Christian Bartolomäus

[JVM] X::Multi::Ambiguous for some methods on native shaped arrays

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## The Problem For the JVM backend different test files started to fail recently due to X::Multi::Ambiguous being thrown for some methods on native shaped arrays. One golfed example (a...

[JVM] SaveStackException when calling hyper on List and nqp::continuationcontrol gets called more than once

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## The Problem The following code often (but not always) spits out an internal error on the JVM backend: ``` $ ./rakudo-j -e 'say (^10).hyper; say "alive"'; echo $? Exception...

[JVM] Add extra check for GLOBAL being null

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This fixes a NullPointerException on the JVM backend for code like use v6.c.UNKNOWN That code does not blow up on MoarVM. But still, it looks plausible to check for null...

[JVM] NullPointerException when handling exception from unsupported revision

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## The Problem Nowadays the error reporting from trying to use an unsupported revision leads to a NullPointerException on the JVM backend. The following example is taken from one of...

Using NativeCall from a module fails with a strange error message if .precomp dir can't be created

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## The Problem Consider the following setup: ``` $ mkdir -p ~/tmp/rakudo-pkg_gh91/lib $ cd ~/tmp/rakudo-pkg_gh91 $ cat >lib/Foo.rakumod use NativeCall; class Foo { method foo { sub native_sub is native('Unavailable')...

... to address https://github.com/Raku/nqp/issues/792

For the JVM backend various Unicode related tests (e.g. in https://github.com/Raku/roast/) fail, because some opcodes for strings don't work on graphemes, but on Java's ```chars```. Examples: ``` $ ./rakudo-m -e...

This deduplicates some temporary file logic (and probably generates "better" file names).