Pike-devel September 2008

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25 discussions

negative indices in array ranges
by Martin Baehr 14 Aug '26

14 Aug '26

hi, instead of having to do: reverse(reverse(foo/"/")[1..]); i'd very much prefer: (foo/"/")[..-2]; are there any reasons that speak against supporting this other than me not being able to offer a patch? greetings, martin.

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negative indices in array ranges
by Mirar ＠ Pike developers forum 14 Aug '26

14 Aug '26

levels might possibly be from -1 and up, -1 meaning infinite.

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managing comport settings in linux
by Henrik Grubbstr�m (Lysator) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

Not a good idea; the design philosophy of Pike is that Pike-level code should never be able to cause memory corruption at C-level. With ioctls there's no way to know what data a specific ioctl wants without reading the documentation for that specific ioctl for that specific OS. ioctls and fcntls are a way for device handlers to hook in APIs that aren't standard across all filedescriptors. / Henrik Grubbström (Lysator) Previous text: >2004-08-17 13:32: >Subject: managing comport settings in linux >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >What would be nice, is a way to define ioctl methods in >Pike. Perhaps something like > >object i = Stdio.IOCTL(4242 /* request_id */ ); >i->add_int_parameter(); >i->add_string_parameter(); >i->set_return_type(STRING); > >string ret = i(fd, 1, "somestring"); > > >That ought to be possible, or..? > > / Marcus Agehall (PacketFront) >

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Re: Playing music using pike and SDL.
by Martin Nilsson (lvl 60) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 13 Mar '26

13 Mar '26

Were you not able to get any C code to play through SDL either? Does your SDL library have a mixer compiled in it (I think it is optional)?

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full MySQL 4.x support. or pike roadmap
by thomas.gusenleitner＠com-bet.com ＠ Pike developers forum 01 Mar '26

01 Mar '26

HI to all! mysql 4.x support works only with a mysql CFLAGS=-DUSE_OLD_FUNCTIONS is this correct ? are there plans to make a full 4.x support ? bye, thomas

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wierd syntax?
by Martin Bähr 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

is there a reason why pike allows whitespace between ( and [ for ([ ? (same for ]) and ({ }) of course) i always viewed ([ as an inseperable entity (like += or other multicharacter elements) can anyone explain this? greetings, martin.

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Re: precompile on 7.8.8
by Henrik Grubbstr�m (Lysator) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

>> That line number doesn't seem to match with either of the two >> precompile.pike files in recent Pike 7.8. Can you give an excerpt? > >Sure... it's: [...] > ret+=({ > PC.Token(sprintf("if(Pike_sp[%d%s].type != >PIKE_T_STRING || Pike_sp[%d%s].ustring -> width)", > argnum,check_argbase, > argnum,check_argbase, > upper_case(arg->basetype())),arg- > >line()) > }); Ok, that seems to correspond to line ~2211 in Pike 7.8, where it has been fixed by removing the last argument to the sprintf.

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precompile on 7.8.8
by H. William Welliver III 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '08

I'm getting an error when precompiling a pmod on 7.8.8: precompile: pike /usr/local/pike/7.8.8/include/pike/precompile.pike pcap.cmod /usr/local/pike/7.8.8/include/pike/precompile.pike:2007:Too many arguments to sprintf (expected 5 arguments). /usr/local/pike/7.8.8/include/pike/precompile.pike:2007:Got : string. I noticed that the sprintf statement has a wrong number of arguments for the formatting string. Can someone who understands this take a quick look? Bill

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Changelog
by Martin Nilsson (Opera Mini - AFK!) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

This is about what remains to be documented in the CHANGES - Describe the need for multiple backends, exemplify how to implement it and explain the different backends available. - Explain what a mixin is. - Create an example for how to use split() in Calendar objects. - Rewrite the Locale.Charset section. - Rewrite the ODBC section. - Rewrite the Parser.XML.Simple section. - Rewrite the Parser.XML.Tree section. - Rewrite the Postgres section. - Add descriptions for Pike.low_check_call() get_return_type() and get_first_arg_type(). - List the changes of Sql.mysql. - Describe how SSL client cerificates work and provide usage example. - Add description of Standards.XML.Wix - Document all changes to the Tools module. - Add an example for when ADT.List is useful. - Describe ADT.Trie. - Add description of the Kerberos module. - Add some more information on Protocols.HTTP.Server.Proxy - Add the missing changes for the Java section.

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Deprecation problem
by Martin Nilsson (Opera Mini - AFK!) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

I changed the type of `<< in file_functions.h to tAttr("deprecated", tFunc(tMixed,FILE_OBJ)) which didn't have any visible effect when doing file<<"string". However, if I add the following to the File class i module.pmod object `<<(mixed in) { return ::`<<(in); } I'll get the warning /home/nilsson/Pike/7.8/lib/modules/Stdio.pmod/module.pmod:804: Warning: Calling a deprecated value. /home/nilsson/Pike/7.8/lib/modules/Stdio.pmod/module.pmod:804: Warning: Using deprecated object(implements _static_modules.files()->Fd_ref) value. Is this hiding a bug or a misfeature?

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Pike-devel September 2008