At 04:16 PM 9/20/2001 +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
>Also, I think that IV needs splitting into two or more different
>types.
>
>There is the type that specifically fits in the Parrot integer registers
>and is recognised by parrot ops;
>
>Then there are all the other places within perl and parrot which
>need to contain integers or pointers, which may or may not be the same
>type or size as the register ints.

I don't want to do int->pointer casts anywhere in the source if we can 
possibly avoid it. Yech.

                                        Dan

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