Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 4:45 PM +0000 12/5/02, Leon Brocard wrote: >>Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: >> >>> Now to get the hand of the signatures... >> >>Ah, well, I gave up on SDL as it was a little complicated. Instead, >>I played with curses. Please find attached a cute little curses life >>program loading and calling curses at runtime with dlfunc. >> >>Oh, and I made the shape a small spaceship as it's more interesting. > > Leon, you're really scary, y'know that? :) > >>[It's a bit of the pain the way it stomps over registers all the >>time, though ;-] > > There are ways to get around that, and there are some inefficiencies > in the implementation there. I think we can work around some of > those--I am rather tempted to have invoke promise not to alter > non-parameter registers or something so you don't have to pushall > every time you make a call to what could be assumed to be an atomic > and non-parrot function.
Doesn't that rather invalidate the whole 'caller saves' principle?
