PyPy broken! What's up?
Christian Tismer <tismer <at> stackless.com>
2005-08-03 03:45:25 GMT
Hi Friends,
in Hildesheim, I struggled for many hours to get my new marshal
module to compile and integrate. Finally, after removing all
problematic things where the annotator or the rtyper complained
about, I figured out that the current PyPy SVN version did
not compile at all.
Today, I tried again, after I brought marshal some quality levels
further. Still, PyPy does not translate, neither on Windows ( with
my patches of course) nor on Debian Linux.
The property to be translatable to a C binary is much more
valuable than it is treated. I would really like to see some
notation of that, like tagging a PyPy version as translatable.
I think we are lacking something, here.
Due to this fact, I will now carelessly check marshal in,
without disabling it. This has cost Samuele and me way too many
hours, although I figured out that PyPy was not translatable
at all, at that time. (Yes, we had many bugs and removed them).
Please, I want a principal decision about this. Either breaking
PyPy must be forbidden, or check-ins must be tagged whether they
do compile or not. Random results about this are not acceptable
for me, because this takes very much time.
- chris
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(Continue reading)
. The day was started with an extensive breakfast in the sun. After that Alex (from the Trillke-Gut) brought bows and arrows outside and gave us a short introduction to archery. We spent some time trying it (and lost four arrows in the proccess). - Holger and Armin worked on refactoring and improving the compiling infrastructure which acquired quite a lot of cruft over time. The goal was to be able to use the compiled PyPy as a stand-alone executable and not just a extension module to CPython (note that this extension module is independent from CPython, we use CPython only to call the entry point). - Samuele and Carl Friedrich managed to write a test for the wrong exception behaviour. Additionally they fixed a wrong graph transformation where we ended up with an empty block with exception handling. This gets now optimized away (the non-exceptional link is taken). - Richard stole tests from genc and made most of them work on genllvm. He added support for unicode and implemented missing mathematical operations. Additionally he implemented arrays of void (which are basically ints because they still have a length field) which occur in strange situation (like a list of Nones).
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