        * t/op/rx.t: Patch from Simon Glover <scog@amnh.org>:

         Enclosed patch fixes up a few more holes in our test coverage.

2002-03-10 21:18  mrjoltcola

        * classes/array.pmc, classes/default.pmc, classes/intqueue.pmc,
        classes/parrotpointer.pmc, classes/perlarray.pmc,
        classes/perlhash.pmc, classes/perlint.pmc, classes/perlnum.pmc,
        classes/perlstring.pmc, classes/perlundef.pmc,
        include/parrot/pmc.h, core.ops, pmc.c, vtable.tbl: Add size
        argument to the init() vtable method so PMCs have the option to
        know how to size themselves at creation. size could be N elements
        or a byte count, depending on the PMC or it may simply be ignored.
        Overloaded 'new' opcode for optional arg.

2002-03-10 21:15  mrjoltcola

        * lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm: Minor patch to the assembler for the
        new_p_ic_ic opcode to work same as new_p_ic (looks up a named
        class).

        Also added small hack for .sub directive (which simply translates
        to a label, however we might eventually want to collect these to
        validate bsr calls.

2002-03-10 15:09  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum.h, bignum_atest.pl, bignum_test.pl:
        Added round_floor and round_ceiling.  3403 tests pass, none fail.

2002-03-10 03:56  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum_atest.pl: Added extended stuff to
        divide, divide integer and remainder.  All filled in functions now
        have special values capability.

        Much remains to be done though, and the pdd needs to catch up.

2002-03-10 01:36  ajgough

        * types/bignum.c: Added extended stuff to _add, _subtract.

2002-03-10 00:14  nicholas

        * t/op/: integer.t, number.t: Patch from Simon Glover
        <scog@roe.ac.uk>:

         The enclosed patch fixes a few of the holes in our test coverage
         uncovered by Josh Wilmes

2002-03-09 23:03  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum.h: Modified compare to work with
        extended values.  Made a couple of changes here and there to allow
        BN_comp to take a context, so that an is_zero check doesn't clobber
        negative zeros.

2002-03-09 22:19  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum.h, bignum_atest.pl, bignum_test.pl:
        Unary plus now copes with special values.

2002-03-09 04:25  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum_atest.pl, bignum_test.pl: Exception
        traps and flags are now enabled and tested for all the standard
        tests for all the functions which are currently implemented.  Test
        harness faffed with to allow these to be tested.

2002-03-09 02:29  josh

        * encodings/singlebyte.c, encodings/utf16.c, encodings/utf32.c,
        encodings/utf8.c, chartypes/unicode.c, chartypes/usascii.c:
        Re-indented

2002-03-09 02:22  josh

        * config_h.in: tab-blastin'

2002-03-09 02:21  josh

        * check_source_standards.pl: Play nicer with M-x compile- don't
        bother giving line numbers for things you don't want to look at.

2002-03-09 02:10  josh

        * examples/mops/mops.c: re-indented

2002-03-09 02:07  josh

        * classes/pmc2c.pl: Use the usual header so that we can detect the
        autogeneratedness.

2002-03-09 02:05  josh

        * jit2h.pl: Avoid accidental /* inside a comment, which generates a
        compiler warning

2002-03-09 01:59  josh

        * io/: io.c, io_stdio.c, io_unix.c, io_win32.c: Another large
        patch- re-indent io/*.c.

2002-03-09 01:52  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum.h, bignum_test.pl: Added handling of
        special values to the string conversion functions, some other
        functions now need context (to let -0 pass through really_zero)
        which have also been added.

2002-03-09 01:47  josh

        * test_main.c: Re-indented.

2002-03-09 01:41  josh

        * rx.c: killed a stray tab

2002-03-09 01:38  josh

        * rx.c: Re-indented.

2002-03-09 01:36  josh

        * misc.c: Oops, some tabs remained- cleaned up.

2002-03-09 01:31  josh

        * misc.c: Re-indented (major patch, sorry)

2002-03-09 00:59  josh

        * embed.c: Re-indented.

2002-03-08 23:08  simon

        * MANIFEST, docs/pdds/pdd10_embedding.pod,
        docs/pdds/pdd11_extending.pod, docs/pdds/pdd12_assembly.pod,
        docs/pdds/pdd13_bytecode.pod:
        Placeholder PDDs.

2002-03-08 21:12  ajgough

        * include/parrot/string.h: Added private flags to string.h, mostly
        so that other GCed stuff can also have its very own private flags.

2002-03-08 19:53  simon

        * MANIFEST:
        Great PDD Renaming

2002-03-08 19:41  robert

        * docs/pdds/: pdd0.pod, pdd1.pod, pdd2.pod, pdd4.pod, pdd5.pod,
        pdd6.pod, pdd7.pod: Renamed...

2002-03-08 18:51  simon

        * MANIFEST, docs/pdds/pdd08_keys.pod:
        Add keys PDD.

2002-03-08 18:20  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum.h, bignum_atest.pl, bignum_test.pl:
        Introduced exception handlers and exception flags to context, will
        allow support of extended standard.  Unified exception checking
        mechanism (sort of) and made minimal changes to bulk of code to use
        this.  Tests pass, I'm happy, and further changes will happen more
        gradually.

2002-03-08 04:38  josh

        * interpreter.c, string.c, testparrotsizes_c.in: More indenting
        tweaks.

2002-03-08 04:37  josh

        * platforms/: generic.c, generic.h, win32.c, win32.h: Re-indented

2002-03-08 04:24  josh

        * embed.c: A bit more re-indenting

2002-03-08 04:20  josh

        * embed.c: Indenting fixes

2002-03-08 04:14  josh

        * jit.c: Re-indented (run_indent.pl)

2002-03-08 03:36  josh

        * ops2c.pl: Fix the line numbers which get reported while compiling
        core_ops*.c

2002-03-08 03:22  josh

        * packfile.c: -1552 cc: WARNING File = packfile.c, Line = 1537
        The variable "type" is set but never used.

              opcode_t type;

2002-03-08 03:04  josh

        * resources.c, stacks.c, string.c, io/io.c, io/io_stdio.c,
        io/io_unix.c: Clean up unused and set-but-not-referenced variables
        noticed by the sgi compiler.

2002-03-08 03:02  josh

        * misc.c: Fixes this warning (SGI) cc-1188 cc: WARNING File =
        misc.c, Line = 417   The indicated type qualifier is meaningless on
        cast type.


        (const char) 'f');
                                                                         ^

2002-03-08 02:55  josh

        * Makefile.in: Clean up one of the object files it was missing

2002-03-08 01:15  josh

        * include/parrot/interpreter.h: Fixes the following error (tcc):
        "./include/parrot/interpreter.h", line 27: Error:   [Syntax]: Extra
        comma at end of list.

2002-03-06 22:15  simon

        * stacks.c:
        Tidy up stack chunk allocation.

2002-03-06 21:00  simon

        * interpreter.c:
        Create strings only once we've got string register heads set up.

2002-03-06 20:31  simon

        * classes/perlarray.pmc:
        malloc(0) considered harmful.

2002-03-06 20:24  simon

        * include/parrot/resources.h:
        I like it when Parrot compiles.

2002-03-06 17:02  dan

        * classes/array.pmc: Changed over to data pointing to a Buffer.

2002-03-06 15:45  dan

        * core.ops, embed.c, exceptions.c, interpreter.c, memory.c,
        packfile.c, pbc2c.pl, pdump.c, resources.c,
        include/parrot/interpreter.h, include/parrot/memory.h,
        include/parrot/resources.h, io/io.c: Three quick things: 1) INTVALs
        and opcode_t > longs will now be even more suspect than what they
        were beforehand.  2) Feel free to bicker with names.  I don't think
        we've come to *any* sort of agreement with these, although we
        really, really, need to.  3) I forget the third thing.  4) But I
        thought of a fourth.  5) I've now remembered the third thing: IIRC,
        ANSI C states that enums will fit within the smallest type (int or
        greater) that can hold the values. Is that actually correct, and
        does it state whether unsigned is preferred to signed for
        non-negative enums? 6) Since I'm no longer constrained by "three"
        or "quick", I'm going size_t happy for a lot of memory-related
        storage.  (That's good.  No sense wasting the size or performance
        of an UINTVAL for strange values of UINTVAL.)  I'm also using it in
        a couple other internal things (like the GC stat counters, seen
        here).  Size and performance, again, and unpromotable to a bigint,
        so we know that we (theoretically) will wrap.  However, size_t
        isn't the best choice for the type.  (Not that there's anything
        wrong with size_t, just that it shouldn't be called size_t.)  Any
        thoughts?  I was thinking of just doing unsigned int, because,
        IIRC, int is usually the natural word size, and will be most
        efficient.  Thoughts? 7) I forgot what the fourth thing I thought
        of was while writing down the others.  Sorry.

        Courtesy of  "Bryan C. Warnock" <Bryan.Warnock@raba.com>

2002-03-06 15:26  dan

        * memory.c, resources.c, string.c, classes/perlarray.pmc,
        include/parrot/resources.h: Now we allocate generic Buffers from
        arenas too

2002-03-05 21:42  brentdax

        * Configure.pl: Minor cleanup and enhancements.

2002-03-05 21:25  dan

        * resources.c: non-special GC now works with PMCs

2002-03-05 19:48  brentdax

        * Configure.pl, DEVELOPING, MANIFEST, config_h.in, test_main.c:
        Parrot now "knows" if it's a development version or a release
        version.  See the instructions in the DEVELOPING file.

2002-03-05 18:05  brentdax

        * MANIFEST: pasm.vim wasn't in the manifest.

2002-03-05 17:57  simon

        * Makefile.in:
        Now, through much evilness, make distclean and make cvsclean work
        again.

2002-03-05 17:38  dan

        * memory.c, resources.c, docs/pdds/pdd09_gc.pod,
        include/parrot/interpreter.h, include/parrot/pmc.h,
        include/parrot/resources.h: PMC tracing complete

2002-03-05 16:28  gregor

        * languages/jako/Makefile.in:
        Changed -I ../../ to -I ../../lib when calling the assembler, since
        the perl modules have moved.

2002-03-05 05:30  josh

        * packfile.c, pdump.c, pmc.c, register.c, rxstacks.c, stacks.c,
        string.c: More re-indenting via run_indent.pl.

2002-03-05 05:17  josh

        * runops_cores.c, trace.c, warnings.c: Re-indented (via
        run_indent.pl)

2002-03-05 04:26  josh

        * key.c, memory.c, test_gnuc.c, testparrotfuncptr.c: Re-indented
        using run_indent.pl and some minor tweaking.

2002-03-05 04:21  josh

        * chartype.c, encoding.c, exceptions.c, global_setup.c,
        interpreter.c: Re-indented using run_indent.pl and some minor
        tweaking.

2002-03-05 03:30  josh

        * include/parrot/trace.h: These functions are no longer used (or
        even implemented)

2002-03-04 18:21  josh

        * include/parrot/trace.h: Fix a typo in the argument type.

        Patch from <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch>

2002-03-04 03:39  josh

        * check_source_standards.pl, jit2h.pl: Add the "autogenerated file"
        header to jit_struct.h so we don't try to check it for conformance.
         (no way will it conform)

2002-03-04 03:38  josh

        * include/parrot/: chartype.h, interpreter.h, io.h, rx.h, trace.h,
        unicode.h, warnings.h: Remove some remaining tabs and split some of
        the remaining long lines.

2002-03-04 03:17  josh

        * include/parrot/: chartype.h, embed.h, encoding.h, exceptions.h,
        global_setup.h, interpreter.h, io.h, jit.h, key.h, memory.h,
        misc.h, op.h, oplib.h, packfile.h, parrot.h, pmc.h, register.h,
        resources.h, runops_cores.h, rx.h, rxstacks.h, stacks.h, string.h,
        string_funcs.h, trace.h, warnings.h: This is the first batch of
        re-indenting.   This patch is the result of running run_indent.pl
        on the header files and manually tweaking the results where errors
        were noticed.   This should get us closed, but some refinement may
        follow.

2002-03-04 03:06  josh

        * resources.c: Return without parens, as mentioned in PDD 7

2002-03-04 03:01  josh

        * core.ops: POD fixes.

2002-03-04 02:58  josh

        * config_h.in, ops2c.pl, classes/pmc2c.pl: More consistent headers
        on autogenerated files- used by the check_source_standards.pl
        script (for now) to exempt autogenerated files from the checks.

2002-03-04 02:51  josh

        * embed.c, key.c, pmc.c, resources.c, rx.c, testparrotfuncptr.c,
        warnings.c: Added the editor "boilerplate" footer to a few files
        which were missing it.

2002-03-04 02:34  josh

        * check_source_standards.pl, interpreter.c, jit.c, test_gnuc.c,
        include/parrot/io.h, include/parrot/parrot.h, io/io_win32.c: Fixes
        c preprocessor directive indentation to comply with pdd 7.

        (also fixes the check for this indentation in
        check_source_standards.pl)

2002-03-04 02:32  josh

        * lib/Parrot/Test.pm: Fixes this error seen on perl 5.005_02 on
        irix.

        perl t/harness t/op/basic..........Use of uninitialized value at
        lib/Parrot/Test.pm line 81.  #     Failed test (t/op/basic.t at
        line 6) #          got: undef #     expected: ''

2002-03-04 02:30  josh

        * MANIFEST, run_indent.pl, docs/pdds/pdd07_codingstd.pod,
        docs/pdds/pdd7.pod: Added documentation and code to invoke the GNU
        "indent" program to enforce some of the code style standards
        outlined in PDD 7.

        Usage: ./run_indent.pl <file>

2002-03-03 19:04  simon

        * examples/mops/mops.c:
        Let's make it compile, huh?

2002-03-03 19:04  simon

        * examples/mops/mops.cs:
        I R AN IDIOT

2002-03-03 18:11  simon

        * examples/mops/mops.cs, examples/mops/mops.il, MANIFEST:
        Added C# and MS-IL versions of mops tester.

2002-03-03 14:52  simon

        * core.ops:
        Add a sub() op to make mops_p work.

2002-03-02 18:12  nicholas

        * examples/mops/mops.c, include/parrot/embed.h,
        include/parrot/interp_guts.h, include/parrot/jit.h,
        include/parrot/misc.h, include/parrot/packfile.h,
        include/parrot/rx.h, include/parrot/warnings.h,
        platforms/generic.c, platforms/generic.h, platforms/win32.c,
        platforms/win32.h, types/bignum.c, types/bignum.h: Patch from Josh
        Wilmes to add the emacs and vim "ending boilerplate" that sets the
        indent variables correctly.

2002-03-02 17:41  nicholas

        * resources.c: Patch from Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>: Little
        patch to fix a compiler warning.

2002-03-01 22:35  dan

        * memory.c, resources.c, include/parrot/pmc.h,
        include/parrot/resources.h: PMCs now come out of arenas.

2002-03-01 06:15  dan

        * string.c:
        A non-existing buffer + a non-existing buffer should be a
        non-existing buffer, not "", which is really '\0'.

        Courtesy of "Bryan C. Warnock" <Bryan.Warnock@raba.com>

2002-03-01 06:02  dan

        * classes/: array.pmc, perlarray.pmc, perlhash.pmc, perlstring.pmc:

        TMTOWTDI, but strcmp is probably the worse.

        Courtesy of "Bryan C. Warnock" <Bryan.Warnock@raba.com>

2002-03-01 02:32  brentdax

        * embed.c: Debug mode now prints out the GC data.

2002-02-28 23:44  dan

        * core.ops, resources.c, include/parrot/resources.h: Added collect
        and sweep opcodes

2002-02-28 22:58  dan

        * docs/pdds/: pdd06_pasm.pod, pdd6.pod: Add docs for interpinfo
        opcode

2002-02-28 22:50  dan

        * core.ops, interpreter.c, resources.c,
        examples/assembly/life.pasm, include/parrot/interpreter.h,
        include/parrot/resources.h: Add some stat gathering to the resource
        allocation code.

        Also add an interpreter info retrieval op, and teach it about the
        different things it can retrieve.

        Finally, add some stat info to life.pasm as an example

2002-02-28 21:27  dan

        * editor/pasm.vim: VIM mode commands for parrot assembly files

        Courtesy of Scott Beck <scott@gossamer-threads.com>

2002-02-28 19:20  dan

        * examples/assembly/life.pasm: Fix a creeping string length leak.

        Courtesy of  "Bryan C. Warnock" <Bryan.Warnock@raba.com>

2002-02-28 18:26  dan

        * string.c: When you clone a constant, it ain't constant no mo'.

        Cocurtesy of "Bryan C. Warnock" <Bryan.Warnock@raba.com>

2002-02-28 00:51  dan

        * MANIFEST: Add missing files

        Courtesy of "Bryan C. Warnock" <Bryan.Warnock@raba.com>

2002-02-28 00:49  dan

        * docs/pdds/: pdd0.pod, pdd00_pdd.pod: The pod version of PDD 0 in
        CVS seems to have several chunks missing out of it, too.  This
        patch is simply an administrative patch, with the differences
        between my last version, and the one currently in there.  There
        will be a forthcoming patch for some minor tweaking to the PDD, but
        I wanted a common baseline before I make any (potential) semantic
        changes.

        There's only one semi-major change, which noone needs to worry
        about just yet.  That's a change from PDD Format 1 to PDD Format
        6.0 - rationale can be found under 'Standard (Version #)' of the
        STANDARDS TRACK infomation.  Don't worry about this yet, because it
        should be 6.0.0, and we need to discuss Perl versus Parrot with
        PDDs.

        Courtesy of "Bryan C. Warnock" <bwarnock@raba.com>

2002-02-28 00:27  dan

        * packfile.c, resources.c, examples/assembly/life.pasm,
        include/parrot/register.h, include/parrot/resources.h,
        include/parrot/string.h: First pass of semi-full GC. (Strings only,
        no PMCs yet)

        This patch now implements a real copying collector. We trace from
        our root set and compact the contents of Buffer structs.

        Todo:

        *) It's very STRING-centric and doesn't handle memory stuffed in
        Buffers.  But, then, we don't have pool allocation for Buffers
        either, and we need to have that soonish for this to work.

        *) Doesn't trace PMCs, so if you trigger a collection and there's
        memory or STRING structs only accessible from PMCs, you'll fail
        horribly. That needs fixing too

        *) Better algorithms for when to trace or collect vs when to just
        go allocate more memory from the system. Should probably be more
        cache friendly too.

2002-02-27 21:04  dan

        * jit.c, memory.c, resources.c, string.c, docs/pdds/pdd09_gc.pod,
        examples/assembly/life.pasm, include/parrot/resources.h,
        include/parrot/string.h, include/parrot/string_funcs.h,
        jit/i386/core.jit: Start of GC in

2002-02-26 16:41  dan

        * jit/i386/string.jit: Fix a typo

        Courtesy of Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>

2002-02-26 16:37  dan

        * interpreter.c: Fix solaris test failures

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-02-26 16:36  dan

        * include/parrot/: interp_guts.h, io.h, packfile.h, rx.h,
        unicode.h, warnings.h: Fixes various warts in header files, such
        as: * macros   -added parens to prevent problems with operator
        precedence   -removed ; at end * removed SSIZE_MAX, since ssize_t
        is no longer used * added some more INLINE definitions for MSVC and
        C99 compilers

        Courtesy of Brian Lee Ray <blray@ualr.edu>

2002-02-26 16:20  dan

        * Configure.pl: Turns out we were using a warning flag which
        doesn't exist on 2.7.  Simple tweak though:

        Courtesy of  Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-02-25 22:58  dan

        * MANIFEST, docs/pdds/pdd09_gc.pod: Add docs of GC

2002-02-25 17:36  dan

        * include/parrot/pmc.h: Fix the bits

2002-02-23 21:57  dan

        * include/parrot/resources.h: Another 1.5% never hurts

2002-02-23 21:44  dan

        * global_setup.c, memory.c, resources.c, string.c,
        include/parrot/resources.h: Allocate STRING headers from an arena
        with freelist rather than with the system malloc. First step in a
        good (or even a bad) GC system.

2002-02-23 20:37  brentdax

        * misc.c: lint has been doing Evil and Wrong things to misc.c.

2002-02-22 14:59  ajgough

        * types/bignum.c: BN_multiply split into BN_multiply and
        BN_imultiply, the internal version to be used by idivide so that
        rounding isn't performed during intermediate stages of division.

        following test scripts now all pass: divide divideint add multiply
        subtract remainder compare rounding plus minus (these are all the
        operations currently implemented, rescale and power must still be
        written, so don't pass right now).

2002-02-22 13:13  ajgough

        * types/bignum_atest.pl: Test harness modified to understand
        comments better, and be able to run unary (and rounding) tests.
        Currently a few rounding tests fail, which are being investigated.

2002-02-22 01:41  dan

        * key.c: Although there's more work being done on the key stuff and
        this isn't the final fix, applying this patch does get parrot to
        build with two more compilers, so it's probably worthwhile.

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-02-22 00:53  dan

        * config_h.in, misc.c, include/parrot/embed.h,
        include/parrot/exceptions.h, include/parrot/interpreter.h,
        include/parrot/io.h, include/parrot/parrot.h, include/parrot/pmc.h,
        include/parrot/resources.h, include/parrot/rx.h,
        include/parrot/string.h, include/parrot/unicode.h,
        include/parrot/warnings.h, io/io_stdio.c, io/io_unix.c,
        io/io_win32.c: Fixes the following (lcc) warnings:

          - interpreter.c:470: warning: expression with no effect elided
               (related to the way warnings flags were defined)

          - misc.c:352: warning: unreachable code
            misc.c:483: warning: unreachable code
               (i introduced these with some overzealous de-linting)

          - numerous warnings like this:
            io/io_unix.c:383: warning: conversion from pointer to void' to
        pointer to
            pointer to struct _ParrotIO function(pointer to struct
        Parrot_Interp,pointer
            to struct _ParrotIOLayer,pointer to const char,pointer to const
        char,pointer
            to pointer to void)' is compiler dependent

        Fixes the following nits:    - remove bad indenting (tabs) in the
        includes

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-02-21 21:12  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum.h: These might look like massive
        changes, but really it's just he imposition of coding standards.
        The file still isn't entirely compliant, but is now much more so.

        Also changed:

         o a few more comments
         o BN_compare uses internal BN_comp to compare
         o lost_digits behaviour is now correct (test harness modified to
        test
           this).

        All binary functions now pass all the tests in the basic standard.
        Unary functions not yet tested, will be soon.

2002-02-21 18:20  dan

        * lib/Parrot/OpTrans/CPrederef.pm: The "inline" bit of that patch
        was no longer needed, and the ssize_t thing really shouldn't be
        needed either.

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-02-21 18:15  dan

        * Configure.pl, embed.c, pdump.c, hints/mswin32.pl,
        include/parrot/parrot.h: this patch adds support for the freely
        available borland c++ 5.5.1 compiler

        depends on: - josh's patch to remove ssize_t from CPrederef.pm -
        working borland compiler (compiler must know where to find headers
        and libs) - Perl's Config.pm modified to use cc='bcc32.exe' not of
        cc='cl.exe' - a working make utility (borland make doesn't work,
        nmake does)

        changes: - add bcc in hints/mswin32.pl - clean up for msvc++ in
        hints/mswin32.pl - remove a space from Configure.pl (very very
        important for bcc) - add a O_BINARY flag to open() in pdump.c,
        embed.c (required by bcc) - define O_BINARY 0 when it's not defined
        (win32 knows it, linux not)

        and the why: - parrot is MUCH faster when compiled with borland c
        (make test on p2-450, 320MB):   * msvc++: 313 seconds   * bcc: 251
        seconds

        Courtesy of "Ritz Daniel" <daniel_ritz@gmx.ch>

2002-02-21 18:09  dan

        * jit.c, testparrotfuncptr.c, trace.c, classes/array.pmc, io/io.c,
        io/io_stdio.c, io/io_unix.c, io/io_win32.c: This patch removes
        cuddled elses, as required by PDD 7.

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-02-21 18:04  dan

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, check_source_standards.pl: This patch adds
        a new Makefile target called "check_source".  This target scans all
        the .c and .h files in the directory and checks for conformance to
        a number of the standards outlined in PDD 7.

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-02-21 16:38  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum.h, bignum_atest.pl: Modifications to
        allow arithmetic with numbers with a fixed fractional part, buffer
        structures now more ready to be integrated into the parrot memory
        allocation game, test harness modified to allow lost_digits
        condition to be checked.  Some more comments.

2002-02-21 15:53  simon

        * io/io_unix.c:
        Fix typo

        Courtesy of: "David M. Lloyd" <dmlloyd@tds.net>

2002-02-20 16:41  dan

        * MANIFEST, docs/pdds/pdd_template.pod: Added in template PDD

2002-02-18 18:25  dan

        * MANIFEST, lib_deps.pl: Added in lib_deps.pl and MANIFEST change.

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-02-18 18:21  dan

        * lib/Parrot/OpTrans/CPrederef.pm: this is a quick fix for
        CPrederef.pm to make to generated code compile with the MS
        compiler.

        fixes: - ms compiler allows inline only for c++, for c there's
        __inline - ms header files knows nothing about ssize_t

        Courtesy of "Ritz Daniel" <daniel_ritz@gmx.ch>

2002-02-18 17:49  dan

        * MANIFEST: Add the PDDs

2002-02-18 17:47  dan

        * docs/pdds/: pdd07_codingstd.pod, pdd7.pod: Added in PDD 7, the
        coding standards PDD.

2002-02-18 17:40  dan

        * docs/pdds/: pdd06_pasm.pod, pdd6.pod: Updated to latest rev

2002-02-18 12:41  gregor

        * test_main.c:
        Remove warning about exit() not being declared.

2002-02-18 08:29  simon

        * misc.c, warnings.c, include/parrot/misc.h,
        include/parrot/warnings.h:
        This patch adds some missing const's to silence a number of gcc
        warnings.

        Courtesy of: Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-02-18 08:26  simon

        * Makefile.in, core.ops, embed.c, interpreter.c, key.c, misc.c,
        ops2c.pl, packfile.c, pdump.c, stacks.c, string.c,
        classes/array.pmc, classes/perlarray.pmc, classes/perlhash.pmc,
        include/parrot/parrot.h, include/parrot/rx.h,
        include/parrot/stacks.h, io/io_stdio.c, io/io_unix.c,
        lib/Parrot/OpTrans/CPrederef.pm:
           - add makefile target and script to test for external libc
        dependencies
           - fix return values in hash and array PMCs (returning 0 in a
        void func)
           - remove unnecessary data pointer <=> function pointer
        conversions
             outside of the JIT code.
           - move the definition of the "INLINE" macro out of the rx header
        and make
             available for general use on C++ compilers and gcc.
           - remove a few unused variables

        Courtesy of: Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-02-17 16:29  simon

        * docs/pdds/: pdd0.pod, pdd00_pdd.pod, pdd01_overview.pod,
        pdd02_vtables.pod, pdd04_datatypes.pod, pdd05_opfunc.pod,
        pdd06_pasm.pod, pdd1.pod, pdd2.pod, pdd4.pod, pdd5.pod, pdd6.pod:
        We're organised and responsible. Honest.

2002-02-17 02:46  sfink

        * Makefile.in: Remove $^ for nmake compatibility.

2002-02-16 09:20  brentdax

        * config_h.in, test_main.c, include/parrot/chartype.h,
        include/parrot/embed.h, include/parrot/encoding.h,
        include/parrot/string.h, include/parrot/string_funcs.h: Better
        embedding exposure and hiding, part 1.

2002-02-16 04:38  dan

        * Makefile.in, core.ops, interpreter.c, pbc2c.pl, pdump.c,
        runops_cores.c, docs/running.pod, lib/Parrot/OpTrans/C.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpTrans/CGoto.pm, lib/Parrot/OpTrans/CPrederef.pm:
        Anyway, here's a patch to repair pbc2c.pl, combined with removing
        typecasts in various places throughout the code. It probably won't
        work for Windows yet. The libparrot.a target might need to be
        modified to at least prevent it from confusing make on Windows; I
        don't know.

        Preliminary instructions for using pbc2c.pl are in
        docs/running.pod.  I'll try to do better later.

        Courtesy of Steve Fink <steve@fink.com>

2002-02-16 04:15  dan

        * exceptions.c, include/parrot/exceptions.h: Warnings cleaned up

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-02-16 00:03  simon

        * classes/: perlarray.pmc, perlhash.pmc:

        pmc is already defined!

2002-02-15 23:20  brentdax

        * Configure.pl, config_h.in, exceptions.c, pmc.c,
        include/parrot/exceptions.h: Far more informative panic messages.

2002-02-15 03:24  dan

        * lib/Parrot/: Op.pm, OpsFile.pm, OpTrans/CPrederef.pm: Here's a
        much more extensive patch that fixes it to work properly, and
        deletes a bazillion casts as well.  It also points to the question
        "can we make the byte_code be an opcode_t* already?"

        Oh, and it makes some of the formatting prettier, so it's gotta be
        good.

        Courtesy of * Steve Fink <steve@fink.com>

2002-02-15 02:30  dan

        * Makefile.in, core.ops, embed.c, misc.c, packfile.c, rx.ops,
        stacks.c: I've tweaked the "lint" target somewhat and fixed a few
        of the things it finds.  Attaching the patch as well as the current
        lint output.

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-02-15 01:59  dan

        * t/pmc/: array.t, perlhash.t: Disable non-functional bits for the
        moment.

2002-02-15 01:48  dan

        * t/pmc/perlarray.t: Skip tests for features that need twiddling

2002-02-15 01:40  dan

        * t/op/rx.t: Skip a test that's waiting for us to rejig some array
        things

2002-02-14 23:30  dan

        * resources.c: Added comment for buffer tag routine. D'oh!

2002-02-14 23:28  dan

        * resources.c, include/parrot/resources.h: Added buffer mark
        routine for GC

2002-02-14 23:17  dan

        * memory.c, classes/array.pmc, classes/perlarray.pmc,
        include/parrot/memory.h, include/parrot/string.h, t/pmc/perlhash.t:
        Rejigged memory system a bit. Now should be ready for the horror
        that is garbage collection.

2002-02-14 19:33  gregor

        * ops2c.pl, include/parrot/oplib.h:
        Added code to automatically generate a function within an oplib to
        lookup opinfos given the op name. This will come in handy in future
        when we want to twiddle opcode tables at run time and possibly at
        startup time.

2002-02-14 19:25  gregor

        * examples/assembly/queens.pasm:
        Regenerated queens.pasm from queens.jako since the clone_* stuff
        went away.

2002-02-14 17:12  dan

        * resources.c, include/parrot/resources.h: Finished up the
        interface for memory and tracked interpreter thingies.

2002-02-14 16:53  dan

        * memory.c, include/parrot/memory.h: intercept free and realloc

2002-02-14 05:53  dan

        * interpreter.c, runops_cores.c: The type changes in struct
        Packfile break the pointer math used in a few places to calculate
        the address of the end of the loaded byte code. This causes
        segfaults in build_asm in jit.c when using -j. It also breaks the
        bounds checking on opcode address in runops_slow_core.

        The patch adds the necessary cast to correct the code_end
        calculations.

        Courtesy of Jason Gloudon <perl@gloudon.com>

2002-02-14 01:01  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum.h, bignum_test.pl: Added support for
        BigInt operations (I think), tests for normal operation continue to
        pass.  Also a shed load of comments.

2002-02-13 01:34  ajgough

        * types/: bignum.c, bignum.h, bignum_atest.pl, bignum_test.pl: This
        is a (mostly) working bignumber library.  There remains much work
        to do though, some functions are not yet implemented and headers
        need to find their way to the correct place RSN.  Also support for
        bigints and a sensible error reporting mechanism are needed.

2002-02-12 18:51  dan

        * misc.c: Fix some warnings

2002-02-12 17:10  dan

        * misc.c: Run through indent -kr -nce so I can read it

2002-02-12 16:49  dan

        * misc.c: Need standard header/footer comments

2002-02-11 20:32  simon

        * classes/array.pmc:
        get and set pmc methods.

2002-02-11 20:19  simon

        * classes/array.pmc:
        Maybe the keys aren't integer...

2002-02-11 20:03  simon

        * core.ops, vtable.tbl, classes/default.pmc:
        {g,s}et_pmc_keyed

2002-02-11 19:07  simon

        * vtable.tbl, classes/default.pmc:
        Add set_pmc. Usee with caution.

2002-02-11 18:20  dan

        * classes/: array.pmc, perlarray.pmc: Patch array classes to
        compile

2002-02-11 17:59  simon

        * core.ops, embed.c, global_setup.c, key.c, rx.ops,
        classes/perlarray.pmc, classes/perlhash.pmc:
        Make it compile.

2002-02-11 17:57  simon

        * packfile.c, include/parrot/packfile.h:
        Reduce warnings

        Courtesy of: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>

2002-02-11 17:55  dan

        * docs/parrot_assembly.pod: Document some key ops

2002-02-11 09:20  brentdax

        * pmc.c, include/parrot/exceptions.h: Adding a panic ought to be
        disgustingly easy.

2002-02-11 00:34  simon

        * core.ops, include/parrot/exceptions.h:
        This is what keyed set ops look like. Remember, however, that for
        keyed functions, all operands must be PMCs. set(PMC, PMC, INT)
        means $1 = $2[$3], not $1[$2] = $3. set(PMC,PMC,PMC) is so
        obviously ambiguous that you ought to use the 4-arg version
        instead.

2002-02-10 23:12  jgoff

        * classes/: array.pmc, perlarray.pmc: Properly allocate
        SELF->data's array of PMC* data in array and perlarray.pmc.  This
        isn't tested yet, but should be fairly straightforward.  PerlHash
        needs to be finished before the system will compile again, and that
        should be done in the next few days.

2002-02-09 04:46  jgoff

        * classes/: array.pmc, default.pmc, intqueue.pmc,
        parrotpointer.pmc, perlarray.pmc, perlhash.pmc, perlundef.pmc:
        Added basic _keyed member functions.  Unfortunately this still
        doesn't fix the problems that are causing the build to break. It's
        a start though. I'm not implementing the PMC add functions just
        yet.

2002-02-08 15:59  simon

        * classes/array.pmc:
        Some more work on getting the array stuff up to date.

2002-02-08 12:23  simon

        * classes/array.pmc, classes/perlhash.pmc, include/parrot/key.h,
        lib/Parrot/Vtable.pm:
        Got array->get_integer_keyed doing what I think it ought to. One
        down, all the rest to go.

2002-02-08 11:47  simon

        * vtable.tbl:
        Although I didn't intend it to be quite that broken...

2002-02-08 11:42  simon

        * vtable.tbl, include/parrot/parrot.h, lib/Parrot/Vtable.pm:
        Completely break Parrot, but at least we get the key stuff right
        for now.

2002-02-08 06:25  dan

        * hints/darwin.pl: Silences the warning about passing in
        -flat_namespace to the compile.  That's a link-only flag.

2002-02-08 04:52  jgoff

        * classes/: array.pmc, default.pmc, intqueue.pmc,
        parrotpointer.pmc, perlarray.pmc, perlhash.pmc, perlint.pmc,
        perlnum.pmc, perlstring.pmc, perlundef.pmc: Filled in missing
        return values in *.pmc, added some missing casts to the repeat_foo
        members, and deleted the _index members from the perlscalar
        classes.  Basic cleanup, and getting ready for _keyed functions.

2002-02-07 04:49  mrjoltcola

        * examples/assembly/bsr.pasm: Elaborated on the bsr/ret example,
        added a nested subroutine call.

2002-02-07 04:32  jgoff

        * vtable.tbl, lib/Parrot/Vtable.pm: vtable.tbl got some minor
        changes in order to give the whitespace rules a little workout, and
        do a little bit more testing. No actual structural changes were
        made.  lib/Parrot/Vtable.pm got an interface change, and more
        importantly should be ready to support the new '_keyed' attribute,
        which will work roughly thus: PMC* src_value gets remapped to 'PMC*
        src_value' followed by 'KEY* src_key'.  This will be how the new
        _keyed operators will function, and those should be written within
        a few days.

2002-02-06 18:00  doughera

        * misc.c: Change C++-style comments to C comments (again).  Remove
        unused perl5 code that was in #if 0/#endif.

2002-02-06 17:59  doughera

        * warnings.c: Add trailing newline.

2002-02-06 04:14  mrjoltcola

        * include/parrot/io.h, io/io.c: Minor cleanup.

2002-02-06 03:11  mrjoltcola

        * examples/assembly/io1.pasm, io/io.c, io/io_win32.c: Tied up a
        couple of loose end in win32 IO stuff. Open behaves now but needs
        more work.

2002-02-05 21:02  brentdax

        * classes/pmc2c.pl: Length on whoami init was always 7--a problem
        which showed up in Purify builds.

2002-02-05 17:15  simon

        * misc.c:
        Warning fixes.

        Courtesy of: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>

2002-02-05 17:08  doughera

        * misc.c: Avoid C++-style comments.

2002-02-05 17:07  doughera

        * lib/Parrot/Jit/sun4Generic.pm: Generated assembly programs were
        not valid assembler for Sun's /usr/ccs/bin/as.  Now they are,
        thanks to Jason Gloudon <perl@gloudon.com>.

2002-02-05 14:04  simon

        * misc.c:
        Make the problem different, perhaps even better.

2002-02-05 13:49  simon

        * misc.c:
        Possibly fix a `short int' is promoted to `int' when passed through
        `...' scary error, possibly make things absolutely worse.

2002-02-05 13:15  simon

        * Configure.pl:
        Placate Tru64.

2002-02-05 13:12  simon

        * warnings.c:
        Not going to get far without this one...

2002-02-05 11:41  simon

        * string.c:
        Don't barf when handed null pointers.

2002-02-05 10:04  simon

        * misc.c, include/parrot/misc.h:
        Fix some trivial bugs in warnings code.

2002-02-05 09:27  simon

        * misc.c:
        Oops, forgot this one; also added %P support.

2002-02-05 09:20  simon

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, core.ops, embed.c, interpreter.c,
        test_main.c, classes/perlundef.pmc, include/parrot/embed.h,
        include/parrot/interpreter.h, include/parrot/misc.h,
        include/parrot/parrot.h, include/parrot/warnings.h:
        Warnings support.

        Courtesy of: Brent Dax <brentdax@cpan.org>

2002-02-05 05:41  jgoff

        * vtable.tbl, lib/Parrot/Vtable.pm, t/pmc/perlstring.t: Changed the
        format of vtable.tbl to get rid of the tab-dependence.  The format
        now looks roughly like this:

        init() # 'void' and 'unique' are assumed INTVAL type ( ) # 'unique'
        is assumed str void concatenate (PMC* value, PMC* dest) # Nothing
        assumed here, but note the C-like prototyping.  Also had to disable
        one test that depended upon 'concat_p_p_s', which isn't necessary
        anyway.

        Vtable.pm will change again when the type '_keyed' is added,
        because that requires remapping parameters slightly differently
        again.  Also, note that it assumes 'value' is the first parameter
        in the list. This assumption will go away at the same time.

2002-02-04 16:57  ajgough

        * core.ops, t/pmc/perlstring.t, t/pmc/pmc.t: More tests for pmc
        functions.  Thanks to Simon Glover.

2002-02-04 02:47  ajgough

        * hints/os2.pl: Removes a flag from the os/2 hints file that isn't
        needed.  I suspect that the entire hints file isn't really needed,
        but there's no one to actually tell us this.

2002-02-02 15:45  ask

        * docs/ParrotFAQ.htm: fix internal links

2002-02-02 04:06  jgoff

        * classes/: array.pmc, intqueue.pmc, perlarray.pmc, perlhash.pmc:
        Moving the internal KEY structure from the cache.struct_val member,
        where it doesn't really belong, to the internal SELF->data member.
        This frees up the cache/type members for other usage.

        This is the first step in moving PMCs to the point where we can do
        multidimensional PMC handles. The next step is to change the
        assembler to accept the syntax of 'set P0["foo"],7'.

2002-02-02 00:13  nicholas

        * include/parrot/global_setup.h: Patch from Jonathan Stowe to
        prototype Parrot_Array_class_init

2002-02-02 00:13  nicholas

        * embed.c: Casts to tidy up warnings from Jonathan Stowe Change
        time to sum_time to avoid warning on FreeBSD about tracking a
        global [No, this warning does not appear on Linux. Yes, it is real
        :-)]

2002-02-01 23:02  nicholas

        * embed.c: Fix fprintf format warning in Parrot_runcode. From Simon
        Glover

2002-02-01 20:20  nicholas

        * t/pmc/pmc.t: Add end at end of asm in test (from Simon Glover)

2002-02-01 18:20  nicholas

        * lib/Parrot/Test.pm: Env.pm on 5.005_03 doesn't do a use vars for
        you

2002-02-01 13:22  nicholas

        * MANIFEST: Add docs/embed.pod and t/op/ifunless.t

2002-02-01 12:19  simon

        * core.ops, t/op/ifunless.t, t/op/integer.t:
        Added "unless" op.

2002-02-01 12:11  simon

        * lib/Parrot/Test.pm:
        Remove a warning.

2002-02-01 01:38  nicholas

        * MANIFEST, MANIFEST.SKIP, Makefile.in: Add a MANIFEST.SKIP file,
        and a manitest target to Makefile.in that lets one test the
        manifest.

2002-02-01 00:03  dan

        * core.ops, global_setup.c, include/parrot/pmc.h: More setup for
        PMC dynaloading

2002-01-31 21:46  gregor

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in, hints/mswin32.pl:
        A few more things are now configable, so we are closer to win32
        shared library builds. Not there yet, but closer.

2002-01-31 21:00  dan

        * global_setup.c, classes/pmc2c.pl, include/parrot/global_setup.h,
        include/parrot/pmc.h: First step in dynamically loading PMC classes

2002-01-31 19:38  dan

        * Makefile.in: Dependencies in the Makefile are currently too broad
        brush.  I don't enjoy waiting for everything to recompile every
        time I try to tweak the jit. The only file that #includes
        jit_struct.h is jit.c, so I feel that the Makefile dependencies
        should reflect this, and not cause a gratuitous recompile of
        everything.  There are probably other auto-generated header files
        that world+dog should not depend on.

        Courtesy of  Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>

2002-01-31 19:03  gregor

        * Makefile.in, lib/Parrot/Test.pm, t/harness:
        Added two new make targets:

          * testp: Like 'make test', but passes -P to t/harness, so you get
        to
            see how broken predereferencing is.

          * testj: Like 'make test', but passes -j to t/harness, so you get
        to
            see how broken JIT is.

        Now, anyone who wants to see how good all three ways of running are
        can do so, at the cost of about 3x the time.

2002-01-31 17:09  brentdax

        * embed.c, test_main.c: Implement the ARGV-in-P0 thing.

2002-01-31 03:41  grunblatt

        * docs/jit.pod: Update jit.pod

2002-01-31 03:20  grunblatt

        * jit/i386/core.jit: Hold this until we get an assemble tool,
        because of the different objdump problems.

2002-01-31 03:13  grunblatt

        * Configure.pl, lib/Parrot/Jit/sun4-solaris.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Jit/sun4Generic.pm: Use dis intead of objdump.  Courtesy
        of: Jason Gloudon <perl@gloudon.com>

2002-01-31 02:22  grunblatt

        * jit/i386/core.jit: Continue if the register is null

2002-01-30 23:50  grunblatt

        * lib/Parrot/Jit/: alpha-bsd.pm, alpha-linux.pm, alphaGeneric.pm,
        i386-bsd.pm, i386-linux.pm, i386Generic.pm, sun4-solaris.pm,
        sun4Generic.pm: Move the AS and OBJDUMP constants to each os
        specific file.

2002-01-30 23:35  mrjoltcola

        * io/io_win32.c: Change implementation of isatty on win32,
        suggested by Hong Zhang.

2002-01-30 23:19  sfink

        * jit2h.pl, lib/Parrot/Op.pm, lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm: Added
        Op::may_jump boolean method.

        Replaced jit2h's hardcoded pattern match to decide what ops might
        change the control flow.

2002-01-30 22:13  dan

        * Configure.pl, MANIFEST, testparrotfuncptr.c: This patch allows
        parrot to mostly-build with tcc.  It allows one to skip compiling
        the JIT stuff (by specifying --define jitcapable=0), and it
        introduces a test program which gives a friendlier error in this
        case for compilers which are as picky as tcc is about function
        pointer conversion.

        If anyone figures out the proper way to cast these function
        pointers this may not be necessary.

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-01-30 20:54  dan

        * docs/running.pod, lib/Parrot/Test.pm: I'm being anal again.
        Here's an update to docs/running.pod to better reflect the current
        state (both the test_parrot and assemble.pl improvements, plus
        documentation of a few more things.) And also a speling fiks
        s/POST_MORTERM/POST_MORTEM/.

        I could also replace some "perl foo" calls with "./foo" if someone
        wanted to set the executable flag in CVS on assemble.pl,
        optimize.pl, etc.

        Courtesy of Steve Fink <steve@fink.com>

2002-01-30 20:43  dan

        * core.ops: find_global doesn't work, so stub out the wrong code

2002-01-30 19:08  dan

        * lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm:  fixes the POD in Parrot::Assember so
        that perldoc
         can read it and just tidies it up generally. It also adds
        documentation
         for the constantize_integer and constantize_number functions.

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-30 18:02  dan

        * assemble.pl, disassemble.pl, optimizer.pl, pbc2c.pl,
        classes/genclass.pl, classes/pmc2c.pl,
        languages/scheme/Scheme/Test.pm:  Many of the Perl scripts in the
        distribution (including assemble.pl !)
         can no longer find the Parrot::* modules. Enclosed patch fixes
        (although
         it would be nice if there were an easier way to do this).

        Courtesy of  Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-30 16:00  mrjoltcola

        * io/io_win32.c: Correct function calls for win32_fdopen and arg
        types.

2002-01-30 15:50  mrjoltcola

        * io/io_unix.c: Minor bug fix for fdopen flag arg type.

2002-01-30 15:42  grunblatt

        * pbc2c.pl, examples/assembly/Makefile: Updates related to moving
        files around

2002-01-30 15:38  grunblatt

        * MANIFEST: Enclosed patch adds the new SPARC-based JIT files to
        the manifest,  and also puts it back into alphabetical order.

        Courtesy of: Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-30 14:41  nicholas

        * embed.c: Patch from Simon Glover to clean up warnings where
        prototype is () not (void)

2002-01-30 13:54  nicholas

        * include/parrot/embed.h, test_main.c: Add void as an explicit
        parameter in test_main.c's usage(), version(void) and embed.h's
        Parrot_new() Without these gcc moans: include/parrot/embed.h:34:
        warning: function declaration isn't a prototype

2002-01-30 12:08  simon

        * lib/Parrot/.cvsignore:
        Ignore generated Perl modules.

2002-01-30 12:07  simon

        * t/harness:
        Run the PMC tests as well.

2002-01-30 12:04  simon

        * MANIFEST:
        Fix MANIFEST after recent t/pmc rejig.

2002-01-30 11:42  simon

        * lib/Parrot/Test.pm:
        Report non-zero exit codes.

        Courtesy of: Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>

2002-01-30 11:39  simon

        * t/op/rx.t:
        Skip final test, TODO doesn't work yet.

2002-01-30 09:54  brentdax

        * docs/embed.pod: Leon Brocard was kind enough to explain to me how
        predereferencing works.

2002-01-30 09:38  brentdax

        * docs/: embed.pod, parrot.pod: Document this newfangled embedding
        subsystem.

2002-01-30 09:37  brentdax

        * include/parrot/embed.h: Fix a mistake, clear up a warning.

2002-01-30 09:37  brentdax

        * config_h.in: Expose another flag for embedders.

2002-01-30 05:07  jgoff

        * make_vtable_ops.pl, t/harness: Both files didn't know of the new
        location for Parrot/, and t/harness wasn't able to run the new
        op/pmc tests. Both problems fixed, so I think I'm going to declare
        the build suitable for public consumption.

2002-01-30 04:34  robert

        * docs/Makefile.in: update for CVS movement

2002-01-30 04:32  robert

        * Makefile.in: Adjust for CVS reorganization.  (This time, edit the
        .in file, not the real Makefile)

2002-01-30 04:20  robert

        * Configure.pl, jit2h.pl, ops2c.pl, ops2pm.pl, pmc_pm.pl,
        vtable_h.pl, classes/pmc2c.pl, include/parrot/parrot.h: Updates
        related to moving files around

2002-01-30 04:10  robert

        * MANIFEST: Update MANIFEST to reflect CVS reorg.

2002-01-30 04:07  robert

        * Configure.pl: Add './lib' to our @INC because Parrot/* moved.

2002-01-30 03:56  robert

        * Parrot/: .cvsignore, Assembler.pm, BuildUtil.pm, Op.pm,
        OpTrans.pm, OpsFile.pm, Optimizer.pm, PackFile.pm, String.pm,
        Test.pm, Vtable.pm, Jit/alpha-bsd.pm, Jit/alpha-linux.pm,
        Jit/alphaGeneric.pm, Jit/i386-bsd.pm, Jit/i386-linux.pm,
        Jit/i386-nojit.pm, Jit/i386Generic.pm, Jit/sun4-solaris.pm,
        Jit/sun4Generic.pm, OpLib/.cvsignore, OpTrans/C.pm,
        OpTrans/CGoto.pm, OpTrans/CPrederef.pm, PackFile/ConstTable.pm,
        PackFile/Constant.pm, PackFile/FixupTable.pm: Moved Parrot/* to
        lib/Parrot/

2002-01-30 03:46  robert

        * languages/miniperl/miniperlc: renamed to mpc

2002-01-30 03:45  robert

        * t/op/: pmc.t, pmc_array.t, pmc_perlarray.t, pmc_perlhash.t,
        pmc_perlstring.t: Moved to t/op/pmc/

2002-01-30 03:40  robert

        * include/parrot/register_funcs.h: Renamed to regfuncs.h

2002-01-30 03:14  jgoff

        * classes/perlarray.pmc, t/op/pmc_perlarray.t, t/pmc/perlarray.t:
        Fixed some problems with PerlArray and added tests.  Previously,
        only integers could be accessed by negative indices.  After this
        change, all basic types can be accessed by negative indices, and
        they can also be set at negative indices.

2002-01-29 22:13  brentdax

        * TODO: Just look at the stupid diff.

2002-01-29 21:53  simon

        * TODO, docs/vtables.pod:
        New TODO, and tiny addition to vtables.pod

2002-01-29 21:47  mrjoltcola

        * include/parrot/io.h, io/io_unix.c: Minor bug fix in io_unix.

2002-01-29 21:38  mrjoltcola

        * Makefile.in: Makefile.in tweak for io depend.

2002-01-29 21:15  brentdax

        * embed.c: Fix a segfault and some profiling formatting nits.

2002-01-29 20:54  brentdax

        * pmc.c: Oops.

2002-01-29 20:50  brentdax

        * pmc.c, include/parrot/exceptions.h: Exceptions are better than
        segfaults.

2002-01-29 20:17  mrjoltcola

        * interpreter.c, core.ops, io.ops: CVS missed this.

2002-01-29 20:17  mrjoltcola

        * io/io.c: These should have gone in Sunday with the rest. CVS is
        out to get me.

2002-01-29 18:39  brentdax

        * platforms/win32.h: Fix Win32 whoops.

2002-01-29 18:29  brentdax

        * embed.c, include/parrot/embed.h: A couple minor embedding fixes.

2002-01-29 17:51  simon

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, config_h.in, embed.c, test_main.c,
        include/parrot/embed.h, include/parrot/parrot.h:
        Embedding support. Cool.

        Courtesy of: <brentdax@cpan.org>

2002-01-29 15:40  grunblatt

        * Configure.pl: Detect if we can use "objdump".  Courtesy of: Jason
        Gloudon <perl@gloudon.com>

2002-01-29 14:42  simon

        * include/parrot/parrot.h:
        Platform stuff has to be included *after* system headers.

2002-01-29 14:05  grunblatt

        * interpreter.c, jit.c, Parrot/Jit/sun4-solaris.pm,
        Parrot/Jit/sun4Generic.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/sun4-solaris.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Jit/sun4Generic.pm, include/parrot/jit.h,
        jit/sun4/core.jit, jit/sun4/lib.jit, jit/sun4/string.jit: Added
        support for SPARC.  Courtesy of: Jason Gloudon <perl@gloudon.com>

2002-01-29 10:56  simon

        * platforms/generic.h:
        If we don't have a S_ISREG, produce something close to it.

2002-01-29 06:01  dan

        * MANIFEST, README, LICENSES/Artistic: Finally added licenses

2002-01-29 04:38  jgoff

        * classes/array.pmc: Forgot to remove some C++-isms from the
        get_{foo}_index routines.

2002-01-29 04:26  jgoff

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, global_setup.c, classes/Makefile.in,
        classes/array.pmc, include/parrot/pmc.h, t/op/pmc_array.t,
        t/pmc/array.t: Added array class that languages other than perl can
        use for a basis.  It has no features like preextension, and the
        array index starts at 0.

        MANIFEST - added classes/array.pmc and t/op/pmc_array.t Makefile.in
        and classes/Makefile.in - Added array.pmc to the makefile.
        (Assuming rules like .pmc.o are portable (or even possible) I might
        alter classes/Makefile.in to autobuild the appropriate files.

2002-01-29 02:32  dan

        * MANIFEST, Parrot/Test.pm, lib/Parrot/Test.pm,
        lib/Test/Builder.pm, lib/Test/More.pm, lib/Test/Simple.pm,
        lib/Test/Utils.pm, t/op/interp.t, t/op/macro.t, t/op/pmc.t,
        t/op/rx.t, t/op/stacks.t, t/pmc/pmc.t:
            Update to Test::More 0.41 which adds Test::Builder

            Delete the vestigal Test::Utils

            Change Parrot::Test so it uses Test::Builder instead of Evil
        Wrappers
            around Test::More

            output_* now returns whether the test passes or fails

            Parrot::Test no longer exports Test::More's functions.  Instead
        they
            can simply be used together.  The few tests which used
        Test::More
            features (ie. skip) have 'use Test::More' added.

            I ditched the export_to_level() crutch.  Do we expect parrot to
        work on
            5.004?  (literally 5.004, not 5.004_04)

        Courtesy of Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>

2002-01-28 21:04  dan

        * docs/overview.pod:  There is no opcodes.pod; I'm assuming the
        pointer should actually be to
         parrot_assembly.pod, as the canonical documentation.

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-28 20:21  dan

        * languages/jako/jakoc, t/op/stacks.t: Toss the last traces of
        clone[inps]

2002-01-28 19:18  dan

        * core.ops, register.c: clone[insp] is dead

2002-01-28 17:46  grunblatt

        * Parrot/Jit/i386Generic.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/i386Generic.pm,
        jit/i386/core.jit: Fix to make the jit work in linux yet again.

2002-01-28 16:45  dan

        * MANIFEST, README.OS_X: Added Mac OS X specific readme documenting
        the requirement for fink at the moment.

2002-01-28 15:59  simon

        * test_main.c:
        People might try and run a directory file, with spectacular
        results.  We don't want that. No.

2002-01-28 14:58  doughera

        * core.ops: Avoid C++-style comments.

2002-01-28 14:16  grunblatt

        * jit.c, io/io.c: Changed jit.c to fit the way registers are
        accessed.  Readded the pio_(stdin|stdout|stderr) to make builds
        work again.

2002-01-28 13:47  doughera

        * include/parrot/register.h: Avoid C++-style comment.

2002-01-28 06:03  dan

        * MANIFEST, core.ops, interpreter.c, key.c, register.c, trace.c,
        Parrot/OpTrans/C.pm, Parrot/OpTrans/CGoto.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpTrans/C.pm, lib/Parrot/OpTrans/CGoto.pm,
        docs/parrot_assembly.pod, include/parrot/interpreter.h,
        include/parrot/parrot.h, include/parrot/regfuncs.h,
        include/parrot/register.h, include/parrot/register_funcs.h,
        include/parrot/string.h, include/parrot/string_funcs.h: Registers
        are now stored in the interpreter structure itself, rather than
        just a pointer to the top of the register structure. Pushes and
        pops now involve memcpys, but register access has one fewer
        dereference.

        Fails four of the register stack tests, though, so not perfect.
        Needs fixing, but this is a good place to start.

2002-01-28 04:40  mrjoltcola

        * test_main.c: cvs commit missed this. ??

2002-01-28 04:27  mrjoltcola

        * examples/assembly/io1.pasm, include/parrot/exceptions.h,
        include/parrot/interpreter.h, include/parrot/io.h, io/io.c,
        io/io_stdio.c, io/io_unix.c, io/io_win32.c: ParrotIO local to each
        interpreter now (at least in theory).  IO handle array added.  Misc
        bug fixes in layer handling.  Changed any IO_ constants to PIO_ so
        we don't conflict         with system libraries.  Still have broken
        stuff in win32 and stdio layer.

2002-01-28 04:01  mrjoltcola

        * include/parrot/chartype.h: Typo in chartype.h include guard.

2002-01-28 03:41  mrjoltcola

        * t/op/interp.t: Fix flag for interp so we don't get "info"
        messages which break tests.

2002-01-28 01:54  dan

        * include/parrot/string.h: A few more buffer/string flags

2002-01-27 11:33  nicholas

        * chartypes/unicode.c: Cast unsigned argument to int in call to
        isdigit to silence gcc warning.

2002-01-26 23:18  grunblatt

        * Parrot/Jit/i386Generic.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/i386Generic.pm: Turn
        off that flag.

2002-01-26 23:17  grunblatt

        * Parrot/Jit/i386Generic.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/i386Generic.pm,
        jit/i386/core.jit: [no log message]

2002-01-26 22:18  simon

        * jit/i386/core.jit:
        Jumping to 0x0 is a recipe for segfaults.

2002-01-26 18:35  simon

        * t/harness:
        Allow user to select which tests to harness

        Courtesy of: Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>

2002-01-26 17:20  grunblatt

        * Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm, Parrot/Jit/i386Generic.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/i386Generic.pm: Patch
        to make the jit work in linux again.

2002-01-26 16:52  dan

        * Configure.pl, hints/darwin.pl: Add -Wno-shadow, as Darwin's
        headers can't cope with this. Darwin-only

2002-01-26 16:04  dan

        * include/parrot/parrot.h: Quick note to remind folks that this
        isn't the file they're looking for if they're writing extensions or
        embedding parrot.

        Courtesy of Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>

2002-01-26 00:41  mrjoltcola

        * MANIFEST: Oopsy.

2002-01-26 00:37  mrjoltcola

        * docs/ParrotFAQ.htm: Parrot FAQ : Created and maintained by Adam
        Turoff

2002-01-25 01:31  grunblatt

        * jit/alpha/core.jit: There is no neg or fneg.

2002-01-25 01:27  grunblatt

        * core.ops, Parrot/Jit/alphaGeneric.pm, Parrot/Jit/i386Generic.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Jit/alphaGeneric.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/i386Generic.pm,
        jit/alpha/core.jit, jit/i386/core.jit, t/op/integer.t,
        t/op/number.t: Added Parrot_neg.  Erase t.s

2002-01-24 23:26  dan

        * interpreter.c: Best make sure unused elements are NULL

2002-01-24 23:24  dan

        * interpreter.c: Fix stupid thinko

2002-01-24 18:37  doughera

        * Makefile.in: Add a few missing dollar signs in the lifetest
        section so that ${exe} and the like get properly interpolated.

2002-01-24 18:15  mrjoltcola

        * docs/: .cvsignore, Makefile.in, parrot.pod: Fix pod generation
        for io.ops file. Add reference to it in parrot.pod.  Courtesy of
        Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-24 06:43  mrjoltcola

        * io/io_stdio.c: Oops.

2002-01-24 06:34  mrjoltcola

        * include/parrot/io.h, io/TODO, io/io.c, io/io_stdio.c: Did a bit
        of work on the buffering layer.  Decided to use shared read/write
        buffer (as do most implementations) for now since its the simplest
        way to keep everything synced, (flush on seeks, flush read on
        writes, etc.)

2002-01-24 03:38  mrjoltcola

        * test_main.c: Cleaned up option handling code a bit for main().

2002-01-23 23:22  dan

        * interpreter.c, include/parrot/interpreter.h,
        include/parrot/resources.h: Now each interpreter gets its own hash
        for globals.

2002-01-23 20:45  dan

        * Configure.pl: Fix a warning when there's no - in an architecture

2002-01-22 23:57  grunblatt

        * docs/running.pod: [no log message]

2002-01-22 20:29  doughera

        * KNOWN_ISSUES: long doubles don't work on SPARC either.  It
        appears to be a generic problem (if sizeof(long double) >
        sizeof(double)), not an x86-specific one.

2002-01-22 16:57  doughera

        * runops_cores.c: Change variable name from time to starttime to
        avoid gcc warning about variable name shadowing.

2002-01-22 16:55  doughera

        * classes/pmc2c.pl: Include class_init prototype too.

2002-01-22 16:01  doughera

        * MANIFEST: [no log message]

2002-01-22 01:04  ajgough

        * global_setup.c, classes/default.pmc, classes/intqueue.pmc,
        classes/parrotpointer.pmc, classes/perlarray.pmc,
        classes/perlhash.pmc, classes/perlint.pmc, classes/perlnum.pmc,
        classes/perlstring.pmc, classes/perlundef.pmc, classes/pmc2c.pl,
        include/parrot/global_setup.h: Patch from Nick Clark to quieten
        warnings from pmc files.  Message-ID:
        <20020121224719.GE1726@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>

2002-01-22 00:53  ajgough

        * test_main.c: Clears up a couple of warnings in test_main.c.
        Thanks to Nick Clark.  Message-ID:
        <20020121190457.GB1726@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>

2002-01-22 00:47  ajgough

        * string.c, chartypes/unicode.c, chartypes/usascii.c,
        include/parrot/chartype.h: Cause all codepoints to be treated as
        UNITVALS, and get_digit to return INTVAL, just in case. (Thanks to
        Nick Clark, see also: Message-ID:
        <20020121214137.GC2371@Bagpuss.unfortu.net> )

2002-01-22 00:24  dan

        * key.c: We do mandate an ANSI conformant C compiler, don't we?

        Appended patch cures these warnings:

        key.c: In function `debug_key': key.c:29: warning: int format,
        INTVAL arg (arg 3) key.c:33: warning: int format, INTVAL arg (arg
        3) key.c:33: warning: int format, INTVAL arg (arg 4) key.c:36:
        warning: int format, INTVAL arg (arg 3) key.c:36: warning: int
        format, INTVAL arg (arg 4)

        Courtesy of Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>

2002-01-21 12:41  mrjoltcola

        * MANIFEST, io.ops: For some reason cvs commit didn't get this, may
        be clock skew.

2002-01-21 06:37  mrjoltcola

        * io/io.c: Cleanup a warning

2002-01-21 06:28  mrjoltcola

        * examples/assembly/io1.pasm, include/parrot/io.h, io/io.c,
        io/io_stdio.c, io/io_unix.c, io/io_win32.c: Added 32/64 bit seek
        ops. Various other IO twiddlings.

2002-01-21 03:25  grunblatt

        * Makefile.in: Use $jitcpuarch instead of $cpuarch.  Thanks to
        Melvin Smith for the catch up.

2002-01-20 23:13  sfink

        * stacks.c: Fixed logic errors, need tests

2002-01-20 22:17  brentdax

        * rx.c, rx.ops, include/parrot/rx.h, t/op/rx.t: Make /m work and
        prepare for /i to work.

2002-01-20 20:52  grunblatt

        * Configure.pl, MANIFEST, Makefile.in, interpreter.c, jit.c,
        jit2h.pl, Parrot/Jit/alpha-bsd.pm, Parrot/Jit/alpha-linux.pm,
        Parrot/Jit/alphaGeneric.pm, Parrot/Jit/i386-bsd.pm,
        Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/alpha-bsd.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Jit/alpha-linux.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/alphaGeneric.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-bsd.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm,
        Parrot/Jit/i386Generic.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/i386Generic.pm,
        include/parrot/jit.h, jit/alpha/core.jit, jit/alpha/lib.jit,
        jit/alpha/string.jit:
        - Added support for ALPHA, by now linux and bsd.

        - Reduced jit2h.pl execution time by precompiling the call to the
        unimplemented op.

        - Reduced the duplicated code in Parrot/Jit/*.pm by adding
        Parrot/Jit/${cpuarch}Generic.pm

        - Changed the way to detect quads to what is written in "man
        perlfunc".

2002-01-20 17:23  brentdax

        * rx.ops: There's no such thing as rx_allocateinfo.

2002-01-19 08:26  brentdax

        * pbc2c.pl: Stop this stupid "hard-code the new oplib" stuff.

2002-01-19 07:12  mrjoltcola

        * MANIFEST, core.ops, io.ops, pbc2c.pl: Separate pure ParrotIO ops
        into io.ops, leave the STDIO wrappers        in core.ops until they
        disappear.  Added debug op for switching on VM debug flag

2002-01-19 01:55  mrjoltcola

        * include/parrot/io.h, io/TODO, io/io.c, io/io_stdio.c,
        io/io_unix.c, io/io_win32.c: Added a few more Win32 layer calls

2002-01-19 00:55  brentdax

        * Makefile.in, rx.c, rx.ops, rxstacks.c, include/parrot/rx.h,
        include/parrot/rxstacks.h: Add regex-specific stacks for
        efficiency.

2002-01-18 23:58  dan

        * Configure.pl: I think the optimal fix here is simply to remove
        -ansi -pedantic.  -ansi may well have some uses, but even the gcc
        man pages say "There is no reason to use this option [-pedantic];
        it exists only to satisfy pedants."

        Courtesy of Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>

2002-01-18 23:23  dan

        * MANIFEST, docs/parrot.pod, docs/running.pod: This patch add
        docs/running.pod, which lists the various executables Parrot
        currently includes, examples of running them, and mentions of where
        they fail to work. It's more of a cry for help than a useful
        reference. :-) I've been having trouble recently when making
        changes in figuring out whether I broke anything, because any
        non-default way of running the system seems to be already broken. I
        can't tell what brokenness is expected and what isn't.

        Courtesy of  Steve Fink <steve@fink.com>

2002-01-15 22:13  brentdax

        * include/parrot/rx.h, rx.c, rx.ops: Remove the last vestiges of
        substring use and enhance performance.

2002-01-15 21:03  ajgough

        * string.c: Fix problem with string_transcode, &dest not being
        updated if src was already in desired encoding.

2002-01-15 16:54  brentdax

        * rx.c, rx.ops, include/parrot/rx.h: Hunt down and destroy
        warnings.  Leaves only one warning, at rx.ops line 409, that I
        can't manage to get rid of.

2002-01-15 16:50  dan

        * pbc2c.pl: Pointer arithmetic not quite right in the generated
        code.  Also patches pbc2c.pl to work with rx.ops.

        Courtesy of Jason Gloudon <perl@gloudon.com>

2002-01-15 16:15  dan

        * classes/Makefile.in: All the C files in classes/ weren't being
        compiled with an of the gcc warnings flags. With this patch they
        are, and there are an awful lot of warnings, more than I could hope
        to understand and clear up (within any sensible time period before
        submitting a rash of patches, by which time everyone else would
        have moved the code on)

        Courtesy of Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>

2002-01-15 16:10  dan

        * core.ops, ops2c.pl, Parrot/Op.pm, Parrot/OpTrans.pm,
        Parrot/OpsFile.pm, lib/Parrot/Op.pm, lib/Parrot/OpTrans.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm, Parrot/OpTrans/C.pm,
        Parrot/OpTrans/CGoto.pm, Parrot/OpTrans/CPrederef.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpTrans/C.pm, lib/Parrot/OpTrans/CGoto.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpTrans/CPrederef.pm, chartypes/unicode.c,
        chartypes/usascii.c: This patch adds a few more macros for .ops
        files to use. In addition to the existing

         goto OFFSET(...)
         goto ADDRESS(...)
         goto POP()
         goto NEXT()

        it adds

         expr OFFSET(...)
         expr ADDRESS(...)
         expr POP()
         expr NEXT()

        This is intended mainly for use in helper functions in .ops files,
        but also for ops that need to eg push the address of the next
        opcode onto a stack. The only place this currently happens (outside
        of my private code) is in the bsr opcode, which previously
        hardcoded the computation.

        This patch also makes ops2c.pl move the CUR_OPCODE #define a bit
        higher in the generated file so that it can be used by static
        functions in the preamble.

        Finally, I ran into a parentheses matching problem -- should goto
        OFFSET(...) rewrite    \bgoto\s+OFFSET\((.*)\) or
        \bgoto\s+OFFSET\((.*?)\)

        It was done inconsistently for the different calculations, and of
        course neither are correct because you really want matching
        parentheses. But that seems like too much bother. (Currently,
        there's only one place that uses anything other than $n in the
        parentheses, and that's the enternative() op.) So I made them all
        .*? but emulated recent POD by also allowing (( ... )) (that's two
        parenthesis with a space padding the body.)

        The generated core_ops.c and core_ops_prederef.c files after this
        patch are identical except for the CUR_OPCODE and REL_PC macros
        getting moved a little higher, and the bsr in the regular path (not
        prederef) uses 'CUR_OPCODE' instead of the hardcoded 'cur_opcode'.

        In summary, this is a big wad of meaningless changes for the
        current code. But it will make adding some opcodes easier in the
        future, and cleans up a small nit in the current bsr.

        Courtesy of Steve Fink <steve@fink.com>

2002-01-15 08:48  brentdax

        * include/parrot/rx.h: Bitmaps can now include chars >255 (well,
        sort of).

2002-01-15 08:45  brentdax

        * rx.c, rx.ops: Bitmaps can now include chars >255 (well, sort of).

2002-01-15 05:00  brentdax

        * rx.ops: Speed up rx_literal--roughly doubles benchmark
        performance.

2002-01-14 20:18  dan

        * vtable.tbl, vtable_h.pl: Clean up a zillion warnings

        Courtesy of Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>

2002-01-14 20:03  dan

        * Configure.pl, MANIFEST, Makefile.in, core.ops, exceptions.c,
        global_setup.c, interpreter.c, key.c, ops2c.pl, register.c,
        runops_cores.c, rx.ops, stacks.c, string.c, test_main.c, trace.c,
        chartypes/unicode.c, chartypes/usascii.c, classes/default.pmc,
        classes/parrotpointer.pmc, classes/perlarray.pmc,
        classes/perlhash.pmc, classes/perlint.pmc, classes/perlnum.pmc,
        classes/perlstring.pmc, classes/perlundef.pmc,
        encodings/singlebyte.c, encodings/utf16.c, encodings/utf32.c,
        encodings/utf8.c, include/parrot/exceptions.h, include/parrot/io.h,
        include/parrot/parrot.h, include/parrot/rx.h, io/io_stdio.c,
        io/io_win32.c, platforms/win32.c, platforms/win32.h, t/op/pmc.t,
        t/op/pmc_perlhash.t, t/op/rx.t, t/pmc/perlhash.t, t/pmc/pmc.t: This
        patch cleans up most of the MSVC-warnings when using warning level
        4 (the highest, one above the default level 3). It turns off two
        level-4 warnings for 'unreferenced formal parameter' and 'named
        type definition in parentheses', the latter of which was turning up
        warnings in MS VC headers.  Level 4 warnings also helped me find a
        couple of other lurking bugs in the parrot code.

        Replaces the various fprintf/exit combos with calls to
        internal_exception, which uses var_args to emulate printf. Various
        exception types were added as well. These are probably temporary
        until a real exception system arrives.

        Fixed some places in the IO code where wrong functions were being
        called, or put into the vtable.

        Courtesy of "Michel Lambert" <mlambert@legendent.com>

2002-01-14 19:00  dan

        * MANIFEST: D'oh! Forgot a file.

        Courtesy of Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>

2002-01-14 18:44  brentdax

        * rx.c, rx.ops, include/parrot/rx.h: Use bitmaps where it makes
        sense (and a few other enhancements to regexes).

2002-01-14 07:07  brentdax

        * interpreter.c, runops_cores.c, test_main.c,
        include/parrot/interpreter.h: Make profiling a little more useful.

2002-01-13 19:44  dan

        * Configure.pl: Turn off unsed things warnings for now

2002-01-13 19:39  dan

        * key.c, classes/perlarray.pmc: key.c:   intialize KEY.keys

        classes/perlarray.c:  * get_string: is casting
        SELF->cache.struct_val to a STRING*,    while all other methods are
        using it as a KEY*; don't know    what a perlarray stringifies to,
        so replacing with NULL  * get_bool: the default behaviour does not
        look right to me

        Courtesy of "Mattia Barbon" <mbarbon@dsi.unive.it>

2002-01-13 19:37  dan

        * Makefile.in, classes/Makefile.in: Makefile.in:   (Re)add ld_debug
        flags to LDFLAGS, so that Configure.pl --debugging   works with
        MSVC

        classes/Makefile.in   make easier to add pmb2c.pl flags to all
        pmc2c calls

        Courtesy of "Mattia Barbon" <mbarbon@dsi.unive.it>

2002-01-13 19:36  dan

        * io/io_win32.c:   according to my MSVC docs, you should use
        _tcslen only after
          #including tchar.h

        Courtesy of  "Mattia Barbon" <mbarbon@dsi.unive.it>

2002-01-13 19:35  dan

        * docs/intro.pod: Doc tweak.

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-13 19:34  dan

        * t/: op/pmc_perlstring.t, pmc/perlstring.t:  Enclosed test checks
        that

          if Px, ...

         works with PerlString PMCs; these should be false if they are "",
        0, or
         are undefined, and true in every other case.

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-13 19:23  dan

        * Configure.pl, config_h.in, core.ops, classes/perlnum.pmc: Change
        NUMVAL_FMT to FLOATVAL_FMT.

        Courtesy of "David M. Lloyd" <dmlloyd@tds.net>

2002-01-13 17:45  jgoff

        * Makefile.in, global_setup.c, classes/Makefile.in,
        classes/intqueue.pmc, include/parrot/pmc.h, t/op/pmc.t,
        t/pmc/pmc.t: IntQueue is for an upcoming article on perl.com on
        designing your own classes.

2002-01-13 08:47  simon

        * interpreter.c, Parrot/OpTrans/CPrederef.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpTrans/CPrederef.pm:
        Fix bsr in prederef mode.

        Courtesy of: Jason Gloudon <perl@gloudon.com>

2002-01-12 15:33  dan

        * interpreter.c, key.c, packfile.c, register.c, resources.c,
        string.c, encodings/singlebyte.c, encodings/utf32.c,
        include/parrot/parrot.h, io/io.c, io/io_stdio.c, io/io_unix.c:
        Silence most of the unused variable warnings.

        Courtesy of Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>

2002-01-12 15:18  dan

        * rx.ops: This patch fixes a warning and also changes an 'int' to
        an 'INTVAL'.  All tests should pass on Solaris.

        Courtesy of "David M. Lloyd" <dmlloyd@tds.net>

2002-01-12 15:13  dan

        * interpreter.c, string.c, test_main.c, classes/parrotpointer.pmc,
        examples/assembly/life.pasm, include/parrot/interpreter.h,
        include/parrot/io.h, io/io.c, io/io_stdio.c, io/io_unix.c,
        io/io_win32.c: More IO work. (Plus some misc twiddles)

        Courtesy of Melvin Smith <mrjoltcola@mindspring.com>

2002-01-12 01:14  dan

        * include/parrot/string.h: fix a missing name

2002-01-12 00:39  grunblatt

        * include/parrot/string.h: Few typos.

2002-01-12 00:16  grunblatt

        * jit.c, jit2h.pl, jit/i386/core.jit: Added support for opcodes
        that change the program control flow.

2002-01-11 23:53  brentdax

        * classes/parrotpointer.pmc: Tell the GC to keep its hands out of a
        ParrotPointer's guts.

2002-01-11 23:03  dan

        * include/parrot/string.h: flags for the buffers, for GC

2002-01-11 22:31  dan

        * include/parrot/pmc.h: PMC flag docs. Those'd be good...

2002-01-11 22:21  dan

        * include/parrot/pmc.h: Started with PMC flags

2002-01-11 19:33  dan

        * config_h.in, memory.c, resources.c, string.c,
        include/parrot/resources.h: Beginnings of a memory allocation/gc
        system. Without the GC part.

2002-01-11 18:05  dan

        * core.ops: Make sure constant pushes are right on mixed 32/64 bit
        systems

        Courtesy of "David M. Lloyd" <dmlloyd@tds.net>

2002-01-11 17:50  dan

        * core.ops, pbc2c.pl, Parrot/OpTrans/CGoto.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpTrans/CGoto.pm, include/parrot/interpreter.h: Here is
        a patch that makes pbc2c generated code work with the bsr opcode.
        It creates a new opcode 'enternative', and uses this to support a
        mixed model of interpretation and execution of compiled C code.

        Courtesy of Jason Gloudon <perl@gloudon.com>

2002-01-11 17:48  dan

        * Makefile.in: Add life as a potential .exe target

2002-01-11 17:30  dan

        * include/parrot/resources.h: Start of arena stuff for GC

2002-01-11 05:34  brentdax

        * rx.ops: Docs modifications.

2002-01-11 04:19  brentdax

        * rx.ops, include/parrot/rx.h: Remove unnecessary evilness from
        regular expressions.

2002-01-11 03:44  grunblatt

        * jit/i386/core.jit: off by one.

2002-01-11 02:25  dan

        * Makefile.in, examples/assembly/life.pasm: Tweak to life benchmark

        Courtesy of Steve Fink <steve@fink.com>

2002-01-11 00:32  brentdax

        * MANIFEST: Forgot to put parrotpointer.pmc in the MANIFEST.

2002-01-10 23:22  ajgough

        * string.c, docs/strings.pod: Removed all the nul termination code,
        as this is in general a bad idea.  Note added to docs/strings.pod
        to warn people away from assuming termination.

2002-01-10 23:14  dan

        * core.ops, interpreter.c, jit.c, rx.c, rx.ops, stacks.c,
        testparrotsizes_c.in, include/parrot/interpreter.h,
        include/parrot/rx.h, include/parrot/stacks.h: Much nicer stack
        implementation

        Courtesy of Steve Fink <steve@fink.com>

2002-01-10 22:48  dan

        * core.ops: Fix 'basic' test 1 for sizeof(opcode_t) !=
        sizeof(INTVAL)

        Courtesy of "David M. Lloyd" <dmlloyd@tds.net>

2002-01-10 22:46  dan

        * key.c, classes/perlhash.pmc, t/op/pmc_perlhash.t,
        t/pmc/perlhash.t:  Well, actually two bugs.

         The first is an off-by-one error in key.c than can cause parrot
         to segfault if hash % NUM_BUCKETS happens to be zero.

         The other is a bug in the PerlHash init() code that causes new
        PerlHash
         PMCs to start with the wrong size.

         Both fixed below; also tests to prevent them recurring.

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-10 22:30  dan

        * classes/default.pmc, classes/perlarray.pmc, t/op/pmc_perlarray.t,
        t/pmc/perlarray.t:  The enclosed patch allows one to use the if op
        with a PerlArray,

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-10 21:31  dan

        * examples/assembly/life.pasm: Tweaked to be a benchmarkable thing

2002-01-10 20:30  grunblatt

        * jit.c, jit2h.pl, Parrot/Jit/i386-bsd.pm,
        Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-bsd.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm, jit/i386/core.jit, jit/i386/lib.jit:
        All the op codes that doesn't change the program control flow now
        work in the JIT by calling the code generated by the compiler when
        the op is not in core.jit TODO:     * Make all the ops that change
        the program control flow (and are not on core.jit) work.      *
        Remove the dispatch payload.

2002-01-10 17:13  dan

        * classes/parrotpointer.pmc: This patch fixes parrotpointer.pmc,
        which tries to return 0 from a void function.

        Courtesy of "David M. Lloyd" <dmlloyd@tds.net>

2002-01-10 17:12  dan

        * t/op/macro.t: Skip tests, don't comment them out.

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-10 17:10  dan

        * rx.c: This fixes a couple of nits in rx.c:

           1. There's no newline at the end, which makes gcc unhappy.
           2. We should use NULL, not 0 or "", for creating null pointers.

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-10 17:09  dan

        * MANIFEST:  Adds rx.t, removes duplicated rx.c and puts everything
        back in
         alphabetical order.

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-10 16:54  ajgough

        * resources.c: Made free_string check that there was a string to
        free.  In reponse to a bug spotted by Joshua Nye.

2002-01-09 22:44  dan

        * global_setup.c: Forgot the setup

2002-01-09 22:35  dan

        * rx.ops: Forgot this one

2002-01-09 22:35  dan

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, rx.c, string.c, include/parrot/pmc.h,
        include/parrot/rx.h, t/op/rx.t: Preliminary regex implementation.
        Tests don't work, though.

        Courtesy of "Brent Dax" <brentdax@cpan.org>

2002-01-09 21:48  dan

        * t/: op/pmc_perlarray.t, pmc/perlarray.t: Whoops, forgot that

2002-01-09 21:22  dan

        * classes/Makefile.in, classes/parrotpointer.pmc, Makefile.in:
        Generic pointer holder class

        Courtesy of "Brent Dax" <brentdax@cpan.org>

2002-01-09 21:19  dan

        * MANIFEST, classes/perlarray.pmc, t/op/pmc.t, t/pmc/pmc.t: Array
        patches.

2002-01-09 19:54  dan

        * io/io_unix.c: Whoops. Forgot one

2002-01-09 19:43  dan

        * key.c, classes/perlhash.pmc, t/op/pmc_perlhash.t,
        t/pmc/perlhash.t: Fix hash crash bugs

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-09 19:13  dan

        * memory.c: Signedness whoops.

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-09 18:23  dan

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, include/parrot/io.h, io/io.c, io/io_os.c,
        io/io_stdio.c, io/io_win32.c: Changes:

        -Minor layer cleanups -Win32 layer added (mostly stubs for now) but
        will be using the   Win32 API and company rather than the unix-ish
        fake ones.  -stdin/stdout/stderr Win32 specific code added. Rather
        than use   0,1,2, Microsoft says use GetStdHandle(), etc. so that
        stuff is   there. Soon we should be able to start using these
        rather than   fprintf(stderr, ...) and remove stdio linkage.

        Courtesy of <mrjoltcola@mindspring.com>

2002-01-09 17:26  dan

        * test_main.c: Fixes bad code gen on x86.

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-01-09 17:24  dan

        * Configure.pl, config_h.in, core.ops, key.c, classes/perlint.pmc,
        classes/perlnum.pmc: This patch adds macros to the config.h file
        for INTVAL and NUMVAL printf formats.

        Courtesy of "David M. Lloyd" <dmlloyd@tds.net>

2002-01-08 22:55  ajgough

        * docs/vtables.pod: Clarify what get_string should do.

2002-01-08 20:05  dan

        * key.c: Keep comments in sync.

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-08 19:50  dan

        * memory.c, include/parrot/memory.h: Need a realloc

2002-01-08 17:24  gregor

        * .cvsignore, Configure.pl, Makefile.in:
        Added 'reconfig' make target and corresponding --reconfig option to
        Configure.pl, so its very easy to re-run Configure.pl with the last
        (command-line) options you passed it.

2002-01-08 16:33  dan

        * core.ops, make_vtable_ops.pl, Parrot/OpsFile.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm: Add in, out, and inout parameters to teh ops
        in core.ops. Potential help for optimizers and JITters.

        Courtesy of gregor@linux1.kennedytech.com

2002-01-08 16:32  dan

        * key.c: Grab key length from the right spot

        Courtesy of "Peter Gibbs" <peter@emkel.co.za>

2002-01-08 13:27  ajgough

        * test_main.c: Fix slight thinko in realloc usage for reading from
        stdin.

2002-01-08 11:34  ajgough

        * test_main.c: Allow test_parrot to read bytecode stream from
        stdin, adds -f command line option, with "-f -" doing the stdin
        stuff.

2002-01-08 06:34  jgoff

        * key.c, include/parrot/key.h: key.c - Added simple implementation
        of buckets.  include/parrot/key.h - Added enum_key_bucket type

2002-01-08 03:21  jgoff

        * include/parrot/key.h: Added an undef type to the key structure,
        so we can delete keys without confusion.

2002-01-07 22:09  dan

        * key.c, packfile.c, string.c, include/parrot/key.h,
        include/parrot/packfile.h, include/parrot/string.h: Fix whines
        about index being redefined

        Courtesy of Nick Clark

2002-01-07 21:15  dan

        * ops2pm.pl: Don't allow the same ops lib to be included twice.

        Courtesy of Steve Fink <steve@fink.com>

2002-01-07 20:48  dan

        * Parrot/Test.pm, lib/Parrot/Test.pm: Report useful info for test
        failures

        Courtesy of "Brent Dax" <brentdax@cpan.org>

2002-01-07 20:43  dan

        * docs/intro.pod: Missing a comma

        Courtesy of "coral" <coral@eekeek.org>

2002-01-07 20:41  dan

        * global_setup.c: Quiet a warning

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-07 18:58  gregor

        * t/op/.cvsignore:
        Ignore intermediate test files.

2002-01-07 17:01  gregor

        * ops2c.pl:
        Print a warning if an .ops file is mentioned more than once on the
        command line.

2002-01-07 16:12  ajgough

        * t/: op/pmc_perlhash.t, pmc/perlhash.t: A couple more hash tests,
        these shouldn't fail.

2002-01-07 15:15  simon

        * t/: op/pmc_perlhash.t, pmc/perlhash.t:
        Stop segfaults.

2002-01-07 15:11  simon

        * key.c:
        Fix zero-termination bug in hash function.

2002-01-07 13:37  ajgough

        * MANIFEST, t/op/pmc_perlhash.t, t/pmc/perlhash.t: Added
        pmc_perlhash.t, one test currently fails, one passes, yin-yang fun.

2002-01-07 11:53  brentdax

        * Configure.pl: Fixes the + thing in prompts, plus adds a synonym
        (:add{foo}) and a new deleting thing (:rem{foo})

2002-01-07 11:43  simon

        * Configure.pl:
        Gobble the + before concatenating.

2002-01-07 03:53  dan

        * Makefile.in: Dependency fix for new ops setup.

2002-01-07 03:33  jgoff

        * classes/perlarray.pmc: Add negative indices, and fix a small
        allocation problem.

2002-01-06 23:54  ajgough

        * hints/os2.pl: Makes the hints file take account of ldflags and
        ccflags being split.  This hints file is still very specific to
        builds with gnu tools, but a proper solution can wait.   Thanks to
        Nick Burch.

2002-01-06 22:12  dan

        * Makefile.in, ops2c.pl, Parrot/OpsFile.pm, lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm:
            -changes Parrot::OpLib::core's dependencies to reflect the new
        selectable ops files    -allows some of the special forms of 'goto'
        inside the PREAMBLE of an opcode file

        Courtesy of "Brent Dax" <brentdax@cpan.org>

2002-01-06 19:59  simon

        * Makefile.in:
        *cough*

2002-01-06 18:19  dan

        * classes/perlhash.pmc: Fix some type issues.

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-01-06 18:03  dan

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in: It adds a prompt to Configure asking
        for a list of opcode files to use.  The default is everything
        available except for obscure.ops.

        In addition, it makes it so that if your answer to a question
        starts with '+', it will concatenate it to the default.  For
        example:

        What C compiler do you want to use? [cl] +HAHAHA!!!

        will result in $PConfig{cc} eq "cl HAHAHA!!!".  While that example
        is not terribly useful, it is quite useful with things like
        command-line flags and the like.

        Finally, it contains a couple tweaks so that my syntax-highlighting
        editor recognizes some heredocs correctly.  :^)

        Courtesy of "Brent Dax" <brentdax@cpan.org>

2002-01-06 17:59  dan

        * KNOWN_ISSUES, MANIFEST, README: Doc Patches

        Courtesy of "Bryan C. Warnock" <bwarnock@raba.com>

2002-01-06 17:58  dan

        * MANIFEST:  We're missing a couple of files from the MANIFEST.

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-06 17:57  dan

        * ops2c.pl, Parrot/OpsFile.pm, lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm:   1.
        Compiler directives, etc. in files other than core.ops will now
        work.   2.  Compiler warnings will now display the file and line
        number of the  opcode file.

        Courtesy of "Brent Dax" <brentdax@cpan.org>

2002-01-06 17:52  dan

        * languages/jako/jakoc: Fix breakage caused by iton/ntoi going away

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-06 17:36  dan

        * docs/intro.pod: Lots of updates

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-06 02:34  gregor

        * interpreter.c:
        Add some internal documentation on the theory of operation of the
        prederef code.

2002-01-06 02:17  gregor

        * interpreter.c:
        Removed unnecessary include.

2002-01-05 12:37  simon

        * classes/.cvsignore:
        Ignore generated .h files.

        Courtesy of: Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-01-05 12:37  simon

        * Configure.pl:
        Make lcc happier by adding a dummy structure.

        Courtesy of: Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-01-05 12:35  simon

        * global_setup.c, classes/perlundef.pmc, t/op/pmc.t, t/pmc/pmc.t:
        Make perlundef work. (And coincidentally stop segfaults in the
        tests :)

        Courtesy of: Jason Gloudon <perl@gloudon.com>

2002-01-05 04:59  dan

        * t/: op/pmc.t, pmc/pmc.t: Undef tests added.

2002-01-05 04:55  jgoff

        * classes/perlhash.pmc: Added perlhash class definition

2002-01-05 04:48  dan

        * core.ops: Fix on 64 bit platforms with 32-bit opcode_t

        Courtesy of "David M. Lloyd" <dmlloyd@tds.net>

2002-01-05 03:57  jgoff

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, core.ops, global_setup.c, key.c,
        vtable.tbl, classes/Makefile.in, classes/default.pmc,
        include/parrot/key.h, include/parrot/pmc.h, t/op/pmc.t,
        t/pmc/pmc.t: Initial hash commit.

        core.ops - Adding set({i,n,s},p,s) and set(p,{i,n,s},s) operations.
         key.h  - Adding NUM_BUCKETS classes/default.pmc - Adding
        set_{integer,number,string}_index_s

        This does not yet do collision resolution, but will soon.

2002-01-05 02:54  dan

        * interpreter.c: More unsigned fixes

        Courtesy of "Bryan C. Warnock" <bwarnock@raba.com>

2002-01-04 22:13  dan

        * Configure.pl, hints/mswin32.pl: Makes config's building of the
        test programs happier.

        Courtesy of "Jason Diamond" <jason@injektilo.org>

2002-01-04 19:00  dan

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in, hints/darwin.pl: Add link flags as
        separate things

2002-01-04 18:27  dan

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in, classes/Makefile.in, hints/mswin32.pl:
        Fixes to get things configuring and building on Win32 Native.

        Courtesy of "Jason Diamond" <jason@injektilo.org>

2002-01-04 17:39  dan

        * hints/vms.pl: debug cleanup

2002-01-04 16:53  dan

        * docs/parrot.pod:  The enclosed patch brings the list of
        documentation in parrot.pod
         up to date.

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-04 16:47  dan

        * test_main.c, Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm: In an attempt to just keep knocking
        off warnings..

        Courtesy of Kevin Falcone <kevin@jibsheet.com>

2002-01-04 16:44  dan

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in: Fixed linking to use linker.

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-01-04 16:39  dan

        * io/io_stdio.c: Added CVS tag info

2002-01-04 16:35  dan

        * hints/cygwin.pl: Time for this. We need a sane linker, and ld2
        isn't it

2002-01-04 16:26  dan

        * languages/miniperl/Miniperl/Tokenizer.pm: Quiet a warning in the
        Tokenizer test

        Courtesy of Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>

2002-01-04 16:17  dan

        * chartypes/unicode.c: Silence some warnings.

        Courtesy of "David M. Lloyd" <dmlloyd@tds.net>

2002-01-04 16:09  dan

        * classes/: genclass.pl, perlarray.pmc, perlint.pmc, perlnum.pmc,
        perlstring.pmc, perlundef.pmc:  - genclass.pl attempts to put $Id$
        into generated files
           but the $Id$ string gets mangled when it's committed.
           This patch fixes the existing .pmc files and fixes genclass.pl.

         - Makes capitalization in .pmc header match actual filenames

         - The command for calling genclass.pl in vtables.pod is incorrect,
           since it assumes you're running in classes/ but genclass.pl
        assumes
           it's being run from the main directory. I changed genclass.pl to
        not
           care.

        Courtesy of Steve Fink <steve@fink.com>

2002-01-04 03:57  dan

        * MANIFEST, io/TODO, io/io_stdio.c: No wonder things worked for
        me--I *had* the files:wq!

2002-01-04 03:40  dan

        * MANIFEST: Whoops--remove files not really there

2002-01-04 03:37  dan

        * interpreter.c, stacks.c, include/parrot/stacks.h: The patch below
        my sig adds a new_stack() function to take care of the allocation
        and setup of "generic" stacks.

        Courtesy of "Brent Dax" <brentdax@cpan.org>

2002-01-04 02:36  dan

        * core.ops:  The entry in core.ops for puts(s|sc) is missing a =cut
        and so
         writes a load of junk in core_ops.pod. Applied patch fixes.

        Courtesy of Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2002-01-04 02:35  dan

        * classes/: perlint.pmc, perlnum.pmc, perlstring.pmc: The PerlInt
        logical-or is using get_integer instead of get_bool for logical
        operations. This patch corrects that.

        Perlnum and perlstring have working get_bool's, so the default
        logical_or and logical_and should be sufficient. The empty methods
        are pointed to the default logical_or.

        Courtesy of Jason Gloudon <perl@gloudon.com>

2002-01-04 02:31  dan

        * Makefile.in: docs/Makefile should be removed by realclean, but
        isn't

        Courtesy of Kevin Falcone <kevin@jibsheet.com>

2002-01-04 02:29  dan

        * classes/: Makefile.in, pmc2c.pl: PMC inheritance! Yay!

        Courtesy of Steve Fink <steve@fink.com>

2002-01-04 00:51  dan

        * docs/vtables.pod: More docs

        Courtesy of Steve Fink <steve@fink.com>

2002-01-04 00:47  dan

        * Configure.pl: Updated 64-bit patch

        Courtesy of "David M. Lloyd" <dmlloyd@tds.net>

2002-01-04 00:43  dan

        * Configure.pl: 64-bit Fix.

        Courtesy of "Bryan C. Warnock" <bwarnock@raba.com>

2002-01-03 22:37  dan

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, interpreter.c, include/parrot/io.h,
        io/io.c, io/io_os.c: Code cleanup, started STDIO layer, started
        some buffering work.       Additional work on other layers.

        Courtesy of Melvin Smith <mrjoltcola@mindspring.com>

2002-01-03 19:41  gregor

        * disassemble.pl, obscure.ops, packfile.c, pbc2c.pl:
        Updated copyright messages on top-level files.

2002-01-03 04:23  robert

        * make.pl: Add author information.  Bonsai test.

2002-01-03 04:02  dan

        * io/io_os.c: Twig Bonsai

2002-01-03 03:45  dan

        * io/: io_os.c, io_os.c: Twig Bonsai

2002-01-03 03:41  dan

        * io/io_os.c: Twig Bonsai

2002-01-02 21:42  gregor

        * packfile.c, include/parrot/packfile.h:
        Get rid of warnings in packfile.[hc]

2002-01-02 20:39  gregor

        * manicheck.pl:
        Bracketed translated patterns with ^ and $.

2002-01-02 20:11  dan

        * io/io_os.c: silence a warning

2002-01-02 19:52  grunblatt

        * jit.c, jit2h.pl, include/parrot/jit.h: Moved the definition of
        op_assembly to jit_struct.h, so that we get the real number of ops.
         Removed some warnings.

2002-01-02 19:31  tom

        * string.c: Fix string transcoding so that it actually works.

        Patch from Peter Gibbs <peter@emkel.co.za>

2002-01-02 19:20  gregor

        * manicheck.pl:
        A program to check the MANIFEST file, accounting for .cvsignore
        files.

2002-01-02 19:19  dan

        * t/harness: twig bonsai

2002-01-02 19:13  dan

        * t/harness: twig bonsai

2002-01-02 18:54  dan

        * t/harness: Tweak to test Bonsai

2002-01-02 16:27  dan

        * Configure.pl: Allow 64-bit build of parrot on systems with a
        mixed 32/64 bit perl

        Courtesy of David M. Lloyd <dmlloyd@tds.net>

2002-01-02 15:33  simon

        * MANIFEST, docs/Makefile:
        Fixed up MANIFEST. (And I removed the Makefile in docs/)

        Courtesy of: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>

2002-01-02 13:51  simon

        * Configure.pl:
        Die on broken manifest.

2002-01-02 13:48  simon

        * jit2h.pl, examples/assembly/mops.pasm:
        Clear up JIT warnings.

        Courtesy of: Nick Clark <nick@unfortu.net>

2002-01-02 04:10  dan

        * io/io.c, io/io_os.c, t/op/interp.t: IO stack now gets initialized
        only once, so new interp creation works again

        Courtesy of Melvin Smith <mrjoltcola@mindspring.com>

2002-01-02 03:32  dan

        * t/op/interp.t: Stubbed the test out, since it's hanging at the
        moment.

2002-01-02 00:55  dan

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, core.ops, include/parrot/io.h, io/io.c,
        io/io_os.c: Initial IO system patches

        Courtesy of <mrjoltcola@mindspring.com>

2002-01-01 22:55  ajgough

        * classes/default.pmc: On second thoughts, and some prodding, the
        set_* methods now only set the appropriate part of the cache, and
        do nothing else.

2002-01-01 22:29  ajgough

        * classes/default.pmc:  Wrote a whole host of default pmc methods.

         set_* create appropriate Perl* result.
         get_* simply grabs needed bit of cache.*_val

         Other methods do the rightest thing I can think of, at the moment.

         None yet cope with overflow, the modulus operation needs to be
        checked as
        I don't know quite which semantics we really want.

        Not tested yet.

2002-01-01 20:23  dan

        * docs/Makefile, encodings/singlebyte.c, encodings/utf16.c,
        encodings/utf32.c, encodings/utf8.c, include/parrot/encoding.h: Got
        rid of unneeded tmp var and eliminated const from encode prototype
        since it does make changes to the string.

        Courtesy of "David & Lisa Jacobs" <jacobsl001@hawaii.rr.com>

2002-01-01 20:11  dan

        * Makefile.in: Make clean now tosses pdump.o

        Courtesy of "David & Lisa Jacobs" <jacobsl001@hawaii.rr.com>

2002-01-01 19:49  dan

        * pdump.c, test_main.c: Warnings cleanup

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@sky.net>

2002-01-01 19:45  dan

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in, docs/.cvsignore, docs/Makefile.in,
        hints/mswin32.pl, languages/jako/Makefile.in,
        languages/scheme/Makefile.in: Makes cleanup better on non-Unix
        platforms

        Courtesy of "Jason Diamond" <jason@injektilo.org>

2002-01-01 19:41  dan

        * include/parrot/register.h: Clean up some warnings

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2002-01-01 19:10  simon

        * pbc2c.pl, Parrot/OpsFile.pm, lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm:
        Hack-around to enable compilation of code using vtable ops.

2002-01-01 18:43  dan

        * encodings/: singlebyte.c, utf16.c, utf32.c, utf8.c: Toss <0
        checks on unsigned things

        Courtesy of "David & Lisa Jacobs" <jacobsl001@hawaii.rr.com>

2002-01-01 18:26  dan

        * runops_cores.c: More warning silences.

        Courtesy of Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>

2002-01-01 18:25  dan

        * trace.c: Shuts up a warning.

        Courtesy of Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>

2002-01-01 18:24  dan

        * encodings/singlebyte.c: Clean up some warnings.

        Courtesy of Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>

2002-01-01 18:20  dan

        * Configure.pl: Hey, those PPros are really x86 systems! Who'dve
        thunk it?

        Courtesy of "Bryan C. Warnock" <bwarnock@raba.com>

2002-01-01 18:17  dan

        * packfile.c: Warning cleanup

        Courtesy of Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>

2002-01-01 17:53  dan

        * string.c: New string size should be based on output encoding's
        size, not input encoding's size.

        Courtesy of: "Peter Gibbs" <peter@emkel.co.za>

2002-01-01 17:22  dan

        * Configure.pl, core.ops, interpreter.c, memory.c, runops_cores.c,
        string.c, test_main.c, trace.c, include/parrot/exceptions.h,
        include/parrot/interpreter.h, include/parrot/memory.h,
        include/parrot/oplib.h, include/parrot/string.h, t/op/string.t:
        Warnings fixups.

        Courtesy of Chip Turner <cturner@redhat.com>

2002-01-01 17:09  dan

        * encodings/singlebyte.c, encodings/utf16.c, encodings/utf32.c,
        encodings/utf8.c, include/parrot/encoding.h: Some signed things are
        now unsigned, as is proper.

        Courtesy of: "David & Lisa Jacobs" <jacobsl001@hawaii.rr.com>
        Courtesy of: "Bryan C. Warnock" <bwarnock@raba.com>

2002-01-01 16:59  dan

        * include/parrot/trace.h: Useless debugging prototype removed

        Courtesy of: "Bryan C. Warnock" <bwarnock@raba.com>

2002-01-01 16:58  dan

        * MANIFEST: We forgot a file.

        Courtesy of "Bryan C. Warnock" <bwarnock@raba.com>

2002-01-01 03:53  dan

        * Configure.pl: Okay, I give. Removed some warnings because the
        darned system headers were triggering them. Sloppy, sloppy
        coding...

2002-01-01 03:48  dan

        * config_h.in: Add in an unsigned INTVAL.

        Courtesy of "David & Lisa Jacobs" <jacobsl001@hawaii.rr.com>

2002-01-01 03:46  dan

        * global_setup.c: Clean up some compiler warnings.

        Courtesy of "David & Lisa Jacobs" <jacobsl001@hawaii.rr.com>

2002-01-01 03:43  dan

        * ops2c.pl, Parrot/OpTrans.pm, Parrot/OpTrans/CPrederef.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpTrans.pm, lib/Parrot/OpTrans/CPrederef.pm,
        include/parrot/op.h: Cleaned up some things to make the compiler
        happier.

        Courtesy of Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>

2002-01-01 03:14  dan

        * Configure.pl: Quad updates.

        Courtesy of Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>

2001-12-31 22:53  dan

        * include/parrot/op.h: Typedef had parameters backwards. Threw
        core.ops for a big whiny warnings loop.

2001-12-31 22:37  dan

        * Makefile.in, resources.c: Tweaks to try and get things to build
        in the right order.

2001-12-31 21:58  dan

        * Configure.pl: Stupid thinko fix

2001-12-31 21:34  dan

        * Configure.pl, hints/mswin32.pl: Tweaks for Win32 builds

        Courtesy of: "Jason Diamond" <jason@injektilo.org>

2001-12-31 21:32  dan

        * Configure.pl: Fix for non-gcc systems

2001-12-31 20:22  dan

        * interpreter.c: Tweak so we can build on non-JIT platforms

2001-12-31 20:11  dan

        * Configure.pl: Force the time on some copied files to be 'now' to
        make the Win builds much less annoying.

        Courtesy of "Jason Diamond" <jason@injektilo.org>

2001-12-31 20:07  dan

        * Configure.pl: Nuke all object files in the parrot tree that
        matter when configuring.  Shouldn't be necessary with good
        dependencies in the makefile, but we don't have those yet.

2001-12-31 20:00  gregor

        * chartypes/unicode.c:
        Silence unused variable warnings.

2001-12-31 19:40  dan

        * Configure.pl: Minor Win32 tweaks. Tossed -Wtraditional, too

2001-12-31 19:37  gregor

        * interpreter.c, jit.c, include/parrot/jit.h:
        Created a prototype for JIT functions and used it in interpreter.c.

2001-12-31 19:31  dan

        * Configure.pl, test_gnuc.c: Better GCC detection (and version
        detection) with really cranky warnings if we find we're using it.

        Courtesy of: Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>

2001-12-31 18:01  gregor

        * interpreter.c, include/parrot/interpreter.h, include/parrot/op.h:

        Fixed a few warnings wrt prototypes, etc.

2001-12-31 17:23  dan

        * string.c: Silenced most of the compiler whines

2001-12-31 17:15  gregor

        * Configure.pl:
        Get the ccname from either ccname or just cc config var.

2001-12-31 17:14  gregor

        * Parrot/Op.pm, lib/Parrot/Op.pm:
        Another intermediate opbody notation. Could come in handy. Explicit
        types.

2001-12-31 17:05  dan

        * string.c: Minor warnings update

2001-12-31 17:00  dan

        * include/parrot/string.h: Warnings cleanup

2001-12-31 16:00  simon

        * encodings/utf8.c, include/parrot/encoding.h:
        Remove a couple more.

2001-12-31 15:58  simon

        * vtable_h.pl, include/parrot/global_setup.h, include/parrot/jit.h,
        include/parrot/op.h:
        Rid ourselves of a few warnings.

2001-12-31 15:32  dan

        * Configure.pl: Made GCC ever so much pickier.

        Switch list courtesy of Jarkko.

2001-12-31 15:22  dan

        * string.c: Tightened up initial allocation.

        Courtesy of:  "Peter Gibbs" <peter@emkel.co.za>

2001-12-31 06:48  dan

        * Configure.pl: Minor Windows tweak

2001-12-31 05:32  dan

        * core.ops: Unused temp variable tossed.

        Courtesy of "David & Lisa Jacobs" <jacobsl001@hawaii.rr.com>

2001-12-31 05:09  grunblatt

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in, interpreter.c: Link jit.o only on
        supported plataforms

2001-12-31 03:05  dan

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in, classes/Makefile.in: Added in a
        platform-independent quote substitution for the makefiles.
        Hopefully this'll make the Win32 builds happier.

2001-12-30 21:08  dan

        * string.c, include/parrot/string.h: More string system tweaks.

        Courtesy of "David & Lisa Jacobs" <jacobsl001@hawaii.rr.com>

2001-12-30 20:45  dan

        * core.ops: Some pod cleanup

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2001-12-30 20:22  ajgough

        * docs/parrot_assembly.pod: removed ntoi and iton ops from docs, as
        we aren't using them right now.  Clarified the workings of set Px,
        Py and clone Px, Py.

2001-12-30 20:15  grunblatt

        * jit.c, jit2h.pl, jit/i386/core.jit: Removed the warnings in jit.c
        Added readjit() to read *.jit files Updated core.jit to the new
        set_n_i

2001-12-30 20:14  ajgough

        * examples/assembly/mops.pasm: Changed iton/ntoi to set.

2001-12-30 19:52  dan

        * packfile.c, pdump.c, register.c, string.c, include/parrot/key.h,
        include/parrot/trace.h, platforms/generic.c: Compiler whine
        cleanups

        Courtesy of Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2001-12-30 19:13  dan

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in: Make GCC pickier by default.

        Courtesy of: Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2001-12-30 18:41  dan

        * core.ops, t/op/integer.t, t/op/number.t: Transformed iton and
        ntoi opcodes to sets.

        Courtesy of "David & Lisa Jacobs" <jacobsl001@hawaii.rr.com>

2001-12-30 17:58  gregor

        * Makefile.in:
        'make' no longer builds the mops test. Use 'make mops' for that. To
        run the test, you can do 'make mopstest'.

2001-12-30 17:30  gregor

        * Makefile.in:
        Fixed one oversight. 'make clean' was removing Parrot/Types.pm. Bad
        Gregor.

2001-12-30 17:26  gregor

        * .cvsignore, Configure.pl, Makefile.in, VERSION, config_h.in,
        core.ops, interpreter.c, make_vtable_ops.pl, obscure.ops, ops2c.pl,
        Parrot/BuildUtil.pm, Parrot/OpsFile.pm, lib/Parrot/BuildUtil.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm, include/parrot/oplib.h:
        Build enhancements. Originally to support building shared
        libraries, but now of broader impact.

          * .cvsignore: Ignore the blib/ directory, about which more later.

          * Configure.pl:

              * Got rid of TAB formatting and lined a few things up.

              * Added header comment with CVS Id variable, and a few other
                block header comments.

              * Uses new Parrot::BuildUtil module to determine the Parrot
                version.

              * Reworded a few messages, added a couple, and wrapped
        messages
                to 79 columns.

              * Added 2002 to the Copyright statement.

              * Added new configure variables: VERSION, MAJOR, MINOR and
        PATCH

              NOTE: Please see the 'Alas perl5.7.2' comment. 5.7.2 is
        greater
              than 5.6.0, but the comment implies it isn't.

          * Makefile.in:

              * Added $(SO), $(A) and $(AR_CRS) defines for library
        building.

              * Added $(RM_RF) define for removing directory trees

              * Grouped generated files into two classes: "sticky" (made by
        configure,
                persisting across 'make clean') and 'fluid' (made during
        the build
                process, deleted by 'make clean').

              * Added header comments.

              * Added target for test_prog linked with shared library.

              * Added rules to build shared libraries in blib/lib. The
        libraries are
                built with trailing version numbers in their file names,
        and then
                symbolic links are created for shorter and no version tag
        variants.

              * Added some missing dependencies

              * Added some missing 'make clean' targets.

              * Added 'make realclean' target that deletes files created by
                Configure.pl (including Makefile), forcing a re-configure.

              * Added a 'status' CVS target.

          * VERSION: New file, contains only the version. This version
        number is
            propagated to a few places, such as the core oplib version
        number. This
            reduces the amount of coordination that has to happen to get
        version
            number stuff throughout the tree in sync and updated prior to
        cutting
            a new release. Feel free to grep for '0.0.3' to see the other
        files
            that contain the version number (but, do that in a fresh CVS
        copy, or
            after doing 'make realclean').

          * config_h.in: Renamed PARROT_CORE_OPLIB_*_VERSION to
        PARROT_*_VERSION,
            since the oplib and Parrot itself share a version number now.
        Added
            PARROT_PATCH_VERSION (the third component) and PARROT_VERSION
        (a
            string).

          * core.ops: Uses new notation "VERSION = PARROT_VERSION" instead
        of
            specifying the version by hand. Non-core oplibs will set this
        to
            a quoted dot-string with three natural number components
        without
            leading zeros.

          * interpreter.c: Make use of PARROT_VERSION to simplify some
        sprintf()s, and
            to get the complete version number in the resulting strings
        (including the
            new PATCH portion).

          * make_vtable_ops.pl: Put the "VERSION = PARROT_VERSION" line int
        the
            generated file.

          * obscure.ops: Use the new "VERSION = PARROT_VERSION" technique.

          * ops2c.pl: Account for the PATCH version, too. This affects the
        name of the
            oplib init function, and the oplib info struct initializer.

          * Parrot/BuildUtil.pm: New file for reading in and validating the
        contents of
            the new VERSION file. Other build utilities could go here in
        futuer.

          * Parrot/OpsFile.pm:

              * Allow three components in version number, and require that
        the value
                be in double quotes.

              * Allow "VERSION = PARROT_VERSION", substituting the shared
        Parrot
                VERSION in that case.

          * include/parrot/oplib.h: Add the patch_version member.

2001-12-30 12:16  simon

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in:
        More stuff forgotten from MANIFEST.

2001-12-30 12:13  simon

        * MANIFEST:
        Missing JIT file.

2001-12-30 12:12  simon

        * jit2h.pl:
        Safety first.

2001-12-30 12:12  simon

        * Makefile.in:
        Gragh.

2001-12-30 12:04  simon

        * Makefile.in, core.ops, packfile.c, pbc2c.pl, string.c,
        classes/perlstring.pmc, encodings/singlebyte.c, encodings/utf16.c,
        encodings/utf32.c, encodings/utf8.c, include/parrot/encoding.h,
        include/parrot/string.h, t/op/string.t:
        * Expand the strings test suite to be more complete * Make string
        commands more consistent (i.e, now the only string command that
        actually changes the original is chopn) * Significantly reduce the
        number of memory allocations and eliminate reallocations.

        Courtesy of: David Jacobs <jacobsl001@hawaii.rr.com>

2001-12-29 22:12  dan

        * interpreter.c, key.c, register.c, stacks.c, string.c,
        test_main.c, trace.c: Updates to match the coding standards.

        Courtesy of Bryan C. Warnock <bwarnock@raba.com>

2001-12-29 20:42  grunblatt

        * jit2h.pl, Parrot/Jit/i386-bsd.pm, Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm,
        Parrot/Jit/i386-nojit.pm, jit/i386/core.jit, jit/i386/lib.jit,
        jit/i386/string.jit, lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-bsd.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-nojit.pm: Allow
        us to write asm in *.jit files instead of hex.  Courtesy of: Rafael
        Kitover <caelum@debian.org>

2001-12-28 21:20  dan

        * core.ops: Okay, now print takes a preceding file handle.

        I feel so dirty now.

2001-12-28 20:46  dan

        * core.ops, t/op/hacks.t: Added in the readline op, as well as
        changing the open op to use fopen under the hood.

        THESE OPS ARE EVIL! AND TEMPORARY! USE FOR DEBUGGING PURPOSES ONLY!

2001-12-28 18:20  ajgough

        * core.ops, make_vtable_ops.pl, string.c, classes/default.pmc,
        classes/perlstring.pmc, docs/parrot_assembly.pod, docs/strings.pod,
        include/parrot/exceptions.h, include/parrot/string.h,
        t/op/pmc_perlstring.t, t/op/string.t, t/pmc/perlstring.t: Added
        repeat op, so that "foo" x 10 can be done.  Filled in PerlString
        vtables appropriately.  Also tests for same, new pmc_perlstring.t
        to hold tests specific to PerlStrings, as the pmc.t file is taking
        too long to run and slowing down my thought processes.

        Changes to strings.c etc to take string functions.

        Some changes to the strings docs, but not yet complete.

        Also, PerlString was copying pointers to strings, rather than
        strings themselves, so some action-at-a-distance bugs were creeping
        in, I think I've fixed this so everything works nicely.

2001-12-28 04:56  gregor

        * examples/assembly/pmcmops.pasm:
        PMC-using version of mops.pasm.

        Courtesy of: Bryan C. Warnock <bwarnock@raba.com>

2001-12-28 04:56  gregor

        * examples/assembly/.cvsignore:
        Small tinkering. Removed old stuff, etc.

2001-12-28 01:26  gregor

        * examples/mops/mops.scheme:
        Scheme example. Major GC thrashing on umb-scheme here. Probably due
        to the very un-scheme-like implementation.

2001-12-28 01:19  gregor

        * examples/mops/mops.c:
        Some people's picky compilers don't like us redefineing time(), so
        we call it time_n().  :)

2001-12-28 00:28  gregor

        * examples/mops/: README, mops.ps:
        Added a PostScript example and a README.

2001-12-27 23:57  gregor

        * Makefile.in:
        Build the C mops translation in examples/mops/mops.c

2001-12-27 23:56  gregor

        * examples/mops/: .cvsignore, mops.c, mops.pl, mops.py, mops.rb:
        Some translations of mops.pasm into other languages, for inner loop
        performance comparisons.

2001-12-27 22:40  gregor

        * examples/assembly/mops.pasm:
        Fixed erroneous file name in header comment.

2001-12-27 21:18  gregor

        * pbc2c.pl:
        One-liner to avoid no-op gotos to the next op.

2001-12-27 21:06  gregor

        * runops_cores.c:
        Fixed -p (profiling). Slow runops core was doing unconditional
        tracing, when it should have been checking the flags.

2001-12-27 18:50  ajgough

        * core.ops, string.c, chartypes/unicode.c, chartypes/usascii.c,
        classes/perlstring.pmc, include/parrot/chartype.h,
        include/parrot/string.h, t/op/pmc.t, t/op/string.t, t/pmc/pmc.t:
        dded get_digit() to chartypes  * Added string_bool() to strings  *
        Added if_s_ic op, to use same  * Added (PerlString)->get_bool stuff
        to perlstring.pmc  * Tests for above, also a for couple of other
        ops without tests

        The unicode chartype has only had placeholders added for get_digit,
        string_to_num has been updated to use type->get_digit rather than
        the previous ascii-isms.  Some remain, but we need to carefully
        define what we mean by a number before we let thousands of code
        points act as a minus sign.

2001-12-27 18:32  dan

        * classes/: perlint.pmc, perlnum.pmc, perlstring.pmc: Silenced some
        compiler warnings.

        Courtesy of "David  Jacobs" <jacobsl001@hawaii.rr.com>

2001-12-27 18:23  dan

        * t/op/bitwise.t: More tests.

        Courtesy of "David Jacobs" <jacobsl001@hawaii.rr.com>

2001-12-27 17:08  gregor

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, config_h.in, core.ops, interpreter.c,
        make_vtable_ops.pl, obscure.ops, ops2c.pl, ops2pm.pl, test_main.c,
        trace.c, Parrot/OpsFile.pm, include/parrot/interp_guts.h,
        include/parrot/interpreter.h, include/parrot/oplib.h,
        lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm, platforms/generic.c, platforms/generic.h,
        platforms/win32.c, platforms/win32.h:
        Initial code for dynamic loading of oplibs, applied for now to the
        loading of the core_prederef oplib when the -P flag is passed to
        test_parrot.

          * MANIFEST: Added entry for the new file include/parrot/oplib.h.

          * Makefile.in:

              * Added libcore_prederef_0_3.so to the shared target.
              * Added build rule for libcore_prederef_0_3.so.
              * Added dependencies on Parrot/OpsFile.pm and Parrot/Op.pm
                to Parrot/OpLib/core.pm, core_ops.c and
                core_ops_prederef.c.

          * config_h.in: Added defines for constants used to locate the
            core oplib's init function, and the core_prederef oplib for
            dynaloading.

          * core.ops: Added a VERSION = 0.3 line near the top. This is now
            required by Parrot/OpsFile.pm.

          * interpreter.c:

              * Added init_prederef() and stop_prederef() functions to load
                and unload the core_prederef oplib when we are in prederef
                mode.

                NOTE: In all likelihood, the prederef stuff has a rapidly
                dwindling time-to-live. The JIT should provide vastly
        superior
                performance, and loading an alternate set of core_ops isn't
                the real direction for the dynaloading stuff. Loading
                *additional* ops is. It does provide a handy test case for
        the
                general idea for now, though.

              * Gets the core copcode table, etc. via the core oplibs oplib
                info pointer, as returned by the core oplib's init
        function.

          * ops2c.pl

              * Make use of the version, major version and minor version
                stuff parsed by Parrot/OpsFile.pm

              * The only exported symbol in the generated files is the init
                function now, since that returns an oplib info struct
                pointer, and all the important stuff can be found there.

          * ops2pm.pl: Put the oplib version in the generated .pm file.

          * test_main.c: Small changes necessitated by changes in the names
            of some members of the interpreter struct.

          * trace.c: Small changes necessitated by changes in the names
            of some members of the interpreter struct.

          * Parrot/OpsFile.pm: Require a "VERSION = x.y" line before any
            ops are found.

          * include/parrot/interp_guts.h: Small changes necessitated by
            changes in the names of some members of the interpreter struct.

          * include/parrot/interpreter.h: Include the new
            include/parrot/oplib.h header. Small changes to the oplib-
            related members.

          * include/parrot/oplib.h: Define the type of the oplib init
            function, and the struct type for the oplib info.

          * platforms/*.[hc]: Remove the second argument to Parrot_dlopen()
            since not all platforms have it. For those that do, a default
            second argument is provided.

2001-12-26 05:12  gregor

        * Configure.pl:
        Make jitarch calculation not get tripped up by extra components to
        archname.

2001-12-24 21:23  gregor

        * jit.c, jit2h.pl, Parrot/Jit/i386-bsd.pm,
        Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm, Parrot/Jit/i386-nojit.pm,
        include/parrot/jit.h, jit/i386/core.jit, jit/i386/lib.jit,
        jit/i386/string.jit, lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-bsd.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-nojit.pm:
        Some more JIT work from Daniel Grunblatt.

          * Ops added set_s_s, set_s_sc, bsr_i and eq_s_sc but using calls
        to C
            functions.

          * Added JUMP(END) to place the number of bytes to the end of the
        current
            op.

          * The *.jit files syntax changed.

          * Added jit/i386/lib.jit to place handly functions as jump that
        take as
            argument the address where is the opcode number to jump to.

          * There is a bug at some point, but I will start writing
            jit/i386/string.jit and jit/i386/stacks.jit so that we don't
        have use
            calls, which make the jit as slow as the interpreter.

        Courtesy of: Daniel Grunblatt <daniel@grunblatt.com.ar>

2001-12-24 03:46  dan

        * Parrot/OpTrans.pm, Parrot/OpTrans/C.pm, Parrot/OpTrans/CGoto.pm,
        Parrot/OpTrans/CPrederef.pm, lib/Parrot/OpTrans.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpTrans/C.pm, lib/Parrot/OpTrans/CGoto.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpTrans/CPrederef.pm: Commented out the use warnings.
        Perls before 5.6.0 don't like it.

2001-12-22 16:02  ajgough

        * t/op/stacks.t: stopped skipping tests we can run now.  added
        clonep tests.

2001-12-21 21:13  gregor

        * jit2h.pl, Parrot/Jit/i386-bsd.pm, Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm,
        Parrot/Jit/i386-nojit.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-bsd.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-nojit.pm:
        Fixed some package name goofs.

        Thanks to: Andy Dougherty <doughera@mail.lafayette.edu>

2001-12-21 19:32  gregor

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, core.ops, interpreter.c,
        make_vtable_ops.pl, obscure.ops, ops2c-prederef.pl, ops2c.pl,
        pbc2c.pl, stacks.c, Parrot/Op.pm, Parrot/OpTrans.pm,
        Parrot/Opcode.pm, Parrot/OpsFile.pm, lib/Parrot/Op.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpTrans.pm, lib/Parrot/Opcode.pm, lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm,
        Parrot/OpTrans/C.pm, Parrot/OpTrans/CGoto.pm,
        Parrot/OpTrans/CPrederef.pm, docs/intro.pod, include/parrot/op.h,
        include/parrot/stacks.h, lib/Parrot/OpTrans/C.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpTrans/CGoto.pm, lib/Parrot/OpTrans/CPrederef.pm:
        Changes to syntax of .ops files and refactoring of ops2c*.pl and
        pbc2c.pl.

          * Removed ops2c-prederef.pl

          * (unrelated) Removed vestigial Parrot/Opcode.pm file.

          * Added Parrot/OpTrans.pm, Parrot/OpTrans/C.pm (needed for old
            functionality of ops2c.pl), Parrot/OpTrans/CPrederef.pm (needed
            for old functionality of ops2c-prederef.pl), and
            Parrot/OpTrans/CGoto.pm (needed for functionality of pbc2c.pl).

            "OpTrans" == "Op Transformation"

          * Makefile.in modifications to call "ops2c.pl C" where it used
            to be just "ops2c.pl", and "ops2c.pl CPrederef" where it used
            to be "ops2c-prederef.pl".

          * core.ops and obscure.ops changes to syntax. Semantics are
            identical with previous version:

              return HALT         -->  HALT()
              return AUTO         -->  goto NEXT()
              return RETREL(...)  -->  goto OFFSET(...)
              return RESTART(*)   -->  restart NEXT()

            Also, pop_generic_entry() stuff (local var + 5 lines of code)
            for dest-less branch ops replaced with new notation "goto
        POP()",
            which uses the new pop_dest() function in stacks.c. This also
            allowed these ops to become 'inline' ops, since they no longer
            have local variables.

            The 'ret' op also became simplified to just "goto POP()", and
            also became an inline op.

          * interpreter.c reflects the change in type name:

              prederef_op_func_t   -->  op_func_prederef_t

            that occurred in include/parrot/op.h

          * make_vtable_ops.pl uses "goto NEXT()" where it used to use
            "return AUTO".

          * ops2c.pl is now generic. Its first argument is the last
            package name component of a subclass of Parrot::OpTrans. These
            subclasses all have full names of the form Parrot::OpTrans::*.
            An instance of the class is created and later consulted for
            various bits of information needed to generate the C code.

          * pbc2c.pl now uses an instance of Parrot::OpTrans::CGoto to
            contain its transformation rules.

          * stacks.c has a new function pop_dest() that pops a destination
            off the control stack. include/parrot/stacks.h has the
        prototype.

          * Parrot/Op.pm now supports the syntax generated by
        Parrot::OpsFile
            for the "goto POP" case.

            Also, the source() method now expects its second argument to be
            an object that ISA Parrot::OpTrans. Methods of this object are
            called to perform the substitutions.

          * Parrot/OpsFile.pm supports the change in notation mentioned
            above.

          * docs/intro.pod reflects these changes.

          * include/parrot/op.h: Renamed type prederef_op_func_t to
            op_func_prederef_t because it made the implementation of the
            shared ops2c.pl easier.

2001-12-21 13:47  gregor

        * Configure.pl, config_h.in, interpreter.c, test_main.c:
        Both test_parrot (via test_main.c) and the intepreter itself (via
        interpreter.c) use the JIT_CAPABLE config to decide whether to
        actually attempt JIT operation, or to complain.

2001-12-20 23:25  gregor

        * core.ops, make_vtable_ops.pl, obscure.ops, Parrot/OpsFile.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm, docs/intro.pod, include/parrot/op.h:
        Changes to the format of *.ops files. An attempt to provide hints
        for future opfunc processing logic that wants to know if an opfunc
        is simple enough to JIT (e.g.) inline, or not.

        See the POD in Parrot/OpsFile.pm and the updated docs/intro.pod in
        addition to The Source in core.ops and Parrot/OpsFile.pm for more
        info.

2001-12-20 21:28  gregor

        * Configure.pl, jit.c, jit2h.pl, include/parrot/jit.h,
        jit/i386/core.jit:
        More JIT stuff:

          * A fix to Gregor's last Configure.pl update.

          * Remove the need for hardcoded "\n" at the end of the "%f"
            format for printing floating-point numbers.

          * New, improved *.jit syntax for references to registers,
            e.g. INT_REG[n].

          * Support for C() improved.

        Courtesy of: Daniel Grunblatt <daniel@grunblatt.com.ar>

2001-12-20 16:55  dan

        * MANIFEST: Added jit.c to the manifest.

2001-12-20 15:24  simon

        * jit2h.pl:
        Off-by-one error fixed.

2001-12-20 14:18  simon

        * jit/i386/core.jit:
        Just a noop. It's the only machine code I know.

2001-12-20 13:10  gregor

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in, jit2h.pl:
        Attempt to fix Win32 builds.

          * No more empty braces in include/parrot/jit_struct.h

        Also:

          * ${jitarchname} has the *bsd -> bsd substitution on it, but
        ${archname}
            does not.

2001-12-20 11:56  simon

        * Makefile.in:
        De-cp

2001-12-20 01:57  gregor

        * Configure.pl, MANIFEST, Makefile.in, interpreter.c, jit.c,
        jit2h.pl, test_main.c, Parrot/.cvsignore, Parrot/Jit/i386-bsd.pm,
        Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm, Parrot/Jit/i386-nojit.pm, docs/jit.pod,
        include/parrot/.cvsignore, include/parrot/interpreter.h,
        include/parrot/jit.h, jit/i386/core.jit, jit/i386/string.jit,
        lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-bsd.pm, lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-linux.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Jit/i386-nojit.pm:
        Initial JIT implementation.

          * Enabled with test_parrot -j. 20x speed boosts seen.

          * Unsupported archs mapped to i386-nojit. Don't do -j on them.

          * More to come.

        Courtesy of: Daniel Grunblatt <daniel@grunblatt.com.ar>

2001-12-20 01:53  jgoff

        * MANIFEST, core.ops, t/op/key.t: MANIFEST - Removed t/op/key.t
        core.ops - Removed key operators, they should be hidden from the
        assembler.  t/op/key.t - No need to test the nonexistent key
        operators.

2001-12-20 00:13  ajgough

        * core.ops, t/op/stacks.t: Added tests for entrytype op, noticed
        that asking for type of entry at depth causes segfault as stack is
        zero based, fixed cmp in core.ops to reflect this.  Last test is
        skipped as we don't do exceptions right yet.

2001-12-19 19:11  ajgough

        * t/op/debuginfo.t: Added C<end> ops to debuginfo.t, as thier
        non-being was causing Irix "issues".

2001-12-19 03:37  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/Miniperl/t/: 001_tokenizer.t, 003_generator.t,
        004_combined.t: Changed tests to make sure they pass with the
        addition of the clone operator.

2001-12-18 20:06  gregor

        * interpreter.c, include/parrot/interp_guts.h:
        Performance improvements to the predereferencing code path
        suggested to me over lunch yesterday by my friend John Kennedy.
        The goal is to remove the additional test in the inner loop that
        was checking for NULL to decide whether or not to call the
        prederef() function. Also moved pc & pc_prederef syncing outside
        the inner loop.

          * Changed the prototype of the prederef() function in
            interpreter.c to match that of an opfunc.

          * Instead of initializing the prederef void * array with NULL,
            we initialize it with pointers to prederef().

          * prederef() now returns the prederef_pc passed in, so that
            after predereferencing, the same location is executed, but now
            with the real code being called.

        Thanks to: John Kennedy

2001-12-18 19:59  ajgough

        * t/: op/pmc.t, pmc/pmc.t: Added some more num -> string tests
        (including some more in the skipped string -> int tests).

2001-12-18 07:06  jgoff

        * MANIFEST: Forgot to add classes/perlarray.pmc

2001-12-18 07:05  jgoff

        * Makefile.in, core.ops, global_setup.c, vtable.tbl,
        classes/Makefile.in, classes/default.pmc, classes/perlarray.pmc,
        classes/perlint.pmc, classes/perlnum.pmc, classes/perlstring.pmc,
        classes/perlundef.pmc, include/parrot/pmc.h, t/op/pmc.t,
        t/pmc/pmc.t: Big update...  Makefile.in - Added
        classes/perlarray.pmc core.ops - Added new series of set() ops for
        arrays global_setup.c - Initialized perlarray classes/Makefile.in -
        Added perlarray.pmc classes/*.pmc - Added
        set_{integer,number,string}_index and
        get_{integer,number,string}_index include/parrot/pmc.h - Added new
        type t/op/pmc.t - Added basic array test

        classes/perlarray.pmc - Added

2001-12-17 05:29  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/Miniperl/Generator.pm: Altered miniperl code
        generator to use clone operator instead of set Px,Py

2001-12-17 05:25  jgoff

        * core.ops, classes/perlint.pmc, classes/perlnum.pmc,
        classes/perlstring.pmc, t/op/pmc.t, t/pmc/pmc.t: Added clone
        PMC,PMC operator. Uses the clone() vtable entries.

2001-12-17 04:51  jgoff

        * MANIFEST: Added miniperl test suite, removed old Miniperl/Test.pm
        entry

2001-12-17 04:41  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/Miniperl/Makefile.PL: Now in its proper
        directory...

2001-12-17 04:41  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/Makefile.PL: Moved it to the proper directory.

2001-12-17 04:39  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/: Makefile.PL, Miniperl.pm, miniperlc, mpc,
        Miniperl/Tokenizer.pm: Makefile.PL to let us run the test suite in
        t/

2001-12-17 04:27  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/Miniperl.pm: Latest version of the driver.
        Admittedly it's a little thin on true OO, but the algorithms are
        the key.

2001-12-17 04:24  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/Miniperl/t/: 001_tokenizer.t, 002_parser.t,
        003_generator.t, 004_combined.t: Much more comprehensive test suite
        for the codegen et al

2001-12-17 04:22  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/Miniperl/: Generator.pm, Parser.pm,
        Tokenizer.pm: Newer codegen, tightened up parser output, added hash
        key handling

2001-12-17 04:20  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/Miniperl/Test.pm: The newer test suite is much
        more comprehensive.

2001-12-17 04:17  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/foo.mpl: Test file that'll be outdated by
        changes to the new compiler

2001-12-17 04:11  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/t/: harness, 001_basic/basic.t: Moving testing
        files to Miniperl/

2001-12-16 14:11  simon

        * classes/perlint.pmc, examples/assembly/mops_p.pasm, t/op/pmc.t,
        t/pmc/pmc.t:
        Fix bogus assumption that multiplying an integer by an integer
        yields an integer.

2001-12-16 12:48  simon

        * make_vtable_ops.pl:
        Fixed op exploder.

2001-12-16 12:45  simon

        * make_vtable_ops.pl, Parrot/Vtable.pm, lib/Parrot/Vtable.pm:
        Expand multimethod vtable ops.

2001-12-16 12:04  simon

        * Makefile.in:
        Added 'cvsclean' which doesn't zap CVS/* directories.

2001-12-15 01:50  dan

        * include/parrot/string.h: Fixed typo in string.h. lagnuage,
        indeed!

        Thanks to grunblatt fom #parrot for the catch

2001-12-15 01:39  dan

        * .cvsignore, Configure.pl, MANIFEST, languages/jako/Makefile.in,
        languages/miniperl/.cvsignore, languages/miniperl/Makefile,
        languages/miniperl/Makefile.in,
        languages/miniperl/Miniperl/Test.pm, languages/scheme/.cvsignore,
        languages/scheme/Makefile, languages/scheme/Makefile.in: Build
        tweaks.

        Courtesy of: Jay McCarthy <jay@kenyamountain.com>

2001-12-14 17:39  dan

        * t/op/trans.t: More trans tests.

        Courtesy of: Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>

2001-12-14 07:41  robert

        * make.pl: - define MAKE macro - topological sort and subgraph
        order - start of timestamp stuff   (still badly broken)

2001-12-14 06:06  jgoff

        * optimizer.pl: Hopefully this should do the trick..

2001-12-14 06:04  jgoff

        * Parrot/Optimizer.pm, lib/Parrot/Optimizer.pm: Optimizer

          optimizer.pl is the stub, Parrot/Optimizer.pm is the driver.

          The optimizer performs its work on a file post-macro expansion.
          Run it on a .pasm file, preferably with some trivially reducible
        operations
          like 'add I0,5,-6' or 'mul I0,I1,0'

2001-12-14 05:48  robert

        * Makefile.in: case error EXE -> exe

2001-12-14 05:42  robert

        * Makefile.in: remove legacy PDISASM macro

2001-12-14 04:01  dan

        * classes/Makefile.in, languages/Makefile.in: Makefile tweaks for
        better Win building

        Courtesy of: Garrett Goebel <garrett@scriptpro.com>

2001-12-13 22:03  dan

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in, Parrot/Test.pm,
        languages/scheme/Makefile, languages/scheme/Scheme/Test.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Test.pm: Parrot test prog's now a config variable, so we
        can change it without having to change the world.

2001-12-13 21:57  dan

        * core.ops, interpreter.c, docs/parrot_assembly.pod,
        include/parrot/interpreter.h, t/op/debuginfo.t: Added current
        file/line/package to interp structure, with ops to get and set
        them. Now we can know where we are!

2001-12-13 19:43  dan

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in: Makefile tweaks to hopefully make
        WinXP builds work out of the box

2001-12-13 17:05  dan

        * Makefile.in, Parrot/Test.pm, lib/Parrot/Test.pm: Change test prog
        name again--makes case-insensitive systems much happier.

2001-12-13 16:21  dan

        * core.ops, key.c, string.c, test_main.c, trace.c,
        classes/Makefile.in, include/parrot/trace.h: Fixes to clean up
        compiler warnings

        Courtesy of: Josh Wilmes <josh@sky.net>

2001-12-13 13:33  gregor

        * languages/jako/Makefile.in:
        Improved the method of calling the assembler.

2001-12-13 13:30  gregor

        * languages/jako/Makefile.in:
        Improve the build process. It now works from the main parrot dir,
        and from the languages/jako directory. Now uses the .SUFFIXES
        target and generic build rules to reduce clutter in the
        Makefile.in.

2001-12-13 13:29  gregor

        * languages/jako/.cvsignore:
        Ignore the (now generated Makefile), and don't ignore .list files
        anymore, since we aren't generating them.

2001-12-13 13:11  gregor

        * Configure.pl, MANIFEST, Makefile.in, languages/.cvsignore,
        languages/Makefile.in, languages/jako/Makefile,
        languages/jako/Makefile.in:
        Added a 'languages' target to the top-level Makefile.in, and
        modified the jako build procedure to involve Makefile.in -->
        Makefile too (done by Configure.pl).

        NOTE: languages/jako and language/scheme are built.
        languages/miniperl wasn't building right, so it was left off for
        now.

2001-12-13 12:15  gregor

        * MANIFEST:
        Added MAINTAINER file and mandelzoom.jako from languages/jako to
        the MANIFEST.

2001-12-13 12:12  gregor

        * .cvsignore, MANIFEST, Makefile.in, core.ops, interpreter.c,
        ops2c-prederef.pl, ops2c.pl, test_main.c,
        include/parrot/interp_guts.h, include/parrot/interpreter.h,
        include/parrot/op.h, include/parrot/oplib/.cvsignore:
        Welcome to the Just-in-Time Predereferencing Patch!

        This patch implements a "predereferencing" mode for parrot. That
        means that a lot of the dereferencing you see in DO_OP and in the
        opfuncs is done up front (really, JIT) rather than as and each time
        we execute each op in the byte code stream.

        This works by creating an array of void pointers with the same
        number of elements as the byte code array. This array starts out
        life zero-initialized.  Each time we go to execute an op, we check
        first to see if we have a NULL pointer at *cur_opcode. If so, we
        know we haven't done our predereferencing yet (this is the JIT
        part), so we call the prederef() function with sufficient args that
        it can go look up opfunc pointers and op arg types and put the
        opfunc and arg pointers at cur_opcode[0] .. cur_opcode[N - 1],
        where N is the number of args (counting the op itself as one arg).

        We assume that sizeof(INTVAL) <= sizeof(void *), so we can continue
        to have inline INTVAL constants.

        I've been getting about a 22% speed increase over vanilla code path
        when I compile with -O0. Advantage decreases at -O9 here. I tested
        with mops.pbc, and also by temporarily putting the -P flag in
        Parrot/Test.pm and running all the tests. So, this code is as
        correct as the test suite can detect.

        Here's how it plays out in the code:

          * New script ops2c-prederef.pl

            Copy-paste code reuse from ops2c.pl. Modified to expect the
        args to give
            a void ** cur_opcode and to return a void **.

          * Modified ops2c.pl

              * opfuncs are now static. Who needs to call them by name from
        outside,
                anyway? They are accessed via the opfunc table.

              * Some MACRO stuff to make things work whether we prederef or
        not. It
                may be possible to get rid of these some day if other folks
        agree
                that we should be using CODE object pointers + offsets as
        our PC
                rather than raw pointers to either opcode_t's or (void *)'s
                (depending on prederef mode or no).

          * core.ops modified to be usable to build both kinds of opfuncs.
        For now,
            this means:

              * calls to push_generic_entry(... cur_opcode ...) were
        changed to
                push_generic_entry(... CUR_OPCODE ...), where CUR_OPCODE is
        a
                macro that does the right thing in both kinds of ops.c
        files.

                This is applicable to the bsr op. If we treated
        destinations as
                (Code PMC + local offset) rather than as
        pointer-to-memory-somewhere,
                this wouldn't be a big deal. We may need to do that at some
        point
                anyway, so that when you jump around and return not only do
        you have
                the right PC (pointer, today), but you also have the
        thread/interpreter
                knowing what chunk of bytecode it is in at all times
        (assuming we'll
                allow reflection, as in ops that query or affect the
        current CODE PMC).

              * runinterp was modified. Instead of copying the top-level
        PackFile struct
                and blasting its byte_code pointer, we simply call runops
        on the new
                interp, passing in the pointer to the current interp's code
        and the
                offset into that code at which to start (this last arg used
        to be a
                pointer PC, now its an offset PC).

          * include/parrot/op.h

              * new typedef for prederef opfuncs (they return void **)

          * include/parrot/interp_guts.h

              * New DO_OP_PREDEREF() macro described above.

          * include/parrot/interpreter.h

              * New prototype of runops() -- see below.

              * resume_addr field changed to resume_flag and resume_offset
        pair of fields.
                We might be resuming from interp using prederef to one not
        or vice-versa,
                so pointers between the two don't play nice together.
        Offsets are beautiful.

              * New PARROT_PREDEREF_FLAG constant

          * interpreter.c

              * include "parrot/oplib/core_ops_prederef.h"

              * prederef() function described above.

              * runops_prederef() runops variant. Uses DO_OP_PREDEREF()
        macro as its core.

              * runops() modified to take size_t CODE-relative offset PC
        rather than
                pointer PC. This made other things workable and doesn't
        seem to have lost
                anything important (IMO).

          * test_main.c

              * New flag '-P' to enable predereferencing.

          * Makefile modified to build core_ops_prederef.c from core.ops
        via
            ops2c-prederef.pl.

            BTW, also added missing $(INC)/interp_guts.h to H_FILES.

            Added core_ops_prederef$(O) to O_FILES

2001-12-13 12:12  gregor

        * languages/jako/MAINTAINER:
        Thought it would be nice to put this right in the code...

2001-12-13 04:36  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/Miniperl/Generator.pm: Commented out
        debugging, fixed register spillover algorithm

2001-12-13 04:23  jgoff

        * make.pl: Found and fixed obob in the parser (Wasn't parsing last
        line) Restructured a bit of the dependency generator to fix a
        different obob bug.

2001-12-13 03:43  robert

        * MANIFEST, docs/opcodes.pod: remove old docs/opcodes.pod

2001-12-13 03:03  jgoff

        * make.pl: Added make.pl

2001-12-13 02:44  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/Miniperl.pm: Nearly-complete 'make'
        replacement in perl.  Non-compliant bits - Takes absolutely -NO-
        special flags...                     - Dies on undefined macros
        such as $(PDISASM) in current make                     - Dies on
        recursive macro expansions                       (Doesn't test for
        mutual or multipart loops)                     - In general it
        seems to be a little less lenient...  Missing bits - File
        mod/creation times aren't being looked at              - Actions
        aren't being taken              - The few funky variables ($@, $<)
        aren't being dealt with Bugs - Line numbers are slipping a bit.

2001-12-13 02:29  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/Miniperl/: Generator.pm, Parser.pm:
        Reconstructing files to make the parser flow a little better.

2001-12-13 00:51  dan

        * resources.c: Be a bit less wasteful with resources that don't
        need to be aligned

2001-12-12 18:22  dan

        * Makefile.in: D'oh! Fixed looping makefile bug.

        Courtesy of: "Jaen Saul" <jaen@saul.ee>

2001-12-12 16:23  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/t/001_basic/basic1.scheme: Bogus entry

2001-12-12 16:22  jgoff

        * MANIFEST: Manifest additions for languages/miniperl

2001-12-12 16:19  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/t/001_basic/: basic.t, basic1.scheme: Basic
        tests. These are left over from the Scheme suite and shouldn't be
        used yet.

2001-12-12 16:18  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/: Miniperl/Generator.pm, Miniperl/Parser.pm,
        Miniperl/Test.pm, Miniperl/Tokenizer.pm, t/harness: Miniperl base
        modules. Miniperl/ is where the real work gets done.  t/ is largely
        vacant because it isn't ready to survive real tests yet.

2001-12-12 16:17  jgoff

        * languages/miniperl/: Makefile, Miniperl.pm, foo.mpl, miniperlc,
        mpc: Final go-round, hopefully.

        languages/miniperl/Makefile - Used basically to run tests, as there
        is nothing                               here that needs to be
        dynamically built.  languages/miniperl/Miniperl.pm - Stub module
        that calls the real Miniperl/ mods languages/miniperl/foo.mpl -
        Sample miniperl file.  languages/miniperl/miniperlc - Miniperl
        compiler stub

2001-12-12 16:09  dan

        * Configure.pl: Setting a variable with the make command name is
        useful.

2001-12-12 15:07  simon

        * Makefile.in, languages/jako/Makefile, languages/scheme/Makefile:
        Recursive make considered "ow, don't do that".

2001-12-12 14:45  dan

        * Makefile.in: Makefile had some non-portable code. (Okay, a lot of
        non-portable code) Killing builds on Win32 native. Small patch
        applied which hopefully fixes it.

2001-12-12 06:12  ajgough

        * classes/Makefile.in: perl is $(PERL), you know it makes sense.

2001-12-12 06:08  ajgough

        * Makefile.in: perl is $(PERL).

2001-12-12 06:00  ajgough

        * t/op/integer.t: Added tests to integer.t so that all permutations
        of arguments are actually called at some point.

2001-12-12 05:18  ajgough

        * t/op/time.t: I can't sleep, but I don't see why parrot shouldn't.
         Tests for sleep i|ic

2001-12-12 05:09  ajgough

        * t/op/stacks.t: Added pushp and popp register stack tests.

2001-12-12 04:51  ajgough

        * t/op/stacks.t: Added tests for save and restore, for all register
        types.  Let there be Haiku.

2001-12-12 04:27  ajgough

        * t/op/basic.t: bsr_i test.  You know you want it.

2001-12-12 02:55  ajgough

        * MANIFEST: Added hints/os2.pl to MANIFEST.

2001-12-12 02:52  jgoff

        * core.ops, key.c: Final checkin... These are actually the correct
        copies.

2001-12-12 02:12  jgoff

        * include/parrot/key.h: key.c - Removed a few functions,
        generalized set_element_value and element_value         to accept
        KEY_PAIRs from core.ops include/parrot/key.h - Modified header.
        core.ops - Modified to accept the new return style.

        This is a prelude to adding virtual-table methods to allow hashing
        &c. Expect at least one or two more redesigns before this settles
        down. However, it still passes the original tests.

2001-12-11 13:35  gregor

        * runops_cores.c:
        Fixed a typo.

2001-12-11 12:03  gregor

        * .cvsignore:
        Don't ignore test_prog, but do ignore parrot.

2001-12-11 12:03  gregor

        * classes/.cvsignore:
        Ignore the generated file default.h

2001-12-11 04:07  jgoff

        * key.c: Key source

2001-12-11 04:05  jgoff

        * include/parrot/key.h, t/op/key.t: Needed header file, new test

2001-12-11 04:00  jgoff

        * core.ops: Added new key aggregate operations to core ops.

2001-12-11 04:00  jgoff

        * include/parrot/parrot.h: Added key.h to header list

2001-12-11 03:59  jgoff

        * MANIFEST: Added key.c, include/parrot/key.h, t/op/key.t

2001-12-11 03:58  jgoff

        * Makefile.in: Added implementation of key aggregates.

2001-12-08 23:07  simon

        * README:
        README good to go.

2001-12-08 23:05  simon

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in, README, Parrot/Test.pm,
        docs/intro.pod, languages/jako/Makefile, languages/scheme/Makefile,
        languages/scheme/Scheme/Test.pm, lib/Parrot/Test.pm:
        test_prog? What is test_prog?

2001-12-08 22:57  simon

        * ChangeLog:

        Oops, the changelog commit was on *this* machine.

2001-12-08 22:56  simon

        * NEWS:
        Updates to NEWS and ChangeLog pre-release.

2001-12-08 22:07  simon

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, classes/Makefile.in, classes/default.pmc,
        classes/perlnum.pmc, classes/pmc2c.pl:
        Add "default" PMC vtable so you can inherit implied stuff.

2001-12-08 21:24  simon

        * Parrot/PackFile.pm, docs/parrot.pod, docs/parrotbyte.pod,
        docs/vtables.pod, lib/Parrot/PackFile.pm:
        Getting the documentation up to scratch.

2001-12-08 21:21  simon

        * classes/pmc2c.pl:
        Allow inheriting from default class.

2001-12-07 20:43  gregor

        * examples/assembly/queens.pasm:
        Regenerated the file with the latest jakoc.

2001-12-07 20:29  simon

        * core.ops, t/op/stacks.t:
        Rename "rotate" to "rotate_up".

2001-12-07 20:15  simon

        * t/op/stacks.t:
        Some tests for rotate.

2001-12-07 00:55  gregor

        * core.ops:
        Cast the result of the pointer arithmetic, since without the cast
        there are warnings with some compilers, and without the parens
        around the pointer arithmetic, precedence breaks the meaning and
        causes crashes.

2001-12-06 23:37  simon

        * core.ops:
        Temporary. I prefer compiler warnings to segfaults, thanks.

2001-12-06 23:34  simon

        * runops_cores.c:
        Make "trace" work again.

2001-12-06 21:23  dan

        * Parrot/Test.pm, lib/Parrot/Test.pm: Undo twiddles to test.pm

2001-12-06 21:22  dan

        * core.ops, packfile.c, Parrot/Test.pm, include/parrot/stacks.h,
        lib/Parrot/Test.pm: Fix up source issues that made Dec C unhappy

2001-12-06 19:22  simon

        * core.ops:
        Yet another "How the *%$! did that compile?" moment.

2001-12-06 18:28  dan

        * hints/vms.pl: Fix to build, with a HERE logical required

2001-12-06 17:48  dan

        * core.ops, interpreter.c, pbc2c.pl, pdump.c, test_main.c,
        docs/parrot_assembly.pod, include/parrot/interpreter.h: Sensible
        changes to the interpreter--flags are now part of the interp
        structure.

        Courtesy of "Melvin Smith" <mrjoltcola@mindspring.com>

2001-12-06 14:02  gregor

        * docs/intro.pod:
        s/little_languages/languages/ in Jako section.

2001-12-06 13:15  simon

        * Makefile.in:
        Ensure the documentation gets made.

2001-12-06 13:12  simon

        * MANIFEST, docs/intro.pod:
        Documentation! Added the "Some Assembly Required" article with
        minor updates.

2001-12-06 00:39  simon

        * core.ops:
        More "eq" support.

        Courtesy of: Nguon Hao Ching <hao@netaxs.com>

2001-12-06 00:37  simon

        * test_main.c:
        Add the "-d" debug flag. Doesn't actually *do* anything yet.

        Courtesy of: Melvin <mrjoltcola@mindspring.com>

2001-12-06 00:11  tom

        * string.c, chartypes/unicode.c, chartypes/usascii.c,
        encodings/singlebyte.c, encodings/utf16.c, encodings/utf8.c,
        include/parrot/chartype.h, include/parrot/encoding.h,
        include/parrot/parrot.h: Moved string to number conversion code out
        of the encoding layer and into the main string layer as neither the
        encoding layer nor the character type layer knows enough on it's
        own to do the conversion correctly.

2001-12-05 23:12  tom

        * Makefile.in: Rebuild the classes directory if any of the object
        files for the classes are missing rather than only when perlint.o
        is missing.

2001-12-05 19:43  gregor

        * Parrot/Assembler.pm, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm:
          * Reworked the constantize_string() stuff a little bit because it
        was
            puking on things like "\033[H\033[2J\0" (which occurs in the
            languages/jako/mandelzoom.jako example).

2001-12-05 19:39  gregor

        * languages/jako/: Makefile, mandelzoom.jako:
        Added 'mandelzoom' example.

2001-12-05 19:38  gregor

        * languages/jako/jakoc:
          * Added sleep()

          * Changed some instances of die() to confess()

2001-12-05 18:34  gregor

        * t/: op/pmc.t, pmc/pmc.t:
        s/sting->int/string->int/

2001-12-05 18:08  gregor

        * Parrot/.cvsignore:
        Ignore PMC.pm

2001-12-05 18:05  gregor

        * classes/.cvsignore:
        Ignore the generated files.

2001-12-05 17:19  gregor

        * pbc2c.pl:
          * Reverted recent changes, since they broke the script. Real fix
        coming
            later.

2001-12-05 17:03  simon

        * classes/Makefile.in:
        Remember: change Makefile.in, not Makefile. D'oh.

2001-12-05 17:02  simon

        * Makefile.in:
        Ensure PMC.pm gets remade.

2001-12-05 16:58  simon

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, classes/Makefile.in,
        classes/perlundef.pmc, include/parrot/pmc.h:
        Add perlundef class.

2001-12-05 16:45  simon

        * core.ops:
        Document "new P0, foo"

2001-12-05 16:43  simon

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, pbc2c.pl, pmc_pm.pl, Parrot/Assembler.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm, t/op/pmc.t, t/pmc/pmc.t:
        Allow assembler to know about PMC class names.

2001-12-04 13:39  ajgough

        * MANIFEST: Added t/op/pmc.t to MANIFEST.

2001-12-04 05:02  ajgough

        * classes/perlnum.pmc: Picky compiler pointed out probable thinko
        in perlnum.c

2001-12-04 04:24  ajgough

        * encodings/singlebyte.c, t/op/pmc.t, t/pmc/pmc.t: A much less
        broken form of strtod and appropriate tests.  Does not yet check
        for overflow.

2001-12-04 01:31  ajgough

        * string.c, encodings/singlebyte.c, encodings/utf16.c,
        encodings/utf8.c, include/parrot/encoding.h: Added length parameter
        to extract_num and extract_int string vtables, without this it
        would be impossible to have strings with nulls in while still
        knowing where they ended.

2001-12-03 18:40  ajgough

        * string.c, classes/perlstring.pmc, encodings/singlebyte.c,
        encodings/utf16.c, encodings/utf8.c, include/parrot/encoding.h,
        include/parrot/string.h: Moved pmc string to number conversion into
        the string encoding tables.

2001-12-03 00:21  ajgough

        * core.ops, t/op/pmc.t, t/pmc/pmc.t: Added set i, p and some tests
        for p-> integer.

2001-12-02 23:09  jgoff

        * classes/Makefile.in: Removed some redundant targets.

2001-12-02 19:02  ajgough

        * t/: op/pmc.t, pmc/pmc.t: Modified all pmc tests to make use of fp
        equality macro rather than using perl to generate expected output,
        all tests now have <<OUTPUT.

2001-12-02 17:44  ajgough

        * t/op/trans.t: Upgraded fp_eq and fp_ne macros to be more useful
        for pmc.t as well.  Will probably move macros into another file at
        some point, although this might be best left until the tests are
        unperled.

2001-12-02 06:16  jgoff

        * classes/pmc2c.pl: It wasn't properly setting the vtable index
        within Parrot_Perl{Class}_init.

2001-12-02 06:09  jgoff

        * classes/Makefile.in: I seem to have removed *$(O) twice..

2001-12-02 05:06  jgoff

        * Configure.pl, MANIFEST, Makefile.in: (Hopefully the last time...)
        Configure.pl - Removed '-I./include', added classes/Makefile
        generation MANIFEST     - Added classes/Makefile.in Makefile.in  -
        Removed old classes/* make stuff                Added target for
        classes/Makefile

2001-12-02 04:48  jgoff

        * classes/Makefile.in: Going to be used shortly...

2001-12-02 04:40  jgoff

        * docs/Makefile: Configure.pl - Added automatic makefile creation
        for docs/ and classes/                Removed '-I./include' because
        it was getting incorrectly                passed to classes/
        MANIFEST - added docs/Makefile.in, classes/Makefile.in Makefile.in
        - Removed classes/ build stuff, replaced with classes/Makefile.in
                    Added '-I./include' locally docs/Makefile - Should no
        longer be used, but I'm not brave enough to do a
        cvs delete.

2001-12-02 01:21  ajgough

        * t/op/trans.t: Refactored trans math tests to have hard coded
        expected return values and be more ready to be unperled at some
        point in the future.  Added $fp_equality_macro which is a
        "nearly-equal-to" function.

2001-12-02 01:18  ajgough

        * Makefile.in: Humph.  People really ought to use Makefile
        variables, s/perl/$(PERL)/ throughout.

2001-12-01 18:15  jgoff

        * classes/: perlint.pmc, perlnum.pmc: Temporary patch until we
        figure out what to do vis-a-vis the lack of snprintf.

2001-11-30 13:14  ajgough

        * t/op/: integer.t, number.t: Added tests for abs ops to number.t
        and integer.t

2001-11-30 13:14  ajgough

        * core.ops: Added abs(i|n, i|ic|n|nc) ops to core.ops, using if <0
        -, else ... form.

2001-11-30 10:36  simon

        * core.ops:
        Rewrite print_p to do the right thing.

2001-11-30 06:21  jgoff

        * t/: op/pmc.t, pmc/pmc.t: New tests for integer/number/string
        concat,               integer/number/string math

2001-11-30 06:20  jgoff

        * classes/: perlint.pmc, perlnum.pmc, perlstring.pmc:
        classes/perlint.pmc - Fixes and expanding for concat and math with
        strings classes/perlnum.pmc - Fixes and expanding for concat and
        math with strings classes/perlstring.pmc - Fixes and expanding for
        concat and math with strings

2001-11-29 15:21  ajgough

        * hints/os2.pl: This is a hints file for os/2, I've set $c{perl} as
        $^X lies, which confused bash which make uses to run things when
        doing its stuff.

2001-11-29 04:58  jgoff

        * classes/perlstring.pmc: Removed C++-style comments for good
        measure

2001-11-29 04:51  jgoff

        * t/: op/pmc.t, pmc/pmc.t: New tests for PMC integers

2001-11-29 04:28  jgoff

        * global_setup.c: Initialize PMC strings

2001-11-29 04:25  jgoff

        * core.ops: Added set_p_s and set_p_sc, modified print_p to handle
        string PMCs.

2001-11-29 04:24  jgoff

        * classes/: perlint.pmc, perlnum.pmc, perlstring.pmc: Changed PMC
        files to properly upgrade int to num, do calculations.  Also added
        basic string operations. Currently errors out on anything but set
        operations, but this will be fixed soon.

2001-11-29 04:22  jgoff

        * Makefile.in: PMC .c files weren't getting cleaned out.

2001-11-28 17:00  simon

        * t/harness:

        Make csh-glob happy.

        Courtesy of: Andy Dougherty: <doughera@lafayette.edu>

2001-11-28 16:40  simon

        * classes/perlnum.pmc:

        De-C++

2001-11-28 15:22  simon

        * string.c:

        Fixes Alex's string concat worry.

2001-11-28 14:27  ajgough

        * t/op/string.t: test "null onto null" incorrectly passing as it
        produced no output.  Output provided.

2001-11-28 11:14  simon

        * include/parrot/pmc.h:

        Placate AIX.

2001-11-26 21:03  dan

        * MANIFEST, hints/darwin.pl: Tweaks to build on Mac OS X 10.1

2001-11-26 17:29  simon

        * classes/perlint.pmc:

        Various subtle but non-showstopper bugs.

2001-11-26 11:23  simon

        * classes/pmc2c.pl:

        Replace dependency on Text::Balanced

        Courtesy of: Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@pandora.be>

2001-11-26 05:22  jgoff

        * global_setup.c: Last file that should need to be committed. I
        swear.

2001-11-26 05:09  jgoff

        * core.ops: Let's try this again... Changes to core.ops required

2001-11-26 04:58  jgoff

        * classes/perlint.pmc, classes/perlnum.pmc, t/op/pmc.t,
        t/pmc/pmc.t: Makefile.in - Added missing cleanup line for perl*.c
        core.ops - Added set(p,n|nc), modified print(p) global_setup.c -
        Uncommented PerlNum_init classes/perlint.pmc - Added set_number
        functions classes/perlnum.pmc - Set up basic number functions
        t/op/pmc.t - Added tests for set P0.<number> and {add,mul,sub,div}
        tests against numbers and numbers+integers

2001-11-25 13:18  simon

        * Makefile.in:
        Windows XP make doesn't like $<

2001-11-25 12:56  simon

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, classes/genclass.pl, classes/perlint.c,
        classes/perlint.pmc, classes/perlnum.c, classes/perlnum.pmc,
        classes/perlstring.c, classes/perlstring.pmc, classes/pmc2c.pl,
        examples/assembly/mops_p.pasm:
        PMC preprocessor.

        Courtesy of: Angel Faus <afaus@corp.vlex.com>

        I (Simon) also added a couple more integer methods, but no tests
        since I'm a Bad Person.

2001-11-25 08:40  brentdax

        * ops2c.pl, Parrot/Op.pm, Parrot/OpsFile.pm, lib/Parrot/Op.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm: Allow _ in op names

2001-11-25 05:54  jgoff

        * classes/perlint.c, t/op/pmc.t, t/pmc/pmc.t: classes/perlint.c -
        Added basic math ops t/op/pmc.t - Added tests of basic math ops

2001-11-23 18:27  simon

        * core.ops, classes/perlint.c, examples/assembly/mops_p.pasm:
        Add everything you need to make MOPS use PMCs.

2001-11-23 18:06  simon

        * core.ops:
        Eh, you'll need this for rewriting mops.pasm.

2001-11-23 17:55  simon

        * core.ops, classes/perlint.c, include/parrot/pmc.h, t/op/pmc.t,
        t/pmc/pmc.t:
        More work on integer PMCs.

2001-11-23 17:29  simon

        * Makefile.in:
        Surprise! Whitespace! HLAGHLAGHLAGH

2001-11-23 17:28  simon

        * Makefile.in, ops2c.pl, ops2pm.pl:
        Add vtables.ops to the core

        Courtesy of: Jeff Goff <jgoff@speakeasy.net>

2001-11-22 18:39  simon

        * core.ops, global_setup.c, docs/parrot_assembly.pod, t/op/pmc.t,
        t/pmc/pmc.t:
        We can now create PMCs.

2001-11-21 05:49  jgoff

        * Makefile.in: Makefile cleans up *.pasm *.pbc *.out

2001-11-20 16:00  simon

        * docs/vtables.pod, include/parrot/pmc.h:
        Reorder PMC flags so there's a fixed number of user-defined flags.

        Courtesy of: Dave Mitchell <davem@fdgroup.co.uk>

2001-11-19 03:39  jgoff

        * Parrot/Assembler.pm, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm, t/op/basic.t:
        Parrot/Assembler.pm - Allow "print 'foo'", and properly escape
        nested quotes.  t/op/basic.t - Add tests for single-quoted strings,
        escaped quotes, and proper                handling of newlines.

2001-11-16 22:03  simon

        * classes/perlint.c:
        More work on the Perl Integer class. More needed, though.

2001-11-16 21:57  simon

        * pmc.c, vtable.tbl, classes/genclass.pl, classes/perlint.c:
        Rename ->new to ->init, and rework pmc.c:pmc_new to fiddle it.

2001-11-16 20:49  simon

        * interpreter.c, runops_cores.c, trace.c,
        include/parrot/runops_cores.h:
        Kill superfluous runops cores.

2001-11-16 17:50  simon

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, classes/intclass.c, classes/perlint.c,
        classes/perlnum.c, classes/perlstring.c, classes/scalarclass.c,
        include/parrot/parrot.h, include/parrot/pmc.h:
        Skeleton for Perl scalar types, done right.

2001-11-16 16:15  simon

        * classes/genclass.pl:
        This tidies up genclass to deal with the new-style multimethods.

2001-11-16 15:29  simon

        * Makefile.in, make_vtable_ops.pl, vtable.tbl, Parrot/Vtable.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Vtable.pm, include/parrot/parrot.h:
        Rework multimethods to be *true* multimethods - that is, have
        different types.

2001-11-15 22:29  simon

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, pmc.c:
        pmc.c linkage and support. Oh, and making it compile.

2001-11-15 22:26  dan

        * t/op/interp.t: Forgot to tell CVS about the test...

2001-11-15 22:10  dan

        * MANIFEST, Types_pm.in, core.ops, vtable_h.pl,
        docs/parrot_assembly.pod, include/parrot/string.h: Added in support
        for PMC registers for the interpreter.

        Added in the docs for the runinterp opcode.

        Added in code for both the newinterp and runinterp opcodes, so we
        can now create new interpreters from within parrot and have them do
        things. (Though we can't pass data back and forth. Yet)

2001-11-15 21:24  simon

        * vtable.tbl, classes/scalarclass.c, docs/vtables.pod:
        More documentation, and other changes as discussed with Dan.

2001-11-15 19:51  simon

        * classes/scalarclass.c:
        De-cut-and-pasto.

2001-11-15 19:50  simon

        * classes/scalarclass.c:
        A little code tidiness.

2001-11-15 19:33  simon

        * include/parrot/pmc.h:
        Missed this in the previous commit - un-constantize the base for
        user-defined PMC flags.

2001-11-15 19:28  simon

        * classes/scalarclass.c:
        Hey look, sanity.

2001-11-15 17:09  simon

        * classes/scalarclass.c:
        It seems I have completely forgotten how to write C.

2001-11-15 16:53  simon

        * docs/vtables.pod:
        Start of the PMC classes documentation.

2001-11-15 14:46  simon

        * classes/scalarclass.c:
        Changing to use a Perl-style struct instead of the union cache.

2001-11-13 23:56  tom

        * string.c: Removed leading _ from string_index as function names
        starting with _ are reserved to implementors by the C standard.

        Also fixed string_index to use the encoding routines instead of
        assuming a single byte encoding.

2001-11-13 12:59  jgoff

        * string.c: Patched string_concat to accept null strings.  That
        test was failing. Nothing to do with ord().

2001-11-13 12:43  jgoff

        * string.c: string_ord function, string_concat fixes

2001-11-13 04:52  jgoff

        * core.ops: Added ord to core.ops

2001-11-13 04:35  jgoff

        * docs/strings.pod, include/parrot/exceptions.h,
        include/parrot/string.h, t/op/string.t: core.ops - Added ord
        operator, documentation string.c - Added string_ord, _string_index
        (_string_index is a static helper)              Patched
        string_concat to handle null strings properly.  docs/strings.pod -
        Description of string_ord include/parrot/exceptions.h - Added
        ORD_OUT_OF_STRING exception include/parrot/string.h - Added
        string_ord() t/op/string.t - Added full set of test for
        ord_i_(s|sc)(_(i|ic))?

        string.c contains a bit of documentation explaining the logic
        behind _string_index, primarily having to do with multiple encoding
        formats.

2001-11-12 22:30  simon

        * t/op/macro.t:
        Count 'em.

2001-11-12 22:28  simon

        * Makefile.in:
        Add a rule to compile "platform"

2001-11-12 22:26  simon

        * Makefile.in:
        Tidy up distclean target.

2001-11-12 16:54  dan

        * MANIFEST, Parrot/Assembler.pm, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm,
        t/op/macro.t: Fixes to the assembler's macro facility and a test

        Courtesy of: Jeff <jgoff@speakeasy.net>

2001-11-12 16:50  dan

        * Parrot/Assembler.pm, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm: Allow input from
        stdin

        Courtesy of: Jeff <jgoff@speakeasy.net>

2001-11-12 16:36  dan

        * Parrot/Test.pm, lib/Parrot/Test.pm: Fix to make test work on
        CygWin

        Courtesy of: Alex Gough <alexander.gough@st-hughs.oxford.ac.uk>

2001-11-12 11:22  simon

        * examples/assembly/mops.pasm:

        Trivial tightening of mops loop.

2001-11-07 23:57  ajgough

        * docs/tests.pod: This is a basic quide to writing tests with
        assembler.

2001-11-07 22:29  dan

        * stacks.c: Added a little documentation on the cleanup parameter
        for an entry

2001-11-07 14:43  dan

        * MANIFEST, platforms/generic.c, platforms/linux.c,
        platforms/linux.h: Portability patches.

        Courtesy of: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>

2001-11-06 19:51  tom

        * Makefile.in: Clean up object files in the subdirectories as well
        as those in the top level directory.

        Enhanced version of patch from Daniel Grunblatt
        <daniel@grunblatt.com.ar>

2001-11-06 16:14  dan

        * Configure.pl, MANIFEST, Makefile.in, core.ops,
        platforms/generic.c, platforms/generic.h: Made things a bit more
        platform-independent. Makefile still needs work to pick up changes
        to the platform-specific files.

2001-11-05 21:32  dan

        * docs/parrot_assembly.pod: Added docs for the GC control ops

2001-11-04 02:52  gregor

        * platforms/: win32.c, win32.h:
          * win32 dynamic loading functions.

        Courtesy of Jason Diamond <jason@injektilo.org>

2001-11-04 00:04  brentdax

        * Parrot/Assembler.pm, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm: Assembler fixes:
        allows an absolute path to be used and gives a useful error message
        if the original source file can't be found

2001-11-02 12:37  gregor

        * platforms/: linux.c, linux.h:
          * Beginning of dynamic loading support. Linux only for now.

2001-11-02 12:13  gregor

        * MANIFEST, time.c, include/parrot/time.h:
          * Removed time.[hc], since they have been superseded by the new
        platform
            stuff.

2001-11-02 12:11  gregor

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in, core.ops, vtable.tbl,
        classes/intclass.c, classes/scalarclass.c, hints/mswin32.pl,
        include/parrot/parrot.h, platforms/linux.c, platforms/linux.h,
        platforms/win32.c, platforms/win32.h:
        Patch from Jason Diamond to make win32 platform stuff work:

        * Modified Configure.pl, mswin32.pl, and Makefile.in so that the
        platform specific files in the platforms directory gets copied to
        the correct directories. The Makefile will re-copy the platform.h
        and .c files if the original is modified.

        * #include platform.h in parrot.h instead of time.h.

        * Removed time.h and time.obj from the Makefile. time.h and time.c
        aren't being used anymore since that code was moved to linux.c and
        win32.c.

        * Renamed the BOOL typedef in parrot.h to BOOLVAL (inspired by
        INTVAL and FLOATVAL). This was conflicting with the BOOL typedef in
        windows.h. This required updating several files besides parrot.h.

        * Added a DEFAULT_OPEN_MODE to linux.h and win32.h and used that
        instead of the missing identifiers (on Windows) in core.ops in the
        calls to open.

        * Added Parrot_sleep and Parrot_setenv to both the linux and win32
        platform files and called those from core.ops. The Linux code for
        these functions came from core.ops so they should hopefully work.

        Courtesy of Jason Diamond <jason@injektilo.org>

2001-11-02 06:43  brentdax

        * Makefile.in, hints/mswin32.pl: Fix classes/intclass.obj building
        for Win32 (courtesy of Jason Diamond <jason@injektilo.org>)

2001-11-02 02:26  gregor

        * .cvsignore, MANIFEST, include/parrot/.cvsignore,
        platforms/linux.c, platforms/linux.h, platforms/win32.c,
        platforms/win32.h:
          * Beginnings of platform support files in platform/*.[hc]

2001-11-01 23:37  tom

        * classes/intclass.c: Added missing *'s to STRING arguments and
        return values to avoid compiler warnings.

2001-11-01 22:21  gregor

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, core.ops, obscure.ops, time.c,
        include/parrot/parrot.h, include/parrot/time.h:
        Initial "fix" of time(n) op for Win32:

          * Initial Win32 code Courtesy of Richard J Cox <rjcox@cix.co.uk>

          * time.c and include/parrot/time.h

            First attempt at getting this working across platforms. The
            macro WIN32 being tested might not be right.

          * New functions Parrot_intval_time() and Parrot_floatval_time()
            wrap the appropriate functionality depending upon platform.
            Changed core.ops to call these.

        Added obscure.ops with obscure transcendental ops.

        Added simple file I/O ops (close, open, read, write):

          * Initial versions Courtesy of Jeff <jgoff@speakeasy.net>

          * I changed some arg ordering stuff.

          * I added read/write of INTVALs and FLOATVALs.

        Added environment variable ops (getenv, setenv)

        Added system error ops (err(i) and err(s) for accessing errno and
        strerr().

        Moved print ops in with other "temporary" developer ops, since
        they'll move to a devel.ops or temp.ops oplib once we have oplibs.

2001-10-31 22:51  tom

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, chartype.c, encoding.c, global_setup.c,
        packfile.c, string.c, strnative.c, strutf16.c, strutf32.c,
        strutf8.c, transcode.c, chartypes/unicode.c, chartypes/usascii.c,
        encodings/singlebyte.c, encodings/utf16.c, encodings/utf32.c,
        encodings/utf8.c, include/parrot/chartype.h,
        include/parrot/encoding.h, include/parrot/exceptions.h,
        include/parrot/parrot.h, include/parrot/string.h,
        include/parrot/strnative.h, include/parrot/strutf16.h,
        include/parrot/strutf32.h, include/parrot/strutf8.h,
        include/parrot/transcode.h: Reworked the string code in line with
        Dan's latest design that separates character sets from encodings.

2001-10-31 19:53  dan

        * docs/parrot_assembly.pod: Finished I/O section of docs

2001-10-31 16:51  dan

        * core.ops, docs/parrot_assembly.pod, include/parrot/parrot.h:
        Moved includes out of core.ops and into parrot.h where they belong
        (suitably guarded with #ifdefs). Also some updates to
        parrot_assembly.pod

2001-10-30 21:43  dan

        * core.ops, stacks.c, docs/parrot_assembly.pod,
        include/parrot/stacks.h: Added entrytype opcode to fetch the type
        of the entry on the stack

2001-10-29 18:30  dan

        * stacks.c: You can turn off stack entry type validation on pop by
        passing in a type of 0 now. (For those cases where you just want to
        throw the darned thing away)

2001-10-29 14:37  gregor

        * core.ops, languages/jako/jakoc:
          * New variants of the save ops to save constants on the stack.
        This is
            useful for saving zero arg and result counts on the stack, for
        example.

          * Modified jakoc to to adapt to the newly announced calling
        conventions.
            Even though Jako source code appears to show subroutines with
        fixed
            numbers of arguments and results, they are implemented with the
            variable count calling convention. Future modifications will be
        needed
            to ensure that an exception is raised if the stack frame is of
        the
            wrong size (or, at least that we pop the complete frame off).
        We'll
            also have to make more changes to support the true
        fixed-arg-count
            and fixed-result-count parts of the calling convention spec.

2001-10-28 16:53  simon

        * MANIFEST, stacks.c, classes/scalarclass.c,
        include/parrot/stacks.h:
        Unbelievably bad errors of mine, plus a type incompatibility of
        Dan's.

2001-10-28 08:30  simon

        * classes/scalarclass.c:
        Beginning of a scalar class.

2001-10-28 08:29  simon

        * make_vtable_ops.pl, vtable.tbl, Parrot/Vtable.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Vtable.pm, classes/genclass.pl, classes/intclass.c,
        include/parrot/pmc.h:
        This fixes the problem with vtables and pointer arithmetic.

2001-10-26 19:58  dan

        * core.ops, interpreter.c, stacks.c, include/parrot/interpreter.h,
        include/parrot/stacks.h: Split the generic stack into a user push
        stack and a control stack

2001-10-26 02:59  bdwheele

        * Parrot/OpsFile.pm, lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm: [no log message]

2001-10-24 20:27  dan

        * languages/scheme/: Makefile, Scheme.pm, schemec,
        Scheme/Generator.pm, Scheme/Parser.pm, Scheme/Test.pm,
        Scheme/Tokenizer.pm, t/harness, t/arith/basic.t, t/arith/logic.t,
        t/arith/nested.t, t/io/basic.t, t/logic/basic.t: Added the mini
        Scheme compiler

2001-10-24 20:23  dan

        * MANIFEST, pdump.c, docs/parrot_assembly.pod: Update for
        interpreter needs in pdump.c. Added scheme bits to manifest

2001-10-24 16:43  gregor

        * Parrot/Assembler.pm, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm:
          * Make the assembler handle octal character code escapes in
        string
            constants.

2001-10-24 15:56  dan

        * MANIFEST, examples/assembly/life.pasm: Added an example in to
        play the game of life

2001-10-24 15:54  dan

        * core.ops: Added sleep. We'll need to override this to do events
        properly anyway, so...

2001-10-24 14:03  gregor

        * Makefile.in, pbc2c.pl, pdump.c:
          * Adapt pdump.c and pbc2c.pl to the new requirement to pass
        interpreter
            pointer into string functions.

        Courtesy of: Ryan O'Neil <talisman580@yahoo.com>

2001-10-23 20:09  gregor

        * languages/jako/jakoc:
          * Terminological refinement in regexp capture comment.

2001-10-23 15:23  simon

        * classes/genclass.pl:
        Use a saner ANSI C construct to make MIPSPro happy.

        Courtesy of: Alex Gough <alexander.gough@st-hughs.oxford.ac.uk>

2001-10-23 00:34  tom

        * core.ops, string.c, strnative.c, strutf16.c, strutf32.c,
        strutf8.c, include/parrot/string.h: Make sure the interpreter
        structure is passed to the transcoder as necessary, including
        passing it to string_compare().

2001-10-23 00:32  tom

        * Makefile.in: Make pdump build again by including resources.o in
        the link.

2001-10-22 22:43  dan

        * core.ops, packfile.c, string.c, strnative.c, strutf16.c,
        strutf32.c, strutf8.c, test_main.c, transcode.c,
        include/parrot/packfile.h, include/parrot/parrot.h,
        include/parrot/resources.h, include/parrot/string.h,
        include/parrot/transcode.h: Everything now uses the allocators and
        deallocators in resources.c.

        Unfortunately we lost standalone string-test mode, but I can cope
        with that.

        Please note that until we have a real allocation/deallocation/GC
        system, this'll leak. A *lot*.

2001-10-22 20:27  dan

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, pmc.c, resources.c,
        include/parrot/resources.h: First cut to handle arena allocation of
        PMC headers. (Amongst other things)

2001-10-22 19:02  dan

        * Configure.pl, config_h.in, register.c, include/parrot/register.h:
        Now each register type has its own mask macro, which is the right
        thing to do.

        Patch courtesy of Jason Gloudon <perl@gloudon.com>

2001-10-21 23:40  tom

        * stacks.c, t/op/stacks.t: Fix bug in handling of rollover to a new
        stack chunk and add a test to test this rollover in future.

        Courtesy of Jason Gloudon <perl@gloudon.com>.

2001-10-21 19:14  dan

        * include/parrot/string.h: Changed string 'unused' field to the
        language field.

2001-10-21 18:18  gregor

        * languages/jako/: Makefile, mops.jako:
          * Makefile: 'clean' target removes .list files, too. And, it does
        rm -f
            with wildcards rather than listing things explicitly.

          * mops.jako actually prints out the
        millions-of-operations-per-second
            (mops) value instead of just the operations-per-second value.

2001-10-21 18:03  simon

        * classes/intclass.o:
        *smack*! WRONG!

2001-10-21 17:47  simon

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, make_vtable_ops.pl, pmc.c, vtable_h.pl,
        Parrot/Vtable.pm, classes/genclass.pl, classes/intclass.c,
        classes/intclass.o, include/parrot/parrot.h, include/parrot/pmc.h,
        lib/Parrot/Vtable.pm:
        Initial work on PMCs. Explanation to follow

2001-10-21 15:20  gregor

        * examples/assembly/queens.pasm:
          * Modernize the calling conventions in queens.pasm. It was using
        swap,
            which now must be rotate. Also, changed to use return values on
        the
            stack instead of in I0.

2001-10-19 18:14  gregor

        * core.ops, stacks.c, include/parrot/stacks.h,
        languages/jako/jakoc:
        Per Dan's request, replacing 'swap' op by 'rotate'.

          * core.ops: Replaced 'swap()' by 'rotate(i|ic)'.

          * stacks.c and stacks.h: Removed swap-related functions from my
            prior commit, replacing them with stack_depth(), stack_entry()
            and rotate_entries().

            NOTE: The stack_depth() and rotate_entries() routines could
            be made more efficient through the caching of the sum of chunk
            'used' members from lower chunks in a field in the upper
            chunks. Also, if the interpreter's stack_base was changed to
            hold the pointer to the *top* chunk (since we usually come
            at the stack from the top down) instead of the *bottom*
            chunk. The code here at least works, and we can decide about
            bigger changes separately.

            For now, rotate only handles rotates in one direction and
            of magnituded one. A fully general rotate would do handle
            rotates in both directions and of arbitrary amounts. Again,
            this implementation is sufficient for current applications,
            and a feature-complete version can be developed if this turns
            out to be otherwise the right type of implementation.

            This change includes a new exception for ERROR_STACK_SHALLOW,
            meaning "not-empty-yet-not-deep-enough-for-what-you-asked".

          * jakoc: Changed the calling convention to use rotate instead
            of swap (of course). Also changed the convention for return
            value passing to use the stack as well.

2001-10-19 13:36  gregor

        * MANIFEST, core.ops, disassemble.pl, stacks.c,
        examples/assembly/queens.pasm, include/parrot/stacks.h,
        languages/jako/.cvsignore, languages/jako/Makefile,
        languages/jako/bench.jako, languages/jako/euclid.jako,
        languages/jako/fact.jako, languages/jako/jakoc,
        languages/jako/mandelbrot.jako, languages/jako/mops.jako,
        languages/jako/primes.jako, languages/jako/queens.jako,
        languages/jako/sub.jako:
          * New stack functions push_entry(), pop_entry() and swap_entry().
            The first two exist for the support of the last one. These
            functions don't care what is in the stack entries. These exist
            to support the new 'swap' op (see next bullet).

          * New op 'swap' for swapping the top two elements on the stack.
            This is necessary for passing arguments to functions, since
            the return address will be on top of any arguments that have
            been pushed on the stack. This way, you can use a (swap, pop)
            pair to retrieve each argument (for subroutine linkage).

          * Disassembler now prints numbers in decimal by default, with
            a new '-x' flag to turn on hexadecimal display. Since other
            members of the Parrot Tool Set use decimal by default, this
            makes it easier to compare output from the various tools.

          * Jako compiler has more explanatory comments and the following
            new features:

              * Lexically scoped variables.

              * Subroutines that take arguments and return values:

                  sub int foo(int bar) {
                    if (bar == 1) {
                      return 42;
                    } else {
                      return 13;
                    }
                  }
              * ... if (...) and ... unless (...) statement modifiers
                can be used on next, last and redo.

              * Bitwise and (&, &=) and or (|, |=) ops.

              * Type names are just 'int', 'num', 'str', and 'poly' now.
                The old long names 'integer', 'number', 'string', and
                'polytype' are no longer valid.

              * Integer variable assignments can now use 0b (binary),
                0 (octal) and 0x (hexadecimal) radix prefixes on literals.

          * New Jako and Parrot assembly examples queens.{jako,pasm} for
            solving the eight-queens problem. The assembly example is a
            hand-modified version of the assembly code produced by the
            Jako compiler from queens.jako. A few unnecessary ops have
            been removed, lots of unnecessary labels have been removed,
            and all the Jako source code comments have been removed.

          * Makefile and .cvsignore in languages/jako modified so that
            the assembler produces listings when assembling the programs,
            yet the *.list files are ignored by CVS.

          * Made the default target in languages/jako/Makefile 'all'.

          * Modified some of the Jako examples to use some of the new
            features of Jako, such as subroutines and lexical variable
            scoping.

2001-10-19 02:43  gregor

        * runops_cores.c, include/parrot/runops_cores.h:
        Bug fix (gcc doesn't complain, but MIPSpro does):

          * Added missing extern to runops_cores array declaration in
            include/parrot/runops_cores.h

          * Also added 'const' there and in runops_cores.c

2001-10-18 15:18  gregor

        * .cvsignore, include/parrot/oplib/.cvsignore:
          * Ignore the vtable-related generated files.

2001-10-18 15:14  gregor

        * core.ops:
          * left and right shifts now allow the 2nd argument to be a
        constant.

2001-10-18 14:55  simon

        * make_vtable_ops.pl:
        This is C, not Perl. How on earth did that even compile?

2001-10-18 14:54  simon

        * make_vtable_ops.pl:
        More vtable ops.

2001-10-18 12:33  simon

        * Makefile.in, make_vtable_ops.pl, vtable.tbl:
        Initial stab at vtable opcode creation stuff.

2001-10-18 02:15  gregor

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, interpreter.c, runops_cores.c, trace.c,
        include/parrot/interpreter.h, include/parrot/runops_cores.h,
        include/parrot/trace.h: Preparation for autogenerated runops cores:

          * Split tracing and runops core stuff out of interpreter.c into
            trace.c and runops_cores.c

          * Similar split of stuff from include/parrot/interpreter.h

          * Manifest and Makefile.in updates to make things still compile.

2001-10-18 01:21  gregor

        * Makefile.in, ops2c.pl, ops2pm.pl, pbc2c.pl: Bug fixes:

          * Makefile.in: examples/assembly/mops.c depends on pbc2c.pl

          * Makefile.in: Parrot/OpLib/core.pm depends on ops2pm.pl

          * ops2c.pl: Added second arg to mkdir (perl 5.005_02 complains)

          * ops2pm.pl: Added second arg to mkdir (perl 5.005_02 complains)

          * pbc2c.pl: Removed explicit include of <math.h>, replacing it
        with
            copy of $ops->preamble.

2001-10-17 22:32  bdwheele

        * interpreter.c: Moved op dump code into trace_op_dump, per Dan's
        request.

2001-10-17 22:08  gregor

        * Parrot/Assembler.pm, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm:
          * Now handles label-and-comment-only lines.

2001-10-17 22:04  bdwheele

        * interpreter.c: added more comprehensive trace output

2001-10-17 16:50  tom

        * Makefile.in: Removed the explicit rule for building mops.o from
        mops.c so that the implicit rule for compiling C files is used
        instead. This means that the chosen C flags are used, including any
        optimisation options.

2001-10-17 15:24  tom

        * core.ops, Parrot/OpsFile.pm, lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm: Enhanced the
        op explosion logic to be able to handle exploding this:

          sub(i, i|ic, i|ic)

        into these:

          sub(i, i, i)
          sub(i, i, ic)
          sub(i, ic, i)

        without also generating this unwanted version:

          sub(i, ic, ic)

        The enhanced version rejects any expansion where there is more than
        one expanded argument and all the expanded arguments are constants.

2001-10-17 14:20  simon

        * Makefile.in, ops2c.pl, ops2pm.pl, examples/assembly/Makefile:
        Build fixes to use correct Perl version and ensure that things are
        running in the right directory.

        Courtesy of: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>

2001-10-17 13:16  simon

        * Makefile.in:
        core.pm is more critical than that.

2001-10-17 13:05  simon

        * core.ops, Parrot/OpsFile.pm, lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm:
        "Explode" ops into multiple versions for different parameters.

        Courtesy of: Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>

2001-10-17 12:54  simon

        * Makefile.in:
        Fix dependencies and cleaning.

2001-10-17 12:45  simon

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in:
        Fixes to make Parrot compile without the temporary build hack

        Courtesy of: Jason Gloudon <perl@gloudon.com>

2001-10-16 20:43  gregor

        * Makefile.in:
          * Fixed dependencies for building Parrot/OpLib/core.pm

2001-10-16 19:35  bdwheele

        * core.ops, t/op/string.t: Changed set s,sc to use string_copy &
        added test, thanks to Alex Gough

2001-10-16 16:49  bdwheele

        * core.ops: added opcode variants for constants and 3 arg concat

2001-10-16 15:12  bdwheele

        * core.ops: added "set Sx,Sy" as a string copy to match the other
        register-to-register copies available

2001-10-16 13:09  gregor

        * core.ops:
          * Added #include <sys/time.h> in the preamble for gettimeofday().

2001-10-16 13:09  gregor

        * Makefile.in:
          * Removed cd t; make, which no longer applies

2001-10-16 03:18  bdwheele

        * core.ops: fix save & restore operations to push correct type onto
        stack. [good eye to Jason Gloudon for noticing this]

2001-10-16 01:38  bdwheele

        * core.ops, register.c, examples/assembly/fact.pasm,
        include/parrot/register.h: send in the clones:  clone routines for
        parrot + example program

2001-10-15 22:37  gregor

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, examples/assembly/.cvsignore,
        examples/assembly/Makefile, examples/assembly/bsr.pasm,
        examples/assembly/call.pasm, examples/assembly/euclid.pasm,
        examples/assembly/jump.pasm, examples/assembly/local_label.pasm,
        examples/assembly/mops.pasm, examples/assembly/stack.pasm,
        examples/assembly/substr.pasm, examples/assembly/trace.pasm,
        t/.cvsignore, t/Makefile, t/call.pasm, t/euclid.pasm, t/jump.pasm,
        t/local_label.pasm, t/test.pasm, t/test2.pasm, t/test3.pasm,
        t/test4.pasm, t/test5.pasm, t/trace.pasm:
          * Moved examples from t/*.pasm to examples/assembly/*.pasm, with
        some
            renames so the names match what they demonstrate.

2001-10-15 22:18  gregor

        * core.ops, t/test.pasm:
          * time_n uses gettimeofday() to get sub-second times.

          * t/test.pasm uses time_n directly rather than doing int stuff
        and
            converting to num later.

2001-10-15 12:28  gregor

        * t/: test.pasm, test2.pasm, trace.pasm:
          * t/test.pasm prints using string constants instead of string
        regs.

          * t/test2.pasm assembles (using implicit op modes)

          * t/trace.pasm updated for new behavior of trace_ic, which does
        not
            require an 'end' after 'trace'.

2001-10-15 00:47  gregor

        * core.ops, interpreter.c, test_main.c,
        include/parrot/interpreter.h, t/test.pasm:   * New interpreter flag
        PARROT_PROFILE_FLAG

          * New runops cores to handle profiling

          * Support for -p flag in test_prog to enable profiling

          * New profile_ic op to control profiling at run-time

2001-10-14 21:54  gregor

        * core.ops, Parrot/OpsFile.pm, docs/.cvsignore, docs/Makefile,
        lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm: Integrated op documentation.

          * core.ops now contains POD documentation of ops, interspersed
        with the
            ops themselves

          * Ops are organized into POD =head2 sections

          * Parrot/OpsFile.pm now treats the preamble of the ops file as
        anything
            up to the first POD directive OR op definition.

          * docs/Makefile now generates core_ops.pod from core.ops vi
        perldoc -u.

2001-10-14 11:58  simon

        * Makefile.in:
        Unbreak Digital Un^W^WTru64

2001-10-14 11:00  simon

        * Configure.pl:
        Remove weird typo.

2001-10-14 10:56  tom

        * Configure.pl: Stop Configure trying to make op_info.c and op.h as
        op_info.c no longer exists and op.h is no longer a generated file.

2001-10-14 10:54  tom

        * Makefile.in: Added vtable.h to the list of things removed by the
        clean target.

2001-10-14 01:43  gregor

        * .cvsignore, MANIFEST, Makefile.in, basic_opcodes.ops,
        build_interp_starter.pl, core.ops, disassemble.pl, interpreter.c,
        make_op_header.pl, memory.c, opcheck.pl, opcode_table, ops2c.pl,
        ops2pm.pl, packfile.c, pbc2c.pl, process_opfunc.pl,
        Parrot/Assembler.pm, Parrot/Op.pm, Parrot/OpsFile.pm,
        Parrot/OpLib/.cvsignore, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm, lib/Parrot/Op.pm,
        lib/Parrot/OpsFile.pm, lib/Parrot/OpLib/.cvsignore,
        include/parrot/.cvsignore, include/parrot/interp_guts.h,
        include/parrot/interpreter.h, include/parrot/op.h,
        include/parrot/oplib/.cvsignore, t/.cvsignore, t/Makefile,
        t/euclid.pasm, t/test.pasm, t/op/integer.t, t/op/number.t,
        t/op/stacks.t, t/op/string.t, t/op/trans.t:
        Moby Patch:

          * basic_opcodes.ops and opcode_table replaced by core.ops

          * process_opfunc.pl replaced by Parrot/OpsFile.pm, Parrot/Op.pm,
            and ops2c.pl. These convert *.ops to *_ops.c and
            include/parrot/oplib/*_ops.h

          * New ops2pm.pl converts *.ops to Parrot/OpLib/*.pm

          * disassemble.pl modified to use

          * interpreter.c modified to use structures in core_ops.c instead
            of the old op_info and op_func stuff. We're not yet to the
            point of handling multiple oplibs at a time, but we are getting
            there...

            Fingerprinting stuff disabled for now. We used to go off
            opcode_table. We need to rethink this. I have some ideas to
            make it unnecessary, but it remains to be seen whether others
            will like the direction they take us.

            Termination condition for while(){} loop in runops is now
            (pc) instead of (*pc). Any op can cause a HALT by returning
            a NULL pointer. Ops end, bounds and trace all do this. So, now
            the 'end' op body is actually executed, although all it does
            is HALT.

          * Makefile.in modified to perform a test build using pbc2c.pl,
            which is the bytecode --> C compiler I've posted to the
            list before.

          * Op full names are now autogenerated. Op root names must not
            contain underscores, so some op renamings have happened.
            Such as clear_i becoming cleari.

2001-10-13 11:49  simon

        * Configure.pl, MANIFEST:
        Make parrot actually build again.

2001-10-12 21:34  dan

        * docs/parrot_assembly.pod: Added docs for the new save/restore/bsr
        opcodes

2001-10-12 20:56  dan

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, basic_opcodes.ops, interpreter.c,
        opcode_table, process_opfunc.pl, stacks.c, include/parrot/stacks.h,
        t/test3.pasm, t/test4.pasm, t/test5.pasm: Changes to support
        generic stack now in. We also have subroutines, of a simple sort!

2001-10-12 19:15  tom

        * t/op/string.t: Improved string comparison tests try all string
        combinations with each of the comparison ops.

2001-10-12 19:09  dan

        * interpreter.c: Properly sets up generic stack now

2001-10-12 19:09  dan

        * include/parrot/interpreter.h: Fixed stack chunk struct type in
        interpreter structure

2001-10-12 18:59  dan

        * stacks.c, include/parrot/parrot.h, include/parrot/stacks.h: More
        changes to get the generic stack working

2001-10-12 18:59  dan

        * Configure.pl, MANIFEST, config_h.in, testparrotsizes_c.in,
        hints/vms.pl: Made the changes to figure out mask bits for various
        register and stack chunks

2001-10-11 22:09  dan

        * docs/parrot_assembly.pod: Tossed the parameter for return

2001-10-11 19:28  tom

        * strnative.c: Assignment, not comparison.  (Plus formatted for
        coding standards)

        Courtesy of Bryan C. Warnock

2001-10-10 19:21  tom

        * basic_opcodes.ops, opcode_table, string.c, strnative.c,
        strutf16.c, strutf32.c, strutf8.c, docs/strings.pod,
        include/parrot/string.h, t/op/string.t: Added support for string
        comparisons and extended the comparison ops to include comparison
        of strings.

2001-10-10 17:58  dan

        * MANIFEST: Shouldn't have added vtable.h to the manifest...

2001-10-10 17:54  dan

        * MANIFEST, stacks.c, vtable_h.pl, Parrot/Vtable.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Vtable.pm: Now spits out the #defines for the various
        vtable type entries properly

2001-10-10 15:37  dan

        * Parrot/Vtable.pm, lib/Parrot/Vtable.pm: Re-enabled change to
        parse new vtable.tbl file now that I've actually checked *in* the
        new format vtable.tbl file...

2001-10-10 15:32  dan

        * vtable.tbl: New Column to indicate the type of the vtabel entry
        so we can know how many slots it takes

2001-10-10 05:26  thgibbs

        * Parrot/Vtable.pm, lib/Parrot/Vtable.pm, vtable_h.pl: Patch to
        allow parrot to compile.  PACKAGE is not defined, therefore, I
        added a struct before it to have it not complain until we define
        PACKAGE.  Also, there was an extra shift in Vtable.pm and a missing
        semicolon at the end of the struct declaration.

2001-10-10 05:09  thgibbs

        * Parrot/Assembler.pm, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm: This patch makes
        string constants of the form U"string" become unicode encoded
        parrot strings and the form N"string" become native encoded parrot
        strings.

        Courtesy of: Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>

2001-10-10 04:55  dan

        * vtable_h.pl, Parrot/Vtable.pm, lib/Parrot/Vtable.pm: Start of
        support for generating the vtable function table offset macros

2001-10-10 01:05  simon

        * t/op/integer.t:
        The test for cmod_i was using the 'mod Ix, Ix, Ix' form which
        compiles into the mod op, not the cmod_i op, hence wasn't testing
        what it thought it was.

        Courtesy of: Alex Gough <alexander.gough@st-hughs.oxford.ac.uk>

2001-10-09 03:45  thgibbs

        * Parrot/Assembler.pm, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm: Patch to allow
        assembler to generate unicode strings.

        Courtesy of: Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>

2001-10-08 19:30  brentdax

        * Configure.pl, test_c.in, hints/vms.pl: Cleaner VMS support, more
        info for Parrot::Config to remember, more flexible test.c stuff

2001-10-08 15:04  gregor

        * basic_opcodes.ops:
          * Removed trash from early mod_i experiments (pardon our dust)

2001-10-08 14:56  gregor

        * basic_opcodes.ops:
          * Fixed a couple of typos.

2001-10-08 14:45  gregor

        * basic_opcodes.ops, opcode_table, t/op/integer.t, t/op/number.t:
        Arithmetic enhancements:

          * Renamed existing mod_i as cmod_i and added "corrected" mod_i:

            NOTE: This "uncorrected mod" algorithm uses the C language's
        built-in
            mod operator (x % y), which is

                ... the remainder when x is divided by y, and thus is zero
        when y
                divides x exactly.
                ...
                The direction of truncation for / and teh sign of the
        result for %
                are machine-dependent for negative operands, as is the
        action taken
                on overflow or underflow.
                                                                     --
        [1], page 41

            Also:

                ... if the second operand is 0, the result is undefined.
        Otherwise, it
                is always true that (a/b)*b + a%b is equal to z. I both
        operands are
                non-negative, then teh remainder is non-negative and
        smaller than the
                divisor; if not, it is guaranteed only that the absolute
        value of the
                remainder is smaller than the absolute value of the
        divisor.
                                                                     --
        [1], page 205

            This op is provided for those who need it (such as
        speed-sensitive
            applications with heavy use of mod, but using it only with
        positive
            arguments), but a more mathematically useful numeric mod based
        on
            floor(x/y) and defined with y == 0 is provided by the mod_i op.

              [1] Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, *The C
        Programming
                  Language*, Second Edition. Prentice Hall, 1988.

          * Added "corrected" mod_i:

            NOTE: This "corrected mod" algorithm is based on the C code on
        page 70
            of [1]. Assuming correct behavior of C's built-in mod operator
        (%) with
            positive arguments, this algorithm implements a mathematically
        convenient
            version of mod, defined thus:

              x mod y = x - y * floor(x / y)

            For more information on this definition of mod, see section 3.4
        of [2],
            pages 81-85.

            References:

              [1] Donald E. Knuth, *MMIXware: A RISC Computer for the Third
                  Millennium* Springer, 1999.

              [2] Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth and Oren Patashnik,
        *Concrete
                  Mathematics*, Second Edition. Addison-Wesley, 1994.

          * Added mod_n, using the same formula as above, but with FLOATVAL
            arguments.

          * Added cmod_n, using the C math library's fmod() function:

            NOTE: This "uncorrected mod" algorithm uses the built-in C math
        library's
            fmod() function, which computes

                ... the remainder of dividing x by y. The return value is x
        - n * y,
                where n is the quotient of x / y, rounded towards zero to
        an
                integer.
                                                -- fmod() manpage on RedHat
        Linux 7.0

            In addition, fmod() returns

                the remainder, unless y is zero, when the function fails
        and errno
                is set.

            According to page 251 of [1], the result when y is zero is
        implementation-
            defined.

            This op is provided for those who need it, but a more
        mathematically
            useful numeric mod based on floor(x/y) instead of truncate(x/y)
        and
            defined with y == 0 is provided by the mod_n op.

              [1] Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, *The C
        Programming
                  Language*, Second Edition. Prentice Hall, 1988.

          * Added and modified tests as appropriate for the above.

2001-10-08 08:49  thgibbs

        * include/parrot/exceptions.h, include/parrot/parrot.h,
        include/parrot/string.h, include/parrot/strutf16.h,
        include/parrot/strutf32.h, include/parrot/strutf8.h,
        include/parrot/transcode.h, include/parrot/unicode.h, MANIFEST,
        Makefile.in, global_setup.c, string.c, strnative.c, transcode.c,
        strutf16.c, strutf32.c, strutf8.c: Added code to handle unicode
        strings for utf8, utf16, and utf32.

        Courtesy of: Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>

2001-10-08 08:10  thgibbs

        * memory.c: Fixed uninitialized variables.

        Courtesy of: Bryan C. Warnock <bwarnock@raba.com>

2001-10-08 01:21  gregor

        * packfile.c:   * Casting a return value

          * Potential uninitialized variable fix

        Courtesy of Bryan C. Warnock <bwarnock@raba.com>

2001-10-08 01:15  gregor

        * packfile.c, test_main.c: One of Bryan's languishing patches (with
        a few tweaks of my own):

          * Line wrapping

          * Printf format fixes

        Courtesy of: Bryan C. Warnock <bwarnock@raba.com>

2001-10-07 22:39  thgibbs

        * build_interp_starter.pl: No longer adds (void*) casts to
        interp_guts.c function table as they are not necessary in ANSI C.

2001-10-07 16:27  gregor

        * basic_opcodes.ops, interpreter.c, opcode_table,
        process_opfunc.pl, test_main.c, include/parrot/interpreter.h,
        t/trace.pasm:
          * Two new ops, trace_ic and bounds_ic that twiddle bits in
            interpreter->flags and set interpreter->resume_addr.

          * Two new runops core variants, so now we cover the relevant
            flag space over {trace, notrace} x {boundscheck, noboundscheck}

          * Runops core selection that converts the flags into an index
        into
            a core table (runops_cores) to get the core function pointer.

          * A new trace_op variant that doesn't do bounds checking (used by
            the non-bounds-checking-but-tracing runops core).

          * PC is passed into the cores so that they can be used when
            resuming (they used to assume starting at the beginning of the
            code, which would thwart resumption).

          * runops() itself is changed to have a while() loop in it so that
            any time we drop out of the core, we'll resume if we have an
            interpreter->resume_addr set (after reselecting the core,
        though).

          * process_opfunc.pl has a new "macro": RESUME(), that sets up
            interpreter->resume_addr. This is used by the new ops. The new
            ops still return the new PC as the next op (which MUST be an
            'end' op to force the core loop to terminate -- *pc being false
            is the only termination condition we can count on for all
        cores).

          * New interpreter flag: PARROT_BOUNDS_FLAG, used to control
            bounds checking core selection.

          * test_prog now has a '-b' flag in addition to the '-t' flag.
        Now,
            bounds checking is off by default (I saw a performance boost:
            6.3 Mop/s with -b, 7.0 Mop/s without).

          * A new sample/test program: t/trace.pasm that twiddles the trace
            flag while it is running.

2001-10-07 15:41  gregor

        * .cvsignore, Makefile.in, build_interp_starter.pl, interpreter.c,
        include/parrot/.cvsignore, include/parrot/interpreter.h:
        Now that 0.0.2 is released, I can clear out the backlog of approved
        but uncommitted patches. Here's one Dan approved on 2001-09-21
        (Simplified DO_OP):

          * test_prog and pdump are linked with only the files the need,
        not
            al the files.

          * build_interp_starter.pl writes out op_info.[hc], too. These
        files
            contain op name, arg count and arg type information. This will
        be
            useful for multiple things in the future, including better
        trace
            output and the crystalizing loader.

          * The DO_OP macro is now simpler and doesn't require explicit
            temporaries.

          * interpreter.c is modified to use the new op info in tracing
        output.

          * The interpreter just points its opcode_funcs and opcode_info
            members at the default tables rather than allocating memory on
            the fly.

2001-10-07 03:58  thgibbs

        * include/parrot/.cvsignore, vtable_h.pl: Minor updates fixing a
        comment and adding vtable.h to .cvsignore as it is produced by
        vtable_h.in

2001-10-06 20:58  thgibbs

        * vtable.tbl: Added * to REGEX type.

        Courtesy of Bryan C. Warnock <bwarnock@raba.com>

2001-10-06 13:41  simon

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, vtable.tbl, vtable_h.pl, Parrot/Vtable.pm,
        include/parrot/parrot.h, lib/Parrot/Vtable.pm:
        Framework for vtable functions.

2001-10-06 06:52  thgibbs

        * make_op_header.pl: Removed confusing and unused typedef.

2001-10-06 06:31  thgibbs

        * Parrot/Opcode.pm, lib/Parrot/Opcode.pm: Removed variables that
        are no longer used.

2001-10-06 06:26  thgibbs

        * disassemble.pl: Changed intval to op in disassembler.

2001-10-06 06:21  thgibbs

        * Parrot/Assembler.pm, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm: Fixed typo with
        Assembler, local labels, and integer constants.

2001-10-06 03:11  ask

        * Makefile.in: make `make test` actually run the tests on
        darwin/macosx

2001-10-06 02:04  thgibbs

        * Parrot/Assembler.pm, Parrot/Opcode.pm, Parrot/PackFile.pm,
        Parrot/String.pm, Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm,
        Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm, include/parrot/packfile.h,
        include/parrot/register.h, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Opcode.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile.pm, lib/Parrot/String.pm,
        lib/Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm,
        t/op/integer.t: No, it didn't mess anything up.  I just forgot to
        type make. :)

2001-10-06 02:02  thgibbs

        * Parrot/Assembler.pm, Parrot/Opcode.pm, Parrot/PackFile.pm,
        Parrot/String.pm, Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm,
        Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm, include/parrot/packfile.h,
        include/parrot/register.h, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Opcode.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile.pm, lib/Parrot/String.pm,
        lib/Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm,
        t/op/integer.t: oops...this messed something up.  I must have
        missed something in the patch...I have reverted.

2001-10-06 01:57  thgibbs

        * Parrot/Assembler.pm, Parrot/Opcode.pm, Parrot/PackFile.pm,
        Parrot/String.pm, Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm,
        Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm, include/parrot/packfile.h,
        include/parrot/register.h, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Opcode.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile.pm, lib/Parrot/String.pm,
        lib/Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm,
        t/op/integer.t, Types_pm.in, basic_opcodes.ops, config_h.in,
        memory.c, packfile.c, process_opfunc.pl, strnative.c, test_main.c:
        This patch ensures that all bytecode is of type opcode_t except for
        the constant table constants.  That means that almost all of the
        INTVALs in the code were replaced with opcode_t and the i pack type
        was replaced with the op pack type in calls to pack_arg and such.
        Also, since it has been declared that ALL integer constants are to
        be 32 bits, some test cases were changed to ensure that an integer
        constant was no bigger than 2 ** 31.

        process_opfunc.pl was also cleaned up to no longer look at either
        opcode_table or interp_guts.h but gather all of its information
        from Opcode.pm.

        The Assembler.pm module was changed to do late binding of arguments
        so that 0 could be treated like 0.0 without having to be so
        declared.  Also, only strings now use the [sc:N] intermediate form
        as it was unnecessary for integer and float types.

2001-10-05 21:59  gregor

        * MANIFEST, languages/jako/Makefile:
        Fixed things due to the movement of little_languages/* to
        languages/jako.

2001-10-05 18:31  gregor

        * MANIFEST:
        Updated MANIFEST to reflect recent additions for Jako.

2001-10-05 17:54  gregor

        * languages/jako/: Makefile, bench.jako, euclid.jako, fact.jako,
        fib.jako, hello.jako, jakoc, leibniz.jako, mandelbrot.jako,
        mops.jako, primes.jako, sub.jako:
          * Compiler:

              * User-defined subroutines.
              * Generates assembly code with the Jako code in comments.
              * "end;" no longer required at the end of programs.
              * Better handling of const-reg and reg-const.
              * Optimizes const-const operations to compile-time
        evaluations.
              * Constants in addition to variables.
              * Arithmetic fixes.
              * Allow leading minus signs in integer and number constants
        (ahem).
              * goto's.

          * New sample programs:

              * leibniz.jako (based on Greg McCarroll's leibniz.pasm
        example)
              * mandelbrot.jako (based on Leon Brocard's translation of
        Glenn Rhodes' C code)
              * mops.jako (based on t/test.pasm)
              * primes.jako (based on Leon Brocard's primes.pasm example)
              * sub.jako (demonstrates a simple user-defined subroutine)

2001-10-05 12:54  gregor

        * Parrot/Opcode.pm, lib/Parrot/Opcode.pm:
          * Removed mysterious extra copy of code after POD.

2001-10-05 12:46  gregor

        * basic_opcodes.ops, t/op/string.t:
          * Enabled the previously SKIPped test of printing string regs
        after
            clear_s

          * Made print_s do nothing if the STRING pointer in the register
        file
            is NULL.

2001-10-04 21:19  dan

        * Configure.pl: VMS tweaks

2001-10-04 21:17  dan

        * hints/vms.pl: Hints file for VMS

2001-10-04 00:58  bdwheele

        * Parrot/Assembler.pm, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm: fixed but in
        Assembler which stopped equates from working.

2001-10-03 21:50  gregor

        * Makefile.in, docs/.cvsignore, docs/Makefile, docs/parrotbyte.pod:

          * More documentation updates for the packfile stuff.

2001-10-03 21:37  gregor

        * docs/parrotbyte.pod:
          * Pointed the reader at Parrot::PackFile.

2001-10-03 21:34  gregor

        * Parrot/PackFile.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile.pm:
          * Updated documentation to match current implementation.

2001-10-03 18:30  gregor

        * .cvsignore, disassemble.pl, Parrot/Assembler.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm, t/call.pasm, t/euclid.pasm,
        t/local_label.pasm, t/test.pasm, t/test2.pasm, t/test3.pasm,
        t/op/basic.t:
          * Added new syntax to the assembler to allow square-bracket
            arithmetic expressions involving (global) labels, the current
            instructions base address ('@'), numeric constants (not
        equates)
            and basic arithmetic operators (+, -, *, / -- although + and -
            are likely to be the only ones used in practice).

          * Fixed a bug in Parrot/Assemble.pl that caused macro expansion
        to
            fail (argument passing wasn't working).

          * Enabled t/op/basic.t's last test, which is actually a copy of
        the
            code from t/call.pasm. Now all tests there are enabled and
        working.

          * Added new example/test program t/call.pasm to demonstrate
        working
            macros and poor-man's subroutine calls

          * Added header comments to t/*.pasm

2001-10-03 18:00  simon

        * ChangeLog:
        Needed, since it's in the MANIFEST.

2001-10-03 17:56  simon

        * t/op/: string.t, time.t:
        Small fixes to help Win32 on its way.

2001-10-03 17:41  simon

        * MANIFEST, README:
        Oops. Tiny bugs.

2001-10-03 17:39  simon

        * MANIFEST, NEWS, README:
        README, NEWS and MANIFEST? Could it be time for Parrot 0.0.2? I
        think so!

2001-10-03 17:21  simon

        * basic_opcodes.ops, interpreter.c, packfile.c:
        Evil printf bandaid (which allows Sparc64 to pass tests)

        Courtesy of: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>

2001-10-03 16:58  simon

        * string.c, t/op/string.t:
        chop fixes for n < 0 and tests

        Courtesy of: Alex Gough <alex@rcon.org>

2001-10-03 15:51  thgibbs

        * interpreter.c: Changed an occurrence of INTVAL to opcode_t

        Courtesy of: Bryan C. Warnock <bwarnock@raba.com>

2001-10-02 17:48  dan

        * include/parrot/stacks.h: Fix typo in function name

2001-10-02 17:35  dan

        * include/parrot/stacks.h: changed to support new stack stuff
        coming after 0.02

2001-10-02 15:01  simon

        * Configure.pl, Types_pm.in, basic_opcodes.ops, config_h.in,
        interpreter.c, make_op_header.pl, memory.c, packfile.c,
        process_opfunc.pl, register.c, string.c, strnative.c,
        Parrot/Opcode.pm, Parrot/PackFile.pm, Parrot/String.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Opcode.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile.pm, lib/Parrot/String.pm,
        Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm, Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm,
        docs/overview.pod, docs/strings.pod, include/parrot/interpreter.h,
        include/parrot/memory.h, include/parrot/packfile.h,
        include/parrot/parrot.h, include/parrot/register.h,
        include/parrot/stacks.h, include/parrot/string.h,
        lib/Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm:

        The Great Renaming.

2001-10-02 12:49  gregor

        * process_opfunc.pl:
          * Fixed a tyop:  s/string/integer/ for INT_CONST expansion

2001-10-02 12:40  simon

        * basic_opcodes.ops, process_opfunc.pl, register.c,
        include/parrot/register.h:
        Move preprocessing of register accessors to process_opfunc.pl

        Courtesy of: Jason Gloudon <perl@gloudon.com>

2001-10-02 01:20  ask

        * README: add a few lines about lists.

2001-10-01 23:00  brentdax

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in, hints/mswin32.pl: Make 'make clean'
        work on Win32 (courtesy of Mattia Barbon <mbarbon@dsi.unive.it>)

2001-10-01 22:50  brentdax

        * Configure.pl, test_c.in: More changes for 64-bit compatibility

2001-10-01 21:51  simon

        * process_opfunc.pl:
        Michael Fischer's patch broke conditionals.

2001-10-01 15:38  simon

        * process_opfunc.pl:
        Small hack to keep process_opfunc.pl from generating extra return()
        statements.

        Courtesy of: Michael Fischer <michael@visv.net>

2001-10-01 15:32  simon

        * Parrot/Opcode.pm, lib/Parrot/Opcode.pm:
        Documentation fix.

        Courtesy of: Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2001-10-01 01:49  simon

        * packfile.c:
        Simon is an idiot. Don't trust him with your code.

        Courtesy of: Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs <Tanton.Gibbs@acxiom.com>

2001-10-01 00:59  simon

        * Parrot/String.pm, lib/Parrot/String.pm:
        Was in manifest, but not in CVS.

2001-09-30 21:25  simon

        * MANIFEST, Types_pm.in, assemble.pl, basic_opcodes.ops,
        disassemble.pl, packfile.c, pdump.c, process_opfunc.pl,
        Parrot/Assembler.pm, Parrot/PackFile.pm,
        Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm, Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm,
        Parrot/PackFile/FixupTable.pm, lib/Parrot/Assembler.pm,
        lib/Parrot/PackFile.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm,
        lib/Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile/FixupTable.pm,
        include/parrot/packfile.h, include/parrot/string.h:
        Move NVs to the constant table.    * Changes to Types_pm.in to make
        life easier for some of the      packing/etc. I'm doing elsewhere.
        Also, we now pack 'n' as      'i'.

          * Moved the guts of assemble.pl to Parrot/Assembler.pm so that
            eventually we can use all these tools together inside scripts
            rather than call out to the shell to run the programs.

          * As I was tracking down problems, I converted the internal
            documentation of the assembler to POD from comments.

          * Changed the numeric regexp in the assembler to detect leading
            signs and trailing exponents.

          * Updated basic_opcodes.ops to fetch numeric constants from the
            constant table.

          * Enhanced the disassembler in a number of ways to make my life
            easier while tracking down bugs (try it out). It now puts in
            labels for ops that are the destinations of flow control ops.

          * packfile.c now has a TRACE_PACKFILE switch that can be set
            to get it to print info as it processes. I needed this while
            debugging, but I can remove it or change it before committing
            if its a problem.

          * Updated pdump.c because it was missing a call to init_world().

          * Updated process_opfunc.pl to deal with numeric constants
            being stored in the constant table instead of inline.

          * Added multiple type support to Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm

          * Added Parrot/String.pm, to be used for constants.

          * Added packfile.[hc] functions for allocating new constants
            of various types.

          * Made string_copy visible to the world in parrot/string.h.

        Wow.

        Courtesy of: Gregor N. Purdy <gregor@focusresearch.com>

2001-09-29 15:56  gregor

        * languages/jako/Makefile:
        Removed assumption that '.' is on the path.

2001-09-29 15:55  gregor

        * languages/jako/Makefile:
        Removed references to leibnitz test program.

2001-09-29 15:21  thgibbs

        * t/op/trans.t, basic_opcodes.ops: Added NV casts to transcendental
        math ops args to work on Solaris.

2001-09-27 15:15  thgibbs

        * assemble.pl: Added case insensitive matches to hex and binary
        characters

        Courtesy of: Johnathan Scott Duff <duff@cbi.tamucc.edu>

2001-09-27 04:46  thgibbs

        * assemble.pl: This patch makes integer constants of the form
        0b[01]+ work with perl 5.005.  The oct function in versions of perl
        before 5.6 did not handle the 0b numeric prefix; therefore, it was
        returning 0.  To fix this, I added a from_binary function that
        would take a binary string and return its decimal representation.
        Now, instead of blindly calilng oct, it makes a distinction between
        0/0x numbers and 0b numbers.

2001-09-26 19:30  thgibbs

        * assemble.pl: Error now returns a non-zero status

        Courtesy of: Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>

2001-09-26 19:13  gregor

        * MANIFEST, Makefile.in, basic_opcodes.ops, bytecode.c,
        interpreter.c, packfile.c, pdump.c, test_main.c,
        include/parrot/bytecode.h, include/parrot/interpreter.h,
        include/parrot/packfile.h, include/parrot/parrot.h, t/op/integer.t,
        t/op/stacks.t:
          * bytecode.[hc] removed. packfile.[hc] are the interface to the
            packfile/bytecode file from C. May be renamed in the future.

          * packfile.[hc] changed to use 'struct PackFile *', etc. instead
            of 'PackFile *', just like the interpreter, etc.

          * Constants are accessed via the interpreter's 'code' member
            (struct PackFile * code). Macros PCONST(i) and PNCONST are
            provided to access constants by index and the number of
            constants, respectively (assumes a variable 'interpreter' of
            the appropriate type is in scope).

          * Byte Code is accessed via the interpreter's 'code' member.

          * Changed PackFile_Constant to point to a STRING instead of
        having
            members for the string_make() arguments. Also has a 'type' IV
            in preparation for allowing multiple types of constants in
            const_table.

          * Removed hardcoded example program from test_main.c. We have
            plenty of test programs elsewhere.

          * test_prog now uses a PackFile to deal with the program before
            sending it on to the interpreter.

          * Added missing 'end' ops to some tests in t/op/integer.t and
            t/op/stacks.t.

2001-09-26 18:38  thgibbs

        * assemble.pl: Separated code into functions and added comments.

2001-09-26 18:29  simon

        * config_h.in:
        Fix 64-bit chunk-base issue.

2001-09-26 06:55  thgibbs

        * t/op/bitwise.t: Added end to bitwise tests.

2001-09-26 00:54  dan

        * docs/parrot_assembly.pod: Added in the base for threading, I/O,
        and interpreter creation. Skeleton only, but it's something to peer
        at.

2001-09-25 21:44  thgibbs

        * t/op/trans.t: Removed loops in transcendtal op test.

2001-09-25 10:12  simon

        * MANIFEST, t/op/basic.t, t/op/bitwise.t, t/op/integer.t,
        t/op/string.t, t/op/time.t:
        More tests

        Courtesy of: Alex Gough <alex@rcon.org>

2001-09-24 19:08  gregor

        * t/op/number.t:
          * Enabled the clear_n test.

2001-09-24 18:56  gregor

        * Parrot/.cvsignore:
          * Ignore the generated Types.pm file.

2001-09-24 18:52  gregor

        * languages/jako/Makefile, t/op/number.t:
          * No need to skip the inc and dec numeric tests anymore. I fixed
        the
            assembler earlier today.

2001-09-24 18:21  simon

        * MANIFEST, t/op/stacks.t:
        Oops.

2001-09-24 18:19  simon

        * build_interp_starter.pl, interpreter.c, string.c, Parrot/Test.pm,
        include/parrot/exceptions.h, include/parrot/interpreter.h,
        lib/Parrot/Test.pm, t/op/string.t:
        1) captured error output, so can test errors, this might be bad,
        not sure.  2) basic tests for register stack frames, including some
        errors 3) I think we can stop skipping one of the string tests 4) I
        added some more substr tests, but substr was broken, so 5) changed
        substr to work with out of range values, or 6) throw an error if
        they're far too silly

        Courtesy of: Alex Gough <alex@rcon.org>

2001-09-24 17:27  gregor

        * basic_opcodes.ops, opcode_table, t/op/number.t:
          * Op set_n was missing. Added it and a test for it. We now have
        the
            same int and num ops, except mod is int-only.

2001-09-24 17:01  gregor

        * assemble.pl:
          * Fixed a typo: s/Line/line/

2001-09-24 16:02  gregor

        * basic_opcodes.ops:
          * Fixed dec_n_nc opcode, which had += where it should have had
        -=.

2001-09-24 15:34  gregor

        * assemble.pl:
          * Fixed handling of constants starting with '0' that should not
        be
            sent through oct(). For example 'set N2 0.1' was being
        interpreted
            as 'set N2 0' (naughty).

            As reported by Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com> in the comments
        of
            his mandelbrot.pasm example.

2001-09-24 02:21  bdwheele

        * assemble.pl: fixed dumb code when --include was not specified.

2001-09-24 02:17  simon

        * assemble.pl:
        Shit-sweeping.

2001-09-24 01:56  bdwheele

        * assemble.pl: * Added --include=dir option to assembler to provide
        a path to look for included files.  * Error message of a macro is
        defined inside of a macro

2001-09-23 21:29  bdwheele

        * assemble.pl: Added __FILE__ equate, fixed __LINE__ equate.

2001-09-23 15:50  simon

        * Configure.pl:
        Fixed typo. Parrot might work again on non-8.3 filesystems. :)

2001-09-23 02:03  ask

        * Configure.pl, test_c.in: fix missing newline at the end of test.c
        Courtesy of: acme@astray.com (Leon Brocard)

        rename 'test' executable used in Configure process to test_siz.

2001-09-23 01:03  simon

        * process_opfunc.pl:
        iPaq fix. No, really.

2001-09-23 00:47  simon

        * MANIFEST:
        Missed several, in fact.

2001-09-23 00:46  simon

        * MANIFEST:
        Missed one.

2001-09-22 21:13  simon

        * assemble.pl:
        Assembler register numbering rigour.

        Courtesy of: Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>

2001-09-22 18:20  simon

        * Makefile.in, lib/Test/More.pm, lib/Test/Simple.pm,
        lib/Test/Utils.pm:
        I'm sick of having to install Test::More everywhere. Temporary
        measure until we remove this silly dependency.

        Also a typo in Makefile.in which suggests some things were only
        happening correctly by sheer chance. :)

2001-09-22 18:06  simon

        * README:
        test.pasm is dead, long like make test.

2001-09-22 17:47  simon

        * t/op/number.t:
        De-fang overzealous floating point test.

2001-09-22 17:39  simon

        * process_opfunc.pl:
        Remove hard-coded NV size assumption. Tru64 is nearly there!

2001-09-22 17:18  simon

        * assemble.pl, disassemble.pl:
        More portability fixups.

2001-09-22 16:44  simon

        * assemble.pl, Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm,
        lib/Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm:
        And I *think* this fixes Tru64.

2001-09-22 16:37  simon

        * Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm:

        Oops.

2001-09-22 16:36  simon

        * Parrot/PackFile.pm, Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm,
        Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile.pm,
        lib/Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm:

        More removal of hard-coded pack formats.

2001-09-22 15:21  simon

        * assemble.pl:

        Grrr. Why isn't this working?

2001-09-22 15:18  simon

        * Parrot/PackFile.pm, Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm,
        lib/Parrot/PackFile.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm:

        Make assemble use the PackFile modules; also fixed some bugs in
        them.

2001-09-22 14:38  simon

        * Configure.pl, MANIFEST, Types_pm.in, assemble.pl, disassemble.pl:

        Abstract the argument and opcode packing types and functions out
        into a separate module. This *should* help us maintain consistency
        when we change the various types.

2001-09-22 00:46  brentdax

        * Configure.pl: Delete test.o (or its equivalent) after Configure's
        test program finishes.

2001-09-21 21:24  brentdax

        * Parrot/Test.pm, lib/Parrot/Test.pm: Fix error with \ as path
        separator (courtesy of Mattia Barbon <mbarbon@dsi.unive.it>)

2001-09-21 21:09  gregor

        * Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm, Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm,
        lib/Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm:

          * Fixed pad calculation (similar to recent bug fix on C library)

2001-09-21 20:23  simon

        * disassemble.pl:
        Pack types and sizes have gone askew.

2001-09-21 20:18  brentdax

        * Configure.pl: Fix typo in setting stuff from the C test program

2001-09-21 10:25  simon

        * basic_opcodes.ops, process_opfunc.pl:
        Document patches.

        Courtesy of: Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>

2001-09-21 06:06  ask

        * Config_pm.in, assemble.pl: fix 5.005_03.

2001-09-21 06:03  ask

        * Configure.pl: make the ivsize detection work for us normal people
        without . in our PATH.  :-)

2001-09-21 05:56  brentdax

        * test_main.c: Change _read to read for portability to Tru64
        (Damien Neil <neild@misago.org> and likely many others)

2001-09-21 05:46  ask

        * Makefile.in: "update" target to update from cvs.

2001-09-21 05:44  brentdax

        * Configure.pl, test_c.in: Fix issues with ivsize and nvsize

2001-09-21 02:43  brentdax

        * Configure.pl: Fix a typo that forced the -g flag on

2001-09-20 22:41  dan

        * packfile.c: Had some no-value returns. Naughty

2001-09-20 22:40  dan

        * t/test.pasm: Added labels to output

2001-09-20 15:39  simon

        * Parrot/Opcode.pm, Parrot/Test.pm, lib/Parrot/Opcode.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Test.pm:
        This patch does two only somewhat related things.

        Parrot/Opcode.pm:  Change the hard-wired assumption that sizeof(nv)
        = 2*sizeof(iv) to a PConfig-type computed value.

        Parrot/Test.pm:  Change it to run with the perl that was used to
        generate this version of Parrot.  This is useful if, for example,
        you want to use bleadperl to build and test parrot (e.g. to try out
        various 64-bit options) but you still have a 5.6.x (or 5.005_xx)
        installed as the default 'perl' on your system.  Since perl-5.7.x
        is installed 'version-only', a plain 'perl' is quite likely to pick
        up the older perl in such cases. Such an older perl might well not
        understand pack('q') used in the assembler.

        Courtesy of: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>

2001-09-20 15:14  gregor

        * packfile.c:
          * Fixed a typo in pad calculation that throwing off unpack and
        pack.

2001-09-20 15:03  thgibbs

        * t/op/integer.t: Removed overflow tests from integer.t.  set_i_ic
        tests now cover all registers.

        Courtesy of: Damien Neil neild@misago.org

2001-09-20 14:48  thgibbs

        * process_opfunc.pl: Changed process_opfunc.pl to work on 64 bit
        machines.

2001-09-20 14:35  simon

        * Configure.pl, assemble.pl:
        Pack IVs correctly.

        Courtesy of: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>

2001-09-20 14:06  gregor

        * languages/jako/jakoc:
          * Fixed a tyop in the string interpolation regex.

        Courtesy of Michael L Maraist <maraist@UDel.Edu>

2001-09-20 13:56  gregor

        * languages/jako/jakoc:
          * Updated jakoc to work with the single-destination comp ops.

2001-09-20 05:08  bdwheele

        * assemble.pl: macro expansion.  Here's the test macro I was using:

        # this uses I32,I31 as temporaries.  # macro must be preceeded by a
        label.  testi       macro   num,got,want    print   "Test #"
        print   num     print   "..."   set     I32,want        set
        I31,got         eq      I32,I31,$ok     print   "NG\n"  branch
        $end $ok:       print   "OK\n" $end:    endm

        It is invoked as:

        Test1:  testi   1,I3,I2

2001-09-20 03:52  dan

        * stacks.c, include/parrot/stacks.h: Preliminary files for the
        generic stack support

2001-09-20 02:49  bdwheele

        * assemble.pl: Added include processing to assemble.pl  the syntax
        is: include 'file.to.include'

2001-09-19 23:57  thgibbs

        * t/op/integer.t, t/op/number.t, assemble.pl, opcode_table: Fixed
        opcode_table listing of if_i_ic and if_n_ic.  Dan had changed the
        function to only use 2 args, but the opcode_table still had three
        listed.  Fixed integer.t and number.t to use the new comparison
        operators.  Improved assemble.pl ability to grok operators by
        constructing a function set and comparing operator types.

2001-09-19 22:42  dan

        * assemble.pl: Binmodes the output filehandles now. (No more
        bytecode munching...)

2001-09-19 22:32  dan

        * Configure.pl, basic_opcodes.ops, opcode_table, process_opfunc.pl,
        t/euclid.pasm, t/test.pasm, t/test2.pasm: Changed opcodes so
        conditional branches take a single argument, and fall through
        otherwise.

2001-09-19 21:19  thgibbs

        * memory.c: Added explanation of mem_allocate_aligned give by Dan
        Sugalski

        Courtesy of: Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>

2001-09-19 21:04  thgibbs

        * include/parrot/interpreter.h, Configure.pl,
        build_interp_starter.pl, bytecode.c, config_h.in, interpreter.c,
        process_opfunc.pl: Changed opcode_t from a union to a configurable
        type.

2001-09-19 20:54  thgibbs

        * assemble.pl: Missed a couple of changes for 64 bit portability.

2001-09-19 20:37  gregor

        * packfile.c, include/parrot/packfile.h:
          * Added "methods" for setting and getting all the various
        attributes,
            probably sufficient for an assembler to use the library.

2001-09-19 20:04  thgibbs

        * assemble.pl: Modifications to run on 64 bit platforms.  To run on
        a 64 bit platform manually change the  setting for 'i' from 'l' to
        'q'.  This should be automatically done by a Configure setting in
        the near future.

2001-09-19 19:10  thgibbs

        * config_h.in: changed c++ comment to c comment.

        Courtesy of: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>

2001-09-19 17:48  gregor

        * .cvsignore, MANIFEST, Makefile.in, packfile.c, pdump.c,
        include/parrot/packfile.h:
          * C code for dealing with PackFiles as if they were objects.
        Mostly
            read-only interface for now, but it would not be hard to make
        it
            read-write. [packfile.c, include/parrot/packfile.h]

          * PackFile Dumping program that falls short of disassembling, but
            tests the above code and provides a hex listing of the byte
        code
            contents of the PackFile. [pdump.c]

          * New Makefile target 'pdump' for the above program, and related
            Makefile.in changes.

          * Updated MANIFEST to reflect the added files

          * Update .cvsignore to ignore pdump.

2001-09-19 14:55  thgibbs

        * MANIFEST: Added number.t and trans.t to MANIFEST

2001-09-19 05:40  thgibbs

        * process_opfunc.pl: Now taking & of opcode_t instead of i member
        of union opcode_t.  I hope this will be more portable for set_n_nc.

2001-09-19 05:39  thgibbs

        * t/op/integer.t: Added end to test 1.

2001-09-19 00:09  thgibbs

        * t/op/number.t: Added end to each test

2001-09-19 00:00  simon

        * t/op/number.t:
        Number tests! Wooo!

        Courtesy of: Damien Neil <neild@misago.org>

2001-09-18 23:52  thgibbs

        * interpreter.c: Added casts to appropriate types to make -Wall not
        complain on certain printf formats

2001-09-18 23:31  thgibbs

        * t/op/integer.t: Added end to each test.

2001-09-18 22:54  thgibbs

        * t/op/trans.t: Added trans.t for transcendental math function
        tests.

2001-09-18 22:28  simon

        * MANIFEST:
        MANIFEST updates. (And notice how I carefully snuck in the
        t/op/integer.t there...)

        Courtesy of: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>

2001-09-18 22:26  simon

        * t/: integer.t, op/integer.t:
        Except it doesn't go there. Duh.

2001-09-18 22:25  simon

        * t/integer.t:
        Tests for integer ops.

        Courtesy of: Damien Neil <neild@misago.org>

2001-09-18 22:03  thgibbs

        * include/parrot/bytecode.h, include/parrot/interpreter.h,
        build_interp_starter.pl, bytecode.c, config_h.in, interpreter.c,
        make_op_header.pl, process_opfunc.pl, test_main.c: Changed IV to
        opcode_t union for operators.  This required a few perl script
        changes to output the correct type.  There were also some changes
        to allow -pedantic in gcc

2001-09-18 21:07  gregor

        * disassemble.pl, Parrot/PackFile.pm,
        Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm, Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm,
        lib/Parrot/PackFile.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm,
        lib/Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm:
        Converted the disassembler to use the Parrot::PackFile Perl classes
        to do its job.

2001-09-18 19:18  brentdax

        * Makefile.in: Fix missing functions for real this time.  (I
        swear!)

2001-09-18 18:49  brentdax

        * Configure.pl: Remove unnecessary -I.. (courtesy of Andy Dougherty
        <doughera@lafayette.edu>}

2001-09-18 18:47  brentdax

        * Makefile.in: Fix bugs with missing math, etc. functions

2001-09-18 14:42  thgibbs

        * strnative.c: Sorry Simon...forgot bustart was a void* not a
        char*.

2001-09-18 13:59  thgibbs

        * strnative.c: Removed unnecessary IV cast in concat.

2001-09-18 13:58  thgibbs

        * t/op/string.t: Removed unnecessary IV cast in concat.  Added end
        to concat test in string.t

2001-09-18 12:07  gregor

        * languages/jako/jakoc:
          * var num ... no longer requires assignment
          * automatic casting between int and num
          * Fixed an error message

        Courtesy of: Simon Cozens <simon@cvs.perl.org>

2001-09-18 11:57  simon

        * TODO:
        Gonna have to start thinking of more things to do, soon.

2001-09-18 10:42  simon

        * opcode_table:
        Introduce a little more tidiness into the opcode table.

2001-09-18 03:06  gregor

        * basic_opcodes.ops, opcode_table, t/euclid.pasm:
        Resurrected register-const ops per Dan's request.

2001-09-18 02:20  gregor

        * .cvsignore, Configure.pl, MANIFEST, Makefile.in,
        build_interp_starter.pl, bytecode.h, events.h, exceptions.h,
        global_setup.h, interpreter.h, io.h, memory.h, parrot.h,
        process_opfunc.pl, register.h, stacks.h, string.h, strnative.h:
        Committed some files that were missed in the last *.h moving
        commit.

2001-09-18 02:17  gregor

        * include/parrot/.cvsignore: Fixed a typo in .cvsignore.

2001-09-18 02:16  gregor

        * include/parrot/: .cvsignore, bytecode.h, events.h, exceptions.h,
        global_setup.h, interpreter.h, io.h, memory.h, parrot.h,
        register.h, stacks.h, string.h, strnative.h: Added .cvsignore file
        missed in last commit for the move of *.h to include/parrot.

2001-09-18 01:32  simon

        * t/Makefile:
        Trivial "clean" target to t/Makefile.

2001-09-18 01:32  simon

        * assemble.pl, build_interp_starter.pl, disassemble.pl,
        Parrot/Opcode.pm, lib/Parrot/Opcode.pm:
        Change icky Digest::MD5 for nice simple unpack()

        Courtesy of: Jonathan Scott Duff <duff@cbi.tamucc.edu>

2001-09-18 00:35  simon

        * basic_opcodes.ops, opcode_table, docs/parrot_assembly.pod,
        t/op/string.t:
        New concat op. Hey, if I'm going to talk about it in an article,
        better implement it...

2001-09-17 22:54  gregor

        * MANIFEST, Parrot/PackFile.pm, Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm,
        Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm, Parrot/PackFile/FixupTable.pm,
        lib/Parrot/PackFile.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile/ConstTable.pm,
        lib/Parrot/PackFile/Constant.pm, lib/Parrot/PackFile/FixupTable.pm:

        Functions for reading, writing and manipulating Parrot Pack Files.
        NOTE: This is a proposed term based on the fact that the file
        contains more than just byte code, and another language (Java)
        calls its binary files by a broader notion of what's in them (Class
        Files). Since Perl has packages, and since we use pack() to write
        them, we'll call them PackFiles (at least for now).

        That does, however, beg the question of file extension. Should we
        name the files "foo.pack" instead of "foo.pbc"?

2001-09-17 20:23  thgibbs

        * interpreter.c, test_main.c: Uncuddled else statements for coding
        standard.

2001-09-17 19:57  gregor

        * Parrot/Opcode.pm, lib/Parrot/Opcode.pm:
        Added a $revision variable, parsing of the CVS Id line in
        opcode_table and a &revision() subroutine.

2001-09-17 19:53  gregor

        * opcode_table:
        Added a CVS Id tag to it.

2001-09-17 18:58  thgibbs

        * interpreter.c: Cleared interpreter flags on creation.

2001-09-17 18:38  gregor

        * build_interp_starter.pl, bytecode.c, bytecode.h, interpreter.c,
        interpreter.h, test_main.c:
          * Provides macros in interp_guts.h for setting up arrays with
            op names and op arg counts (done via build_interp_starter.pl).

            These are used in the op tracing

          * The functions in bytecode.[hc] pass around a pointer to the
        length
            of the bytecode so that later when we get to runops, we know
            how much bytecode we've got and we can detect out-of-bounds
            jumping. The documentation is updated, too.

          * runops in interpreter.c now looks at interpreter->flags to
            decide if the core of runops should be runops_trace_core or
            runops_notrace_core. These new functions contain just the
            while-loop portion of runops. A new function runops_generic
            does any other setup (such as checking the bytecode
            fingerprint) or wrapup (such as complaining if we ended up
            out-of-bounds). NOTE: I didn't know what we should do for
            functions in here that are not part of the api, so I gave
            them docs with 'TODO' marks mentioning they really aren't
            part of the api. Guidance appreciated.

          * test_main.c now checks for '-t' arg and sets the tracing flag
            on its interpreter instance as appropriate.

2001-09-17 17:47  bdwheele

        * assemble.pl: added some default equates, and if they're sub
        references, they are computed each time it is referenced.

2001-09-17 16:15  dan

        * interpreter.h:

        Added flags to the interpreter structure and defined a few.

2001-09-17 15:51  simon

        * bytecode.h, string.h:
        VAR_SCOPE on globals.

2001-09-17 15:20  simon

        * MANIFEST:
        Parrot/Opcode.pm, Parrot/Test.pm into MANIFEST.

2001-09-17 15:05  gregor

        * t/jump.pasm, MANIFEST:
        Added a test program to demonstrate jump_i.

2001-09-17 14:44  thgibbs

        * register.c: Fixed register pop not using correct offset (off by
        one).

        Courtesy of: Philip Kendall <pak@ast.cam.ac.uk>

2001-09-17 13:56  thgibbs

        * interpreter.c, register.c: Added code to call Parrot_clear_s
        during initialization and Parrot_clear_s and Parrot_clear_p when a
        new stack frame is pushed.

2001-09-17 13:51  gregor

        * languages/jako/: Makefile, bench.jako, euclid.jako, fact.jako,
        fib.jako, hello.jako: Added bench.pasm to "clean"

2001-09-17 13:49  gregor

        * languages/jako/: jakoc, Makefile:
        Added CVS Id tag.

2001-09-17 13:49  gregor

        * languages/jako/jakoc:
        Code streamlining.

        Courtesy of: Buggs <buggs-perl6@splashground.de>

2001-09-17 13:29  gregor

        * MANIFEST, opcheck.pl:
        Added an opcode_table checker to make sure that all opcodes listed
        there conform to a simple set of naming rules (rules themselves, of
        course, are subject to change).

2001-09-17 13:23  thgibbs

        * string.c: Modified string.c to correctly use the return value of
        realloc.

2001-09-17 05:26  brentdax

        * Makefile.in: Making the Makefile smarter

2001-09-16 23:06  brentdax

        * hints/mswin32.pl: Finishing the Configure hints

2001-09-16 23:05  brentdax

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in, parrot.h, test_main.c,
        Parrot/Opcode.pm, lib/Parrot/Opcode.pm: Win32 compatibility,
        Configure hints, 5.005 compatibility, MANIFEST checking

2001-09-16 19:25  bdwheele

        * assemble.pl: parrot assembly equates

2001-09-16 18:03  gregor

        * Makefile.in:
        Added 'test' target to run new test suite.

2001-09-16 17:33  simon

        * basic_opcodes.ops:
        'not' was being !, rather than ~. Too many Perl programmers here, I
        suspect.

        Courtesy of: Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>

2001-09-16 17:21  simon

        * Parrot/Test.pm, lib/Parrot/Test.pm, t/harness, t/op/basic.t,
        t/op/string.t:
        A *real* test suite!

        Courtesy of: "Mattia Barbon" <mbarbon@dsi.unive.it>

2001-09-16 16:49  gregor

        * basic_opcodes.ops, opcode_table:
        At Dan's request, my new register-constant comparison ops have been
        removed.

2001-09-16 16:40  gregor

        * languages/jako/jakoc:
        Fixed a copy-paste error in one of jakoc's error messages.

        Courtesy of: Buggs <buggs-perl6-list@splashground.de>

2001-09-16 16:37  gregor

        * languages/jako/jakoc:
        Modified comparison implementation to use temporary registers in
        the case of register-constant and constant-register comparisons.
        This will allow the compiler to emit code that works when the
        constant-comparison ops are backed out of Parrot. If the ops ever
        make their way back in, then jakoc can emit more efficient code
        again.

2001-09-16 16:19  bdwheele

        * assemble.pl, t/local_label.pasm: Added local labels ($whatever)
        ... though not subroutine based like the documentation wants, they
        are local to the last non-local label defined.

2001-09-16 14:02  simon

        * MANIFEST:
        And remember, when you add stuff, keep the manifest up to date.

2001-09-16 02:55  ask

        * Makefile.in: a "shared" target for building libparrot.so

2001-09-16 02:45  thgibbs

        * bytecode.c, bytecode.h, events.h, exceptions.h, global_setup.c,
        global_setup.h, interpreter.c, interpreter.h, io.h,
        make_op_header.pl, memory.c, memory.h, parrot.c, parrot.h,
        process_opfunc.pl, register.c, register.h, stacks.h, string.c,
        string.h, strnative.c, strnative.h, test_main.c: Updated files to
        use the coding standard PDD.  Also changed Perl_Interp to
        Parrot_Interp.

2001-09-16 02:21  ask

        * README: emphasise the bits about the license not being worked out
        yet.

2001-09-15 22:21  simon

        * process_opfunc.pl:
        basic_opcodes.c should *scream* that it's autogenerated.

2001-09-15 21:58  gregor

        * languages/jako/Makefile:
        Fixed Makefile to use 'jakoc' instead of 'jako_compiler.pl' to
        compile.

2001-09-15 21:58  gregor

        * languages/jako/: jako_compiler.pl, jakoc:
        Renamed the Jako compiler to jakoc from jako_compiler.pl

2001-09-15 21:51  gregor

        * languages/jako/: Makefile, bench.jako, euclid.jako,
        jako_compiler.pl:
        Added a new bench.jako example based on Leon Brocard's Bench.java.

        Jako Compiler:   * fix a bug in assignment handling   * add some
        more conditionals to while and if   * revert to using implicit
        opcodes in a few cases that were broken     before the assembler
        patch went in recently.

2001-09-15 21:46  gregor

        * assemble.pl, basic_opcodes.ops, opcode_table:
        New ops for register-constant INTEGER comparisons:

          {eq,ne,lt,le,gt,ge}_ic_ic

        New ops for register-register and register-constant NUMERIC
        comparisons:

          eq_nc_ic
          {ne,lt,le,gt,ge}_{n,nc}_ic

        Assembler:

          Allow uppercase and underscores in labels.

          Tweaks to the op infer code to make it work with the examples
        I've been
          creating.

2001-09-15 19:16  thgibbs

        * README: Updated README to include Configure.pl

2001-09-15 17:05  simon

        * build_interp_starter.pl:
        Casting happiness

        Courtesy of: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>

2001-09-15 16:45  simon

        * assemble.pl:
        And the same again: Parrot/Opcode.pm wasn't "..-aware".

2001-09-15 16:40  simon

        * t/Makefile:
        The Parrot/Opcode.pm dependency means we need to do -I.. in the
        test Makefile

2001-09-15 12:26  simon

        * memory.c:
        Fixed to match the coding standards.

        Courtesy of: Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs <Tanton.Gibbs@acxiom.com>

2001-09-15 01:57  ask

        * Configure.pl, Makefile.in, Parrot/Opcode.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Opcode.pm: make the Makefile use the perl that was used
        to run Configure.pl

2001-09-15 01:48  ask

        * Parrot/Opcode.pm, lib/Parrot/Opcode.pm: if we need perl 5.6, just
        say so. :-)

2001-09-15 01:42  gregor

        * languages/jako/: euclid.jako, fact.jako, fib.jako,
        jako_compiler.pl:
        Compiler: Added variable interpolation in double-quoted strings.
        Examples: Made use of variable interpolation.

2001-09-15 01:28  gregor

        * Parrot/.cvsignore:
        Ignore the Config.pm generated file.

2001-09-15 01:22  gregor

        * languages/jako/: .cvsignore, Makefile, euclid.jako, fact.jako,
        fib.jako, hello.jako, jako_compiler.pl:
        gnp: Added some more sample Jako files and added many more
        operators to the compiler. Preparations for supporting all the Math
        and bitwise ops.

2001-09-14 19:06  simon

        * assemble.pl, build_interp_starter.pl, disassemble.pl,
        make_op_header.pl, process_opfunc.pl, Parrot/Opcode.pm,
        lib/Parrot/Opcode.pm:
        Move common table reading stuff to a module.

        Courtesy of: Damien Neil <neild@misago.org>

2001-09-14 17:42  simon

        * .cvsignore:
        More .cvsignore foo.

2001-09-14 17:40  simon

        * assemble.pl, config_h.in:
        De-coredump

        Courtesy of: Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs <Tanton.Gibbs@acxiom.com>

2001-09-14 17:38  simon

        * assemble.pl, t/Makefile:
        Make assemble.pl look in its parent directory if the data files it
        needs aren't in the current one. Plus a Makefile that lets "make
        foo.pbc" work in t/

        Courtesy of: Rocco Caputo <troc@netrus.net>

2001-09-14 16:29  simon

        * make_op_header.pl:
        Wildly experimental patch to make Parrot compile on FreeBSD. (And
        probably segfault everywhere else.)

2001-09-14 15:58  dan

        * languages/jako/: euclid.jako, jako_compiler.pl:

        Added in the first mini-language that targets Parrot.

        Courtesy of: "Gregor N. Purdy" <gregor@focusresearch.com>

2001-09-14 15:20  dan

        * memory.c: Was misaligning returned memory. Fixed.

2001-09-14 15:08  simon

        * Makefile.in, basic_opcodes.ops, bytecode.c, global_setup.c,
        interpreter.c, interpreter.h, memory.c, parrot.c, parrot.h,
        register.c, register.h, string.c, string.h, strnative.c,
        test_main.c:
        Fixes to include <parrot/foo.h>

        Courtesy of: Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs <Tanton.Gibbs@acxiom.com>

2001-09-14 12:05  simon

        * strnative.c:
        Appease Tru64.

2001-09-14 12:01  simon

        * memory.c:
        Appease Tru64.

2001-09-14 11:54  simon

        * interpreter.c:
        Remove lvalue cast.

2001-09-14 11:45  simon

        * Configure.pl:
        Be 5.005 friendly.

2001-09-14 11:39  simon

        * Configure.pl:
        Tru64 cc doesn't like -Wall

2001-09-14 10:57  simon

        * Config_pm.in, Configure.pl, MANIFEST, Makefile, Makefile.in,
        assemble.pl, build_interp_starter.pl, bytecode.c, bytecode.h,
        config.h.in, config_h.in, disassemble.pl, interpreter.c:
        Configure now generates Makefile

        Courtesy of: Brent Dax <brentdax@cpan.org>

2001-09-14 10:08  simon

        * t/test3.pasm:
        Add "end"

        Courtesy of: Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs <Tanton.Gibbs@acxiom.com>

2001-09-14 10:07  simon

        * assemble.pl:
                * uses Getopt::Long for options.  -c is now --checksyntax.
        I wasn't
        sure how to keep compatible (patches welcome!)         * options
        include:                 --help                 --version
              --verbose                 --output=file
        --listing=file                 --checksyntax         * produces
        verbose listing of what the assembler saw :)  Only one nitpick with
        it:  unknown symbols are given as 0xffffffff, unfortunately, this
        includes symbols which may be defined later in the file (i.e.
        forward jumps).

        Courtesy of: Brian Wheeler <bdwheele@indiana.edu>

2001-09-14 10:06  simon

        * strnative.c:
        substr growth fixup

        Courtesy of: Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs <Tanton.Gibbs@acxiom.com>

2001-09-14 10:03  simon

        * bytecode.c, global_setup.c, interpreter.c, memory.c, memory.h,
        register.c, string.c, strnative.c, test_main.c:
        Coding standards conformance

        Courtesy of Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs <Tanton.Gibbs@acxiom.com>

2001-09-14 09:46  simon

        * assemble.pl:
        Make the assembler grok transcendental maths again.  Courtesy of:
        Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs <Tanton.Gibbs@acxiom.com>

2001-09-13 17:29  simon

        * assemble.pl:
        Better opcode guessing, from Brian Wheeler. (Again!)

2001-09-13 17:20  dan

        * docs/parrot_assembly.pod:

        Took out duplicate entries for iton, ntoi, and tostring.

2001-09-13 17:16  simon

        * assemble.pl, basic_opcodes.ops, opcode_table:
        From Brian Wheeler:

        This patch gives the assembler support of '\a','\n','\r','\t', and
        '\\' in string constants.

        In addition, it changes (for all registers) "I reg %li is ..." to
        just the value of the register.  Printing constants is also
        supported, but alas, you have to specify the type (print_sc,
        print_ic, print_nc).

2001-09-13 15:38  simon

        * assemble.pl:
        Why don't I actually *test* this stuff before applying it, eh?

2001-09-13 15:34  simon

        * TODO, t/euclid.pasm:
        From: "Gregor N. Purdy" <gregor@focusresearch.com> Subject: [patch
        (really)] Removed opcode qualifers t/euclid.pasm to exercise opcode
        inference

2001-09-13 14:42  simon

        * assemble.pl:
        A new assembler, from Brian Wheeler.

2001-09-13 09:44  simon

        * basic_opcodes.ops, interpreter.h, parrot.h, strnative.c,
        test_main.c:
        Two more from Tom Hughes:     Patch to fix C++ style comments
        Patch to remove use of structure constant/cast

2001-09-13 09:39  simon

        * TODO, docs/strings.pod:
        Update string docs.

2001-09-13 09:36  simon

        * Makefile, basic_opcodes.ops:
        Tom Hughes      Patch to link with the maths library Tom Hughes
         Patch to fix += on rvalue

2001-09-13 08:57  simon

        * MANIFEST:
        I guess nobody's been using the nightly builds...

2001-09-13 08:27  simon

        * assemble.pl, basic_opcodes.ops, opcode_table:
        Bitwise ops, from Brian Wheeler.

2001-09-13 08:23  simon

        * .cvsignore, t/.cvsignore:
        .cvsignore's, from Gregor Purdy.

2001-09-13 08:22  simon

        * Makefile:
        Euclidean test and test output rearranging from Gregor Purdy.

2001-09-13 08:21  simon

        * assemble.pl, basic_opcodes.ops, disassemble.pl, opcode_table:
        Math ops from Gibbs Tanton.

2001-09-13 08:14  simon

        * basic_opcodes.ops, opcode_table, string.c, string.h, strnative.c,
        t/test2.pasm:
        String substr op; also rearranged "encoding" to be a vtable
        pointer, not an array index. Haven't changed docs to reflect this,
        oops.

        Simon

2001-09-12 19:48  dan

        * t/euclid.pasm: Implementation of Euclid's Algorithm, courtesy of
        Gregor Purdy

2001-09-12 19:39  dan

        * basic_opcodes.ops, opcode_table: From Gregor Purdy. Adds mod_i.

2001-09-12 19:23  dan

        * interpreter.h, parrot.h: Quick placeholder entry for string
        function tables

2001-09-12 18:58  dan

        * memory.c: Added in a cast to make gcc happy.

2001-09-12 16:44  dan

        * docs/parrot_assembly.pod:

        PDD describing parrot's assembly language and the opcodes in it

2001-09-12 14:20  dan

        * memory.c:
        Fixed alignment issues with allocation

2001-09-12 10:54  simon

        * Makefile, assemble.pl, bytecode.c, disassemble.pl,
        make_op_header.pl, opcode_table, process_opfunc.pl:
        Brian Wheeler's big patch:

        * Changes the opcode_table file to provide additional information
        about the operands.  Case shouldn't be a problem since that data
        never becomes a C symbol [this is pretty much as before]

        * Padding errors solved:  assemble.pl and bytecode.c were padding
        the constants incorrectly.  It should have been 4-(size % 4), not
        just (size % 4).  It is now fixed in both places.

        * assembler has less special cases, and should be easier to hang
        error checking on

        * disassembler dumps constant table and the format is a bit
        prettier, including register names, etc.

2001-09-11 23:21  dan

        * build_interp_starter.pl, interpreter.c:

        Abstracted the runops function core into a macro for easy
        replacement later.

2001-09-11 10:43  simon

        * Configure.pl, MANIFEST, Makefile, config.h, config.h.in:
        Configure system from Brent Dax <brentdax@cpan.org>

2001-09-11 09:38  simon

        * assemble.pl, test.pbc:
        From: Bryan C. Warnock <bwarnock@raba.com> Subject: Patch:
        assembler deferred output

        Also got rid of the bytecode, since that's probably way out of
        date.

2001-09-11 09:26  simon

        * basic_opcodes.ops, opcode_table, t/test2.pasm:
        From: Bryan C. Warnock <bwarnock@raba.com> Subject: length_s_i
        patch

2001-09-10 23:20  simon

        * MANIFEST:
        And that move needs a MANIFEST change. So many things to remember!

2001-09-10 23:18  simon

        * t/: test.pasm, test2.pasm, test3.pasm:
        Move tests to t/. (Oh, CVS doesn't work the way I think it does.)

2001-09-10 23:18  simon

        * test.pasm, test2.pasm, test3.pasm:
        Move tests to t/

2001-09-10 23:04  dan

        * test3.pasm:

        Register push/pop test

2001-09-10 22:47  simon

        * basic_opcodes.ops, bytecode.c, parrot.h, test_main.c:
        Fix up format warnings, from Sam Tregar <sam@tregar.com>.
        (Modified to avoid conflict with Dan's changes.)

2001-09-10 22:45  dan

        * disassemble.pl:

        Happier about blanks in opcode_table

2001-09-10 22:40  dan

        * interpreter.c, register.c:

        Yanked out debugging code, since these work OK. The bug I want is
        elsewhere.

2001-09-10 22:30  simon

        * MANIFEST:
        Uhm. We want make_op_header.pl. We really, really do.

2001-09-10 22:26  simon

        * Makefile, TODO, assemble.pl, basic_opcodes.ops,
        build_interp_starter.pl, disassemble.pl, make_op_header.pl,
        opcode_table, process_opfunc.pl:
        Automatic opcode numbering, from Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>.
        This means we can add lots more opcodes without fiddling about with
        the numbers. Hooray!

        Don't forget that "end" needs to be op zero, else the interpreter
        falls off the end of the code. This is Bad, and I wonder if there's
        a way around it.

2001-09-10 19:49  simon

        * MANIFEST, make_op_table_build.pl:
        Hey! This doesn't do anything...

2001-09-10 19:46  simon

        * Makefile:
        "clean" target cleanup from Bryan C. Warnock <bwarnock@raba.com>.

2001-09-10 18:31  simon

        * MANIFEST:
        You know what this means...

2001-09-10 18:30  simon

        * assemble.pl:
        "use strict" patch from Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>. Hey, why
        wait for a release...? :)

2001-09-10 18:13  simon

        * interpreter.c:
        Bad Dan! No cookie!

2001-09-10 17:56  simon

        * README:
        A *real* README file, which doesn't claim it isn't for public
        consumption.

2001-09-10 17:02  simon

        * TODO:
        More things to do.

2001-09-10 16:56  dan

        * TODO: Added in assembler gripe. Also added a few blank lines for
        clarity

2001-09-10 16:49  dan

        * register.h, register.c: Renamed the core functions so the opcodes
        can find 'em OK. (There were some conflicts)

2001-09-10 16:48  dan

        * basic_opcodes.ops, opcode_table: Added register window ops

2001-09-10 11:07  simon

        * TODO:
        Trivial TODO list.

2001-09-10 11:05  simon

        * test.pbc, test2.pasm, test_main.c: Other string bits and pieces;
        note "-s" flag to test prog.

2001-09-10 11:01  simon

        * docs/strings.pod:
        New string documentation.

2001-09-10 11:01  simon

        * basic_opcodes.ops, opcode_table:
        String ops.

2001-09-10 10:53  simon

        * global_setup.c:
        More string fu.

2001-09-10 10:51  simon

        * memory.h:
        Just some more aliases for now. Used by string handling stuff.

2001-09-10 10:50  simon

        * assemble.pl, bytecode.c, bytecode.h:
        Temporary hack to store string constants in bytecode and recreate
        them at runtime.

2001-09-10 10:48  simon

        * op.h:
        op.h is now generated by the Makefile; remove it.

2001-09-10 10:47  simon

        * Makefile:
        clean and op.h Makefile targets.

2001-09-10 10:45  simon

        * string.c, string.h, strnative.c:
        More string vtable stuff.

2001-09-07 21:07  dan

        * assemble.pl:

        Much less picky about whitespace in the opcode_table now. (Doesn't
        whine on blank lines)

2001-09-07 16:23  dan

        * Makefile, assemble.pl, global_setup.h, interpreter.c,
        interpreter.h, opcode_table, parrot.h, test.pasm: (Here's hoping
        this takes) Added global_setup.h to declare init_world function

        Moved variable declarations out of the interpreter loop for small
        speed boost.

        Changed end opcode to now be opcode #0. A function is provided for
        it, but isn't ever executed.

        When the interpreter sees an opcode 0 in the stream it means the
        end of stream. Things were coring on Cygwin otherwise. (I think I
        was dereferencing a zero, which is bad)

2001-09-06 22:07  dan

        * basic_opcodes.ops, process_opfunc.pl:

        Minor tweaks to basic_opcodes.ops to fix some NV issues. The rest
        are minor changes now that things are in a fixed state.

2001-09-06 16:13  dan

        * basic_opcodes.c, test_opcodes.c:
        test_opcodes.c is now irrelevant--they're all in basic_opcodes.ops.

        basic_opcodes.c is now autogenerated from basic_opcodes.ops, and
        should be nuked. So it is. :)

2001-09-06 03:35  dan

        * basic_opcodes.ops, build_interp_starter.pl, process_opfunc.pl:
        Scripts to build the header file that holds the function table
        creation code, as well as the script to turn an opcode file to C
        source. (And the basic opcode functions turned into an opcode
        source file)

2001-09-06 03:31  dan

        * Makefile, interpreter.c:
        Changes to support the autogeneration of the opcode function
        pointer table in interpreter.c, along with the changes to the
        Makefile needed.

2001-09-05 13:27  simon

        * bytecode.c, config.h, docs/opcodes.pod, docs/overview.pod,
        docs/parrotbyte.pod, docs/vtables.pod:
        Added stubs for the documents; working on them this week. (What's
        left of it.) config.h change is just to type VTABLE, and the
        bytecode thing you might want to revoke. It's apidoc for the
        functions in there.

2001-09-03 18:26  simon

        * docs/strings.pod:
        A start on the string API documentation.

2001-09-03 17:43  simon

        * opcode_table:
        Since we specify the opcode number, we can rearrange to a more
        human-friendly ordering.

2001-09-03 17:42  simon

        * basic_opcodes.c:
        Coupl'a logic bugs. (I think)

2001-09-03 17:41  simon

        * string.c, string.h, strnative.c:
        Tidying up the string vtables.

2001-09-03 17:38  simon

        * make_op_header.pl:
        Spit out the whole of op.h, not just the bit in the middle.

2001-08-29 13:16  ask

        * README: it seems like we indeed can commit. What about sending
        commit mails?

2001-08-29 13:07  simon

        * Makefile, README, assemble.pl, basic_opcodes.c, bytecode.c,
        bytecode.h, config.h, disassemble.pl, events.h, exceptions.h,
        global_setup.c, interpreter.c, interpreter.h, io.h,
        make_op_header.pl, make_op_table_build.pl, memory.c, memory.h,
        op.h, opcode_table, parrot.c, parrot.h, register.c, register.h,
        stacks.h, string.c, string.h, strnative.c, strnative.h, test.pasm,
        test.pbc, test_main.c, test_opcodes.c:
        Initial checkin of Simon's work directory - Dan, feel free to nuke.
         I'm still working on the string stuff, though.

2001-08-29 12:44  ask

        * README: update README with list address

2001-08-29 12:36  ask

        * README: first readme.