Hey Gopal, Nice to meet you here ;) --- Gopal V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If memory serves me right, James Michael DuPont wrote: > > I just want to know how where we can put it. The Microsoft IL > > has a whole section on meta-data, > > AFAIK, that just holds the offset, line number and filename. IIRC the > > JVM had a LineNumberTable and VarNameTable for debugging which were > declared as ``attributes'' to each method in the .class tree. > > I suppose VarNameTable is totally irrelevant for Parrot ...
I dont know that, what is it? Variable name table? If so, i think it might be good for debugging. > > > yes I agree, I just want to be able to reconstruct the tree for > > debugging or reverse engineering (if the compiler that produced the > > bytecode whats to produce this). > > Optimisations ? ... (bang, there goes the line numbers ;) If you want to debug, you dont want optimizations. When you run the debugger in the gcc, it produces a dwarf file, that is the type of meta-data i am talking about. > > > Normally you dont need this information, I just want to know how I > can > > store it if I *do* need it. > > > > The metadata from the c++ that i am extracting even exceeds the > size of > > the sourcecode itself. > > > > yeah, that is the idea. Reflection and introspector require the > > meta-data, that can be read by special reflection operations. > > I think Parrot is going to *need* reflection operations :) ... > You might be able to extract information like you do with C# , > with reflection looping over the methods. You might want to run C# in parrot, then you need it. > > Btw, your RDF stuff wouldn't be what I call "metadata" :) .. it's > data itself in a pre-processed format. Well read my first answer to the original meta-data post, with all the links. I think it is meta-data, all information about the bytecode that might be interesting to a person, to understand what a give bytecode is and means, it's context, meaning, usage, and all that. it is all meta-data. The bytecode is what is needed to run. > > > > IMCC can pick out > > > the chunks of IMC, generate bytecode, > > .line 42 "life.fubar" Again, nice to meet you again Mr. Victory, Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The first ten million years were the worst, said Marvin, and the second ten million years were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline...... The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago, continued Marvin.....And that was with a coffee machine. - Marvin complaining about being left alone for years. ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
