On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:24:53PM -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
> I'm interested in looking at the bytecode loader, if nobody else
> has intentions there.
I think that's exactly what needs work, and one of the things Gregor
is looking at. Here's how it goes.
Before 0.0.2 is released, we need to pass tests on Sparc,
which means we need to stop dereferencing NVs on bad alignments,
which means we need to move NVs into the constant table,
which means we need to make the constant table grok different types,
which means we need to rewrite the bytecode structure and code.
I'll post something when I'm not completely and utterly shattered about how I
want us to go about that, including how the interpreter's interface to the
"pack file" - the bytecode with all its segments - will change while we're at
it to allow multiple packs in the same file, something very useful if we want
to do, say, subroutines.
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