speaking of compiling directly to pbc, parrotbyte.pod says that number constants should be encoded as FLOATVALs, which is a system dependant careteristic, shouldn't there be a specified format for floats? ie either ieee single/double float or, preferably, the number segment specifies how bytes are exponent and how many bytes are mantissa?
sorry if this has already been discussed, i only looked at the assembler and noticed it uses pack("d"). -- -Marco Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen