I want to emulate a packed structure with Parrot in the way a compiler would normally do this for a low level machine.
It just needs traditional notation for setting fields by offset into the struct. I sort of feel that PerlString _could_ handle this, but I'm curious if there are any gotchas I'm not aware of. I do see that Strings have native (ie. non-unicode) apis so potentially the substr() method could be used, and I also see the API for setting a void * into struct_val. Is this how we intend to represent class/structs in memory? -Melvin
