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Published 2005-09-12 @ 02:23

Tagged ruby, metaruby, ruby2c

Plethora of passing unit-tests: check
Simple reproducible system: check
Ability to override core classes: check
Binary with our core classes: check
Segfaults: check

% cd MR
% make libmetaruby.a
...
% cd RUBY
% patch -p0 < metaruby.patch
...
% ./configure --program-prefix=meta
...
% cp ~/Links/MR/libmetaruby.a .
% make metaruby
...
% ./metaruby bin/irb 
irb(main):001:0> 1+1
=> 2
irb(main):002:0> false
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:298: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-10) [powerpc-darwin8.2.0]

It is time to split the tail of ruby2c and start making a translator for ruby internals. So far we’ve only done generic C.

We are very close… very very close…