On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Melvin Smith wrote: > I'm working on getting class syntax added to PIR. > > It appears IMCC's way of emitting instructions as it collects compilation > was a mistake (mine) and isn't going to work for metadata that needs to > be initialized first. > > Basically all metadata has to be collected before any code can be emitted. > I was thinking of generating an _init routine that creates the classes, > so we have several possibilities.
Requiring the metadata be in the stream before the code that uses it doesn't seem particularly onerous, so I'm OK with it. (I would, I think, like to avoid a multi-pass assembler... :) Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk