Re: [perl #58238] [PROPOSAL][PIR] remove special handling of "addr" -> set_addr instruction mapping

[Allison Randal]

Klaas-Jan Stol (via RT) wrote:

Parrot has an instruction called 'set_addr', that stores the address of a
label into an integer register.
IMCC (and pdd19_pir) defines a short-cut for this op, called 'addr'.

$I0 = addr XYZ


I propose to remove this shortcut; should anybody want to use it, just use
the full opname: $I0 = set_addr XYZ (or, which may look a bit better:
set_addr $I0, XYZ)

Proposal approved. Give it one standard deprecation cycle (add it to 
DEPRECATED.pod now, planning removal for after 0.7.1). Go ahead and 
remove it from the PDD and docs/book now, then after the next release 
please remove it from IMCC and any code uses you can find.

Thanks,
Allison