Re: pads and lexicals

[Ken Fox]

Dave Mitchell wrote:
> Hmmm, except that at the hardware level, registers can store the actual
> temporary values themselves

register struct value *hardware_registers_can_be_pointers_too;

The PMC registers act like pointer-to-struct registers. Other register
sets can hold immediate values. This is exactly the same as real
hardware having registers for floating point, addresses, words, etc.
Parrot just uses more types.

- Ken