At 09:39 AM 1/2/2002 -0600, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>Is it 'incorrect' to build Parrot with ints that are bigger than opcodes?

No.

>My 'some 64-bitness' build is generating warnings and failing tests
>because of the pointer mismatch (long * vs long long *) between INTVAL and
>opcode_t.

This probably is an artifact from when opcodes were plain intvals.

>Also, just out of curiosity, why is it INTVAL and opcode_t, rather than
>intval_t+opcode_t or INTVAL+OPCODE?

Good question. opcode_t is really a type, while INTVAL's just a standin for 
long. They probably ought to be regularized, but there's always that pesky 
question of "which way".

                                        Dan

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