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1. Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by petelomax Feb 02, 2021
• 2186 views
• Last edited in August

Usual place: http://phix.x10.mx/download.php (0.8.2 notes: https://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/135185.wc )

This is a maintenance release. From the readme

22/12/2020: Bugfix: "class x string name procedure name()" now produces the 
            error "invalid type". Note that all methods are "virtual" in the 
            sense they can be overidden, ideally it would check that it was 
            only overriding something from an "extends" clause, but that is 
            not particularly simple. Instead it is saying it cannot override  
            a string with a procedure. Likewise it will trigger an error if 
            you try to override a procedure with a function and vice versa. 
            I would have liked to put signature checks in there, but alas 
            that information is not held (think "pure virtual"), or rather  
            it is quite a bit more difficult to dig out. 
24/12/2020: BUGFIX: in something (well, anything!) like the following 
                sequence x = repeat(0,rand(50)) 
                if <condition> then 
                    x = {} -- (or any other [fixed] length) 
                end if -- <<== **bad mergeBlocks()/mergeTypes() here !!!** 
                if length(x)=0 then ?9/0 end if -- <<== uses if 0=0 then!! 
            pltype.e was replacing/merging the lslen[prev] of -1 (aka 
            "no idea yet") with the lslen[curr] of 0, which meant it would 
            think x was length 0 (or whatever) even after condition failed. 
            It now leaves it alone (the last if now /looks/ at x's length). 
            Amazed this was not caught years ago, and even more amazed that  
            p -test didn't start /any/ bitchin... 
02/01/2021: Replaced sys_exit with sys_exit_group, for proper linux s/down. 
08/01/2021: Moved initialisation in sha256.e to permit forward calls. 
10/01/2021: Added hideScope/restoreScope for nested functions, which hide 
            anything and everything that would otherwise require a closure. 
            Note that some work remains outstanding in this area. 
21/01/2021: Tightened up on builtin overrides, to prevent such nonsense as 
            integer integer, atom atom, string string, and so on. constant 
            SLASH was a bit of an innocent bystander, though you/I should 
            probably be using the builtin constant anyway. 
21/01/2021: BUGFIX: Ctrl [] in Edita/Edix now correctly skip backtick strs. 
21/01/2021: Edita: easinst.ew now uses GetWindowText, should be better. 
21/01/2021: BUGFIX: Edix now uses an ini file rather than IupConfig for the 
            list of open files, which was always corrupting itself. Close 
            file now works properly, not mangling the table of tab handles. 
25/01/2021: IupCloseOnEscape() is now applied by default to all IupDialog, 
            and the latter has a new bEsc parameter to turn that off. 
25/01/2021: get_routine_info() now has a bName parameter, which will avoid 
            unnecessarily populating the symbol table with actual names. 
25/01/2021: ENH: IupScintilla() added to pGUI, along with a demo. 
29/01/2021: BUGFIX: deleting a dictionary entry was moving the key but not 
            the data(!!). Many thanks to irv for finding this nasty bug. 
29/01/2021: New still_has_delete_routine() function. Used by the internal  
            type checking routines of builtins\structs.e to identify any  
            now-invalid struct/class instances, and prevent accidentally  
            clobbering a slot now occupied by something else. 
30/01/2021: BUGFIX: tagset was using ceil() not floor() for some unknown 
            reason, and thus overruning the limit (when step!=1). 
01/02/2021: ENH: allow dot notation on "struct" variables (previously it 
            only allowed that on actual struct/class definitions). Eg/ie 
                -- procedure test(Widget x)  -- (was ok) 
                procedure test(struct x)     -- (now ok too) 
                    x.field = 1 
                end procedure 
01/02/2021: Allowed delete_routine(x,0) to remove any prior association. 
            The docs said you could, but the front-end disallowed it. 

There was also an "while 1 do end while" going into an infinite loop, that is in the compiler itself,
branch straightening the same jump to itself forever, which I can't see listed above.

3. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by irv Feb 02, 2021
• 2085 views

 the result of 7 * 8.50 is: 3.84062e+248 

Don't know much about math, but that seems to be off by a few percent

5. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by irv Feb 02, 2021
• 2077 views

 the result of 7 * 8.50 is: 3.84062e+248 

No problem, it appears to be the same kind of math the credit card company uses.

7. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by petelomax Feb 02, 2021
• 2060 views

/home/irv/phix/builtins/structs.e:895 
        s = delete_routine(s,0) 
          ^ routine_id expected 

What?!! Nooo! Oh, stupid me, I forgot p32 and p64 again. Uploaded, can you "wget http://phix.x10.mx/p64" and "mv p64 phix/p".

9. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by kinz Feb 06, 2021
• 2002 views

Sorry, stops...
Without any idea...
http://pl-euphoria.narod.ru/phix/phix.png
http://pl-euphoria.narod.ru/phix/ex-err.txt

Regards

11. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by kinz Feb 06, 2021
• 1956 views

It is Win7max 8gb, 64.

Done, no effect.

What is procmon?

What is ollydbg?

This is my first try of Phix at all.
My body magnets all hard and soft computer bugs. When I worked the digital tester in USSR NAVY, devs wanted to kill me.

13. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by kinz Feb 06, 2021
• 1970 views

Ok, I have pure IBM NetVista of 2002 here and now but with added SATA+SSD instead of IDE. WinXP+SP3.
And I have Packard Bell oneTwo L5351. Win7+SP1.
Plus I have Lenovo IdeaPad 330. Win10 of 2021.

What of these above you can recommend to try Phix?

So, Phix is self hosted, but needs for now some low level debuggers just to run it on my machine (oneTwo L5351) ?

Regards

15. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by kinz Feb 07, 2021
• 1889 views

Thanks, Pete...
But my antiviruses (Avira+Windows) seem to be very aggressive to
pw.exe, so, on Lenovo IdeaPad with Windows 10 I can not run Phix.

What to do?

Regards

17. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by kinz Feb 08, 2021
• 1839 views

After severe struggle against of all defense on my poor IdeaPad,
I started pdemo.exw under control of pw.exe to see, what a thing Phix is.

Regards

19. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by petelomax Feb 08, 2021
• 1826 views

Not today, you'll have to try harder than that.
Next time though, try not to hide the program that's going wrong, i.e. move the ex.err window so I can see the selected line underneath in the screenshot.

Oops, some test code for an experimental version of IupLayoutDialog() I accidentally left in. Either change demo/pGUI/fill.exw line 39:

--Ihandle ih = IupLayoutDialog2(dialog) 
Ihandle ih = IupLayoutDialog(dialog) 
IupShow(ih) 

or better yet just delete that line and the followng IupShow.

Thanks

21. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by petelomax Feb 08, 2021
• 1805 views

Windows XP does not support the required elliptic curve cryptography to access https sites.
If you download https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/VC_redist.x86.exe and install that it should be fine.
It is failing trying to do that for you, I had to do it on a different machine and copy it over.

(I can't afford to spend much time worrying about whether Phix plays nice with Windows XP any more.)

Sounds like a permissions error. Either:
a) right-click on the directory[1], select Properties, then the Security tab, then Edit, then Users(you), check "Full control" and hit apply, or
b) move/copy the program(s) to a directory where you already have write permissions.

[1] eg "C:\Program Files\Phix" will bequest it's permissions to all sub-directories.

It is a long-standing issue that Phix installs everything to C:\Program Files[ x86]\Phix, whereas it should install several bits and pieces
to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%, %APPDATA% or somesuch. Windows is supposed to deal with this through "Virtual Registry", only it don't work.

I'll gladly accept improvements to installation (even moreso on Linux), but it's simply not effective for me to try and go that alone.

23. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by kinz Feb 09, 2021
• 1679 views

Well, but what about remote control from your machine
to my oneTwo's desktop just to squash all these collected bugs?

Regards

25. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by kinz Feb 13, 2021
• 1565 views

http://pl-euphoria.narod.ru/phix/

Regards

27. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by kinz Feb 16, 2021
• 1495 views

It was Avira incompatibility.
After deleting of Avira Phix starts and works.
Avira itself can not allow work of "infected" p.exe/pw.exe.
http://pl-euphoria.narod.ru/phix/without_avira.png

Regards

29. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by petelomax Feb 17, 2021
• 1437 views

Very odd, works fine here, though generally the console-based demos, esp interactive ones, are never going to play nice with "p pdemo" and the gui in the way, trying to re-use the same console.
Try running it as "pw pdemo", so each demo that needs one gets it's own brand-new terminal to play with.

PS 4 out of 5 places in the docs said "pw pdemo", I've now fixed the one rogue one in example.htm to match.

31. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by AlexXX Feb 20, 2021
• 1372 views

Compiled some random examples from the folder f:\phix\demo\arwendemo\, at startup, everyone swears:

f:\phix\builtins\VM\pUnassigned.e:259 
fatal exception #80000003 at #00500E86 
... called from f:\phix\builtins\VM\puts1.e:47 
... called from f:\phix\builtins\VM\pFEH.e:16 
... called from f:\phix\builtins\VM\pStack.e:95 
... called from f:\phix\builtins\VM\pcallfunc.e:20 
... called from f:\phix\builtins\VM\pDeleteN.e:240 
... called from f:\phix\builtins\VM\pHeap.e:835 
... called from f:\phix\builtins\VM\pcfunc.e:108 
... called from f:\phix\builtins\dll.e:22 
... called from f:\phix\demo\arwendemo\arwen.ew:5 
... called from f:\phix\demo\arwendemo\demo_menus.exw:5 

33. Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded

• Posted by AlexXX Feb 20, 2021
• 1348 views

Oh, yes, it worked
procedure diag() in the line 2263