[MacRuby-devel] trunk status update

[Laurent Sansonetti]

Hi,

I fixed several 32-bit bugs, so it should be better. However, the  
specs don't pass at 100% yet (a notable thing is that ruby exceptions  
cannot be intercepted by objc).

Feel free to give it a try and let us know if it's better now :)

Laurent

On Oct 5, 2009, at 7:32 PM, s.ross wrote:

> Great progress. I'm pretty sure you would have mentioned it in the  
> release notes if it were stable, but has there been any progress  
> making MacRuby work properly on Snow Leopard 32-bit architectures  
> like the Core Duo? (nag, nag :)
>
> Thx
>
>
> On Oct 5, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
>
>> Another status update, covering about 2 weeks of development.
>>
>> Highlights:
>>
>> - Early backtracing support.
>> - Much better AOT compilation. Parts of the standard library are  
>> now pre-compiled for testing.
>> - Migrated to LLVM top of tree.
>> - Dispatcher performance is now back to normal (we lost about 30%  
>> due to gcc not inlining code).
>> - Many bug fixes.
>>
>> We are content-complete for a first beta release of MacRuby 0.5.   
>> We will release it very soon then continue converging until the  
>> final 0.5 release.
>>
>> Details:
>>
>> - Better GCD documentation
>> - Implemented Symbol.all_symbols
>> - Rewrote the file loader (file.c) fixing a few bugs
>> - Added preliminary support for backtracing / symbolication
>> - Make sure stdio objects are never finalized
>> - Fixed more eval/Binding bugs
>> - Fixed END{} block
>> - Fixed a memory problem in the libyaml extension
>> - Fixed rescues in rescues (most cases)
>> - Fixed a 10.5-only bug in the new Array class
>> - Fixed a bug of the parser when dealing with byte strings
>> - AOT: now compiling part of the stdlib (notably irb and rubygems)
>> - AOT: fixed bugs in the compilation of defined?, undef,  
>> rb_eStandardError, literal ranges
>> - Fixed a bug in the compilation of `for' loops
>> - Fixed many minor compilation bugs discovered by the LLVM module  
>> verifier
>> - The arguments resolver is now able to deal with any number of  
>> arguments
>> - Fixed minor String bugs
>> - Added autorelease and dealloc to the list of handled ignored  
>> selectors
>> - Fixed a bug when instance variables were not visible from within  
>> an iterator in method called through KVO
>> - Fixed an infinite recursion trying to convert an NSPathStore2 to  
>> a string
>> - Moved to LLVM r82747, enabled LLVM multithreaded mode
>> - Fixed GC problems in the parser
>> - Create all ruby scopes with external linkage, otherwise the AOT  
>> compiler won't generate frame info for them
>> - Fixed a bug when open would crash when mode is numeric
>> - Now using a gcc constructor to initialize .rbo files
>> - Added Dispatch::Semaphore + fixed a few things
>> - Make sure RoxorVM instances created lazily have a valid thread  
>> accessor
>> - Fixed a random bug of Numeric#chr
>> - macruby is now SIGINT interruptible (but no exception is raised,  
>> yet)
>> - Fixed a few 32-bit only bugs
>> - Fixed a GC bug in builtin global variable setters
>> - Fixed a bug in Set#to_a
>> - Fixed the BridgeSupport parser to properly handle one liner  
>> <method> elements
>> - Fixed variadic functions/methods calls
>> - Fixed a few bugs in Array#pack
>> - Fixed a serious bug in the way we used to promote strings to byte  
>> strings
>> - Fixed a few bugs in IO#ioctl and IO#fcntl
>> - Now separately compiling the dispatcher and forcing function  
>> inlining
>> - Fixed a bug in File.open when file permissions were not taken  
>> into account
>> - Make sure ivar slot generation is disabled when compiling attr  
>> accessors
>> - Fixed a bug in the way we AOT compile super method cache
>> - Added an empty Ruby template file
>> - Improved the MacRuby Application template: Embed MacRuby target  
>> and some unit testing mechanism are added
>>
>> Laurent
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