Pike-devel January 2021

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Pike Meet-up 2018-Q1
by Henrik Grubbstr�m (Lysator) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

Hi. At Pike Conference 2017 it was decided that we ought to hold a more informal meeting in Linköping ~ once every quarter. As the three month mark from the conference is coming up soon, it seems time to announce the first such meeting for 2018: Pike Meet-up 2018-Q1 Date: 2018-02-03 (Sat) Time: 10:00 - afternoon/evening Place: Roxen IS AB S:t Larsgatan 22A Linköping Welcome! /grubba

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BA_INIT_ALIGNED
by Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

In August 2013, Arne added support for alignment to block_allocator. In doing so, he also introduced a dependency on memalign/posix_memalign. I was planning on rewriting this support to work without memalign, but then I started looking for places which _use_ this functionality, and found none. Pike seems to build just fine without it. If it's dead code, maybe it's better to just remove it?

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Recent Pike 8.0 fixes to master and a xenofarm feature request
by H William Welliver 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

Hello all- I’ve been working on moving a number of fixes I made during the recent Pike 8.0 release process into master. I’ve tested them all locally, but I’m going to push them so that I can make sure nothing breaks in xenofarm. If you happen to discover breakage before I do, just let me know and I’ll get it squared away. As a side note, I was thinking that it might be nice to display on an individual build result screen (or maybe even on the grid?) the number of failed tests vs tests run. I realize that doesn’t buy you much when you’re just pushing failures from one test to another, but it would make it easy to spot big breakage. This is especially acute on systems that are chronically yellow. Does anyone have any opinions about that? Bill

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Pike 8.0.1116 for Windows (finally!)
by H William Welliver 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

Hello all- I’ve spent the past few weeks getting a reasonably full-featured pike build for Windows prepared. I’d be pleased to have folks test this build out and let me know if there are any rough edges. The MSI installer is available at: http://pike.lysator.liu.se/download/pub/pike/all/8.0.1116/ If I don’t hear of any major breakage in the next 3-4 days, I’ll publish an official announcement of the release. Some notes about this build: 1. I’ve used VC2015 on Windows 7, and have not tested the results on WinXP, should anyone still be so fashionably outdated. 2. I did prepare a few newer versions of dependencies (gmp, nettle, pcre, freetype). 3. I managed to find a copy of wix 2.0 on an old VM, and was thus able to build the installer without rewriting a lot of things. It’s pretty much impossible to find a copy of wix2, so fixing the wix input to accommodate the changes for wix3 might be needed in the future. 4. My libs directory for win32 has copies of libraries of UI-ish things, but the build didn’t seem to pick them up automatically, and I don’t really care about them. I don’t know if previous 8.0 releases included support for these things. If anyone does care about GTK or SDL or such, get in touch with me and maybe we can work something out. 5. Most of the problems with the build were related to getting the wix2 tools and various libraries squared away. I did not need to meddle with the source directly, which might be a first. 6. I would be happy to provide all of the details and software required to set up a build environment should anyone else wish to help maintain this functionality. Features: auto_bignum machine_code dynamic_modules threads out-of-band_data COM Crypto.AES.GCM Gettext Gmp Gz HTTPAccept Image.FreeType Image.GIF Image.JPEG Image.PNG Image.TIFF Image.XFace Java Java.NATIVE_METHODS MIME Mysql Nettle PDF.PDFlib Regexp.PCRE Regexp.PCRE.Widestring SQLite Standards.JSON WhiteFish As always, comments and suggestions are welcome! Bill

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QR codes in pike generating a PNG
by Stephen R. van den Berg 18 Jan '21

18 Jan '21

Has anyone implemented a library to generate QR-codes in Pike throwing out a PNG of some kind? -- Stephen.

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8.0 test suite failures: fork() + time on macOS 10.12+
by H William Welliver 06 Jan '21

06 Jan '21

I’m running builds of 8.0 to make sure we don’t have any major test failures, and I’ve run into a few problems so far. I’ll put them in separate emails so they are more manageable. If anyone can offer any assistance, that would be most appreciated. I can supply any info needed, up to getting you a logon to the systems in question. First up, macOS 10.12+ hang on socktest.pike. The 10.11 and earlier do not have this problem, and I haven’t tried running an older binary on a newer OS. The call to gc() in finish() never returns, and according to LLDB: (lldb) thread list Process 4746 stopped * thread #1: tid = 0xa7cc2d, 0x00007fff781f922a libsystem_kernel.dylib`mach_msg_trap + 10, queue = 'com.apple.main-thread', stop reason = signal SIGSTOP (lldb) thread backtrace * thread #1, queue = 'com.apple.main-thread', stop reason = signal SIGSTOP * frame #0: 0x00007fff781f922a libsystem_kernel.dylib`mach_msg_trap + 10 frame #1: 0x00007fff781f976c libsystem_kernel.dylib`mach_msg + 60 frame #2: 0x00007fff781fd05e libsystem_kernel.dylib`clock_get_time + 85 frame #3: 0x0000000105974667 pike`mach_clock_get_time at rusage.c:633:7 frame #4: 0x00000001058e713b pike`do_gc(ignored_UNUSED=<unavailable>, explicit_call=<unavailable>) at gc.c:3507:24 frame #5: 0x00000001059ee723 pike`f_gc(args=<unavailable>) at builtin_functions.c:5126:11 frame #6: 0x00000001063607b7 frame #7: 0x00000001058a365a pike`mega_apply [inlined] eval_instruction(pc=<unavailable>) at interpret.c:1711:5 frame #8: 0x00000001058a3658 pike`mega_apply(type=<unavailable>, args=<unavailable>, arg1=<unavailable>, arg2=<unavailable>) at interpret.c:2695 frame #9: 0x000000010589c72d pike`apply_svalue(s=<unavailable>, args=<unavailable>) at interpret.c:3158:5 frame #10: 0x0000000105a31769 pike`got_fd_event(box=0x0000000105de5008, event=937461904) at file.c:368:5 frame #11: 0x00000001058c901f pike`backend_call_active_callbacks(fd_list=0x00007ffeea373ae8, me_UNUSED=<unavailable>) at backend.cmod:2349:6 frame #12: 0x00000001058c4839 pike`pdb_low_backend_once(pdb=0x00007fef37e086d0, timeout=0x00007ffeea373fa8) at backend.cmod:4137:11 frame #13: 0x00000001058c4aec pike`f_PollDeviceBackend_cq__backtick_28_29(args=1) at backend.cmod:4315:5 frame #14: 0x00000001058a1cbc pike`low_mega_apply(type=APPLY_SVALUE, args=1, arg1=<unavailable>, arg2=<unavailable>) at apply_low.h:221:2 frame #15: 0x00000001058a2753 pike`jump_opcode_F_CALL_FUNCTION_AND_POP at interpret_functions.h:2452:1 frame #16: 0x00000001061d4348 Some other information I discovered looking into this: I tried to add some sleep() in the child process in order to examine the process with dtrace, but the sleep() never returned. Sleep seems to work fine with a pike -e ’sleep(5);’. If I disable the fork(), the test runs successfully. The following test case demonstrates the problem. The sleep() can be exchanged for gc() and it also hangs. int main() { object pid; if (mixed err = catch { pid = fork(); }) { werror("fork() failed\n"); } else if (pid) { int res = pid->wait(); werror("child exited.\n"); return 0; } werror("child\n"); sleep(2); werror("slept\n"); return 0; } bin/pike test2.pike child I don’t quite understand why clock_get_time() would hang like that unless there was some sort of problem with the mach clock service across processes, though it wouldn’t surprise me if that were a problem. What is also interesting is that clock_gettime() is available in 10.12 and newer. According to the manpage, this is POSIX compliant and provides CLOCK_MONOTONIC, which is what is used on some other systems. There is a problem in that _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK is set to -1, which seems to contradict the man page. Not sure if it makes sense to try that instead, or re-initialize the clock service after the fork? Bill

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WiX tools
by H William Welliver 02 Jan '21

02 Jan '21

I’m working on preparing a windows build, and the version of installer tools available for download appears to be incompatible with the input files for the Pike installer. I suspect that I need WiX 2.0, but it doesn’t seem to be available for download anywhere. Does anyone happen to have a copy of the installer or build environment that could be used to create the installer? The build went surprisingly well (aside from the usual hassle of getting libraries compatible with the version of VS in use). Thanks! Bill

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