OpenEuphoria

2. Re: Any Sign of Beta Yet?

• Posted by mattlewis (admin) Apr 29, 2009
• 1149 views

There is 100% chance of seeing a beta. We're currently working through bugs that have been identified. I think we're pretty much feature complete, as far as the language itself goes. There is some non-bugfixing work being done to simplify the build system and on configuring how everything will be distributed.

There are currently 13 open bugs listed in the bug tracker. Most of these need to be fixed before the beta release.

Matt

4. Re: Any Sign of Beta Yet?

• Posted by bernie Apr 29, 2009
• 1120 views

Matt:

Take a look at memory.e

It defines a TYPE of ' positive_int '

In the ' allocate(positive_int n, integer cleanup = 0) '

Take a look at what will happen if a zero or negative integer is passed to allocate.

I think this will crash the system.

6. Re: Any Sign of Beta Yet?

• Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Apr 29, 2009
• 1159 views

Well, it will crash the application but not the whole system.

Anyhow, what would you rather it do? Attempting to allocate 0 bytes or -N bytes can never return a valid address. So should it prevent the application from continuing (just in case the application doesn't check the result) or should it return 0, like it does when it cannot allocate the requested amount of RAM and hope that the application checks the return value?

What were you expecting it to do?

8. Re: Any Sign of Beta Yet?

• Posted by jeremy (admin) Apr 29, 2009
• 1107 views

I think this really should be another thread or a bug report if you think it's a bug Bernie. If it's not a bug, then we can always close the bug as "Invalid".

Jeremy

10. Re: Any Sign of Beta Yet?

• Posted by bernie Apr 29, 2009
• 1113 views

It happened in win98 which does not write permission.

12. Re: Any Sign of Beta Yet?

• Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Apr 29, 2009
• 1114 views

w98 can have read-only directories, I believe.

This could also be caused by having the disk full, although you probably would have already noticed if that was the case.

Do you get a message that ex.err could not be created? If not, maybe your program is simply in a different directory than you expected (and thus the ex.err file is being put in a different place).

On linux, this is what I get:

$ eui j.e 
 
/home/jbrown105/other/feu2/include/std/memory.e:114 in function allocate()  
type_check failure,  
/home/jbrown105/other/feu2/include/std/memory.e:114 in function allocate()  
A machine-level exception occurred during execution of this statement  
 
... called from j.e:2  

Here is j.e:

include std/machine.e 
? allocate(-10) 

Here are the first 6 lines from ex.err :

/home/jbrown105/other/feu2/include/std/memory.e:114 in function allocate() 
type_check failure, ption occurred during execution of this statement 
    n = -10 
    cleanup = 0 
 
... called from j.e:2 

14. Re: Any Sign of Beta Yet?

• Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Apr 29, 2009
• 1122 views

Hmm, weird. I am not able to reproduce this bug on Linux (r1971). I get the type check crash and then a machine level exception but no mention of failure to create ex.err. Here is the ex.er:

j.e:1 
type_check failure, ption occurred during execution of this statement  
 
 
Global & Local Variables 
 
 j.e: 
    foo = 1 
 
 

type test( object o ) 
	return 0 
end type 
 
test foo = 1 

bug.exw:1 
type_check failure, Can't create error message file: ex.er 
 
 
Press Enter... 

bug.exw:1 
type_check failure, 

16. Re: Any Sign of Beta Yet?

• Posted by Andy Apr 29, 2009
• 1111 views

We, its good to know there is going to be a beta release, but have any of those bugs been fixed yet?

18. Re: Any Sign of Beta Yet?

• Posted by mattlewis (admin) Apr 29, 2009
• 1123 views

You can change the filter to see which bugs have been fixed. Our progress is not always steady, as Real Life issues (work, family, etc) often intrude on the time available for euphoria development.

Matt

20. Re: Any Sign of Beta Yet?

• Posted by jeremy (admin) May 02, 2009
• 1116 views

A good way to track bug progress with Euphoria is to use the bug tracker's RSS feed:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=rssfeed&group_id=182827&atid=902782

Sometimes looking at just the bug list is discouraging when in the alpha/beta stages. For instance, there are 10 bugs on the report right now and there has been 10 for a while now. However, we solve 2 and 2 new ones are added. A lot of work is being done but at a casual glance, you'd think nothing has been done over the last week or so.

The RSS feed displays the activity, i.e. bugs being closed and new ones being opened.

Jeremy

22. Re: Any Sign of Beta Yet?

• Posted by Andy May 02, 2009
• 1114 views

It will be nice to see a beta when Euphoria is ready for a Beta. All these improvments looking pretty cool. I tried the alpha, but it was too unstable for me, so I'm gonna stick with 3.0 until a beta for 4.0 is out.