On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 07:34:22PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > Steve Fink: > > The assembler needs to be taught about the PMC constants: > > I disagree. Once you start adding assembler functions to make it easier > for humans to use, you won't stop. I consider the assembler a tool for > machines to use. But if you want to do it, here's a patch.
I half agree. The way I was thinking about adding it was to have rudimentary macros, and generate a prologue that defined all of the standard PMC types: ..def PerlArray 1 ..def PerlString 2 . . . Then you'd either have a .include directive, or there would be an assembler driver script that would know to suck in the prologue. I know you're not crazy about assembler macros, but IMO it's better to allow compilers to run with minimal knowledge of parrot internals.
