It’s a girl !!!
I became a dad this morning (6:25am).
It’s a girl !!!
I became a dad this morning (6:25am).
More thoughts about MCS and GMCS
Martin got GMCS to work on Windows, with a small caveat — there’s no API to change the MethodAttributes of a MethodBuilder. I have a couple of observations:
automake, make dist and long filenames
Harish noticed some strange behaviour with ‘make dist’. He later found out that it had to do with a file with an overly long pathname. Automake 1.9 by default forces ‘tar’ to work in the “most compatible” mode, and that mode supports pathnames only upto 99 characters long.
The solution is to ask automake to request tar to use the POSIX standard ‘pax’ format. Add a line like the following in the top-level Makefile.am.
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = tar-pax
However, life wouldn’t be interesting if it was so simple.
That gets us to mono’s solution. Here’s the configure.in tidbit that does the trick:
# Gross hack to enable 'make dist' on automake 1.9+tar 1.14. # The extra brackets are to foil regex-based scans. m4_ifdef([_A][M_PROG_TAR],[_A][M_SET_OPTION([tar-ustar])])
Now, please forget this trick, it’s gross. Just use automake 1.9.
PS: There’s an even simpler trick: start distributing ZIP files (make dist-zip) instead
MCS: Implemented ::-lookup (qualified alias member) feature
In all, it took about a day’s worth of effort from start to check-in. But, that one-day effort needed quite some preparatory work. I’d pretty much decided on the approach a couple of months ago, and had a reasonable plan-of-attack, and was looking for an opportune time to work on it. More importantly, the past few months I spent incessantly refactoring the name- and type-lookup facilities in the compiler has paid off, making the task of implementing ‘::’ trivial.
Thread-safety and me
I’m thinking of working on fixing Mono’s Dictionary to be thread-safe.
It seems ironic: I wrote a large part of that Wiki page, and I’m in large part responsible for the dictionary code not being thread-safe. “Blame” me for the use of the move-to-front heurstic in the dictionary code, and I must say, it was a beautiful piece of code: see how simple it made the ‘Remove()’ code.
Of course I’ve disliked threads all along, and this gives me more reasons to blame threads for the ugliness they bring into the world.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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